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Post by shred on May 13, 2013 6:56:10 GMT -5
Glen Chiacchieri asked what if one was to fly an ordinary earth aircraft like a Cessna 172 Skyhawk in the atmosphere of a different planet. With X-Plane 10 he simulated the atmospheres of other solar system planets and tested the results. what-if.xkcd.com/30/His work has been picked up by Rhett Allain, Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University who further researched the concept with a bit of maths and produced the following thesis: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/xkcds-interplanetary-cessna-and-trajectories/Hope you like it.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2013 8:32:24 GMT -5
Glen Chiacchieri asked what if one was to fly an ordinary earth aircraft like a Cessna 172 Skyhawk in the atmosphere of a different planet. With X-Plane 10 he simulated the atmospheres of other solar system planets and tested the results. what-if.xkcd.com/30/His work has been picked up by Rhett Allain, Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University who further researched the concept with a bit of maths and produced the following thesis: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/xkcds-interplanetary-cessna-and-trajectories/Hope you like it. it is very interesting indeed shred. glad you posted that.
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2013 16:34:37 GMT -5
Glen Chiacchieri asked what if one was to fly an ordinary earth aircraft like a Cessna 172 Skyhawk in the atmosphere of a different planet. With X-Plane 10 he simulated the atmospheres of other solar system planets and tested the results. what-if.xkcd.com/30/His work has been picked up by Rhett Allain, Associate Professor of Physics at Southeastern Louisiana University who further researched the concept with a bit of maths and produced the following thesis: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/xkcds-interplanetary-cessna-and-trajectories/Hope you like it. That is one great simulator game but one needs a high end computer to use it
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Post by shred on May 14, 2013 1:50:35 GMT -5
True, but I have a reasonably high end computer and it runs ok. AMD Phenom II X4 black edition running at 3.2ghz 4gb DDR2 Ram (yeah I know if I had a better board I could run 32gb DDR3) Asus Nvidia Geforce GTX640 2gb graphics card. Most taxing thing I've ever run on it was LA Noire.
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2013 2:01:21 GMT -5
True, but I have a reasonably high end computer and it runs ok. AMD Phenom II X4 black edition running at 3.2ghz 4gb DDR2 Ram (yeah I know if I had a better board I could run 32gb DDR3) Asus Nvidia Geforce GTX640 2gb graphics card. Most taxing thing I've ever run on it was LA Noire. LA Noire is a great game I had for the Xbox 360. Do you got all the bells and whistles for flight sim games(The Yoke, Throttle, Rudder Peddles and all the panels)
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Post by shred on May 14, 2013 2:18:58 GMT -5
Yes I do, the rudder controls alone make one hell of a difference. If you're into sims, it's a great investment.
A week and two days ago I went solo on aerotows at gliding, aerotows can be quite dangerous for the tug pilot, because if a glider overflies the tug it can take 800 ft to recover from the dive, so realistically if that happens at less than 1000 ft it's lethal. I took a very long time practicing aerotows on another simulator called Condor (real aerotows are £18 to 2000ft £28 to 3000ft £38 4000ft etc). The bells and whistles have proven their worth absolutely.
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