The Official Formula 1 2016 Season Thread
#4076
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Ha no if I could afford my own Lear 45 I wouldn't be wasting time here with you peasants. About 1/3rd of the flying in that plane is for the owner, the remaining is charter.
No ADS-B yet. And we fly it under a different callsign, so no flightaware.
It is a fantastic airplane, and I absolutely love it. The fact that any idiot like me can climb into a jet and blast up to 50,000 feet after planning a flight on my cell phone on the way to the airport is a testament to how far aviation technology has become.
Flying 2 miles higher than airliners (pic #2) is pretty awesome. I have been flying since I was 12 years old, and am still awed by the experience.
No ADS-B yet. And we fly it under a different callsign, so no flightaware.
It is a fantastic airplane, and I absolutely love it. The fact that any idiot like me can climb into a jet and blast up to 50,000 feet after planning a flight on my cell phone on the way to the airport is a testament to how far aviation technology has become.
Flying 2 miles higher than airliners (pic #2) is pretty awesome. I have been flying since I was 12 years old, and am still awed by the experience.
#4078
What is this crap?
Re: The Official Formula 1 2016 Season Thread
just been around ATC and GA my whole life
serious business at FL490
edit - and not always good times, this was a good friend http://www.insidebayarea.com/sunol/ci_9860246
serious business at FL490
edit - and not always good times, this was a good friend http://www.insidebayarea.com/sunol/ci_9860246
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What is the .79? Mach trim? I'm assuming the right side shows you're angels 49. Heading is 140. Airspeed 192knots. What's the 29.92 IN? Is that for pressure? I know CART engines referred to their turbo boost pressure in inches like 45in.
And that one pic that looks like Mars is pretty cool.
And that one pic that looks like Mars is pretty cool.
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All the 2016 drivers' helmets.
In pictures: All the 2016 F1 drivers' helmets · F1 Fanatic
Here are some of them.
In pictures: All the 2016 F1 drivers' helmets · F1 Fanatic
Here are some of them.
#4082
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What is the .79? Mach trim? I'm assuming the right side shows you're angels 49. Heading is 140. Airspeed 192knots. What's the 29.92 IN? Is that for pressure? I know CART engines referred to their turbo boost pressure in inches like 45in.
And that one pic that looks like Mars is pretty cool.
And that one pic that looks like Mars is pretty cool.
and yes you're right its 192 kts indicated, which at 49,000 ft was probably about 430 kts 'true' airspeed. The difference between indicated and 'true' airspeed is due to the density of the air up high.
we don't typically go that high honestly - usually only if we need to get over weather, or above a particularly strong headwind. Usually we are at 45,000 - 47,000 ft.
29.92 is the international standard-day atmosphere pressure. Below 18,000ft, all aircraft in the US continuously adjust their altimeter setting to the local pressure value, to calibrate the altimeters to read accurately. Once above 18,000 ft (in the US, other countries use a different altitude), all aircraft switch to a standard setting of 29.92 to make life easier and safer - up there, altitude relative to other aircraft is much more important than relative to the ground.
Aircraft with piston engines use the same 'iches' indication of manifold pressure for power setting that you are referring to. Modern jet engines use fan speed expressed as a percentage of maximum RPM - old jet engines use 'EPR' as a primary indication of power (engine pressure ratio), but I have never flown an airplane that used that.
#4083
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Re: The Official Formula 1 2016 Season Thread
I made my first carrier trap at 12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM
#4084
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Re: The Official Formula 1 2016 Season Thread
All the 2016 drivers' helmets.
In pictures: All the 2016 F1 drivers' helmets · F1 Fanatic
Here are some of them.
In pictures: All the 2016 F1 drivers' helmets · F1 Fanatic
Here are some of them.
F1 learned to [try] and make it more about the drivers than the cars a few years ago, lesson learned from NASCAR. I think it helped, and the halo is a step backwards, albeit a small one.
#4086
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I made my first carrier trap at 12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9RJ_SCRfM
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I feel like the halo is going to make the cars even less personal. Like they are just robots. You can barely see the driver as it is, but seeing the helmet makes it more 'human' in my opinion. Add the halo, and you'll see even less of their helmet.
F1 learned to [try] and make it more about the drivers than the cars a few years ago, lesson learned from NASCAR. I think it helped, and the halo is a step backwards, albeit a small one.
F1 learned to [try] and make it more about the drivers than the cars a few years ago, lesson learned from NASCAR. I think it helped, and the halo is a step backwards, albeit a small one.
#4091
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he got that design from one of his mom's sweaters...
The process of directly linking personality to helmet design is typically a process of extrapolation and association, but not so with Jacques Villeneuve. Perhaps the most loud and brazen helmet in F1 history certainly reflected the outspoken, brash and daring nature of its 'brattishly punky' incumbent.
Incorporating a V-style swoosh on either side which bore stylistic resemblance to the inverted V on his father, Gilles', helmet, Jacques chose a garishly distinctive combination of colours to create a unique identity.
Starting with a base layer of dark blue, Jacques added stripes of pink, yellow, racing green and red, of varying thickness that wound around the V shape with ever diminishing returns. Villeneuve unsurprisingly apparently came up with the design while doodling on a drawing pad, with the colour scheme purported to be based on a sweater his mother, Joanne, used to wear in the paddock at Gilles' races.
Incorporating a V-style swoosh on either side which bore stylistic resemblance to the inverted V on his father, Gilles', helmet, Jacques chose a garishly distinctive combination of colours to create a unique identity.
Starting with a base layer of dark blue, Jacques added stripes of pink, yellow, racing green and red, of varying thickness that wound around the V shape with ever diminishing returns. Villeneuve unsurprisingly apparently came up with the design while doodling on a drawing pad, with the colour scheme purported to be based on a sweater his mother, Joanne, used to wear in the paddock at Gilles' races.