Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/06/2020 at 09:15 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Happy Monday. My boys start online school today. This should be interesting.

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Future next gen S2000 owner > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 09:18

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Seems like the visibility would be poor ........

pip bip - choose Corrour > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 09:23

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g’night

ttyymmnn > Future next gen S2000 owner 04/06/2020 at 09:26

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Certainly for taxi and takeoff. It has always intrigued me how long the open cockpit and rear seating position persisted into the 30s. 

Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom > Future next gen S2000 owner 04/06/2020 at 09:43

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If not for the parasol wing, there’d be zero visibility forward in any phase of flight. 

facw > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 09:45

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Well if you put your cockpit at the rear like that, you probably need it open so the pilot can lean out to actually see what’s in front. With single engine tail draggers, that was probably an issue on the ground even with the cockpit in front.

Darkbrador > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 09:51

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Hide in your anechoic chamber.

ttyymmnn > facw 04/06/2020 at 09:54

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The Air Express was developed from the Vega, which had its cockpit in the front. The fuselage was extended and a more powerful engine added. I’m guessing there is a fuel tank between the pax and the engine, though I couldn’t find a cutaway of it. In the Vega, the fuel tank was between the pilot and the pax cabin. So, I suppose there was nowhere else to put the pilot. And, with the open cockpit, you got to wear an awesome fur coat while flying.

kanadanmajava1 > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 09:56

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The passenger load is nicely below the wings so the balance of the plane is pretty much the same with or without passengers. Maybe this was regarded as a nice feature for a while?

ttyymmnn > Darkbrador 04/06/2020 at 09:56

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It would be weird playing in such a space, since so much of one’s sound is based on the resonance of it in the space in which you are playing. That said, I do (did) most of my teaching in absolutely dead manufactured practice rooms, so those were probably pretty close to an anechoic chamber.

Ash78, voting early and often > Future next gen S2000 owner 04/06/2020 at 09:59

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Reminds me of the Vought Corsair, which was notoriously bad on the ground for running into things (including carrier deck crew) because the pilots couldn’t see forward OR downward much. Taxiing these things usually was a left-right-left-right affair just so you could see ahead for safety. Not on a carrier, though.

Darkbrador > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 10:01

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Can you look into the brains of other mutants from there too ? 

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 04/06/2020 at 10:05

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Formal school starts for us today, but we’ve already been homeschooling (“optionally”) for 2 of the past 3 weeks that school has been closed.

Our governor only formally issued a stay-at-home order on Friday, but for all intents and purposes most people were already operating that way — since progressive orders for the closure of nonessential businesses were already in place. And the list of “essential” businesses is pretty long, so take it with a grain of salt.

I wore a mask and gloves to the grocery store yesterday for the first time (previously just gloves and keeping my distance) . Coincidentally, that was the first day the store was limiting traffic to 1/4 of max capacity. Thankfully it was a short line...and most of the inventory had recovered. I was surprised that very few of my fellow shoppers had masks. A few days earlier most people had them on.

ttyymmnn > Darkbrador 04/06/2020 at 10:10

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Sadly, no.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 04/06/2020 at 11:34

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That’s why they would have a crew member sit on the wing to direct the pilot while taxiing.