Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@Paekakboyz Don't know how many a B52 needs to fly effectively, (never flown one) also depends on the altitude that you want to maintain. In ground effect they might manage on less than four, also asymmetry comes into it (will go heaps better if failed engines are on opposite wings).
My trials with piston engines were all in PNG. Worst one was a failure on take off from a very rough mountain strip and the engine caught fire, and so did I. Upside down in a burning plane is not a good place to be. Spent the night on a dirt floor in a grass hut and got choppered out the next day. Skin grafts on chest and arm a few weeks later back in NZ.
Another was an oil pump failure and I manged to dead stick it into a little strip in the bottom of a valley. Funniest thing about that one was the wailing passengers. Everybody complains about the noise in small aircraft, but you should hear them when it is dead quiet....
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@jegga All pistons though. 8 Turbines over 10 pistons any day.
Later models got a couple of jets chucked on each wing . The fuel consumption from that thing would make a green voter curl up in the foetal position.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
(will go heaps better if failed engines are on opposite wings).
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Everybody complains about the noise in small aircraft, but you should hear them when it is dead quiet....***
Scary, but funny!
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@Snowy fuck me, that is hardcore!!
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
(will go heaps better if failed engines are on opposite wings).
Everybody complains about the noise in small aircraft, but you should hear them when it is dead quiet....Scary, but funny!
Actually it was (the funny bit came later).
When the prop stopped turning there was silence. I was a little busy trying to work shit out and then the moaning and wailing started.
It wasn't helpful.
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@Paekakboyz said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy fuck me, that is hardcore!!
"Storied" I think is the preferred word on here. The Baron loves that term.
A mate of mine has the longer versions in his book.
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@Snowy surely you are better for your 'storied' life than if you had a less 'storied one'
check out usage of the word storied
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@taniwharugby Less "storied" would have been less painful and less traumatic, but shit happens and it certainly wasn't boring.
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@taniwharugby Oh, the use of the word "storied" will also peak since @Baron-Silas-Greenback ranted about it. Quite a good one too.
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Again, the comments section.
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@antipodean people on Social media can be cruel (and funny AF)
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@antipodean the first comment was all I needed to read, made me double over.
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
... Everybody complains about the noise in small aircraft, but you should hear them when it is dead quiet....Channelling your inner Bob Monkhouse " I want to die quietly in my sleep like my Dad, not wailing and moaning like all his passengers".
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@antipodean said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Again, the comments section.
The only question left unanswered was at what stage does a forehead become a fivehead?
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Maybe not quite on the internet and/or awesome, but just flicked on the TV and it was still on sports channel, live golf. So just as it comes on, McIlroy swings and connects, someone screams "mashed potato", I laugh like a lunatic. Had no idea this is a thing...
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@Bones I'd not heard anything other than the 'get in the hole' calls
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@taniwharugby geez I thought if anyone knew about it you would. It was frikken hilarious.
Why golf fans shout mashed potato, cheeseburger, get in the hole and other tosh
