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Oh my gosh are you the ones who make those little model NY subway cars they used to sell at FAO Schwarz? I have one of those and every time I look at it it reminds me of that ridiculous screetching whistle the MTA trains make, I love that sound. It's lifelike, it's a good model. I've always wanted a model of one of the Los Angeles buses as well but the only ones I've seen are these matchbox ones and the proportions just aren't right. Do you think you might ever make any make models for LA Metro?
Go here:
https://www.wunderground.com/radar/radblast.asp?ID=wkr
In the drop down box, change it from "base reflectivity" (normal radar that sees rain) to "base velocity". If you know how to read it, it shows you wind speed, wind direction, and changes in wind direction (albeit at a massive scale because this is not a precision readout). Generally the wind is moving from the green area to the red area.
No offense, but I think that Windy is the far superior product. https://www.windy.com/?32.948,-96.314,5
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Be careful, time seems to melt when you are on that site. LOTS of options. I love it.
Actually that article is the tldr of this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Long-Way-Home-Ed-Dover/dp/061521472X
The short version is: plane in Australia, WWII starts, Pacific Ocean dangerous because Japanese, crew takes plane West to New York with adventures on the way.
It’s really worth the read when you get time.
On the pilot's facebook page he says:
thanks god one more time safe on the ground after landing by iranair jet boeing 727 with nose gear not extended. no injury to nobody with minimum damage to aircraft.
Thanks to YOU I'd say.
Also not....really correct? There were a couple of dedicated SR-71 trainers, including The Bastard. SR-71 crews were trained in simulators and in actual SR-71 trainer aircraft. Although the gross characteristics of the A-12 and SR-71 are similar, detailed training on one wouldn't give you the skills you need to operate the other, especially considering that the A-12 is a single-seater and the SR-71 is not—the pilot workload is vastly different.
The A-12 was an earlier version of the OXCART design and was primarily CIA-operated. A significant number of its missions remain classified and it was (reportedly) often called to overfly unfriendly airspace. It had a single (very busy) pilot and was operated by civilian (aka CIA) aircrews.
The SR-71 is a later OXCART variant operated by the US Air Force and flown by military pilots rather than by the CIA. Much of its operational history is now unclassified, unlike the A-12. It also very rarely overflew unfriendly airspace, and instead would typically fly missions just outside of unfriendly airspace and use its high vantage point and powerful optics to look sideways onto the desired recon zone. (The reason for this is because while the SR-71 had a lower-than-you'd-expect radar cross section, it was pretty hard to miss it on radar and nothing else flew that flight profile. It was really, really, really, really obvious when an SR-71 was flying over your country, and recon flights are an extraordinarily provocative gesture. Invading another country's airspace is an act of war, after all.)
(Source: much of this is, especially the differences in missions between the different Blackbird types, is discussed in SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story, written by retired SR-71 pilot and eventual squadron commander Col Richard Graham.)
Can be seen clearly on Bing Maps:
Strangely, google have managed to purge LHR of all vehicles.
Like /u/askjdasidunqwdqw12 said, this was a Teespring campaign from last year. I don't know if it is still available, but you can follow the link and see if you can reach out to someone.
I had the good fortune to meet a Tuskegee Airman a few years ago while I was working and we talked about it. Also, this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Flyers-Tuskegee-Airmen-History/dp/0199896550/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1516067528&sr=1-10&keywords=The+Tuskegee+airmen
These giant weather maps are always a computer algorithm's idea of how several tiny circular weather radar maps should be merged.
Worse yet, those circular radar maps' resolution decreases exponentially with range.
You can see an example of one single radar station's range and resolution here, using NEXRAD:
https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/canada/on/king-city/wkr/
When one radar station goes down, which they do all the time, the giant weather map algorithms try to fill in the hole using data from neighbouring radar stations. Usually that's enough for a rough picture. Something screwed up on this one.
With some searching, I found it on Google Maps. It's apparently chilling outside one of the buildings of the Kazan Technical Institute
https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-U-S-Air-Force-B1-Bomber-compare-to-the-Russian-Air-Force-Tupolev-T-160-BlackJack The B-1 and the Tu-160 are very similar aircraft in that they are both supersonic strategic bombers and missile carriers. There are a number of differences, however.
- The B-1 is used primarily as a strategic bomber where the Tu-160 is used primarily as a standoff missile platform.
- The Tu-160 was developed as a response to the B-1, and accordingly has a greater range and is slightly larger than the B-1. The B-1 has a greater combined payload based on its primary mission as a strategic bomber.
- Neither of the aircraft is considered a stealth aircraft. The bottom of the B-1 is painted with RAM (radar-absorbent material) which gives it a black look in the sky, and is generally painted gray or brown on top. The Tu-160 is painted in anti-flash white (a paint which reflects some nuclear radiation, meant to protect the crew).
The B-1 is nicknamed the "Bone" (B-One) by its pilots. The anti-flash white paint scheme of the Tu-160 is what gives it the moniker "the White Swan" by its pilots.
And the source of that post, is a comment on a Gizmodo article.
> That's good, but this is better. I work for an Airline Pilot Association and we had this in from a pilot. Apparently this Lynx stowed away under the rudder pedals of a JungleJet. When the aircraft took off, the Lynx attacked the Captain and Flight Officer, only really calming down when hypoxia set in and it mellowed out on the glareshield. Awesome
I was curious about the mechanics of this so I looked it up. BOY it is hard to find a modern text that deals with the equations of biplane physics.
From what I found though, the interference is proportional to the aspect ratio of the wing, and is very much affected by an offset. So these short aspect high offset wings would, as you suggest, not suffer the 80 percent loss, as that is for an aspect ratio 6 wing with a one chord separation.
Somebody listed the Nimitz for sale when she broke down in San Diego back in 2011 or so. This isn’t that listing, but a similar one. Keep an eye out, they pop up from time to time when her crew gets sufficiently disgruntled. https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/min/1603624338.html
http://youtu.be/lQeh-snSzmE this is what you're hearing. tornadoRx was correct. The sound that you're hearing is the RAT. I believe that deploying the RAT is part of the testing. There are a lot of videos showing them landing at PAE with the ram air turbine deployed. You can see it deployed in between the main gear. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_air_turbine
I read this like 20 years ago, and have the audiobook now. I've spent many a commute hour listening to Mr. Rich's memoirs. Here's a linky to Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/dp/0316743003
Fun side note, my stepmom's father (step-grandpa?) was a machinist @ Skunk Works. I mentioned this book to her and she said, oh yeah dad gave Kelly Johnson rides home every so often when his car was in the shop. Uhhh, what Mari?
Yeah, it is. It sucks though, the origin launcher doesn't allow you to use mods like shockwave which I just learned were even a thing after playing that fucking game for like a decade.
Lockheed is exporting the F35.
Other countries paid a little to help research it and more importantly to gain access to some of the research. Some also got a discount on the jets for supporting the research.
This personally gave me chills because I took my PPL lessons at Peter O'Knight. What's so mind boggling is that MacDill AFB's 10,000 ft runway is impossible to miss when your flying around kTPF. Check out the map here, if you go south west you'll see MacDill.
You're right. Here's the shutterstock source image. I think it's a Fedex A310
I like the way French approach action shooting.
Some other classic (non aviation) examples:
"Speedbird Concorde 1" in full ;)
No argument there. Has to be in a near upper class accent too. Here's ATC and Concorde on approach to LHR love the way ATC is so excited :D
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It's the estimated lifetime cost for the system. Seems like a new way to grab a big number and shit on the plane. I can't seem to find the metric being used to evaluate a new plane before but my searches have been limited to Google.
This screenshot is from the Amazon show "The Man in the High Castle" and depicts the 1962 version of what the Nazis have accomplished in SST. The show itself is an alternate history with the Nazi and Imperial Japanese forces winning WWII.
> Called A-GPS
That's actually doing everything but using cell tower triangulation/cell tower location. It's using the cell tower and its much bigger bandwidth to transmit all the GPS assistance data, like time, orbital data, almanac, etc, because to grab that stuff straight off the satellite is going at 50b/s.
I remember I had an old digital camera that wanted you to pull that data off the internet manually, by connecting the camera to the PC, running the software, and telling it your city. You had to do this once a month, and if you didn't, it would take the GPS 5+ minutes to get a proper fix.
You can also do it manually on your smartphone using this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2&hl=en
...and tell it to download the A-GPS data. But it's not something it's grabbing every time you request GPS coordinates, it's a periodic assistance cache updated once in a while to help the GPS get a fix much more quickly.
I was thinking that if I had to evacuate for a wildfire and had a pool or pond, I’d set up sprinklers to keep the house and surrounding yard as wet as possible.
Kinda like what happened here: https://weather.com/news/news/kansas-wildfire-home-spared
May of 2013 according to this article.
Here's a video of them blowing the wings off of the poor bird.
IIRC most of the "satellite" view maps at high zoom, especially in urban and suburban areas are made with traditional aircraft. Which is why when you're zooming in, there's often a shift from one set of maps (where you can find cool stuff like aircraft with combined-image artifacts) to another (clearly shot in different season etc.)
I know Landsat takes about 16 days to scan the planet, although accounting for weather etc and processing time to stitch the whole map together, delivery would vary. IIRC the newest Landsat's panchromatic camera still only offers 15m/pixel resolution.
The arrows indicate a displaced threshold, and not all runways have one (see KOKK for an example of an airport without).
Displaced thresholds indicate an area that cannot be used for landing, but is available for taking off and taxing. Usually, a threshold is displaced because of obstacles on the landing path, or because for some reason that portion of the runway is not strong enough to take the stresses of a landing aircraft.
EDIT: Link to wikipedia for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displaced_threshold. The yellow chevrons indicate an area of the runway that is not usable for normal aircraft operations.
Yeah, we have only a rough idea of its weight (75,000 - 80,000 lbs), and we have no real data on how well China's home grown engines will perform. Yet this guy is claiming the J-20 will have a thrust to weight ratio that bests the F-22.
It sounds like he likes to do a lot of talking out of his ass.
It's also in Bruce McCall's book Zany Afternoons, which used to be out of print. I got a used copy from Amazon.
Here's a good TED talk video by Mr. McCall you might like:
This is really bad news. "assigning more programmers to a project running behind schedule will make it even later" - Frederick Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. You just can't fix big software projects by adding more money and manpower because increasing workers increases communication and complexity of the project that already has problems with complexity.
The biggest risk in F-35 is clearly the software side. Without software and systems/sensors integration and data fusion working flawlessly F-35 is not what it's supposed to be. All the signs of software crisis are already there. The size of software has increased, size of code in the plane is close to 9 million lines and total number of lines has increased from 15 million to 24 million.
The game was developed with RORTOS after a year's collaboration.
iTunes Store & Google Play...
PC/Xbox coming soon apparently.
I heard the story was a Globemaster C-124 and it was approaching a F-86 on the taxiway.
"Globemaster, please be advised that there is a saber in your taxi path"
No response.
"Globemaster, please be advised that there is a saber in your taxi path"
No response
"Globemaster, saber in your direct path - STATE YOUR INTENTIONS!"
Without a word the Globemaster stopped and the cargo doors swung open and a voice chucked over the radio
"We're gonna eat you!"
No idea if it's true, but it's funnier with the C124's look.
Newton and Bernoulli are just two sides of the same coin as Bernoulli can be derived from Newton's laws. But the Bernoulli explanation causes confusion when it comes to symmetrical airfoils and doesn't lead the student to understand that the vertical and horizontal stabilizers, trim tabs, propellors, rotors, fuselage, wheel pants, etc. are all airfoils operating under the same principle. It also doesn't help the student to understand ground effect (which is the fact that a wing is more efficient/produces more lift when within about half a wingspan of the ground) or vortex ring state (aka settling with power) which can both kill you if not properly understood. Eventually a student who is taught Bernoulli wonders how an aircraft could possibly fly upside down. And those are among many other situations where Bernoulli fails.
Bernoulli should be reserved for talking about how carburetors and venturi tubes (used to generate vacuum pressure to drive instruments on old aircraft) work.
I've never understood how everyone got so hooked on Bernoulli. I suppose it is science teachers who never had to look any further than just a simple wing. In these conversations I always refer people to this book:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/stop-abusing-bernoulli-gale-m-craig/1002877237?ean=9780964680623
Nice model, reflections are awesome! Thought it was a MSFS screenshot at first then I recognized the pixabay photo because it's the backdrop on my companies time-off request portal.
I'm late to the party:
This is AeroSur, one of the two (well, really the only) air carrier left in Bolivia. They're based out of Viru Viru in Santa Cruz.
It would not at all surprise me that he did this intentionally and with "permission" from local air traffic control and likely didn't get in trouble for it, either. What few rules exist in that country are seldom followed, much less enforced.
Also, he probably wasn't a fighter pilot. At least, not for the Bolivian Air Force (FAB). They have a handful of T-33's left (they sold their F-86's a couple of decades ago) and can barely afford to put gas in them or maintain them (don't ask about the new glass cockpits ಠ_ಠ ), so there would've been no way for him to use that as any kind of platform to go to big jets.
Also, the commentary in the background would lead me to believe that they expected this maneuver.
TL;DR - Pilot taking advantage of lax rules to have fun with a plane at corporate expense.
Visually breathtaking game at the time, and did well enough commercially there were sequels. But they lacked the same wow-factor I got from the first.
(I worked in the game industry - the rendering technique it used for terrain (voxels) ultimately turned out to be kind of a dead end, at least in gaming.)
> Part of me likes the Idea of ditching the states and moving to NZ or Australia but have no idea where Im gonna get the money, I like the idea of buying a one way plane ticket, but In reality Im probably still screwed.
Not to shit on your day even more, but one way international plane tickets require lots more than just the ticket. You'll need some sort of visa and probably a work permit(unless you are independently wealth, sounds like you are not). The plane ticket is easy(but expensive for one ways), visas are not.
Just take a trip to the UK, Germany, or Korea. All are great places.
Here is a round trip ticket from Chicago to Frankfurt for $650. On a 747. https://www.google.com/flights/#search;f=ORD;t=FRA,ZRB;d=2018-04-06;r=2018-04-16;sel=ORDFRA0LH431,FRAORD0LH430;a=LH
Spend spring break in Germany. $30-40/night for a hostel, then $40/day for food is a generous budget. So for $1200-1500 you can spend a week in Germany, fly a 747, and have a kick ass spring break.
headphone adapters will take care of you - one stereo, one mono Stereo: https://www.amazon.com/3-5mm-Stereo-Jack-Adapter-black/dp/B00142BZSY/ref=asc_df_B00142BZSY/ Mono: https://www.amazon.com/DISINO-Adapter-Upgrade-Gold-Plated-Headphone/dp/B083RXPCTS/ref=sr_1_11
Sorry, but this is the best skydiver pilot video: https://vimeo.com/51737114
Absolutely epic. OP's video is a cakewalk compare to that.
For the comments: http://www.reddit.com/search?q=url:%2220a_1355531018%22
It is amazing: the Brits REALLY intended to circle the globe. This was part of the infrastructure they were building. I've been fascinating by the large airships of the 1930s, especially R.101, the British airship. There are a few more pictures (one showing the cabling system) in the first chapter of my book (a work in progress) which is on medium.com. This chapter tells how the ship was moved from its shed and then moored at the tower.
I feel ya bro. Couple of things, The Apple Jet was a gift from the Apple board for his share price performance, Jobs never paid for it. The Google Jets 8 of them are owned by Google direct, Larry and Sergey never paid for it either.
AT&T is the 21st Largest Corp in the world. Its completely global in operation, has one of the highest paid CEOS on earth. Having the CEO fly Southwest when is at a personal compensation level of 60 grand a day while a private jet fleet only costs a fraction of a days total global revenue is moderately self evident...
Actually if you look at rotary wing craft that are military, they pretty much all have one of some sort and you can see here that the cyclics all have a trim switch and that's an older Huey.
Doesn't seem like it's all that great. According to one commenter, "A Roll and Move game and one of those annoying ones where you needed to get the exact number all the time. " https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2059/airline
"Airlines Europe" looks like it would be a better option if you want a board game about running a airline. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/90419/airlines-europe
It looks like they have a runway in that direction already
Edit: Apparently they have a couple more runways lol
I found this:
Raytheon Flight Test Operations Boeing 727 Modified N289MT 'Voodoo 1', Los Angeles, California
Raytheon Flight Test Operations fly this modified Boeing 727, N289MT, as a test platform for new avionics. It is sometimes called 'Pinocchio' , on account of it having an F-15 Eagle fighter nose fitted, but is better known as 'Voodoo 1' which is it's call sign. It is seen taxiing for another sortie from its base at Los Angeles airport (LAX), California.
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spicpix/8424019601/
I edited some spelling errors the source made. Thank you u/geo38 for pointing out one I missed.
Sweetman has no idea what he's talking about.
And there are <em>tons</em> of shots without the gun pod but other weapons being carried. This one is my favorite.
The approach into SD is tricky...note how far down the runway they actually touch down...then it's all brakes and thrust reversers.
Clearly New York doesn't. There are ten skipped floors in Trump Tower. The man has been a liar his whole @$#& life.
I want to take it easy on him, but this is probably just rearranged images from a blueprint. Something like this
Patent drawings to looks like that.
That's quite naive, considering that to begin with the western countries financed ISIS to be against Al Assad because he was the "evil guy" to get rid of. Now everyone runs scared in circles.
But to begin with, Saudi Arabia (and Qatar) is the main financer of wahhabism terrorist, which is not a secret at all https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE131801_a.html and it's pretty clear. This article on the NY Times is quite interesting as well http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/opinion/saudi-arabia-an-isis-that-has-made-it.html
On the other hand, Turkey is openly against Assad and has been fighting for a long time
Erdogan, the current Turkey's prime minister, likes to shit on Atatürk's legacy quite frequently, is openly against Al Assad and has been murdering Kurds during years. Erdogan said he would "never allow the establishment of a Kurdish state in northern Syria". They trained Syrian army defectors to fight Al Assad. Turkey has been accused formally by some countries of supporting Daesh.
But yeah we can keep ignoring the facts and call it shenanigans.
Ha! We meet again. I dug up the name of that old Commanche computer game for you awhile back.
There was indeed some pretty sweet engineering involved and I can completely believe how emotionally invested one could get in such a project - but in light of which conflicts the US eventually ended up in (Afghanistan/Iraq/misc), the mission-creep of a scout ending up so capable, and the delays (for many silly reasons that weren't wholly its own or anyone directly working on project's fault), I do see the logic in the cancellation.
Engadget article regarding Lightsquared's solution to the GPS interference
I used TimeLapse Assembler for Mac... There are a bunch of options and even more for Windows but this runs light and is really good when up/downscaling.
As for the process, I processed the first RAW image, copied the adjustments to all the images I had taken, exported to jpeg and fed them all into the timelapse assembler. Once you set the frame rate (this is 20fps - each image is treated as a frame) & required output resolution, it stitches them all together and spits out a .mov file. I then used Gifrocket to make that .mov into a .gif.
Problem is that it is not a photo, it's digital art from a guy on Pixabay (a stock image platform). He's got another of the same weird typhoon here.
I'm not sure how you can be so confident that such a comparison is wrong. If you have any sources on the exact technologies being considered for use on the aircraft and performance parameters, I'm sure there are a few large nations who would be interested in hearing from you.
Chances are, yes, it's not going to be comparable in performance to the F-22. The pictures we've seen so far do not look that flattering for the J-20, it just doesn't appear to be as well-designed as other 5th gen fighters. But, at least some of the design was supposedly informed by information taken from Lockheed contractors, and if so they might have some similarities where it counts.
I agree, if we're speculating then we may as well speculate as to how China will use the platform as we understand it, but that doesn't mean that other forms of speculation are any less valid or meaningful.
"The first reported snow fall in 1989 was on October 10; the last was on May 17." Maybe the Migs in the photos were not the earliest. I was told the photos were from 1990.
There is a long thread about it on usenet, here
Apparently a car tow on a short rope, with the plan to release and land after a 180 degree turn. Didn't work out. Classic stall/spin on the turnback. Very sad. I hope the pilot did not feel pressured to try to do the impossible maneuver.
That particular airplane was completely refurbished in 2014, according to russian source. That included ultra-sound of the entire airframe for any micro-cracks. Unless there was some maintenance failure (which is quite possible), that plane was like it was 2 years old.
Canada has a very strict policy regarding non-citizens who've been convicted of DUI/DWI. Generally speaking they will not allow an individual into their country if they've been convicted of such a crime, and there is a lengthy process one must go through to have it resolved.
This is actually bad for the engine for all you guys wondering. One of the monitoring systems is to check for the exhaust gas temp because if the hot section of the engine gets too hot then it can bend and warp the turbine blades. Turbines rely on a cooling stream of air to protect the burner cans (where the ignition takes place) from getting too hot and burning holes in the cans and causing hot spots. this image shows what I'm talking about there would be a special inspection involved before the next flight which is a boroscope to check for internal damage.
The answer from the site:
>As the aircraft picks up speed, and approaches the speed of sound – around 767mph (1,234km/h) at sea level – shockwaves form around the aircraft. Across these shockwaves there is ‘discontinuity’ in the local air pressure and temperature. This causes the air to lose its capacity to hold water and condensation starts to form, creating the vapour cone.
To go further:
Pressure and temperature combinations determines the tendency of phase that a fluid exists in. With the added pressure of the shockwave, the moisture of the air is forced to condense into the water particles that we can see.
There's one at Harrisburg airport in PA that I've always wondered about too. You can see it when you take Amtrak because it's right next to the tracks. Mabey they use it for training purposes. It's pretty creepy looking
The Block 1 F-16A was a simple lightweight day fighter that had a dead simple radar, couldn't fire BVR missiles and could only drop dumb bombs. The F-16 didn't become the multirole workhorse it is now until the F-16C Block 40/42 days, in the late '80s. The F-117 was a very "quick and dirty" program that used a ton of off the shelf hardware to keep costs down. And none of those airframes you mention can hold a candle to the F-22 in air to air engagements. The Raptor's stealth and sensor fusion makes it an unfair fight.
This J-20 is supposed to be a 5th generation stealthy platform. The production avionics, sensors and systems integration still need to be done. Which is what tied up a large chunk of the F-22 time between the prototype rollout to OT&E. I don't think the Chinese have more experience with that than Lockheed Martin. Or if they skip out doing that work because it takes too long or is too expensive it'll get spanked just like 4th gen fighters. Making a cool looking airframe is a small part of what makes a fighter "next gen".
Unfortunately, sitting at a 1 currently.
This was the book I read years ago.
I'm reading a history fo the CIA right now (it's called Legacy of Ashes) and you start to realize the stark difference between what people think the CIA is/was and what it actually is/was.
You hear all about the skyhook and the inflatable planes but what you don't hear about are things like the fact that in the 1950s, the CIA dropped something like 500 spies (mostly foreign nationals) into Russia and China... and literally all of them were either captured or killed.
We think of the CIA as the masters of the covert operation but the vast majority of their operations were abject failures, papered over by lies so vast that even many presidents were not aware of their own CIA's failures.
Eisenhower, for all his follies, actually recognized this in his second term and tried to reform the CIA, but the thing the CIA was best at was self preservation. And they managed to survive.
For the V-22 specifically, there's an awesome book called The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22
It's an awesome read, goes into a lot of detail about the history of the aircraft, the pitfalls and troubles throughout testing, and of course, details about its design. I would recommend it if you haven't read it already.
The "cobra" has very little - if any - tactical use. I suggest reading Robert Shaw's book Fighter Combat. While the layperson will find it difficult to read at times (I struggled with several concepts and had to read them over and over), it is a great foundation upon which nearly all engagements are fought. Angles and energy are still the two largest factors in engagements within visual range. Admittedly I'm no fighter pilot (though I wish I was!) but I do have several friends who are, one of which was an Aggressor out of Top Gun for several years. He told me that is a "ho hum" maneuver that looks cool, but would probably only get you "more killed". He explained that in this maneuver you can bleed all energy and usually that loss is so great that the pilot even suffers the loss of the ability to have angles until the aircraft begins to fly again.
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https://www.amazon.com/Fighter-Combat-Maneuvering-Robert-Shaw/dp/0870210599
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The closest we could probably get to this is if a company managed to build a full scale blended wing body type, which would result in a seat layout which would rival the seat density seen in this comic. There's a passenger cabin seat mockup graphic on this page which shows how ridiculous it would be.
Here is the exact spot on Google Maps
Interesting fact OP, that was the fastest they recorded the SR-71 going. In fact, pilots recount stories of them going much faster. Mach 3.5 is 2,664 mph and a pilot exceeded mach 3.5 while outrunning a Lybian missile.
Weird!
Here are a couple other URLs you can try:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/143316/worlds-toughest-fixes-boeing-767
In case you're more curious you can take a look at some detailed PPT slides from my course https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1dSqJt44bkMaUpkNGdicXVOVE0/edit?usp=sharing
I have a feeling this article is mis-quoting the results of the study. I believe the statistic is that on average you become spatially disoriented within 178 seconds, that's a lot different than "life expectancy."
One of my flight instructors was a former 777 pilot and she said every single time she flew through clouds she became disoriented. It's natural, and you train for it. You focus on your instruments and disregard any conflicting sensation your brain is sending you.
Your teachers paid much less for their college than you will (and ended up with less debt) - it has increased 1210% in 30 years, according to this article I read today - http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/03/a-few-crazy-college-fees-that-are-driving-education-online/
$65k seems feasible (i.e., with a pilot job, you can pay it off in a reasonable amount of time). $195k sounds like a lot of debt to leave college with. But if you can do it with little or no debt (parents paying, etc), maybe it's worth it.
I don't have experience in the aviation field, just with paying for college in general. Maybe someone in the aviation field can give you more specific advice.
Just curious - where exactly. It looks like St. Teresa Pt. is in Island Lake.
I think you're right, the main airport doesn't look like the one in the photo. It's probably this airport.
Definitely just a dude's field:
edit: Looks like it's about ~100ish feet away from the threshold
Congratulations.
That DA-20 has the same paint scheme as our flightschool's used to have. It started peeling off, so they removed it all except the registration. I don't have a current photo, but here's what it looked like.
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This is not a shoulder launched missile, they don't fly high enough nor carry enough explosive. The missile actually speeds up to Mach 3 or so and as /u/Guysmiley77 says, uses radar in conjunction with some kind of proportional nav to "hunt" the target that was set when it launched.
Few missiles run into the plane (i.e. contact). Instead, they use a radar proximity fuse which goes off when it gets within a certain distance and use fragmentation to create an explosive cloud of debris which does most of the initial damage. The explosive blast itself is fairly minor.
The point I was making is that once the skin of the plane is sufficiently compromised by the fragments, it will just peel off with the 500kn airstream. This has happened before when a panel came lose in flight (Aloha incident) and a large strip came off, but luckily it wasn't at the front.
Guess it's old news, thanks guys. It's the US also; here's the FAA AD.
This is a little scary because I learned to soar in it and fully took advantage of the acro and high G limits ( +5.3/-3 with 2 ppl, +6 /3.5 for 1 ppl) source. Knowing there's a fatigue defect means it could have parted any time and we were lucky.
In case you are wondering what's that sound about - it's GPS coordinates of the helicopter shooting this video. Apparently TV/news studios do this.
Not tilt wing, but jet powered rotorcraft (VTOL)
http://www.swisscopter.com/en/swisscopter-_content---1--1047.html
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/17/dragonfly-jet-powered-helicopter-runs-on-h2o2-shuns-traditional/
Another article from the same site http://www.geekwire.com/2016/paul-allen-stratolaunch-biggest-airplane/
In the video, they mention something about the defense department banning certain images fearing it might show proprietary technology or give away some secrets. That might explain why they haven't been taking too many pictures.
What you see here is indeed just a small crack. Here is the exact same perspective on Google Maps. Look at it, then try zooming out to see the actual Grand Canyon (hint: it's a much bigger crack on the left).
17 were built, 4 more were converted from Mi-10 base model.
A Mi-10k model may be parked at Oreshkovo airfield, about 200 km from Moscow. Which is probably the place where they get all the "bear inspecting airplanes" photos from, if you check the news. A Mi-10 base model is on display at Monino Central Air Force Museum much closer to Moscow.
Google Maps and Bing Maps. Surprisingly Bing Maps has sligthly higher quality pictures.