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VOR LOC posted:Got into a huge argument about this on another board. These guys aren't airshow pilots and they're not flying a pitts. It's a 375 million dollar whale and wagging the wings that severely and that low could very well have caused a crash. Had that crew not almost certainly been some kind of training/management pilots they would have gotten fired over that poo poo. Don't believe me how dangerous that is? Go troll youtube for guys dying by playing around at low level in heavy, roll spoiler equipped aircraft. Now imagine engine no.1 went at the exact moment they are at 45 degrees left bank and full opposite aileron in, with a dollop of rudder because why the gently caress not (mind you the 747-8's roll channel is FBW-augmented too... the rudder you see might be feed-forward by the yaw damper from the ailerons). Tsuru fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Oct 5, 2014 |
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(Cross-posting from the A/T Aviation Megathread.) I've been flying balloons in Kenya for the last couple years. I'd like to show you what some of the people here have put together. Kenya Homemade Aviation: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEmxnW7Ycnl7unD9gilz1qWdO__tlK7cf I think they've seen pictures of airplanes before.
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I sat in a bunch of stuff and thought it was pretty cool that my 73" self could possibly have a shot at things until I got to helicopters. Cobras are TINY. Apaches: TINY. Hueys? TINY. H-60s were alright, though. H-53s are huge. Chevy Suburban huge, with ashtrays and everything. And rear-view mirrors. Try an OH-58 before they scrap them. Makes a JetBanger look spacious.
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drunkill posted:47 years ago today the airspeed record was set in the X-15. The SR-71 holds the record for an air breathing aircraft, 3745km/h slower than the X-15. "Neil Armstrong, X-15 Pilot" 
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drunkill posted:47 years ago today the airspeed record was set in the X-15. The SR-71 holds the record for an air breathing aircraft, 3745km/h slower than the X-15. Yes, but did anyone poo poo in it?
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Time for no one's favorite game, name that drone! So from what I can tell, this is either an XQ-2, a Q-2A, or a Q-2B. Do we have any early American UAV experts? Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Oct 6, 2014 |
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Oct 6, 2014 02:28
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I think the inlet arrangement marks it as the Navy variant, the KDA-1. Different engine.
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IPCRESS posted:Yes, but did anyone poo poo in it? Major Michael J. Adams probably did poo poo in it. quote:A little over a month later, on November 15, 1967, USAF test pilot, Major Michael J. Adams will die when his X-15 enters a violent spin at mach 5 and disintegrates under crushing G-loads. Wreckage is strewn over 60 miles and two states.
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To be fair, when an aircraft goes into a violent spin at Mach 5+, *everyone* inside it shits simply because eventually the body's going to be torn in half at the weakest point. poo poo is poo poo, regardless of what hole, wound, or laceration it escapes from, and a pound of poo poo at 20g suddenly becomes a barbell in the lower intestine.
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Oct 6, 2014 03:13
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And that's why the SR71 cockpit section mentioned earlier was probably shat in too - it was the remains of a takeoff wreck that the pilot refused to eject from (but didn't die)
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BIG HEADLINE posted:a pound of poo poo at 20g suddenly becomes a barbell in the lower intestine. For a moment, I thought I was in the crossfit thread.
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If you ever get a chance to see the SR-71 at Hill AFB I recommend it, has a pretty cool backstory. It is a SR-71C, the only C model and last SR-71 ever made, nicknamed "The Bastard". They took the rear from the first YF-12A ever made which was damaged beyond repair in a runway incident August 14, 1966 and combined it with the front of a functional engineering SR-71 mockup used for static testing. It was made to replace the second of two B model trainers that had crashed in 1968 and was ready for it's first flight on March 14, 1969. I wonder if they'd let you put a camera on a stick (like people do with GoPros) to get some cockpit shots.  Notice the pilots getting ready for their flight in the lower left corner.. heh.
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Oct 6, 2014 23:22
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I have several photos of that exact blackbird I took not even 3 weeks ago.
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slidebite posted:I have several photos of that exact blackbird I took not even 3 weeks ago. You still haven't posted any pics/reviews.
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Here is an old gallery from years ago. I really need to go there again soon. I work one exit away, don't really have an excuse. You should upload your photos, I'd imagine there are quite a few changes.
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SybilVimes posted:And that's why the SR71 cockpit section mentioned earlier was probably shat in too - it was the remains of a takeoff wreck that the pilot refused to eject from (but didn't die) The one in the Boeing Museum of Flight brought to you by Boeing? I'll be damned, I actually didn't know that. And now that I think about it, for all the times I've been there I'm fairly certain I've never read the associated placard near it.
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Godholio posted:You still haven't posted any pics/reviews. poo poo. I'll man up and get some of that up. Reno was tough for action shots but the static displays were OK. I'll do some tomorrow, promise. Is there a little utility that allows me to resize a crap load of photos in one swoop? Opening each and resizing sucks.
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I love this, and the X-32, so much. Derpy motherfucker, and heir to the "so ugly it's cool" look from the F-8/A-7.
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slidebite posted:Yeah. Outlook will work. Highlight them, right click->send to->mail recipient.
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Still better than the F-35.
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slidebite posted:Yeah. Someone rewrote the Windows XP Image Resizer powertoy for Windows 7/8. https://imageresizer.codeplex.com
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Oct 7, 2014 12:43
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You could also upload the photos and resize them on something like PicResize.com
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Entone posted:Someone rewrote the Windows XP Image Resizer powertoy for Windows 7/8. https://imageresizer.codeplex.com That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks for the advice guys. Makes it less of a time consuming task.
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slidebite posted:Is there a little utility that allows me to resize a crap load of photos in one swoop? Opening each and resizing sucks. Irfanview has batch processing.
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Mac has an Automator action just for that Or upload to Imgur and then use timg tags, or just add 'l' (lowercase L) to the end of each filename
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Cat Mattress posted:Irfanview has batch processing. Correct answer. Suggesting Outlook to do image manipulation? Shameful. any proper image manipulation program can do it. Irfanview is free and does good batch processing (get it right once, get it right every time), but it's not the only answer. I use lightroom for everything but I'm the stupid person who shoots in raw and hates photo processing, so don't listen to me, obviously
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Oh cool--someone flying something with the Magnus effect. What's the term for these things? Cycloplanes? Something like that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra8y6gGotwY
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Madurai posted:Oh cool--someone flying something with the Magnus effect. What's the term for these things? Cycloplanes? Something like that? Rotorwing, it's right there in the youtube title - although I've also heard fanwing.
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Godholio posted:You still haven't posted any pics/reviews. Here is a little something showing the YF12 rear end on the blackbird mentioned earlier.  Pop quiz: What's directly behind it? slidebite fucked around with this message at 02:16 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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slidebite posted:
The rope/reel barricade. 
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Gonna guess a Thunderchief.
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Correct. Of the weasel variety to be precise.  The Reno shots turned out worse than I hoped. Only going to be a handful of action shots that are even worthwhile.
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Gunna go with F4 cuz of the double canopy. e: drat it
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I've been meaning to get up to the Hill museum for weeks...keep getting rained out whenever I've got time.
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Cal Fire S-2T just went down in Yosemite.  https://twitter.com/CALFIRE_PIO/status/519658897473163265 http://seattletimes.com/html/nationworld/2024723171_apxcaliforniawildfire.html
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Duke Chin posted:Cal Fire S-2T just went down in Yosemite. I think that's the unit Hoser Satrapa flies with (since I know for sure he flies S-2s in CA) - hopefully it wasn't his. EDIT: It was a DynCorp pilot that went down, and Hoser flies for them: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/hoser-satrapa/23/253/3ab EDIT 2: Pilot confirmed dead. He was trying to spread retardant on a canyon wall and flew into it, 'disintegrating' by one eyewitness' account. The identity of the pilot won't be released until all immediate family members are notified. =/ BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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If it was a DynCorp S-2, I guess not. Sad about the pilot. Bacarruda fucked around with this message at 07:43 on Oct 8, 2014 |
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:WTF. Are they using differential thrust to compensate for the fact that there is no yaw stability? Tilting the rotors because the elevators are cosmetic? Total engine failure on a V-22 is "bailout". Single engine failure is handled via a pair of gearboxes and a cross airframe driveshaft. So.. there's never a "asyemtrical thrust" situation. If there is, (eg, gearbox becomes metal slush) that too is a "bail out and pray" situation. Captain Postal posted:This is what governs the top speed of coaxial helicopters, not the engine. If they go too fast the rotor discs tilt too far and cross, and that's A Bad Thing. There is an explanation of this in one of the DCS Black Shark game manuals. Rigid rotors fix the asyemtical lift issue. The pusher propeller is because to get forward thrust on a helicopter you need to tip it forward. With a pusher prop, you don't get the increase in frontal area.
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An F-15 just crashed in Lincolnshire (pilot is apparently safe) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-29544064
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