Where is everyone #5

Moving palletized material today .....

 

My only knowledge of the term "meatball" or just "the ball" is exclusive to aircraft carrier operations and is a fresnel lighting system used to guide the aircraft landing to the 3rd cable. I know aerial refueling uses a similar system and may also be referred to as the ball or meatball.

In commercial/civilian aviation I've never heard that term. The artificial horizon indicator, or simply gyro, is a gyro stabilized instrument that provides visual reference to the aircraft's relation to the horizon in both roll and pitch in degrees.

There's a second instrument called the turn and bank indicator that assists in making coordinated turns using basically a ball in a curved tube for yaw coordination, often referred to as a "slip ball". The instrument, when used to make a coordinated turn will take 2 minutes to go a full 360 degrees. On some much faster planes this is calibrated to 4 minutes for 360 degrees.

On helicopters and gliders pilots will often tape a piece of yarn to the windscreen for reference to coordinated flight, if the ball or yarn is off center you "step" on it, push the rudder pedal that the string/ball is pointing at. Or in the case of V tail Bonanzas, ignore it and ride the waddle because you'd be peddling a bicycle trying to keep it centered.

Artificial Horizon or Gyro


Turn and Bank Indicator


Meatball or just Ball

 

Don't go to google, trusting you to be straight up, what year model is it?

 

Your words remind me of a scene in on of my favorite movies.



“Today was a GOOD day.”

 

KW comes pretty close......... well, as long as you don't sleep where the rain comes through to the inside.

 

Hmmm......

 

AFAIK, we only have 2 hydraulic RGN's left and they rarely leave WA/BC, all the rest are mechanical. I've pulled one in almost 8 years and that's because we couldn't permit the weight on 2 plus a flip so had to take one of the 3 axles and add a flip. We rarely ever move anything that heavy anymore.

 

Last time time water dripped in my face I was in that Gray Shaker out in Illinois delivering cross members. For sure a rude awakening lol.

 

Sale barn food is great. The crowd is usually better there too.

 

I prefer to think that at a little over $180k for these new KW's they have added indoor showers not forgot to bond the sleeper cap to the cab cap.