The Frontiers of Flight - The Last Great World Record (1992) Rutan Voyager Part 1/4
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- Опубліковано 13 гру 2011
- "The Last World Record" was about the latter achieved in a wide light, flimsy, aeroplane with only two engines. This chapter shows the trials and tribulations of the couple that set out to achieve this amazing feat. After encountering many issues including technical, weather, fatigue problems Dick and Jeana Yeager (no relation to Chuck) flew for many days non-stop, non-fuelled around the world.
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This documentary is copyrighted by its original authors. It has been posted here for educational porpouses at the 25 anniversary of the Voyager's Around the World flight. Dec. 14, 2011 - Наука та технологія
Holy crap! I've been watching UA-cam for Voyager stuff for more than a year. Now that the 25th Anniversary is here, all this stuff is getting uploaded. Thanks!
I miss the good ol days
Thanks a million for uploading. Centuries from now, the U.S. will be seen as the aerospace capital of the world from 1950 to 1990.
I'd say 1903 to 2010+, it's not like anyone has eclipsed the US in aerospace technology.
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I remember when my dad flew us into the Oshkosh air show a year or so before the round the world flight.
Voyager was flown from California to Wisconsin to make an appearance and generate publicity for the upcoming record attempt .
I had not heard ANYTHING about the Voyager project or the plane even though the rest of the family seemed to know about it . We heard the plane was circling overhead but when we looked up the tiny thing we could make out seemed like a glider aimed straight at the ground. The plane was circling horizontally but the ginormous wingspread and almost invisible fuselage gave it a head down appearance . It circled while the aerobatic performances took place and the winds calmed down
The plane finally landed and it was like nothing we'd ever seen before.
The designer walked around the plane counting the number of bug hits on the wings because supposedly on a 24000+ mile flight they could have an effect on range
BRAVOOOOO
What a great memory. :)
Burt Rutan (the designer) is a pioneer of practical "laminar flow" which is a way to attain half to only 1/3 of the normal skin friction drag. This aircraft heavily utilized this technology over all of its wing, canard wing, and vertical tail surfaces. It would have landed in an ocean several thousand miles short if not. Some other notable laminar flow designs include Stoddard Hamilton Glasair, All Lancair's, and all modern composite sailplanes.
the book about the trip is the best book I have ever read
As a kid I jumped up and touched the wing tip of the Voyager at the Smithsonian...and got yelled at by security. 😀
😮😄😂 You little rascal! Love it!
I had no idea of the connection with Robert Truax!
I just learned of Dick Rutan's death.
Hope that, where he is now, visibility is unlimited.
I would have swear that I replyed to your comment 10 months ago. Yes, I was doing the same, looking for Voyager stuff. As nothing showed up, I decided to upload it myself...
Alejandro Irausquin I am very much happy you did.
The Gold age.
I heard that Yeager had great difficulty flying Voyager, and Dick piloted it for 80% of the trip, including for first three days without relief.
What is told here, is that Dick did not consider Jeana experienced enough to control the plane under that condition, so he opted to keep flying the plane.
@@AlejandroIrausquin Mike Melville eventually had to order him out of the seat.
@@g6rcteam81 9 days without resting. That will be nuts.
I don't suppose you happen to have more Frontiers of Flight episodes? In particular an episode about lifting bodies and the Space Shuttle in which Joe Engle was interviewed and the glide flights of Enterprise were covered?
Did you found the other episodes? Someone uploaded all some years ago...
I found some on youtube.
@AlejandroIrausquin >>> 👍👍