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LooseChanj wrote: I was exaggeratting just a bit, but damn it sure did look like one hot dog landing. This reminds me of a Lear jet landing I saw at our airport- forewarned to watch it by one of my coworkers who was a pilot. The Lear started making a normal approach, then suddenly dived at the very end of the runway, before pulling out at the last second and touching down in around the first hundred feet of the runway, then braked violently to a halt- using about a quarter of the 6,500 foot runway in total. "He used to fly Phantom IIs off of a carrier back in the Navy...." my coworker stated. I was impressed. Pat |
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"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
... this may be urban myth, but a long time ago I read that part of the "Saber Dance" thing was because a specific old-timer at the McDonnell plant was supposed to be installing nuts upside down for some reason, but he'd been there twenty years and he knew damn well you don't install nuts back'ards. So under certain flight profiles an aileron would get hung up on the "properly" installed nut. Apparently they never told the poor schlub how many pilots he'd killed. The other problem offurred with F-86Fs and F-86Hs built, I believe, at North American's Inglewood plant. There was a connection in the aileron linkage that, because of the danger of the linkage binding when the wing flexed at high speeds, needed to be assembled in an unusual, non-standard manner. (This fault, BTW, is what killed Joe MacConnel, the #1 USAF/UN Ace from the Korean War, while testing the F-86H) Some guy on the line figured that the drawings were wrong, 'cause you just don't put a bolt in that way, and did the hookup the way he thought it should be done. that's what I was thinking of, just got the wrong Saber. Thanks, Pete. -- Terrell Miller "It's one thing to burn down the **** house and another thing entirely to install plumbing" -PJ O'Rourke |
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We're starting a GLOBAL petition that will take the voices of people
from all over the world and send them to the US Congress "The world" doesn't vote in this country. Sorry. |
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Charlie A. wrote: What Can I do NOW to help SAVE Hubble Space Telescope? The best way to get your voice heard is in chorus with others, as a group we can make sure the Hubble Space Telescope will be maintained for the "Worlds" benefit. I can see for Earth's benefit; but what other "Worlds" benefit from Hubble? NASA has said that the telescope is too "risky" to maintain, but at the same time they support sending astronauts to Mars as their current and past "robotic" missions are repeatedly having serious technical problems. I wouldn't consider the two rovers to be doing at all bad; I was frankly amazed that they both got down in one piece, and am having a field day checking up on what they are doing on a day-to-day basis, which is more than I did for most Shuttle missions, and in regards to the ISS, I feel a peek at what's going on can be done each month without missing much of interest. Considering that the whole MER program cost about as much as around one and a half Shuttle missions; I'd say we got a far better deal for our money than we got on the vast majority of Shuttle flights, barring some goodies such as Hubble, Galileo, ... and other "robotic" missions...which Hubble itself is if you think about it. There isn't anybody on the thing except when it's being serviced. We're starting a GLOBAL petition that will take the voices of people from all over the world and send them to the US Congress to pass a resolution to allow the Hubble to provide imagery until the mission is complete in 2011. At that time, its expected that a new telescope will replace Hubble. And I assume that all further funding for such missions comes from the United Nations? If the whole world reaps the benefits, then the whole world can pony up the cash for it. Pat |
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"Terrell Miller" wrote
this may be urban myth, but a long time ago I read that part of the "Saber Dance" thing was because a specific old-timer at the McDonnell plant was supposed to be installing nuts upside down for some reason, That kind of thing happens. In a certain place and a certain time, there was a cryptosystem that was very good, unbreakable when set up right and used properly. Unfortunately, there was a non-obvious, seemingly correct way to set it up wrong which caused the key generator to collapse to a much, much shorter repetition interval than it was designed for (ISTR that was called a "depth" condition). In that certain place and time, there was a certain senior, experienced NCO who happened to have gotten into the habit of setting it up wrong. So senior and respected was he, that he got assigned to instructing new cyptofolk in the arcana of setting up the system... |
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the story of the bolt being installed upside down is told in Chuck Yeager's
autobiography, page 234. It's a good read, a lot of good stories about the early days of jet aviation. "Terrell Miller" wrote in message . .. "Peter Stickney" wrote in message ... this may be urban myth, but a long time ago I read that part of the "Saber Dance" thing was because a specific old-timer at the McDonnell plant was supposed to be installing nuts upside down for some reason, but he'd been there twenty years and he knew damn well you don't install nuts back'ards. So under certain flight profiles an aileron would get hung up on the "properly" installed nut. Apparently they never told the poor schlub how many pilots he'd killed. The other problem offurred with F-86Fs and F-86Hs built, I believe, at North American's Inglewood plant. There was a connection in the aileron linkage that, because of the danger of the linkage binding when the wing flexed at high speeds, needed to be assembled in an unusual, non-standard manner. (This fault, BTW, is what killed Joe MacConnel, the #1 USAF/UN Ace from the Korean War, while testing the F-86H) Some guy on the line figured that the drawings were wrong, 'cause you just don't put a bolt in that way, and did the hookup the way he thought it should be done. that's what I was thinking of, just got the wrong Saber. Thanks, Pete. -- Terrell Miller "It's one thing to burn down the **** house and another thing entirely to install plumbing" -PJ O'Rourke |
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"Dave C" wrote in message ... the story of the bolt being installed upside down is told in Chuck Yeager's autobiography, page 234. It's a good read, a lot of good stories about the early days of jet aviation. Didn't they happen in Britain and Germany |
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G EddieA95 wrote:
We're starting a GLOBAL petition that will take the voices of people from all over the world and send them to the US Congress "The world" doesn't vote in this country. Sorry. It does indirectly via media coverage. -- Sander +++ Out of cheese error +++ |
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