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by tomkilpatrick » Fri Apr 18, 2014 12:53 pm
A visual guide to how planes take off, navigate, approach, and land., taken from Kate Ascher's book "The Way to Go: Moving by Sea, Land and Air". Quite nifty!
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by Ian Warren » Fri Apr 18, 2014 1:11 pm
Good one Tom 
, a dummies guide to how and why those .... those... BURP, those big metal things with those .. big silver things out each side work 
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by Charl » Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:31 am
Now Wing Commander, your vintage is showing...
As nicely illustrated in the article, when you are made not of metal, but carbon fibre (as all modern err-planes are) you no longer have the nice aluminium Faraday cage formed by the fuselage, to protect against lightning strike.
So you have to bond in a conductive layer on your 787 to stop the strike from removing the big silver things sticking out each side!
And interesting note on reverse thrust: sure the Pilatus Porter can stand on its prop and come down at 15,000ft/min and some Rooshins deploy RT prior to landing, but which modern Western jet does this as a matter of course??
As nicely illustrated in the article, when you are made not of metal, but carbon fibre (as all modern err-planes are) you no longer have the nice aluminium Faraday cage formed by the fuselage, to protect against lightning strike.
So you have to bond in a conductive layer on your 787 to stop the strike from removing the big silver things sticking out each side!
And interesting note on reverse thrust: sure the Pilatus Porter can stand on its prop and come down at 15,000ft/min and some Rooshins deploy RT prior to landing, but which modern Western jet does this as a matter of course??
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by Ian Warren » Sat Apr 19, 2014 9:42 am
Charl wrote:QUOTE (Charl @ Apr 19 2014,10:31 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Now Wing Commander, your vintage is showing...
Yeah .. I no , Ive now got to get up now this morning two ... two and half hours ago
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