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Not cruising speed, gliding speed (as in out of fuel). Best glide speed (Vbe) means the forward speed you can get the most distance for every foot of lost altitude. 15 minutes of glide is from the max ceiling the aircraft can travel at. But he was only a few hundred feet off the ground at the time he ran out of fuel. Everything about flying is an energy exchange. Once you have no more thrust you exchange potential energy in the form of altitude for kinetic energy. There is a loss of energy due to drag so you can not keep swapping potential for kinetic and back and forth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds
https://www.faa.gov/news/safety_briefing/2016/media/SE_Topic_16-01.pdf
At best the glide ratio of a Spitfire is 15:1 @ 95 MPH (15 feet forward to 1 foot down). So once out of fuel, he would have rapidly lost his speed due to friction and that climb to get the bomber. He would have had to go noise down to keep the 95 MPH. He was only a few hundred feet up passing over the beach so he would have landed in under 2 minutes of flight.
I trained in a Cessna 172 and that had a glide radio of 7:1 @65Kmph. At a general aviation airport the pattern altitude is 1000 feet AGL (above the ground). Once the engine cut that gave you just under 2 minutes of flight time and 7000 feet of forward travel to play with once you lost your airspeed which dies off pretty fast as you keep having to add back pressure to stay level. Keeping the best glide speed is important once you are in a noise down power off configuration. Any speeds higher or lower mean your decent rate is going to increase.
He also should have had plenty of fuel as the plane has 2x 48 gallon front tanks and 2x 33 gallon rear tanks. He should have entered the battle with about 2hr of fighting fuel and enough to return to base. He also didn't have a reserve tank which is mounted under the plane at the end of the movie to switch too. The reserve is a drop tank, which they switch too and use up right after takeoff to extend the range of the fighter. They drop them before entering combat as they slow the aircraft down and make a nice target.
I was a good war movie, but very misleading. The sky was full of aircraft and the German pilots were almost all aces by that point. They had been fighting in the Spanish Civil War and the Blitz across Europe. The RAF losses at Dunkirk and the battles leading up to it were almost 300 aircraft. The pilots were very young and had no real combat training. The city was destroyed and the French and British troops holding the line fought hard and almost always to the death.
I'll drink to that!
My thoughts are the rights to the screen play was in a catalog they already owned the rights to. It may have been in the make or return the rights to some other group stage so they recycled the shooting script for a quicker development.
The Descent didn't even need the monsters. It was going good just as a stuck in a cave movie. When that women got stuck I almost had a panic attack watching.
Rangers use op force weapons in combat all the time.
There are whole religions who believe in God but not the devil.
udaism does not believe in the devil, but we do believe in Satan (who more properly should be called "the Satan"). As this demonstrates, the Jewish view of Satan is very different than the Christian one. Here's a summary of the Jewish view; you can also find information at Alyza (Gretchen) Shapiro's web site at http://www.geocities.com/alyzab/Jewish/satan.html
The word satan means "challenger", "difficulty", or "distraction" (note that it is not a proper name). With the leading ha- to make haSatan, it refers to /the/ challenger. This describes Satan as the angel who is the embodiment of man's challenges. HaSatan works for G-d. His job is to make choosing good over evil enough of a challenge so that it can be a meaningful choice. In other words, haSatan is an angel whose mission it is to add difficulty, challenges, and growth experiences to life. Contrast this to Christianity, which sees Satan as God's opponent. In Jewish thought, the idea that there exists anything capable of setting itself up as God's opponent would be considered overly polytheistic—you are setting up the devil to be a god or demigod.
The notion of an angel having free will is alien to Judaism. Free will requires the tension created by being a soul dwelling in a body. People can have free will, angels can't. There is a debate over whether they lack the potential for free will, or whether they simply percieve reality to clearly to have any choices to make. But in any case, without the fence-straddling of the human condition, there is no free will. HaSatan acts as a servant of God, not as an opponent or even disobediant child. Angels cannot sin, they cannot fall.
no one listens to the tycho monolith anymore.
I agree, the movie looks so cartoonish and the actors are very weak. Another kids with guns doing stupid stuff for stupid reasons movie.
He does not have the money for a proper house keeper so he hires an illegal at less than standard wages and taxes.
It wasn't a colony ship. It was a one way mission into the future as they were planning on returning 100s of years later by design. Taylor was fed up with the human race and wanted to start over. He was down beat person who had given up on life.
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