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That quote is from "The Flight of the Phoenix", isn't it ? Great movie ! Dave F. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iQW_FQpdvc |
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Saw this over at Space.com and it reminded me of this discussion
Mars sailplane prototype soars during early-stage tethered flight test in Arizona https://www.space.com/mars-sailplan...ars-flight-test
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*That* was great acting--from all three of them--in that scene! Their body language, their looks of growing doubt and fear that they were going to try to escape in a radio-control model airplane designer's creation, capped by pilot Frank Towns' (Jimmy Stewart) horrified and dejected comment to navigator Lew Moran (Richard Attenborough), after Heinrich Dorfmann (Hardy Krüger) walked out: "He's crazy, Lew...he builds toy airplanes." There's a lot more to realistic acting than saying one's lines believably (although they were all old pros at that too, of course), and: As David Gerrold--who wrote the screenplay for the 1967 original Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"--wrote in his book "The World of Star Trek" (Star Trek, like "The Flight of the Phoenix," is a drama)--not verbatim, but this is close: "Drama requires no props, special locations, or special costumes. All you need is a blank stage, with two characters who are in strong opposition, and that is drama. Period." AS WELL: *Here* (see: https://www.youtube.com/results?sea...+of+the+Phoenix ) is the entire movie. A bit of unnerving trivia about the Fairchild C-82 Packet (and its similar-looking successor, the Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar [links to both are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-82_Packet & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairc...9_Flying_Boxcar ]): they were unable--except perhaps if empty of any payload, and with minimal fuel--to remain airborne if one of the two engines failed, or if one propeller stripped its gears (my father knew people who'd flown both, and he wished that retrofitting both otherwise-excellent aircraft with more powerful turboprops would be done, to eliminate their underpowered flaw), and: When I was quite young, several of these aircraft occasionally flew over Miami--including our neighborhood--at low altitude, spraying DDT, to kill an insect that ruined the guava fruit. When we heard the spray planes coming, we stood outside and never took our eyes off them until they left, because if one lost an engine (or a propeller) over us, we'd have had a fiery crash--and tons of liquid DDT--perhaps on our block or even house! (There was no nearby open place for them to make a dead-stick landing in an emergency.)
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In order to explore Mars (or Venus, Titan, etc.) a sailplane or a motor glider has to be folded up to fit inside a regular aeroshell-type heat shield. After the high-temperature portion of the atmospheric entry process, the aeroshell's parachute would deploy from its aft cover, and its forward heat shield would be jettisoned soon afterward (just as with landers and rovers). After decelerating to an appropriately safe airspeed, the folded-up aircraft would be deployed from the parachute-supported aft aeroshell cover, on a reeled-out cable (again, like the larger rovers, but without a skycrane rocket stage [that component not being needed for these "aero-rovers"]). Then: At that point, the aircraft would unfold and its joints would lock together, at the end of its cable. When this process was completed, a squib would fire, separating the aircraft from the cable--with its nose pointing downward. It would then pull up gently into level flight, leaving the aeroshell aft cover, under its parachute, to land separately on the planet's (or the satellite's) surface; in fact, it could be equipped with its own instrumentation and radio equipment, to serve as a simple lander--and as a fixed weather station, which would be helpful to the aircraft--in its own right. The fewer unfolding-and-locking joints the aero-rover (they're also called aerobots, in the planetary science literature) aircraft has--which favors tailless designs, which also take up less space inside an aeroshell--the more likely it is that all of the fewer joints will unfold and lock successfully (ditto for such rocket-boosted gliders).
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Rocket Glider
Something from the past!
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YANDEX translation of the photo caption . . . Dave F. |
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Everything I could find on the DORNIER Do 122 ( aka - PROJECT 621 ).
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The rest . . .
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