OT Paul Allen Shows Off the World's Largest Airplane For the First Time

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  1. stampedehero

    stampedehero Make Your Day, a Doobies Day Staff Member Moderator

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    mmmmm............ I would venture to guess Allen. I don't have stats which could compare 1930's/40's to what the markets are today.
     
  2. RipCityDSCPL

    RipCityDSCPL Could be worse, at least it's not Lonzo.

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    A Butler would suffice too.
     
  3. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    You're out of your mind. Nobody is rooting for it to fail. I'm hoping it doesn't crash into a major city and kill thousands. It probably will though.
     
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    BoBoBREWSKI BURP!

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    That's insane! Hopefully its a successful project for Paul and helps NASA.
     
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    Hmmm. I mean id like to think the engineers in charge are smarter than me but that shit just doesnt look safe.
     
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    oldfisherman Unicorn Wrangler

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    Pure bullshit, 100% bullshit.

    No one in this thread is rooting for Mr. Allen to fail. Some posters have concerns about the planes design and safety. They have very legitimate questions about stress and weak points of the design, so do I.

    You on the other hand have opinions and rumors you are presenting as facts and you are wishing for our president to fail.

    Your opinions are 100% bullshit, on all accounts, and presenting them as facts is miss-information until proven otherwise. And you do not give a shit about finding out the truth.

    There is something very wrong with your negativity.
     
  7. barfo

    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I don't know how legitimate those questions are. Is anyone here even remotely qualified to design airplanes? I'm quite sure that lots of people who are worked on that design.

    barfo
     
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    If someone wants Russian ties, look into Podesta and Joule. (along with the Hillary uranium deal with Russia)Actual facts and millions of dollars there. Not saying Trump doesn't have them too but one has a lot of facts and one has a lot of unnamed sources so far.

    Okay, back to basketball.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Ok.... that plane can really get above the rim, but it can't guard LeBron.

    barfo
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    I'm going to guess that Paul hired some decent engineers to design this thing..... and that those engineers know more about aeronautical design than the people on this forum. :devilwink:
     
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    What happens if the two pilots disagree on where to go?
     
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    [​IMG] One of the most successful planes of WWII.....which was a few design engineering years ago.
     
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    BBert Weasels Ripped My Flesh

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    It weights 500,000 pounds and carries 250,000 pounds of fuel. Just how fast does this thing have to go to be airborne?
    :smiley-eek2:
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    They can see each other, so they can give the finger, or fire off a few rounds. Usual road rage rules apply.

    barfo
     
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    "Scotty....I'm going to need full warp power!" ~Captain Kirk

    [​IMG]
     
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    You don't get it as usual. The people who designed the De Havilland Comet were brilliant. They didn't really understand metal fatigue and the planes randomly disintegrated and nobody knew why.

    I don't have any engineering training to KNOW that shit is going to fail. If I did, I'd have said so.

    It just looks janky (scientific term like covfefe)

    And weighs a godawful amount and if it falls out of the sky I wouldn't want to be near it.

    Dviss' insane leap to us wanting Paul Allen to fail and the Russians to rule the world is completely ridiculous.
     
  17. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    If they knew 100 percent that it was going to fly like a dream they'd just hop in and go. Maybe you would want to go with them and write a piece for the board.
     
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    Yeah, there's always the risk that what you don't know will ruin what you built. That's an argument against designing anything new, including the original airplanes.

    These days, at least, they have fairly sophisticated computer models to simulate flying it in the actual environment. That doesn't mean you can remove the risk of the unknowable (by definition, you can never remove that risk) but it does at least mitigate it because issues can emerge organically from all the dynamics being modeled that you may not have anticipated just by mathing it out on paper.

    tl;dr Why you want the Russians to rule the White House?
     
  19. bodyman5000 and 1

    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    I'd rather he just build a space ship Enterprise before the Russians do.
     
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    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I ain't riding on the thing!
     

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