97-yo Chuck Yeager /Test Pilot! buys the ranch..
- (Ashton)
- (35)
- Dec. 8, 2020, 07:05:56 PM EST
I don't recall ... link to a story?
-NT
- (drook)
- (14)
- Dec. 8, 2020, 08:31:04 PM EST
Here's a link to NY Times.
- (a6l6e6x)
- (13)
- Dec. 8, 2020, 11:01:28 PM EST
Me too.. I mean, it's sorta like a guy who's a Food-Taster
- (Ashton)
- (12)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 03:34:24 PM EST
I mean the story of pushing down on the stick to go up, never heard that
-NT
- (drook)
- (11)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 04:12:08 PM EST
It's about the ~'reversal of the aerodynamics' of a conventional wing design on/near Mach(o?) 1
- (Ashton)
- (9)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 05:03:35 PM EST
I imagine the sensation is like when you become conscious of countersteering a bike
-NT
- (drook)
- (6)
- Dec. 12, 2020, 12:06:46 AM EST
Nice catch--two-wheel dynamics oft seem *perverse*
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 06:21:53 PM EST
now you've added something else to my consciousness
- (crazy)
- (4)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 09:42:51 AM EST
No, now you're *aware* of it
- (drook)
- (1)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 12:54:55 PM EST
Perzackly..! drook wins the Clarity award. Again.
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 05:04:45 PM EST
It works a lot better if you're conscious of it
- (scoenye)
- (1)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 05:06:57 PM EST
Quite so.. and IMhO, best place to learn: in the dirt, on a small man-handleable machine (also Fun)
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 12, 2020, 01:51:24 AM EST
Yes, sound barrier screws up aerodynamics.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (1)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 02:21:31 AM EST
Luftwaffe -46:
- (CRConrad)
- April 20, 2021, 12:14:05 PM EDT
What, never seen "Cars"? Chuck must'a been Doc Hudson:
- (CRConrad)
- April 20, 2021, 12:10:45 PM EDT
Anyone who enjoys yarns about pilots
- (rcareaga)
- (14)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 04:49:43 PM EST
I'm sure you've read this story before, but have you ever heard it told by the pilot?
- (drook)
- (1)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 05:02:28 PM EST
That was Mach-2 Fun! (we all were paying the gas bill, though)
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 9, 2020, 11:59:00 PM EST
Who here has flown? I had one introduction class.
- (crazy)
- (11)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 09:58:57 AM EST
PPSEL. N7522T is my Cessna 172A.
- (mmoffitt)
- (9)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 02:17:42 PM EST
Thanks: myth killed by (likely) Truthiness, aka Be an iconoclast! ..wherever it's important :-)
-NT
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 05:11:34 PM EST
Well, here’s how Hoover remembered it in 2002
- (rcareaga)
- (1)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 09:29:04 PM EST
Hoover was a first class guy. No way he'd steal thunder from anybody, let alone Yeager.
- (mmoffitt)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 08:20:19 AM EST
I don't remember anything about Hoover, nor much about Yeager.
- (Another Scott)
- (5)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 11:28:33 PM EST
Check this out. Short clip of one of Bob's most famous maneuvers.
- (mmoffitt)
- (4)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 08:39:51 AM EST
Nice parlor trick. Thanks.
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 10:14:13 AM EST
My father told me a guy he flew with did tricks like that with a pen
- (drook)
- (1)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 10:39:10 AM EST
I like to make a sheet of paper heavy.
- (mmoffitt)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 03:45:10 PM EST
Were there a Nobel for achieving Perfection, reliably-every-time: this über-Mensch deserves a Statue
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 04:03:32 PM EST
Gliders here. Touch & go is generally frowned upon with those ;-)
-NT
- (scoenye)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 06:46:27 PM EST
I'll not shed a tear.
- (mmoffitt)
- (4)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 02:44:22 PM EST
I thought you *hated* Airbus?
-NT
- (rcareaga)
- (3)
- Dec. 10, 2020, 09:30:11 PM EST
I don't hate them. I just don't let anyone I know fly on them.
- (mmoffitt)
- (2)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 08:24:28 AM EST
Perhaps his people-talents echo those of The Menace
- (Ashton)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 04:17:09 PM EST
Meh.
- (rcareaga)
- Dec. 11, 2020, 09:14:20 PM EST
