Author Topic: Smoking wingtip turbulance (Read 379 times)

bozon · « **on:** August 22, 2006, 01:44:47 AM »

cool pic

check out: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060822.html

(deleted direct link, pic too big.)

Furball · « **Reply #1 on:** August 22, 2006, 02:22:29 AM »

I AM SMOKACUS GOD OF SMOKE! FEAR MY WRATH!! AHH!

Reynolds · « **Reply #2 on:** August 22, 2006, 03:22:28 AM »

Awesome!!!

Nilsen · « **Reply #3 on:** August 22, 2006, 03:54:43 AM »

cool!

Heater · « **Reply #4 on:** August 22, 2006, 04:12:34 AM »

Humm....
if they (flares)were released from the C-17, then why is it heading toward the smoke, in place of away from it??

moot · « **Reply #5 on:** August 22, 2006, 04:26:54 AM »

The plane's heading towards the camera, so are the flares.. The center of the eye vortices are furthest back.

Trikky · « **Reply #6 on:** August 22, 2006, 04:50:07 AM »

Why is the vertical stab so freakin huge on the C-17?

Airscrew · « **Reply #7 on:** August 22, 2006, 10:08:36 AM »

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Originally posted by Trikky
Why is the vertical stab so freakin huge on the C-17?

maybe because of the freakin huge wing and those 4 freakin hugh round things hanging under the freakin hugh wing? That hugh freakin wing probably creates a hugh amount of freakin turbulance and it needs a hugh freakin stab so the pilots can fly that hugh freakin plane...
this of course is just a huge freakin wag on my part though

RightF00T · « **Reply #8 on:** August 22, 2006, 11:42:01 AM »

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Originally posted by Furball
I AM SMOKACUS GOD OF SMOKE! FEAR MY WRATH!! AHH!

OH NOES ITS THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!!!

slimm50 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 22, 2006, 12:39:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Airscrew
maybe because of the freakin huge wing and those 4 freakin hugh round things hanging under the freakin hugh wing? That hugh freakin wing probably creates a hugh amount of freakin turbulance and it needs a hugh freakin stab so the pilots can fly that hugh freakin plane...
this of course is just a huge freakin wag on my part though

Heh, Air...goodun.

Trikky · « **Reply #10 on:** August 22, 2006, 02:15:01 PM »

It even has a ladder in it.

FiLtH · « **Reply #11 on:** August 22, 2006, 02:50:50 PM »

In case of an emergency the elevator section separates and becomes another airplane. Kinda like Start Trek, but no phasers, bald captains or chicks in camel-tards.

Trikky · « **Reply #12 on:** August 22, 2006, 03:46:30 PM »

Now thats the kind of answer I was looking for.