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So when you look down you see .... a touchpad ?! :ah_oh:

White trash name generator here http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/3411/ Lots of fun. Signed Bertie Chickensworth

A hillbilly farmer who wanted to get a divorce paid a visit to a lawyer. The lawyer said, 'How can I help you?' The farmer said, 'I want to get one of them dayvorces.' The lawyer said, 'Do you have any grounds?' The farmer said, 'Yes, I got 40 acres'. The lawyer said, 'No, No, you don't understand, Do you have a suit? The farmer said, 'Yes, I got a suit, I wears it to church on Sundays.' The lawyer said, 'No, no, I mean, do you have a case?' The farmer said, 'No, I ain't got a Case, but I got a John Deere. The lawyer said, 'No, I mean, do you have a grudge?' The farmer said, 'Yes! I got a grudge, that's where I parks the John Deere' The lawyer said, 'Does your wife beat you up or something?' The farmer said, 'No, we both get up at 4:30.' By now the lawyer is getting frustrated but tries one last question. The lawyer said, 'Is your wife a nagger?' The farmer said, 'No , she's a little white gal, but our last child was a nagger and that's why I wants a dayvorce .'

You see, this is why I don't check in to this forum too often. I'm just getting contented with how my life is going and then someone comes along and posts a link like this! Now I can't get Alaska out of my head ;)

Well since we're being edumacational, ever wondered how they work out bytes megabytes etc? A bit is one Binary Digit representing two values, 0 and 1 A byte is 8 bits A kilobyte is 2^10 bytes or 1024 bytes ... close enough to 1000 or kilo a megabyte is 2^20 bytes or 1,048,576 ... close enough to 1,000,000 or ...well you get the idea :) a gigabyte is 2^30 bytes a terabyte is 2^40 bytes

An elderly couple, who were both widowed, had been going out with each other for a long time. Urged on by their friends, they decided it was finally time to get married. Before the wedding, they went out to dinner and had a long conversation regarding how their marriage might work. They discussed finances, living arrangements, and so on. Finally, the old gentleman decided it was time to broach the subject of their physical relationship. 'How do you feel about sex?' he asked, rather tentatively. 'I would like it 'infrequently' ' she replied. The old gentleman sat quietly for a moment, adjusted his glasses, then leaned over towards her and whispered, 'Is that one word or two?'

Hi Does anyone know who could supply the tap or hardware/plumbing to switch between dual fuel tanks? This is for use in a car so would be switching fuel input and fuel return (EFI setup). Thanks in anticipation.

I love these 'airline cracks'

This forum is amazing! Unfortunately I don't have anything to blog about, not aviation related anyway, as I'm currently grounded. I wish this facility was around when I did my kit car blog . It's all handcrafted, using dreamweaver. Unfortunately I lost my hard drive one day and have never recovered the data or the momentum to keep it going. Anyway, well done Ian. World class stuff.

Prince Charles decided to take up jogging. Every day, he'd jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner. He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow. 'One hundred and fifty pounds!' she'd shout from the curb. 'No! Five pounds!' he would fire back, just to shut her up. This ritual between him and the hooker became a daily occurrence. He'd run by and she'd yell, 'One hundred and Fifty pounds!' He'd yell back, 'Five pounds!' One day, Camilla decided that she wanted to accompany her 'husband' on his jog. As the jogging couple neared the working woman's street corner, Prince Charles realised she'd bark her £150 offer and Camilla would wonder what he'd really been doing on all his past outings. He figured he'd better have a good explanation for his wife. As they jogged into the turn that would take them past the corner, he became even more apprehensive than usual. Sure enough, there was the hooker. He tried to avoid the prostitute's eyes as she watched the pair jog past. Then, from her corner, the hooker yelled: 'See what you get for five pounds, you tight b@6!@rd?!' :big_grin:

A neutron walk into a bar and orders a beer. "How much do I owe you?" he asks. The bartender says, for you, no charge.

There's a lot more that can be done to improve crash survivability. Passenger cars have really outstripped aircraft in that regard. I was apalled at the level of safety in the old Cessnas and Pipers when I started my flying training. Seats that felt like they came from a 1950 Morris and a worn strip of material for a belt. The seat even came loose while taxiing. But flying is costly and pilots don't want to make it more costly by adding on minimum levels of safety and crash protection.

Yes, I think it is the yanks' fault. According to Wikipedia there are only three countries in the world that have not adopted the metric system. Liberia, Burma and the good 'ol USofA. Draw your own conclusions from that!

That's how I learned to fly a single seat glider :)

I'd add another

That's funny :)

I was taking a group of rellies for a flight in a PA-28 cherokee. They were a bit nervous and during the run up, my auntie closed the hatch. Not wanting to seem rude, I didn't check it, but turned the lock and assumed it wouldn't lock if not properly shut. At about 50kts on take off roll, the hatch blew open, frightening her half to death. I aborted the take off, went back and did the run up and checks all over again. Never trust someone else to do your checks.

I don't reckon you will get most planes' wheels to turn at infinity. 200 knots max before they disintegrate. 50 knots for the Arena Aviation Tomahawk :)

MM I think this is the crux of the matter. I have now seen the light. The conveyor cannot slow the acceleration, it just spins the wheels faster. If the thrust was from driven wheels as per a car, then yes, acceleration cancelled out neatly. BUT, the thrust is against the air not the conveyor and the air is standing still (wrt the scenery). So, the a/c will eventually see take off speed (that's airspeed), although it's ground speed (if you put a speedo on the wheels) would be twice the airspeed. NOTE this assumes that the conveyor is only matching the plane's airspeed and *not* set up to infinitely increase in speed to keep the plane in the same place wrt the scenery.

A man runs into an Old West bar and screams "Big Jakes a comin' to town". There is pandemonium as the patrons knock over tables and drinks, climbing over each other in their rush to get out. Eventually the dust settles and everything goes quiet. The only person left in the bar is a traveller new to town, who got knocked out in the panic. He hears a slow clip-clop coming down the street, and hides behind the bar. Peering over the top, he sees a huge man on a huge bull ride up slowly. He gets off, punches the bull between the eyes, dropping it one blow, tears the saloon doors off with his enormous hands and stomps up to the bar. He spots the small man quivering behind the bar and says "You the barkeep?" The man thinks quickly and says "Sure buddy, let me get you one on the house." "Nah I can't stay" says the guy, "Big Jakes comin to town."

The original hypothetical doesn't give enough information, that's why everyone is disagreeing. I initially accepted that the treadmill was able to hold the aircraft still wrt the air. But how could it do this? Can the rolling friction generated by the treadmill overcome the thrust generated by the prop? How fast can the treadmill turn? In a perfect world where there is no rolling friction or centrifugal force on the wheels or heat build up from wheel bearings turning at 10000000 RPM, then there is nothing to prevent the thrust from pushing the a/c along wrt the air. In the real world it would still be possible to build a treadmill that could run at well over the design limits of the wheels, resulting in catastrophic failure of the wheels and a messy crash. So in that set of assumptions, the plane would not fly. So everyone is correct, depending on your assumptions :)

The whole argument revolves (no pun) around whether you believe it is *possible* to build a treadmill that can prevent an a/c gaining airspeed (forward speed relative to an observer) by increasing the rolling friction against it. If it is a perfect machine then yes, it can accelerate the treadmill to a million km/h, bursting the tyres and wrecking the a/c. Of course you can argue that the a/c is also a perfect frictionless machine, so is not affected. It's probably a good argument to have after a few drinks. Actually I think I need a few drinks after all this mental effort

brentc said "So you see (oh please tell me you see), the conveyor operator cannot force the plane to remain stationary. And if the plane isn't stationary, it can take off." The penny drops. The conveyor cannot keep the plane stationary wrt the scenery, so the a/c must accelerate through the air . Whew :)

Airsick "The plane moves in one direction, while the conveyer moves in the opposite direction. This conveyer has a control system that tracks the plane speed and tunes the speed of the conveyer to be exactly the same (but in the opposite direction). " The thrust from the prop moves the plane forward *relative* to the belt surface, so as far as the wheels are concerned, it's moving. But according to your description, the conveyor increases it's backwards motion to keep the a/c stationary *relative to the scenery*. Assuming the air is attached to the scenery, not the conveyor, then the wings feel no airflow (except propwash). No airflow=nolift=noflight. For anyone claiming it can fly, can you please explain where the airflow is coming from over the wings??:)

NO. Imagine you have taped wool tell-tales over the wings and at the tail. You rev it up to maximum thrust, and the conveyor speeds up to keep you in the same spot. You would observe the following; The engine is running full blast. The scenery is not moving. The undercarriage sounds like it's about to come apart. The tail telltales are streaming out behind in the prop wash. The wing telltales (and this is important) are strung out close to the fuse, but outside the propwash, they're hanging limply. The only airstream over the wing is from the propwash. There is no airflow over the wings proper. So the question is can this a/c fly in it's own propwash? I think not. You could find out by doing a full power run-up :)