Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Slash27 on June 28, 2014, 01:40:21 AM
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_WmjWAGkLI
Glad no one was injured. Had to be a bit surreal to say the least.
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:O I guess planes really are meant to fly.
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Those guys did some real quick thinking on their feet and saved their planes and maybe some lives. On thing the Army Air Corp learned in the Pacific is that when a typhoon was about to hit, everyone would man their planes and keep them pointed into the wind with their engines on. One B-29 crew spent either 12 or 15 hours in their plane just keeping it headed into the wind while on the ground. Surprised the engines didn't overheat or run out of fuel.
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Running out of fuel would surprise me. The B-29 regularly flew 12+ hour missions bombing Japan.
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The wind made the planes move?
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The wind made the planes move?
Yes. The ones pointed into the gust lifted off, #3 was blown sideways. Good job on the part of the pilots to do "pilot stuff" and keep/get the a/c under control.
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Yes. The ones pointed into the gust lifted off, #3 was blown sideways. Good job on the part of the pilots to do "pilot stuff" and keep/get the a/c under control.
Did they get called for cheating after they boasted a short takeoff, using the AH wind cheat?
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Im very surprised those little planes are even out there and not chained down like they are supposed to be.
We took no chances with far larger and heavier aircraft in USAF when T-storms were around. Someone is going to answer for this I would bet.
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Im very surprised those little planes are even out there and not chained down like they are supposed to be.
We took no chances with far larger and heavier aircraft in USAF when T-storms were around. Someone is going to answer for this I would bet.
I don't believe they were sitting idle but rather were in the middle of their day flying. What with the pilots sitting in them with the engines running and all the people around and all...
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Im very surprised those little planes are even out there and not chained down like they are supposed to be.
We took no chances with far larger and heavier aircraft in USAF when T-storms were around. Someone is going to answer for this I would bet.
It's just another spring day in Colorado Springs.
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.wind 0 99 99 99
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It also shows how concentrated a microburst is. The 2 on the edges barely moved (realtively).
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One B-29 crew spent either 12 or 15 hours in their plane just keeping it headed into the wind while on the ground. Surprised the engines didn't overheat or run out of fuel.
I remember a photograph in the 475th ABW headquarters building at Yokota AB, Japan. It depicted a line of B-29's on the ramp during the Typhoon of 1952. The nose wheels were cabled to the ground - flight decks were manned - engines were running.
I went through a Typhoon in 1977(?) at Yokota. The eye came right over the base. Surreal.
:salute
Ratsy
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Did they get called for cheating after they boasted a short takeoff, using the AH wind cheat?
Turns out it was your sound card/connection.
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Jeez. I can't imagine pilots taking off into that. Is this for sure real footage? It certainly looks real.
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Haha if we only really knew tho.. :noid
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Aliens.
I am still not fully understanding how a aircraft can be "lifted" into the air, while yards away a crew of people can hold onto a glider and not be pushed or swept away. none of those humans showed much signs of being hit by major wins that could send a human tumbling or being "blown away" yet those other planes took off. Anyone have any video of the other aircraft crashing? Did they fly away? did they "land"?
I must know. :)
Either way i don't think it a hoax because no engine spat out exhaust. But the humans never reacted or moved as if they were in hurricane type winds. Maybe just perfect conditions for such a thing.
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Aliens.
I am still not fully understanding how a aircraft can be "lifted" into the air, while yards away a crew of people can hold onto a glider and not be pushed or swept away. none of those humans showed much signs of being hit by major wins that could send a human tumbling or being "blown away" yet those other planes took off. Anyone have any video of the other aircraft crashing? Did they fly away? did they "land"?
I must know. :)
Either way i don't think it a hoax because no engine spat out exhaust. But the humans never reacted or moved as if they were in hurricane type winds. Maybe just perfect conditions for such a thing.
The "Laws of Physics" are a wonderful thing and within them lies the answers to your questions.
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If it involves more then cracking a beer, count me out.
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Aliens. I am still not fully understanding how a aircraft can be "lifted" into the air, while yards away a crew of people can hold onto a glider and not be pushed or swept away. none of those humans showed much signs of being hit by major wins that could send a human tumbling or being "blown away" yet those other planes took off. Anyone have any video of the other aircraft crashing? Did they fly away? did they "land"?
Airplanes are designed to fly, humans are not. Those aircraft are Piper Super Cubs. I'm not sure what engines the USAF academy use in theirs but they are well overpowered so they can tow gliders, probably 180hp. They can take off at very low airspeeds and with the windspeed they were experiencing they would virtually lift off vertically. Except for the unlucky guy who got to take off downwind!
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Angle of incidence!
J3 is on a tail wheel = positive angle of incidence of the wing to the relative wind. Vertical stab is a weather vane.
Sailplane is wing down to the relative wind with a bunch of baggy green things laying on it = reinforced negative angle of incidence.
This is scientifically demonstrated any time after 10AM at every R/C flying field in Texas. :eek:
Dude - where's my plane?
:salute
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If it involves more then cracking a beer, count me out.
:rofl :aok :old: