ugh. what a pain in the ass opening my yap. to correct semi-ignorant shit i wrote on a whim, just spent hours figuring this out:
didn’t proof comment well enough. obviously, TAS doesn’t help compute groundspeed in bombsight; the bombsight measures groundspeed. bombing tables are used to convert bombing altitude (height above target, not above sea level), TAS, and type of bomb to trail (horizontal bomb lag in mils) and disc speed (5300 / actual time of fall), which are then set manually on bombsight, which — upon synchronizing for rate — obtains groundspeed and solves for point of release.
dey wuz some smart muthafuckahs back in da 40s. all of that (and more) with analog computers. didn’t know (or recall?) until recently that the bombsight essentially flew the plane during the bomb run. WTF. (more…)
this comment, “explaining” a “science” video later disclosed a hoax, has a thumbs-up rating of 8:
The aerodynamic shape of the wings and cross-section of the plane creates pressure zones from the air flow provided by the front fan that generate life and keep the plane afloat, the back fan doesn’t create lift as its air flow is introduced to the back cross-section of the plane. Also the front fan would normally push the plane backwards due frictional force of air, the second fan that creates a balancing and canceling force, thus the plane comes into equilibrium with regards to its position.
The Federal Aviation Administration is proposing rules [.pdf] that would prevent private plane owners from keeping their flight records secret unless they can provide a valid security concern.
The FAA said the practice of blocking flights from real-time tracking data had created a transparency issue and cited a federal court ruling involving a Freedom of Information Act request that had been filed by ProPublica. […more]
again with “public records“. why flight information’s different from travel by vehicle, foot, or bicycle isn’t explained, nor how that “information” is rightfully obtained (it isn’t) and therefore ripe for indignant demand through further initiated force.
this is more of the growing farcical dual standard of rights from the nipping ProletariRats, pissed that anyone’s flying private aircraft. go-to tactic #1 is to appeal for relief to the very thing creating all unjust inequality of wealth, information, and power.
don’t be a part-time anti-monopolist or logician. there’s your answer, fools.
Why are airline pilots photographed naked or groped and fondled like the rest of us at the airports? Are the porno-tran Nazis really looking for weapons or bombs? Why would an airline captain, who has complete control of an airliner filled with jet fuel, need to smuggle a weapon when, if he was a terrorist, he could use the airplane as his weapon? Just wondering.
has TDil the edu-badge wonder not noticed that every airline flight deck comprises at least two crewmen? a weapon to disable an uncooperative would be first on my checklist were i a suicide bomber pilot.
not being able to put oneself into the shoes of another is just another narcissism flag for the douchebag TDil and his brothers on the LRC blog who don’t consider their blog bird droppings anything less than the conversation of the exceedingly nimble, to which students are privy. blessed be the lord.
TDil, you’re an unimaginative dumbfuck product of “higher education” in america.
there should be a universal shortcut term for replying to imbeciles who offer “policy” as an excuse for anything. “it’s our policy”. yes, that’s why i’m bitching you out, ya fuck. you’ve said nothing.
watching the sheep hizzy over the TSA goons who’ve, apparently, now crossed “the line”, i recall my father’s briefing as i prepared to enter, alone, the curtained inspection area before boarding a plane to leave beirut lebanon (there or jordan or cyprus — i forget). i was ten. he told me there was a slight chance i may even have to undo my pants to prove i wasn’t hiding anything, and to not freak out. those crazy arabs! (more…)
for ten years non-pilots have been talking out their asses about the supposed miracles of flight attributed to hack pilots for the 11 september 2001 attacks. today a topically worthless article at LRC goes through the shtick. typical example:
[…] Hani Hanjour, for example, who has been identified as the pilot who flew Flight 77 into the Pentagon, was said to have had problems landing even a small Cessna 172. Newsday reported that, "Even though Hanjour showed a federal pilot’s license…chief flight instructor…refused to rent him a plane." […]
Hundreds of U.S. air travelers have lodged complaints over use of full-body security scanners in the past year, charging they violate personal privacy and may be harmful to their health, documents released on Tuesday showed. [...]
goons to the rescue with bullshit:
[...] The TSA downplayed the complaints, saying only 600 of more than 4 million air travelers had lodged objections — an “infinitesimally small” 0.015 percent — and stressing that passengers could opt for an alternative form of screening. [...]
as with most things goon related, bring on bastiat and discuss what isn’t seen. for example, i’m not complaining to the lickspittle fed fucks, since in 2003 i, a pilot since the late 80s, stopped flying as passenger or pilot because of the relentless incompetent bullying from TSA and associated fools/brigands. so they hear nothing from me and consider it evidence that they’re on the right track.
sure.
of course, this all goes back to consumer “service” fuckup number one, which is to reply to any complaint with some variation of “well, you’re the only one who’s said something about it.”
classic narcissistic tactic from — shocker — career sociopaths.
[...] A lawyer for Corendon Airlines says the fake pilot had worked for the budget airline company for the last two years and had “expertly misled the company with his false papers”. At other airlines he had managed to pass tests with flying colours.
The lawyer called it pure luck that he had never flown alone and said the fake pilot will never pilot a Corendon Airlines flight again.
the sub headline: ‘A pilot has been arrested at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport for flying passenger planes for 13 years with a false licence.‘
guy must’ve really sucked at it to be caught in a mere 13-year period. he flies all that time without the official crime syndicate catching on, and the mouthpiece of the state (AKA “the fourth estate” ha!) labels him a “fake pilot”. children.
month or two ago i was hanging out at a store owned by a couple silly enough to be my friends. it’s pretty casual there, and sometimes they’re off elsewhere while i just play with their birds (3 cockatiels, 2 love birds, 4 budgies) and try to stay out of the way of customers.
two women and a young girl walking by asked me about the birds, and we chatted for a bit. the mother mentioned some book about a girl and an owl. since the daughter was obviously very into the birds, i asked if she’d like to feed and water them. she was thrilled, and did a great job with minimal instruction. i dig watching kids discover things.
on the way out the girl asked if she could keep a feather she’d found on the floor. can’t stand drone kids, and this was the anti-drone prototype. wonderful. they said goodbye and i figured that was that, since they’re about 40 miles away. (more…)
the morons of the lamestream media are outdoing themselves in the rush to say something stupid about the loss of air france flight 477 — now with help from one of the dumbasses at reason foundation. in an article titled “Common GPS could help better track airline flights“,
“It’s a crude system they’re using now,” said Robert Poole, an aviation expert with the free market-oriented Reason Foundation. “For 100 dollars, you can run down and buy a GPS system, put it in your car and know exactly where you are. But planes don’t have it.”