It was real cool the moon went a lovely reddish colour before slowly being eclipsed.
Eclispe of the moon
Eclispe of the moon
Did anyone else see the eclipse of the moon last night
It was real cool the moon went a lovely reddish colour before slowly being eclipsed.
It was real cool the moon went a lovely reddish colour before slowly being eclipsed.
2004 Exige S2 1.8 - Ardent Red
2003 RAV4 vvti 2.0 - Baleric Blue shiny version
Don't Fear The Reaper
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Don't Fear The Reaper
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Caveat Lector
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missed it, but there's photos here!
http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... c&start=15
http://www.scottishelises.com/phpbb/vie ... c&start=15
Calypso Red S1 111s
We were lying in bed watching it, around 2300 in the SE, almost full red with a sliver of silver.
I have a pair of highish power binos, and through those it looked incredible, a perfect sphere hanging in the sky, surface detail standing out, and there were two bright stars either side of it.
Always wanted to be an Astronaut after I started flying and got to Test Pilots School, but I was waiting for Japanese technology, so missed out.
On the other hand I am still alive.
tut
I have a pair of highish power binos, and through those it looked incredible, a perfect sphere hanging in the sky, surface detail standing out, and there were two bright stars either side of it.
Always wanted to be an Astronaut after I started flying and got to Test Pilots School, but I was waiting for Japanese technology, so missed out.
On the other hand I am still alive.
tut
Tut you are just amazing. I think that loads of us wanted to be astronauts but not many will have been to the test pilots school. I was in NASA in Houston in December and watched a space walk live on the International Space Centre which was a near as I will get.tut wrote:
Always wanted to be an Astronaut after I started flying and got to Test Pilots School, but I was waiting for Japanese technology, so missed out.
tut
2004 Exige S2 1.8 - Ardent Red
2003 RAV4 vvti 2.0 - Baleric Blue shiny version
Don't Fear The Reaper
Back on the road!
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Don't Fear The Reaper
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thinfourth
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thinfourth wrote:rossybee wrote:Was at NASA Houston about 3 years ago - got to sit in the Fat Controller's seat in the doughnut shop when Apollo 13 was in space
Ross
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1972 Alfaholics Giulia Super
2000 Elise S1 Sport 160
2004 Bentley Conti GT
2017 Schkoda Yeti
2x Hairy GRs (not Toyota)
Now browsing the tech pages
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Ken
The Bell 47G, also known as the Sioux, was the first real Military helicopter, just a two seater with a T/C piston engine. If you could fly that you could fly anything, as like the Elise, it was just bare essentials.
No computerised controls, not even hydraulics, so apart from the usual antics of a cyclic column, collective lever, and tail rotor pedals, you had a manual twist grip throttle, and the rpm had to stay almost constant. So every time that you raised the collective lever with the left hand, you had to control height and speed with the cyclic stick with the right hand, directional control with left or right feet on the pedals, and also rpm with the left hand. They would have probably found a use for your cock as well given more time.
Net result was that during training you needed a football field to try and hover in.
Once operational, and in a War situation, you could be flying flat out at 10', trying to navigate or map read, using three different radios at the same time, UHF, VHF, HF, to the Artillery, FGA's, and ground troops, whilst crapping yourself when some slant eyed git tried to spoil your day with an AK47 or SAM 7.
Of course, now I am not considered capable of using a mobile phone when I am driving.
We flew without doors on in the Far East, had this big plastic bubble, so it was as close to real flying as you could get. No probs at speed, but trying to get out of a jungle clearing in Borneo vertically after picking up a CASEVAC, 40 deg temp, and 100ft trees, was a laugh a minute. Really could have done with a S/C Honda engine conversion then.
That together with flying its later big brother, the Bell 205(Huey) in the Oman war for seven years was as good as it gets. Got to fly many more types at ETPS (Empire Test Pilots School), and then in civilian flying, but it never matched those times.
Just found this on Google. He may have gone to the moon, but he was not so hot in a 47G.................
tut
NASA had a number of Bell 47s during the Apollo programme, used by astronauts as a trainer for the Lunar Lander. Eugene Cernan had a near disastrous accident shortly before his flight to the moon on Apollo 17 by crashing one into the Indian River.
The Bell 47G, also known as the Sioux, was the first real Military helicopter, just a two seater with a T/C piston engine. If you could fly that you could fly anything, as like the Elise, it was just bare essentials.
No computerised controls, not even hydraulics, so apart from the usual antics of a cyclic column, collective lever, and tail rotor pedals, you had a manual twist grip throttle, and the rpm had to stay almost constant. So every time that you raised the collective lever with the left hand, you had to control height and speed with the cyclic stick with the right hand, directional control with left or right feet on the pedals, and also rpm with the left hand. They would have probably found a use for your cock as well given more time.
Net result was that during training you needed a football field to try and hover in.
Once operational, and in a War situation, you could be flying flat out at 10', trying to navigate or map read, using three different radios at the same time, UHF, VHF, HF, to the Artillery, FGA's, and ground troops, whilst crapping yourself when some slant eyed git tried to spoil your day with an AK47 or SAM 7.
Of course, now I am not considered capable of using a mobile phone when I am driving.
We flew without doors on in the Far East, had this big plastic bubble, so it was as close to real flying as you could get. No probs at speed, but trying to get out of a jungle clearing in Borneo vertically after picking up a CASEVAC, 40 deg temp, and 100ft trees, was a laugh a minute. Really could have done with a S/C Honda engine conversion then.
That together with flying its later big brother, the Bell 205(Huey) in the Oman war for seven years was as good as it gets. Got to fly many more types at ETPS (Empire Test Pilots School), and then in civilian flying, but it never matched those times.
Just found this on Google. He may have gone to the moon, but he was not so hot in a 47G.................
tut
NASA had a number of Bell 47s during the Apollo programme, used by astronauts as a trainer for the Lunar Lander. Eugene Cernan had a near disastrous accident shortly before his flight to the moon on Apollo 17 by crashing one into the Indian River.