Agreed. On a slightly unrelated note, why on earth has Cessna not resurrected the C210? It was the only single I've ever known where you could fill all the seats, fill the baggage area, virtually fill the fuel tanks, and fly at a decent speed a decent distance. A modern engine, systems, avionics and interior, and surely you'd have a world beater? And a modern P210... Wow.
I suppose this is not particularly dangerous as long as everybody knows their proper position... but it sure looks exciting! [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocGJyso1-o[/ame]
they've got some serious sponsorship happening there. I feel a bit sorry for Rosco McGlashan, whose trying to beat them on a shoestring budget.
Same. I don't think his effort is quite as realistic, unfortunately, but you've got to respect him for giving it a go. I assume the Bloodhound guys were able to secure a good amount of sponsorship based on their previous success, and no doubt also in part because the whole thing is being done with a focus on STEM education for kids, which is pretty important to most of those sponsors.
The real issue for Roscoe is finding somewhere to run the thing and then the money to prepare the surface. I think the car will run the numbers. It would be interesting to see NAE, Roscoe and Bloodhound run at the same venue in a top speed shootout!! I've thrown some money at each of them. John
I'm in two minds about NAE. On the one hand, I love the idea... but on the other hand, they've made pretty substantial and permanent changes to an aircraft that had some reasonably notable history. I think it only has three wheels, doesn't it? Does that still make it ineligible for the LSR? I seem to recall that was a problem for Craig Breedlove last time.
Nah, it's got 2 close together at the front. Breedlove got caught out his first vehicle that he crashed which was tricycle (world's longest skid marks). Bill Fredricks had similar issues with his Budweiser rocket - anyone remember Vic Wilson? I watched him go 265mph at the drags at Surfers in '71 or '72 in Fredricks rocket car - gee I thought that was quick!! I like that NAE are doing it like old school hot rodders, very tight budget and improvising. John
Funny you should mention that - the Smithsonian has one also used as a NASA chase plane! I definitely agree that this one deserved a better fate than having its wings clipped (and hopefully not being subsequently smashed to bits at high speed) though. There were plenty of F-104s made, surely a slightly more generic one could've been found - even at their high attrition rate there must be a decent number in boneyards around the world. Still, I guess when you want an F-104 you'll take the first viable one you can get. Perhaps NASAs were in better condition if they were actively used as chase planes for a long while after the USAF withdrew theirs from service. There is still something cool(/insane) about trying for an LSR based on the "this thingy goes that fast anyway, lets just keep it from flying and do that" logic, though
Saw a pretty impressive aircraft (well, briefly an aircraft) today! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Very cool. Seeing that last photo you should have pulled some drumsticks out and started doing that Police song...
LOL I included that one for scale! Not shown: the shot sitting at the actual Apollo Flight Director's console
Some more aviation content from this short holiday - hello from the (in)famous Maho Beach! Today I learned that a KLM 747 departure is by far the fastest way to fill your eyes and ears with sand, remove 50 hats and toss a few beach chairs into the sea. It was great
That's an ATR72 as far as I can tell (I haven't done any research on this prang - just got home from work), which I'm pretty sure doesn't have FBW, so it's not going to be a flight control system issue. Well, at least not in the sense of computers going haywire, anyway. That's about all I'll say until I know more.
AVHerald has some info: Crash: Transasia AT72 at Taipei on Feb 4th 2015, engine flame out, rolled sharply and lost height shortly after takeoff
Lol! Forgot about that thread. Let me go back there... Having said that, if knowing what you're talking about was a rule, virtually nothing would get posted at all!
There's some bright boys in that link The pilots are the only ones to listen to, the rest are the usual internet white noise. I know nothing about the ATR but when aircraft have 2 engines they are normally designed to be able to fly on one
Yes. It should perform fine on one. And equally importantly the ATR would have auto-feather which should make handling an engine failure much easier.
If the pilot is dead they like to go for pilot error in these circumstances to protect the airline/manufacturer
