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ApathyGifted posted:What's more clever is doing away with the windshield entirely and using cameras instead. Saves you a couple tons of machinery that is probably harder to maintain and less reliable than the cameras hooked to LCD screens. Its much easier to trouble shoot those type of mechanical problems than electrical problems midflight. You would be surprised at how many passenger jet aircraft that have an emergency crank or pins accessible by the crew to manually lower the gear/nose/whatever.
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ApathyGifted posted:But this is countered by how much easier it is to add redundancy to an electronic system. Don't even bother troubleshooting, just switch to one of 3 independent backups. Okay... poweroutage caused by a short or something underneath your instruments. No magnetos or batteries online. How do you navigate. While I have never experienced all those failures at once in my brief history of flying, they train you for it. edit: it would also take some type of ridiculously small focal length lense like 8mm to get your entire field of view. This would also heavily distort the image and make far away objects near invisible to see. Let alone if you wanted to just look out the left wing of the plane to see if you are making the correct distance to the base turn of the airport. Unless you want to play with joysticks/separate camera to see different viewpoints, and that adds a whole different level of possible pilot error during the most vulnerable time for an aircraft. Takeoff/Landing edit2: Also if you have three backup systems(unheard of in aviation, rule is mostly 2 if that)that dramatically increases the weight of the aircraft and reduces the fuel/passengers/cargo you can haul say compared to a thick pane of glass. edit3: VVV That also;although I'm sure he's cooking up laser distance finder you could point through the .. uh. joystick? Entone fucked around with this message at 04:15 on May 6, 2010 |
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Needs more pics. My favorite piston engine aircraft. Supposedly a new replica with an abortion of a canopy, but I don't care.  (C) Richard Seamen
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ApathyGifted posted:...The article I linked was about using a camera system on the High Speed Civil Transport. General aviation is like that. Substitute missles with flocks of birds, aircraft trying to kill you with meandering aircraft not on your tower's frequency trying to kill you, and you still haven't addressed how to look 180 degrees in front the plane. Let alone the times I had to lean forward, put my head to the side glass and look back. The computer games/simulations do it because its a simulation, and you can use a joystick to move the pilots head. Not applicable in real life. edit: and really how much do you think windows weigh in comparison to triple redundant cameras/power. edit2:Grammar and lack of sleep really don't go well together. Entone fucked around with this message at 05:58 on May 6, 2010 |
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ApathyGifted posted:We're talking about replacing the droop nose of aircraft like the Concorde and Tu-144 with cameras and TV screens, not the Cessna down at your local airstrip. If your Cessna has a droop nose I want pictures. IFR is IFR. Regardless if its an American Airlines 737 from DFW or a Learjet out of a municipal. The same rules still apply. You still didn't address a single concern I had about the cameras, besides triple redundancy  , regardless of airframe.
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I'm pretty sure this wasn't posted, but if it was... damnnn this guy is lucky. 26 Turn Flat Spin in a Tipsy Nipper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbS-oHi9ro Having an accident and totaling the plane under my belt, this makes my back hurt just watching. How has someone with that much experience, as described in the comments, never heard the protocol for a power off stall that turns flat? Just watching I wanted to neutralize the ailerons, apply hard left rudder, pitch down, and lean forward. Perhaps his COG was too far back, being in a small rear end edit: The plane has a 1400-1500cc engine. No way would that balance out the load on the horizontal stabilizer with a pilot far back. I was working on my vfr, and the instructor even brought it up around hour 10-15 about what to do during if the spin you enter goes flat. Although, we are both pretty much airplane geeks, and we always had plenty of time to talk flying out to the practice area NE of a field in the Dallas Metroplex in a slow rear end Cessna. edit2:VV I found the pilots comments posted on the tipsynipper forum. Seems like I was right about the COG Neil from tippsynipper.com posted:I am in "correspondance" with the AAIB, so cannot say too much now, except: edit3:Why would you try an aerobatic maneuver in this little, underpowered thing to begin with? 
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I posted this picture from flight school in the A/T Aviation thread. I had to reshare it; PiperSports are too drat sexy.
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The NTSB is back up, but that link is outdated. You can search by accident number, NYC08FA023, or goto this link: Things not to do as a pilot/builder
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This photo has been making the rounds on some av-blogs. DC flight sunk into the tarmac from the excessive temps.
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Captain Postal posted:Hey, they may look funny but show some respect. Back in the day a pilot I know was doing a shake-down flight on an SP (no pax/cargo, super light weight) and he and the pilot looked at each other, said "gently caress it" and put the hammer down just to see what would happen. They hit about M = 0.98 with plenty of throttle left before they decided that it had gone from "gently caress yeah!" fun to "oh gently caress!" fun and that they had better back off. It looks like some unwilling Air China pilot may have already been there. http://everything2.com/user/archiewood/writeups/airliners+that+have+gone+supersonic+and+survived There isn't too many interviews or indepth tracking about the AC Flight 006, but the SuperSonic Douglass DC-8 interview has a couple fascinating tid-bits. Guy basically dove a DC-8 into a M1.01 dive where he couldn't use the control surfaces, and the plane was working without slats for takeoff because of some damage on the ramp. 
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How about some GA photos? I posted them in the other thread, but I figured that they would be appropriate here too, I rented a SportCruiser in Santa Monica and took a friend in from Brazil to a small mounation airport about an hour North of LA. My friend took a ton of photos, but my laptop completely died. I can post some pics of LA during civil twilight another time. Getting checked out: (took 45min but I decided to go back up with the instructor for a second flight anyway... It's been about 7mo since I've flown and I use to think that DFW airspace was crazy..)  Enroute with friend:  Tehachapi Mountains:  Mojave wind farm:  We made it to mountain valley (L94)! It was probably one of my most difficult landings to date. There was a direct crosswind at 10G15 on a tiny 36ft wide runway that was really about 20ft of pavement. Too bad there weren't any airport barbers as I look goofy as poo poo in the only photo that turned out...  Edit: can someone pm or reply if I broke the hell out of the tables or the photos are ginormous? I used an app to resize them, but something doesn't look right.Maybe it's just the tablet?
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PainterofCrap posted:And I thought having someone puke down inside my car door was a bitch to clean out. On my discovery flight eight years ago, I had two of my cousins in the back of a 172. The oldest one puked when we were in a bank traveling around 100knots. The second one puked shortly after. Neither made it into a barf bag. It was a long, disgusting flight back to KTKI. I felt really bad for the CFI, and gave him an extra $20 when we landed. I still don't think that was enough of tip.
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smackfu posted:drat, that's a pretty big temporary hangar.  edit: You probably just meant it's a huge rear end temporary hanger from the wing span. Overworked and exhausted... Entone fucked around with this message at 03:05 on Jun 7, 2013 |
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Three amazing videos of Aerial Firefighters(Bombadier 415?) reloading in Irwindale,CA. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=81c_1390184217
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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? I was on a flight to DFW once and we had to do a go-around. It kinda made everyone nervous, but I just said to my family that there was probably something on the runway. Sure enough once the aircraft was cleaned up on TO/GO, the pilot came on the intercom and said "We have to do one more run around the pattern. There was a dead coyote on the runway."
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ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:I'll never say a bad word about US Air because they saved me from missing the opening of a conference in Galveston I was a speaker at when every other goddamned airline in Newark had no flights to Houston left scheduled for that day. US Air always seemed to have the slowest and most incompetent employees, but they make up for it by boarding earlier and taking more time to account. To give them credit, I had a flight from Columbus to DFW through ATL that was going to have a cancellation on the second leg. Their booking system automatically rerouted me through DTW.
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AzureSkys posted:Something I think business jet sized was just departing KBFI and just as they powered up and began rolling there were 3 deep booms that echoed all over the area. Was that a compressor stall or surge? They immediately powered down and pulled off the runway. That happened to me on an American Airlines flight around 10 years ago. I believe it was an md80. We powered up on the runway and way before v1 it happened. The pilot pulled off the runway, went through some checklist and said one of the most memorable things that I've heard a pilot say. "We picked up a few red lights on takeoff. I went back over everything and it appears okay. We'll try the takeoff again." The rest of the flight was smooth and unremarkable. Entone fucked around with this message at 10:52 on Aug 11, 2014 |
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Back to some AI. JATO assisted Ercoupe takeoffs! Would this still be considered light sport? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w0mKobISt4
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I had a flight on a Southwest 737-8 to love field today. We landed on 31R, and that approach has an amazing view of downtown from the left window. edit: Slightly less pixelated... slightly. Entone fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Sep 12, 2014 |
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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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hobbesmaster posted:So how tall is that nose wheel. It appears to be B-36 Sized 
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thetechnoloser posted:I'm really impressed, actually. I know that's sped up as all hell, and they probably edited out some crew unlocking bits here and there, but I figured there was no way that was automated to that extent. The regular speed version gives the impression of some creature waking up from a long nap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPRhdjSFWgU
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polpotpotpotpotpot posted:This thread: came for the airplanes, stayed for the insane anything-related-to-airplanes apologists who think that lasers are only tools for blinding pilots, all noise concerns around airports are obviously frivolous and solely from 1%-er NIMBY assholes, and any sort of budgetary concern around a military aircraft is patently evil. To date, I've never been let down. Hey now, Lasers can be used to blind astronauts too: http://www.wickedlasers.com/krypton posted:The unbroken beam of unbelievably green light is strong enough to point out individual stars in the sky, and be seen in return by astronauts in space.
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Inacio posted:What are the advantages, if any, of a V-tail design? There is less interference drag from fewer structures that interact with the relative wind. It's also a bit lighter.
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Cat Mattress posted:Another thing that the synchrotor avoids is this issue: I always wonder how much insurance would cost on a flying car. It's not like a regular car where someone rear ending, or dinging, it can cause a control surface and engine failure plus the cost of re-certifying the airplane.
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Agh, I've been so busy that I forgot to post this earlier. There is a Kickstarter out there, from a company with a history of actually delivering documentaries, about Burt Rutan and his new Amphibian LSA Motorglider. They are about $2300 and 3 days away from making their stretch goals to help upgrade the quality of the equipment to mount to mount on the SkiGull. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antennafilms/looking-up-way-up-the-burt-rutan-story Entone fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Mar 25, 2015 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:No one's posted this yet, so I guess I've got linking honors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GCFWKBoV7E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=125gutRd8rk
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This popped up in my local pilots group, and I don't recall this being posted here. It's the cabin of the Challenger 604 that hit the A380 turbulence. Sauce 
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This was pretty neat. I was driving near Lakehills, TX, and a few supercells moved into the area. Just as I was leaving the area, we were placed under a flash flood warning. I decided to stay ahead of the storm; since, the road I was on can flood out. When I looked up at the leading edge of the cell, I noticed a black trail of smoke, and the glow of an afterburner. He booked it to around a quarter to half mile from the most prominent formation in the cell and turned a few circles. Are there any aviation based atmospheric research programs in the area? My best guess is that it was probably a T-38 from Randolph playing around. 
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drunkill posted:Nasa uses 3 WB-57 Canberras as storm chasers don't they? Based out of Johnson Space Centre, Houston The spacing on the WB-57 engines looks too broad. The red glow was either a single engine or twin with little spacing between the engines.
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Mao Zedong Thot posted:
I think you mean a pituitary gland disorder. AN-3T's are freaking huge. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fuTFGFEfL0&t=11s
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slidebite posted:That's pretty cool. Interesting that its still grounding through the big tire. It's a myth that rubber tires help vehicles from being struck by lightning. It might help the current choose a better path through a tree or a rod nearby, but the current can travel tens to hundreds of miles. A few more feet around a wet tire isn't that much.
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