Everything you've ever wanted from a blog, if you were me.
I'm interested in flying, programming, computer technology, and the like. I've wanted to host my own content, and this site is my attempt at doing just that. Over the years, I've fiddled with a lot of projects that have just sat on my hard drive: it's time I properly documented them and organized them in one place.
I like to take the master question files that I have to study and convert them into a multiple choice quiz. Since these are closed book tests, I don't take it until I can get a 100% on my quiz. Now, there is a way to generate this type of quiz in PEX, but that is slow and you have to deal with the awful program that is PEX. This let's me study the MQF where ever I want.
Intro I've managed to make a replica of the fuel panel in the J model using SVG. Let me tell you, there are no good and free ways, right now, for MacOS users to make SVG's (that I can find). So I made this on my linux box using Inkscape. The mac version of Inkscape is currently not functional enough to use. It's super slow and crashed every other breath. Unfortuatly, the version that worked well is only 32 bit, which doen't work on the newest version of MacOS.
Intro I would like my content to be served over HTTPS, so there's some things required to set that up. I'll list a brief summary of what I did to make this site an SSL secured page, and any issue I came up with along the way. Overall, I think it took me 1.5 hours to get this set up due to a major error on my part; it probably would have only been 45 minutes otherwise.
I've had a simple blog on WordPress since 2011. Over the years, the account has been hacked several times and it has been a general nightmare. It is also a free account, (because who pays for WordPress?) and it is littered with ads. Ads that are making someone else money on my content. I have basically ignored it for the last five years, but something has come up that has made me readdress it.
This tool allows you to input the three properties of nominals (Altitude, True Airspeed, and Bank Angle) and see the effect it will have on the trainable box of the 105mm projected onto the ground. This will allow you to get into the ballpark of the best nominals for a given mission. I don't have the drag curve for the 30mm… yet. Once I do, I'll be able to superimpose both trainable boxes.
A fully interactive modeling of the fuel system on the C-130J. This will be used as the backend of a fuel panel simulator.
Being able to accurately engage an enemy target within close proximity of friendly forces, from thousands of feet away, with a non-guided munition is the expertise of side firing gunships. Any procedure or technique which could enhance the accuracy of a gunship’s munitions would be a valued addition to the communities knowledge, and has the potential to save lives. To this end, this paper presents a machine learning algorithm capable of predicting corrections to the lag and depression angles of the 105mm Howitzer. These corrections are learned over time, and applied after several inputs into the system. Similar to manual procedure known as a tweak, this automatic learning algorithm has the potential to be able to simultaneously correct wind and gun errors, while maintaining a ‘memory’ of previous inputs. The technique presented here is also amicable to other caliber projectile weapons, and to correcting sensor and inertial navigation unit discrepancies with the proper tooling.
This paper analyzes the five charted inputs of Gross Weight, Pressure Altitude, Temperature Deviation, Engine Efficiency, and Variant Drag Coefficient to the four engine climb speed for H variants of the C-130. As some these inputs into the chart are variable during the flight profile, the optimal climb speed will change accordingly. A linear equation is presented to model the effects of this change during a standard four engine climb.