General Civilian Aviation Thread - Post your videos, images and thoughts

[MrJokerRager]

Since the age of the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 is coming to an end as well as commercial flight as we know it, lets discuss it here.

Here is videos of the favorite engine designs I like on aircraft. Rolls Royce knows to to design engines good.

And a KLM Boeing 747 flying overhead.

 

[2005]

Behold, the death of the penis.

 

[Wraith]

Are planes crashing into buildings warranted for this thread? Cause raisins.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Are planes crashing into buildings warranted for this thread? Cause raisins.

Anything goes since this is the Kiwifarms Airport Lounge.

 

[Wraith]

Wasn't there some old airplane sim video game series started around the Sega Genesis era that was like Railroad Tycoon but with flew-flews instead of choo-choos?

 

[millais]

On subject of 747, I recently watched this documentary series that has an episode about South African Airways's adoption and pioneering use of the 747 for long distance flights in difficult conditions

The high elevation and hot air temperature at the former Jan Smuts International Airport in Johannesburg presented some technical problems for takeoffs, and since the rest of black Africa forbade South African Airways airliners from using their airspace, they had to fly all the way around the African coastline in order to service routes to Europe and UK. It's already a pretty long straight-line distance between Europe and South Africa, but to tack on that detour was just insane.

I guess they paid good money though, so Boeing was willing to collaborate closely with SAA in order to fine tune their 747 fleet in spite of any PR blowback.

 

[MrJokerRager]

First time I have seen something like this involving boobs.

 

[MrJokerRager]

This airport looks comfy.

 

[MrJokerRager]

The British Airways 747s with the Rolls Royce are a nice aesthetic.

This video has aged a lot when you see Delta and United Boeing 747s. Also realized that United was still flying the 747-300 edition.

This is great footage.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

I don't know how the actual day came and passed without anyone memeing in this thread.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Apparently found out this is a thing. Relaxing inside a airplane cabin.

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[MrJokerRager]

 

[Pissmaster]

First time I have seen something like this involving boobs.

 

[Doggo]

Dunno if this is the right thread for it, but here's a video I keep coming back to. It is quite possibly the single finest piece of flying I have ever seen on video, and it all happens in less than 45 seconds. Watch how the sun flips around when it happens. That's something the movies never do.

Spoilered the autism, but there's a lot going on here so I tried to make it informative.

Spoiler

So, a bit of backstory. I've become quite interested in planes in recent years, only as an adult. Never got to experience them as a kid, so I was never that interested.

Anyway, this flight was conducted to test weird stall characteristics that computer modelling was giving, when the MD-95 was being FAA certified. I'm not sure why they didn't pick this up during DC-9 development, maybe because computer modelling was not that sophisticated yet. EDIT: it's also possible that the MD-95 was pretty decently stretched from the DC-9 and may have had a larger or different tail, but I don't know these aircraft well enough to say one way or the other, but I can do some reading later if you want.

What's going on here is something called deep stall or super stall. It's a characteristic of T-tail aircraft that typically have engines at the rear, like the MD-95/717. In as best of a nutshell as I can, given I'm hardly an expert, basically the tail is in the aerodynamic shadow behind the wings, which causes a stall that is almost impossible to recover from. Not without a shitload of altitude.

Watch the numbers flying by in that video. They were losing something like 1000ft *a second*, unless I'm reading it wrong, which I may well be because I'm not a pilot. They also oversped the aircraft to all buggery doing that stall escape. In fact, the aircraft involved was actually permanently damaged, having been structurally deformed, during this test. As of writing this, it's the only MD-95 to have been written off.

But it verified the unusual computer modelling that was predicted, and it was a necessary test to certify the aircraft. The fix was basically a software one. A lot of T-tail aircraft have a stick pusher, which will force the nose down before the aircraft ever gets into a deep stall. If you're wondering what happens if the stick pusher activates near ground, well the fact is that you have to unstall the wing otherwise you will hit that ground.

Take everything I've said with a grain of salt. I'm not a pilot, and I may never be due to health concerns, but it doesn't make it any less fascinating to me.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Dunno if this is the right thread for it, but here's a video I keep coming back to. It is quite possibly the single finest piece of flying I have ever seen on video, and it all happens in less than 45 seconds. Watch how the sun flips around when it happens. That's something the movies never do.

Spoilered the autism, but there's a lot going on here so I tried to make it informative.

Spoiler

So, a bit of backstory. I've become quite interested in planes in recent years, only as an adult. Never got to experience them as a kid, so I was never that interested.

Anyway, this flight was conducted to test weird stall characteristics that computer modelling was giving, when the MD-95 was being FAA certified. I'm not sure why they didn't pick this up during DC-9 development, maybe because computer modelling was not that sophisticated yet. EDIT: it's also possible that the MD-95 was pretty decently stretched from the DC-9 and may have had a larger or different tail, but I don't know these aircraft well enough to say one way or the other, but I can do some reading later if you want.

What's going on here is something called deep stall or super stall. It's a characteristic of T-tail aircraft that typically have engines at the rear, like the MD-95/717. In as best of a nutshell as I can, given I'm hardly an expert, basically the tail is in the aerodynamic shadow behind the wings, which causes a stall that is almost impossible to recover from. Not without a shitload of altitude.

Watch the numbers flying by in that video. They were losing something like 1000ft *a second*, unless I'm reading it wrong, which I may well be because I'm not a pilot. They also oversped the aircraft to all buggery doing that stall escape. In fact, the aircraft involved was actually permanently damaged, having been structurally deformed, during this test. As of writing this, it's the only MD-95 to have been written off.

But it verified the unusual computer modelling that was predicted, and it was a necessary test to certify the aircraft. The fix was basically a software one. A lot of T-tail aircraft have a stick pusher, which will force the nose down before the aircraft ever gets into a deep stall. If you're wondering what happens if the stick pusher activates near ground, well the fact is that you have to unstall the wing otherwise you will hit that ground.

Take everything I've said with a grain of salt. I'm not a pilot, and I may never be due to health concerns, but it doesn't make it any less fascinating to me.

This reminds me of that movie which had Denzel Washington in it.

 

[MrJokerRager]

People will need soundproof doors and windows to live here.

 

[MrJokerRager]

A rare semen demon in the cockpit.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

Is there any simulator where I might learn to fly a bigass passenger plane?
I tried pilot schools but they also wanted me to learn landing which is a waste of money.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Is there any simulator where I might learn to fly a bigass passenger plane?
I tried pilot schools but they also wanted me to learn landing which is a waste of money.

Flight Simulator or X-Plane or DCS.

 

[MrJokerRager]

I remember there was Schubak back in the day for die cast plane collectables but I guess its Gemini Jets now?