Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?
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If it's a piloted aircraft, then by definition it's not a drone.
Fixed that for you.
The flight controls are not that different to a drone so my opinion is it's very much like an upscaled drone with passenger seat
While that may be true, the FAA doesn't consider it one due to being piloted.
That's true and somewhat a stumbling block right now for certification
Ask the FAA, I'm sure they're still figuring that aspect out.
Its part 103 ultralight. No license needed.
I've long called the F-35 the joint strike turkey.
now the US Government Accountability Office has come out with damning reported on the program as it continues to fall behind with block 4 aircraft which are supposed to addressing current emerging threats won't be ready for6 years and will cost more to delivery less.
and the manufacturers are still making a pretty big chunk of change. under the contract they be receive incentive payments to get things moving along.
so as the program slip behinds they've received multiple millions in payments.
and even when they've been fined $5mil per aircraft that has been delivered but not combat capable (will be used for training and avoids Lockheed-Martin having nearly 100 aircraft at it's facilties) that's small percentage of the cost.
now the US Government Accountability Office has come out with damning reported on the program as it continues to fall behind with block 4 aircraft which are supposed to addressing current emerging threats won't be ready for6 years and will cost more to delivery less.
and the manufacturers are still making a pretty big chunk of change. under the contract they be receive incentive payments to get things moving along.
so as the program slip behinds they've received multiple millions in payments.
and even when they've been fined $5mil per aircraft that has been delivered but not combat capable (will be used for training and avoids Lockheed-Martin having nearly 100 aircraft at it's facilties) that's small percentage of the cost.
Blame the DoD's Sole Supplier rule when it comes to manufacturing Acquisition.
The Government / DoD awards "Sole Supplier" as part of the rule making process instead of including everybody into the manufacturing chain to work on the Winning Design which baffles me.
There's no competition between manufacturers to get things out on time along with seperating parts of the update / design group from manufacturing where necessary.
Defense Contracting is always a large bureaucratic mess, but it doesn't help when Congress likes to stick in all sorts of extra Bureaucracy around it as well.
Big defense contracts are few and far between. I read where DoD liked that Boeing was gobbling up other firms to keep them alive between contracts.
MacDoug was a poison pill by accounts.
On turbulence
Shock wave
ISENGLASS game
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MacDoug was a poison pill by accounts.
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Shock wave
ISENGLASS game
Model 192 ISINGLASS simulator/game
I've done some 3D modeling of hypersonic airplane designs over the years, but recently I've also been working on a simple simulator/game of Model 192 ISINGLASS. Though I'm calling it the Advanced Aerodynamic Reconnaissance System here, referring to the ISINGLASS follow-on studies from around...
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Well that's interesting.
I'm going to an air show tomorrow at the airport that Mama Bird Johnson used to manage (she was still flying in her 90s and managed the airport into her 100s - she died at 102).
She logged 7 years in the air.
She logged 7 years in the air.
Tour around the an SR-71.
Originally intended to be called the RS-71 but lbj flubbed his line and said SR.
The 71 came because the a bomber version was also proposed and the number along after the (X)B-70 Valkyrie.
Wouldn't want the aircon in your suit to fail. The loss of airpressure would be nasty but so would the 60c temp in the cockpit (thought still cooler than the skin of the fuselage).
Originally intended to be called the RS-71 but lbj flubbed his line and said SR.
The 71 came because the a bomber version was also proposed and the number along after the (X)B-70 Valkyrie.
Wouldn't want the aircon in your suit to fail. The loss of airpressure would be nasty but so would the 60c temp in the cockpit (thought still cooler than the skin of the fuselage).
That's impressive. Thanks for sharing and tell us what the show was like.
BTW was watching some animated shows and caught this on one of them. I like how it looks but not sure how such a shape might really work.
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