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Odd derail but every Brit should feel personal shame for not having a commissioned Ark Royal
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:indie you're proving his point
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May 15, 2014 09:49
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:indie Great, now I've got that loving Monty Python song stuck in my head.
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May 15, 2014 11:33
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Terrible Robot posted:Great, now I've got that loving Monty Python song stuck in my head. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
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May 15, 2014 12:55
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monkeytennis posted:I agree but it's bloody hard to pronounce. What's wrong with calling her Tireless? Ship names are supposed to be badass. Tireless is dumb.
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May 15, 2014 13:07
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Snowdens Secret posted:Odd derail but every Brit should feel personal shame for not having a commissioned Ark Royal We don't have an Enterprise, currently, which is equally shameful. (I know shes still technically in commission, but shes already been cut on:)  
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May 15, 2014 13:19
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Snowdens Secret posted:Odd derail but every Brit should feel personal shame for not having a commissioned Ark Royal Indeed. Even more so as now, since the last Ark Royal was decommissioned, our flagship is a loving TROOP SHIP.
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May 15, 2014 16:18
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MrYenko posted:We don't have an Enterprise, currently, which is equally shameful. She'll be back. The third Ford-class will be named Enterprise.
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May 15, 2014 16:20
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Brovine posted:Indeed. Even more so as now, since the last Ark Royal was decommissioned, our flagship is a loving TROOP SHIP. Albion class isn't really a 'troop ship' per se, it's an amphibious landing dock, sure it carries some marines, but it's primary role is that of being a floating thing to prepare on (it doesn't have it's own helicopters, but has 2 landing pads that can be used, for example). e: also, Ocean would have been a better choice for flagship, while it's a light (helicopter) carrier, it's still a carrier SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 16:25 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 16:22
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SybilVimes posted:Albion class isn't really a 'troop ship' per se, it's an amphibious landing dock, sure it carries some marines, but it's primary role is that of being a floating thing to prepare on (it doesn't have it's own helicopters, but has 2 landing pads that can be used, for example). Ocean would be acceptable. Failing that, one of the new destroyers. I know Albion's more than a simple troop ship, but it's not really a warship. Its only offensive capability is the four hundred embarked Royal Marines. Which is a fairly significant force, I suppose. (We seem to have drifted away a bit from aircraft.) On a more plane related note, I get to be one of the first dozen or so people to see two of our shiny new planes at the end of this month (not including the manufacturer). Which is kinda cool, even if they're more E-jets.
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May 15, 2014 16:36
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This is what happens when Boeing's paint hangar breaks:  LN1499 from the top by Powercube, on Flickr
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May 15, 2014 23:29
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Fly it, fly it just like that. 
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May 15, 2014 23:35
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Powercube posted:This is what happens when Boeing's paint hangar breaks: Wasn't that supposed to be Air China 747-8 #1?
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May 15, 2014 23:52
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Some really sick flying by VSP on this water rescue: http://wtvr.com/2014/05/14/james-river-rescue/ Can't do a winch job? Just find an EC-145 sized sandbar!
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May 15, 2014 23:52
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StandardVC10 posted:Wasn't that supposed to be Air China 747-8 #1? It will be that, eventually, they just have to fix the paint shop.
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May 15, 2014 23:56
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Can we talk about drone stuff? Lets talk about drone stuff. I spent the beginning of this week at the AUVSI unmanned systems trade show in Orlando. It was huge and pretty fun. My company is a tiny IT company and our state department of commerce invited us and some others to send some people along with their team, hopefully to learn some poo poo and start doing things with drones particularly in agriculture here. But enough of that here are some lovely pictures (full size album here)          Last night was their big mixer, and Northrop-Grumman shut down Universal Studios and gave us all free rides, booze, and food. It was pretty sweet.  
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May 16, 2014 00:04
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Rough day in Miami KMIA 151831Z VRB06KT 7SM +FC TS SCT015CB BKN035 BKN080 BKN300 26/24 A2998 RMK TORNADO B29 3 MILES WEST MOV NE AO2 RAE28 OCNL LTGIC W-NW TS W-NW MOV NE P0008 T02610239
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May 16, 2014 02:27
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Aero737 posted:Rough day in Miami I always wonder about the remarks for tornado and funnel cloud. Like, you're going along reading the METAR thinking "ugh, thats miserable... but funnel cloud? TORNADO?!"
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May 16, 2014 02:38
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JetBlue wants you to know that yes, indeed they do have wifi
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May 16, 2014 03:09
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Yes, but what does it all mean?!? 
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May 16, 2014 03:11
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Take the blue plane, Neo.
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May 16, 2014 03:17
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After a while it's all just blonde, brunette, redhead
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May 16, 2014 03:17
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I think I saw a 2.
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May 16, 2014 04:52
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Chem trails were bad enough, now they are broadcasting the wifi radiations.
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May 16, 2014 05:09
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Captain Postal posted:aaaaaand that's why US ships have poo poo names. HMS Dreadnought sounds much better than HMS Isn't-affraid-of-anything Is... is that what dreadnought means? TIL, goddamn. Duke Chin posted:Yes, but what does it all mean?!? "CONNECTED TO 01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101", aka "Connected to blue". The press release says Jetblue just had "A record 136 devices connected on one flight." I wonder if that was my flight SEA > BOS for PAX East, it was definitely a high concentration of nerds on that flight. So many that the wifi couldn't handle the load.
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May 16, 2014 06:11
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Snowdens Secret posted:After a while it's all just blonde, brunette, redhead What's really going to bake your noodle later on is realizing that Neo sees the opposite. 747, A380, it's all just code to him.
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May 16, 2014 06:19
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https://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/avro-rj85-passenger-terror-plane-wing-falls-off-153218880.html Can anyone tell what actually happened here? It seems unlikely that they would have made a regular landing if the wing fell off
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May 16, 2014 09:06
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Welp, looks like it's a good thing I was on early shift yesterday... That picture is just a flap track fairing. On many planes you can quite happily fly around with them removed, it's just drag improvement rather than a vital component. Given the shape of the RJs, even if it had come loose entirely there's nothing in line behind it to get hit, so pretty much minimal safety risk I'd say. Nevertheless, they shouldn't be falling off in flight. I'll have to pop over and chat to their engineers when I'm back at work next week, just to be nosy. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejqmYWzu3Og You can see the fairing here, and the mechanism it covers. The rods dangling are the mechanical links that move the fairing down/backwards as the flaps are extended. You can also see damage to the aft upper edge of the fairing. To my inexpert eye it looks like the linkages have detached and then the fairing has dropped at the back, hitting the flap track itself on the way past. These fairings tend to be thin, lightweight fibreglass from the ones I've handled on other aircraft. Brovine fucked around with this message at 10:01 on May 16, 2014 |
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May 16, 2014 09:38
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Preoptopus posted:JetBlue wants you to know that yes, indeed they do have wifi That looks like a pretty bad wifi leak, it's spraying out and getting all over the tail.
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May 16, 2014 09:58
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That looks like a pretty bad wifi leak, it's spraying out and getting all over the tail. That's what happens when you leave the cap off the end of a databus.
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May 16, 2014 11:09
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It's those bad packets in red that I'm concerned about. Seems a few too many of them. And they're all 0s
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May 16, 2014 11:12
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freelop posted:https://uk.cars.yahoo.com/news/avro-rj85-passenger-terror-plane-wing-falls-off-153218880.html Ladies and gentleman another fine, fine example of headline author being completely different from author-of-article.  God I hate the media. self loathing 
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May 16, 2014 13:20
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That looks like a pretty bad wifi leak, it's spraying out and getting all over the tail. You don't worry about it until the wifi stops leaking
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May 16, 2014 13:30
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I can't imagine how this hasn't been posted here already (if it has I'm sorry, but it's worth seeing again) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6hqMnsLFY
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May 16, 2014 13:41
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Niven posted:I can't imagine how this hasn't been posted here already (if it has I'm sorry, but it's worth seeing again)  Holy loving poo poo.It's not until like the third camera angle that you get what happened. Good lord.
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May 16, 2014 14:05
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That looks like a pretty bad wifi leak, it's spraying out and getting all over the tail. Chemtrails are a myth. We should worry about these wifi trails, giving kids the angry bird syndrome at school. Won't someone please think of the children?
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May 16, 2014 14:41
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Wingnut Ninja posted:That looks like a pretty bad wifi leak, it's spraying out and getting all over the tail. You can't trust an aircraft that doesn't leak.
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May 16, 2014 17:56
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MrYenko posted:We don't have an Enterprise, currently, which is equally shameful. She hasn't been whole since they cut off her glorious beehive.
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May 16, 2014 18:16
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Niven posted:I can't imagine how this hasn't been posted here already (if it has I'm sorry, but it's worth seeing again) Yeah this is like, what, 4 months old? Covered extensively back then.
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May 16, 2014 19:23
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Wombot posted:Is... is that what dreadnought means? TIL, goddamn. When Jackie Fisher, the First Sea Lord (Which you have to admit is a much better title than Chief of naval operations) responsible for the creation of the dreadnought class battleships was made an Baron he had to take a motto. A traditional thing, think Game of thrones "We do not sow, Winter is coming" etc. He chose "Fear God and Dread Nought" as his official motto.
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