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pkells posted:Amazon.com has revealed they want to deploy delivery drones I plan on using a shotgun to intercept and recover electronics from rich neighborhoods.
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I can't wait until one flies into a huge pack of ugly, urban crows and some dudes retina iPad mini drops into a reservoir.
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Snowdens Secret posted:All this collision talk clearly means the quadcopters will have to fly inside networks of elevated plexiglass tubes, bringing us one step closer to our Jetsons future. The fact that they don't build giant pneumatic tube networks is a loving travesty.
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Dec 2, 2013 23:35
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Slo-Tek posted:Bell V-280 Valor mock-up. The military industrial complex is such a joke.
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Feb 4, 2014 18:31
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FullMetalJacket posted:Interesting design with the tractor/pusher orientation of the engines on top of the wing Cessna did a tractor/pusher model called the Skymaster, which was a really lousy aircraft. All the expense and complexity of a twin, and it wasn't all that much quicker than a 172. Also the rear engine likes to overheat and quit during taxi, so that when you take off it fails to climb and you slam into whatever is at the end of the runway. 
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Feb 9, 2014 02:07
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MrYenko posted:Cross post from the Aviation thread, because I know there are more people here that aren't already in the field in some way: In addition to being free of Down's syndrome, don't you also have to be less than 29 years and one day in age?
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Feb 10, 2014 16:37
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MrYenko posted:Mandatory retirement from controlling live traffic at 56 (you can bid into non-controlling positions, and stay with the agency,) and they want their 25 years out of you. That's interesting. Firefighters and police officers have no maximum hiring age under NY civil service rules, yet ATC does.
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Feb 10, 2014 18:41
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FullMetalJacket posted:This thread is now about finding faces in airplanes 
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Feb 14, 2014 18:30
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Bob A Feet posted:Sorry but if my plane is hijacked I may do a little more than frantically try to send texts. Although I am definitely in the "gently caress you, if you're crashing this plane you're killing me first" mentality, I don't think you would have an opportunity. At a cabin altitude of 30,000 feet you have about 90 seconds of useful consciousness. Not a lot of time to force your way into the cockpit and beat on a homeboy.
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Feb 19, 2014 15:35
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Gibfender posted:Don't the oxygen masks only work for about 12 minutes? Good point. Wait until below 10,000 MSL to leave your seat and go primal on your hijacker. I believe the pilots have the ability to drop masks manually, not just via pressure trigger. So perhaps he was giving the impression that the cabin was depressurized to keep everyone compliant.
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Feb 19, 2014 16:00
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My first thought is "Man, that's beautiful." My second thought is, "I hope that isn't the model with the rubber band powered single circuit hydraulics"
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Feb 21, 2014 00:10
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Godholio posted:We stopped in Budapest to refuel on a chartered US carrier 737, but we didn't pay the fees to let anyone disembark. The Romanians were kind enough to roll up some stairs so anyone who neede a smoke could stand there and do so. It was awfully nice of them to roll stairs all the way across the border.
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Mar 1, 2014 01:51
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drunkill posted:Navy Squirrel Eurocopter plus WWII display, Lockheed Hudson flanked by a P40 Kittyhawk and CAC Boomerang That's no Squirrel, my friend. That's a very sexy Bell 429, likely one of the very first in Australia. 
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Mar 1, 2014 23:50
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Argo and the rocket propelled C-130 make me realize that the DoD just makes poo poo up as they go along like 90% of the time.
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Craptacular posted:You'd think it would be cheaper just to send out a chopper to pick them up. Quicker treatment for the patient too. Or do big cruise ships not have helipads? You still have to be within endurance range of a medevac helicopter. With civilian EMS ships, that's pretty loving close to shore.
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777-200 overdue in Malaysia. http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/malaysia-airlines-flight-missing-239-people-on-board-1.1720011
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There is no way a 777 lacks some sort of INMARSAT capability, even owned by the most bootleg airline.
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Mar 8, 2014 04:15
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The pilot is Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, a Malaysian aged 53. He joined Malaysia Airlines in 1981 and has 18,365 flying hours. First officer Fariq Ab. Hamid, also Malaysian, is 27. He joined the airline in 2007 and has 2,763 hours. That's a lot of experience.
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SouthLAnd posted:How many things would have to go wrong mechanically to cause a 777 to crash during otherwise ideal conditions? Lots. It's one of the safest and most dependable aircraft ever built.
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Mar 8, 2014 14:27
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hobbesmaster posted:Lithium cargo fires have brought down several freighters. gently caress it, i'll take Aloha 243 style fatigue, stress, and in-flight breakup.
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Mar 8, 2014 20:43
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At least locally the plans carrying jumpers announces on CTAF at 5 minutes, one minute and when jumpers are away. You have to be completely oblivious to miss it.
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Mar 9, 2014 22:05
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BonoMan posted:Would it have even been possible to get a cell phone call or text message out on the Malaysia flight? Maybe once they changed direction and got back over land again? Probably not.
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Crescendo posted:Just out of interest, what do pilots say over the intercom to the passengers after a missed approach, if anything? Once in awhile they make a sheepish comment about why they went around, to quell the nerves of really nervous passengers. I, for one, think that all checklists and action items should be read aloud over the PA. It would be way more comforting to hear "T's and P's are all normal, flaps 3, gear down" than some lovely movie starring Sarah Polley or Matt Dillon.
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Mar 12, 2014 17:06
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:You're insane if you think that hearing the checklist read out would be more comforting to 99% of passengers. I am certainly not one of those 99%.
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Mar 12, 2014 18:00
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If these people only knew how often their doctor left the room to go Google poo poo on their iphone.
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TotalLossBrain posted:In addition to what others have already said about this, the Helios flight was flying above 30,000 ft if I remember correctly. Any decompression that takes you from sea level to above 30,000 ft in anything less than days, if not weeks, will cause loss of consciousness in short order and most likely, death. Frankly, I find it utterly amazing that Helios 522 had a conscious flight attendant walking around. Time of useful consciousness above FL20 is less than a minute. The only way anyone was walking around the cabin at that altitude was on 100% FiO2.
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Mar 12, 2014 20:22
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Linedance posted:There's something to be said for the simplicity and immediacy of analog communications. The last thing you want to see on your radio when you're having an emergency and need to communicate is "Queued". Agreed. With a lovely AM or VHF signal I will probably hear your transmission, albeit staticky and low. Compare that with the new P25 systems, which will simply reject your signal for being out of spec. Convenient!
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Mar 13, 2014 20:01
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So this is the New Hampshire Learjet crash that was found years later by hikers, but on a scale several thousand times greater. Awesome.
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B4Ctom1 posted:Buggati of the sky may be getting ready to fly Are they using 1930s tech to do this, like bearings lubricated with greasy rags?
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Wombot posted:http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/news-chopper-crashes-seattle/nfFtZ/ Annnnnddddd an AS-350 claims another couple lives. GG Aerospatiale.
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Powercube posted:Classic Helicopters, they are awesome and professional! Good stuff. I bought myself time in the an Enstrom for my birthday next month. It will be different getting in the right door, i'm excited!
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CharlesM posted:The Seattle helicopter that crashed apparently was rotating counter-clockwise before (and during?) the crash. If not failure, than surely loss of tail rotor effectiveness. And yes, the rotors on French helicopters turn clockwise, so the fuseleage spinning anti-clockwise would point to something tail rotor related. Here is a crash of that type, bear in mind this is a Bell so the blades turn the opposite way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIWk88Gn9NM
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Mar 22, 2014 23:24
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In an urban environment where buildings and obstacles keep you from pushing the nose over and flying out of it, there aren't a lot of good options left. Sucks for the aircrew involved. The A* is known for having pretty decent tail rotor authority, much better than say, a 206.
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CommieGIR posted:I'm Comm/Nav for heavies, so yeah I know how TCAS works. And how are you going to know where the drone is without a pressure altimeter? RNAV? Eventually with all this equipment you're going to be looking at a microlight sized aircraft.
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Fox News told me that the airplane was hijacked and was being filled with explosives to crash into American cities, and don't think they're wrong about this! 
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tehk posted:I've noticed a tendency that most dual control systems are still piloted by someone with very little RC heli experience. Flight controllers work great about 90% of the time but having the ability to use manual mode to land instead of dealing with a flyaway or uncontrolled drift is important. National geographic hired Bobby Watts, a 3d pilot who could hover a camera rig inverted while sleeping, to fly their slow motion camera over the water in South Africa for shark week. They hot swapped battery packs every 8-15 minutes to keep flying with a trex 700e. Big single rotor dual control rigs are stable, fast, and predictable. Though if they do crash it is typically a total loss. Their current setup uses a red epic on a 800mm bladed Gaui similar to this. That's basically a 1/12 scale Bell 47.
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Every IFR certificated aircraft has two static ports and sources. Thankfully.
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Award for the dumbest pitot location has to go to the SPIFR certificated EC-135. No, Eurocopter, i'm sure this wasn't an afterthought. Edit: It's really stupid and irritating because the the most dangerous time to be walking around a helicopter is when the blades are spinning up or slowing down. Once the engine(s) are making reasonable Nr, centrifugal force keeps the blades from dipping too much. While they are speeding or slowing, gravity still causes them to dip, and a good wind gust can send the rotor disc very close to your scalp. Helicopters like the EC-130 with huge blades can actually be flown in higher wind gusts than they can be safely started at. That aircraft has  P&W engines which don't need to idle before shutting down. So the crew is very likely to be hugging the body of the aircraft and snagging themselves on the pitot.
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VikingSkull posted:The weather is nice, sure. Do you still work at KSWF?
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VikingSkull posted:nope, been out of there like 15 years Ah, okay. Going down there the last week in April for some R-22 time. Curious if you had anything aviation-related to do while i'm in town.
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