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Full_Clark
3y ago
The pilot was busy executing the missed-approach procedure, running checklists with the rest of the flight crew, and coordinating the hold with ATC before talking to the passengers. "He just had to take a while to gather himself after
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4y ago
I think for mobile interfaces it might be easier to have the engine as the top half of the screen and the boosters as the bottom L/R quarters. That way you could use one thumb each for roll inputs and an index finger for thrust, withou
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4y ago
Agreed. I tried to get a lot of flips prior to a successful landing, then I realized you can just accelerate upwards to an absurd height and do oodles of flips offscreen before stabilizing to land. If there were a fuel limit, or if there we
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4y ago
Universal Hydrogen is outfitting a Dash-8 with one hydrogen fuel cell engine for a test flight in March (leaving the other engine unchanged as a Jet-A powered turboprop). If all goes well they'll convert the other engine to hydrogen fu