Whatzit?

[webenda]

OK, you have seen it without snow, my apologies for thinking you had not. I do not see the Whatzit in your photos either. I do see the lady in distance shots, as you said.

Hey, Rufus, whats with that? No sleepiing lady to be seen under the snow.

[chuck]

"Digital Art"

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2020/04/fact-check-photo-of-sleeping-lady-mt-susitna-was-not-taken-from-a-drone.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6yQOs93Cgg

I guess it's not a "fake" per se, it is a real piece of artwork. He needs to study geologic landforms to make it more convincing. The shape of the rocks is wrong for that area. Western US/Canada is pretty young and the glacial carving looks more scoop like. The close up of the formations in the art work are rounded, more like what you would see if ground under an ice sheet. That's why I was originally guessing Greenland and later Iceland. The stone in the image looks like shield rock/mountain roots that were plowed over by massive sheets of ice.

Wayne, no need to apologize. This is supposed to be fun.

BTW, went back to Google earth images and rotated o match the orientation on the piece of artwork. The artist has got a lot of imagination.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I guess it's not a "fake" per se, it is a real piece of artwork.

[sleepmac]

Wow! I see the "Sleeping Lady" now!

Dan Weinhold

[rogruth]

Wow! I see the "Sleeping Lady" now!

Dan Weinhold

Me too.

[webenda]

Wow! I see the "Sleeping Lady" now!

Dan Weinhold

Me too.

OK then, we an move on to the next Whatzit.

What is this?

[chuck]

Sloppy photoshop job?

[webenda]

Sloppy photoshop job?

Close enough. It was created with google photo sphere. There just were not enough images for Photo Sphere to make a continuous no gap sphere.
https://geojournalism.org/2015/02/creat ... to-sphere/

Here is the 360 sphere photo:=> https://www.google.com/maps/@30.6038833 ... 704!8i4352

If you look around in the photo you will see that it was taken across the street from the famous Prada Store in the Middle of Nowhere.

[chuck]

That is some nasty distortion. The woman/girl in pink didn't fare to well either, not as bad as the train tracks but still pretty bad.

[webenda]

This is a three part Whatzit.
Part one: Find out what a Haltera is.
Part two: Locate the Halteres on this insect.


Part three: Locate the Halteres on this helicopter.

Image ID 3669897 © Anthony Berenyi | Dreamstime.com

[chuck]

[webenda]

You got it Chuck. A picture answer is worth a thousands words. Two picture answers...

A simple mathematical equation describes the action of the hateres in both the 55 milliion year old crane fly and the 60 year old bell uh-1 iroquois, F = M x A.

In both the insect and the helicopter a simple mechanical linkage between the hateres and the wing stabilizes flight.

[webenda]

Tucsonians got all excited this winter because we had a crane fly invasion.
Typical comment, "What are these things, I have never seen them before."
That is because the crane fly larva pass dry years in a state of aestivation.
We had a lot of rain this December, January and February. The larva woke up.

Another simularity between the crane fly and the UH-1 is the UH=1's here
spend years in aestiation waiting for the next war to wake them up.

UH-1's in storage at the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Aircraft Boneyard.

[chuck]

The halteres/counterweights are only found on two blade choppers and two wing insects? A dragonfly/damselfly with four wings doesn't need them and I assume that a 4 or 5 blade helicopter is the same, not needed or no place to put it?

[webenda]

The halteres/counterweights are only found on two blade choppers and two wing insects? A dragonfly/damselfly with four wings doesn't need them and I assume that a 4 or 5 blade helicopter is the same, not needed or no place to put it?

I don't know, lets ask a helicopter pilot.

Bill, why do helicopters like UH-1 have a flybar and ones like the UH-60 don't?

William Blume, Vietnam Veteran helicopter guy.

"I have about 3,000 hr in the UH-1. I have no idea what you mean by a 'flybar'”."

Hmm... We have a helicopter mechanic here on MTJ. Let's ask him.

2railjon, please answer why we don't see stabilizer bars (flybars) on helicopters with more than two blades?