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Cheers! I did wonder.
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I finished Low Level Hell last week and it was excellent. That guy has some mad stories and to think he was only 19 years old while flying helicopters in Vietnam. I have passed the book on to my Dad, I think he will enjoy it.
Snake Pilot is next on my list, just need to find a copy on amazon/ebay.
Cheers for the recommendations!
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Slept in a converted DC3 on holiday in Australia. I was particularly pleased because my wife had said it was too expensive and booked cottage at the same place instead.
However, there were bats flying about in the bedroom so the owner (quite reluctantly) agreed to put us in the plane.
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Wings were bent thus to accommodate big bollox prop...
...without making the landing gear legs too long to fold into the wings. It was also aerodynamically advantageous to have the wing meet the fuselage at right angles, although that was an unintended benefit.
Something of the same era and with the same issue of a large propeller used a mechanism to compress the oleo legs before folding the main gear, but I can't remember what it was.
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Is like the same splitscreen cockpit wtf
A very common arrangement in that era if you have side by side pilot/copilot and flat glass for the windscreens.
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No problem, glad you're enjoying them :) I went through a phase of reading a lot of Vietnam helicopter pilot books - pretty much all unbelievable stories and terrifying situations.
I'll try to think of some others I've read. Oh and I think I mentioned it somewhere upthread, but I would definitely recommend 'fate is the hunter' by Ernest K Gann. He was an airline pilot during the (pretty deadly) pioneering days of commercial flight. Again lots of ridiculous stories and terrifying situations...
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Something of the same era and with the same issue of a large propeller used a mechanism to compress the oleo legs before folding the main gear, but I can't remember what it was.
Dunno if there are any other contemporary examples, but the Eurofighter does that. I guess in this case it's to keep the mass of the landing gear as close to the CoG as possible. Mechanism can be seen on the back of the struts.
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I had a very interesting chat last week with someone who works for the MoD about the challenges he's facing in working out how to drop RIBs out of the new A400.
He's come to the field from somewhere entirely unrelated, and wasn't really sure why one would want to drop a boat from a aircraft ... -
wasn't really sure why one would want to drop a boat from a aircraft ...
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Not sure if this would qualify as either SAS or SBS...
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Presumably the problems are similar to dropping RIBs out of a Herky-bird? Cool stuff, though.
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These guys are awesome (indoor rc)
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Interesting article about what I spent most of last year working on:
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Yeah but can you make Ripslinger out of loo rolls?
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Russia is going to produce ten new TU160 supersonic bombers with an option for forty more.
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/defense/2018-01-31/upgraded-tu-160-bomber-makes-first-flight
The company producing them is promoting a supersonic business jet using some of the same technology.
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Love the Chance Vought.
Interesting factoid. Wings were bent thus to accommodate big bollox prop. /csb