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Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
It's not just you I stated that in my first post what would happen if that mass of metal came tearing right through the window you are sitting next to. -
Cartman to stan: Shut your Fu#king JEW mouth! Cartman to man pulled over on a bigwheel: You WILL respect my AUTHORATIIII Cartman: I want cheezy poofs, I love cheezy poofs Cartman to stan after he showed cartman the hundreds of times that he keeps calling stan a jew but denies it: well there was that one time
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Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Yea I did all that, just wanted specific skydiving stuff. I built a DHC-7 model, they make a single otter model too, cant find a twin otter the bastards that make both models left her out I was going to paint it in the kinghts paint scheme after seeing their -7 on the internet(pic attached) -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
So beta is when it is like a giant blender, prop looks thin when viewed from the wing tips, and feathered is when it is a giant windmill props looks thin from when viewed from the nose. After the AC was tied down last weekend I took a few minutes looking at the prop. It was alot thinner and a lighter sounding matereal than you would expect. I rocked it back and forth a few times and you could hear the gears meshing. The small dings, and paint chips on the props are generally caused by rocks and debris kicked up on TO and Landing, or is that marks caused by hitting ice/hail? Can an otter get vertical if you build speed then turn it straight up, or will it stall before you can get it there. Assuming light fuel, and no load. Can they do barrel rolls, or back loops? -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
[crowd laughter] [/croud laughter] -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Cool I have the combat flight sim already. I am going to pick up the 2004 tonight on the way home. Thanks -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Thanks alot I knew you had to be lurking around here today. I took a observer ride in san marcos for the hell of it b/c I had always jumped out, but never rode it down. That was a ride like no other. If I remember right we dove down until it reached what I thought was 140 knots the line was near red, then we leveled off, bled the speed down, then dove again! It was fun plenty of 0g's. -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Which flight sim is that 2003? I will go pick it up tonight. -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
No I am not a pilot. But the people reading this were probbaly wondering so that they would never get near my aircraft lol. I have been just wondering little trivial things about Otters. -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I wonder why it cost money to start them up, does it use alot of fuel to start them up compared to flight idle(hellicopter term does it still apply)? -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
No I lied.... Why when they shut down a load we have to wait a minmum of 20 minutes before we start it up again? Does it have to cool down before so there isn't a "cook off" when you try to start it again, or is that just a DZ/DZO thing that if you are going to go through the trouble of doing it might as well make it 20 minutes? Also I heard that turbines do not like to be shut down does it harm them a little bit over time besides the obvious heat/cool stresses that occur to metal? -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
Ya bastards Answer my questions -
Lets start a discussion about Twin Otters
cvfd1399 replied to cvfd1399's topic in General Skydiving Discussions
I have a few questions about the Otter since I am a Otter baby. I am refering to a regular otter with the long nose(-300?) that is used for jump ops. What rpm range does the 3 blade prop on a regular otter normally spin at? I was sitting right next to the right prop on a load the other day and thought how messed up it would be if for some reason the prop broke apart and came throug the body into the cabin. How much fuel is it capible of holding in both tanks? Do you use both tanks equally at the same time, or is it seperate. How do you keep a C.G.? Do you use a bit in one, then use a bit in the other or does it not really matter. How much needs to be kept in reserve? How many DZ's have the little compartment in the rear open for people to sit. At a boogie I heard about a guy that would climb in the back where he had a sleeping bag and a pillow and took a nap on the way to alt. How bad is a blow out on the front or rear tires on takeoff. It seems that if it happened near take off roll speed you could just power through it since most of the weight is being taken off the tire. I am sure that it is flown by cable is there any sort of back up? What is the clicking noise when it starts to fire off? is is some sort of glow plug, or spark plug? I can see how a turbine stays running at high rpm's, but how does it start off. I know there is a starter, but it does not spin it up that fast. Like on a 4 stroke motor, you only need that 1 explosion every 3 turns to keep things going. It sems that in a turbine that a "power stroke" needs to be occuring constantly. I am used to the 4/2 stroke/rotary theory that a power stroke happens at one time, and it is hard to comprehend that in a turbine that "power stroke" is constantly occuring. I understand there are no pistons only compressor blades and fuel injectors, but how does it contain the combustion? Is it in something that resembles a turbo housing on diesels? What is the max air speed in a dive(140knots)? Like in free fall is there anything you can do to cause drag in a dive other than having speed braked installed(can you do that on a otter) turn the blades full sideways, flaps? Also I understand it that feathering the prop means turning it lenthwise so that it produces the least drag to the relative wind, what is the term for turning them so that they are flat if you look at them from the nose. Can you turn them around and force air forward a bit to slow you down. I always thought the pilots did this, b/c it makes a different sound, but I now think that that is just the sound it makes when it goes from the "power" setting to the "feathered" setting. -
What was he supposed to do with the sea shells, I dont remember if they ever said, or I did not pick up on it,
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Not cool at all. I blasted a whole 5 man element this weekend for over penetrating the room. I saw the blue glock slide near the door frame, and as he waited for the rest of the element to stack up by the door I sighted in on the center of the door. Element enters the "fatal funnel" and all 16 shots of my m4 went to work lol Bravo team 0 Tango+5
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I look at it this way, we are all gonna die anyways someday. If there is a large rock found comming our way I am going to the bank getting all the money out and going to make as many jumps I can until it hits
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Just one to protect Jim and the twins while doing active shooter scenarios with 9mm simmunitions. Those things cause blood blisters and broken skin, I could not imagine a direct or grazing hit to the giggleberries.
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Caldera Bingo that was the name thanks!
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Yea I was expecting the virtual sex machines like in that move where he had to wipe his ass with the sea shells. I forget the name, but they are talking about goat intestine condoms. OOOhh just heard something about sex toys at 9000 RPM'S there is hope yet ahead
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I have no clue where she heard it. She is kind of the what if future, evolution, whats out in space, scientific person. I thought it was a wierd thing to think about tho. On a plannet killer side note. Everyone knows that asteroids in space haul ass(tens of thousands if not hunreds of thousands of miles per hour) We look out into space and it is thought that we can with technogy "see/spot" one comming from light years away and possibly blow it up, or alter its course. Alot of people think that we can see far enough to be safe, but I think that there are things out there that we have not seen yet that goes even faster than that (Millions of miles per hour or faster) that will destroy something before it can ever be seen.
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My wife was telling me about something found today that might be the next global killer(try to retell the story). It is supposed to be a lava pool that has the strength of 100k volcanos, and has been found to erupt every 40,000 years three times in a row. The last time it erupted supposedly only 100,000 humans survived, due to the sky being blacked out for approx. a year. Supposedly the spainards(sp) knew about this along time ago and gave it a name(chicabro) I think it is called. Scientists said that a lake shore line that kept moving tipped them off along with carbon dated fossils that were layered on top of each other that were approx 40k years apart in age. The human fossils also had signs of a lung cancer that leads to more evidence of a toxic substance in the air. Every year the shore line would move up hill. They set up devices to measure the lake and found out that lava under this huge lake was rising and displacing the water. They then stepped back to satelites and think the "pool" of lava is the size of CA. Tests are under way to find out how deep it goes. Also they suspect that this is why humans are still so similar despite the hundred thousands of years that we had to evolve. They ran studies to see how long it would take for us to change to the diverse races and body types that we have now if we had to restart with only 100k peoples genes, and again it pointed to somewhere in the 40k year range. Anyone heard about this? Again this is me putting what my wife told my back into my own words.
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On the history channel right now!!!