<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Rara" class="quote" target="_blank">Rara</a> (<a href="#7" class="quote">Reply 7</a>):<br/><i>isobronts </i></font></td></tr></table> isocubes: ...
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Jump to postYeah, I also flew the Hiller 12E and if memory serves, it didn't have a hydraulic system. The comparable Bell 47 series did.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/HaveBlue" class="quote" target="_blank">HaveBlue</a> (<a href="#46" class="quote">Reply 46</a>):<br/><i>Huey on a stick</i></font></td></tr></ta...
Jump to postI taught Huey mechanics (crewchief-door gunner MOS 67N20 at the time) before I went to pilot training. Later I did fly Hueys, mostly D and H models. Once picked up a brand new H from the factory and ferried it about 1500 miles. There was not vibration one in that thing. You could let go of the cycli...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/nomadd22" class="quote" target="_blank">nomadd22</a> (<a href="#42" class="quote">Reply 42</a>):<br/><i>Nobody said the aircraft had to be level...
Jump to post. <table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Klaus" class="quote" target="_blank">Klaus</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>If this is correct it would follow that it s...
Jump to postI don't understand why anyone is thinking along the lines of airflow starting the rotor spinning. It wouldn't. There would be no reason for it. In rotary wing flight, autorotation would never happen if the rotor wasn't already at operating RPM at the moment of engine failure. Pushing a helicopter or...
Jump to postThe blades cannot backdrive the engines. There is a clutch mechanism to prevent it, else, with a siezed engine you would not be able to autorotate. A sprag clutch or centrifugal clutch must be installed. This would not preclude starting the engine from the battery and bringing it up to sufficient sp...
Jump to postAh yes, customer options. If you buy an airframe with one set of operating weights you have those limits. If you would like, you can usually "buy" higher gross weights, in the form of performance charts and landing gear/wing spar inspection procedures for that same airplane. If you start increasing ...
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Jump to postDoc, I don't mean to pick on you here. My lack of enthusiasm for these devices is entirely rooted in the practicality of them over existing technologies. UAVs with almost no moving parts are cheap and easy. They can be built in the size needed. They can be built with a permanent, aerodynamically-sha...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#21" class="quote">Reply 21</a>):<br/><i>You're thinking missiles</i></fo...
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Jump to postReally very little practical value to such an endeavor.
In a very practical application; many years ago some people I knew wanted to buy a Helio Courier. Having flown both I recommended to them that they buy a Cessna 206 and build another thousand feet of runway.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Mir" class="quote" target="_blank">Mir</a> (<a href="#20" class="quote">Reply 20</a>):<br/><i>It's not a terrible idea. It's a tool that you hav...
Jump to postLight chop and turbulence should not affect airspeed in any meaningful way. Wind <i>shear</i> from various causes will. Light turbulence can be thought of as a micro version of the winds you are flying in. Just as a plane flying a heading and speed through a mass of air that has its own velocity vec...
Jump to postSpeaking only for US domestic ops, there are a number of places, KRNO for example where a specific feet-per-nautical-mile gradient is required <acronym title="Air Comores and Crimea Air (Ukraine)">OR</acronym> some sort of RNAV engine-out missed must be flown. I expect to see more and more of these ...
Jump to postGut feeling: The cooling effect rain has on the air it is falling through, plus the <i>de facto</i> water injection in the engine more than offset any negative effects from rain. Back around the late 70s a very well educated bunch of people argued seriously in public forums that the roughing of the ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BoeingGuy" class="quote" target="_blank">BoeingGuy</a> (<a href="#13" class="quote">Reply 13</a>):<br/><i>the crew decided</i></font></td></tr><...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tdscanuck" class="quote" target="_blank">tdscanuck</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i> those limits typically aren't provided ...
Jump to postSpeaking for the industry in the USA and not elsewhere, you are not starting too late. As long as 25 years ago major airlines were hiring pilots in their 40s and even 50s. All the old stories about get-on-by-30 are two generations out of date. The DUI should not be insurmountable but.: <blockquote>1...
Jump to postAt the extreme; I long ago made up my mind that I'd rather go off the end of a parking lot at 40 knots than into a mountainside at 200.
The problem is finding such a place out the bottom of a low overcast.
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/GDB" class="quote" target="_blank">GDB</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>They didn't [fight alongside the US] in Vietnam </...
Jump to postBest advice I can give is follow your operator's manual and DO NOT follow any advice given by usernames on this site. Would you take medical advice from us?
Jump to post♠ Use the casino-controlled ground transport system to get from airport to hotel and check in. ♥ Walk the most direct route possible from the hotel desk to the hotel elevators. Unfortunately that is about half a mile across the casino floor. No shortcuts through the "pit" as they get cranky about th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/horstroad" class="quote" target="_blank">horstroad</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>I´d guess that on a 300million $ aircraf...
Jump to postOh and I should also say this. I am frequently horrified at how ignorant college graduates are in what I would consider elementary school academics. Utter ignorance of grammar, punctuation and spelling, thinking "alot" is a word and so on. I have seen so many such get their "thank you for your inter...
Jump to postIn the past there have been exceptions made occasionally. For example, in the late 50s, the US<acronym title="Air France">AF</acronym> had a Cadet program that only required 2 years of college for pilot training to fill the needs of <acronym title="Sacramento - Executive (Municipal) (SAC / KSAC), US...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mayor" class="quote" target="_blank">mayor</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>No, but a higher experience level, might.</i><...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/CosmicCruiser" class="quote" target="_blank">CosmicCruiser</a> (<a href="#8" class="quote">Reply 8</a>):<br/><i>There used to be a General Knowl...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/mayor" class="quote" target="_blank">mayor</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i> I'd rather have someone that KNEW how to fly th...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/homsar" class="quote" target="_blank">homsar</a> (<a href="#12" class="quote">Reply 12</a>):<br/><i> I know the movie "The Right Stuff" played w...
Jump to postA bizarre religion, steeped in denial that holds holy the notion that if only ONE instead of THE OTHER political party was in power all would be solved, justice and prosperity would reign. And we belive this despite daily proof to the contrary.
Jump to postHB, I wasn't around but it is my understanding that it began as a bar bet at the O Club at Gowen Field, Boise during summer camp; NVANG F-4 pilot understimating the <acronym title="Bemidji Airlines (USA)">CH</acronym>-54. F-4 had to take off normally, the Sikorsky just pulled the collective up into ...
Jump to postI flew a couple of the early piston helicopters, the Bell 47 and the Hiller 12 series. I flew them near sea level and at density altitudes as high as 8800 feet. As a general statement, nearer sea level they would take off vertically <acronym title="President Airlines (Cambodia)">TO</acronym> a hover...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/falstaff" class="quote" target="_blank">falstaff</a> (<a href="#18" class="quote">Reply 18</a>):<br/><i> I have been told by several people that...
Jump to postI can't exclude KDEN (Stapleton) looking southeast from the terminal.
The "forest" in the distance could easily be the suburban areas off in that direction.
The 727 skid had a one-time crush material inside the strut to absorb the energy of the strike. It appeared to be something very like tightly rolled cardboard, lacquered to a very rigid state. I have seen one of these that was compressed less than half an inch in a tailstrike. The remaining energy t...
Jump to postI remember an old experimental helicopter powered by ramjets on the rotor tips. It used a small electric pump to lift fuel up to a slinger-ring just below the rotor head. This ring spun with the main rotor. Ports on the outside of the slinger ring led to fuel lines inside the blades leading out to t...
Jump to postI saw this aircraft several times at Santa Barbara. On one occasion I was given a tour of the Clenet works in the hangar and stuck my head inside the "Boeing" entry door. More than anything else I was struck by how cramped the B-707 flight deck was - and I was flying a Twin Beech at the time.
Jump to postKSNA, John Wayne, Orange County California most certainly has done so. They give out "slots" by your noise history. The more noise your departures make the fewer operations you can have there. At least that was so not very many years back.
Jump to postMost likely answer: They are optimized for cruise flight and these planes fly at something like two degrees nose-up deck angle. Also, if you look for wind tunnel pictures you will see the airflow starting to rise a few feet out forward of the wing. So from an airflow perspective they are just about ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/474218" class="quote" target="_blank">474218</a> (<a href="#4" class="quote">Reply 4</a>):<br/><i>Not so!!</i></font></td></tr></table> For your...
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