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dinny_g wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:56 pm What’s the clunking sound???

Thrusters firing pulses of gas to keep it pointed the right way.

Makes sense…

Mito Man wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:09 pm

dinny_g wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 9:56 pm What’s the clunking sound???

Thrusters firing pulses of gas to keep it pointed the right way.

Or to be more exact, the valves for the thrusters.

Horrendous aircraft accident in Japan, looks to be a collision on the runway between two aircraft.

Live coverage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0FCKcT ... =ANNnewsCH

Surprised that they are continuing that live feed - I assume they must know all passengers are safe.

Apparently all passengers and crew safe from the airbus but five missing from the other aircraft which according to reports was operated by the coastguard and carrying six people.

BBC feed with a bit of info. All off passenger plane accounted for. 1 out of 6 accounted for from coastguard plane, 5 missing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-asia-67862184




Must have been a quick evacuation

Now saying the 5 unaccounted for coastguard workers have died and the single survivor is the captain and is ‘severely injured’

RIP

I have filed this under both:

1. That's a rather impressive model plan
2. He certainly knows what the fook he's doing

As you say, he's for sure in tune with it
The tents off in front of them; "permission to buzz the campsite?".

Seeing this reminds me, I had that Concorde pop up on fb t'other day. I'll see if I can find it...

A different flavour of bonkers RC - unpowered glider pretending to be a bullet:


Slower so you can actually see something:

I’m surprised no RC airplane has yet broken the sound barrier - there’s a few people out there trying although their designs resemble something closer to a tomahawk missile than an airplane.

Mito Man wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:03 pm I’m surprised no RC airplane has yet broken the sound barrier - there’s a few people out there trying although their designs resemble something closer to a tomahawk missile than an airplane.

Interesting point. Need pretty special engine(s) to create adequate thrust, and lots of time in the wind tunnel - for lift and control surfaces and engine intake (have to throttle the supersonic airflow back to subsonic before it enters the engines (unless you use a ramjet, but that won’t work at low speeds) yada yada

mik wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:37 pm

Mito Man wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 4:03 pm I’m surprised no RC airplane has yet broken the sound barrier - there’s a few people out there trying although their designs resemble something closer to a tomahawk missile than an airplane.

Interesting point. Need pretty special engine(s) to create adequate thrust, and lots of time in the wind tunnel - for lift and control surfaces and engine intake (have to throttle the supersonic airflow back to subsonic before it enters the engines (unless you use a ramjet, but that won’t work at low speeds) yada yada

Mhmm, the fastest manned “aircraft” is the X15 which was also a hypersonic missile using a rocket engine which makes me think doing it with rockets as opposed to an actual jet engine is the far simpler method and would still be valid.

Model rockets already go multiple times the speed of sound, someone just needs to stick some small wings on and do it horizontally. Simple

Check this shit out...

https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR73AW/33b3e38d

madness...

and then...

https://www.flightradar24.com/RYR9UL/33b43d8b