[16:52] <+RRoan> NM, what’s the weirdest control-surface name you’ve come across?
[16:52] <+RRoan> Just out of curiosity.
[16:53] <@Number_Muncher> [19:52] <RRoan> NM, what’s the weirdest control-surface name you’ve come across? <= I’m not sure. Flaperon? Eleveron? Ruddervator? Stabillator? Slat?
[16:53] <+RRoan> Flaperon.
[16:53] <+RRoan> Definitely.
[16:54] <+RRoan> That’s almost as good as the word “clopen”.
[16:54] <@Number_Muncher> there exists a beast that can be described only as “eleverflaperon,” but I don’t know the actual name
[16:55] <+DanielHawking> oooh munchei
[16:55] <+DanielHawking> didn’t they use those on the Concorde
[17:01] <@Number_Muncher> wait, Chevrokia. The 747 has Tailerons?
[17:01] <+Chevrokia> yes
[17:01] <@Number_Muncher> ………….. I’m about to shed a tear of joy Chev
[17:01] <+Chevrokia> apparently because the ailerons on the wings can’t roll the aircraft fast enough
[17:05] <+DanielHawking> The 747 needs that sort of control surface to roll
[17:05] <+DanielHawking> it’s a frickin’ big plane
[17:07] <@Juumanistra> Big plane is indeed big.
[17:07] <+Chevrokia> k so i’m gonna have flaperons, tailerons, and fowler flaps
[17:07] <+Chevrokia> strictly speaking, spoilerons too
[17:07] <@Number_Muncher> add slaterons
[17:07] <+DanielHawking> wtf munchie
[17:07] <+DanielHawking> does that even work
[17:08] <+Chevrokia> it could
[17:08] <+DanielHawking> Maybe
[17:08] <+DanielHawking> You guys are silly.
[17:08] <@Number_Muncher> full length segmented slotted flaperons and slaterons with tailerons and spoilers
[17:08] * +DanielHawking builds a plane with two engines on the tail, DC-9 style
[17:08] <@Number_Muncher> and just a normal rudder
[17:08] * +DanielHawking then thrust vectors them
[17:08] <+DanielHawking> THE ENTIRE ENGINE POD ROTATES
[17:09] <+doc_evilonavich> ..I want moar combat straight rocket boosters for aircraft
[17:09] <+candiro> wat
[17:09] <@Number_Muncher> tbh, Slateron/Flaperon isn’t all that crazy, it’s mostly just ailerons and slats that can get used independently and in realtime by the flight computer with a bit of extension capability
[17:10] <@Number_Muncher> though this suggests the creation of a split-wing
[17:10] <+DanielHawking> Don’t slats extend from under the wing in a 180 degree angle?
[17:10] <+DanielHawking> er, 180 degree turn
[17:10] <@Juumanistra> Obviously we require a commercial airliner with ruddervators.
[17:10] * +DanielHawking remembers the 747 landing video
[17:10] <+DanielHawking> ….
[17:10] <+DanielHawking> Juums.
[17:10] * +DanielHawking throttles
[17:10] <+Chevrokia> rudderons
[17:10] <+DanielHawking> WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT WHEN I WAS MAKING THE G850
[17:10] <+DanielHawking> CHRIST
[17:10] <+Chevrokia> no wait
[17:11] <+Chevrokia> ruddervatorons
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH EASIER THAN THE H-TAIL
[17:11] <@Number_Muncher> depends on the type, “slat” just refers to a control surface on the front of the wing
[17:11] <@Juumanistra> YES ARA. GET TO WORK REDRAWING.
[17:11] <@Number_Muncher> wait, make a V-wing?
[17:11] <@Number_Muncher> o_O
[17:11] <@Juumanistra> So that I can do the silly H-tail.
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> V-tail
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> no I want the H-tail
[17:11] <@Number_Muncher> no, V-wing
[17:11] <+DanielHawking>
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> …
[17:11] <@Number_Muncher> V-wing
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> V-wing
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> …
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> Omg
[17:11] <@Number_Muncher> ruddervatorflaperons
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> No
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> Fuck this
[17:11] <+DanielHawking> X-wing
[17:12] <@Number_Muncher> RUDDERVATORFLAPERONS
[17:12] <+DanielHawking> 9G+ TURNS ON COMMERCIAL AIRLINERS
[17:12] <+candiro> oh god
[17:12] <+candiro> what’s going on
[17:12] <@Juumanistra> Entirely solid wings. The only control surfaces are on the tailplanes.
[17:12] <+DanielHawking> NO
[17:12] <+candiro> the lot of you have lost it entirely
[17:12] <+DanielHawking> THE ENTIRE WING IS A CONTROL SURFACE
[17:12] <+Chevrokia> no
[17:12] <+DanielHawking> MISSION ADAPTIVE WING
[17:12] <+Chevrokia> the entire plane
[17:12] <@Juumanistra> I have no idea how we got here, Cand.
[17:13] <+candiro> i’m scared now
[17:13] <@Number_Muncher> V-wing
[17:13] <+candiro> oh god
[17:13] <@Juumanistra> Chev and Munchy were talking about control surfaces, then I mentioned the need for a commercial airliner with ruddervators, then it kind of spiraled out of control.
[17:13] <@Number_Muncher> Candiro
[17:12] <+Chevrokia> and then we just kept adding on
[17:12] <+Chevrokia> i was talking about perfectly sane control surfaces
[17:13] <+RRoan> all of a sudden this thread got really lol
[17:13] <@Number_Muncher> ruddervatorflaperons
[17:13] <@Number_Muncher> IT IS THE BEST IDEA WE’VE EVER HAD
[17:13] <+RRoan> CLOOOOOOOOPEN
[17:13] <@Number_Muncher> EVER
[17:13] <@Number_Muncher> IN THE HISTORY OF EVER
[17:13] <+candiro> all moving ruddervatorflaperons
[17:13] <+candiro> this frightens me
[17:13] <+RRoan> CLOOOOOOOPERN
[17:13] <+DanielHawking> RUDDERVATORFLAPERSPOILERONS
[17:14] <+DanielHawking> WAIT
[17:14] <+DanielHawking> NO
[17:14] <+RRoan>
[17:14] <+DanielHawking> BLOWN UDDERVATORFLAPERSPOILERONS
[17:14] <@Number_Muncher> Ara, make them split surfaces
[17:14] <+DanielHawking> BLOWN RUDDERVATORFLAPERSPOILERONS
[17:14] <@Number_Muncher> so they can do airbraking too
[17:14] <+candiro> oh jesus
[17:14] <+Chevrokia> fowlers
[17:14] <+Chevrokia> make them fowlers
[17:14] <+Chevrokia> triple slotted
[17:14] <+RRoan> I don’t even know whats going on
[17:14] <+RRoan> I suspect zine doesn’t either.
[17:14] <@Number_Muncher> RRoan, you know what happens when a bunch of engineers get together
[17:15] <@Number_Muncher> and get a little excited
[17:15] <@Number_Muncher> and a lot drunk?
[17:15] <+DanielHawking> I am giggly right now
[17:15] <Zine> RRoan-> I rarely know entirely what’s going on
[17:15] <+RRoan> oh yeah urrite NM
[17:15] <@Number_Muncher> well, Windows ME, but besides that
[17:15] <+candiro> these things get *built*