How (and why) to Ramble on your goat sideways
09-20-2010, 10:42 AM
#3483
I'm actually pretty good with identifing aircraft. Dobbins AFRB is a few miles over from me and I see them quite a bit.
I need a night vision/IR camera because they've got something that flies in at night (probably for good reason) as I've heard/seen the lights quite a few times. It's large, sounds like a turbo prop- probably a C130J Super.
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09-20-2010, 11:33 AM
#3484
The C-5 doesn't actually move. The inertia is so high that its engines simply force the earth to rotate slowly beneath it. "Jedi training" is a pre-requisite to become the chief flight engineer. The force is the only think I can think of that would keep those things aloft at near zero airspeed. I think they have to fly backwards to actually reach stall speed.
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09-20-2010, 01:45 PM
#3488
We just had our yearly Reno Air Races... thats better than an air show, but scary as **** when a plane actually goes down (its happened a few times).
I know at travis AFB there is a very high security section on the navy side (a small piece of land), and they have these white planes that fly at night, I think they are some sort of recon aircraft, but I havnt seen them up close... since they are ******** over there and dont let anyone in. Which is a good thing.
I know at travis AFB there is a very high security section on the navy side (a small piece of land), and they have these white planes that fly at night, I think they are some sort of recon aircraft, but I havnt seen them up close... since they are ******** over there and dont let anyone in. Which is a good thing.
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09-20-2010, 02:02 PM
#3489
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Actually, I was surprised at how awful the hybrid Altima wasn't. Don't get me wrong, it's 300 lbs heavier and has 20 HP less than the regular model, which isn't a great car to begin with, but I'd expected it to feel like I had a dead elephant strapped to the roof, and in reality, it only felt like I had a dead cow up there.
I'd still hate to have to live with one on a day to day basis.
Maybe you can help me solve a mystery, then.
That airplane which is parked in the background of the Top Gear test track. I've always just glanced at it, saw the basic outline, and assumed it was a 747. But recently, I noticed that the engine configuration doesn't seem right- rather than having two big, separate engines on each wing, each wing has got a single nacelle with two turbines in it, sort of like the engine configuration on a B52.
What the heck kind of engine configuration is that?
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09-20-2010, 03:04 PM
#3492
I think the planes change and I'd almost say that these might be planes they use to transport cars to various locations? Currently plugging "Dunsfold Aerodrome, Dunsfold, Surrey, England" into Google maps will show they have a Boeing 747 sitting out there (at least at the time the image was taken). But further review of an older episode from 2006 show the aircraft you are talking about- It's a Boeing 747-200 (you can tell it's a 747 by the 5 emergency exits on the main row and that it's up to a 747-200 because of 10-winder upper deck without an emergency exit seperating the windows.
Edit- He found it^^^
Here is a better picture-
Edit- He found it^^^
Here is a better picture-
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09-20-2010, 04:11 PM
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Well, that's an interesting yet anticlimactic answer.
On the plus, it explains why they've had a 747 sitting uselessly on the property for as long as I can remember, and why there didn't seem to be a problem with Clarkson hitching it up to a farm tractor and dragging it around the track as part of a challenge.
On the plus, it explains why they've had a 747 sitting uselessly on the property for as long as I can remember, and why there didn't seem to be a problem with Clarkson hitching it up to a farm tractor and dragging it around the track as part of a challenge.
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09-20-2010, 04:17 PM
#3496
Sorry, if you'd prefer I could build up the tension a bit first:
THE ANSWER TO YOUR MOST PRESSING AIRLINER QUESTION
THE ANSWER TO YOUR MOST PRESSING AIRLINER QUESTION
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09-20-2010, 05:22 PM
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I'm actually pretty good with identifing aircraft. Dobbins AFRB is a few miles over from me and I see them quite a bit.
I need a night vision/IR camera because they've got something that flies in at night (probably for good reason) as I've heard/seen the lights quite a few times. It's large, sounds like a turbo prop- probably a C130J Super.
I need a night vision/IR camera because they've got something that flies in at night (probably for good reason) as I've heard/seen the lights quite a few times. It's large, sounds like a turbo prop- probably a C130J Super.
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09-20-2010, 07:07 PM
#3499
I regularly see 747s, 777s, A320s flying over my house with Hartsfield. Military-wise, mostly C130s and C-5s...sometimes I catch fighters and even seen an E-3 AWACS flying in a time or two. The airshow (Wings over Marietta) is pretty big. I recommend coming over and watching Oct 15/16.
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09-20-2010, 07:27 PM
#3500
When you drive a Prius, you are saying to the world, in the most magniloquently smug way possible "I am better than all of you people, and you all ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Never mind that I suck at math, I don't care that I paid 10x what this car is worth and that it handles worse than the barge that brought it over from Japan, it makes me feel more important than everyone else, and that's all that matters to me."
No, actually you're saying that you don't understand what the word "fungible" means...
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