With gliding landings as a potential problem for the less experienced pilots, one of the ideas proposed by Messerschmitt designers in 1944 was to introduce a dedicated trainer variant of the Komet which would have a student pilot accompanied by an instructor pilot. Designated as the Messerschmitt ...
Any video that shows an aluminum airplane with a fibreglass nose cone gliding through a steel and concrete building violates Newton’s Laws of Motion.NEWTON’S THIRD LAW OF MOTION: “FOR EVERY ACTION THERE IS AN EQUAL AND OPPOSITE REACTION”Let’s apply Newton’s Third Law to Flight 175. ...
Fortunately for both of them, however, they were stationed at the same flight training school near Munich and were thus able to continue their work. Both of them survived the war and went back to doing what they both loved: designing and building gliders. As gliding was something that became...
“I looked you up a few years ago. You know that feeling you get when you touch the scab of an old wound? Dry but alive. That’s how it felt. Looking at you sparkle made me proud, I knew I never hated you, I just hated life without you.” He took a sip out of her coffee ...
Adam Wooley fromJoeyGlidechats with us about theNational Junior Gliding Championshipsrecently held in Queensland As usual we have some great listener mail, including: Ryan Hothersall sent us a link to the2011 STOL competitions– amazing stuff!
Since then this historic site has evolved into a hub for skydiving, gliding, and general aviation, offering breathtaking views of the Pacific Ocean and the lush Hawaiian landscapes. Features include; ✈ Ultra-Detailed Airport Recreation – Faithful replication of airport buildings, vehicles, and ...
Hey, if the engine quits, then we get to visit Top Gun! And there will be no injury… I am quite certain of that! The entire gliding approach is already mapped out to the last detail! So, this is the new VP-400 by Vertical Power with the Runway Seeker written by me, Austin Meyer...
It was, however, enough to charge the batteries in 1.5 h, and then the plane could take off (the motor could run 3–5 min on batteries) and keep gliding until the batteries were full again to rise higher or perform a powered landing. The plane was successfully tested by flying at the...
It flies JUST like the real plane through its’ huge flight envelope, from dirty, low-speed approaches, to high-G maneuvering, to Mach 2.2 travel at FL500, to the ceiling of FL600, with acceleration, deceleration, gliding, all representing the real plane as close as an instr...
There are three slip systems with 1/3 < 11.0 > (or < a >) type Burgers vector dislocations gliding on basal (00.1) planes. Obviously, there are only two independent co-planar slip systems of this type. This falls far short of the five independent easy slip systems required for uniform ...