FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dana M. Hague d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net writes:

Somehow I doubt the Mythbusters budget runs to a real 747 flight...

A full-motion simulator would suffice to prove the point. If you can
land the sim, you can land the real thing.

Wrong again, fjukkwit.


Wouldn't you love to see them get the eunuch on their show?

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B A R R Y wrote:

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:33:15 -0600, cavelamb himself
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Can we drop it now?!

I already did.

Better clean it up before Mom sees it.

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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dana M. Hague d(dash)m(dash)hague(at)comcast(dot)net writes:

Somehow I doubt the Mythbusters budget runs to a real 747 flight...

A full-motion simulator would suffice to prove the point. If you can
land the sim, you can land the real thing.

Wrong again, fjukkwit.


Wouldn't you love to see them get the eunuch on their show?


Yes, but what myth would they be busting?

the one that says that giving your kid a playstation for christmas will
give him a leg up in the world?



Bertie

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:31:01 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Ooops, disregard, misread it!

Whoa... Bertie...

My mouth dropped open for a second.


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On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 18:31:01 +0000 (UTC), Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

Ooops, disregard, misread it!

Whoa... Bertie...

My mouth dropped open for a second.


I'm only Bunyip, you know.

Bertie

On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 12:36:10 -0500, john smith wrote:

Actually, MYTHBUSTERS is the best educational show on television for
teaching people the scientific method for testing theories.

They're OK sometimes, but too often they concoct a showy demonstration
that doesn't prove or disprove their theory except under very limited
conditions... or they poorly engineer a test that fails spectacularly
and so "busts" the myth, when even the greenest engineer could point
out the errors.

Still, it's entertaining, and more intelligent than most TV.

-Dana
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On Dec 9, 12:26 pm, "Dale Alexander" wrote:
I would be interested in knowing which airport that is. I know that they
have used Alameda and Hamilton in the past. Which airport are you referring
to?

Dale Alexander

KMER, in the central valley. I only heard this through word of mouth,
so it may not even be correct.

And which myth did they test at Hamilton? I flew over that airport
recently and it's almost completely bulldozed away now...

Well, they did the stud gun that launched a stud from a gun trying to
pretend that they were wall-crawling super-heroes. They also did the flying
with a sheet of plywood...and the poor crash test dummy has seen his share
of crashing. But these were earlier episodes and what infrastructure there
is probably gone as you say. I remember several years ago when an airshow
was put on at Hamilton. Last time I saw the BD5-J Silver Bullet fly was
there.

Dale Alexander

"buttman" wrote in message
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On Dec 9, 12:26 pm, "Dale Alexander" wrote:
I would be interested in knowing which airport that is. I know that they
have used Alameda and Hamilton in the past. Which airport are you
referring
to?

Dale Alexander

KMER, in the central valley. I only heard this through word of mouth,
so it may not even be correct.

And which myth did they test at Hamilton? I flew over that airport
recently and it's almost completely bulldozed away now...

"nobody" wrote:

Wouldn't you love to see them get the eunuch on their show?

He'd be outclassed by Buster. :-)


Marcel

On Dec 9, 9:03 am, "Blueskies" wrote:
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"B A R R Y" wrote in messagenews:ghrnl3h2rm847jvivviio87sa7arlkjvo7@4ax .com...
On Sun, 9 Dec 2007 09:12:27 -0400, " Vacant lot
wrote:

I don't understand the premise of the conveyor belt thing. If you are
talking about thrusting an aircraft forward, like a catapult, you already
know the answer, and if the belt is running so the the wheels of the
aircraft are spinning madly while it stays still then again you already know
the answer. What are they trying to prove?

If it were so cut and dried, why does it generate threads of several
hundred messages here? G

Only because there are one or two nit pickers on here.... G

Maybe we should start the thread drift right here and now....

You know, people would fully understand that a plane on a treadmill will not start flying if we had a good educational
system. Liberal use of aerodynamic principles leads to stall spin accidents, and everyone knows the dreaded downwind
turn was by global warming...

Hear, hear!

Of course it won't fly...nothing for the bugger to push against.

WWII proved that with the German flying disc experiments.

snerk