Is this takeoff dangerous?

ILSstud said:
One time I was in the engineering building and the "cute little pilots" were struggling to understand the standard equation of a line. All of us just lined up and watched for a moment. It was adorable! y=mx+ what???? I don't get it!
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Thank Gawd for engineers because I have never needed to know that piece of info nor has it ever come up in any social gatherings I've attended in all my years on this planet. :dunno:

PS..Just raz'n ya!! I envy anyone who can sense of all those equations and technical book learnin' stuff! I just a dumb freightdawg....someone pass the beer and pretzels.
 
I fli plans. I am a pylot. :D

I would also like to say, for the record, I try not to bring engineering or math into my social engagements....most of the time.
 
ILSstud said:
I fli plans. I am a pylot. :D

I would also like to say, for the record, I try not to bring engineering or math into my social engagements....most of the time.
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LOL! When physics and calculus was over in college, I can't remember when I had to use it again...even aerodynamics! :)
 
ILSstud said:
One time I was in the engineering building and the "cute little pilots" were struggling to understand the standard equation of a line. All of us just lined up and watched for a moment. It was adorable! y=mx+ what???? I don't get it!
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Me in those math classes: :drool:

I like easy charts and graphs. Picture books help too. Tell you what, just tell me which button to push to make the spinny-lookin' things start spinnin'.
 
HA! I would say I am more a milder version of this guy....

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staplegun said:
I flew the C-9 in the Navy reserves.

We did often did critical-field take-offs vs. the 121 world balanced-field take-offs.

What that means is that we had to plan our take-offs so that if we lost an engine at V1 we would rotate at Vr and the aircraft would become airborne at the last brick vs. rotating so as to be at 35 feet at the last brick. It was the only way the C-9 could carry some of the loads we flew.

I remember flying out of NAS Fallon NV at a field elevation of almost 4000' and having to take-off slats only on a 16,000' long runway and then fly to NAS Lemoore CA to refuel in order to get to the East coast with the load...


Kevin
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Funny you mention that, because the previous time I had been on a C-9 (headed out to Tailhook), the flight ended at Fallon with us declaring an emergency for a hyd pump failure, and holding for about 45 mins until the blues could land. As we landed and taxi'd in there were about 500 fire trucks following us, and we were greeted by men in tin foil fire suits as the crew shut the engines down. I think we were all glad to hop on a C-40 for the return trip :p

Seriously though, that's interesting to know. We just figured they said to hell with abort criteria and just gave it their best go. The most entertaining part of the flight (aside from takeoff) was when the skipper's kids got on the controls for a few minutes. Wish I would have been so lucky when I was their age :rawk:
 
///AMG said:
As we landed and taxi'd in there were about 500 fire trucks following us, and we were greeted by men in tin foil fire suits as the crew shut the engines down.
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I call bullcrap on that. There's no airport that has 500 fire trucks based there as fire protection.

You're full of it.



:D
 
///AMG said:
Funny you mention that, because the previous time I had been on a C-9 (headed out to Tailhook), the flight ended at Fallon with us declaring an emergency for a hyd pump failure, and holding for about 45 mins until the blues could land. As we landed and taxi'd in there were about 500 fire trucks following us, and we were greeted by men in tin foil fire suits as the crew shut the engines down. I think we were all glad to hop on a C-40 for the return trip :p

Seriously though, that's interesting to know. We just figured they said to hell with abort criteria and just gave it their best go. The most entertaining part of the flight (aside from takeoff) was when the skipper's kids got on the controls for a few minutes. Wish I would have been so lucky when I was their age :rawk:
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Please...that is how EVERY flight is wrapped up on the C-5. Why do you think ARFF planning is SOOOO important?
 
ILSstud said:
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I normally turn a blind eye to the videos on youtube entitled "crazy dangerous takeoff!!!!!" or "we almost died in this one!" but this video seems pretty close to insane. Opinions? Either way, a fun one to watch, that's for sure!
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watch this video it will definitely change your mind on how much water can a jet engine take

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faDWFwDy8-U

sorry folks i dont know how to embed it
 
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