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Elcapinyoazz
Social climber
Joshua Tree
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May 18, 2012 - 06:23pm PT
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More info on the March ARB airshow this weekend. Today a load of stuff arrived, T-birds are out there right now practicing.
Arrived today: F-18, C5, KC10, A10, B25, P36, F-86 Sabre, AV-8 Harrier (this thing is badass), and a whole lot more. F/A-18 doing a slow pass was ridiculous and that C5 is probably bigger than most of our houses. Watching a Harrier hover and rotate, then back up is mind boggling.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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May 18, 2012 - 07:32pm PT
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Russia now has #1 fighter plane in the world... SU-30MK -Vectored Thrust with Canards.
The maneuverability of this plane is incredible.
This plane would be nearly impossible to defeat in a dogfight.
As you watch this airplane, look at the canards moving along side of, and just below the canopy rail. The "canards" are the small wings forward of the main wings. The smoke and contrails provide a sense of the
actual flight path, sometimes in reverse direction.
This video is of an in-flight demonstration flown by the Russian's
The fighter can stall from high speed, stopping forward motion in seconds. (full stall). Then it demonstrates an ability to descend tail first without causing a compressor stall.
It can also recover from a flat spin in less than a minute. These maneuver
capabilities don't exist in any other aircraft in the world today.
We don't know which nations will soon be flying the SU-30MK, hopefully China isn't one of them.
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Note: Friends worked with advanced aircraft flight control systems and concepts for many years as an extension of stability control and means of control...
Canards and vectored thrust were among many concepts examined to extend our fighter aircraft performance. Neither our current nor our next generation aircraft now poised for funding & production can in any way match the performance of this Russian aircraft NOW FLYING in any near combat situation.
Somehow the bankrupt Russian aircraft industry has out produced our complex politically tainted aerospace industry with this technology marvel. Scratch any ideas of close in air-to-air combat with this aircraft in the future.
Take a look at the video with the sound up. This aircraft is of concern to U.S and NATO planners. Maximize your screen for best viewing.
trying to figure out how to paste the video
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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May 18, 2012 - 07:42pm PT
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Uh...Tom-
Where's the link?
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jack herer
Big Wall climber
Veneta, Oregon
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May 20, 2012 - 03:53pm PT
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I re-edited one of the earlier videos and made it half the length with out techno music for once, a little more enjoyable to watch.
I'm especially psyched because I just got my license on January 31st. So this was like the first day I went out by my self and "on-sited" some grass strips. So I finally feel like a real pilot!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 20, 2012 - 04:08pm PT
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Jack, Le Tour de Grass! Boy, grass strips in Oregon don't get overused, eh?
What, four months of flyin' and 8 months of hard muddin'?
Man, don't like a wall of trees at the TO end, but maybe that's just me. ;-)
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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May 20, 2012 - 05:17pm PT
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Coolest airplane I ever rode in: Helio Stallion. I'm not sure if there are any left. You could fill it full of lead and take off in 200 feet. It was Air America's version of a Pilatus Porter on steroids.
Funnest: I gave an airshow pilot a free tandem and he took me up for 45 minutes in a Christen Eagle (sic). It was basically a 2 seat Pitts biplane.
Within 15 minutes I cold do a decent roll, keeping the nose flat. You could do anything in that airplane.
5 gees kind of makes you grunt, but 2 negative gees makes you feel like your eyes are going to pop out. Negative gees are extremely uncomfortable.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 23, 2012 - 04:57am PT
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SLR, I was indeed referring to the Prowler when I said Double Ugly.
If I was talking about the Phantom, I would have said "clean air converter" :p
J/k of course, phantoms phorever!
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Crag
Trad climber
Pennsyltuckey
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May 23, 2012 - 09:33am PT
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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May 24, 2012 - 03:03am PT
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http://www.lizard-tail.com/isana/tracking/
"SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon: According to this morning's IMMT (ISS Mission Management Team) meeting, "the vehicle is performing nominally and all planned demonstration objectives have been successfully completed to date. There are currently no known issues that would prevent proceeding with the planned ISS fly-under demonstration, currently scheduled for early tomorrow morning. During the fly-under, Dragon will briefly approach to within 2.5 km of the ISS to perform another series of demonstration objectives."
Thursday, May 24 (Flight Day 3): Live NASA Television coverage from NASA's Johnson Space Center mission control in Houston as the Dragon spacecraft performs its flyby of the International Space Station to test its systems begins at 2:30 a.m. EDT and will continue until the Dragon passes the vicinity of the station. A news briefing will be held at 10 a.m. following the activities.
Friday, May 25 (Flight Day 4): Live coverage of the rendezvous and berthing of the Dragon spacecraft to the station begins at 2 a.m. and will continue through the capture and berthing of the Dragon to the station's Harmony node. A news briefing will be held at 1 p.m. after Dragon is secured to the station.
Saturday, May 26 (Flight Day 5): Live coverage of the hatch opening and entry of the Dragon spacecraft begins at 5:30 a.m. and will include a crew news conference at 11:25 a.m. NASA TV also will provide live coverage of the departure and reentry of the Dragon spacecraft once a date is determined.
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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May 24, 2012 - 12:05pm PT
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^Holy f*ck that is scary. I know there is a vid where the tandem master forgets to clip 2 of the points in on his student, but he gets them in freefall. But this one is way worse.
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
California
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May 24, 2012 - 03:25pm PT
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Nice one, Hank... I was just about to post the same vid. I like how Mikey tried to come in and help, realized it wasn't going to happen and bailed. I'm sure Bill fired the tandem master after that one.
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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May 25, 2012 - 03:12am PT
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We recently had some WWII bombers come through town. I pulled my son from school to check them out. He is too young to understand the horror of it all, but I wanted him to see these planes.
I've always thought that being a ball turret gunner would have been especially terrifying. Imagine being 18 years old, probably never having been in an airplane before and being made to crawl inside this and having fighters swooping up at you? These gunners apparently had the worst rates of survival among bomber crews.
This is looking forward to where the bombadier and nose gunner sat.
Maning the top turret.
Waist gunner
It was really cool crawling through these planes. It was kind of intense seeing vets checking them out. I'm guessing some had not been in a B-17 or a B-24 since WWII!
Once my son got impatient working our way through a plane because this super old guy was touching everything and was having a hard time with the small spaces- obviously the guy had flown bombing missions. My son is 7 so doesn't get it all, but I told him to shut his mouth and be respectful.
Interesting and more intense morning than I anticipated.
edit: a couple more photos--
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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May 25, 2012 - 06:27am PT
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thanks for the dose of perspective. it takes more effort to grasp than forget, except for our veterans. respect
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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May 25, 2012 - 02:35pm PT
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this morning's arriving traffic at the International Space Station
i participated in the early planning meetings for this mission, briefing them on how to interface with ISS communication and control systems, briefed them on my SimStation Project and how to interact with Houston Mission Control, acted as a technical reviewer for all their planning documents submitted to NASA, acted as adviser on parachute recovery operations, and was a NASA observer for the first test firing of their operational configuration of nine Merlin main engines
meanwhile back in the NASA barn, we spent five years of our lives designing the Orion and Ares launch vehicle, and this is where it is right now:
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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May 26, 2012 - 06:39am PT
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It just made the front page of yahoo!http://www.viddler.com/v/fb107c3d
Will you pros tell us what happened? did something come undone when they were fighting to get out the door?
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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May 26, 2012 - 09:26am PT
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Considering how much $$$ and effort was expended on the Ares I and Ares V, the abandonment of what was becoming a successful flight test program was utterly supid. Of course the present administration would rather spend the NASA budget on more failed "social engineering" programs. I'm a supporter of Dr. Robert Zubrin's "Mars Direct" concept, by the way.
Skip the Moon, and go straight for the Gusto: MARS!
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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May 26, 2012 - 11:00am PT
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It's been a very slow Saturday morning here in Wyoming; totally foggy and rainy! No climbing, no flying, but the internet surfing is great. I just went back through all this thread and enjoyed everything. A few comments:
Jack Herer-I just noticed that you fly out of CVO, Corvallis. I began my flight training at S12, Albany, 5 years ago. I've visited Corvallis umpteen times in a C-152, N25899. I've visited a fair number of airports in NW Oregon myself: McMinnville, Tillamook, Independence, Salem, Lebanon, Hillsboro, and Cottage Grove.
Tom-I particularly loved the U-2 footage and the 70,000 feet! I've been to 51,000 feet onboard a C-135 back in 1964, and the curvature of the Earth is distinctly visible from that altitude, as well.
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ElCapPirate
Big Wall climber
California
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May 26, 2012 - 01:03pm PT
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did something come undone when they were fighting to get out the door?
No, nothing came undone. She was curled in a ball when the instructor exited, forcing her leg loops to slide down towards her knees. They could have been a bit loose but this wouldn't have happened if she wasn't fighting, sitting down and curled up like that. The tandem instructor shouldn't have exited the plane, he should have gone back to the seats and let others go and try to calm her down. If that didn't work they should have gone down with the plane.
I'm not a tandem instructor but have seen ten's of thousands gearing up, exiting, landing, etc. This is just my observations.
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