Who Likes Aircraft ?

[JackR]

I get to spend time with some private jets when I'm not a passenger in the commercial jets. Last week at Gulfstream and Embraer. Neat stuff.
Just a couple hours ago at Scottsdale a Lear jet lost its front gear on landing and hit a Gulfstream 2. Think a couple fatalities.

 

[Photon440]

Martin Philippine Mars touches down in San Francisco, has left Canada for the last time.

Here's the video:

 

[Richard Cranium]

I get to spend time with some private jets when I'm not a passenger in the commercial jets. Last week at Gulfstream and Embraer. Neat stuff.
Just a couple hours ago at Scottsdale a Lear jet lost its front gear on landing and hit a Gulfstream 2. Think a couple fatalities.

Plane crashes into jet on Scottsdale Airport runway

One person was killed and several others were injured after a million-dollar private jet crashed into another plane on the runway at Scottsdale Airport in Arizona.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Richard Cranium]

Martin Philippine Mars touches down in San Francisco, has left Canada for the last time.
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Here's the video:

How cool is that! Notice how the water is disturbed below the plane moments before touchdown.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

this is when they shoot at you..... soon sadly, drones will replace most of the pilots.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

this that you.....Dennis

 

[Photon440]

How cool is that! Notice how the water is disturbed below the plane moments before touchdown.

Yes, I noticed that. Almost like the hull shape was acting like a lifting body.

This was its departure flight from Canada.

 

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[Richard Cranium]

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[Pops1967GTX]

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Nice photo of Wonder woman's plane...

 

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[JackR]

Thai Airlines. Camera on the tail

 

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[nitro_rat]

How cool is that! Notice how the water is disturbed below the plane moments before touchdown.

Yes, I noticed that. Almost like the hull shape was acting like a lifting body.

There are two main categories of boat hulls, planing and displacement. A displacement hull is like a canoe or an oil tanker. The entire hull stays in the water when under power. Interestingly, the maximum speed of a displacement hull can be calculated and cannot be exceeded no matter how much power you put behind it. Which brings us to the second type of hull, the planing hull. The planing hull raises up out of the water as it accelerates (think bass boat), thus having less hydrodynamic drag and requiring less power to accelerate the faster it goes. As these hulls lift, they do generate aerodynamic lift as well as hydrodynamic. A flying boat is most definitely a planing hull!

 

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