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A strange aircraft.

patsquire

But the scale was right. 747 is 250 feet long, C-17 is just 147 feet.

patsquire

☺ ☺ ☺

radiojerry

No problem, Pat. I was trying to play it cool so you could cover but you fessed up anyway.

patsquire

The video I saw was a simulation??? It looked so real I actually thought I was watching a real incident, a live video! I'm shocked! Wow. Thanks.

radiojerry

Watched the video - a clip from X-Plane flight simulator. Fascinating how you can set up situations with these flight sims.
On a version of Microsoft Flight Simulator, I had a scenario set up where I would launch a Boeing 747 from inside a cave in the Himalayas. I had to fly a suitable aircraft to the location, get positioned for takeoff, then change the aircraft to the 747. The 747 would run off the edge of the cliff at about 90 kts and would have to dive to get airspeed to get out of the valley. If it did not have full flaps set, it would crash before getting sufficient speed. Lots of fun!

patsquire

Hey, right. Helicopters have that "ground effect" phenomenon, I wonder if it helps airplanes too.

Last night I saw an absolutely baffling clip of a C-17 piggybacked on a NASA 747 which landed VERY hard (the 747's wings flexed so hard they nearly touched the ground).......

and.......then it taxied at crazy speed, made a big screeching circle on the ground and tried to take off again, only to crash and burn from maybe 100 feet up.

I looked for info about it but only found the same video. No explanation. It happened about 10 years ago. Do you know anything about it?

Also, I was very surprised at how much bigger the 747 was than the gigantic C-17.

radiojerry

Noticed that, too, Pat. Also looked like it had about 30 degs of flaps hanging down making me wonder if they might getting some vectored thrust to help lift off.

patsquire

This huge four-engine seaplane can fly at 57 mph? That's astounding. I watched a video of it, and when it took off from the water it seemed to drag itself up out of the water and into the air at a very low speed. Each of those engines must be very powerful.

With that high wing and four engines it reminds me of the BAE 146, which was always my favorite passenger airliner. It's so smooth and stable, a delight to fly in.

radiojerry

This is a totally awesome airplane. It can slow fly at 50 kts, takeoff fully loaded in 950 feet ON THE WATER, has a range of 2900 nautical miles when not configured as a firefighting tanker (a fuel tank has to be replaced with a water tank). It's also the world's most expensive seaplane at $113 million USD. It can cruise at 300 kts.

Very nice looking plane. Never seen one or heard of it before now!!!

patsquire

Wow, looks like one helluva plane. I'd never seen on before.

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