Hangar Chat

Vivid crosswind effects. You can just feel the slip as you watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jqp7DF_ea0&ab_channel=Matt'sAviationChannel

Looks like Alice, to fly later this summer, has had signifcant design changes. Gone are the motors on the wing tips, they are now on the tail. Gone is the tail wheel, I'm glad to say, now a nose wheel. 1000 kilometre range and seats 9 passengers and two crew. https://www.eviation.co/aircraft/#Alice

'Half a league, half a league, half a league onward' - Paul Revere (LOL). And Porky is booed off the stage. Anyone with kids might identify with Little Kitty up there on the stage.

⚽ Those of you in the US or those of you that don't like football won't care. But well done to the England Football Team for reaching the final of Euro 2020. One year late due to a certain pandemic of course. This is our first final in a major tournament since we won the Word Cup in 66. Of course, anything can happen in a final, so I won't be disappointed if the Italians beat us. Great that we simply got to the final. Sunday's final will be quite an occasion.

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On the subject of boring and big holes, there's a fantastic project taking place at the Eden Project in Cornwall. They're digging a huge hole for geothermal power that will ultimately, not only power the entire Eden project, but also thousands of homes nearby! There's great potential in the UK for geothermal power. Could provide up top 30% of our needs.

Hi everyone, This is my first ever post, so please forgive if I get it wrong. I've been searching the net about the operation of the Flight1 Super King Air B200's flaps. When my airspeed drops below 157kts, my flaps automatically extends fully without me setting the flaps (uncommanded). Is this something that should happen or is there some setting to stop it from happening. Thanks.

With all this fuss about SN9, it's easy to overlook Blue Origin. Succesful launch and landing today.

I have a problem, and it’s time I’m honest with myself about it. Looking for others’ thoughts here. I’m a private pilot, probably 85% of the way to getting my Instrument, with dreams of commercial and flying cargo or passengers in the Caribbean some day. I’m 45, very steady, good job. I enjoy flying but it does make me apprehensive at times. I consider myself to be a very competent pilot. My problem is this: I love simming. And I’m starting to think that it may just fill my flying need. 100LL and Jet-A in the sim are the same price, $0. Planes are cheap, too. Hourly rentals are low, no maintenance. (Being sarcastic here). In real life I have access to two wonderful …

Sup everyone. Is it worth it to upgrade from win10 to new win11? Does anyone here already tested p3dv2 HF1 within win11?

Yesterday celebrating Independence Day were two good musicals on TCM. The Music Man and Yankee Doodle Dandy. Watching James Cagney sing and dance in Yankee Doodle Dandy I couldn't help seeing him as the tough guy in Public Enemy. I thought perhaps some other tough guys on the screen could have teamed up for a musical. Guys like Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, Humphry Bogart, and Lee Marvin tap dancing their way to Alcatraz and singing songs like, "I talk to the bars, but they don't listen to me..." stolen from "I talk to the trees, but they don't listen to me.." as sung by Clint Eastwood in Paint Your Wagon. Noel

At another thread / forum, in the mid of a discussion regarding a completely distinct subject ( or maybe not .. ) there was this post of mine where I refer to a video about the "internal mechanics" of a PT-6 turbine engine: " It includes a very good explanation of why turbines ( in this case a free-running PT-6 ) cancel torque so effectively: https://youtu.be/hATrgAsgevY?t=139 The full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATrgAsgevY" I did send Austin Meyer the link to that video, and he promptly replied in the same base as @Murmur did in that thread: which is totally correct ( Murmur knows what he's talking about 🙂 ) …

I hope my MSFS does not 🥶 when it arrives. https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/24/tech/windows-11-microsoft-event/index.html https://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2021/06/24/windows-11-unveiled-ui-completely-redesigned-free-for-windows-10-users?utm_source=newsletterENG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20210624

I realize this isn't directly related to P3D but take a look at the great shot of the cockpit. Admins if this isn't the correct forum, feel free to move me! https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/07/tropical-storm-elsa-hits-cuba-heads-toward-west-coast-of-florida/

"... he was one of the worst mechanics in the luftwaffe!" An interesting comment to the Youtube presentation "Which Country had the Most Effective Fighter Planes in World War 2". Actually the payoff at the end of the video is his nomination for best fighter plane in wwii, not the best country's planes. I was always interested in the subject but could never make up my own mind about this. Too many opinions from the aces themselves, contradicting.

The official report isn't out yet but details of the report have been leaked. In essence, they haven't got a clue what these things are. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57355192

I am not sure is this is the rigjht forum to post I take pictyures iwith my Samsung Gaolaxy A20 The pictures go into tjhe Gallery from whre I wiah to email them Cananybody give me a clue to do tjhat ? Thjank you Paul12

I'm not a real world pilot, but I've been flight simming over 30 years. I study aviation as a hobby and have been doing so, trying to "play" flight simulator as realistically as I can. I always look up the airport and study the airspace around it, so I can fly it "properly" unless I'm just checking out the scenery for something, then I'll buzz the are with the "drone" I'm finding that it's been making me a bit weary - it's exhausting. I don't know how you real pilots deal with it. I realize real pilots don't jump around the world like we can in sim, so you do get to know your area very well. I had a friend in high school that started flying and he complain…

Keeping up with technology.

Ground effect people. Flies just above the ocean. 40 mins from Portsmouth to Cherbourg. Six times faster than a sea ferry and all electric. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-57483039

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf "Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernable means of propulsion. In a small number of cases, military aircraft systems processed radio frequency (RF) energy associated with UAP sightings. The UAPTF holds a small amount of data that appear to show UAP demonstrating acceleration or a degree of signature management. Additional rigorous analysis are necessary by multiple teams or groups of technical experts to determine the nature and validity of these data.…

That is, to lock down their jaws! (But only part way, they can still eat soup and speak). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41415-021-3081-1 You can see the device magnets...

The Mystery Explosion on Larkin Street It was February, and Chinese New Year was just around the corner. Chinese New Year was a big event for the neighborhood kids. Fireworks were against the law in San Francisco, but the city looked the other way in Chinatown during that annual celebration. Those Chinese merchants became a once a year source of forbidden toys. Lee and I hiked up Pacific Street, over Russian Hill and down to Chinatown. For almost a week we had been hearing the sporadic echoes of firecrackers around the neighborhood. Our pockets were full of allowance money, and the siren lure of those little packets of gunpowder called. We worked the…