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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Penderic on May 31, 2017, 07:53:35 PM
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https://www.geekwire.com/2017/paul-allens-stratolaunch-space-venture-brings-monster-airplane-hangar-first-time/
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Odd that there are two cockpits.
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Fully loaded and fueled, its' take off weight is greater than the weight of 12 M-60 tanks.
That is indeed a BIG airplane.
quote- Odd that there are two cockpits. Maybe they want two flight crews to be capable at the same time.
Hopefully they are trying to do the same thing at the same time.
If converted to a bomber it could carry 22 of those giant mother bombs like they used on the terrorists a couple of weeks ago. Talk about Big Bang theory!
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I watched a show last night on the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. There was a 40 ft. in it's side and they put the whole battleship ON another bigger ship to get it to dry dock. I wish someone could post a picture.,
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I watched a show last night on the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. There was a 40 ft. in it's side and they put the whole battleship ON another bigger ship to get it to dry dock. I wish someone could post a picture.,
(http://thumb.ibb.co/evAYiF/Cole_Blue_Marlin.jpg) (http://ibb.co/evAYiF)
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Odd that there are two cockpits.
Husband and wife team. :grin:
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Odd that there are two cockpits.
The plane is flown from the right side. The left side is empty and unpressurized. It has windows only because the plane has a lot of used components from retired 747s, including upper forward fuselage structures.
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The torsional load on the middle wing must be hell.
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The torsional load on the middle wing must be hell.
I was thinking the same. Shocked the tail was not connected.
Sure the engineers built it that way on purpose.
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The lack of structure between the tails is probably to allow room to launch a space ship.
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thanks for posting - very interesting
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The plane can carry up to three orbital launch vehicles at a time, so it can put satellites into three different orbits on a single flight.
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I watched a show last night on the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole in 2000. There was a 40 ft. in it's side and they put the whole battleship ON another bigger ship to get it to dry dock. I wish someone could post a picture.,
The Cole is a destroyer. Much smaller. There are no active commissioned battleships.
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As big and heavy as it appears to be, its maximum takeoff weight is the same as an Airbus A380-800F, 1.3 million pounds.
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I'd paint it yellow and call it 'Big Bird', or perhaps "Tweety"😆
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I didn't see mention of distance between wheels,but I'm thinking there's probably not too many runways in the world that this thing could land or take off from.
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You could land a small plane on those huge wings! Almost. :rolleyes:
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic006/small%20plane_zpsshe0nyfq.jpg)
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Is that Chuck in the little yellow plane?
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The Cole is a destroyer. Much smaller. There are no active commissioned battleships.
Beat me to it.
And while there were floating dry-docks that could handle battleships (there's a neat YouTube video of the USS Idaho moving into one in 1944) there certainly was no ship afloat that could handle a battleship in the way that transport ship handled the Cole.
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Landing a small plane on the big bird would be a landing with two severe bumps in mid field.
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Landing a small plane on the big bird would be a landing with two severe bumps in mid field.
You'd probably have to land with the two planes flying the same direction at the same speed. Otherwise you'd have some severe crabbing to deal with. :laugh:
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I think they were referring to landing on it as it st on the ground.
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Chuck could do it!
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I think they were referring to landing on it as it st on the ground.
What fun would that be?
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Is that Chuck in the little yellow plane?
Yes! and that's why we call him "Chuckie". :grin: :grin: :evil:
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Does that little yellow thing actually fly? The little training wheel landing gear makes me think all landings would be bone jarring, and something I'd only want to experience once. Probably much rougher than the thread that described becoming air borne off a V7.
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Does that little yellow thing actually fly?
Only if you drop it out of an airplane, and then much like a brick flies.
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Only if you drop it out of an airplane, and then much like a brick flies.
Actually it flies at a speed approaching 200 mph
Here's a bit of history:
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0214.shtml
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I stand wrong! :) It looked to me like the prop was not really bolted to anything substantial, so I thought the plane was just a display item or trainer of some sort. Amazing!
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Is that Chuck in the little yellow plane?
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https://www.geekwire.com/2017/paul-allens-stratolaunch-space-venture-brings-monster-airplane-hangar-first-time/
(http://i1299.photobucket.com/albums/ag77/Penderic/Penderic006/stratonew4_zpsuvhso0pf.jpg)
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Is this thing real or a photochop??
In one of the pics on the web site it shows 2 tugs pulling it.
How do you sync that up - not least as come a turn the outer one would have to go faster than the inner one
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Even a brick will fly given enough power.
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Let's look at this thing from a viewpoint of status...
It is: large, complicated, built from recycled pieces that are being forced to do jobs they were not designed to do, and they hung extra engines on it because they need the thrust to make up for the lack of wing area.
It will probably fly, but I wouldn't want to be under the flight path. It looks like a crash waiting to happen.
JMHO, YMMV.
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Maybe I'm a bit politically incorrect, when I opened the site and saw the plane, I said to myself. "Ahhh a Siamese plane."
"If you can't impress them with your knowledge, dazzle them with some B. S."
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From Avweb:
Stratolaunch Leaves Hangar
By Geoff Rapoport
Paul Allen's ambitious, fixed-wing satellite launch platform, the Stratolaunch, rolled out of its hangar Wednesday to begin ground and taxi testing. The colossal twin-fuselage aircraft, built by Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites, is projected to be, by wingspan, the largest aircraft to have ever taken flight, at 385 feet wide. The prototype has a 500,000-pound empty weight, a target maximum takeoff weight of 1.3 million pounds and is powered by six turbofans scavenged from Boeing 747-400s.
Today, we're moving the Stratolaunch aircraft out of the hangar, for the first time ever, to conduct aircraft fueling tests. This marks the completion of the initial aircraft construction phase and the beginning of the aircraft ground and flight testing phase, says Stratolaunch CEO, Jean Floyd. Stratolaunch hopes to reduce the size of rockets and therefore the cost of putting small satellites in space by launching from the stratosphere. The Stratolaunch is designed to carry three Orbital ATK Pegasus XL rockets, each of which will drive a satellite up to 1,000 pounds into low earth orbit.
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Dynamic computer control not withstanding, I find the concept of flex mind-bogglingly frightening. I'm quite surprised at the lack of a continuous tail boom but then to, I can't seem to make a penny in the field of aeronautical design.
Todd.
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The idea is not new. In WWII there was the Heinkel He 111 Zwilling (= twin), a cumbersome affair. They at first let it fly in the same configuration as the (much bigger) plane in question, later they added a strut between the fuselages just before the elevators.