Terrible photo, but it was with my phone. Second flyover in two days.
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Terrible photo, but it was with my phone. Second flyover in two days.
watercolor airplanes
I love airplanes, ever since I was a kid. My dad switched from oil panting to watercolor and landscapes to planes, here is his first watercolor. He saw this as a photograph and turned it into a painting.
Last edited by Daniel_187; 07-26-2014 at 14:29.
They're watching you Ridge! That's just the one you could see.....Originally Posted by Ridge
Terrible photo, but it was with my phone. Second flyover in two days.
There's a lot more of us ugly mf'ers out here than there are of you pretty people!
- Frank Zappa
Scrotum Diem - bag the day!
It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.....
A380 passing us like we were standing still.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Its even more painful at 300 true, headed west. And then descending below 20 just to get out of the headwind.
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
.74 is unacceptable.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Nice picture, you have a good view from your office window! ( I'm not getting the .74 thing, is that a rotation or Mach reference?)A380 passing us like we were standing still.
.74 is a mach reference.
The cruise speed in an Airbus is generated by a computer based on a 'cost index' number. These numbers can range from 0 to into the hundreds [I seem to remember entering 999 at some point, but I'd never admit to it!]. The cost index number is supposed to balance fuel economy with other non-fuel costs associated with the flight… crew costs, engine per hour costs, misconnected passengers, headwinds or tailwinds, etc. Near as I can tell, most Airbus operators use cost indexes of somewhere in the teens up to around 75. Frontier consistently uses a cost index of 4… which can lead to some very low cruise airspeeds.
I would guess that most operators fly their A320 series aircraft at somewhere around .78 mach. Frontier is usually .76 +/- .01 unless we're at lower altitudes for whatever reason and then it gets stupid slow. Hence the reference to being passed by birds in flight or by an A380.
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