The rocket explodes and the spectators are cheering and applauding? How weird is this?
What did I miss? Or are they all brain washed Elon Musk fanboys?
Looks like SpaceX goes the way of the Russian N1 moon rocket. Bundling so many rocket engines is never a good idea.
Looks like vapourware to attract investors. Won't come true, at least not in our lifetime. Rocket flights with passengers to long distance destinations on this planet were already described in rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth's books "Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (By Rocket into Planetary Spac...
Jump to postLook at most European carriers. BA, IB, LH, SK, AY charge for soft drinks. These are legacy carriers. Since when does LH carge for soft drinks? The last time I flew Lufthansa was in July 2018, so pre-Covid. HAJ-FRA-VNO and return in Economy. Itenary said "Snack or brunch" on both legs. As...
Jump to postLook at most European carriers. BA, IB, LH, SK, AY charge for soft drinks. These are legacy carriers. Since when does LH carge for soft drinks? The last time I flew Lufthansa was in July 2018, so pre-Covid. HAJ-FRA-VNO and return in Economy. Itenary said "Snack or brunch" on both legs. As...
Jump to postWell, I guess I was wrong about the contract of carriage part, but their photography policy is apparently as follows. This used to be written in their inflight mag , I don't know where one would find it now. “The use of still and video cameras, film or digital, is permitted only for recording of pe...
Jump to postEasy: supporters of particular anythings (sports teams, cars, aircraft manufacturers, hi-fi equipment etc.) are tribal by their nature. Rationality doesn't really form part of the equation, although the more fervent ones would like you to think that it does. I don’t really understand turning airlin...
Jump to postI readily admit I don’t know if any Airbus planes had FEs. I know the Concorde did, but that wasn’t an Airbus, even though they supported it in its later years. Those are all what… 30 years ago? The early Airbus A300 in the 1970s had a three-man flightdeck with a flight engineer. That was 50 years ...
Jump to postscbriml wrote:He's obviously none too smart, given he fled but was arrested at home.
- The A350 has a takeoff acceleration monitoring system which measures acceleration rate on takeoff. It gives an ECAM warning if the sensed acceleration is not in line with what is expected given the input weights and speeds. Wow. What a machine. And see above why I'm convinced that's a good develo...
Jump to postMy biggest question (Aside from quality assurance procedures at the software vendor), is this: is the safety margin around these parameters so low on Boeing's extended 737s that an error of this magnitude (~10% of MTOW) can consistently cause an incident? I mean, being off by 10% is a big deal, and...
Jump to postEikie wrote:A hijack or a unruly passenger banging on the door is quite different.
Seriously??? Care to quantify it BY DEFINITION? 77W - ??? dB 787 - ??? dB Please fill in the above and quantify that big difference BY DEFINITION. It wasn’t mentioned that it was “noisier” by definition it was that it was “noisy” which is a whole separate can of worms. Even if one can measure it ob...
Jump to postHi all, thank you for all the info. Problem is solved and we will just drop off our luggage for a couple of hours as we head in to Singapore before checking in our luggage 3 hours before our flight. Looking forward to my first trip back to Europe post Covid. In 2018 my wife and I had a very bad exp...
Jump to postBut what if the other PAX got injured? Note the union rule someone mentioned! It's not okay for the cabin staff to get injured, but okay for the PAX to do this and get injured... Hmm... As a passenger I would normally assist if the bag wasn't too heavy (and I used to quite strong to lift things), a...
Jump to posta lot of passengers has carry-on bags with a weight in excess of 10-15 kgs.....and nobody cares.....many many times its me me me me me and me again.... a lot of passengers doesnt care of other passengers...only themselves.. I always had to laugh, when I read the labels with the permissible load lim...
Jump to postSaw the clearing equipment as I went through last week, about 20X John Deeres with 8ft ploughs. about enough to go down the runway all together. I rekon they'll do about 15mph when ploughing (that's what I do) so to clear a runway with 20 would take about 30 mins (assuming good skills) then need cl...
Jump to postThe LATAM Chile A320 (CC-BAZ) that was severely damaged by hail during an approach to ASU last October had to have its nose section reconstructed at the LATAM Brazil MRO in Sao Carlos, SP. Pictures available on this link: https://aeroin.net/aviao-da-latam-precisou-ser-reconstruido-apos-ter-o-nariz-...
Jump to postWe should set up a separate thread to discuss the video. Too much time is being spent on this discussion and I assume that most people here are interested in the actual accident investigation. In AV herald they shut down the comments section because of all the chatter around the video. :checkmark: ...
Jump to postThe work ethic I see lately out on the ramp is also concerning. Rampers with ear pods and noise cancelling headphones listening to music. That is exactly, what I'm asking myself since I read about this accident. Didn't the man hear the noise of the engine? In other cases, how can one run into spinn...
Jump to postHow does it seem to be indefinitely on hold when it is actively testing? Certification is expected in 2023. https://news.yahoo.com/1-boeing-resumes-777x-flight-205124901.html The 777X flies, but without a TIA from the FAA it doesn’t start ‘certification flights’. It is just Boeing collecting more d...
Jump to postThere have been numerous cases of even OEM batteries catching on fire - but I shudder to think what some off spec off brand battery will do. And in terms of putting them in hold - buy anything with an Li Ion battery and there is a giant sticker that says "no air freight" or something like...
Jump to postThat is why they have specific checklists they have to memorize, and in this case it appears as though they did not. Don't forget, that even the praised Sully didn't work the ditching checklist and forgot to close the ditching valves. In case of an emergency things are different. Hindsight is 20/20.
Jump to postIt's exactly your "solution" that brought pilot training down to a poor level in some airlines/countries. The 737 is still an old aircraft, all its pilots need to be able to fly it like an old aircraft. By thinking it's a modern aircraft with "multiple levels of redundancy" &...
Jump to postThere is a shortage of Champagne at the moment and Emirates is already a huge buyer so probably buy enough to be able to sign a deal like this without having to pay over the odds. Note that although they are multiple brands they are all Champagne houses owned by LVMH. It is also apparently only an ...
Jump to postI can understand not doing a full checklist but not even trying to move the stick ? How old was he. You get to a point where you start to forget things. I wonder if he had early form of dementia. The repost says, he was 72 years old. And had a commercial and flight instructor certificate. Estimated...
Jump to post...I saw videos of electric scooters catching fire which are very scary. I agree totally to ban large batteries on board. And in another topic here we are discussing electric powered airliners. What are those batteries, if you call a laptop battery or a scooter battery big? Is there any evidence, i...
Jump to postThere are some new insights in this report. 1. ... so the pilots were already facing forces in the 50 lb range, in order to maintain rate of climb, even before MCAS activated. ... 6. Throughout the incident, they experienced control column forces ranging from 50 to 80 to 100 lbs, which needed both ...
Jump to postA rather large proportion of airports have trees close to the boundary perimeter... and it doesn't take much wind to blow leaves towards a runway Leaves on the ground are not a problen. They have zero influence on the quality of the received GPS signal. Leaves on trees (especially wet and/or covere...
Jump to postSelf driving trucks and snow plows can work perfectly in blizzards. Depends on their steering and guiding system. They can drive blind much better than any human driver. Differential GPS (or take GLONAS as backup) will guide them within an inch of accuracy. Don't ask Elon Musk from sunny California...
Jump to postbar1 wrote:Why use GLONASS... especially these days...we already have Galileo GPS system.
Self driving cars don’t work in blizzards, these self driving ploughs will have to. Self driving trucks and snow plows can work perfectly in blizzards. Depends on their steering and guiding system. They can drive blind much better than any human driver. Differential GPS (or take GLONAS as backup) w...
Jump to postSmall fossil fuel heaters are the likely heat source even for electrics. Design efficiencies of a lot of those is 90%, so not all that many gallons of fuel for an hour's flight. ps - those generators on a 787 are also fuel sucking sources of power. Not free! A few years ago, I worked for the R&...
Jump to postI don't know how accurate your statement is. First, I have never seen a pyrotechnic device on a car. Second, how can the brake system pressurize with out either a mechanical or electrical power source? I have dealt with my share of vehicle accidents have never seen this. Is this just EV's? Admitted...
Jump to postPlus your passengers will quickly begin to freeze without heat so fire up those electric resistance heaters while you wait in line. I've never seen a space instantly freeze once the heat turned off. I don't see why a tube with so much insulation to block out the -40F of altitude would be any differ...
Jump to postThe descent rate prior to initial touchdown didn’t look that high to me, looked like a normal touchdown, it all seemed to go wrong after that bounce Perhaps the engine automatically shuts down when the pilot ejects ? Not much point in it running after that.. On every modern car, when a crash is det...
Jump to postSome first hand account pictures here: https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/comments/zq1dme/my_fianc%C3%A9_and_i_were_on_flight_ha35_phxhnl_this/ Quote from the link above: My fiancé and I were on flight HA35 PHX-HNL. This is the aftermath of the turbulence - people literally flew out of their seats and...
Jump to postThe descent rate prior to initial touchdown didn’t look that high to me, looked like a normal touchdown, it all seemed to go wrong after that bounce Perhaps the engine automatically shuts down when the pilot ejects ? Not much point in it running after that.. On every modern car, when a crash is det...
Jump to postThis kind of thing does happen... tractor manufacturer Lamborghini had a spat with Ferrari and in response produced the world's first supercar - the Miura... which was easily the most exotic (and beautiful) car at the time. Yes, but if/when Lamborghini has reliability problems or worse, you arent k...
Jump to postBut going from 900lb thrust upwards will be an interesting challenge. Especially, at a guess, as reliability, maintainability etc will need to be higher than for a missile etc? No kidding... Boom needs a 35klbs class supersonic engine. That's a bit of a step up, as the British would euphemistically...
Jump to postCue the "it's only a couple of days every year, it's uneconomic to buy proper de-icing and snow cleaning equipment in the UK" comments. Well, for the south-east of England, that’s certainly true. Please feel free to start a gofundme page to buy us snow-clearing equipment for Heathrow/Gatw...
Jump to postAlso they can repurpose the 747 and 787? lines far faster than they can build a new facility. I don't think so. In the automotive industry, it is a well-known matter of fact, that to build a complete new factory for a new model is cheaper and faster than to repurpose old assembly lines in existing ...
Jump to postThe planes that transport the president of the United States shouldn't be a showcase for bleeding edge technology, the are meant to transport him safely & reliably so that's why they go for aircraft with a proven track record & the redundancy of 4 engines. Does that mean, the later / newer ...
Jump to postPretty pathetic that they can't even match the cruise speed of an aircraft designed and built 60 years ago.:banghead: They CAN , it's just finding a way to make a supersonic jet that doesn't crop dust the continent with sonic booms as it travels. Correct me, if I'm wrong but AFAIK, you get a sonic ...
Jump to postI imagine the 2 vs 4 engines being "good enough" applies to flight rules under which the aircraft is operating. For a 121 carrier, the aircraft just needs to reach the alternate airport whereas the 4 engine aircraft carrying the head of state needs to have the capability to remain airborn...
Jump to postThe planes that transport the president of the United States shouldn't be a showcase for bleeding edge technology, the are meant to transport him safely & reliably so that's why they go for aircraft with a proven track record & the redundancy of 4 engines. Does that mean, the later / newer ...
Jump to postEnd of an era for sure! I suppose there will still be another 748 for ‘Air Force One’ though in couple years. Those aircraft have already been built: 4629351 V/F You are right. And for me it is really strange, that the new a/c for the potus, which will enter service in four or five years, are no sh...
Jump to postI think, naming airports after people in general is not a good idea. Does anybody use these given names, when they talk about the airport? An airport should be named after the town ot the locatioon. Frankrut airport, Berlin airport, Han(n)over airport. That's all well and good if said city only has...
Jump to postI think, naming airports after people in general is not a good idea. Does anybody use these given names, when they talk about the airport? An airport should be named after the town ot the locatioon. Frankrut airport, Berlin airport, Han(n)over airport. Nobody I know uses any given name of these airp...
Jump to postJesus told her to open the door… https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2022/11/28/jesus-told-her-to-open-the-plane-door-woman-flying-from-houston-bit-someone-on-flight-in-effort-to-open-plane-door-at-37000-feet-doc-says/ I really had to laugh. Quote: A passenger who overheard someone say “she’s ...
Jump to postIn this case, their rescue will be covered by taxpayers, but they'll pay the bill for the transport to the hospital and for the recovery of the aircraft by a private salvage company. Agreed 100%. The next question is, if some of the 85.000 people affected by the black-out will sue the pilot and/or ...
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