Monday, January 22, 2024

Imagine piloting that

 


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  1. Why does the nose section of that plane's skin appear to be a smooth/different from the aft section of that plane?

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    1. Because it gets there first. No need for laminar corrugation.

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  2. It looks like the cockpit section has flat aluminium skin. The corrugated skin on the cabin section is stiffer but also much heavier. The tail section also appears to be covered with flat aluminium.
    Airplane design engineers make things as heavy as they need to be and no more. The DHC-6 Twin Otter has chemically milled tapered skin on the top and bottom of the wing. The skin is thickest at the wing root where the load is greatest and tapers gradually towards the tip where the load is least.
    Al_in_Ottawa

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    1. Wow, Al. That's some good information. How long you been maintaining aircraft?

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  3. ...specified skin was backordered so assembly line used what leftovers they had. Classic "work with what you got".

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  4. I said 'airfoil', not 'air-Mohel'.

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    1. Yes and it did yeoman service for many years from what I've read. And before the homogenization of design, nations had a style distinct from one another. This one shouts Brit!

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    2. I got a Consolidated Commodore vibe when I first looked at it until I realized that the number of engines was wrong.

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  6. Imperial airlines .

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  7. Interesting way to get 4 prop blades, they are stacked two bladed. Much cheaper and easier to make.

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  8. pilot prolly felt like the foreskin on a dick in that plane.

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