A Cessna Dragonfly is a close second.QUESTION: what is louder than a Harrier in hover?
ANSWER: SIX Harriers in hover.
QUESTION: what is louder than six Harriers in hover?
ANSWER: NOTHING is louder than six Harriers in hover.
Here's a good read. The many proposed variants of the Valkyrie. Need to move 80 troops at mach 3? Here's your man.
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Say goodbye to my afternoonHere's a good read. The many proposed variants of the Valkyrie. Need to move 80 troops at mach 3? Here's your man.
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I am in no way a pilot. I do believe once you pull the wheels up you are committed. I've flown on many commercial jets where the take off speed (wheels up) was over 150 mph. At that speed 1/4 mile is only going to give you enough time to say "OH SHIT". I think the is also a point and I can't remember what's called. Basically go or abort, after that point if you have committed to take off you try too.Here's a question for the airplane guys. Say you're taking off. As soon as your wheels are up, something unknown happens that could make you crash in a quarter of a mile. No specific threat yet, but something unknown is wrong. Say the controls feel strange. You have plenty of runway left. Do you land wheels up and destroy the airplane and probably walk away, or do you risk it?
Rings a bell about somebody taking off after a shoddy pre-flight check and there was an obstruction to proper tail or rudder control. He crashed.Here's a question for the airplane guys. Say you're taking off. As soon as your wheels are up, something unknown happens that could make you crash in a quarter of a mile. No specific threat yet, but something unknown is wrong. Say the controls feel strange. You have plenty of runway left. Do you land wheels up and destroy the airplane and probably walk away, or do you risk it?
I like The History Guy in small doses.I have become a YouTube fan and two of my favourite channels are:
OK - that’s three - so sue me!
- The History Guy (an American chap from Illinois who really nails some great topics - although for some reason he cannot seem to pronounce the military rank “lieutenant” correctly....);
- Drachinifels (naval history - quite superb actually);
- War Stories with Dr. Mark Felton.
Here is a great one from Mark Felton on the first jet-vs-jet combat in history and if I am not mistaken, it happened quite near to where our good friend Jim was born at Manston, UK (...errr, ummm...several years later).
Here's a question for the airplane guys. Say you're taking off. As soon as your wheels are up, something unknown happens that could make you crash in a quarter of a mile. No specific threat yet, but something unknown is wrong. Say the controls feel strange. You have plenty of runway left. Do you land wheels up and destroy the airplane and probably walk away, or do you risk it?
I'm not a pilot. But talking to my pilot friend, this is exactly the kind of thing they train for. Regular sim checks throughout a flying career. In the simulator, all kinds of things go wrong, engine failure on take off, engine failure on landing, loss of controls, etc.
I think - and once again, I'm not a pilot - that once you are past the point of no return, you need to land ahead somewhere. Apparently, a lot of pilots have died when they decided to go around to land back on the runway but had insufficient speed or altitude. So you discount that option, look for the best place to come down and take a rapid decision. Like the one Sullenberger faced when hitting a flock of geese shut down both engines just after take off from La Guardia and he put the plane down in the river. Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing . . .
Back in my SeaKing days, the pilot would just pull into hover and lower the gear down and we would land. On the tarmac if able, or the grass. No worries....Here's a question for the airplane guys. Say you're taking off. As soon as your wheels are up, something unknown happens that could make you crash in a quarter of a mile. No specific threat yet, but something unknown is wrong. Say the controls feel strange. You have plenty of runway left. Do you land wheels up and destroy the airplane and probably walk away, or do you risk it?
Or the water for that matter as the mighty SeaKing floats...Back in my SeaKing days, the pilot would just pull into hover and lower the gear down and we would land. On the tarmac if able, or the grass. No worries....
Bob Hoover used to say never quit flying the plane. To quote.... "fly the airplane as far into the crash as you can."The maxim in aviation is that just about all aircraft will keep flying as far as the site of the crash.