Cross the Tower Bridge in London in a wingsuit Sunday May 12, 2024 at 5:45 a.m., two Austrians achieved the feat of crossing London's Tower Bridge in a wingsuit. The two skydivers Marco Fürst and Marco Waltenspiel jumped from a helicopter over the Thames at a height of around 1000 meters and crossed the bridge at 246 km/h. A wingsuit flight which lasted only 45 seconds and required 2 years of preparation and 200 training jumps.
One of the biggest computational fluid dynamics simulation made on a super computer This is one of the largest CFD simulations ever, on the world's largest GPU server, the GigaIO SuperNODE, equipped with 32x AMD Instinct MI210 64GB GPUs, for a total of 2TB of VRAM. The simulation shows the Concorde (62m long) before landing at a speed of 300km/h and an angle of attack of 10°, for 1 second in flight. The span-based Reynolds number is 146 million.
If the International Space Station was at low altitude The speed of the International Space Station in space is 27600 km/h, and makes a complete rotation of the earth in 90 minutes. But what would the ISS look like if it was at an altitude of only 3000 meters above the Earth; An interesting video created with the help of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
When you don’t want to pay extra for your skateboard A skateboarder tries to board a flight of the American company Spirit Airline, however during check-in he is told that he must pay an additional $89 for his "luggage", indeed his skateboard does not fit in the jig, dissatisfied with this news, the man decides to remedy the problem by breaking his board into two pieces. He finally boards his plane, where a steward who witnessed the scene, offers him some sweets as compensation.
An airplane flies in a tunnel On Saturday August 4, 2021 in Istanbul, Turkey, Italian pilot Dario Costa flew inside a motorway tunnel at a speed of 245 km / h at the controls of a Zivko Edge 540 aerobatic plane. feat which required a team of 40 people, specific training for this type of flight and more than a year of preparation.
Jeff Bezos in space with a Blue Origin rocket Tuesday, July 20, 2021, nine days after billionaire Richard Branson's space trip aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity spacecraft, Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and the richest man in the world, also surrendered, accompanied 3 other passengers, in space aboard a capsule powered by the reusable New Shepard rocket from his company Blue Origin. Take-off took place from Launch Site One, the company's launch base located in West Texas, then the capsule was dropped at an altitude of 75 km to then slightly exceed 100 km in altitude, space border according to the International Aeronautical Federation. After 3 minutes of orbital flight, for a total flight of 11 minutes, the capsule made its return to Earth, braked by three parachutes and retro rockets. The New Shepard launcher also returned to a landing pad near the launch site.
Elite Dangerous – Flight simulator Equipment used: SimPit Avenger 202 PRO (www.simpit.co.nz)
2x Acer Z650 SimPit Desk (www.simpit.co.nz)
TMW (thrustmaster controls)
pad with controls (roccat powergrid)
The blocked Suez Canal in Flight Simulator During the blockade of the Suez Canal by the large cargo ship Ever Given, some Modders decided to play the incident in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 flight simulation game.