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Originally posted by Joe 1320Speaking of ariplanes,
I took my F-22 for a few flights. The thing looks incredible in the air. I did a few manouvers on each flight, tweaking the controls for response. The third flight............oh, the carnage. I crashed after I lost one engine on a low level pass. It basically was a flame out, the plane was just starting a right bank against the wind and at that moment flipped inverted and shot to the ground. It literally broke in half just behind the air intakes, but she's repairable. All the electronics are fine, the motors and fans are fine but one speed controller fried. I'll just replace the other for insurance and it will fly again.
The sound it made hitting the deck just made me cringe. That was some serious impact.2002 Electron Blue Vette, 1SC, FE3/Z51, G92 3.15 gears, 308.9 RWHP 321.7 RWTQ (before any mods), SLP headers, Z06 exhaust, MSD Ignition Wires, AC Delco Iridium Spark Plugs, 160 t-stat, lots of ECM tuning
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Originally posted by Jeff 95 Z28Yea your buzzing along then all of a sudden dead silence. You know it's over then.
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Originally posted by Kevin - Blown 95 TAJoe, how long can one of those planes fly when fully charged up?
Now imagine a 10.5 oz battery that will sustain a continuous 60 amp discharge for minutes at a time. That is amazing. My F-22 needs that kind of juice with twin 75mm fans, the battery is overkill in my single engine F-16. One of these days I'll find the limits, but this one advancement coupled with brushless motors has made electronics now capable of defeating glow power in competitions in virtually every catagory. The only area where fuel has an advantage is that the airplane gets lighter as fuel is consumed, thereby performance increases.
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Originally posted by fastTAHow about this......should vegetarians eat animal crackers?
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Originally posted by Joe 1320Nah, I think animals should eat vegitarian crackers. The problem around here though is the crackers are shooting the animals who don't eat vegitarians and the vegitarians are treating the crackers like animals.
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If a man is standing in the middle of the forest speaking, and there is no woman around to hear him.....is he still wrong?
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fastTa
Originally posted by Kevin - Blown 95 TAIf he doesn't ask directions, does it mean he isn't lost?
Which weighs more, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?
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On another airplane note......
Broke an F-4 Phantom in half today. I was trying out an old video camera and even though it wasn't in the field of view at the moment of impact, man can you hear it. Then it pole vaults into view. A fitting end to a plane that had so much glue holding it together from countless botched landings and crashes. That's what this is for, to horse around and not destroy good planes. I'll bet I can still patch it up and it will fly.
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Hey Joe. Did it ever occur to you that it is a countless blessing that you are a RC pilot, not a real one?
Actually, real pilots make crummy RC pilots. They can't adapt to the reversing of contros that you have to do when the plane changes direction and comes towards you. There was a challenge once with real Navy pilots vs. some RC pilots using RC jets, and the real pilots fubar'd the missions. Of course, it's no doubt that the RC pilots would have sat there with their thumbs up their butts in a real cockpit. I guess fair is fair.
Honestly, Joe, I have to get one of those. Whadya say? a grand or so for an entire complete setup?
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After further reflection, I am now persuaded that the plane takes off.
The situation posited would be the same as if the moving conveyor belt were topped with ice and the plane had skis instead of freely moving wheels (that is, a theoretically perfect "zero-friction" situation).
Planes take off -- and land -- on ice all the time, though they may need a longer "runway" to do so if they depend upon wheel braking in addition to reverse-thrust engine braking.
Sorry about your F-22, Joe. For what it's worth (and not much compared to your F-22), I crash paper airplanes.R.i.K.
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Originally posted by Roger in KensingtonI crash paper airplanes.
That made me laugh!Tracy
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