Comments on: Ego? http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/ The unbearable lightness of Lex. Enjoy! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justthisguy http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/comment-page-1/#comment-408902 Justthisguy Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:41:01 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=102#comment-408902 Wow, people almost got Chap exercised enough to divulge the Secret Submarine Song. Wow, people almost got Chap exercised enough to divulge the Secret Submarine Song.

]]> By: CWO4 http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/comment-page-1/#comment-408901 CWO4 Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:06:11 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=102#comment-408901 avaiators and rookies. Bah humbug. We serve serious drinks for people who want to get drunk quick. Beer. Cosmos. What's next? Shirley Temples? avaiators and rookies. Bah humbug. We serve serious drinks for people who want to get drunk quick.

Beer. Cosmos. What’s next? Shirley Temples?

]]> By: Chap http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/comment-page-1/#comment-633 Chap Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:59:02 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=102#comment-633 Feh. You do fly off a target, after all... "Submarines once Submarines twice Holy..." whoops, family blog. OT: <a href="http://gmapalumni.org/chapomatic/?p=1237" rel="nofollow">Stirring the pot</a> between Yon and a newspaper reporter... Feh. You do fly off a target, after all…
“Submarines once
Submarines twice
Holy…”
whoops, family blog.

OT: Stirring the pot between Yon and a newspaper reporter…

]]> By: lex http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/comment-page-1/#comment-632 lex Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:40:49 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=102#comment-632 Greg - sounds like he did get lucky. If you're transonic, it's pretty easy to let her slip through. The "pop" you heard was the result of flying in this regime: Parts of the jet (or more accurately, parts of the airflow <em>around</em> the jet) are supersonic in the high transonic regime. Curved areas like the canopy, leading edge flaps and leading edge extensions go through the number earlier than other parts. Their shockwave overpressure (the boom) is naturally smaller than the main one which detaches from the fuselage when the entire jet goes through the number... Greg – sounds like he did get lucky. If you’re transonic, it’s pretty easy to let her slip through. The “pop” you heard was the result of flying in this regime: Parts of the jet (or more accurately, parts of the airflow around the jet) are supersonic in the high transonic regime. Curved areas like the canopy, leading edge flaps and leading edge extensions go through the number earlier than other parts. Their shockwave overpressure (the boom) is naturally smaller than the main one which detaches from the fuselage when the entire jet goes through the number…

]]> By: Greg http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/comment-page-1/#comment-631 Greg Fri, 07 Oct 2005 21:24:06 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=102#comment-631 Lex, Saw a Super Hornet demo at the airshow today and was REAL impressed.The usual Hornet tricks were used, (high alpha/negative alpha), BUT during the "de riguer" high speed pass, the shock wave (annulus) was visibly moving aft and fwd as the driver was keeping an eye on the ASI.....BUT,I saw the shock wave suddenly move aft for a fraction of a second,and heard a small "POP" (not a regular sonic boom),then a decel. My question is......... Was the driver just lucky that he didn't totally P.O. the FAA? Or was his reaction keen enough to forego a radical sonic boom? BTW, it was VFA-122.Got a lot of nostalgia about a NJ tail code. Greg Lex,
Saw a Super Hornet demo at the airshow today and was REAL impressed.The usual Hornet tricks were used, (high alpha/negative alpha), BUT during the “de riguer” high speed pass, the shock wave (annulus) was visibly moving aft and fwd as the driver was keeping an eye on the ASI…..BUT,I saw the shock wave suddenly move aft for a fraction of a second,and heard a small “POP” (not a regular sonic boom),then a decel.
My question is………

Was the driver just lucky that he didn’t totally P.O. the FAA? Or was his reaction keen enough to forego a radical sonic boom?

BTW, it was VFA-122.Got a lot of nostalgia about a NJ tail code.

Greg

]]> By: AFSister http://www.neptunuslex.com/2005/10/06/ego/comment-page-1/#comment-622 AFSister Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:20:54 +0000 http://www.neptunuslex.com/?p=102#comment-622 *sits up... surveys damage from party... puts lampshade back on lamp... makes bloody mary and heads for the shower* Boy, I sure hope Lex left me some cold water... *sits up… surveys damage from party… puts lampshade back on lamp… makes bloody mary and heads for the shower*

Boy, I sure hope Lex left me some cold water…

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