You know the A380 was going to have problems when the French built Section 10 (front and cockpit) and the Germans built Section 12 (about first door to wing box) and they used different versions of the same CAD program. One was done in 2D+ and one was done in 3D, when they went to body join the electrical bundles were…
Sure- Pan Am. Cause that loss doesn’t hurt either. They were taking reservations for orbital flights for a while. And were the airline taking passengers to the space station in 2001. I guess we missed that target.
Not well, They were pushing it with safety regulation with the upper deck even in that relaxed environment. By the time a they had even the possibility of enough payload to run a full upper deck, there is no way the various safety agencies would say yes. The upper deck emergency exits were... unsafe when viewed…
One of the first planes I worked on after getting my A&P. Flying on one, seeing one through the gate... That’s one thing. To climb the landing gear, get inside the fuel tank, or take a boom lift to the top of the vertical stabilizer... That’s something else. You can't describe the size of it, the feeling of walking…
Flew on one exactly like this when I was 9 years old. I couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that something so large could get up in the air. Aerodynamics are awesome.
I’m going to miss the sight of a “jumbo-jet” on the tarmac. At least I got to fly in one, once. KLM in the summer of 1985. Return trip from Europe via Amsterdam, got me bumped into first class - a lone seat in the nose of the lower floor. One of the best flights I’ve ever had.
Effected/affected, ensure/insure.
Yeah, and I think that’s what the article is missing. I’m not being too harsh because the headline is obviously partly in jest but I think it’s pretty apparent IMO that this isn’t about “missing” something as much as failing to properly plan for a known factor.
If I had to guess, without any evidence admittedly, I’d…
Ot blows my mind how infrequently collisions like this happen when ships are regularly making these clearances on margins that are measured in single digits of feet.
With my luck, I have a Fedex package in there somewhere.
The port’s western seaside operations were not effected
Yes BUT, also with the added bonuses of some yahoo keeps lowering the bridges every second.
I think you’ve both collided with the right answer here. Unfortunately no timestamp on the video, news accounts say that the collision was mid-day. The tidal peak for the day was at 1:20PM and there is about a 5.5 ft difference between high and low tide.
From what little I know, something like having a 10 minute delay before heading out can lead to you fighting the incoming tide and lead to you arriving at the bridge 45 minutes or so later than you were scheduled. If you don’t update your calculations that 45 minutes can mean the difference of another day in the…
Rijinmond reports nobody was injured in the collision, and that some pieces were left hanging down from the Willems. It also reports the shipping containers were supposedly empty.
Therefore, while there are references in English reports referring to the span as the “Willemsbrug bridge,” this is probably like saying the “Willem’s bridge bridge.”)
Shit Happens in the Nether region.
Finally the Dutch have a defence against German invasion.
I guess his insurer will be ... seeing red?
