Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, January 11, 2015

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

Tu-154. Watch the buckets on landing:

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4 comments:

CenterPuke88 said...

Interesting technique with those reversers. I spent sometime pondering why the tail dipped suddenly on deployment of the reversers, as they look symmetrical. I don't remember much seat of the pants feeling of the tail diving for the runway on removal of thrust, just a universal drop, but as a low time private, I might be missing something obvious.

1/11/2015 9:04 AM
Mark Rossmore said...

According to comments on the video, the 154 has an intermediate stop on reverser deployment, where they can pop the buckets--using them as speedbrakes--without actually having to throttle up the thrust. Then once the mains settle, they power up.

1/11/2015 11:07 AM
Old NFO said...

+1 on Mark, but that's STILL a scary evolution... One pops, and one doesn't it'd get REAL interesting...

1/11/2015 4:15 PM
Will said...

Shades of the BD-5J! IIRC, the USAF crashed a few of them due to pilots mis-managing the clamshell reverser setup. You could deploy it almost instantly, and they were using it as speedbrakes on approach, but the aircraft could NOT maintain sufficient speed to avoid stalling even at idle. The BD-5 really needed speedbrakes, even with a prop system. You could cycle the gear just as fast, and some pilots use that, but you risked tearing up the gear doors and covers. That would put you in the same bad situation. Slippery aircraft. The high time BD-5 test pilot at San Jose said he would start letting down from cruise at 40 miles, to avoid running over the airliners if he let it go until closer to the field. Hard to keep it below the 250 max speed limit near an airport when he put the nose down. Neat plane.

1/17/2015 3:39 AM

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