Ferdinand Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Herd of cows to be sound monitored in neighbour dispute. Something strange ... a farmers barn is before planning committee. Thought that was PD. https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/cattle-moos-recorded-bitter-row-noise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triassic Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) What’s the world coming to, they’ll be silencing the church bell next! Edited July 13, 2018 by Triassic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 I remember a good friend recalling a story of a Devonshire farmer being abused by a bunch of organised trespassers ( commonly known as “ramblers”) because his cattle were spoiling the peace and quiet of the countryside. Also hear many a tale of residents complaining to councils because of tractors disturbing them late at night ( almost undoubtably in harvest time). I really dont don’t understand the mentality of some people. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Construction Channel Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 5 minutes ago, Triassic said: What’s the world coming to, they’ll b silenced ngbthe church bell next! I could stand behind that one. You wouldn’t like it if I hit scaffold with a hammer for hours at a time and personally I can’t hear the difference. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) I quite like the Chinooks that fly up and down the valley in the dead of night here... Better than the bloody parakeets during the day! Edited July 13, 2018 by Onoff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferdinand Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Onoff said: I quite like the Chinooks that fly up and down the valley in the dead of night here... Better than the bloody parakeets during the day! parakeets can be shit. Just don’t get the chinooks by mistake .. they shoot back. Edited July 13, 2018 by Ferdinand oooops. parakeets can be shot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 5 minutes ago, Ferdinand said: parakeets can be shit. Just don’t get the chinooks by mistake .. they shoot back. This deffo shoots back! US Marine V22 I saw today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToughButterCup Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Onoff said: This deffo shoots back! US Marine V22 I saw today. You need to be reaaaallly wary of those. They fall out of the sky on their own. Regularly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simplysimon Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 2 hours ago, Ferdinand said: parakeets can be shit. Just don’t get the chinooks by mistake .. they shoot back. the chinooks may shoot back but at least they don't shit on you, unlike the parakeets.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triassic Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 13 hours ago, Onoff said: This deffo shoots back! US Marine V22 I saw today. I’m sure the SAS took delivery of two of these recently, they’ve been flying over our house doing low flying exercises all week. You can hear them coming miles away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 1 hour ago, recoveringacademic said: They fall out of the sky on their own. Like this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 5 hours ago, recoveringacademic said: You need to be reaaaallly wary of those. They fall out of the sky on their own. Regularly. They fly I believe twice as fast as a helicopter so the rotors have immense downward thrust. Makes it a pita to abseil out of and horrible for rescue duties because of the downdraft. Especially over water where it could drown the rescuees! They now have X seconds to shut the engines down after landing in dusty / sandy conditions as it can get turned to glass inside the powerful engines and then solidify. This after a crash in Hawaii. Still looks the dogs bollocks though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onoff Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Killed by the dust cloud it created seemingly: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 There is a company down here called PAL that makes venturi air filters for helicopters. Meant to stop the dust getting in the engine but still allow full airflow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Harris Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 11 minutes ago, SteamyTea said: There is a company down here called PAL that makes venturi air filters for helicopters. Meant to stop the dust getting in the engine but still allow full airflow. We fitted these to the Lynx for operation in Iraq - without them the bleed air fed cooling holes in the Gem engine turbine blades would block with glass from the melted sand that was ingested. They are big, though, and do hit engine performance a fair bit, which made an already marginal hot and high performance A/C even more marginal, reducing useful payload. They work by spinning out the dust, so do have the effect of blowing all the exhausted and spun out dust from the rear of the filter box at high velocity. Overall they aren't a great system, but they are all we have. FWIW, the same sort of fine sand filters are fitted to our tanks too, as they were never designed to operate in the desert, either. All our design requirements assumed that any land conflict would be on the plains of Europe - i.e. probably the big flat bit of Germany. Those plans all went for a ball of chalk when the Soviet Union collapsed, but it takes around 30 years for the defence equipment programme to respond to such a dramatic change, because of the long lead time on kit and the long in-service life of most of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteamyTea Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 They have a new design that seems to have overcome the performance hit, in fact they claim that it increases the performance by 2%. The are just glorified Dysons, but probably cheaper to use when using the kgdust/kgair measure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pdf27 Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 7 hours ago, Onoff said: They fly I believe twice as fast as a helicopter so the rotors have immense downward thrust. Makes it a pita to abseil out of and horrible for rescue duties because of the downdraft. Especially over water where it could drown the rescuees! They now have X seconds to shut the engines down after landing in dusty / sandy conditions as it can get turned to glass inside the powerful engines and then solidify. This after a crash in Hawaii. Still looks the dogs bollocks though! Disc loading is about 100kg/m2, while a Huey is about 26kg/m2. The problem isn't so much the speed (you can deal with that by changing the pitch of the propellers to an extent) but the fact that you need one hell of a lot of rotor area to carry a lot of weight, and tilt-rotors can't get by with a single rotor but need multiples of two rotors. Problem is, two 10m diameter rotors have about the same area as a single 14m diameter rotor, so packaging them into a tilt-rotor gets very hard. There are some awesome things being worked on at the moment that get around this problem, but unfortunately they aren't in the public domain yet ?. I'm hoping some of them get revealed this week at Farnborough, but don't hold your breath. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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