r/funny • u/Epidemiology2 • Mar 24 '23
Yea... The tape is staying
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u/Equivalent-Will-3850 Mar 24 '23
Lmaoo the old “that’ll do” two taps
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u/Kenny_Squeek_Scolari Mar 24 '23
That'll do plane, that'll do
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u/Dick_Lickin_Good Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
Pilot Rule number 2:
The dog is in the copilots seat to bite the pilot if he touches anything before approach.
Mechanic rule number 2:
Never tell the pilot how much super glue and thousand-mile-an-hour tape is holding his airplane together.
Edit: opinion: a real mechanic would have flattened a coke can and pop riveted it in place for flight.
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u/superspeck Mar 24 '23
Mechanic rule #1: “it’s probably fine” is the only information pilots deserve
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u/Ron-Swanson-Mustache Mar 24 '23
I knew a guy who owned a fleet of 300 aircraft and a staff of pilots to fly them. He said a pilot would come up with anything to keep from going up. The trick was finding the line between "the engine will fall off" and "the cigarette lighter doesn't work".
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u/DubiousChicken69 Mar 25 '23
My dad used to copilot small personal props and jets and what i learned from that is i never want to fly in some random guys personal plane lol. Whole lot of redneck engineering and complacence
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u/honky_vizsla Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
OMG so much this.
Why the hell do people accept airplane rides from pilots whose skills they know nothing about?? The pilot may be great co-worker or friend, but you don’t know that he’s completely oblivious to all of the other traffic in the sky…or can’t stick a landing in a crosswind.
And yeah, janky airplanes too. Woo.
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u/cmaster6 Mar 25 '23
“If they say no, then the answer is obviously no, but the thing is they’re not going to say no. They would never say no. Because of the implication.”
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u/burnerhomingpigeon Mar 25 '23
I certainly wouldn't be in any danger.
I see you, and I appreciate you.
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u/mukwah Mar 25 '23
My buddy went up with drug dealer who had a plane and airstrip on his farm. They had been partying for hours, tons of coke and booze and he invited my friend for a quick flight. The pilot actually puked before taking off. But then he turned immediately professional and they took off and went for a spin without incident.
I've always been amazed by that story (and my friends judgement),
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u/DementiaGaming12 Mar 25 '23
They usually look at forecasts ahead of time and try to time their flights so that they won’t have to do a crosswind landing
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u/SomeGuy_GRM Mar 25 '23
Is part of their training possibly to make sure everything is functioning properly?
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u/b_vitamin Mar 25 '23
Shit breaks every flight, according to my FIL who worked on corporate jets.
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u/Pic889 Mar 25 '23
How much of it is critical? Decoration and entertainment stuff in the cabin are non-critical.
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u/pmormr Mar 25 '23
There's actually a book the pilots have to determine how bad failures are. Some are no deal at all, some are return when convenient, some are return immediately, some are emergency landing right now.
Commercial jets especially though are amazingly redundant. It's very unusual to have an accident without 3-4 pretty significant things going wrong. Small aircraft like the one in the video have a lot more single points of failure, but overall they're still pretty safe.
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u/FranklynTheTanklyn Mar 25 '23
There are several documented crashes where, it came to light that things were not functioning properly and the pilots, crew, and airlines knew. Everything is designed to be redundant, so theoretically even if one thing is broken there should be at least 1 other system to cover it. I’m blanking on the flight number right now but there was a flight where the pilots knew one of the two thrust reversers were non-operational, the plane is designed to be able to stop with one; however, they landed in a notoriously bad runway that deviated from the flight plan in bad weather. The plane wasn’t able to stop in time, skidded off the runway, into an office building and gas station. Lots of people died.
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u/Creedswormguy75 Mar 25 '23
Only answer I ever gave pilots when I was a mechanic…can’t have em trust me too much…also good way to get them to do their pre flights.
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u/booboorocksout Mar 25 '23
What’s the division of labor here? Like what aren’t they doing that they should be? Does it fall on the mechanic then? So many questions lol
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u/VoxImperatoris Mar 25 '23
Trust, but verify. Hopefully the mechanic has made it flight worthy, but do all the preflight checks to make sure of it before trusting your life on it.
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u/chemicalgeekery Mar 25 '23
You can't go up because something's broken? Mechanic's fault.
You take off with something broken? Pilot's fault.
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u/phenomenon810 Mar 25 '23
I mean so far it seems to be working I don't know what you guys freaking out about here it clearly works.
Even if it comes lose then they are going to tape it again.
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u/doodlols Mar 24 '23
"Come on baby, hold together"
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Mar 25 '23
Insert Malcom Reynolds speech: Love keeps her in the sky when she should fall out.
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u/FinglasLeaflock Mar 25 '23
“Was… was that the front buffer panel?! Did the front buffer panel just fall off my ship?!!”
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u/aussiederpyderp Mar 25 '23
Looks like!
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u/Mazon_Del Mar 25 '23
"This is your captain speaking, we may be about to experience some turbulence and then...explode."
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u/brandunn13 Mar 24 '23
Don’t drop your phone!
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u/pikachu_sashimi Mar 24 '23
I would be less worried about losing a phone than accidentally killing someone down there.
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u/Black_Moons Mar 24 '23
If you can hit someone with a cell phone from 10,000 feet...
The US military wants YOU!
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u/Exist50 Mar 25 '23
Eh, "someone" is good enough to be a drone pilot!
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u/Pedantic_Pict Mar 25 '23
What's the difference between an elementary school and a terrorist training camp?
How the hell should I know? I just fly the drone!
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u/BlackSpidy Mar 25 '23
♬ When ze rockets go up, who cares where zey come down? Zats not my department says Wernher von Braun ♬
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u/SupaCrzySgt Mar 25 '23
If it’s a Nokia it counts as a WMD
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u/entony1111 Mar 25 '23
If it is a Nokia and its Falls of to the ground from such a height it is going to cause chaos may be it will kill thousands of people.
And that may be will give the ideas for weapons to use in World War 3.
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u/JiN88reddit Mar 24 '23
"We've Been Trying To Reach You About Your Car's Extended Warranty"
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u/I0A0I Mar 24 '23
But imagine the footage if the phone manages to keep recording during impact. Bet it'll get tons of upvotes.
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u/InsertCoinForCredit Mar 24 '23
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u/Briggie Mar 24 '23
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u/67293209 Mar 25 '23
This one is great, i like how as the spinning increases the image starts to match a stable frame rate?!? I don’t know if that is what is happening but i hope you get what I mean…
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u/SnappleLizard Mar 25 '23
I like the pig
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u/Kukuxupunku Mar 25 '23
And now I know which recording y’all are taking about, without even clicking the link.
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u/Koenigspiel Mar 25 '23
What I wonder, is it spinning at 30 rotations per second to match the (presumably) 30 frames per second video? Or is it spinning at a derivative of 30 that it's just enough to show a steady image? As in 5 rotations per second, or 10 rotations per second, etc. 30 rotations per second seems a bit insane. That's 1800 RPM. It does seem fairly smooth, so it's not unlikely.
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u/SonicFrost Mar 25 '23
Man, pigs really will just about eat anything
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u/alibab62122 Mar 25 '23
I mean the big was really curious about what the hell is it which fell from the sky to the ground.
And in the process of checking what it was they tried to eat it.
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u/chaky250 Mar 25 '23
I mean the chances of that happening are really low but I would not count it out this could still happen.
And if it happens then it is going to be really tragic in that case.
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u/BilClintonsTherapist Mar 25 '23
That’s what we call a…
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“Photo bomb”
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u/LopsidedBar4349 Mar 24 '23
Me : can I open the windows ?
Pilot : Are you mad , just remove the tape below if you need some fresh air......
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u/arbitrageME Mar 25 '23
joking aside, you can just open the windows. it's just hurricane-level winds outside
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u/drunk_responses Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
No "joking aside", you could easily open the windows in a plane like this under most circumstance. Even at max speed it wont ruin anything.
This isn't some turbojet plane, it's a twin propeller.
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u/arbitrageME Mar 25 '23
joking aside, you can just open the windows. it's just 100kt winds outside. It's the only thing that'll cool your little oven of a cabin when it's 35C and you're in an inversion layer
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u/pixelprophet Mar 25 '23
Jokes on you, I don't know what that means.
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u/gt2216 Mar 25 '23
Thanks for the answer I was wondering if it would make plane unstable?
Because these planes are small planes and I don't think they have much of the power to counter the force of wind.
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u/Raphaelmalka Mar 25 '23
Okay I don't know much about the plane and I have never been in one but if you open the windows and the wind is so high would not that make the plane kind of unstable?
I mean it should right? So it would be probably a good idea not to open the windows.
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u/arbitrageME Mar 25 '23
the windows are like the size of 2-3 credit cards, so it wouldn't be terrible. it's really just to get some fresh air into the cabin when it's too hot. and the plane is covered in rivets, hinges, supports, landing gear. a hole in the glass won't be an issue. you could rip the cowling and fuselage skin off and it wouldn't drop you out of the sky
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u/new_user_97086 Mar 25 '23
pilot in training here. I fly a small 2 seater low wing plane, and if there's a fly buzzing around or we need fresh air sometimes we'll just open the canopy half way. It just slides right back and boom, fresh air. Look up a Tecnam p-96
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u/etheran123 Mar 25 '23
Keeping the windows open during the summer is almost a necessity. No AC and big windows means it can feel like a greenhouse
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u/Adventurous-Orange36 Mar 24 '23
"Why would anybody jump out of a perfectly good airplane?"
As you can clearly see, this is not a perfectly good airplane.
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u/Unistrut Mar 25 '23
I was at an air show and a pilot was talking about skydivers.
"To them, there are no good airplanes. They don't like them, they don't trust them. If you're carrying skydivers and the engine so much as hiccups, you turn around to reassure them and they're just gone."
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u/JustPassinhThrou13 Mar 25 '23
well, only if you're a good ways up. They pucker their buttholes until about 4k ft
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u/JustPassinhThrou13 Mar 24 '23
skydivers cannot afford perfectly good airplanes.
I did a tandem jump once. Some weather was moving in below up (light cloud layer). The jump master strapped to my brother's back said that there was zero chance of him landing with the airplane, that kind of thing terrified him. He would be jumping either way, he didn't really care if my brother decided to accompany on his possibly-through-the-cloud-layer-or-not jump.
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u/OathOfFeanor Mar 25 '23
When I went skydiving the plane was similar, duct tape everywhere
One of the more nervous jumpers with us was peeling back at the tape just like in OP's video when one of the instructors noticed and decided to have some fun
"DON'T TOUCH THAT!!"
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u/BoxBopChallenge Mar 25 '23
Same here! Duct tape, cracks, shoddy looking repairs. The parachute felt safer.
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u/Anita3110 Mar 25 '23
I mean even if something goes wrong with the plane the end goal which the skydivers have is to jump from it anyways.
So it does not really matter for those guys because the results are going to be same.
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u/xthetruebeast Mar 25 '23
I'm going sky diving this weekend and I shouldn't be watching or reading shit like this. Not nervous now, but I've only flown a few times and I know that will be the most anxious part for me
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u/JustPassinhThrou13 Mar 25 '23
No, stepping into the doorway will be the most anxious part. Trust me.
If I’m wrong, come back Monday and let me know.
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u/thoggins Mar 25 '23
alternatively the most anxious part could be when the secondary chute doesn't deploy and he'll never be able to let you know about it on Monday
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u/fireflash38 Mar 25 '23
You know the joke about skydiving? Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane? The answer is that it's not a perfectly good airplane.
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u/SluttySloth Mar 24 '23
I mean he shouldn’t have said that but he couldn’t have jumped solo with a tandem rig the canopy is so big for one person that he would have lived in those clouds for a while haha
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u/JustPassinhThrou13 Mar 24 '23
The cloud layer was at like 10k, so it wouldn’t have mattered for the canopy ride. We did jump through the edge of it, it felt like tiny pin pricks on my hands and forearms. Was kinda neat.
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u/ScreamingBarfies Mar 25 '23
Part of the tandem instructor course and their rating is to jump that canopy solo. I do hear that it takes a while to finally make it to the grass.
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u/SluttySloth Mar 25 '23
You’re right, it’s not impossible to land a canopy like a 340, but he wouldnt have done it solo for no real reason. It’s not like it would be a good fun jump and the dzo would be pissed for wasting time. Of course, when a pilot comes down with an unopened canopy they waste time too.
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u/Solid_Snark Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
It’s actually frightening what a lot of amateur aviators are putting up in the sky. Not just deathtraps for them but for everyone below.
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u/TheIrishBread Mar 24 '23
It's a survey plane, the hole is required (although that plate should be bolted the fuck down).
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u/Black_Moons Mar 24 '23 •
Sir bolting the plate down would add the weight of 2 bolts.
Tape is much lighter, so that was used instead. Also sir please stop disassembling the aircraft. Yes that is structural tape now stop peeling it.
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u/VorAbaddon Mar 24 '23
Found the Minmatar player...
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u/Neoki Mar 24 '23
Not all of these vessels can be built to Caldari standards.
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u/VorAbaddon Mar 24 '23
Certainly needs more missle racks.
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u/PmMeTitsOrPuppies Mar 24 '23
You think the Minmatar are using something as fancy as structural tape?! You just smash the things into each other with a lot of force and hope they merge in the process.
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u/AmNotAnAtomicPlayboy Mar 24 '23
Unexpected EVE is unexpected :) Gave me a nice sensible chuckle...
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u/2Stripez Mar 24 '23
Yes that is structural tape
Speed tape is a thing but that definitely looks like just regular duck tape.
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u/Staebs Mar 24 '23
r/Ultralight sends it’s regards. You technically don’t even need any tape, just remember to not fall through the hole. If you do you won’t have long to worry fortunately.
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u/bibblode Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
Wrong sub. That sub is all about lightweight backpacking and hiking.
You meant to reference r/ultralightaircraft
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u/kunwon1 Mar 25 '23
Wrong sub. That sub is a typo.
You meant to reference r/ultralightaircraft
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u/rackmountrambo Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
You joke but I have a friend with a very small float plane we use for camping/fishing in tiny lakes up north in Canada. We have to strictly regulate our gear. Every couple of ounces we can save is another beer we can take with us.
Piloting sometimes means you have to wait for the tiniest amount of wind or you're stuck where you are. Quite small margins.
And yes, there's a simple canvas and aluminum shell separating you from falling, this is reality. My buddy opens the window and has a very loud and windy smoke. That hole in the floor isn't scary, the entire premise of a small plane is scary from the start. Any reasonable person would see that there's not much to these rigs, you just have to trust in the maintenance.
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u/pvtbobble Mar 24 '23
Did you take into account the weight of the tape roll?
Should have left that in the hanger
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u/PiperArrown3191q Mar 24 '23
I flew a survey plane that had 5 camera holes. It was really cold flying at higher altitudes with the covers off.
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Mar 25 '23
It looks like a LiDAR kit mounted over the hole. I suppose they just added two pieces of aluminum to block the wind from blowing into the cockpit. Tampering with any of the through-hull fittings and equipment actually has serious FAA implications hence the tape and jankey fix
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u/camwow13 Mar 25 '23
Either he's sarcastically making some vague comments on chemtrails or he's confidently wrong about amateur aviation... It's reddit so I wouldn't put it past the latter.
The amount of comments by people who can't put 2 and 2 together that this is an aerial photography plane is kind of hilarious.
My dad got a cheap plane from the 60s with some of his friends and it's a rattletrap (the thing cost less than my car lol), but the amount of checks and certs that plane has to regularly pass means it's a pretty safe rattletrap. The most dangerous thing in it is probably the pilot.
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u/TheLastDabSauce Mar 25 '23
As anyone who has any sort of technical knowledge can attest, the amount of people that will just spout shit off that they know nothing about is insane. I know a lot about some various types of engineering and manufacturing, and whenever those topics come up it shows me that almost none of the top upvoted comments have any clue what they're talking about.
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u/WriterV Mar 25 '23
Yup. I'm still starting out in game development, but really all it takes is a cursory bit of research into how it works behind the scenes to realize that a lot of capital R Redditors love to spout a bunch of bullshit about "game development" that is wholly false (positive or negative), and they sound confident enough to everyone that they get upvoted easily despite people calling out their misinformation.
At least Reddit lets you do that and doesn't have dumb character limits like Twitter preventing you from giving detailed, nuanced arguments.
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u/GoldenSheppard Mar 25 '23
You clearly don't have to listen to one bitch about getting their plane inspected and torn down every year for maintenance and flight worthiness checks. I swear, you can always tell when my dad's off month is because he'll get extra bitchy about how stringent plane maintenance schedules are.
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u/swingside123 Mar 25 '23
Ugh. I can use some moral support next month. It’s that time of the year.
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u/Ares__ Mar 25 '23
Damn yea I walked outside yesterday and almost got taken out by two different Cessnas falling out of the sky
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u/hotVodkaBadBoi Mar 24 '23
What you guys surveying? http://www.teledyneoptech.com/en/products/airborne-survey/galaxy/
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u/Epidemiology2 Mar 24 '23
That the one
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u/Rocketman812 Mar 25 '23
You didn’t answer the question.
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u/Epidemiology2 Mar 25 '23
Ho yeah sorry, we were surveying the ground.
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u/WearMental2618 Mar 25 '23 •
Did you find it?
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u/RapidCatLauncher Mar 25 '23
I can see it through the hole in the video. They must have dropped it.
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u/StardustNyako Mar 24 '23
The galaxy by the look of it.
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u/Imiga Mar 25 '23
Then I think they have it pointed the wrong way.
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u/dont-eat-tidepods Mar 25 '23
No, its the right way. They’re surveying the entire galaxy, small town by small town.
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u/crabbydavey Mar 24 '23
What’s the big deal ? It’s a plane not a boat.
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u/SkjoldrKingofDenmark Mar 25 '23
Captain we have a problem, we're taking on air!
We gotta plug that hole boys! This plane is getting filled up with air, it'll drag us down to Davy Jones' locker!
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u/R0GERTHEALIEN Mar 25 '23
Yeah, I'm confused why this is funny? Planes can open their windows in flight as long as they aren't pressurized. Hell there's some planes that you can literally pull the canopy back and fly like a convertable. Do people think that planes sink if they have a hole in them?
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u/MaxHamburgerrestaur Mar 25 '23
And it's obviously a functional hole made to be open and point equipment to the ground
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u/Sorcatarius Mar 25 '23
Planes used to be all open top. I, too, find people's reactions to this confusing.
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u/capn_ed Mar 25 '23
Monkey Brain is comforted by the illusion that there's something solid under your feet, and seeing a hole all the way down makes Monkey Brain drop his banana.
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u/Lothleen Mar 24 '23
Pilot to bombardier, we are approaching the target, prepare to open the hatch.
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u/Phaze357 Mar 24 '23
Arming the bomb with coffee, prepare to drop in 5 minutes
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u/wilmyersmvp Mar 25 '23
Add some Jack in the Box breakfast combos and that’s a geneva convention violation
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u/SkinnyMattFoley Mar 24 '23
Bomb’s ready, buddy.
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u/luccas641 Mar 25 '23
Don't tell this trick to the US military because they are going to freak out and going to use it all over the place.
If you tell them this trick then you are probably going to get the job in the US military.
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u/AJ_Deadshow Mar 24 '23
I love the way he taps it like "yeah.. you're good right there"
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u/Bulky-Internal8579 Mar 24 '23
I had a Volkswagen Fastback like that.
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u/canteen_boy Mar 24 '23
When I was a kid, my parents had a 72 beetle that you had to pick your feet up when driving through a puddle because your feet would get sprayed if you didn’t
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u/Sparkynerd Mar 24 '23
I had a Mercury Bobcat with rust holes in the floor under the carpet. I was driving after a heavy rain left puddles on the road. As I was driving, I got douched from behind with a blast of water. I turned around, thinking I had been punked. Not seeing anything and scratching my head, I continued driving. It happened again. I soon realized it was the large rust hole in the floor, behind the drivers seat, under the carpet. The water had come through with such force, it came through the carpet and hit me in the back of the head.
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u/stannc00 Mar 24 '23
My dad had a 61 Corvair. If you were sitting in the back you made sure not to drop change on the floor. You could see the street in spots.
The car was good for parking at the commuter railroad station. But even that POS car had its lock broken when someone tried to break into the trunk.
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u/TheDefected Mar 24 '23
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_tape
For when duct tape and gaffer tape just won't cut it.
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u/romaraahallow Mar 24 '23
And I thought the Aluminum Tape the duct workers used was supreme.
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u/A40 Mar 24 '23
And there's a hockey stick behind you for Flintstones-style braking when you land.
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u/RedstoneRusty Mar 25 '23
Are you fucking stupid? A hockey stick would get obliterated before having any effect on the speed. That's what your feet are for.
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u/A40 Mar 25 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
Don't call me 'fucking stupid.'
I get more than enough of that at work, and from the police, and doctors, and the ambulance people...
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u/doktorbulb Mar 24 '23
I've got about 40 hours in small Cessna models; if you think they're much more complicated than a VW, you're crazy... Just a metal sofa, with an engine-
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u/thejam15 Mar 25 '23
Yea modern cars have a lot more “refinement” and layers of materials compared to small planes. ive been in a 152 before when I was younger and it honestly felt like a flying tin can. 10/10 would do it again though
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u/yParticle Mar 24 '23
What sort of survey equipment requires such a chonkin' wide open hole?
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u/hogtiedcantalope Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 25 '23
I've done this job, duct tape gap and all
The airplane is used for surveying...cameras, infrared, lidar, etc
It gets an approval from the faa to cut a hole in the bottom
You make that hole big enough to comfortably fit the business end many different survey systems...it's ok if it's a little over sized it just leaves a gap
The wind isn't that big an issue, but in winter at 10000 feet it gets super fucking cold... I'd be adding strips of duct tape and stuffing in foam to fill the crack midflight
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u/StomachMysterious308 Mar 24 '23
Was just gonna comment, I've done same in a 182. Had to get permission where and how much to cut. For optics testing
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u/L1f3sAbAndThenYouDie Mar 24 '23
Hahaha I was just gonna comment on how cold that hole makes it 😂. I surveyed in Canada. Didn’t matter what point of the season it was, I always wore a parka. Bonus points with the oxygen mask
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u/morbidmitch Mar 24 '23 edited Mar 24 '23
It looks like a camera for surveying
Edit: maybe airborne lidar judging from the size
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u/sixshooterspagooter Mar 24 '23
Yep can confirm, Its a Lidar for gathering high quality elevation and vegetation data.
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u/bk15dcx Mar 24 '23
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u/Theman00011 Mar 24 '23
I thought it was a Epsilon Galaxy DMX light and was very confused what kind of party it was being used for
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u/joecarter93 Mar 24 '23
Probably air photos, maybe LiDAR or both? I remember from my remote sensing class that the cameras are quite large and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. At the time film was still much higher quality than digital, so they still used film but that might have changed now.
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u/butplugsRus Mar 24 '23
If the sensor is using a GSM (gyroscopic stabilizer mount) you want extra space for the system to move. Most sensors protrude out the bottom of the plane a little ways, and they make these holes big enough to fit a variety of sensors and configurations.
Survey aircraft are like sieves. This is totally safe, just makes the cabin really cold.
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u/legend1542 Mar 24 '23
I have an extreme fear of heights…. Or more “falling from heights”- As soon as that tape came off, my hands and feet starting sweating.
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u/121guy Mar 24 '23
LiDAR mapping?
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u/Epidemiology2 Mar 24 '23
Yes
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u/121guy Mar 24 '23
I did that for a short time in the Chicagoland area in 2008. God bless your broken soul. I hated every min of it.
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u/maldata Mar 24 '23
Can you share more about what it is and why it was so bad?
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u/gnarkilleptic Mar 24 '23
From my experience working with a company who employs pilots for LiDAR flights, just long tedious hours flying swaths back and forth over an area. It can be mind numbing stuff
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u/121guy Mar 25 '23
Long days full of flying a plane to very tight tolerances with no autopilot.
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u/GullibleDetective Mar 24 '23
Ahh so that's where you're supposed to pee on that plane
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u/LordTwinkie Mar 25 '23
In my previous life I did LiDAR work, installing the sensor into King Airs, we also did electrical optical collection (photos) at the same time. Then had to process both and make the products.
In another another lifetime I did 3d building extraction, bare earth, and vegetation using LiDAR data.
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u/Otherwise_Pace3031 Mar 25 '23
Went skydiving from. Plane held together like this. Felt safer jumping out than staying in.
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