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Post by Swimmy on May 27, 2009 21:22:42 GMT -5
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Post by dgriffin on May 27, 2009 21:31:52 GMT -5
How many times?  |
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Post by Clipper on May 28, 2009 9:55:51 GMT -5
Now that is a scarey thought. Riding in a wingless aircraft at supersonic speed. I see no difference in this new helicopter, other than the fact that the speed will alter the trajectory when the engine ceases to operate and it will plummet to the ground in a gentle arc rather than falling straight down. Just think what a bird strike to the rotors will do to this new innovation. Ahh yes, progress at it's finest.
Probably a wonderful innovation for military use, but not what I would want flying over my house in an urban setting doing medivac work.
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Post by corner on May 28, 2009 12:34:13 GMT -5
never watc hed "Airwolf "did you? |
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Post by Swimmy on May 28, 2009 14:23:51 GMT -5
What is this, pick on swimmy day today, corner? Yes, I watched Airwolf with my grandfather. Every Saturday evening, before my bed time, my grandfather would come up to my parents' and I would sit on his lap and we would eat popcorn and watch the show. I would ask him a billion questions about the helicopter. We had an ongoing debate about which was better, the F-14 from Top Gun, my ultimate favorite movie, or Airwolf. Then we'd talk about his private pilot training and what it would take for me to pilot an F-14 because I just love the F-14. Depending on whether I saw Top Gun during the week, I would say Airwolf would win in a battle. I think he was more exhausted than I was by the time the episode ended. I never felt tired to go to bed after that. So I'd pretend to be asleep when i heard my parents check on me. Then I put my head between the shade and the window and look up at the stars, trying to see the big dipper. I remember him always smiling and beaming with pride when he came over to watch Airwolf with me. My mom sat on the other side of the couch and my dad was in his recliner. I used to put a mouthful of popcorn into my mouth and then take a big gulp of soda because I thought it was weird how the popcorn reacted to the soda and it wasn't the same with milk or water. I also watched Star Trek reruns with my grandfather and we would have phaser wars. He always got me, no matter how fast I ran around corners. Used to upset my mom and boy would she yell at grandpa for egging me on. And he would just sit back and laugh. |
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Post by Clipper on May 28, 2009 14:34:55 GMT -5
I remember airwolf. That was a great show. Big difference between showing a chopper speeded up by fast motion camera work, and flying an actual chopper at supersonic speed. If you have ever been aboard a helicopter in flight, you would join me in my skepticism of ever boarding one that flew that fast, haha.
Riding in a helicopter is NOTHING like flying in an airplane. It is hard to describe, but an entirely different sensation.
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Post by corner on May 28, 2009 15:29:47 GMT -5
ouch swimmy im not old enuff to be your grand father and yes it was pick on swimmy day today....tomorrow some body else everybody gets aturn.
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Post by Swimmy on May 28, 2009 16:08:22 GMT -5
Sorry, corner. I did not mean to imply you were old enough to be my grandfather. I was reminiscing about my grandfather.
And I apparently omitted a "lol" after my question. I figure it was all in jest. Have a good evening. :-)
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Post by corner on May 28, 2009 17:22:06 GMT -5
it is all in jest after all im retired enjoying my fat pension and nothing much upsets me any more
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Post by Clipper on May 28, 2009 17:36:47 GMT -5
He is just old enough to be your father swimmy, and only 8 or 10 years short of being old enough to be your grandfather, haha.
Corner and I have a couple of things in common. He draws a fat pension, and I am fat and draw a pension, LOLOL! We both have warped senses of humor, and love to pick on you. LOLOL.
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Post by corner on May 28, 2009 18:24:38 GMT -5
and we havnt even started with the lawyer jokes yet
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Post by concerned on May 28, 2009 19:51:01 GMT -5
Gee, that sort of like viagra or the super form cialis! At least with cialis one can be ready anytime for 48 hours! I guess this is supposed to help our animalistic needs for bonding. When will science come out with a 7 dau medication. All this has to do with womens lib.
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Post by Clipper on May 28, 2009 19:55:08 GMT -5
Huh?  |
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Post by Swimmy on May 28, 2009 20:43:31 GMT -5
We both have warped senses of humor, and love to pick on you. LOLOL. I figured as much. :-) Corner, did you see MY lawyer joke in the going to hell thread? I thought it was pretty clever. |
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Post by rrogers40 on Jun 1, 2009 21:56:35 GMT -5
That's the future of air flight- well sort of. There's a few directions everything can go:
But basically its assumed that everyone is going to get carted from Large Regional Airports by Super Jumbos. Anyone who can afford it will then get transferred by smaller plane to smaller outlying airports. Problem is that right now our Large Regional Airports, such as JFK, cannot grow any bigger so Planes are going to have to get bigger but still land on the same runways.
The "dream" situation that these STOL/VTOL companies are hoping for is that people start utilizing these small airports more to where getting a large amount of goods/people off the ground require larger planes which means STOL capabilities are going to be needed as local airports are not really going to get any bigger. Think passanger variants of the Osprey.
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