So, was the Wright Flyer not a real airplane because it could only travel very slowly over short distances?
Of course not: it spent its entire operational career in flight, never doing anything on the ground. If it putt-putted down roads most of the time and lifted off once in a while, you'd have a comparison.
If you put two Calypsos end-to-end vertically, that wouldn't quite reach the newly-discovered submarine.
Looking at it a slightly different way, the length of submarines in that period was roughly equal to their normal maximum diving depth.
I'm fond of pointing out that there really is no such thing as a "WW2 submarine". We had something we called submarines, but they were surface vessels that could submerge, once in a while, for a little while. The first real submarine hit the water in 1954.
Maybe he was a pompous ass, but the entirety of that pompous ass's campaign in the southwest Pacific from 1942 to 1945 had less US casualties than just the one landing at Anzio.
Glad to hear that. I went to public schools in Miami a very long time ago, and the bible was simply a text in history class. On the same test, you might have to answer "Who was the sixteenth President?" and "What kind of wood was the Ark made of?"
"Miami Installs...." is not correct. Miami and Miami Beach are two different cities, separated by Biscayne Bay. Miami itself does not front on the ocean, so its own swimming beach is on Key Biscayne, an island with no direct driving connection to "The Beach". TFA doesn't say if that beach also got the dispensers.
THAT is a close to a gentle ditching as you are going to get
Well, no it isn't, actually; US Airways 1549 is. That one took place on smooth water, not the high seas, but there have been numerous other ditchings in moderately higher sea states that were non-catastrophic. It's a crapshoot.
Underwing engines are held in place by shear pins that will break in a ditching and let them be carried away, so if everything goes just right, the wings won't be ripped off and the airplane will have a chance of floating for a while. Flaps, OTOH, would be down for minimum speed and would very likely come off.
Uh, no autopilot has the ability to land a plane (intact) on water.
Matter of fact, no human pilot does, consistently, at sea. Even the largest seaplanes depend on protected water (harbors, lagoons, rivers etc.) for normal operations, and an open-sea landing is an emergency procedure.
When the USS Indianapolis survivors were found, 70 years ago this week, a PBY landed near them with no hope of taking off; it simply served as an improved lifeboat until surface vessels arrived, and was then sunk.
Forward-facing seats make more sense during takeoff, as the acceleration from the plane pushes passengers into their seats, but the seats keep them secure. Passengers facing the rear will find it a bit more uncomfortable holding themselves in the seat when basic physics is pushing them out of it.
If you're having a problem holding yourself in the seat, you might try fastening your seat belt properly. You are SAFER in an aft-facing seat, and the military, which cares more about not killing its people than coddling them, mounts passenger seats facing aft for exactly that reason.
Are airplanes engineered to handle the additional weight of 80 more passengers and their luggage?
Yes. In the high-subsonic regime of passenger jets, you run out of space well before you run out of weight-carrying ability.
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So, was the Wright Flyer not a real airplane because it could only travel very slowly over short distances?
Of course not: it spent its entire operational career in flight, never doing anything on the ground. If it putt-putted down roads most of the time and lifted off once in a while, you'd have a comparison.
If you put two Calypsos end-to-end vertically, that wouldn't quite reach the newly-discovered submarine.
Looking at it a slightly different way, the length of submarines in that period was roughly equal to their normal maximum diving depth.
I'm fond of pointing out that there really is no such thing as a "WW2 submarine". We had something we called submarines, but they were surface vessels that could submerge, once in a while, for a little while. The first real submarine hit the water in 1954.
Maybe he was a pompous ass, but the entirety of that pompous ass's campaign in the southwest Pacific from 1942 to 1945 had less US casualties than just the one landing at Anzio.
Or the Battle of the Bulge, for that matter.
Only an idiot fights on two fronts.
Like FDR?
Glad to hear that. I went to public schools in Miami a very long time ago, and the bible was simply a text in history class. On the same test, you might have to answer "Who was the sixteenth President?" and "What kind of wood was the Ark made of?"
Where are the mod points when you need them...
...is getting really impatient.
"Miami Installs...." is not correct. Miami and Miami Beach are two different cities, separated by Biscayne Bay. Miami itself does not front on the ocean, so its own swimming beach is on Key Biscayne, an island with no direct driving connection to "The Beach". TFA doesn't say if that beach also got the dispensers.
who decides that one life form (and a lower one at that) is more valuable than another?
Do you miss the smallpox virus?
It's a small ceramic figurine of Buddy Rich.
Since TFA refers to it as "oddly named", perhaps the connotation is fading into old-fart memories...
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THAT is a close to a gentle ditching as you are going to get
Well, no it isn't, actually; US Airways 1549 is. That one took place on smooth water, not the high seas, but there have been numerous other ditchings in moderately higher sea states that were non-catastrophic. It's a crapshoot.
Underwing engines are held in place by shear pins that will break in a ditching and let them be carried away, so if everything goes just right, the wings won't be ripped off and the airplane will have a chance of floating for a while. Flaps, OTOH, would be down for minimum speed and would very likely come off.
Another edifying link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Uh, no autopilot has the ability to land a plane (intact) on water.
Matter of fact, no human pilot does, consistently, at sea. Even the largest seaplanes depend on protected water (harbors, lagoons, rivers etc.) for normal operations, and an open-sea landing is an emergency procedure.
When the USS Indianapolis survivors were found, 70 years ago this week, a PBY landed near them with no hope of taking off; it simply served as an improved lifeboat until surface vessels arrived, and was then sunk.
...there's gonna be a market for places to take a piss.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Oh, and his hair is a bit unkempt.
At least it appears to be firmly attached to his head.
Forward-facing seats make more sense during takeoff, as the acceleration from the plane pushes passengers into their seats, but the seats keep them secure. Passengers facing the rear will find it a bit more uncomfortable holding themselves in the seat when basic physics is pushing them out of it.
If you're having a problem holding yourself in the seat, you might try fastening your seat belt properly. You are SAFER in an aft-facing seat, and the military, which cares more about not killing its people than coddling them, mounts passenger seats facing aft for exactly that reason.
Are airplanes engineered to handle the additional weight of 80 more passengers and their luggage?
Yes. In the high-subsonic regime of passenger jets, you run out of space well before you run out of weight-carrying ability.
Barbecuing is optional. What counts is drinking beer and playing with explosives.
1990? I was living off base in the Air Force in 1964, and before that I lived in base housing that was completely open on public streets.
Indeed. You can measure the performance degradation in a sailplane caused by bug impacts on the leading edges.
One of them once told me "It may be shit to you, but it's bread and butter to me."
Naturally. It's much too dangerous to jump through a fire with your clothes on.
--The Wicker Man