The Completely Un-official post a picture thread

[MendoDave]

Looks OK to me.



Id fly on it, if it weren't for these.



Look how skinny those arm rests are. Why cant they make the seats 4 inches wider? And if you sit in the middle you could be forced to have your arms crossed the whole flight.
Good thing those prop jets don't usually go on long flights.

I would prefer to fly like this.

[Bick]

Why cant they make the seats 4 inches wider? And if you sit in the middle you could be forced to have your arms crossed the whole flight.
Good thing those prop jets don't usually go on long flights.

More like this?

[MendoDave]

Look how much more room the seating on the bulkhead has than those palletized airline seats in the middle.

I was gonna say, that container in the middle looks like it would hold about 4 cruise missiles but that kind of cargo makes the flight PAX prohibitive.

[Randimus Maximus]

This was from SFO earlier this year during their Air Show week.

The 747 was inbound from Frankfurt (a friend of Stella & mine was at the controls) and the Blue Angels were landing on the next runway over.

Someone snapped this photo and posted it on United's FB page.

[MendoDave]

This was from SFO earlier this year during their Air Show week.

The 747 was inbound from Frankfurt (a friend of Stella & mine was at the controls) and the Blue Angels were landing on the next runway over.

Someone snapped this photo and posted it on United's FB page.

Its hard to believe something that big can stay in the air.
The wing is about  5,600 square feet or 67,000 Square inches. If you develop a 10psi differential over the wing, that's 670,000 pounds of force lifting or sucking on that wing.

[Bick]

I was gonna say, that container in the middle looks like it would hold about 4 cruise missiles but that kind of cargo makes the flight PAX prohibitive.

Not exactly.  More of a "Rural Tactical Command Center" 

[Speeddog]

Dave, your calculator needs the blinker fluid refilled.

[ducpainter]

Dave, your calculator needs the blinker fluid refilled.

soooo...

the correct number is?

[MendoDave]

Dave, your calculator needs the blinker fluid refilled.

What did I miscalculate?

Ive been known to do it before. it seems right to me though.

OIC I got a figure of 5,600 square feet from the interwebs for the wing. That actually come out to 806,400 square inches not 67,000.
That's why I'm not an engineer. 

But anyway 10PSI over that many square inches is a lot more than the plane needs to get off the ground. so the 747-400ER max takeoff weight is  910,000 lbs so a mere 1.5 psi differential would do it.

[MendoDave]

[Privateer]

Went down to Baja to watch some of the Baja 1000



More here (link)

Follow up video:

http://twoslow.com/2012/12/01/baja-1000-video/

http://vimeo.com/54654649

sorry i can't figure out how to make it bigger when embedded.

[elyse]

i was driving over the golden gate into sf a couple of years ago & tigre randomly showed up behind me..he treated us to a wheelie before he rode away...i love this bike

[MendoDave]

i was driving over the golden gate into sf a couple of years ago & tigre randomly showed up behind me..he treated us to a wheelie before he rode away...i love this bike

I took those a few years ago at Moto GP. I didn't know it at the time but that's Warren bike in the background.

[Grampa]

Went to go visit a WWII vet today...on the way home we were treated to this.

[the_Journeyman]

Love the concerts this crowd puts on!



JM