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This Day in Aviation: 26 May 1909

posted on May 26, 2014 by Bryan Swopes

26 May 1909: The creation of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, the rigid airship LZ-5 made its first flight at Lake Constance (Bodensee). This was an experimental airship, 442 feet (136 meters) long, with a diameter of 42 feet (13 meters). Powered by two Daimler engines producing 105 horsepower each, it was capable of 30 miles per hour. […] The post 26 May 1909 appeared first on This Day in …

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This Day in Aviation: 26 May 1923

posted on May 26, 2014 by Bryan Swopes

26 May 1923: Lieutenant Harrison G. Crocker, Air Service, United States Army, made the first South-to-North non-stop flight across the United States when he flew from the Gulf of Mexico to the U.S./Canada border near Gordon, Ontario. Lieutenant Crocker’s airplane was a modified DH-4B-1-S, serial number A.S. 22-353. This was the same airplane flown by Lieutenant […] The post 26 May …

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This Day in Aviation: 26 May 1942

posted on May 26, 2014 by Bryan Swopes

26 May 1942: The prototype Northrop XP-61-NO Black Widow, serial number 41-19509, made its first flight at Northrop Field, Hawthorne, California, with free-lance test pilot Vance Breese at the controls. The first American airplane designed specifically as a night fighter, the XP-61 was the same size as a medium bomber: 48 feet, 10 inches (14.884 meters) […] The post 26 May 1942 appeared …

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This Day in Aviation: 26 May 1961

posted on May 26, 2014 by Bryan Swopes

26 May 1961: The Firefly, the Blériot Trophy-winning Convair B-58A-10-CF Hustler, serial number 59-2451, assigned to the 43rd Bomb Wing, Carswell Air Force Base, Fort Worth, Texas, set a Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) World Record for Speed Over a Recognized Course by flying from Washington, D.C. to Paris, a distance of 3,833.4 miles (6,169.26 kilometers) in 3 hours, 39 minutes, 4…

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user35386

15:50

@ratchetfreak It's okay here at aviation.se to post answers you're not sure about as comments?

ratchet freak

it's what I tend to do at least

user35386

okay, you're pretty high rep here, so i take it you'd have noticed push-back by now if that wasn't cool

ratchet freak

or when I'm too lazy to do some more research

user35386

got it

shortstheory

16:52

wow 20k rep on SO @ratchetfreak!

what do you do for a living?

just 4 questions o_0

shameless plug again; I'm surprised there isn't already a tag for black box on Aviation SE!

Q: Where are the microphones for the black box located in the cockpit?

All modern commercial airliners have a CVR (Cockpit Voice Recorder) on-board to record what the pilots are saying during the duration for a flight. I feel that the location of the microphones is important because they should be in a place that can easily pick up the cockpit conversations but shou...

Lnafziger

@shortstheory There is one for cockpit-voice-recorder though, so I changed yours. :-)

@Articuno I sometimes post a short version of an answer as a comment when I don't have time to write a full answer with references, etc. That way at least the OP (or someone else writing an answer) gets something that can point them in the right direction right away instead of having to wait for someone who can answer it.

@Articuno It isn't meant to stay that way though. Like all comments, they are meant to be temporary.

ratchet freak

17:15

@shortstheory programming...

I also program traffic lights

falstro

17:58

@ratchetfreak Ooooh, nice.. Ever left any easter eggs in the code? :)

ratchet freak

18:15

no not yet

flyingfisch

18:26

@falstro endless red light: OH NO!

ratchet freak

@flyingfisch that can happen when a sensor is caput

flyingfisch

indeed it can... I have experienced it first hand :P

ratchet freak

usually a on-demand green from a side road

flyingfisch

yup

ratchet freak

or a left hand turn

flyingfisch

18:29

ah, didn't know they had sensors too

ratchet freak

some do

it depends on the intersection

and intensities of each branch

of course a sensor can fail always on or always off

or actually signal a failure

falstro

19:03

@ratchetfreak I had one in the town were I grew up, wasn't sensitive enough to pick up the motorcycle, so I always had to run the red light.. :)

ratchet freak

no pedestrian button you could use?

you could have also tried laying down the motorcycle on the sensor

remember that there are 3 often used sensors: a metal detector in the ground, a radar on the light mast or recently a camera with visual recognition

falstro

19:19

@ratchetfreak they don't activate the traffic lights

this one was a metal detector

At one time a police car was going in the other direction, and I noticed it too late so I figured I was toast, until I realized, they had a green light and had no way of knowing I didn't :)

ratchet freak

@falstro at the very least the red would have activated in the crossing direction

falstro

@ratchetfreak Good point; I didn't think of that. No pedestrian crossing on that side though (was a tunnel exit)

falstro

19:56

Yey! the latest Xplane beta doesn't crash any more :)

ratchet freak

20:27

until you push the controls full forward and increase power

then you'll crash and burn

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