users/165297/amarghosh
Yesterday night (Friday - I'm in India, so it is UTC + 5:30) I had a little above 4000 reputation points. Today morning I was surprised to find it to be 4200 something - apparently someone upvoted many of my top answers until I hit the rep cap (thanks dude). I even had a...
I just noticed that I lost a bunch of points from my reputation score on Stack Overflow, and I used the "reputation" tab on my user profile page to try and track down the cause.
During my investigation, I noticed there was an unusual event of type "reversal". In the normal place of a question ti...
I say that we keep it open; because it's better to have one that other equally ignorant people can search for rather than assume everyone knows the basics.
@kevin: http://aviation.stackexchange.com/review/low-quality-posts/5878 "looks ok"?!? I would be voting for deletion if he does not expand at least a bit
During a flight, can the flight attendants (when requested) do something special for a passenger?
I want to give my wife a surprise on her birthday when we will be on a flight.
FWIW, I think some of the comments directed at Hemang's questions are a bit harsh. As far as I can guess, he's Indian and they speak Indian English, not US or UK English. That explains some of the unusual phrasing: "in the sky" probably simply means "airborne", i.e. he wants to know about something while the plane is actually in flight. But it's still a question for travel.SE, though.
I have a question (which may be too dumb to ask for real...)... what did Maverick do in Top Gun to essentially slow down so much as to be passed by the 'enemy'? or was that entirely a movie fiction?
@CGCampbell To expand on what casey said: setting engine to idle by itself will decelerate pretty quickly at higher speeds. Pulling up helps slow down too. And the F-14 does have speed brakes (not sure if they are used in that scene).
He did say using the speed brakes in the dialog (I'm gonna hit the brakes, he'll fly right by!), I don't think they shoot the footage of F-14 deploying its speed brakes though.
Just checked. There are two instances of this move, one at 00:31:28, another at 01:38:48, in both cases, the F-14 pulled up to approximately 60 degrees pitch. I can't see the spoilers deploy, though in the second case it's hard to tell due to the shadows.
The upside-down move isn't real, it's composited. They mentioned this in the documentary.
(To prove that, invert the image. The letters below the canopy are flipped.)
oh yea worth mentioning, that F-14 move actually DID happen in actual combat! It was somewhere like Israel or Iran, F-14 v.s. a fighter formation of 6. That guy in the F-14 rolled over, he was close enough to see the map on the lap of his enemy. The fighter formation scattered into bowling pins.
Saw it on some F-14 documentary on YouTube, forgot which one, but probably still there.
@Farhan None I can think of (more for thrust reasons than anything else - it'd be hard to gain sufficient entry speed in anything other than a (jet) fighter)
users/165297/amarghosh
Yesterday night (Friday - I'm in India, so it is UTC + 5:30) I had a little above 4000 reputation points. Today morning I was surprised to find it to be 4200 something - apparently someone upvoted many of my top answers until I hit the rep cap (thanks dude). I even had a...
During a flight, can the flight attendants (when requested) do something special for a passenger?
I want to give my wife a surprise on her birthday when we will be on a flight.
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