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Category Archives: airplane
Helo Speed Records
This is becoming an aerospace video blog. 🙂 The eighties [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-dln366-E&feature=player_embedded] Versus the teens [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK7ktLXhq88&feature=player_embedded] Westland Lynx only reached 90 m/s while X2 is doing 130 m/s. The ability to let the rotor spin slowly since only the advancing blade … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Design, Transportation
Tagged Helicopter, Lynx, Sikorsky, Westland, X2
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The Turn-Boost-Glide-Back approach for first stages
In a patent by the famous Barnaby Wainfan. EDIT: corrected the link. This patent was filed in 2006 and granted in 2008.
Posted in airplane, Architecture, Art, Design, engines, industry, Launchers, RLV:s, Suborbital
Tagged Boostback, Glideback, Re-entry, Turnback, Wainfan
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The Swiss Monotracer Two-Wheel Car
If you speak german, this video is nice. They show it driving, in construction and design. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=v9-hMlN19NE&feature=related] Though it is complex, heavy at 450 kg and expensive at 62,000 euros. Uses a BMW motorcycle engine and sits two people in … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Energy, Motivation, Transportation
Tagged E-Tracer, Monotracer, Peraves
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I've Returned
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oghj7y4hluU] Too much to fit into one update. The leads could be Communisms’ legacy [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_plWAeV7tQ] in the Baltic states in East Berlin in demographies its relation to other genocides like the holocaust a prison how do the people live today … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Global, Humor
Tagged Baltic, Beriev, Berlin, Communism, Estonia, everything, Forest fire, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Trabant
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Lennusadam – Tallinn's Seaplane Hangars
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYtVsnJoAsc] I didn’t have a camera with me but I was surprised at their impressiveness. From afar, they looked like old gas storage vessels (like in Suvilahti, Helsinki), but they really were dome-shaped seaplane hangars. Luckily Flickr has at least … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Motivation, Navelgazing, Sightseeing
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Sukhoi T-50 Video
Showing closeups of the new Russian stealth fighter on the ground, testing thrust vectoring, showing the drooping forward wing gloves, and then in flight. It’s a treat! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx1Z4KJCpOU]
Posted in airplane, industry, Uncategorized
Tagged Canard, Stealth, Sukhoi, T-50, TVC
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Plotting and Printing Airfoils in Matlab
Gah, got tired of monkeying around with various software (XFLR5 is never provided as an executable on ANY platform despite countless requests, just some packets) so loaded up a profile in Matlab and plotted it in multiple sizes and printed … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Homebuilt, Navelgazing, Uncategorized
Tagged Airfoil, Matlab, MH78, Plotting, Printing, python, Scilab
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The US Air Force Tries To Do Reusables
But is not a real RLV program. It’s just a narrow test for one technology. Hence I think naming it Reusable Booster System Pathfinder is misleading. Overspecification They overspecify the problem by requiring a glide landing. Why is it superior … Continue reading
Posted in airplane, Architecture, engines, industry, Models, Motivation, RLV:s
Tagged Air Force, Boostback, Glider, Reusable Booster System, rocket
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The Experience
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKopZgaPbgM&feature=related] This is something we’re after.