12 at the top altimeters
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DW said
"Bill Chivers then directed me to a Youtube video - YouTube - Chuck Yeager Making New Records. The title is Chuck Yeager Making New Records. There are several shots of an altimeter reading 0 to 12 in one revolution."
As I said previously that stuff is movie set dressing.
Phony
Phony
Dryden stuff is real.
Real
Real
"Bill Chivers then directed me to a Youtube video - YouTube - Chuck Yeager Making New Records. The title is Chuck Yeager Making New Records. There are several shots of an altimeter reading 0 to 12 in one revolution."
As I said previously that stuff is movie set dressing.
Phony PhonyDryden stuff is real.
Real Real
aviate1138,
Thanks for posting - all is clear now.
Fareastdriver
I'm surprised your metric HSI is not calibrated in grads i.e. E 100, S 200, etc., and I expect you use the metric equivalent of the nautical mile that I stumbled on the other day - the "nautical kilometre"
Thanks for posting - all is clear now.
Fareastdriver
I'm surprised your metric HSI is not calibrated in grads i.e. E 100, S 200, etc., and I expect you use the metric equivalent of the nautical mile that I stumbled on the other day - the "nautical kilometre"
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OK... kind of a long story, but the reason the 'Right Stuff' clip was invoked back on the Bristol forums was to describe something totally different about altimeter design, namely the use of hatched areas, and it was totally coincidental that the altimeter is shown as reading up to 120k.
As mentioned above, the vast majority of that scene is historically inaccurate. In fact, the only accurate parts about it are the fact that Chuck Yeager was flying the NF-104 when it was lost, and he did get some burn injuries as a result.
But the clip does show an altimeter unwinding rapidly, a hatched area appearing as the aircraft gets low, and involves a few explosions etc that are always good for getting a students attention
pb
As mentioned above, the vast majority of that scene is historically inaccurate. In fact, the only accurate parts about it are the fact that Chuck Yeager was flying the NF-104 when it was lost, and he did get some burn injuries as a result.
But the clip does show an altimeter unwinding rapidly, a hatched area appearing as the aircraft gets low, and involves a few explosions etc that are always good for getting a students attention
pb
