Superfluous J Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 47 minutes ago, Lisias said: I had already posted about the Lockheed 1105, but this video is just great - it not only shows how giganormous this monster would be, but somehow the youtuber found a BBC's report about it!!! Geez imagine the part count... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted August 24 Share Posted August 24 Yak MS-21-300 airlinerobatics https://t.me/rostecru/8052 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted August 25 Author Share Posted August 25 (edited) Boeing sent a mission to ISS and a malfunction on the craft left the astronauts stranded. SpaceX will launch a recue mission. What could be more Kerbal? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy47w9yndpo (oh, boy... Elon Musk must be laughing his cheeks out!) Edited August 25 by Lisias Entertaining grammars made less entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 On 8/25/2024 at 4:35 AM, Lisias said: What could be more Kerbal? Both returned by DreamChaser in its maiden flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted August 29 Share Posted August 29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferris_Wheel_(1893) Spoiler Up to 2 160 passengers in the pressurized cabins. Should be the first artifical gravity, if rotate it enough fast. But they failed their chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Konstantin Chaykin's ThinKing 1.65 mm But why!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 8 hours ago, DDE said: Konstantin Chaykin's ThinKing 1.65 mm But why!? Perhaps a desperate attempt to reduce the exposed surface for attacks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 If sharpen the edge, this watch can be used as a razor or a shuriken. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Borman, Armstrong, Young and Slaton swore this wasn't a Jedi cosplay... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 8 Share Posted September 8 I've started Chertok's Of Rockets and People. Expect this thread to be enriched. Let's start with the way the memoir introduces Glushko. He drove his Olympia from the Mittelwerke to the Rabe Institute with the handbrake on, the brakes are letting off smoke by the time he arrives and demands help with his car trouble. His passenger is Georgy List, his unwilling subordinate and a former deputy director of ZIS, the Soviet truck-making center and one of the country's bigges car whizzes. Of course, Glushko forbade him from giving him advice while he was driving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted September 9 Author Share Posted September 9 There's this fantastic video from a Russian pilot getting screwed by a malfuction on his SU-35 Fly by Wire system. TL;DR. the damned thing could not be flew into level flight because something kicked in firewalling the engine and pushing her nose up. In the end, the pilot managed to go into a controlled spiral descending into the airstrip and activated the drag chutes over it to force the craft into a (very low) altitude stall, almost trying to kill the tarmac with the craft's landing gears. Kraken knows how many landings I did using the chutes like that! I would love to link the video here, but the pilot exercised some coloured verbiage during the event and the video didn't cut the audio out on these occurrences (nice opportunity to learn how to curse in Russian, by the way). But you can find the video easily on Youtube by using the phrase "Pilot Saves Crippled Su-35 (FCS Failure)" If anyone speaking Russian finds a Forum friendly video for this stunt, please advise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 On 9/8/2024 at 7:09 PM, DDE said: Chertok's Of Rockets and People. After surfing the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum, his biased fairy tales are even not funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 "When almost all permanent writing was done in ink, steel ink erasers were in wide use before the invention of chemical ink erasers. Metal erasers were essentially small knives, used to shave away or scrape off ink from a writing surface. This was the downfall of Metropolitan Life office boy George Millet, who fell on an ink eraser kept in his breast pocket while trying to evade the kisses of six steno girls on his 15th birthday. Millet was stabbed in the heart and died on the way to hospital." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted September 12 Author Share Posted September 12 (edited) 12 hours ago, DDE said: "When almost all permanent writing was done in ink, steel ink erasers were in wide use before the invention of chemical ink erasers. Metal erasers were essentially small knives, used to shave away or scrape off ink from a writing surface. This was the downfall of Metropolitan Life office boy George Millet, who fell on an ink eraser kept in his breast pocket while trying to evade the kisses of six steno girls on his 15th birthday. Millet was stabbed in the heart and died on the way to hospital." Jesus Christ! It's real!!! On 9/10/2024 at 9:03 AM, kerbiloid said: After surfing the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum, his biased fairy tales are even not funny. This forum probably became a riot during the Staliner drama, no? Edited September 12 by Lisias brute force post merge Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BA-Forums Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 17 hours ago, DDE said: "When almost all permanent writing was done in ink, steel ink erasers were in wide use before the invention of chemical ink erasers. Metal erasers were essentially small knives, used to shave away or scrape off ink from a writing surface. This was the downfall of Metropolitan Life office boy George Millet, who fell on an ink eraser kept in his breast pocket while trying to evade the kisses of six steno girls on his 15th birthday. Millet was stabbed in the heart and died on the way to hospital." Jeez that sounds awful, but I have a phobia of most sharp objects so yeah. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 13 Share Posted September 13 (edited) 6 hours ago, Lisias said: This forum probably became a riot during the Staliner drama, no? Absolutely no. 80% were sure that they will return either by this Starliner, or by Dragon. Spoiler https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/index.php?PHPSESSID=ruvhhh0mutrop0i6elhj5me42e&topic=24238.0;all https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/index.php?topic=24079.0 https://forum.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/index.php?PHPSESSID=l7po2rv5ce5c6jb5q4q6s049uu&topic=18309.1740 ~10% were sure that they will stay living there. P.S. Also, there was a wordplay question: "Кто сядет за Старлайнер?" / "Who will sit by/for Starliner" A wordplay: 1. "will sit" = "will land" 2. "will sit" = "will be sitting in a prison" 19 hours ago, DDE said: office boy George Millet, who fell on an ink eraser kept in his breast pocket while trying to evade the kisses of six steno girls on his 15th birthday. Millet was stabbed in the heart and died on the way to hospital." Love hurts. 6 hours ago, Lisias said: Metal erasers were essentially small knives, used to shave away or scrape off ink from a writing surface. Spoiler She returned to edit her post. *** The most educated race Spoiler in the Middle-Earth. A combined paper cutter and ink eraser. Edited September 13 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted September 13 Author Share Posted September 13 (edited) 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: Also, there was a wordplay question: "Кто сядет за Старлайнер?" / "Who will sit by/for Starliner" A wordplay: 1. "will sit" = "will land" 2. "will sit" = "will be sitting in a prison" You know, I think they are right on the money on this one. This damned thingy had the same problems on the 2nd Orbintal Test. I mean... They sit on their hands on the problem since then? Lockheed's Orion was launched to the Moon and came back at 2022, right? Someone at Boeing surely had received the memo... 2 hours ago, kerbiloid said: The most educated race They surely know how to make you open your heart to them... Edited September 13 by Lisias Entertaining grammars made slightely less entertaining... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 16 Share Posted September 16 LAZ-965-B with a... novelty body used in Izmailovsky park, Moscow. Says "Vostok" so you know what the theme was Forward visibility: reduced Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 Canberra PR.9 bombardier was an afterthought... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 11 minutes ago, DDE said: Canberra PR.9 bombardier was an afterthought... In English Electric’s defence I’m pretty sure PR indicates it was for photoreconnaissance, meaning this was designed to go as fast as possible at high altitude on a single, precalculated route. This guy probably just had to push some buttons to activate the cameras when a buzzer, triggered by the pilot, rang, indicating they were over the target area. Reading about the Canberra a little just now I have to say, what bad luck it and other early Cold War jet bombers built around WW2 era specifications had. It was supposed to be the jet powered replacement for the Mosquito, a legendary aircraft. But by the time it came on the scene, the Soviets already had a horde of MiG-15s with the GSFG- ironically powered by reverse engineered British engines- and had war broken out would probably not have had the spectacular record its prop ancestor had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 19 Share Posted September 19 1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said: ironically powered by reverse engineered British engines All late-1940s Soviets jet planes were. Including MiG and Su fighters, and Il-28, carrying the first serial nukabomb RDS-4 aka Tatiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Nene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Derwent 1 hour ago, SunlitZelkova said: This guy probably just had to push some buttons to activate the cameras when a buzzer, triggered by the pilot, rang, indicating they were over the target area. It looks like he has his own sight, with red cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted September 20 Share Posted September 20 The original Mi-24 took first flight today. But that's not I came with here today. I came here with BZh-1 titanium helicopter pilot mail (13 kg for the cuirass and 3 kg for the ZSh-3B helmet) The guy looks really confused what sci-fi franchise he's supposed to be in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted September 26 Share Posted September 26 (edited) When you are first time trying to land the Hooligan Labs airship at the KSC. https://edge-upvideo.rbc.ru/archive/2024/09/26/335480.8___mp4/576p.mp4 (Today, Brazil, 1 injured.) Edited September 26 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted September 29 Author Share Posted September 29 (edited) Howard's Damn Big Airplane : NASA almost built this! Edited September 29 by Lisias Tyops, as usulla... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted Monday at 02:43 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 02:43 PM The Kerbal among humans: Scott Winton and his Facet Opan flying... thingy. Can't make a turn without scratching the wings on the ground (just like my planes on KSP!). I wonder how much "maintenance" the wings would need before taking off again! And since we here: A bit less Kerbal (no ground scratching!), but in the same spirit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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