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re: Official Thread: Missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:23 pm to Pax Regis
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:23 pm to Pax Regis
It was relaying realtime info. You can even see the flight path as it was played on flightradar24 in
real time. It's haunting - looks as if it's trying to make a turn and then just disappears.
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real time. It's haunting - looks as if it's trying to make a turn and then just disappears.
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Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:24 pm to RollTide1987
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It's not that hard to spot debris from the air.
Apparently it is.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:24 pm to jdd48
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outcome in 2014 when my damn phone can find itself.
well your phone uses TVGPS. meaining it triangulates a location based on locationg multiple cell towers and knowing the time it takes for a signal to reach each one.
ADS-B is based on GPS and even though all planes have GPS, not all planes have locators tied to GPS. I don't know why.
But if you dropped your phone out of cell signal range, you would never find it.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:24 pm to Pax Regis
I guess I just thought that with technology available today all planes are tracked in real time all the way from departure to destination. I feel sure that all planes flying in the continental US are.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:24 pm to LNCHBOX
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The pacific ocean?
or most other gulfs.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:25 pm to LNCHBOX
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Apparently it is.
That's because there is nothing there. They're either searching in the wrong place or something unprecedented happened to that Boeing 777.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:26 pm to BeerCity
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I feel sure that all planes flying in the continental US are.
by transponder. If a plane switched over to 1200 and reports VFR then they are much harder to track. Which is why even when flying GA, when you talk to the tower and ask for flight following they assign you a transponder code, which will be changed as you are handed off to other centers.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:27 pm to BeerCity
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I guess I just thought that with technology available today all planes are tracked in real time all the way from departure to destination. I feel sure that all planes flying in the continental US are.
It was being tracked in real time by both military and civilian radar. This isn't the freaking Pacific Ocean. There were all types of radars active in this area on Friday night/Saturday morning. In some cases these radars from the different countries overlapped with one another.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:28 pm to RollTide1987
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That's because there is nothing there. They're either searching in the wrong place or something unprecedented happened to that Boeing 777.
A Boeing 777 doesn't burn up like the leaves in your yard.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:29 pm to Napoleon
did we ever get an answer to "what if they tried to pull up into space" i dont know shite about this stuff so anything really is a possibility.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:29 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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A Boeing 777 doesn't burn up like the leaves in your yard.
you're right, even if every bag was filled with thermite and the fuel mixed with explosive, there would still be large sections. a tail, a door something.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:30 pm to Happygilmore
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did we ever get an answer to "what if they tried to pull up into space" i dont know shite about this stuff so anything really is a possibility.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:32 pm to Happygilmore
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id we ever get an answer to "what if they tried to pull up into space" i dont know shite about this stuff so anything really is a possibility.
A plane can only fly as long as it's wings can generate lift. If you get too high at too low a speed it cannot generate lift. If you have too steep an angle of attack it cannot generate lift.
Just because a spy plane or a blackbird can go over 60,000 does not mean any plane can. You get to a point where the plane cannot generate anymore lift.
If planes could fly into space we never would have made rockets.
So if you tried to pull a plane into space, you would stall.
A stall would cause a crash if not corrected by regaining airspeed.
This post was edited on 3/10/14 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:34 pm to Napoleon
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A plane can only fly as long as it's wings can generate lift. If you get too high at too low a speed it cannot generate lift. If you have too steep an angle of attack it cannot generate lift.
Just because a spy plane or a blackbird can go over 60,000 does not mean any plane can. You get to a point where the plane cannot generate anymore lift.
If planes could fly into space we never would have made rockets.
So if you tried to pull a plane into space, you would stall.
A stall would cause a crash if not corrected by regaining airspeed.
Maybe that's what that dipshit co-pilot on the Air France flight thought he was doing - going to the moon.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:35 pm to Napoleon
thank you, better than darth's response.
like i said, i dont know shite about this, i have no idea how far up space is to begin with.
like i said, i dont know shite about this, i have no idea how far up space is to begin with.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:35 pm to Teddy Ruxpin
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A Boeing 777 doesn't burn up like the leaves in your yard.
Obviously. Which is why I'm leaning more toward the theory that they're searching in the wrong place.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:36 pm to Napoleon
I was just reading about TWA 800. Holy shite, I can't imagine being conscious in the back of the plane during this:
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simulations indicated that after the loss of the forward fuselage the remainder of the aircraft continued on in crippled flight, then pitched up while rolling to the left (north),[98] climbing to a maximum altitude between 15,537 feet (4,736 m) and 16,678 feet (5,083 m)[102] from its last recorded altitude, 13,760 feet (4,190 m).[
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:38 pm to Happygilmore
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thank you, better than darth's response.
like i said, i dont know shite about this, i have no idea how far up space is to begin with.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:38 pm to RollTide1987
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The area is relatively small and the water
This shite cracks me up.
Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:39 pm to Darth_Vader
I jokingly made that hypothesis a page or 2 ago.
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