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Manny posted:Silly harrier, that's not your ship! I want to see the insurance claim the van's owner writes.
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# ¿ May 8, 2010 04:05 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 02:21 |
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Something new in the air - fan wing aeroplanes. The concept is surprisingly simple, you get lift by having air move over the wing surface. This is normally done by having an engine move the entire plane and can be assisted by having the engine blow air straight over the airfoil. Basic stuff, right. Now, imagine if your wing was capable of generating its own air movement. Not, I'm not talking about ornithopters flapping about like in Dune. I'm talking about something a little more practical. The vertical cylindrical fan sends a steady flow of air over the rest of the wing as it rotates. This allows not only for incredibly steep angles of attack, but by tilting the wing, can even allow the craft to hover (and even fly backwards). It's only in the prototype stage right now, as far as I know, but a scale version is up and running. Check the links below for video and more pics. Flight Blog link here Gizmodo link here
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# ¿ May 31, 2010 16:37 |
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blambert posted:I went and collected my ebay purchase, the impulse buy RAF Hunter drop tank, swung by dads work and pop riveted it together for now to work out what I want to do with it. What was Dustin Hoffman doing there?
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# ¿ Jun 25, 2010 16:45 |
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grover posted:Speaking of modern-WWII comparisons: This broke my brain. I used to make models of bombers when I was a kid and had four or five B-17 kits. I mean, there were rooms in there!
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# ¿ Jun 27, 2010 17:08 |
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grover posted:I always wanted an aeroplane that I could paint like that, but wrong. Have the landing gear sign point to the door, the left wing sign point to the right wing, that kind of thing. Just to piss off the accident investigators if I ever did have a crash.
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# ¿ Sep 4, 2010 04:33 |
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Sirveaux posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyYujjP5J-k It's like listening to a swarm of bees.
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# ¿ Oct 6, 2010 17:44 |
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Is that a model aeroplane? The F111 is loving huge, that one looks tiny with respect to the boat and dingy in the background EDIT - Nope, I'm wrong. Found this on flickr: Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 14:32 on Nov 22, 2010 |
# ¿ Nov 22, 2010 14:28 |
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Yes, I know every time I travel I can barely make my way down the aisle for all the people hooked up to life support systems Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 09:18 on Mar 6, 2011 |
# ¿ Mar 6, 2011 09:13 |
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BonzoESC posted:Haven't seen this one in the wild yet. I really wish they'd do more like this.
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# ¿ Mar 9, 2011 02:58 |
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Airliners.net always has the best pictures. Just the right amount of grime:
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# ¿ Apr 19, 2011 04:22 |
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Whoah, I honestly expected that series to end in flames. I can only imagine the drama going on in the cockpit.
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# ¿ May 2, 2011 16:35 |
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Over in the History thread in GBS, Phanatic posted this utterly glorious story of a SR-71 pilot Brian Shul from his book Sled Driver. I cannot recommend strongly enough that everyone reads it all the way through. quote:Ripping across the barren deserts 80,000 feet below us, I could already see the coast of California from the Arizona border. I was, finally, after many humbling months of simulators and study, ahead of the jet. I was beginning to feel a bit sorry for Walter in the back seat.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2011 16:45 |
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Pardon the 'fail' caption, but here's a good shot of that airbus mishap from when the wing was still embedded in the building: I know I'm a bad person for laughing at this, but I can't help but think of some poor bastard working away in his office when the wingtip of a massive aeroplane comes crashing through the wall.
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# ¿ Jun 24, 2011 18:20 |
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I can't bring any hate to bear on a Pokemon painted plane because I think all planes need to be painted up. White is just so boring (also - why does Firefox have "Pokemon" in its dictionary?)
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2011 10:44 |
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Especially the Viking mission.
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# ¿ Jul 4, 2011 16:26 |
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From the Horrible Mechanical Failures thread:Plinkey posted:Here is what happens when a hangar get hit by lightning and it manages to set off the foam system while the hanger is full of planes. You just know there was at least one poor bastard in there when it happened.
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# ¿ Jul 8, 2011 08:09 |
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Luckily, you'd be perfectly fine even if you stood right in the middle of it. Anther post in the Failures thread brought up a similar incident at Ellsowth AFB where a test of the foam spray went a bit haywire when they were unable to turn it off and a massive hanger was filled with foam to the rafters. The dozen or so airmen inside the hanger taking measurements and phots were perfectly okay.
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# ¿ Jul 9, 2011 04:04 |
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I love concept craft. Seeing a completely new technology or revisiting old tech in a new way. Boeing have gone and revisited pulse jets or, as they call it, Pulse-Ejector-Thrust-Augmentors. Now Gizmodo, being Gizmodo, naturally had to compare it to the Millennium Falcon, but it's more like having dozens of tiny jets under the fuselage. Originally developed by a Russian engineer, it was adapted by the nazis for the V1 'buzz bomb'. But their designs sucked. They failed, had poor engine life, were slow and noisy. But Boeing revisited the concept and has made an engine with no moving parts and - here's the part I really like - can fly through heavy debris clouds and ash and still work fine. Great for the next time a volcano shuts down all of Europe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ousW3b50M1Q
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 08:59 |
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They didn't say in the video or any of the links in the Gizmodo article. But dozens of little jets spraying straight down can't be too good for the lawn.
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# ¿ Jul 26, 2011 14:27 |
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Fully expect that plane to transform and stab a giant robot in the head with that spike plate.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2011 16:12 |
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Dr JonboyG posted:That book is a crime against humanity. Well, Aviation, at any rate. I love that crazy cold war stuff. Here's an old Airacomet with a genuine fake prop at an airshow.
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 03:02 |
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Maybe there's a smaller plane inside
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2011 01:41 |
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Another day in paradise from Airliners.net
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2012 15:27 |
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I know it's due to foreshortening, but every time I see a pic like this it makes me clench.
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2012 14:08 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Supercritical wing? Did you really need to come in for a landing so fast? I'm sure your instructors didn't teach you that manoeuver. Why would anyone set their flaps to such a ridiculous angle? Do you want us to stall?
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2012 02:19 |
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Added to the list of poo poo I want to do before I die - fly under an aurora.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2012 15:07 |
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Never seen one of these shots from behind before.
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# ¿ Feb 26, 2012 14:01 |
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From NatGeo: A 23-second exposure in a camera mounted in the tail of a Lockheed TriStar jet captures the lights of the airport runway and the city beyond.
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# ¿ Mar 18, 2012 05:50 |
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Delivery McGee posted:Edit: Russian giant-seaplane makers Beriev are currently working on this monster: Yeah, I can never wrap my head around the insane lift capacity of ground effect vehicles. Even the little ekranoplans could carry over 100 tonnes of cargo. This is an old pic, but I'd love to see someone build some of the concepts seen in the post 1980 section: Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 16:43 on May 9, 2012 |
# ¿ May 9, 2012 16:40 |
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God I love Kodachrome so much. http://www.shorpy.com/node/6733?size=_original#caption quote:October 1942. "A new B-25 bomber is brought for a test hop to the flight line at the Kansas City, Kansas, plant of North American Aviation." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information. Click for huge:
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# ¿ Jun 4, 2012 07:20 |
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Found this in a random image dump. Sadly, there were no more images or any details. Simply gorgeous.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2012 15:06 |
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Awesome, thanks. I want to be the guy in the back, just chillin' with the canopy open, taking in the view. EDIT: Back to engine chat with this great Kodachrome from Shorpy.com Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Jul 29, 2012 |
# ¿ Jul 29, 2012 02:20 |
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Ended up losing an hour or so at Shorpy again. July 1942. "Production. B-25 bombers. Mounting a 1700-horsepower Wright Whirlwind engine to the firewall of a B-25 bomber. Fairfax bomber plant, Kansas City." October 1942. "Lieutenant 'Mike' Hunter, Army test pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, California." August 1942. Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Jesse Rhodes Waller, aviation ordnance mate third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane. Another shot of AOM Jesse Rhodes Waller and machine gun in a PBY Catalina at Corpus Christi Naval Air Base in August 1942. October 1942. Transport assembly hall at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant in Fort Worth, Texas. Lowering an engine into place. October 1942. Workers installing fixtures and assemblies in the tail section of a B-17F bomber at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California. July 1942. Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia. October 1942. Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, Calif. Mating operation on a C-87 transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas. October 1942. 1942. "B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, Calif." One day, if a miracle happens and I win the lottery, I'm going to buy every Kodachrome in the entire goddamn world.
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# ¿ Sep 28, 2012 15:57 |
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Goddamn, at the 40 second mark I was sure I was about to see them all die.
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# ¿ Oct 21, 2012 02:55 |
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SybilVimes posted:What? Everyone knows that chemtrails started with the B17 raids on germany...
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2012 04:11 |
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I would put money that there's half a dozen guys right at the rear of the plane whooping it up like a pack of loons.
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2013 14:48 |
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But does it really matter in the long run? It's not like the cops are going to look at the tangled mess of metal and say, "By Jove, Watson! It was Miss Emily Pickingson with the hedge combobulators after all. Quick, to the steam jitney!" It'll be, "Yep, it's from 9/11. Stick it on the pile." They won't be in any real rush to do anything with it.
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2013 13:09 |
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Gullous posted:Your avatar says otherwise I remember that thread. I've still got some of the images saved. Air Safety! Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 06:59 on May 20, 2013 |
# ¿ May 20, 2013 06:55 |
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Just looking at the design of the Triton in the youtube preview pic - is the head shape and engine placement designed like that to act as a lifting body?
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# ¿ May 23, 2013 05:06 |
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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 02:21 |
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You need to turn that into a key chain or something. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 07:56 on Jul 23, 2013 |
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