Planes
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12295561&&ref=recommended
NASA’s Supersonic X-59 QueSST Coming Together at Famed Factory
That airplane is NASA’s X-59 QueSST (short for Quiet SuperSonic Technology), an experimental piloted aircraft designed to fly faster than sound without
It might not have much of a sonic boom but how are you supposed to see to land it? Auto land only? Cameras? That's why concorde had a movable nose cone.
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Love this story
That's bloody brilliant . Hear those biggest dick contests all the time. The "we're showing closer to 2,000" - superb.
I remember when the SAAB 2000 (50 odd seat turboprop) was new and being demonstrated in NZ, it was heading into CHC. An Air NZ 737 called up and asked ATC when they were going to pass the SAAB as they wanted descent clearance, he was getting a bit angsty about it. The controller, with a distinct snigger in his voice replied " you won't, he's going faster than you.
There was that silence on the radio for quite some time that was just mentioned in the clip.
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@taniwharugby said in Planes:
Seems legit
Listened to this on a 'No such thing as a fish' podcast.
Not sure what that link is?
Anyway Planes:
Fred Ladd flew this Avenger. He is a bit of a legend in NZ aviation, loads of WW2 missions in the Pacific- got prosecuted for flying a Widgeon under AKL harbour bridge on his last day flying tourists and got off (somehow). Also had an OBE.Can't believe they were using it for Ag work in the eighties!
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@Snowy here is the WIki link.
Particularly this part they talked about on No such thing as a fish
Donald also became famous for his miraculous escape from death having fallen from his Sopwith Camel at 6,000 feet (1,800 m) in 1917. On a summer's afternoon he attempted a new manoeuvre in his Sopwith Camel and flew the machine up and over, and as he reached the top of his loop, hanging upside down, his safety belt snapped and he fell out. He was not wearing a parachute as a matter of policy. Incredibly, the Camel had continued its loop downwards, and Donald landed on its top wing. He grabbed it with both hands, hooked one foot into the cockpit and wrestled himself back in, struggled to take control, and executed "an unusually good landing". In an interview given 55 years later he explained, "The first 2,000 feet passed very quickly and terra firma looked damnably 'firma'. As I fell I began to hear my faithful little Camel somewhere nearby. Suddenly I fell back onto her.
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@taniwharugby Never ruin a good dit with the truth 😂
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@taniwharugby said in Planes:
Seems legit
Found it:
Episode 222: No Such Thing As A Warmongering PigeonPretty funny.
I haven't flown a Camel but it is possible, albeit really, really, really, really, really, unlikely. The aircraft may have been stable enough to continue on it's path. I don't know enough about Camels and I doubt that they are very stable without human input. Modern aircraft are amazing in that regard - if you fuck up and just leave everything alone (assuming you have some altitude) they will just right themselves in straight and level flight.The maths is also a bit difficult to work out. Radius of loop (which wouldn't have been a perfect circle as Camel wouldn't have managed that I don't think , speed of Camel in uncontrolled dive, human acceleration and terminal velocity (if reached). I might have over thought that...
If this was a well known british TV show - I would say it was a "Lie!" but amusing, thank you Grahame and you do have quite an imagination.
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@taniwharugby said in Planes:
Seems legit
Listened to this on a 'No such thing as a fish' podcast.
Not sure what that link is?
Anyway Planes:
Fred Ladd flew this Avenger. He is a bit of a legend in NZ aviation, loads of WW2 missions in the Pacific- got prosecuted for flying a Widgeon under AKL harbour bridge on his last day flying tourists and got off (somehow). Also had an OBE.Can't believe they were using it for Ag work in the eighties!
Was fieldair using them for crop dusting ? Paul Newman was a gunner in one of those beasts .
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Grahame Donald - Wikipedia
