Watch the Jet Get Built and Painted

[pdub]

This is pretty cool. I kow there's folks here who won't be amazed by this, but we Weevillians sure were. This is just very way cool to watch, and it's not all that long:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=zKnsyYbfC60&feature=popular

[HoosierGTA]

Re: Watch the Jet Get Built and Painted

I was all all excited at the begining because I always wondered how the driveshafts were hooked up but, alas.....they skipped that part ;D really....it was cool to watch.

[1970camaroRS]

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Hmmm, that all looks very familiar....

What driveshafts are you speaking of? The flap shafts? Or are you just making a funny?

[Thumpin455]

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Ya know what sound a 7x7 makes when it hits the ground?







wait for it...






BOEING BOEING BOEING.....

[pdub]

Re: Watch the Jet Get Built and Painted

Ya know what sound a 7x7 makes when it hits the ground?







wait for it...






BOEING BOEING BOEING.....

Now, wait a minute, we may have to fly on that thing someday....

Okay, never mind, I don't have to fly anymore. After you get past the grab-balls game at security I don't guess the plane flight could be any worse....

[Chassisman]

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See those little uprights at the end of the wings....I know the guy who holds the rights to those....blended wing tip technology there in Seattle. I sold him a chopper.......he has a sweet house on top of the ridge over looking Boeings factory.... ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[HoosierGTA]

Re: Watch the Jet Get Built and Painted

Hmmm, that all looks very familiar....

What driveshafts are you speaking of? The flap shafts? Or are you just making a funny?

;D Just a funny.

[HEMI]

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My late Uncle Al used to paint aircraft at Lockheed in Burbank.

[ls7gto]

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if it aint Boeing, I aint going! ( My cousin flys a airbus for Frontier and after a few drinks told me that the Boeings fly nicer and ride better.)

[pdub]

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if it aint Boeing, I aint going! ( My cousin flys a airbus for Frontier and after a few drinks told me that the Boeings fly nicer and ride better.)

After all the cutbacks in the fleets it's amazing that anybody is ordering new airplanes, unless I just totally don't understand the industry, which I don't.

[Barry Donovan]

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if it aint Boeing, I aint going! ( My cousin flys a airbus for Frontier and after a few drinks told me that the Boeings fly nicer and ride better.)

After all the cutbacks in the fleets it's amazing that anybody is ordering new airplanes, unless I just totally don't understand the industry, which I don't.

if trucking got 1/1000th the magical funding these airlines get..

scania v8 would only be one common sense legend...america would have their version.

and those winglets do nothing, I remember when the c17 showed up with them. Some professionals got outright mad ... I remember one thought it was for bigger lights, because it absolutely useless otherwise.

no worse than a trunk wing on a subaru I guess. :

[ls7gto]

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Boxer, I call BS, if it didnt work the wouldnt pay the price to retrofit, if they didnt see the gain. It has to do with wing design for it to be effective, they dont work with all wings.
Winglets reduce induced drag, resulting in a more effecient lifting device (the wing) it's quite a bit of complicated geometry, involving many lift vectors. The way it was explained to me, think of the principle of an "infinite wing". With an infinite wing, there are no wingtip vortices, or the associated induced drag effects that come along with those as the slipstream is increased over the wingtip. Winglets help create the effect of an infinite wing, although that principle is mainly theoretical in nature.
Winglets accept a penalty in the drag that gets worse with speed (Parasite) to produce an improvement in the drag that gets better with speed (Induced). That suggests to me that the optimum cruise speed should decrease with the addition of winglets. That there is still some efficiency improvement left when cruise Mach is increased would thus be an indication that the efficiency improvement if aircraft configuration were allowed to dictate cruise speed would be tremendous.

More proof....http://www.b737.org.uk/winglets.htm

[Chassisman]

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Boxer, I call BS, if it didnt work the wouldnt pay the price to retrofit, if they didnt see the gain. It has to do with wing design for it to be effective, they dont work with all wings.
Winglets reduce induced drag, resulting in a more effecient lifting device (the wing) it's quite a bit of complicated geometry, involving many lift vectors. The way it was explained to me, think of the principle of an "infinite wing". With an infinite wing, there are no wingtip vortices, or the associated induced drag effects that come along with those as the slipstream is increased over the wingtip. Winglets help create the effect of an infinite wing, although that principle is mainly theoretical in nature.
Winglets accept a penalty in the drag that gets worse with speed (Parasite) to produce an improvement in the drag that gets better with speed (Induced). That suggests to me that the optimum cruise speed should decrease with the addition of winglets. That there is still some efficiency improvement left when cruise Mach is increased would thus be an indication that the efficiency improvement if aircraft configuration were allowed to dictate cruise speed would be tremendous.

More proof....http://www.b737.org.uk/winglets.htm

Here's from the horses mouth so to speak..... http://www.aviationpartners.com/testimonials.html

[ls7gto]

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thanks for backing me up! ;D

[Chassisman]

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thanks for backing me up! ;D

I figure if he paid me 85K for a chopper....he must be doing something right....LOL
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