FlyingHonu001 wrote:Correct me if im wrong...Arent cabin doors supposed to be locked when the aircraft is moving?
They want to launch within 3 seconds of lighting the 1st engines. 5 at the most. If it doesn't launch by then, they'll shut it down. There's no reason to test full power longer than that.
Jump to postSome purely baseless, too much Guiness speculation. The 127 seconds being almost exactly 50% higher than 84 seconds kind of makes me think flipped bit in the timing.
Jump to postIt looks like a wrong parameter got loaded for the burn to go from a circular 100km orbit to a 100x16km elliptical orbit prior to landing, and the perigee went to zero. It would be easy to blame it on all kind of issues, but the U.S. just made as boneheaded an error with Voyager 2 and got lucky. It...
Jump to postIt looks like a wrong parameter got loaded for the burn to go from a circular 100km orbit to a 100x16km elliptical orbit prior to landing, and the perigee went to zero. It would be easy to blame it on all kind of issues, but the U.S. just made as boneheaded an error with Voyager 2 and got lucky. It ...
Jump to postSo, how is this adding up? Is someone making an unsound decision based on emotion over being inconvenienced?
Jump to postThey could write a book on that tape. There are conflicting tales, but it seems that SpaceX started using it and changed it out when they couldn't make the characteristics from the NASA database add up. Boeing seems to have cherry picked the numbers that would be the most convenient. (They thought) ...
Jump to postWouldn't it be easier to just copy and paste the Newark thread and change the names?
(I'm in favor of "Gateway to Alameda" airport myself)
People who are pretty well informed think that March is overly optimistic.
Jump to postI can't even imagine the structural modifications, but is there any basic reason a conventional rotary launcher couldn't be integrated? Ground clearance, I would think. Assuming that they can even fit conventional downward swinging bomb bay doors under the fuselage, how'd they even get a loader und...
Jump to postI can't even imagine the structural modifications, but is there any basic reason a conventional rotary launcher couldn't be integrated?
Jump to postA lot of people cite "inside sources" regarding the next Starship launch date. They might all be telling the truth, despite the wide date range. SpaceX higher ups are a long ways from unified in their estimates. I'm not sure what to hope for myself. If they launch earlier than October, I'l...
Jump to postIt wasn't a nuclear warhead. It didn't have the plutonium pit installed.
Jump to postDid LN6 ever find a purpose other than as a Mexican media joke?
Jump to postAmazing, every word of what you just said was completely wrong. Fewer engines are used because one big engine is cheaper and more efficient than two smaller engines. Multiple engines are used when the individual engines aren’t powerful enough. I would expect Starship to evolve towards greater effic...
Jump to postI've been wandering across southern Europe for a month now. The heat doesn't seem to be lessening the summer crowds much. Ice ceam vendors appear to be happy with it.
Jump to postThe "aliens" are using some form of propulsion that can negate or manipulate gravity, so they really don't need to park themselves at a Lagrange Point. It's easy to argue for anything when you use magic in your logic. All the rest of us have is boring old science. You know...That stuff th...
Jump to postI had a guy take a Cape Air 402 to St. Croix to work on a barge once and he came back pretty upset. He said the pilot banged on the dashboard to get the gauges to work.
Jump to postIf everybody did what they needed to do as fast as they could, this thing could launch by the end of next month. That's not actually possible because coordinating a thousand separate jobs so none of them get in each other's way, when you can't be sure of any of the exact schedules, just isn't feasib...
Jump to postI had to get a new passport because the old one ran out of visa pages. All online and took two weeks. Global Entry and TWIC were even faster.
Last I counted, I had six government picture IDs plus FCC and FAA licenses.
Also a zombie hunting license a friend got me, but I don't use that one much.
Since when does a 47 run 100 million euros just for procurement?
Jump to postI agree with Qatar.
TAP was beyond belief bad. It's like they want to go out of business.
It might have partially been LIS.
speedygonzales wrote:Seriously, you Musk fanboys need to stop defending the indefensible.
Using BMI would avoid discrimination on the basis of height (something we cannot act on). Dutch people might not be happy of this. This is a factually incorrect statement. The BMI formula assumes that people scale for height in 2 dimensions while we actually scale in three. BMI therefore penalizes ...
Jump to postThe population is getting older. Are there fewer kids on flights? Are they taking the fact that 50 year olds tend to be a little heavier that 20 year olds?
Jump to postIt's kind of like Apollo 13. The response to the screwup, fixing the pad in less time than the hired anti Musk heads thought was possible, the ship holding together while cartwheeling and FTS charges going off, (not exactly desirable, but impressive) newer, better engines already waiting, clearing t...
Jump to postMost job evaluations (real jobs at least) come down to one thing. "Can we count on them?"
That includes both competence and willingness to get the job done.
Decide which box you want ticked.
I'm visiting my 60th country next week. Of all the things I've seen, this global LEGO cult might be the strangest.
Jump to postThe Greatest Decade for Rock Music Decade, here, meaning --any-- 10 year stretch. Feb. 10, 1968 - Feb. 10, 1978 gets my Vote. For the music released, and the concert performances presented during that 10 year period. That beats any other 10 year period of Rock Music that I can think of, according t...
Jump to postTo be clear, there is no prototype, and we have no idea what the financial outlays, if any, were required to reserve this not even paper airplane. This project has zero chance of success. This company has no experience in this very technical field and they are contracting with a niche missile compo...
Jump to postGalaxyFlyer wrote:Airflow isn’t a benefit at altitude—air is too thin and, at least, turbocharged pistons are very cooling challenged at altitude
I actually had a SCADA site crashed into not too far from there in 99, but they claimed it was a German air force Tornado out of Holloman.
Jump to postI use to travel to Roswell for Chevron and Verizon on occasion. I met six different people who would take you to the "official" crash site for a small fee. All different sites.
Jump to postPeople are so cute, when they think any aviation movie will ever top Airplane.
Jump to postPeople badmouthing the N1 need to look a little closer. The 4th try came very close to succeeding and the next probably would have worked if the program hadn't been cacelled.
Jump to postleader1 wrote:Jalap wrote:Mice can be annoying too, but I've delegated mice management to a cat.
Depends on the cat. Persian cats are absolutely useless for anything other than lying around.
David Allen Coe singing "The devil went to Jamaica"
An operator on a ship dropped a load of paperwork on the aviation mic while music was playing. He's lucky the radio had a two minute timeout.
It sounds like people are talking about 2 different things. There's an Earth/sun L1 and an Earth/moon L1. Radar would work fine with either one. Triana/Goresat/Deep Space Climate Observatory is sitting at Earth/sun L1, sending back a steady stream os sunlit Earth photos. The the idea that undetected...
Jump to postI think they should put an economy seat size box next to the carry-on box at the gate to make sure passengers wil fit. It would be useful and entertaining.
Jump to posthttps://apnews.com/article/nfl-jim-brown-03d88c7da08840a0921ae8d8dd0a6aaa In my opinion, Mr. Brown had to be one of, if not, the most impactful players next to Walter Payton. This is a huge loss for not only the sports community, but the world. You would be correct. A class act off the field as wel...
Jump to postI was in The Dalles on the Columbia river last year when it hit 116. Still trying to make sense of that.
Jump to postYou could always try reading the material they give you where they clearly explain the book and card are processed and sent seperately.
Jump to post*Headline* Suckers everywhere fall for obviously staged video.
Jump to postDo you REALLY believe the Russians would tell anybody they "Pencil whipped" Maintenance records? and without a detailed inspection? How would you really KNOW? about the only people who would know? are the lessor owned airplanes flying in Russia. If they can inspect their Airplanes ever ag...
Jump to postIs there anything in a D check that could have caused trouble if done improperly?
Jump to postT54A wrote:Did someone say A380NEO?
People who associate with organizations that are being left in the dust by SpaceX love to whine about his optimistic deadlines and throw constant streams of nonsense out at every opportunity. The only thing that matters is results, not soothing feathers or spouting worn cliches. What was Vulcan's or...
Jump to postWhy would gender be any more looked at than race or burrito sauce preference? The question is absolutely political and BS, as is any question that looks for biased results based on group factors. Individual performance and aptitude is all that matters.
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