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Post by Jim on Jan 24, 2013 7:51:40 GMT 9
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Post by Jim on Jan 24, 2013 8:02:34 GMT 9
now what? The Vertical flashing letter locator is working, arrows are workingBUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUT, when I posted this in the above:
If you're into special airplanes even a little, here is a video I'm sure you'll enjoy. These guys do a remarkable job getting their aircraft back on the ground with a minimal amount of damage. It could have very easily gone the other way. Also, notice early in the video there is a sequence showing a F-111 dumping fuel with the afterburners on lighting up the night sky. Something a little unique to the F-111. The Australians flew the F-111 a lot longer than our Air Force. The airplane was originally designed to land on a carrier deck so the gear structure is very strong. Even landing on a long runway you just maintain 10 degrees angle of attack until the runway stops your descent. Because this is the way the airplane was designed to be landed it felt just fine inside the airplane, but for an observer outside the aircraft it looked like you forgot to flare and really clobbered the landing. I don't know if metal fatigue was a factor in this accident but they are fortunate the wheel fell off upon liftoff and not while accelerating down the runway in full afterburner. Using the tail hook to catch the arresting cable was a great idea, as you will see. Arresting wires on runways are not like the ones on the flight deck of a carrier. They provide less resistance and let you decelerate over about a 900 ft. range, something you wouldn't have room to do on a carrier. Pretty neat landing and luckily no fire. I heard them say in the video that the airport tower had to tell them that they had lost a wheel on takeoff. I'm surprised, with today's technology, that there isn't a device built into to the plane that would tell the pilot immediately that a wheel was missing. Especially as critical as wheels are for landing the plane. I thought this was rather strange. Check out the 7:05min. video below:
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Post by MOW on Jan 24, 2013 9:33:27 GMT 9
Where did you copy it from? Whats the URL? I think for the way you use the site you might be better off using BBCode editor instead of Visual. Are you using Visual now? Or are you clicking on BBCode below to change the editor? I need that url to where you copied this stuff from.
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Post by pat perry on Jan 24, 2013 11:04:57 GMT 9
Where did you copy it from? Whats the URL? I think for the way you use the site you might be better off using BBCode editor instead of Visual. Are you using Visual now? Or are you clicking on BBCode below to change the editor? I need that url to where you copied this stuff from. MOW & Jim, Jim, sounds like you got your cursor and pointer working. What did you do to fix it? R&R the mouse? Use the Microsoft Forum suggestions? Throw down some chicken bones on it? Inquiring minds want to know! Remember, she don't fly until the paperwork is signed off. Ain't working here... Think I will get some pins and start sticking them in McGeep's picture Looks like the article came from this site www.dailypaul.com/268623/f-111-belly-landing and it brought the formatted text with it. Don't know why adding the picture blew the text away on the first post. I had a similar situation yesterday after typing a text and adding a smile double thumbs up at the end when I had already disabled my smiles in my personal profile settings. The smile blew the formatted text away. Of course I went back and enabled my smiles after that. There seems to be a lot of wierd little bugs to work out yet in this beta test Who got the placebo? but we'll find most of them before they go live with this sucker in April Holy crap, don't know if I will survive e monnths for all the rest of the ProBoards forum users. In the old forum when we copied and pasted text from a website into a post it lost the formatting from the website and adapted to BBCode. Even then, some tweaking was often necessary to make it look nice. Then there was always someone who copied a email into a post and left the damn carets in it>>>>>>>>>>>.  So have patience with this old fart..................... The Old SargePat P. |
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Post by Jim on Jan 24, 2013 11:21:10 GMT 9
Where did you copy it from? Whats the URL? I think for the way you use the site you might be better off using BBCode editor instead of Visual. Are you using Visual now? Or are you clicking on BBCode below to change the editor? I need that url to where you copied this stuff from. Sent you a forwarded email- no URL Been using Visual. what is BBC?- you probably Told us and I don't remember... With fingers crossed things concerning the vertical bar seem to be working, it pulses much slower here than it does when I am typing email or in Word. but seems to be working better... Will try BBC |
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Post by MOW on Jan 24, 2013 11:55:28 GMT 9
Along the bottom of this Reply field are 2 tabs Visual and BBCode.
Visual is a What You See Is What You Get way of doing things, which is to say you don't see the behind the scenes code that is making it look the way it looks.
BBBCode is the actual code that makes it work the way you see it. Our old forum was 100% BBCode, which is why when you highlighted a word and clicked on the B icon to make it bold you would then see the [ B ]word[ /B ] code. In BBCode mode (click the tab at the bottom) you will see the same thing. In Visual mode you will only see it as word
Just so you can see the difference, or rather what happens when you cut/paste from a website into your reply, go back to your post of the F-111 story, click Edit to open it up for editing and then click the BBCode tab at the bottom. This will show your entire post in code. I would venture to say it will be very very long because there will be a ton of formatting code in it.
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Post by Jim on Jan 25, 2013 0:00:30 GMT 9
Along the bottom of this Reply field are 2 tabs Visual and BBCode. Visual is a What You See Is What You Get way of doing things, which is to say you don't see the behind the scenes code that is making it look the way it looks. BBBCode is the actual code that makes it work the way you see it. Our old forum was 100% BBCode, which is why when you highlighted a word and clicked on the B icon to make it bold you would then see the [ B ]word[ /B ] code. In BBCode mode (click the tab at the bottom) you will see the same thing. In Visual mode you will only see it as wordJust so you can see the difference, or rather what happens when you cut/paste from a website into your reply, go back to your post of the F-111 story, click Edit to open it up for editing and then click the BBCode tab at the bottom. This will show your entire post in code. I would venture to say it will be very very long because there will be a ton of formatting code in it. Did it, nothing changed on the post whenI clicked save changes. Is BBC now default for me or must I select it everytime? |
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Post by MOW on Jan 25, 2013 7:29:30 GMT 9
Along the bottom of this Reply field are 2 tabs Visual and BBCode. Visual is a What You See Is What You Get way of doing things, which is to say you don't see the behind the scenes code that is making it look the way it looks. BBBCode is the actual code that makes it work the way you see it. Our old forum was 100% BBCode, which is why when you highlighted a word and clicked on the B icon to make it bold you would then see the [ B ]word[ /B ] code. In BBCode mode (click the tab at the bottom) you will see the same thing. In Visual mode you will only see it as wordJust so you can see the difference, or rather what happens when you cut/paste from a website into your reply, go back to your post of the F-111 story, click Edit to open it up for editing and then click the BBCode tab at the bottom. This will show your entire post in code. I would venture to say it will be very very long because there will be a ton of formatting code in it. Did it, nothing changed on the post whenI clicked save changes. Is BBC now default for me or must I select it everytime? I didn't expect anything to change on that post, just wanted you to see what I was talking about. Next time you copy/paste something try ding it in BBCode and see if it's better. Which editor you want as default is in your profile, so you can decide which one you want. Go to Profile > Edit Profile > Settings tab and select which Posting Default radio button you want. You will see it is at Visual now because that's the forums default. |
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