Just saw on NYC news a truck drove around the down crossing gates and, if I understand it correctly, was hit by one LIRR train and then pushed along where it was hit by another one just leaving a station which then derailed. 7 people on the one train injured including one engineer but not seriously. Accident damaged a station platform and tore up about 200 feet of track plus the third rail.
Link to report:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/3-people-killed-in-train-vehicle-collision-on-long-island/ar-BBU85Lb?ocid=spartandhp
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From Mike:
School Street crossing in Westbury
Good thing it wasn't worse. Westbury is on the original main line open to Hicksville in 1837 and to Farmingdale in 1841. It's maybe a mile northeast of Roosevelt Field.
Boy those trains really come through there at high speed.
MiningmanGood thing it wasn't worse. Westbury is on the original main line open to Hicksville in 1837 and to Farmingdale in 1841. It's maybe a mile northeast of Roosevelt Field. http://web.mta.info/lirr/Timetable/lirrmap_police.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKlhlTD3NAA Boy those trains really come through there at high speed.
Didn't look like Lindy was using any flaps in making his take off - at least I could not see any.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
BaltACDDidn't look like Lindy was using any flaps in making his take off - at least I could not see any.
You'd be correct. The NYPs used a Clark Y airfoil with only the ailerons mobile; the additional lift for takeoff with large fuel load being accomplished by enlarging the wing dimensions instead. According to Lindbergh it was a very long takeoff run with very little altitude to clear obstructions at the end of the runway!
I don't think most planes had extension flaps then.
charlie hebdoI don't think most planes had extension flaps then.
No, but the technology was available. Fairey used deflection flaps from early in the WWI period. Fowler flaps were IIRC patented in 1920, and these are by definition extension flaps -- these were less useful before the advent of powered mechanical drives, but nonetheless the aerodynamics of the approach were known and appreciated by the early '20s.
The NYP probably did not use them because the additional weight represented in their installation would be better used in additional fuel reserve. They are also somewhat less useful on thin wing sections (thick sections with high inherent lift starting to become popular right around that time).
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