From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 16:24:01 MDT
--- Dehede011@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/22/2002 2:29:06 PM Central Standard Time,
> eugen@leitl.org writes: Eugen Leitl wrote no such thing.
>
> True, he quoted it and couldn't find the original. Thinking further.
> I am trying to figure out why the engine, aileron, flap controls
> would be found in one neat package unless I was ahead of the wings?
> But in any case why
> would the instrument readouts be available?
Since at least half of the passenger compartment is ahead of the wings,
all that is required is access to 1st class. If you've taken over the
passenger compartment and the pilots have locked themselves in the
cockpit, then you have access to any and ALL circuits coming out of the
cockpit area in the nose, INCLUDING instrument readouts which are fed
to the famous 'black box' which is not located in the cockpit. These
black box circuits provide all the flight data you need to control the
engines, be aware of altitude, airspeed, attitude, flight control
position, etc.
> My son brought home a game which called for the player to
> "fly" the F-117. I wallowed around the sky like a beached whale.
> They had provided me with none of the data and procedures that a
> pilot requires to take off, land or even fly straight and level.
Perhaps I have some natural genius for handling aircraft, but the only
ones I've ever had difficulty flying on the computer are those I've
designed myself and am test flying.
For example, I've designed a Jedi Starfighter (Obi Wan's arrowhead
shaped craft from 'Clones) and have gotten, after many flights and
crash and burns, and design adjustments, to fly it stably only at
subsonic speeds. It refuses to exceed mach 1 and will crash the
computer if I try.
On the other hand, the V-1 Buzzbomb I designed, which I previously
mentioned, was designed to WWII specs and flew quite stably and
comfortably from the first flight.
The suborbital business jet I designed fell somewhere in between. It is
now a relatively stable aircraft that I can fly into space at mach 23
velocities, allowing me to skip off the upper atmosphere multiple times
all the way around the world.
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