Fizzlebop Smith Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Today I was looking at my phone and walked into a sliding glass door. My dog was following beside me in a very excited manner. My phone fell very close tp said dog... why spooked and ran into the same door that I did. I immediately pictured Jeb for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 20 Author Share Posted March 20 Boy, this is how one should motorize a car!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 (edited) Today is the thirtieth anniversary of Aeroflot flight 953. The one where the second pilot decided to let his two kids hop into the seat for a bit, and the son lost control and tugged hard the stick on his way out. 75 dead. Edited March 23 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 11 hours ago, DDE said: Today is the thirtieth anniversary of Aeroflot flight 953. The one where the second pilot decided to let his two kids hop into the seat for a bit, and the son lost control and tugged hard the stick on his way out. This was terribly heart-breaking (every one is, but by some reason some are perceived differently than others). They almost managing to get control back, but then stalling again (~2:10) makes things even harsher. Some time ago, I was toying with an AutoPilot and due an input error, the damned thing nose dived and hug the grass before I could manage to disengage the auto-pilot. Remarkably similar to the 737MAX accidents, and not too much time after them. My spine froze during the whole "event", and I took some precious seconds before overcoming my surprise and stupor (I immediately correlated that to both crashes, it was really, really awful) before started to salvage the situation. I couldn't fly a plane on KSP for a couple days after it. Sometimes, being able to reproduce Real Word "Karbalisms" on KSP can be very troubling... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 12 hours ago, DDE said: The one where the second pilot decided to let his two kids hop into the seat for a bit, and the son lost control and tugged hard the stick on his way out. Several months later I saved my dad's An-2 by rejecting same offer, lol. *** KSP obviously lacks Kerbal Kids in addition to the trio. They could do funny things onboard, like playing with controls. Also they would be twice smaller and lightweight, so could replace KerbaLaika, as the developers didn't add test animals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 24 Author Share Posted March 24 Sacré Bleu!!! https://velocetoday.com/and-how-mr-stapps-imaginative-lsr/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted March 24 Share Posted March 24 19 hours ago, DDE said: Today is the thirtieth anniversary of Aeroflot flight 953. The one where the second pilot decided to let his two kids hop into the seat for a bit, and the son lost control and tugged hard the stick on his way out. 75 dead. TIL. Reading more on Wikipedia led me to these too similarly shocking incidents- Pinnacle Airlines Flight 3701, where the pilots took it to an unsafe altitude for fun (to join the “club” of pilots who had done so), and Aeroflot Flight 6502, where the captain bet he could do an instrument only landing and thus closed the blinds of the aircraft. No passengers were onboard in the first incident, but both crew were killed. 63 passengers died in the second one and seven more in hospitals. The co-pilot had a heart attack shortly afterward but the captain survived and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but it was reduced to 6. All that brings to mind the 684th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, which was actually disbanded in 1989 because of an accident in July 1988 that killed civilians in Tiraspol. I don’t know the details but it must have been pretty serious to warrant such action. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 (edited) On 10/26/2023 at 2:38 PM, DDE said: Aleksandr Konstantinov, one of the weapons designers who tried to unseat the Kalashnikov rifle during the 5,45 mm rifle trials, had apparently heard that lowering the recoil axis reduces mizzle climb... so he went all. Sources like Popenker claim this was actually built and submitted: Turns out the developers of FN P90 also had an upside-down gun moment: Edited March 26 by DDE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 Best use with proper suit. Spoiler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 26 Author Share Posted March 26 23 days on an airplane, doing maintenance while in flight. And getting snacks delivered by another plane. Yeah, very Kerbal! https://www.fai.org/news/ninety-years-ago-hunter-brothers-spent-23-days-flight-without-landing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 26 Share Posted March 26 In 1916, two British destroyers on Dover patrol, HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian, had a very bad meeting with German ordnance. Each of them became half the ships they used to be. So, at the height of WWI the British had two unserviceable halves of a ship. Paging Doctor Frankenstein! Enter HMS Zubian. It wasn't a trivial surgery either. No two ships are exactly alike, even within the same order, and it turned out the beam was different by a whole two inches, but they got everything to fit (presumably, big hammers were involved). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted March 27 Author Share Posted March 27 23 hours ago, DDE said: In 1916, two British destroyers on Dover patrol, HMS Zulu and HMS Nubian, had a very bad meeting with German ordnance. Each of them became half the ships they used to be. So, at the height of WWI the British had two unserviceable halves of a ship. Paging Doctor Frankenstein! Enter HMS Zubian. It wasn't a trivial surgery either. No two ships are exactly alike, even within the same order, and it turned out the beam was different by a whole two inches, but they got everything to fit (presumably, big hammers were involved). This is not a joke, they REALLY called the thing HMS Zubian!!! Merging crafts was always a nightmare, by the way... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted March 28 Share Posted March 28 A 1966 CPSU Central Committee memo on expanding production of ready-made breakfasts from popped rice. Besides a major point that's rather eye-raising in a Soviet paper (popped rice production lags behind because corn flakes are more profitable), it includes such gems as the Artillery Academy helping design an industrial popcorn machine (after all, it's "exploded cereals") and two full paragraphs on the advantages of Kellog's rice flakes (Rice Krispies?), the failure of the Soviets' efforts to replicate them, and the need to reach out to the British to license production. https://t.me/tarkhils_channel/2591 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 15 hours ago, DDE said: two full paragraphs on the advantages of Kellog's rice flakes (Rice Krispies?), the failure of the Soviets' efforts to replicate them, and the need to reach out to the British to license production. "Comrades, we can not allow a cereal gap!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted March 29 Share Posted March 29 (edited) Do you now understand the real purpose of N1? Send the flakes into space, let them pop in vacuum and burn get fried on re-entry. Edited March 29 by kerbiloid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 1 Author Share Posted April 1 (edited) When done on a show, it's a beautiful demonstration of airmanship. When done on a "commercial" flight full of Kerbals err PAX, not that much... Looks like me trying to land the plane on the runway... I eventually manage to do that, but... Boy... Thanks Kraken nobody made a addon to make passengers to scream in terror!!! === == = POST EDIT Quote nobody made a addon to make passengers to scream in terror huummmm.... Edited April 1 by Lisias :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 6 Author Share Posted April 6 Yes, it's ugly. Yes, it flew. Yes, they called it "Duck" And yes, the dude wanted to use a Steam Engine on it!!! The Curtiss-Goupil Duck. https://airwaysmag.com/lateral-control-the-story-of-the-curtiss-goupil-duck/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 8 Author Share Posted April 8 Take a plane that it's being mercilessly bashed by the competition, replace the wings and go for the win! (As long Editor don't mess things up!) Grumman Panther. (And the wings really made huge difference on the design...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisias Posted April 12 Author Share Posted April 12 I just can't believe no one had mentioned this one before (or, at least, I didn't found it): He 111Z (Zwilling - Twin) http://www.diseno-art.com/encyclopedia/strange_vehicles/heinkel_he_111z_zwilling.html Two He 111 bolted around an additional engine, and called it a day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Maybe apocryphal, ascribed to cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev: "And why is Gagarin a hero anyway?" "Ever seen a ten-storey house. Imagine it's full of jet fuel. Imagine you're locked up in a tiny ball on top. Imagine they tell you that, if their calculations are correct, you're coming back alive, and then they set fire to the ground floor." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/sea-air-space-2024/2024/04/leidos-concept-turns-oil-rigs-into-mobile-missile-defense-and-supply-bases/ Eat your heart out, Toyota. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunlitZelkova Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 6 hours ago, DDE said: https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/sea-air-space-2024/2024/04/leidos-concept-turns-oil-rigs-into-mobile-missile-defense-and-supply-bases/ Eat your heart out, Toyota. That kinda gives me a vibe of Germany converting barges into landing craft for Operation Sea Lion because they had no experience in amphibious warfare beyond Norway. Oh how American shipbuilding has fallen... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerbiloid Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 8 hours ago, DDE said: https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/sea-air-space-2024/2024/04/leidos-concept-turns-oil-rigs-into-mobile-missile-defense-and-supply-bases/ Haven't they missed the current events of 2022 in Black Sea? Some oil rigs and some islet equipped with AA stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDE Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 16 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: Oh how American shipbuilding has fallen... Well, at least those had a decent run... on Lake Ladoga. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnemoe Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 21 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said: That kinda gives me a vibe of Germany converting barges into landing craft for Operation Sea Lion because they had no experience in amphibious warfare beyond Norway. Oh how American shipbuilding has fallen... Make me think of Sealand and the offshore AAA platforms during WW 2. Idea might make some sense, but would it be much cheaper, powerful or more survival than a warship who can also do other stuff? It would also be very heavy targeted like US picket line destroyers during WW 2 in the pacific. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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