Simply random stuff

[barfle]

I had my first helicopter flight up to a glacier on my Alaska cruise back in May. It was amazing seeing the glacier from above with all the lines from where glaciers merge. Also seeing all the ground up rock flour from meltwater in the sea with the cruise ships making patterns in it as they arrived and departed.

I did the same thing in Juneau. A pair of helicopters with rour passengers each, landing on a fairly flat spot. Great fun!

 

[Bruce00]

It certainly was for me!

Concorde entered service in 1976 so not likely in the mid 80s. One takeoff before entry into service the aircraft would have been light, no passengers or luggage and likely a low fuel load for short distance flight so climb could have been very steep.

Kept thinking about this last night, as I remember things and times, on which motorcycles I owned at the time.
I was wrong thinking it was when the Concorde started flight, It was March 1985, when the Concorde started non stop flights from Tampa to London (had to Google it) regardless it was an awesome aircraft. The terminal at Tampa has the parking decks on top, so on a motorcycle we could slip around the toll gates to get on the top deck for a spectacular view.
Just some of the things that stand out in your memories
Be well

 

[Bruce00]

If the chopper is taking off in a hurry, it's not going to gain elevation fast, so it probably is lower and it is louder to you.

No, the air traffic from the small airport flies low over my house all the times because Iam also in the flight path of commercial aircraft in & out of Newark.
Busy airspace, as the local airfield must stay under Newarks flight path.
Was wondering if helicopters can change the pitch of their rotors, because when they are in a hurry, they sure sound different to me. I'll try to snap a Pic next time one flies over, because they are low enough to see the pilot clearly

 

[LuvMyQuad]

Pretty much the entire world used to drive on the left like the UK. It was because with coach and horses the driver sits on the right and uses the whip in their right hand, so driving on the left you could have coaches passing each other in opposite directions with no risk of them accidentally whipping each other. There are similar issues with horse riders wearing their swords on the left, if you pass each other riding on the left your swords cannot clash.

I keep trying to picture this in my head and i keep coming up with the same conclusion.

If a coach driver rides on the left but sits on the right of the coach and uses his right hand to control his whip, he will be whipping toward the center of the two lanes.

If a coach driver rides on the right an sits on the right of the coach and uses his right hand to control his whip, he will be whipping toward the outer edge of the right lane.

Initially i thought there would be less chance of an accidental whipping with the 2nd scenerio. Then i thought that it would all hinge on how the whip travels, wouldant it? If it travels on the diagonal, right to left, it starts to make much more sense.

An Ah-ha moment.

 

[mandrix]

Kept thinking about this last night, as I remember things and times, on which motorcycles I owned at the time.
I was wrong thinking it was when the Concorde started flight, It was March 1985, when the Concorde started non stop flights from Tampa to London (had to Google it) regardless it was an awesome aircraft. The terminal at Tampa has the parking decks on top, so on a motorcycle we could slip around the toll gates to get on the top deck for a spectacular view.
Just some of the things that stand out in your memories
Be well
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In the late 60's when the Tampa airport was being expanded into a "spoke" design, a few of us slipped over at night and rode the shuttle cars or whatever they were called. By some luck we were not caught by whatever security guards they did/did not have at the time. I went into the service a few years later and only ever had two flights in and two flights out from Tampa, IIRC.
When I got out of the service was the last time I ever visited the airport. I remember falsely telling my wife my arrival time was an hour later than it actually was, so I could sit in a bar at the airport and have some "me" time before getting back in "the world" as we used to call it back then.
My Bud and me had flown to Atlanta together wearing dress greens. We both went to a bathroom and changed into civvies. We had a few drinks at the airport, and he took a flight to Orlando, and I to Tampa. Sadly never heard from him again, and all I remember now is his name was David, a medium height black man with an appealing sense of humor, and we had bonded in Basic Training over a love of Grand Funk.

 

[mandrix]

No, the air traffic from the small airport flies low over my house all the times because Iam also in the flight path of commercial aircraft in & out of Newark.
Busy airspace, as the local airfield must stay under Newarks flight path.
Was wondering if helicopters can change the pitch of their rotors, because when they are in a hurry, they sure sound different to me. I'll try to snap a Pic next time one flies over, because they are low enough to see the pilot clearly

Well yes, the rotors do change pitch (or angle) depending on what is required. But I don't know all the mechanics behind it. Been too many years and not sure how much I actually knew back then.