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Phanatic posted:First launch of the X-47 drone from an aircraft carrier: I wonder if the guy in yellow standing in front of the unmanned aircraft waving his arms about feels just the least bit silly.
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May 16, 2013 04:25
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ihop posted:I wonder if the guy in yellow standing in front of the unmanned aircraft waving his arms about feels just the least bit silly. Supposedly the aircraft has some sort of system that can recognise gestures like that.
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May 16, 2013 04:26
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MrChips posted:Supposedly the aircraft has some sort of system that can recognise gestures like that. Probably something like this 
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May 16, 2013 04:40
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Stupid Airbus question: During taxi in an A320, I heard 4 or 5 "bark"-like squeals from the undercarriage. Upon reaching the gate, I heard something similar. Since the barks seemed to coincide with engine spool-up/down, I suspect the PTU. It sounded like it was right under my feet, and freaked the heck out of a bunch of people around me. The barking is a hydraulic converter, letting the #1 system power the #2 system when the #2 engine is shut down. It's kind of a fun noise, really. I think the Boeings use all auxiliary hydraulics for taxi, powered by the APU, so no barking of hydraulic transfer, but I'm not sure about that.
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May 16, 2013 04:48
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Stupid Airbus question: During taxi in an A320, I heard 4 or 5 "bark"-like squeals from the undercarriage. Upon reaching the gate, I heard something similar. Since the barks seemed to coincide with engine spool-up/down, I suspect the PTU. It sounded like it was right under my feet, and freaked the heck out of a bunch of people around me. I flew the other day on an A319, my first time on an Airbus after flying dozens of times on Boeing planes. And I've heard the noises I think you're talking about. There we're some loud bangs every time they applied the brakes. Freaks me out but then I read about the A319 and its never had a fatal accident which makes me feel much better for my flight tomorrow on one.
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May 16, 2013 04:54
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Yup, the barking dog is the PTU. 767s have one as well, but it works slightly differently so you don't generally hear it. Plus, bigger plane = noisy bits farther from cabin. So on the baby bus, whenever either the green or yellow hydraulics pressure drops and there's a demand on that system (1 engine running, or running on electric pumps and a high demand user causes pressure to drop), the PTU kicks in and uses the other hydraulic system to spin a pump to boost pressure in the low side. There is no fluid transfer between systems. As for the clunky brakes, they're just clunky! 
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May 16, 2013 05:37
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movax posted:Probably something like this Except the system in the X-47 cost $5 million per aircraft, took twelve years to develop and is still probably outperformed by Kinect. (not really, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was true)
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May 16, 2013 05:41
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Stupid Airbus question: During taxi in an A320, I heard 4 or 5 "bark"-like squeals from the undercarriage. Upon reaching the gate, I heard something similar. Since the barks seemed to coincide with engine spool-up/down, I suspect the PTU. It sounded like it was right under my feet, and freaked the heck out of a bunch of people around me. RMPs are loud. You should hear the ones on a DC-10 when one of the two relevant systems runs dry and the FE forgets to turn it off...
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May 16, 2013 07:14
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MrChips posted:Supposedly the aircraft has some sort of system that can recognise gestures like that. Looks like there were a bunch of guys with remote-control rigs of some sort. I'd be a little surprised if they had the technology/confidence in technology to trust waving your arms at a back-up camera, when they can put two contractors with redundant remote controls onboard for time and a half. Military tech test/demos are fake as hell, and this is probably at least as faked as the fill things that aren't supposed to explode with water and things that are with radio transmitters tests.
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May 16, 2013 07:39
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I know this is a stupid question, but did the drone land on the aircraft carrier after? I remember a saw a post earlier of a test with an arresting hook that proved it could be done.
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May 16, 2013 08:00
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mustard_tiger posted:I know this is a stupid question, but did the drone land on the aircraft carrier after? I remember a saw a post earlier of a test with an arresting hook that proved it could be done. At the end of the video theres a shot of the drone landing on land. I'm sure they'll work up gradually to landing on the carrier, it might even be hand flown down to a carrier.
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May 16, 2013 08:12
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mustard_tiger posted:I know this is a stupid question, but did the drone land on the aircraft carrier after? I remember a saw a post earlier of a test with an arresting hook that proved it could be done. They did a land landing after the launch. They have done arrested landings on land though. Probably a few more weeks before a full carrier launch/recovery. D C posted:At the end of the video theres a shot of the drone landing on land. I'm sure they'll work up gradually to landing on the carrier, it might even be hand flown down to a carrier. I don't think that they did. Pretty sure that it was just loaded onto the carrier. The first landing on a carrier would have been bigger news than the launch.
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May 16, 2013 14:23
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The end of the video says they're gonna do a bunch of approaches and then by the end of summer do a full carrier landing.
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May 16, 2013 15:15
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http://defensetech.org/2013/05/15/navy-preps-drone-for-first-carrier-landing/ A little more info in this link. They are gonna try for a touch-and-go in the next week or so, then build up to a landing by the end of summer.
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May 16, 2013 15:33
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The movie "Stealth" is going to be real  This honestly blows my loving mind.
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May 16, 2013 16:23
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The DEW Line blog says they have a ways to go on improving the arrested landing performance. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2013/05/the-day-of-the-unmanned-aircra.html
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May 16, 2013 22:21
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Plinkey posted:I don't think that they did. Pretty sure that it was just loaded onto the carrier. The first landing on a carrier would have been bigger news than the launch. You just agreed with what I posted?
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May 17, 2013 00:55
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D C posted:You just agreed with what I posted? I don't think that the hand flew it to the carrier, that's all. e: I read 'be' as 'been'. So yes. Plinkey fucked around with this message at 02:04 on May 17, 2013 |
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May 17, 2013 01:59
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burtonos posted:The movie "Stealth" is going to be real So is Toys with Robin Williams
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May 17, 2013 02:20
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That drone looks so weird on the flight deck, even stranger in the hanger bay. One of my favorite things to do while waiting in the chow line was to check out the planes. Hard to day dream about one you can't pilot on the inside.
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May 17, 2013 03:10
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TooLShack posted:That drone looks so weird on the flight deck, even stranger in the hanger bay. One of my favorite things to do while waiting in the chow line was to check out the planes. Hard to day dream about one you can't pilot on the inside. I don't know, man, those drone pilot chairs look COMFY AS gently caress.
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May 17, 2013 06:28
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MrYenko posted:I don't know, man, those drone pilot chairs look COMFY AS gently caress. The chairs in Air Force GCS's (control station for Preds and Reapers) have emergency egress handles. This makes me laugh quite a bit.
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May 17, 2013 21:39
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Sooooooo, you know that Mosquito those Kiwis got flying? Well, it's coming to Thunder Over Michigan!  Among the other guests are an ME-262, an F-100, and, I believe, a Phantom. Gonna own.
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May 18, 2013 15:34
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A Boeing 737 caught fire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUjvc8uOfhQ That emergency exit onto the wing seems a little odd - how are they meant to get off the wing onto the ground, and aren't they a little close to the fire exiting there?
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May 18, 2013 17:18
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I don't think the wings are that high off the ground. And using the exits intelligently to avoid the fire is part of any aircraft evacuation, regardless of where the fire is.
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May 18, 2013 17:38
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JingleBells posted:A Boeing 737 caught fire upon landing at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport today: Overwing exits normally have slides that inflate when you open the hatch. I do not know why that didn't happen, here. Maybe we have a 737 mechanic or driver around? As a general rule though, you should probably not stand on top of the fuel tank during a fire evacuation. 
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May 18, 2013 17:59
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I thought sliding down the flaps was normal for a 737 evacuation, but I could be wrong. Just recalling the emergency cards from the seatback pockets from memory.
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May 18, 2013 18:01
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The Ferret King posted:I thought sliding down the flaps was normal for a 737 evacuation, but I could be wrong. Just recalling the emergency cards from the seatback pockets from memory. This is what you do on a 707. Instead of slides, the overwing hatches are packed with the big survival rafts.
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May 18, 2013 18:09
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The Ferret King posted:I thought sliding down the flaps was normal for a 737 evacuation, but I could be wrong. Just recalling the emergency cards from the seatback pockets from memory. This is correct; there are no evac slides for the overwing exits in a 737. IIRC survival rafts are optional for the overwing exits as well.
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May 18, 2013 18:29
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MrChips posted:This is correct; there are no evac slides for the overwing exits in a 737. IIRC survival rafts are optional for the overwing exits as well. Your avatar says otherwise My brother is driving through South Dakota, apparently "a fighter jet" buzzed him in I-90. I love to think the pilot was just messing with him. Edit:  That's definitely a 737-C 
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May 18, 2013 19:02
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Gullous posted:Your avatar says otherwise That's a 757.
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May 18, 2013 19:03
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Cocoa Crispies posted:That's a 757. Going by the engines, I'd say it's a 737-200, unless you know of any 757s that have had JT8s fitted 
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May 18, 2013 19:40
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Not to derail with stupid pictures, but when I saw this airplane painted on a bar's mural last night I had to share. FedEx planes are coming and going all day long here in Memphis, you'd think somebody would pay attention to the engines.
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May 18, 2013 22:45
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SybilVimes posted:Going by the engines, I'd say it's a 737-200, unless you know of any 757s that have had JT8s fitted Those are CFM-56s, are you kidding me? That's a 737-400. Two exit doors over the wings.
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May 18, 2013 23:00
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benito posted:Not to derail with stupid pictures, but when I saw this airplane painted on a bar's mural last night I had to share. FedEx planes are coming and going all day long here in Memphis, you'd think somebody would pay attention to the engines. Or the general shape. Edit: Without exaggerating, I can say I hung preschool crayon drawings on my fridge that were more accurate than that.
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May 18, 2013 23:10
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benito posted:Not to derail with stupid pictures, but when I saw this airplane painted on a bar's mural last night I had to share. FedEx planes are coming and going all day long here in Memphis, you'd think somebody would pay attention to the engines. Obviously the artist did pay attention to the engines (just not the rest of it.)
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May 18, 2013 23:44
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StandardVC10 posted:Obviously the artist did pay attention to the engines (just not the rest of it.) Well, one of them anyways.
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May 18, 2013 23:48
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Out in SF today, saw a helo fly under the Golden Gate. I didn't realize until I got home and looked it up that the FAR that prohibits fixed wing aircraft from doing that doesn't apply to rotorcraft, so that's cool I guess.
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May 19, 2013 02:09
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The US Airways Dash 8 I was talking about a few weeks ago, the one that double diverted back to Roanoke, yeah well it crashed (belly landing) in Newark this morning with a landing gear failure...  Why are they posing by the registration? Is it just to make sure I knew it was the same aircraft? 
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May 19, 2013 02:32
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It's a Dash 8. Replace the props and gear and send it on it's way.
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