All amazing stuff, but I kept thinking about bugs hitting a windscreen
( , Sat 30 May 2015, 8:55, Share, Reply)
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A couple of them made a splash landing only a week or so back.
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It seems my mate has lost a few friends this year too
Not my bag either.
( , Sat 30 May 2015, 11:49, Share, Reply)
Not my bag either.
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It's the begining of someting new.
In the first 10 years of powered flight there where more than 200 different companies iterating 1000's of design - in France alone.
Lets say there was a rapid natural selection that quickly led to "modern" aircraft.
We are only doing gradual improvements on those first years.
In 10 or so years, with fully evolved flight suits, these people will look back at the pioneers and classify them as mad.
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In the first 10 years of powered flight there where more than 200 different companies iterating 1000's of design - in France alone.
Lets say there was a rapid natural selection that quickly led to "modern" aircraft.
We are only doing gradual improvements on those first years.
In 10 or so years, with fully evolved flight suits, these people will look back at the pioneers and classify them as mad.
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Yes I think you are right, like modern day airplane pilots compared to the first jet test pilots.
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What utter bollocks
All flying is perfectly safe unless you get too close to the edges. The ground is most reliable edge there is. No amount of "modernisation" will change that.
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All flying is perfectly safe unless you get too close to the edges. The ground is most reliable edge there is. No amount of "modernisation" will change that.
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I'm quoting Burt Rutan
You should send him an angry letter.
( , Sat 30 May 2015, 16:02, Share, Reply)
You should send him an angry letter.
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Can't find the one above - I'd have to through tens of long winded Rutan presentations...
But it stuck to my brain for the sheer mental aspect of so much done in so little time.
A bit like software nowadays - without the dying in a flaming wreck aspect.
But this one is close enough:
Transcrip of TED talk, line 2.44.
www.ted.com/talks/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space/transcript?language=en
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But it stuck to my brain for the sheer mental aspect of so much done in so little time.
A bit like software nowadays - without the dying in a flaming wreck aspect.
But this one is close enough:
Transcrip of TED talk, line 2.44.
www.ted.com/talks/burt_rutan_sees_the_future_of_space/transcript?language=en
( , Sun 31 May 2015, 11:20, Share, Reply)
What?
Powered flight clearly leads directly to both passenger and cargo transport rapidly over great distances and possibly even more importantly a strategic advantage on the battlefield. That's why there was so much effort expended towards it. What's the goal for wingsuits?
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Powered flight clearly leads directly to both passenger and cargo transport rapidly over great distances and possibly even more importantly a strategic advantage on the battlefield. That's why there was so much effort expended towards it. What's the goal for wingsuits?
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Carrying mail very fast
down mountains?
But they said the same about heavier than air at the beginning.
Just a rich man's fad...
Steam trains and coal burning passenger liners much better...
I think the most obvious initial application military: high/low with stand-off insertion.
Or "Fun" for Jimmie Saville.
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down mountains?
But they said the same about heavier than air at the beginning.
Just a rich man's fad...
Steam trains and coal burning passenger liners much better...
I think the most obvious initial application military: high/low with stand-off insertion.
Or "Fun" for Jimmie Saville.
( , Sat 30 May 2015, 16:08, Share, Reply)