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[ky]

Didnt know where to put this since its not FSX, but a landing in an An-225 @ Princess Juliana Intl in FS2002. I had about half the runway left, and made a dead stick landing.

 

[astrosammy]

Good old FS2002! Are there no mountains on Saint Martin? :blink:

 

[ky]

Good old FS2002! Are there no mountains on Saint Martin? :blink:

Terrain might be disabled....

 

[Felipi1205]

Default terrain at FS2002 for this area is terrible! Even the default FS2004 was terrible, just FSX showed a realistic scenery to St. Martin!

 

[T.Neo]

Someone in the aerospace engineering program here just told me that the external tank on the space shuttle had it's own engines. I tried to tell him that that was wrong, but I didn't convince him.

If that occured to me, I'd have a word with their educator/professor... :blink:

 

[NovaSilisko]

 

[n122vu]

Had an interesting idea come to me while drifting off to sleep last night. A workaround for the 'docked while landing' bug and having a vessel in the Arrow Freighter's hangar bay. Use a Universal RMS as an "arresting hook," a-la Crimson Skies.

Skip to 9:43, you'll get the idea.

Basically, fly the DG/XR2, etc, close to the bay, then switch to URMS on the Arrow, grapple the craft and pull it up into the bay, then close the doors, and land at your convenience.

 

[Pipcard]

A robotic arm was used to grapple the HTV and attach it to the ISS.

 

[Eccentrus]

Basically, fly the DG/XR2, etc, close to the bay, then switch to URMS on the Arrow, grapple the craft and pull it up into the bay, then close the doors, and land at your convenience.

And it would have been more realistic, since the bay is a closed space, and we don't want any of them high-speed jets from the XR/DG RCS to be flying in there would we?

 

[Cosmic Penguin]

I smell the odor of high concentration kerosene in Manchester (the one in UK, of course...)... :shifty:

 

[n122vu]

I smell the odor of high concentration kerosene in Manchester (the one in UK, of course...)... :shifty:

So, are you saying we could soon see........wait for it......Manchester Ignited?

 

[Cras]

is there a difference? I mean, could you even tell if Manchester were burned to the ground? I would think the odor of kerosene to be a vast improvement over the normal smell.

 

[n122vu]

A robotic arm was used to grapple the HTV and attach it to the ISS.

Yes. In my proposed workaround though, the arm would be the capture method, and wouldn't be used to dock the craft with the Arrow. It would simply hold it in the bay.

 

[Urwumpe]

Someone in the aerospace engineering program here just told me that the external tank on the space shuttle had it's own engines. I tried to tell him that that was wrong, but I didn't convince him.

Actually, it is not wrong. The ET does have a propulsive tumble valve, a special vent valve with a nozzle to induce tumbling while dumping gaseous hydrogen.

 

[mojoey]

NEVER EVER EVER take your computer to the idiots at Office Depot's tech 'support' (no offense to anyone here who works there.) Took my laptop in for a tune up, what was two hours turned into a week. They removed my anti virus, factory restored my hard drive, and managed to delete the wireless driver. I...gah!

 

[Evil_Onyx]

Name as many aircraft as you can, bonus cookies to who can name the museum.

(I know its a bad photo but it was the best i could get at the time.)

 

[mojoey]

Avro Lancaster, DeHavilland Mosquito, Sea King, Canberra(?), Comet, Glostor Meteor.

 

[Scruce]

bonus cookies to who can name the museum.

It's RAF Duxford, Hangar One (AirSpace). Behind you is the over-mach display. To the right of you is the aerodynamic demonstration exhibit.

 

[N_Molson]

Just lost 1 hour because of I forgot to put a "return 1" in a switch/case structure. I was beginning to get mad as the code behavior seemed to defy logic. Which is impossible. :facepalm:

 

[Mattyv]

Actually, it is not wrong. The ET does have a propulsive tumble valve, a special vent valve with a nozzle to induce tumbling while dumping gaseous hydrogen.

This guy, though, meant something that was used to provide thrust during launch.