We’re told by anyone with a basic grasp of statistics that it’s safe to fly.
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This is easy. Tail section breaks off due to shitty repair job, and maintenance. Explosive decompression, plane noses up, breaks apart and goes down.
“This sort of thing impresses civilians, teenage girls and little boys”
Just wouldn’t have been cricket.
Pretty sure those are factory cars being destroyed by BMW. The one clearly had the model and US on the sticker being scanned, while obviously not being in the US. Dudes are even wearing BMW coveralls. Likely they are test vehicles, production prototypes, or reference copies that they hang onto for a number…
It looks terrified.
Looks like a Bentley and a Grand Cherokee had an adorable baby. Would DD!
When I think about cars like the 350 GT, Muira, 250 gt California, etc, etc I think to myself: is it possible, in today’s car industry, to start a car company and legally sell cars that aren’t just well built homages (singer, eagle, icon, etc) but are actual production cars that have the same “beauty first” mentality…
I’m pretty sure gawker is just a collection of small training centers sectioning people off into ambiguously defined hobby groups so we can be pitting against each other for sport. Personally my money’s on the people from lifehacker. They’ll probably murder us all with tesla coils made from D-cell batteries and a bra…
Preface: I’m an airline pilot. Unless you are allowed zero degrees of bank on landing an A380, this is the worst crosswind technique. It’s used by pilots who can’t coordinate rudder and aileron. Some planes have a bank limit so you don’t scrape an engine pod but this looks like ZERO.
Firstly, I’d like to agree with another commenter, it’s always a pleasure to read your replies on any article about airliners.
And... from a passengers point of view, if it’s a tricky landing, you slam that thing down as hard as you want, if we can all walk off that plane at the gate you’ve done a good job, screw my…
Those announcements can be brutal. Most recently on a PSA CRJ-900 into Charlotte after a bit of an “arrival”: “ladies and gentlemen, please be VERY careful opening those overhead bins, as after Captain Crash’s landing, you can bet that things have shifted all over the place!” I was in 1A and it actually HURT we…
Piloted by none other than Captain Troy Queef.
All in all it’s just another car under recall.
The US military are not cops. We are REALLY good at blowing stuff up, taking strategic objectives, etc. But tell us to go door to door on foot and make nice with the locals, while hunting VERY small units of locals... that’s not war! You are dead on with your assessment, it’s all about politics. 100 years ago we would…
>My suspicion is that the US and Europe were worried about a direct >confrontation with Russia at the outset of the Syrian conflict so chose >to sit on the sides telling the rebels what they wanted to hear.
Some airlines have started training pilots to go easy on the brakes in emergency high speed/heavy landings, because so many have jumped on the brakes at high speed, and ended up stopped with flaming brakes half-way down the runway. Unnecessary destroyed wheels and gear, emergency evacuation, blocked runway, possible…
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Magnox - might also be worth pointing out that every commercial aircraft undergoes a brake/wheel fire test during development/acceptance (the rejected takeoff you refer to). I think with Boeings they have to be able to sit with burning wheels for 3 minutes without the fire spreading to the rest of the aircraft…
I don’t know if I would call them “worm screw” motors. Alternate flaps use an electric motor mounted on the same drive unit that the hydraulic motor turns. The flaps are driven by the left hydraulic system that has in it a reserve amount of fluid that can be used by a hydraulic “Power Transfer Unit” driven by right…