Sleekjet From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 2045 posts, RR: 24 Posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 17 hours ago) and read 3667 times:
This may appear as an effort to get cheap hits, but I'll press on. What is the lever with the red circle around it...and what is the significance of the yellow dot?
CaptOveur From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 3648 times:
I think the lever is an angle of attack sensor.. I may be wrong though... I have no idea what the yellow dot is.. A guess is maybe an indicator for the status of the entry door.
320tech From Turks and Caicos Islands, joined May 2004, 487 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 3609 times:
The device in the red circle is an angle of attack sensor.
Red, yellow, and green dots are blow out indicators for fire extinguishing systems and oxygen systems. Oxygen systems usually use green dots in my experience, though the placement of this one suggests that it could be the crew oxygen system.
The way they work is that there's a line from the bottle (O2 or fire ext) leading to the disk. If the bottle overheats or is fired, the disk gets blown out, giving an obvious indication that the bottle is empty.
Now, this could be something else on the MD-82 - I'm not familiar with it. But that's what it looks like to me.
The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the manufacturer and impossible for the AME.
SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71 Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 3477 times:
Slam was looking for another MD-80 manual. The one nearest to hand did not depict the yellow spot.
Best I can recall DC-9/MD-80 had the oxygen blowout disk (green) on the lower right fuselage, just forward of the bag pit and very near the bottle.
A yellow blowout disk would be for overpressure discharge of the fire bottles but that should be somewhere within one airplanelength of the fire extinguishing system - in other words, near the engines and APU.
It also looks too big to be one of these plastic disks as I remember them being no bigger than a nickel. That object seems to be at least two fingers wide, measuring by the captain's hand.
Rain repellant blowout disk?
Waiting for an AA MadDog pilot or mechanic to jump in.
Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.
Alias1024 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 2643 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 3452 times:
As said by everyone else, the lever in the red circle is an AOA sensor.
The yellow dot is not a blow out disc. All AA MD-80s have them to help properly align the jetbridge with the aircraft. American paints a line on the floor of the jetbridge, and whoever is driving the jetbridge matches up the line with the yellow dot on the aircraft.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems with just potatoes.
DeltaGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 13 hours ago) and read 3421 times:
Alias1024 got to it first...I was going to say, I had never seen these on the nose of a DL Mad Dog, but instead they carry an inverted T to help with jetbridge docking, located around the same place as AA's dot.
Skywatch From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 923 posts, RR: 6 Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 7 hours ago) and read 3217 times:
I'm kind of new at this, but are those fins below the windscreen vortice creators to reduce cockpit wind noise? I just read around on here to learn, and have never worked on any aircraft at all. Feel free to correct me!
FBU 4EVER! From Norway, joined Jan 2001, 998 posts, RR: 7 Reply 14, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 3166 times:
There are three pitot tubes forward of the windscreen,one for each pitot/static system (Captain's,First Officer's and the Auxiliary system).
Further down on the fuselage,there are strakes on either side of the fuselage.They serve to smoothen the airflow over the wing at high angles of attack and thus increase rudder effectiveness during flap extension/retraction.The old DC-9-41 has a hydraulically operated flap/rudder throw limiter that limits rudder deflection to 13 degrees under these circumstances.A complicated system that was replaced by strakes from the DC-9-50 onwards.
N685FE From United States of America, joined Dec 2003, 450 posts, RR: 13 Reply 15, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 19 hours ago) and read 2954 times:
The 80's also have a rudder throw limiter, it also has a hyd assisted elevator when you push the stick past a certain number of degrees nose down. I forget the exact number, but it is to help during stalls, the 90's also have this system on the T/E of the engine pylons.
DeltaGuy From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 16, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 2858 times:
I believe the strakes on the nose (as well as the ones on the tail) served the same purpose, that is to aid in stall recovery, specifically deep stalls? (I may be criss-crossing some of my facts here)
FBU 4EVER! From Norway, joined Jan 2001, 998 posts, RR: 7 Reply 17, posted (8 years 1 month 2 weeks 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 2741 times:
No,the strakes on the nose are for aerodynamic purposes as mentioned.They are also anti-iced by pneumatics on the MD-80 and electrically on the MD-90.The strakes on the nacelles are for stall-recovery purposes by adding more horizontal area in the tail area.The idea is that this will allow the nose to fall somewhat faster than the tail area due to drag,thus making deep stall recovery more likely.These strakes are not heated in any way.
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