I wonder if the F-47 actually derives from the F-7 concept that was put about a couple of years go. Would be a nice cover story (building an F-7 mockup) for having T-7 gear / engines shipped to an otherwise unexpected location. Plus nothing like letting a design team go shopping from an...
A-10 was Thunderbolt II, so maybe Thunderbolt III maybe. Looks like a warmed up Bird of Prey, although with the F-47 designation its should be, about 120,000 lbs gross*.
* for those that don't know the P-47 was rather large and heavy compared to period competitors (20% maybe).
I guess this makes Dassault the premier fighter builder in Europe they will / are laughing all the way to the bank, I guess they will take lead on Europes 6th gen unless we see something like a radical UAV fighter come out of Ukraine that forms the basis for a rapid 6th gen.
For those countrys...
A quick google suggests that Joby S4 (~9.4 lb/ft^2) is a bit more than the disc loading of a CH-47 (8.8 lb /FT^2).
In practical terms a CH47 downwash isn't remotely the same as an R44.
CH-47 downwash
Its still a long way from a V-22 at 26.68 lb/ft^2...
That is a pretty nasty incident. I see the flightcrew were part of the five crew hospitalized, at Fl400 is one of the flight crew required to be wearing a mask?
Mild tangent, year ago I is testing a modification on a metroliner cabin air system where we blocked up all the cabin vents to force...
I would guess the non dynamic structure is largely cheaper than dynamic structure i.e more tower is cheaper to build than building more blades.
With respect to the number of blades, the power output isn't constant even before one considers the effects of the blades as the wind isn't constant...
It was a 33m diameter windturbine (timber laminate blades), the blades where more like a 2 bladed helicopter rotor than a normal propeller. They had a bit of a learning curve with the first unit when a gust / controller configuration issue cause the whole thing to be almost pulled off the top of...
A company I worked for, had one of this aircraft sister ships they were well looked after by Qantas. There were in much better condition than any 737 classic we brought out of the USA, with a very comprehensive cockpit fit out. I wonder if it had one of those pencil whipped eastern European...
Last time I discussed this with a wind turbine manufactures Chief Engineer, the comment was that the biggest appeal of 3 blades is that they were visually more appealing than 2 blades (he was in the process of building the first article of a 2 bladed wind turbine program).
Well there appears to be a market for big slow cheap transport aircraft but this doesn't appear to be it. Although more for opening up transport options in the frozen north (or the not so frozen north now days).
Why would you use turbofans for this, you are not going to pressurize it, you don't...
But did the purchase price include engines, rotatables, etc. Once leasing companys are involved you got to ask did they buy the whole aircraft or just most of it!
Transpower chief executive Alison Andrew says a power pylon that fell last Thursday was due to contractors removing too many nuts I guess someone read the work order wrong.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/520400/transpower-makes-announcement-after-major-northland-outage
A company I worked for, the Chief pilot retired from a National Airline at 60, and then spent the next 20 years being chief Pilot for a freight airline, before actually retiring from commercial aviation (No APTL age limit here).
Who's Dyna-focal mounts is the aircraft using. Have you tried asking Lord nicely for dynafocal installation drawing for the specific engine.
Here's one for a O540 & IO540
https://res.cloudinary.com/engineering-com/image/upload/v1718496187/tips/S-6323_ncttx2.tiff
Yip, but at the rate of technology change for the aeronautics industry that point in time, 15 to 20 years was a very long time. The quoted textbook was obsolete within a decade, while ones printed in 1935 still contrubes significantly to industry now (bruhn comes to mind).
Somewhere I have an aero textbook from the early 1920's it comments that gasoline engines are a horrible fire risk, but it is expected that it will be replaced by diesel engines in the next few years.
Hmmm for Harbour Air, I wonder if the numbers would look any worse using a boilerless steam...
RAeS has the National Aerospace Library in the UK,
https://www.aerosociety.com/news-expertise/national-aerospace-library/library-catalogue/
library search function
https://raes.soutron.net/Portal/Default/en-GB/Search/SimpleSearch
I just refer to the governing approval of those manufacturing it and installing it
i.e. Workmanship is of a high standard as it is manufactured / installed by part 145 organisation.
