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Forum: Tech Log
2nd Feb 2016, 11:02
Replies: 2,133
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Posted By Landroger

A very belated reply.

I'm not really sure why I stopped coming here, it is one of, if not the most interesting thread on any of the forums I visit - by miles. However, I got back into it a few days ago and realised I was...
Forum: Tech Log
2nd Sep 2012, 11:26
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

I know exactly what you mean Clive and ordinarily...

I know exactly what you mean Clive and ordinarily I would agree with someone with vastly greater knowledge and experience, but it just looks too.........'classy' for a drain. The aperture is a...
Forum: Tech Log
2nd Sep 2012, 10:46
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

The Late XV105

I am not in any position to offer an answer to your question XV105, but may I offer a 'speculation'? I would hazard that the projection you highlight might be a Radio Altimeter aperture? It looks...
Forum: Tech Log
20th Nov 2011, 13:10
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

London Science Museum

I was recently able - for the first time in about twenty-five years - to visit the London Science Museum. Not only which, I was able to spend the whole day, on my own, with no children dragging me...
Forum: Tech Log
10th Oct 2011, 22:59
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

BN2A

Many thanks for those three clips, that's a half hour out of my life I don't begrudge or regret one bit. :) I'm just so glad the crew were all British and were speaking in the completely clear and...
Forum: Tech Log
23rd May 2011, 20:09
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

CJ & rodlittle

I know, I know. :rolleyes: I saw that, but the images are just the ones you would like to have taken ............ if you wouldn't have been arrested if you'd tried to. :uhoh:

Roger.
Forum: Tech Log
22nd May 2011, 21:10
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

atakacs

Oh wow! :ok:

Roger
Forum: Tech Log
24th Apr 2011, 09:52
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

GordonRoxburgh

That cannot of been the sole objective, surely Gordon? Concorde was far too complex and expensive an aeroplane to simply want to prove that with her? Wasn't the F16 flying then? That had side...
Forum: Tech Log
8th Apr 2011, 00:00
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Unique design.

I think Dude's above statement more or less characterises the Concorde design and therefore this entire thread - which I have read, avidly, since post #1. However, since Dude made the statement most...
Forum: Tech Log
3rd Apr 2011, 13:29
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Dude/SpannersatKL

The old "fourteen fingers and rubber legs" syndrome? Been there, done that, got the bad joint pain to prove it. :sad:

Roger
Forum: Tech Log
16th Feb 2011, 21:14
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

That's the first time I've heard that clip and I...

That's the first time I've heard that clip and I have to agree with Coffin Dodger. A really emotional recollection, it must have been so difficult to stay so professional on a day like that.

And...
Forum: Tech Log
30th Jan 2011, 11:23
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

M2Dude.

Ahah! Got you! Reference my original question about calibrating so many vital analogue systems. :)



I knew there would have to be something somewhere. :) However, I have to agree that it...
Forum: Tech Log
25th Jan 2011, 19:30
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Shaggy Sheep Driver

A good thought Shaggy and probably spot on. :)

We read posts in this thread from people, all over the world, who saw Concorde once, maybe a couple of times in their lives and will never forget the...
Forum: Tech Log
15th Jan 2011, 12:18
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Don't worry Dude, its the 'prattle' we're here...

Don't worry Dude, its the 'prattle' we're here for! :) And I echo your greetings to Landlady. :ok:

Thank goodness that dreadful paint job never flew - somebody might have been tempted to have a...
Forum: Tech Log
14th Jan 2011, 21:57
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

CliveL

Ohh yuk!! :eek: What is that Clive? It looks photoshopped to me, because why would anyone want Concorde to look like that? :ugh:

Roger.
Forum: Tech Log
1st Jan 2011, 16:41
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Live Aid.

A Concorde question arose in conversation last night - standing in the kitchen avec bier and churning over the past, as you do. The subject of party 'rock anthems' inevitably brought up Live Aid and...
Forum: Tech Log
31st Dec 2010, 17:49
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

ChristiaanJ

Oooerr CJ! I would think Hanna Reich would turn in her grave if she heard that! := I believe she even test flew a V1 (Doodlebug)!! :eek:

Roger :)
Forum: Tech Log
29th Dec 2010, 19:27
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Exwok and Bellerophon

Between you, you have just about created a 'flash time machine'. An instant image of a real day and a real moment. I'll admit that though I looked at Bellerophon's picture with some care, it was...
Forum: Tech Log
26th Dec 2010, 15:03
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Vortex Lift.

Yes, I think it does Clive, although if I may summarise what I understand, perhaps you can correct me? The vortex in 'vortex lift' is triggered by the profile of the leading edge, both its plan and...
Forum: Tech Log
25th Dec 2010, 12:41
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

ChristiaanJ

Thank you CJ, this too adds texture to bare fact.



This will be interesting, I shall look forward to that. :)



I'll admit I was still a bit doubtful, until you wrote this, particularly:-...
Forum: Tech Log
24th Dec 2010, 20:16
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Vortex lift.

Okay, for the benefit of all the SLF and Vulgar Curiosity Seekers watching this thread, I will ask the 'nice but dim' question. :uhoh:

I thought I knew a bit about aeroplanes, but M2Dude, CJ and...
Forum: Tech Log
24th Dec 2010, 14:34
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Happy memories? I'm not sure.

M2Dude wrote:



I haven't needed to read a diagram like that in .... a whole grown up persons lifetime! :eek: AND gates and OR gates, 'Op Amps' and an Exclusive OR, if I'm not mistaken? :ok:
...
Forum: Tech Log
5th Dec 2010, 09:31
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

This thread just gets better.

A couple of observations and a questionette, if I may? First, I'm feeling quite pleased with myself that I have largely understood the latest phases of discussion, re: Reheat Ignition and N1...
Forum: Tech Log
18th Nov 2010, 16:39
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Galaxy Flyer

You're right there GF - the AVRoe Arrow is a complete mystery to me and I've heard of the Martin Baker single seat fighters and the Percival Peregrin! :hmm: :)

Roger.
Forum: Tech Log
18th Nov 2010, 00:59
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

It is still difficult to grasp the fact that,...

It is still difficult to grasp the fact that, with the one exception Christiaan has told us about, all of the control electronics in Concorde were analogue. Some of the little tweaks Dude has just...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Nov 2010, 11:42
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Tonkorde.

Sorry Dude, didn't realise that use of the 'T' word would upset you so! :) Perhaps you were frightened by one when you were a baby? :D:D I picked the T*****o randomly to illustrate the contrast...
Forum: Tech Log
10th Nov 2010, 22:49
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

SSBJ?

M2Dude wrote:



You'd have to say that designing and building the aeroplane probably isn't the tough issue. I mean you could probably adapt a military design - a Tornado can lift more than six...
Forum: Tech Log
7th Nov 2010, 10:58
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Rotating stall.

Sorry Dude, I'm behind on this again. :uhoh: I must be in the hard of thinking class on this. Would you just confirm - or jump all over :eek: - what I am visualising here please?

Due to some...
Forum: Tech Log
13th Oct 2010, 23:29
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Nice little quote.

I've just started reading Genesis of the Jet, by John Golley again - for the third time. :) I'm sure you know it's about Sir Frank Whittle and the birth of the jet engine. In the introduction there...
Forum: Tech Log
11th Oct 2010, 19:50
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Radiation.

I'll certainly look out for one Christiaan, but the hospital where I remember seeing it has been closed for seven years and I noticed the developers had moved in the other day! :sad:

Out of pure,...
Forum: Tech Log
10th Oct 2010, 14:13
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Another aspect of Concorde.

All this talk of a 'B' model is both interesting and a bit frustrating. It must be all the more so for our main contributors - M2Dude and ChristiaanJ - and I guess the crews themselves, that the 'B'...
Forum: Tech Log
1st Oct 2010, 18:22
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Landlady.

Seconded Landlady, but the traditional; 'Many Happy Returns' is sadly no longer possible. :sad: Also, its quite extraordinary that more than forty years have passed since that date - that's a whole...
Forum: Tech Log
22nd Sep 2010, 22:54
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

You had to stop and look.

Diesel8 made this observation which, given he/she was in New York, was hardly surprising that people stopped to look. I live in south London under an area where aircraft are not far from acquiring...
Forum: Tech Log
16th Sep 2010, 08:29
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Such is the way with machinery.

I would venture to suggest Dude, that what you describe pretty much holds true with any complex system. While I hesitate to anthropomorphise such systems, I know from my own experience with MRI/CT...
Forum: Tech Log
11th Sep 2010, 11:22
Replies: 2,133
Views: 1,678,578
Posted By Landroger

Panel machining.

One of my Scout Leaders, back in the sixties, was involved in (I think) programming the milling machines that milled Concorde wing panels from solid alloy billets. Dural I assume, I didn't think...
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