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Is there a light twin in history that doesn't have, in its development history, "the second version was redesigned with a larger rudder to improve handling in one-engine situations" or similar? Why do people keep making the same mistakes?
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 15:16 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 13:18 |
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PT6A posted:Is there a light twin in history that doesn't have, in its development history, "the second version was redesigned with a larger rudder to improve handling in one-engine situations" or similar? Because they take the plans for a single, modify the wings to have 2 engines and then only look at the empennage when its impossible to control by the test pilot.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 15:28 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Because they take the plans for a single, modify the wings to have 2 engines and then only look at the empennage when its impossible to control by the test pilot. ...makes sense. Never ascribe to malice or stupidity what can be explained by sheer laziness, I guess.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 15:46 |
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Plans? Where we’re going, we don’t need plans.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 15:53 |
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It’s like a Tigercat and a Swearingen 300 had a drunk night in Vegas.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 16:41 |
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That plane just looks like a cascade of bad ideas
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 16:54 |
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I bet it sounds good.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:13 |
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OK I know the odds of that working right are slim and none, but that's a hot looking twin.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:15 |
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I've seen better.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:39 |
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What's better than one Tigercat? Obviously, two.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:45 |
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mlmp08 posted:I've seen better. I note the enormous rudder and elevators.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:45 |
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Well yes, obviously the Tigercat, and TBH I like the Invader too, but still.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:46 |
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MrYenko posted:It’s like a Tigercat and a Lancair Legacy had a drunk night in Vegas.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:49 |
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"If it looks good, it flies good". That old chestnut could be modified to "If it looks like a stunning, exotic thoroughbred, it flies like an axe murderer".
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:49 |
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B-26A comes to mind as well
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 17:50 |
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Ola posted:"If it looks good, it flies good". That old chestnut could be modified to "If it looks like a stunning, exotic thoroughbred, a dentist gets a death boner". FTFY
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 18:25 |
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FrozenVent posted:FTFY It's funny because it's true.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 18:30 |
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mlmp08 posted:I've seen better. Jets are cool and all, but the lines on late/just post-war fighters are just loving gorgeous
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 19:30 |
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No loving P-38s, what even is this thread?
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 19:36 |
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Can’t have a critical engine if they’re both critical.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 19:46 |
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In a combat aircraft all engines are critical if you really think about it
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 19:49 |
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 19:55 |
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e.pilot posted:Lesson one for me is always exercises demonstrating pitch for speed, power for altitude, adverse yaw, and p-factor. It’s the foundation everything else is based on. Anarcho-Commissar posted:No loving P-38s, what even is this thread? Literally the only 2 piston twins that matter evil_bunnY fucked around with this message at 00:17 on Jan 1, 2019 |
# ? Dec 31, 2018 20:04 |
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 20:06 |
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:No loving P-38s, what even is this thread? Oh yeah that’s the good stu-
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 20:40 |
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Fender Anarchist posted:In a combat aircraft all engines are critical if you really think about it evil_bunnY posted:That should be the standard if it isn’t You’d be surprised how many CFIs don’t teach that way.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 22:17 |
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Fender Anarchist posted:In a aircraft all engines are critical if you really think about it
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 22:42 |
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Two or three of my final five E-3 flights ended with 3 engines running. The rest of the five had landing gear IFEs.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 22:44 |
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Ah, the dreaded seven engine approach.
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 23:30 |
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On this day in history, 50 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQDG82gj2Y The biggest jet-age failure in commercial aviation flew for the first time
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# ? Dec 31, 2018 23:52 |
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Platystemon posted:Ah, the dreaded seven engine approach. It depends.
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 00:10 |
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hobbesmaster posted:“Aircraft project also available as a complete project for $150k” If I recall the plane was originally designed for racing. The designer (Bill Husa) was fairly well credentialed, he had done a fair amount of work for Stoddard-Hamilton on engineering the Glasair III. Unfortunately Bill passed away in 2012 and the project was shelved. I think the current owner was trying to have someone finish it but now it looks like he just wants it gone.
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 07:22 |
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To contribute to Invaderchat:
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 15:21 |
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 15:30 |
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 15:32 |
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PainterofCrap posted:
Pretty amazing that it's still airworthy even with a big crack in the nose. They sure built 'em tough back in the day.
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 15:59 |
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Don't even need to be a dentist to get a death boner from that!
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 16:21 |
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Finger Prince posted:Don't even need to be a dentist to get a death boner from that! It ended about as well as you'd have guessed.
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 16:33 |
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MrChips posted:On this day in history, 50 years ago: And also one of the biggest WTF planes ever, the LearAvia Lear Fan. It actually first flew on "December 32, 1980" because of some wonderful bureaucratic nonsense. I've actually seen two of the three, and they're WTF planes every time.
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 16:35 |
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Now this is pond racing.
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# ? Jan 1, 2019 16:43 |