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<Solar_Oracle>
Let's read?
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<Solar_Oracle>
Oh boy, discussions on military uniforms! Gee, I'm glad we're reading about this instead of space combat and stuff.
<Solar_Oracle>
Even when we're on spaceships, we're still stuck with talking about training instead of saying, "Oh, yeah, and several months passed and they were landed into enemy territory".
<Solar_Oracle>
And another chapter bites the dust.
<raptop>
synthesis: concerns about clothing degrading unusually fast in the swamps of purple dagobah
<Solar_Oracle>
Unfortunately, it's about uniforms aboard a troop transport.
<Solar_Oracle>
Actually, it'd be kinda wild if the uniforms on Purple Dagobah had gotten eaten by space moths and they all fought naked.
<umaxtu>
Solar_Oracle, you've sold me on this series. granted, the first book is free, but still...
<Solar_Oracle>
But that kind of stuff is for bad fantasy books, like The Sword of Truth series.
<Solar_Oracle>
Oh dear, it appears the gravity guns do indeed fire rounds fast enough to be considered relativistic.
<raptop>
Ah, good. Every infantry squad needs a support weapon capable of taking out a dozen tank divisions
<Solar_Oracle>
I did the math: Assuming 1 gram projectiles with speeds at 2% C, you get 17,980 megajoules a pop.
<Solar_Oracle>
Or 4.3 tons of TNT in every round.
<Solar_Oracle>
And that's not their support weapon: That's their standard firearm.
<raptop>
I guess they don't need to aim
<Solar_Oracle>
Somehow, the soldiers armed with relativistic, rapid fire weaponry lose against a mere few thousand Posleen in a simulation.
<Solar_Oracle>
That . . . Should not be possible.
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<Solar_Oracle>
And that's another one down.
<Solar_Oracle>
And it for the day.
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<Deddly>
Eddi|zuHause, actual landing gear don't have a maximum rotational speed. It's all about how hard you hit the ground and how heavy the craft is.
<Eddi|zuHause>
yes.
<Eddi|zuHause>
but i tried like 10 times now
<Eddi|zuHause>
and vertical speed is <6m/s
<flayer>
what happens? do you bounce? nosedive into the ground? flail and crash?
<Deddly>
A pic of the craft would be very helpful. Also, what are you landing on?
<Eddi|zuHause>
grass near KSC
<Deddly>
OK so you're landing on perfectly flat ground, so that's not the issue. Can we see the craft?
<Eddi|zuHause>
hold on
<Deddly>
I never actually paid attention to my vertical speed on landing, but 6 m/s sounds pretty fast. I usually come in so gradually that the craft gently squeezes its wheels against the runway.
<Deddly>
6 m/s is nearly 22 kph
<flayer>
yeah, 6m/sec seems fast for landing an aircraft
<flayer>
i usually land by going slow and pointing the nose up just as i land, causing the rear-wheels to hit the ground first
<Deddly>
Basically, you stall just above the runway
<Deddly>
Thanks Eddi|zuHause
<Deddly>
Ah, *those* landing gear. They are extremely fragile. You'll definitely need to touch down much more softly using the method described by flayer above
<flayer>
yeah, going faster than 40m/sec horizontal doing anything but the lightest descent is going to wreck your plane
<Deddly>
That will be difficult with that configuration without knocking your tail off
<Deddly>
I would like to see those landing gear moved down - put the front one on a strut if you have to, but you need more ground clearance unless you enjoy lightening your craft considerably on landing :)
<Eddi|zuHause>
it's hard to change this while flying, though :p
<Deddly>
Ah... well that is more difficult yeah. Well, try and fly just above the ground and with the throttle off or low, keep your altitude steady by raising the nose as you slow down. At some point, you'll stall out and gradually ease the rear wheels down, hopefully without losing the tail.