Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Mentour Now!" channel.

  1. In my CFI helicopter checkride, the examiner got me into unusual attitudes such that when he told me to open my eyes and recover, I felt like I was cartwheeling backwards over the top of my seatback. I had to concentrate very hard on my instruments and ignore everything I was feeling in that moment. I've never felt it that severely before or since thankfully. I recovered perfectly, but the mental challenge of it was intense.
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  2. 8:10 the first flying wing was built in 1908, and it had swept wings. And many variations of flying wing followed that one prior to WW1.
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  3. I've seen them many times in AZ during the monsoon season.
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  4. regarding window seats, most flights I've been on lately, everyone keeps the window shades closed, and even get upset fi you open yours. Between cellphones and in-flight screens, they don't care about windows anymore.
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  5. aviation is very fuel efficient per passenger mile.
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  6. McDonnel Douglas: bad management leading to being bought out Boeing: good management Boeing: adopts the bad management that killed McDonnell Douglas
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  7. the natural cycle of a healthy Capitalist economy is for companies to be successful, and then if they grow large, they eventually collapse under their own weight, greed, and high prices. Making room for a new smaller companies to grow and fill the market share void left by the larger failed giant.
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  8. so, what was the detail I didn't know about this 747? this was all well known info.
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  9. try retaining engineers by telling them they can't design anything new for their entire career at the company. good luck having qualified and experienced project engineers when the time comes to design a new plane.
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  10. I wonder if the right sort of soft pendulum in the cockpit (sized and positions to avoid hitting and tangling in things) couldn't be a better teaching aid for coordinated flight? hard for students to ignore a very prominent pendulum in the cockpit that gives instant feedback when they don't use the correct amount of rudder. Hanging in the window the student can remain fixated outside, and the pendulum might be designed to make uncoordinated flight easier to see, more so than the ball. Has anyone ever actually done this?
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  11. stability of tailless flying wings has been solved (rudder nor fly-by-wire is needed anymore).
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  12. Electric light airplanes are so bad, that if I had a Pipistrel, I couldn't even take off from my home airport, go to my next nearest airport, do a tough and go, and come back. And once there, how am I supposed to charge the plane? The time spent flying there and waiting to recharge I might as well have just driven. Just not practical for anything but pattern work. And ultralight is FAR cheaper and does the same thing. My C150 is FAR cheaper and does more. I DO love the simplicity an electric airplane represent though.
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  13. hydrogen has storage problems that add weight and cost to operations. not to mention safety concerns.
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  14. even Rolls Royce abandoned their EV efforts. Hydrogen airplanes have the same issues the car industry has.
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  15.  @michaelnash2972  Rolls Royce, aerospace, has abandoned and sold off their entire electric flight division, and returned to focusing on fossil fuel jet engines. They saw there was no economically viable future in electric aviation.
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  16. no one ever blames the Captain. they always blame the copilot. Why?
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  17. this doesn't even address the hidden fire extinguisher, or the possible unairworthy status of the aircraft due to the obvious engine swap.
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