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Forum: Military Aviation
16th Jan 2008, 09:04
Replies: 94
Views: 42,015
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Being reluctant to doubt BEagle's encyclopedic...

Being reluctant to doubt BEagle's encyclopedic knowledge and huge experience of high G maneuvering, aerobatic display flying, aggressive formation rejoins in a time critical phase of a display and,...
Forum: Flight Testing
22nd Dec 2007, 09:18
Replies: 15
Views: 2,503
Posted By Jack Aubrey

I once had a chat with a fellow who designed...

I once had a chat with a fellow who designed racing cars. He showed me a report that some of his high priced help had given him. He had hired some very bright CFD specialists, bought some awesomely...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Nov 2007, 11:52
Replies: 54
Views: 11,083
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Wonderful stories gentlemen. Thank you.

Wonderful stories gentlemen. Thank you.
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Nov 2007, 10:10
Replies: 43
Views: 7,502
Posted By Jack Aubrey

15 years in. Read a degree in engineering. Taught...

15 years in. Read a degree in engineering. Taught in Uni. Did some consultancy. Retired at 50.

Now flying model aeroplanes and helicopters and spending a lot of time with my beautiful wife and...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Nov 2007, 09:52
Replies: 33
Views: 5,396
Posted By Jack Aubrey

unsympathetic to defence

I spent many years serving in Scotland and always enjoyed the robust dry humour of Scots. I rarely met any that I disliked.

Except one kind. The local occupants of the manse who walked around like...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Nov 2007, 09:27
Replies: 84
Views: 20,835
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Well done tigs

I shall raise a glass to you this lunchtime Sir!
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Oct 2007, 06:30
Replies: 18
Views: 2,749
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Have you seen the price of oil and the state of...

Have you seen the price of oil and the state of the US dollar?
How much worse might it have been if we had not gone to war twice against Iraq?
Foot - meet Mr Browning.
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Jul 2007, 13:59
Replies: 81
Views: 15,694
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Might it be the Varsity?

Might it be the Varsity?
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2007, 19:55
Replies: 21
Views: 3,655
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Sorry PN. You are quite right. But I was enjoying...

Sorry PN. You are quite right. But I was enjoying the horseplay.
Further on topic. In fighter manoeuvres in my day - long ago, I know chaps - zero G was good news. If you needed to pick up airspeed...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2007, 17:45
Replies: 21
Views: 3,655
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Thanks for that Tigs. Since you ask, with an...

Thanks for that Tigs.
Since you ask, with an implied insult that aircrew to engineer is an unworthy progression, I was invalided out after being injured on active service. My subsequent career in...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2007, 17:14
Replies: 21
Views: 3,655
Posted By Jack Aubrey

My point is that pushing zero G merely to...

My point is that pushing zero G merely to humiliate a crew member is unprofessional and stupid. Further, to do it when he is peeing is irresponsible and potentially hazardous.

What is yours?
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2007, 15:04
Replies: 21
Views: 3,655
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Well Zoom, perhaps this should be on the bullying...

Well Zoom, perhaps this should be on the bullying thread. Or is it OK for a pilot to manoeuvre an aircraft in such a way as to humiliate a crew member and to permit the loss of containment of fluids?...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Apr 2007, 14:33
Replies: 21
Views: 3,655
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Oh how I wish that I had been born as gifted as...

Oh how I wish that I had been born as gifted as you, BEagle!

Your stories of your exploits are so inspiring. Perhaps you could now share with us how you got thrown off a Phantom squadron after...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Apr 2007, 08:03
Replies: 27
Views: 6,835
Posted By Jack Aubrey

SI unit of load - the Prescott

PN - I think that you might have identified an important scientific breakthrough. Perhaps a paper to a refereed journal - perhaps the Inst of Physics?

The Prescott could be a useful unit to apply...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Apr 2007, 08:31
Replies: 134
Views: 20,261
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Missing the point?

I wonder whether some are missing the point(s)?
The mentality of people in that part of the world, it seems to me, having met many but not travelled there (happily), is rather different to the...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Jan 2007, 14:45
Replies: 7
Views: 2,176
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Hard Corps! Maximum respect. Jack

Hard Corps!

Maximum respect.

Jack
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Nov 2006, 07:25
Replies: 12
Views: 12,661
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Sustaining G

'When I were a lad', corner speed ( we ignorantly called it velocity) was the airspeed at which the aeroplane could sustain limiting G. In the F4K it was around 420 knots for the peacetime limit. It...
Forum: Military Aviation
20th Sep 2006, 05:59
Replies: 40
Views: 6,196
Posted By Jack Aubrey

a whole Harrier?

Let me see if I have this right...

The dilution level of 'managers' to aeroplanes is now so ludicrous that we need the SoS for Defence to announce the movement of one aeroplane. No doubt the...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Apr 2006, 08:18
Replies: 18
Views: 3,221
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Apology

I was so shocked by this that I omitted to check whether other threads had been started on the same topic. Thank you spekesoftly for your link.
I wonder how serving persons will react. It is such an...
Forum: Military Aviation
10th Apr 2006, 07:21
Replies: 18
Views: 3,221
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Today's Daily Mail

Has anybody got the true story on the alleged MoD threat to litigious widows in the Daily Mail this morning?
Forum: Flight Testing
31st Jan 2006, 09:45
Replies: 28
Views: 13,999
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Thanks chaps.

Thanks to all for contributions. The application I am looking at is very small gas turbines for model aeroplanes and UAVs. In models they are very heavy on fuel consumption and I suspect that there...
Forum: Flight Testing
31st Jan 2006, 07:17
Replies: 28
Views: 13,999
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Water injection

Many thanks John.
Forum: Flight Testing
30th Jan 2006, 12:34
Replies: 28
Views: 13,999
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Thanks lm. I didn't know that - was that for the...

Thanks lm. I didn't know that - was that for the Air Dominance variant of the Handover?
Forum: Flight Testing
30th Jan 2006, 11:36
Replies: 28
Views: 13,999
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Water / methanol injection

I am hoping that John Farley will see this and respond.
I have been reading about water/meth injection in piston engines and I wonder whether it might be useful for very small gas turbines. Does...
Forum: Flight Testing
2nd Mar 2004, 01:35
Replies: 11
Views: 2,318
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Gentlemen Very many thanks for the comments...

Gentlemen

Very many thanks for the comments and suggestions. We will go ahead with the vane idea.

The next step in our programme is to win the British Model Flying Association University...
Forum: Flight Testing
27th Feb 2004, 23:59
Replies: 11
Views: 2,318
Posted By Jack Aubrey

John Very many thanks for your response. ...

John

Very many thanks for your response.

I think the origin of the problem is that model aircraft/UAV pilots may only be interested in AoA at the touchdown point. I shall point out that Mr...
Forum: Flight Testing
24th Feb 2004, 20:33
Replies: 11
Views: 2,318
Posted By Jack Aubrey

Very many thanks SC. I have figured out some...

Very many thanks SC.

I have figured out some diagrams to illustrate the errors that would be obvious in a steady steep climb or dive.

Sometimes tact and corroboration are as important in...
Forum: Flight Testing
23rd Feb 2004, 17:57
Replies: 11
Views: 2,318
Posted By Jack Aubrey

AoA sensors

Hello all, I wonder if someone can help me.

I am building a UAV (model aircraft) for a University research programme and I want to install an AoA sensor to integrate into the flight control and...
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