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Consequense - an aviation Thursday Prompt
*kisses the medallion around her neck, and enters the cockpit...
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Actually, it's amazing the things you will find on the internet when perusing through just looking. the American army commissioned a training aircraft deliberately made 'not to fly' appropriately called the 'Penguin'.
https://www.cradleofaviation.org/hi.....e_penguin.html
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https://www.cradleofaviation.org/hi.....e_penguin.html
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*smiles so very big... actually close to an account I read about fro the diary of a pilot in the American Expeditionary Forces during WWI... he said a new commander had a true hatred of the Germans and demanded they graduate as many pilots as possible as quickly as possible. Word was quickly passed and all the other pilots came to watch the show. One of the pilot trainees managed to get into the air and the instructor commented, 'He'll probably come down in Scotland, because we haven't taught them to turn yet.'
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As an aviator once told me " you stall her, and she'll drop like a simonized brick."
And don't forget the effect of load factor on stall speed. Stabilized you come in at 66, and stalls at 58, but your off centerline so you make a push to get back on and pull 2 g doing it and your stall speed jumps to 70, and you get to feel what that simonized brick feels like
And don't forget the effect of load factor on stall speed. Stabilized you come in at 66, and stalls at 58, but your off centerline so you make a push to get back on and pull 2 g doing it and your stall speed jumps to 70, and you get to feel what that simonized brick feels like
Enjoyable read my dear, with some are wiser with their incursions with the ground, tree and pond!
Back in the late 60s there was an old timer that use to come out to the airport he had flown in WW1. It was interesting to hear his side of things.
From time to time he and Dad would go up in 88P, one time Dad had him in the front seat as pilot in command... I remember them doing touch and gos and landing to full stop. When they got back Dad had him fill out his logbook so Dad could sign it for him. The old man was walking on cloud 9.
Dad couldn't understand why Teg wouldn't humor the old boy and take him up for "lessons". Then Dad answered that question... the old man flew much better that Teg did and Teg was a flight instructor. Teg had one hell of an ego... he was an A&P but not all that great of one, but if you listened to him he helped build half the homebuilt aircraft on the field.
Back in the late 60s there was an old timer that use to come out to the airport he had flown in WW1. It was interesting to hear his side of things.
From time to time he and Dad would go up in 88P, one time Dad had him in the front seat as pilot in command... I remember them doing touch and gos and landing to full stop. When they got back Dad had him fill out his logbook so Dad could sign it for him. The old man was walking on cloud 9.
Dad couldn't understand why Teg wouldn't humor the old boy and take him up for "lessons". Then Dad answered that question... the old man flew much better that Teg did and Teg was a flight instructor. Teg had one hell of an ego... he was an A&P but not all that great of one, but if you listened to him he helped build half the homebuilt aircraft on the field.
A&P used to be A&E - airframe and engine... now it's airframe and powerplant.
This is a two part license required to perform work on an aircraft. And here is the loophole - anyone can work on an aircraft so long as they SIGN for the work they did, and then have that countersigned by an A&P as having supervised this work.
At one place I worked in Miami as an inspector we used to always ask the mechanics what their last job was (just conversation) - one of them told us he'd been a Cuban pastry chef.
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This is a two part license required to perform work on an aircraft. And here is the loophole - anyone can work on an aircraft so long as they SIGN for the work they did, and then have that countersigned by an A&P as having supervised this work.
At one place I worked in Miami as an inspector we used to always ask the mechanics what their last job was (just conversation) - one of them told us he'd been a Cuban pastry chef.
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I just realized I've been carrying Lady of Loreto in my wallet for years. I don't remember who gave Her to me, but it explains a lot of things that didn't happen during my travels in aircraft, cars, trucks, boats and motorcycles. I will have have to remember to give Her the acknowledgement She deserves.
It's terrifying to me to think that the birth of aviation happened without simulators of any kind. I might even be willing to learn to fly if I had several hundred hours of training in a full mock-up simulator so I can get all my mistakes out of me before I get in a 'there is no reset, death is permanent' machine. But to learn to do something you've only heard of and seldom seen, in a primitive machine with few (if any) safety features?
nope nope nope
*parachute hugs*
nope nope nope
*parachute hugs*
*laughs... fully understood... the stories I've read about these aircraft are almost too hard to believe... the mechanics used to hollow out the wood to make it lighter... Holy Hanna! No wonder wings snapped off! One of my favorites is the engine that completely spun around with the propeller attached to it - and it had no carburetor! Can you just imagine the centrifugal force?
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I saw a video a while back of a antique car (1920s or so) that had an engine that spun that way. The 3 (I think) cylinders spun around a central axis with a gear on the bottom that turned the rear axle. I've tried to find it again but when I type 'car with rotating engine' into Google, it just Wankles all over me.
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