Pembom Siluman B-2 Spirit dari Amerika Serikat

A B-2 Spirit dropping Mk.82 bombs into the Pacific Ocean in a 1994 training exercise off Point Mugu, California, near Point Mugu State Park.
A B-2 Spirit dropping Mk.82 bombs into the Pacific Ocean in a 1994 training exercise off Point Mugu, California, near Point Mugu State Park.

Northrop Grumman adalah kontraktor utama untuk Angkatan Udara AS B-2 Spirit siluman bomber. The-B 2 adalah, jangka panjang rendah diamati, strategis, pembom berat mampu menembus perisai pertahanan udara canggih dan padat. Hal ini mampu misi serangan semua ketinggian hingga 50.000 kaki, dengan jangkauan lebih dari 6,000nm unrefuelled dan lebih 10,000nm dengan satu pengisian bahan bakar, memberikan kemampuan untuk terbang ke titik manapun di dunia dalam beberapa jam.

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Pesawat Tempur Amerika Serikat Termahal

Berikut ini 10 pesawat tempur Amerika Serikat yang paling mahal.

  1. Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit
  2. Lockheed Martin  F-22 Raptor
  3. Boeing C-17A Globemaster III
  4. Boeing P-8A Poseidon
  5. Lockheed Martin VH-71 Kestrel
  6. Northrop Grumman E-2D Hawkeye
  7. Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning
  8. Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
  9. Boeing EA-18 Growler
  10. McDonnel Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

Berikut ini detail dari masing-masing pesawat tempur tersebut.

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Pesawat Pembom Kalinin K-7

K-7 Kalinin
K-7 Kalinin
K-7 Kalinin
K-7 Kalinin

 

K-7 Kalinin
K-7 Kalinin

k-7-kalinin-2

 

K-7 Kalinin
K-7 Kalinin

 

The Kalinin K-7 was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It was of unusual configuration with twin booms and large underwing pods housing fixed landing gear and machine gun turrets.

In the passenger version, seats were arranged inside the 2.3-meter thick (7 ft 7 in) wings. The airframe was welded from KhMA chrome-molybdenum steel. The original design called for six engines in the wing leading edge but when the projected loaded weight was exceeded, two more engines were added to the trailing edges of each wing, one right and one left of the central passenger pod. Nemecek states in his book that at first only one further pusher engine was added.

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Klep Tabo 3/4 Inch

Klep Tabo 3/4 inch. Klep Tabo dalam bahasa Inggrisnya adalah Brass Swing Check Valves.

Fungsinya adalah untuk menjaga aliran air hanya 1 arah saja.

Klep Tabo 3/4 inch
Klep Tabo 3/4 inch

 

Klep Tabo merek Kranz
Klep Tabo merek Kranz

 

Label Klep Kranz
Label Klep Kranz

‘Klep Tabo’, nama yang aneh untuk sebuah katup yang hanya dapat dilalui fluida pada 1 arah.

Istilah londo untuk benda ini adalah ‘tilting disc check valve‘, bisa dicari di http://www.google.com/search?q=tilting+disc+check+valve . Hanya saja toko besi di Bandung tahunya hanya istilah ‘klep tabo’.

Istilah ‘tabok’ nampaknya sesuai dengan nama lain benda ini, yaitu ‘clapper valve’ ( http://www.thefreedictionary.com/clapper+valve )

 

Klep Tabo 3/4 merek lain
Klep Tabo 3/4 merek lain

 

Memory Card V-Gen MicroSD 8 GB

Berikut ini beberapa foto memory card V-Gen 8 GB yang rencananya akan dipakai di board BeagleBone Black.

Memory card ini adalah yang paling murah di Borma Setiabudi untuk kapasitas yang sama. Selain yang 8 GB, tersedia juga kapasitas 2 GB dan 4 GB, namun harganya hanya terpaut tipis. V-Gen 2GB sekitar 29 ribu, sedangkan V-Gen 4 GB sekitar 30 ribu. Untuk yang kapasitas 16 GB harganya mulai agak jauh, sekitar 60 ribuan. Jadi kesimpulan dibeli saja yang kapasitas 8 GB.

Pertama adalah penampakan kemasan bagian atas. Kemasan sederhana, 2 keping plastik dan karton dengan logo V-Gen.

Penampakan kemasan V-Gen
Penampakan kemasan V-Gen

Di kemasan bagian belakang cukup banyak tulisannya.

 

Kemasan V-Gen bagian belakang
Kemasan V-Gen bagian belakang

Kemasan bagian depan sederhana.

Kemasan V-Gen bagian depan
Kemasan V-Gen bagian depan

Berikut penampakan card MicroSDnya yang sangat kecil.

Card MicroSD V-Gen 8 GB
Card MicroSD V-Gen 8 GB

Berikut ini card Micro SD 8GB disandingkan dengan kerabatnya: CompactFlash 8 MB, CompactFlash 8 GB,  SD Card Transcend 8 GB, Mini SD 2GB. Merek V-Gen nampak mendominasi.

MicroSD bersama kerabatnya
MicroSD 8 GB bersama kerabatnya

 

Pendaratan Tanpa Roda: Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300

Flying: What’s the strangest incident that’s happened on a commercial airline flight?
Obaidullah Khawaja
Obaidullah Khawaja, Founder and CEO at Sovoia
Here’s a good one thats popular with us Pakistanis in an ironic sort of way. In 1986 Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300 had a belly landing at Islamabad airport because the pilot forgot to lower the landing gear. That’s right, he simply forgot to lower the gear on a 747 jet. There were no injuries and the plane continued to fly for 19 more years after repairs

EDIT: So now I do know exactly how this happened thanks to a reliable source (name can’t be taken because he still flies planes)

There were 3 people in the cockpit that day, the pilot, co-pilot and I think what’s called the 1st officer. Normally there is an electronic safety system that alerts the guys in the cockpit about things such as the landing gear not being down.

This system is generally found to be irritating by pilots who can be quite dismissive and macho – trusting their own skills. In those days it apparently also made some errors in logic. And finally it goes “Warning! Warning!” in a loud shrill voice. So it was standard for PIA pilots at least to switch off the circuit breaker for this system and switch it back at 1000 ft

It was standard for the cockpit crew to switch back the warning system and for each of them to check that the landing gear is down as part of their landing checklist.

None of these things happened so the pilot basically landed the plane thinking that the landing gear was down. He only realised after hitting the ground that it wasn’t

The pilot called HQ right after getting off the plane and tendered his resignation. He never flew again.

The co-pilot Capt Ahsan Aftab Bilgrami flew again but unfortunately died when the plane he was flying crashed in the Himlayas near Gilgit

Boeing were ecstatic, apparently this is one scenario they had not stress-tested for

Here are some incredible pictures

EDIT: Since the above story has been so popular I thought I’d add another story from the 1970s which probably set the precedent for heroics by future generations of Pakistani pilots

According to http://www.historyofpia.com/acci…, the two pilots Salhejee and Mir had a misunderstanding about which one of them was flying the plane in the midst of a storm.

According to the site:

” The landing was going to be made by Capt. Mir. The weather was bad and Mir asked Salehjee to take over for the landing. Somehow, Salehjee didn’t hear the request, Mir thought that he had and so the approach was flown with nobody at the controls until impact! The pilots were unable to regain control of the aircraft and it veered off the runway. The Boeing 707’s main under carriage collapsed as it struck the runway very hard.

As seen in this photo, soon after aircraft’s crash landing PIA logo and titles were painted out from its tail and fuselage because Pakistan’s then Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was due to arrive at the same airport on a VVIP PIA flight few days later. Later, this Boeing 707 was repaired and returned to active service with PIA”

Fly PIA – each plane has made history one way or the other

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 300
Pakistan International Airlines
Pakistan International Airlines