Aeronautical Insanity: switching to secondary tolerances

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Psion: Dec 13, 2002; eVeN I KnOw wHaT CoRnEr gAs iS

Luneshot posted:

It took me until now to figure out what happened to this page.

it's okay, you can expect it to happen every 10 pages for the foreseeable future!

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:15

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# ? May 24, 2024 01:07

CroatianAlzheimers: Jun 15, 2009; I can't remember why I'm mad at you...

Luneshot posted:

It took me until now to figure out what happened to this page.

Oh poo poo, I didn't notice until you said something. So, uh, yeah...

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:16

CroatianAlzheimers: Jun 15, 2009; I can't remember why I'm mad at you...

Slo-Tek posted:

What the gently caress? A Vigilante with three engines? Oh, yes please.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:18

Vincent Van Goatse: Nov 8, 2006; Enjoy every sandwich.; Smellrose

drat, not 727 any more.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:20

Slo-Tek: Jun 8, 2001; WINDOWS 98 BEAT HIS FRIEND WITH A SHOVEL

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

What the gently caress? A Vigilante with three engines? Oh, yes please.

Yup, the North American Retaliator. Apparently it got pretty far down the pipe with the Australian AF before they eventually bought the F-111.

It is imaginable that the A-5 just needed another engineering pass, another engine, and to not be landed on aircraft carriers.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:23

Captain Postal: Sep 16, 2007

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

drat, not 727 any more.

Noob. We can keep playing

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:28

MrChips: Jun 10, 2005; FLIGHT SAFETY TIP: Fatties out first

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:29

pik_d: Feb 24, 2006; follow the white dove

TRP Post of the Month October 2021

Dang this 728 has a bitchin cockpit

Also this weird little fucker turned up because the dimensions of the image were in the file name

# ? Mar 25, 2015 02:38

Frinkahedron: Jul 26, 2006; Gobble Gobble

holocaust bloopers posted:

Don't ever read the youtube comments ever.

I highly recommend the "Herp Derp For Youtube" Chrome extension for cases like this.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 03:21

Advent Horizon: Jan 17, 2003; I�m back, and for that I am sorry

I'm a little saddened that this is SA and we went all the way through page 727 without any 'three hole slut' jokes :sigh:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 03:32

Finger Prince: Jan 5, 2007

Advent Horizon posted:

I'm a little saddened that this is SA and we went all the way through page 727 without any 'three hole slut' jokes

It'll just have to wait until page 1011 now.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 03:37

iyaayas01: Feb 19, 2010; Perry'd

Slo-Tek posted:

Yup, the North American Retaliator. Apparently it got pretty far down the pipe with the Australian AF before they eventually bought the F-111.

It is imaginable that the A-5 just needed another engineering pass, another engine, and to not be landed on aircraft carriers.

So basically strap another engine on the TSR-2?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 04:45

EightBit: Jan 7, 2006; I spent money on this line of text just to make the "Stupid Newbie" go away.

I had to run those sketches through TinEye to be sure, but :golfclap:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 04:48

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Psion posted:

it's okay, you can expect it to happen every 10 pages for the foreseeable future!

Can do it more often in the 730s and 740s I suppose.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 05:37

EightBit: Jan 7, 2006; I spent money on this line of text just to make the "Stupid Newbie" go away.

I'm kinda looking forward to page 787, those nacelle chevrons :allears:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 05:52

Mao Zedong Thot: Oct 16, 2008

737-100 will be the best page oh is that not a thing?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 05:58

StandardVC10: Feb 6, 2007; This avatar now 50% more dark mode compliant

polpotpotpotpotpot posted:

737-100 will be the best page oh is that not a thing?

We'll get to page 737100, but it'll take a very long time.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:02

BIG HEADLINE: Jun 13, 2006; "Stand back, Ottawan ruffian, or face my lumens!"

CroatianAlzheimers posted:

What the gently caress? A Vigilante with three engines? Oh, yes please.

If you wanted to read up on it, it was designated the N.R.349, or NR-349.

There was another proposal using a similar airframe that went by the name Retaliator.

EDIT: Dammit, beaten.

BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 06:11 on Mar 25, 2015

# ? Mar 25, 2015 06:05

CovfefeCatCafe: Apr 11, 2006; A fresh attitude
brewed daily!

So this thing was buzzing my apartment yesterday afternoon:

Not the greatest picture, but using a point-and-shoot through a dirty window on a back lit cloudy day. A couple of Hueys also just went past a few minutes ago. Next week they're going to shut the city down for maneuvers or something like that.

I think it's a ROCAF EC225, but not 100% on that.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 07:15

inkjet_lakes: Feb 9, 2015

CharlesM posted:

I wonder what's written on the glass. I presume that's what I see in the sky?

The short-lived Japanese flak sky-writing team?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:03

C.M. Kruger: Oct 28, 2013

pik_d posted:

Also this weird little fucker turned up because the dimensions of the image were in the file name

Reminds me of the Edgley Optica for some reason.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 08:40

Luneshot: Mar 10, 2014

C.M. Kruger posted:

Reminds me of the Edgley Optica for some reason.

...y'know, I can't hate it. It's ugly, but the view must be spectacular.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 13:09

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

polpotpotpotpotpot posted:

737-100 will be the best page oh is that not a thing?

The ICAO code is 731 so...

# ? Mar 25, 2015 13:22

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Luneshot posted:

...y'know, I can't hate it. It's ugly, but the view must be spectacular.

When I was a kid, a science show did a report on the Optica and the reporter said, "The view is incredible, but when you start getting really high you feel like you really don't belong up here."

View was a little too good :haw:

# ? Mar 25, 2015 13:32

SybilVimes: Oct 29, 2011

Gorilla Salad posted:

When I was a kid, a science show did a report on the Optica and the reporter said, "The view is incredible, but when you start getting really high you feel like you really don't belong up here."

View was a little too good

It's a helicopter cockpit on a fixed wing airframe, that's all. It probably feels just as weird in (say) a SA341 at 14,000'

# ? Mar 25, 2015 13:40

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

AVHerald has updated on the Germanwings crash.

quote:

Radar data suggest the aircraft had reached FL380 about 3 minutes prior to leaving FL380 and descended from FL380 through FL110 in 8 minutes (average rate of descent 3375 fpm). The aircraft appeared to have levelled off at FL068 for one minute while on a northeasterly heading of 26 degrees true, mountains rise up to 8900 feet about 1nm north of the last reported aircraft position.

So if we're still going with hypoxia: pressurization failure, pilots hit the autopilot in a panic and tell it to level off at FL068 before losing consciousness, autopilot flies them right into the mountain?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:16

MrYenko: Jun 18, 2012; #2 isn't ALWAYS bad...

I'm pretty sure the first memory item for loss of pressurization is PUT YOUR GODAMNED MASK ON, and not set the autopilot to descend.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:29

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Wouldn't be the first incorrect reaction to hypoxia, won't be the last. But yes.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:31

vulturesrow: Sep 25, 2011; _{Always gotta pay it forward.}

Last T45 flight last week and the last regular flying of my career. My next tour my flying will hinge on the charity of the Growler squadron CO (who is highly likely to be a friend of mine at least) in the battle group I'm going to.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:38

mlmp08: Jul 11, 2004; Prepare for my priapic projectile's exalted penetration; Nap Ghost

C.M. Kruger posted:

Reminds me of the Edgley Optica for some reason.

I knew I'd seen this somewhere before.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 14:41

buttcrackmenace: Nov 14, 2007; see its right there in the manual where it says; Grimey Drawer

Groda posted:

pilots should be allowed to fly as they cfit

had to google this. Holy poo poo.

polpotpotpotpotpot posted:

737-100 will be the best page oh is that not a thing?

Apparently not.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 19:35

One Eye Open: Sep 19, 2006; Am I awake?

mlmp08 posted:

I knew I'd seen this somewhere before.

That brought back bad memories of Slipstream of which the Optica was the best bit.

E: quoted the wrong post, I meant to quote the original Optica post :/

One Eye Open fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Mar 25, 2015

# ? Mar 25, 2015 20:50

CBJamo: Jul 15, 2012

buttcrackmenace posted:

had to google this. Holy poo poo.

Yeah, he's a terrible person, hilarious, but terrible.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 20:57

Hermsgerv�rden: Apr 23, 2004; Møøse Trainer

The New York Times posted:

"At no point during the descent was there any communication from the cockpit to air traffic controllers or any other signal of an emergency."

Does this suggest that no audible alerts or alarms automatically went off in the cockpit during the descent, even immediately before impact? I'm used to hearing "Pull Up, Pull Up, Pull Up" in the cockpit voice recorders and myriad other audible alarms. In Helios Airways Flight 522, the pilots mistook the (audible) cabin altitude warning horn for something else and everyone aboard died. Shouldn't a similar audible alarm be heard on the CVR if the cabin depressurized?

# ? Mar 25, 2015 23:17

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

They're referring to radio communications, the content of the CVR hasn't been made public yet.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 23:20

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Just ignore everything other than avherald for this stuff it's not worth trying to parse mass media.

hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Mar 26, 2015

# ? Mar 25, 2015 23:22

Tsuru: May 12, 2008

Meanwhile we're still waiting for more details regarding Air Asia. The last I've heard is that the Indonesian investigative body has publicly told Airbus and Air Asia to back off.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 23:23

McDeth: Jan 12, 2005

hobbesmaster posted:

Just ignore everything other than avherald for this stuff it's not wo tu trying to parse mass media.

hobbesmaster posted:

Just ignore everything other than avherald for this stuff it's not wo tu trying to parse mass media.

Front page of CNN right now...

"Authorities haven't identified any bodies or definitively ruled out a miracle"

:wtchrist: The stupid, it hurts.

# ? Mar 25, 2015 23:26

Spaced God: Feb 8, 2014; All torment, trouble, wonder and amazement
Inhabits here: some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!

McDeth posted:

Front page of CNN right now...

"Authorities haven't identified any bodies or definitively ruled out a miracle"

:wtchrist: The stupid, it hurts.

"Body part comes back to life!"

# ? Mar 25, 2015 23:44

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# ? May 24, 2024 01:07

Duke Chin: Jan 11, 2002; _{^{Roger That:}}
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McDeth posted:

Front page of CNN right now...

"Authorities haven't identified any bodies or definitively ruled out a miracle"

:wtchrist: The stupid, it hurts.

Spaced God posted:

"Body part comes back to life!"

Hey crazier things have happened

# ? Mar 26, 2015 00:04

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