joat mon posted:

So how is that the Russians can make such graceful amphibians?







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-200

Linedance posted:

You're the first and only person to ever describe a Constellation as beautiful.

Preoptopus posted:

Are those pontoons?!

YF19pilot posted:

Between the BV and Rutan, this is the big reason. It's kinda like the principle of how two 1" holes in a cup full of water will leak less than one 2" hole, but that two fuselages of width 'x' have less drag than a single fuselage of width '2x'. Makes it more efficient, performance wise, so you can get similar speeds out of a less powerful engine, and better fuel economy. I believe it is also suppose to eliminate prop-induced slip/rotation without needing trim tabs, which is why the Rutan bird can fly easy OEI. It is a very stable platform, and I know there are some other benefits, but I can't think of them off the top of my head. The biggest draw backs are, iirc, it's ugly, and it's more intensive to design and manufacture.

There is a famous(ish) race car designer who was a fighter pilot in WWII, that encountered the BV-141 while on a sortie over (I believe) Italy. He actually took the design to heart and was inspired by it in his designs. I can't think of the name, but there is a small cloister of fans here in AI that know his works well. I'm sure some of his stuff has been posted in the "Awesome AI pictures thread", and you can probably ask there about who it was.

YF19pilot posted:

Yes! That's him! Him and his Hurst Floor Shift Special Indy car. Boy that Black & Gold (with red pinstripe) he always used is something else, too.

Plinkey posted:

I had never heard about this. It sounds amazing and terrifying.

Quantrill posted:

Should I take a ride in a DC-3 this weekend?

ElZilcho posted:

Cya F-111s!



From an ABC News article

joat mon posted:

Previa_fun posted:

Don't the Swiss Hornets have a FCS that allows up to 9g vs. the 7.5 for all other Hornets/Super Hornets? I'm sure I've read that in several places but I don't know if it's true.

F-5s are boss. One of my crazy billionaire fantasies is to own one.

Rick Rickshaw posted:

I think it'd be hilarious if it actually came down to them having to extend the runway to get the plane off the ground.

Then the airport owners would start trying to recreate the conditions that resulted in the errand jet landing there a la Cargo Cult behaviour.

D C posted:

Was talking about Yachts earlier today, found the greatest picture ever of the Maltese Falcon

Nebakenezzer posted:

You'll see! YOU'LL ALL SEE!!

Ohmygod, I've become the grover of airships

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Don't be silly, MiG 28's are black.

FrozenVent posted:

Fun fact: Cruise ships usually putz around at about 40-60% of their maximum speed. Sometimes they'll even shut down the engines and drift for a few hours. The only time you'd go up to cruising speed is when you're repositioning the ship, or you left the last port really, really late.

This is entirely relevant to the discussion of the economic viability of blimps because

FrozenVent posted:

Also Oasis of the Seas doesn't weight 225k tons, that's her gross tonnage, a measurement of volume. She displaces about 100k metric tons, depending on how many passengers and how much consumables are on board.

VERTiG0 posted:

Holy poo poo, how did you let yourself get roped into being stuck on a boat with your in-laws?

Jealous Cow posted:

$550 and 30k miles for 15 hours in a lie-flat seat. Worth it.

Also, what the gently caress is up with this? Seen one pull up to United gates at both ATL and LAX.

Terrible Robot posted:

Great, now I've got that loving Monty Python song stuck in my head.

Psion posted:

There are at least two flying B-25s I know of up at Paine Field, Flying Heritage Collection has one, Historic Flight Foundation has the other.

Delivery McGee posted:

oops

thetechnoloser posted:

Videotaping out of a crew chief seat on a blackhawk over D.C. again soon, any requests?

Arishtat posted:

My God I think we've found the perfect AeroGavin delivery platform!

But seriously bleed air through the rotor shaft and into the blades? There are so many places for leaks to form and it must have taken forever to build up RPMs on the rotor.

joat mon posted:

It only used ramjets because there weren't any nuclear reactors that small.

Phanatic posted:

Last time I ate Indian food.

DeusExMachinima posted:

That reminds me of a story an ex-pilot from the 60's told me. They'd fly F-4s by GA craft upside down between cloud layers. Without any ground reference the Cessnas would almost always turn upside down too because they'd think the F-4s were right side up. Another F-4 would usually creep up a few seconds later actually flying right side up and the pilot and weapons officer would wave really enthusiastically at the civilian flyer as they passed.

Of course, you'd probably get 50 lashes for that today.

FAT CURES MUSCLES posted:

that takeoff though.

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

At MTOW I don't think it's possible.

quote:

Passengers on a Delta Airlines flight from Beijing to Detroit last week were horrified when a Chinese child squatted on his seat and proceeded to defecate, World News, a U.S.-based, Chinese-language news site, reports. The child’s parents spread newspaper on the seat to catch the waste.

Solkanar512 posted:

Mind if I ask a really dumb question about the V-22?

Why is it that rotors are used for thrust instead of jet engines like say a Harrier? What sort of advantages does one type of engine have over the other?

hobbesmaster posted:

Reading about the B-57 is so weird. The Air Force found them pretty useless for their intended role but still purchased 400 of them. The 50s were weird.

Slo-Tek posted:

This is nice. Early F-4 mockup, before they discovered they had to origami-fold the wings and tail to get decent yaw stability. Without the dihedrals and anhedrals, it looks exactly like what any 8 year old in the world would draw if you say "draw a fighter jet"

Crescendo posted:

Yep, you're all wrong, the F-5 is the most fighter-jet looking fighter-jet.

Sleek lines, long pointy nose, nimble, stubby little straked wings with AIM-9s on the tips. It just screams pure utilitarian fighter.

dissss posted:

The three V bombers all have somewhat of that look about them. I think it's because they all look like they could be straight out of 50s sci fi

Godholio posted:

I had no idea those existed.

Madurai posted:

Why every type of store carried by every type of plane has to be drop tested:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTnmZ_HPAs