Aircraft

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Originally Posted by BigV

Just up the road aways... No one hurt, some cars damaged.

That's because the pilot waited for the green light.

What? He did. Watch the traffic light before the plane comes into the picture.

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Runway 10 may be out of use for some time.

Due to a vampire:

[xoxoxoBruce]

That's why you should seal your driveway every spring/summer to keep the water out of the cracks, or the first jet coming into your yard will rip it up, tear it up, Until you really don't know why, Until you don't know why.

[BigV]

maybe he forgot to retract his invisible tail hook.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Load 'em up, shoot 'em out. Rinse and repeat.

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♪ ♫Next thing you know♪ ♫
♪ ♫Sukhoi got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low♪ ♫



...like one meter low.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Douglas Sleepers

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According to Boeing's site:

The first DC-3 built was the Douglas Sleeper Transport — also known as Skysleepers by airline customers — and it was the height of luxury. Fourteen plush seats in four main compartments could be folded in pairs to form seven berths, while seven more folded down from the cabin ceiling. The plane could accommodate 14 overnight passengers or 28 for shorter daytime flights. The first was delivered to American Airlines in June 1936, followed two months later by the first standard 21-passenger DC-3.

14 paying customers on an overnight flight.

According to Wikipedia the range was 1,500 miles and the cruise speed was just over 200mph. So a flight of maximum range, say NYC to Dallas, would take 7.5 hours. I can see why they would want a sleeper.

But I bet those tickets were expensive, adjusted for inflation. Only 14 customers to split the cost of the 7.5 hour flight.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The president of American Airlines talked Douglas into building the DC-3 because the DC-2 was too narrow to have berths on both sides. He promised to buy 20 planes. That's why the sleepers were built before the regular DC-3s and why the DC-3s were created in the first place. I'll bet the private cabin for two was really expensive, probably reserved for celebrities...

or honeymooners.

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From the vid description:

Incredible afterburner footage featuring a MiG-29K fighter jet as it takes off from an Indian aircraft carrier during recent test flights with Russian pilots.

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There's a new biggest-plane-in-the-world.

The Stratolaunch has a 385-foot wingspan, is 238 feet long, weighs 500,000 lbs, has 28 wheels, and has a maximum takeoff weight of 1.3 million lbs.



It will be used to launch rockets into low-earth orbit.

Stratolaunch Systems Corporation is owned by Microsoft founder Paul Allen.

Link

[xoxoxoBruce]

I wonder how wide a runway that needs?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I wonder how wide a runway that needs?

good question. if the wingspan is 385 feet, a solid third of that is between the fuselages, so, 260 feet track width say. plus however much shoulder they think is prudent.

I'm guessing it's designed to land and take off from ONE airfield, over and over. the airfield next to the railroad spur that's bringing the 800,000 pound rocket.

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Every time I think about .50s on a plane I think of Bud Peterson:



Life Lesson #39,736: Don't piss off Bud Peterson.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Drumwings...