"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
12/12/2016 at 12:09 • Filed to: None
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"MonkeePuzzle" (monkeypuzzle)
12/12/2016 at 12:09 • Filed to: None | 4
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shared to me on the FB, so I share to thee
reminds me of:
user314
> MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 12:20 |
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Yeah, the CH-54 Tarhe was based on the same idea, though I don’t think the pod was used in service.
ttyymmnn
> MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 12:23 |
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The C-82 Packet was developed into the eminently more successful C-119 Flying Boxcar. Also, you forgot one.
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MonkeePuzzle
> ttyymmnn
12/12/2016 at 12:28 |
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lol, how could I forget!
AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
12/12/2016 at 12:31 |
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I was just going to mention the Thunderbirds...
JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 12:33 |
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Am I imagining this, or didn’t Pilatus at one point make/design/prototype a giant single-engine turboprop cargo plane that was designed to hold a single Standard (aluminum) Intermodal 40ft Container? I think it was supposed to be a FedEX exclusive or something, so they could move the largest possible volume of cargo to/from small airports without facilities for a multi-engine jet cargo planes (or pilots that were mutli-engine certified)... and then they could just pop the container onto a waiting truck and send it to the nearest sort facility, requiring very little infrastructure at the airport.... It may have been one of those “what if” articles in Popular Mechanics... or it might have been a fever dream of mine, as I can find nothing about such an idea on the interwebs... or perhaps my google-fu is simply weak..?
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ttyymmnn
> MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 12:34 |
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The GIF of the airliner ejecting the passenger pod should end with the pod coming down in a volcano.
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MonkeePuzzle
> JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/12/2016 at 12:36 |
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holding a standard size shipping container is the ONLY way I could see a concept like this one every working out.
trucks carry the container to a boat, boat carries it to a new port, truck to airport, airport to remote location. gotta have a single format or the whole thing breaks down.
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JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
> MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 12:41 |
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That was exactly the concept I remember. the container would have to be aluminum for weight-reasons, but otherwise be a standard 40ft Intermodal. As I remember it the plane was a high-wing fixed-gear STOL design, basically an embiggened PC-6 with tricycle gear instead of tail-dragger.
Would have been the biggest, or at least heaviest take off weight, Single-engine airplane ever built as I remember....
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AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
12/12/2016 at 12:47 |
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(I suspect the reason I have always loved the Tarhe/Skycrane is that it subconsciously reminds me of Thunderbird 2.)
Have a look at a Tarhe carrying the fuselage of a Caribou - 1st Cav Air Div, An Khe, Dec 1965:
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ttyymmnn
> AuthiCooper1300
12/12/2016 at 12:53 |
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That thing was a beast. Always made me think of some sort of insect. My brother built a model of one way, way back in the day. I remember being fascinated by the detachable pod.
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AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
12/12/2016 at 12:55 |
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I understand nowadays it is not that difficult for cargo dropped by parachute to “navigate” quite precisely thanks to GPS and such, right?
I once read a story about a sizable area of UK airspace being suddenly off-limits when a Land Rover that had just been dropped refused to go down quickly (altimeter malfunction, I suppose) and went on flying on its merry way.
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ttyymmnn
> AuthiCooper1300
12/12/2016 at 13:02 |
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I’m not aware of any tech for precision parachute drops, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
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AuthiCooper1300
> ttyymmnn
12/12/2016 at 13:09 |
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Actually per parafoil rather than parachute, but yes, they do exist:
http://defense-update.com/features/du-1-07/aerialdelivery3-gps.htm
Chasaboo
> MonkeePuzzle
12/12/2016 at 13:13 |
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Twin boom anything is cool in my book.
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MonkeePuzzle
> Chasaboo
12/12/2016 at 13:15 |
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p38 is my favourite plane!