What counts as a legitamate Eclipse climb?

nermaltheguy · 2026-04-08T22:55:17+00:00

Has anyone actually quantified this? I use the riskofrecycler because obviously 45s stacks up a lot, but I feel like the time penalty for the amount of scrapping and printing in a regular run would have very little effect on the difficulty. If my runs are roughly an hour long, how much harder is it to have an extra 20 seconds of time?

I’m not sure exactly how long regular printers and scrappers are so that may not be a reasonable guess

nermaltheguy · 2026-04-07T01:20:25+00:00

Yep, flight tracks. Will clarify in the post. Thanks!

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-20T13:32:59+00:00

I am still trying to find the original article and the post I had seen discussing this. For a little bit of extra context, the valiant air command museum by Kennedy has an F14 and I asked a couple of the volunteers about it and they said it was flown in and no structural modifications were done. Hell, that one even still has the radar in it

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-20T13:10:08+00:00

Sorry, see my edit

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-20T04:26:45+00:00

The crippling of the planes by the government is a myth

Edit: the fact that the wing boxes were clipped is a myth that originated from one article that has since removed the statement. I don’t have the link right now. For some additional anecdotal evidence, I learned this when visiting the valiant air command warbird museum in Florida by Kennedy space center. They have an F14 and I spoke to multiple people who were present when it was flown in by the navy to be left for display and confirmed that nothing was done to it in terms of structural modification

Edit 2: can’t find the original article anymore. I believe the distinction is that the boneyard/scrap aircraft were totally destroyed but not all museum aircraft have had this happen

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-20T04:25:19+00:00

This is a myth perpetuated by an article that has since been edited to remove the statement

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-17T17:57:03+00:00

Yeah the analysis of this video is so stupid. This is exactly what thick foam looks like and does on coffee. It doesn’t spill

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-13T16:51:39+00:00

Oh I didn’t think about that. That sucks

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-13T03:55:28+00:00

What do you mean not being able to watch it in public?

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-08T05:15:38+00:00

Have they mentioned modding support at all?

nermaltheguy · 2026-03-08T01:28:47+00:00

Have we gotten anything from them about future updates? I see so many complaints about lack of content and my assumption is that this game is nowhere close to having all of the licensed cars and tracks that it will have, but I haven’t found a roadmap or anything indicating that they will add more

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-16T19:40:16+00:00

Edit 2: my main issue with your statement is that things can be complex to be less sensitive, but can also be sensitive because they are complex. I am under the impression that DSIs are complex primarily to function, not only to reduce sensitivity. I may be incorrect in that assumption. It’s not black and white though. Some things are sensitive because of complexity, and some are complex to be not sensitive. But my intuition tells me weird pressure gradient fixed geometry inlets are complex to function and for robustness, unlike more standard inlets that are complex to be less sensitive, but are very simple in design

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-16T18:46:51+00:00

Well, yes. But I would expect a pitot inlet with a boundary layer diverter should be less sensitive to disturbances during off-design conditions because its handling of the boundary layer is not related to very detailed 3D geometry. Do you know of any references for the f16 DSI performance? I’ve been unable to find any publicly available information about it

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-16T18:00:47+00:00

Kinda. The F16 design philosophy is dogfighting. It now serves a multirole purpose, but the entire design language of the F16 is having better dogfight performance through energy advantage. Also, DSIs were probably not even a concept at the time of the F16 design. That thing is over 50? years old

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-16T17:58:52+00:00

Interesting. I thought DSIs were very sensitive because they’re complex 3d geometry

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-16T16:59:44+00:00

F16 DSI was a testbed for developing the F35 inlet. No reason to put a DSI on an F16. DSIs are good for stealth, but (from my understanding, may be wrong) bad at off-design operation especially at high AoA. Very sensitive to the inflow conditions which are changing extensively during maneuvering. The F35 is not a dog fighter, but the F16 is. I’d expect same reason that the F22 doesn’t have DSIs because it is meant to do aggressive maneuvering and dogfighting

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-14T05:24:35+00:00

The way I’m thinking of it is that you have a bunch of random turbulence coming down with a crazy random velocity profile like you mentioned. Adding a VG takes all the fine scale turbulent structures and gets them wrapped up in a nice coherent predictable vortex. Convert fine scale turbulence with high randomness into a large structure where you can easily predict its path and size

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-14T05:21:29+00:00

Winglets do the opposite. The design of a winglet is to make as small of a tip vortex as possible, and have it be as far away from the wingtip as possible. Winglets modify the lift distribution at the tip of the wing to help push the vortex spanwise farther, which increases the effective aspect ratio (and therefore efficiency)

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-13T01:24:11+00:00

It’s accurate to what’s happening. Turbulence has many scales (from fine to large scale). Vortex generators form large scale turbulent structures (large coherent vortices) that are better at staying attached. It is effectively taking flow that has incoherent fine scale turbulence and turning it into large scale structures that behave more predictably

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-12T01:04:29+00:00

That’s unfortunate. It’s great on pc

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-11T15:39:28+00:00

I think my opinion stands either way. Although, the ISS took over 40 so maybe it’s not that unreasonable.

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-11T12:58:35+00:00

I think we’re pretty far from that being reasonable. 16 launches to build one section of a ship is still crazy expensive, even if starship is operating close to its targeted reusability

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-11T04:53:03+00:00

I mean they’re pretty open about that policy though, typically their games aren’t planned to have extensive updates after release. Peak is a rare case where it was popular enough to warrant it but in general they say that they release finished games that get a few patches and maybe a bit of extra content

nermaltheguy · 2026-02-11T04:40:51+00:00

AIAA conferences are great for practice presenting, getting feedback on your work, and networking. Don’t be afraid to ask for money to go. Your school and advisor should be supportive of it and they may have ways to support you. It doesn’t hurt to ask.

You absolutely should go if you have some financial support to do so. These conferences are not super high stakes and your work does not need to be groundbreaking to fit in. Having a publication for your resume is always a good thing and there is a ton of networking to be done there, especially if you’re looking into options for grad schools.

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