Re: The word "unalive"

readytotaxi wrote:

How about deferred breathing?

Re: wavy line on airbus wings

Starlionblue wrote:

aeszym wrote:

Here is a picture I took

The piece sits between the most inboard spoiler/speedbrake and the next

I'm not really an expert but that doesn't look like an A319 or A321 to me...

Re: United 77W Returns to Sydney

Definite hydraulic failure - gear doors open and main bogies untilted on landing, so they used the alternate.

Re: United flight loses main wheel departing SFO

bols59 wrote:

GalaxyFlyer wrote:

Kenny Rogers has a song for this…

"You picked a fine time to leave me, you wheel"?

Re: Plane Crash on I-75 in Naples, Florida

From the dash cam video, the flaps were retracted which sadly means they had to land at a very high speed. I’ve never flown the challenger so for challenger folks a few questions. 1) is the gear electrically unlocked? 2) are the flaps electrically operated? 3) Obviously weight dependent but, what w...

Re: Los Rodeos opinion recopilation

PSAatSAN4Ever wrote:

By the way, if you haven't read MacArthur Job's books on major aviation accidents (such as this one), I HIGHLY recommend it!

Re: What happened to the aircraft you had your first flight on?

Vickers VC-10 G-ARVC of BOAC, leased to Nigerian Airways in the summer of 1966 - flew Kano - Barcelona, to escape Nigeria as expats during civil unrest.
This airframe became RAF VC-10 tanker ZA144, eventual fate - scrapped early 2000's, but I believe the cockpit section survives as a trainer.

Re: Mystery Airbus A300 in the Jordanian desert

BoeingVista wrote:

There are actually 2 aircraft on that site, you can find another one at 32.032550175839766, 35.96888931877606

Re: Qatar’s Al-Baker to retire

Gotta be related to the Airbus dispute and its sudden resolution (details of which are secret).
I suspect a little time has elapsed to allow 'plausible deniability' between his retirement and the dispute.

Re: DAN-AIR London TXL operations

The first video must actually have been shot on two seperate occasions, as the first couple of shots are of the ill fated 727 G-BDAN - which dates the video to before it crashed in 1980. The remainder of the video features G-BCDA.

Re: Identify these aircraft in this 1976 vintage photo at TFN

+1 for #10 being an F-27. The shape of the fin and dorsal flaring are very distinctive.

Re: Safari suggestions

johns624 wrote:

flipdewaf wrote:

Wait, why does your company get a day in where you go on holiday?

Fred

I don't understand that comment, either.

Re: Justin Trudue's aircraft breakdown after G20 summit, India

B777LRF wrote:

LaunchDetected wrote:

I know no Head of State who flies commercial (excluding charter flight).

......That’s a certain HRH KC II, who’s predecessor (HRH QE II) frequently used commercial transport.......

Re: Plane crash during bad weather in the Brazilian Amazon.

Aside question from the pics:- when did they start putting dihedral on a Bandit tailplane? All those I've seen are flat.

Re: Ural Airlines A320 emergency landing in a field in Siberia due to hydraulic problems

fpetrutiu wrote:

While you can gravity drop the gear, flaps and slats are hydraulic with no alternate means of deploying them.

Re: Question about the wings of the 767-300ER

Out of interest, do all versions of the 767 wing/gear combinations have that little 'trunnion door' that opens briefly like a spoiler on the top surface of the wing ?

Re: Gatwick Airport submits plans for second runway

.....Property owners in the area are going to turn into Henny Penny, and start screaming, "the sky is falling! The sky is falling!........." Erm.... 'Chicken Licken' wasn't it? :D (I know, showing my age !.... :oops: ) I think 'Henny Penny' came along shortly thereafter :)

Re: video surfacing of drunk dad letting 11 Y/O son fly plane

I for one find the title of this thread of concern. In the linked video, nowhere does it claim the pilot is drunk, he is drinking a bottle of Heineken beer! One beer does not equal "drunk" I think the OP is being a bit disingenuous, and maybe showing us his intolerance. You're seriously d...

Re: Longest runways in the UK in 1940

davidjohnson6 wrote:

The UK still uses feet...
I wonder if Manston might have had a long enough runway at the time.

Re: History of the Super Guppy (Turbine) Airframes

CARST wrote:

Indeed it kind of is. Yet I prefer to think of the Guppys as Boeing 377s. B-29, C-97 and 377 were all one family........

Re: 737 v A320 and LLCs

Surely the 737-800 should be compared with the 321 rather than the straight 320? A stretched model with a stretched model, or else it's apples and oranges. The -800 is between the 320 and 321 in size. The -900 and -10 are the 321 sized airplanes Okay then, so it is in fact apples to oranges then si...

Re: 737 v A320 and LLCs

Surely the 737-800 should be compared with the 321 rather than the straight 320? A stretched model with a stretched model, or else it's apples and oranges.

Re: Turboprops with an APU

ExpatVet wrote:

Soviet An-24 had one, interestingly!

Re: Non human pilots biologically?

Alfons wrote:

I‘m disappointed that aliens only like to land in the US.


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Re: A350 Engine / T/O Performance

Please would someone just elaborate on the weights GW and FOB?
ZFW is obviously the zero fuel weight, and OEW is operating empty weight.

Re: Aviation humor/jokes

I dare say this will be deleted......

Alleged graffiti on a toilet door, Gatwick Airport in the 70's:-

"A Britannia is better than a Trident, cos 4 screws are better than 3 blow-jobs !!"

Re: DeHavilland Comet Aerodynamic Performance (L/D)

Which model Comet? The early mark 1's were considerably smaller and had more primative engines than the fully developed mark 4, 4B and 4C models.

Re: Airliner parasitic drag - shape or size?

That will depend on the latitude, as you said, the mass would be the same regardless. Why affected by latitude? Centrifugal effect. Also heavier on westbound than eastbound for the same reason. Local variation of g is around 0.7%, including earth non-uniformoty and centrifugal effect. In practice, ...

Re: Airliner parasitic drag - shape or size?

zeke wrote:

Matt6461 wrote:

Did you also know that an airliner is ~0.1% lighter at FL350 than the same-mass plane at sea level?

That will depend on the latitude, as you said, the mass would be the same regardless.

Re: Sheriff: Alec Baldwin fired shot on movie set that killed woman

If the testing has basically broken the gun as it was when the accident happened, I don't see how the prosecution can prove it couldn't have misfired. Indeed - and if did misfire during testing (which apparently required the repair), then..... d'oh... isn't that reasonable grounds that could have m...

Re: SpaceX Rocket Explodes Minutes After Test Launch

This discussion does make me steal the term from planes and wonder how often failures are "uncontained." I'm not a rocket scientist Do we know if Starship had an uncontained engine failure? I haven't paid much attention of late. Well, visible in the lauch video it's clear that 2 adjacent ...

Re: Cargolux 747 landing incident @ LUX

It's a testimony of the redundancy of the main gear configuration at the 747 series, with all other current civil freighters with a collapsed /broken off main gear the outcome would be very different. It also appears the right body gear bogie was pretending to be on a 767 and was hanging nose down ...

Re: Propeller aircraft with leading edge slats?

I remember that description and was surprised as well that he used incidence in that manner I do think it may well be an older term where incidence and AOA were conflated I'm sure I'm taking away a misunderstanding, but would it be accurate to say: In the US, AoA = Angle of Incidence in the UK, In ...

Re: Propeller aircraft with leading edge slats?

Aren't Angle of Incidence and AoA different terms? Where angle of incidence is the fixed chord line relative to the roll axis, and angle of attack is the chord line relative to the airflow? Same in the UK. AoA is relative to airflow, incidence is relative to a fixed datum. I refer you to D.P. Davie...

Re: Plane collides with aircraft tug on airport tarmac in Colombia

rrapynot wrote:

9252fly wrote:

rrapynot wrote:

Yes, if you want power for AC and other electrical systems.

Wouldn't that be what the APU is for?

But where does the APU get its power?

Re: Propeller aircraft with leading edge slats?

B-52 has a lot of angle of incidence (AoA, for the Brits here)\. Aren't Angle of Incidence and AoA different terms? Where angle of incidence is the fixed chord line relative to the roll axis, and angle of attack is the chord line relative to the airflow? Same in the UK. AoA is relative to airflow, ...

Re: Plane collides with aircraft tug on airport tarmac in Colombia

bennett123 wrote:

They also ran across in front of the engine which was still running.

Re: King Charles coronation visitors

AEROFAN wrote:

What does this have to do with airlines?

Re: Dominion v Fox Lawsuit

It's a pisser but they aren't in business to satisfy the needs of our little civil war. Money is what rules the shareholder kingdom and I guess 787 millions birds in hand was better than 1.5 billion in the bush. Still, it'll be fun to watch this collection of Fox News underwear stains try to keep f...

Re: Weight distribution on 3-2 configurations

He's talking about this, pretty simple: Hmmm, OK. But he said "no seat asymmetry", which threw me off. Because there is definitely asymmetry. Not really from a structural point of view - look at the spacing of the seat legs and where they transfer the load to the floor... The seat leg/anc...

Re: Most annoying car features

If you’re having second thoughts about lane changes so frequently the 3-flashes is an issue, perhaps you should consider whether you’re doing it right rather than blaming this feature? This is a thread about annoying car features. It has annoyed me on occasion - who said anything about 'frequently' ?

Re: Most annoying car features

Turn signals that flash a minimum of 3 times+ when the stalk is momentarily pressed. One of the actually useful features for Highway lane changes. Not if you have to change your mind about the lane change. Perhaps if you could cancel it by flipping the stalk the other way momentarily I could see it...

Re: Most annoying car features

Turn signals that flash a minimum of 3 times+ when the stalk is momentarily pressed.

Re: Tu-114 prop question

That gives the impression they are not connected, nor geared to the engine, just free powered by a turbine stage via a connecting rod. Each prop with its own turbine. This is just a guess though, as it is hard to find specifics about the NK-12s. Wikipedia - although not the most reliable source - s...

Re: Tu-114 prop question

The OP might be referring to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE8k12c8pnc For a few seconds starting at about 7;20, there's a shot of a Tu114 taxiing with it's no.1 engine nearest the camera, it's 2 props nearly stationary but both clearly turning slowly the same way. Strange - I'd have t...

Re: Kojak

Max Q wrote:

Hawaii 5-0 was very good, should never have been redone, can’t they come up with new ideas ?


Anyone else like ‘The Rockford files’ ?

Re: Top 3 Favorite and Top 3 Least Favorite Presidents in the U.S.

No supprises here, a fairly polar split in opinions reflecting the current polarization of politics in general

Re: Fedex & Southwest Near Collision at AUS

This was claimed in the Tweet to be a real video, but I'm sure it's another FlighSim simulation given that it shows much better visibility than was present on the day of this incident. https://twitter.com/DocumentingATX/status/1623745063388958720?s=20&t=uYEORl3XbYs8_XwBdvF65Q Definitely a sim. ...

Re: "Trailblazer airlines" movie MD-80

The left elevator has a 'droopy tab'.

Re: Runway Incursion at JFK 1/13/23

Related to the CVR issue, and not judging the crew in any way - does the 'sterile cockpit below 10K' rule apply whilst on the ground taxiing?
I would have thought so - especially at one of the World's busiest airports.