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Cocoa Crispies posted:How does this even work, a bunch of leased lines running from Doral up to Broweird? VOIP. Houston Center can't listen to guard at the position. It just varies.
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evil_bunnY posted:It was a test flight tho. Test flights shouldn't be busting hard limits of the aircraft.
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holocaust bloopers posted:Test flights shouldn't be busting hard limits of the aircraft. Especially a new variant of a proven airframe whose flight characteristics are well established.
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From the Wall Street Journal, a picture released by ISIS supposedly of the bomb used to destroy that Russian A321: The object in the middle is presumably a blasting cap so I think this might be the real thing. Anyone know what the putty on the bottom of the can might be? I think it's where they cut the can open to put in the explosive, and the putty's holding it together. e: at any rate, at least now we know the official ginger ale of the Islamic State. Mortabis fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Nov 18, 2015 |
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Looks like they glued the can back together with epoxy?
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I don't trust ISIS on being honest.
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Seems like you'd need a much larger explosive?
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hobbesmaster posted:Seems like you'd need a much larger explosive? That's about the same volume of explosive that brought down PanAm 103 over Lockerbie. 
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Why pineapple though?
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Jumpingmanjim posted:Why pineapple though? I want to imagine that the bomb was produced on the spot and he just used whatever he last had for lunch to make it.
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Dannywilson posted:That's about the same volume of explosive that brought down PanAm 103 over Lockerbie. Maybe a perspective thing but that Lockerbie bomb seems to be much larger.
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chitoryu12 posted:I want to imagine that the bomb was produced on the spot and he just used whatever he last had for lunch to make it. The detonator was a prize on his lunchables box
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hobbesmaster posted:Maybe a perspective thing but that Lockerbie bomb seems to be much larger. That bit sitting above the body of the radio? That's the thing that holds a cassettes tape. It's actually just a relatively small boombox.
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hobbesmaster posted:Seems like you'd need a much larger explosive? PETN is incredibly powerful explosive.
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I was wondering if they intentionally showed off a fake that's smaller than the real thing to cause more fear, but maybe not.
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Captain Apollo posted:Com1 : ATC Ten, plus a dedicated UHF guard receiver. Don't most radios have a guard monitor function? Our VHF radios all do, and I thought I remembered the Cessna I flew in training having a similar feature. Unless that was just the second radio, it was a while ago and in retrospect I didn't really know what the gently caress I was doing. Godholio posted:~25. Show-off 
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Mortabis posted:e: at any rate, at least now we know the official ginger ale of the Islamic State. Mother loving Schweppes? I say we turn them into glass. Anyone who drinks that dog piss instead of the smooth, rich flavor of Canada Dry doesn't deserve to exist. If you drink Schweppes, you're drinking terrorism.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Don't most radios have a guard monitor function? Not really, no. But many (most) GA planes have 2 COM radios. So you'd use the 2nd to monitor guard when not using it for something else. The most common types of GA intercoms allow receiving on the 2nd radio while both transmitting AND receiving on the primary, or vice versa.
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YF19pilot posted:Mother loving Schweppes? I say we turn them into glass. Anyone who drinks that dog piss instead of the smooth, rich flavor of Canada Dry doesn't deserve to exist. Canada Dry crew 
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If you don't drink Vernor's you are un American and hate freedom
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I'm a Masshole so I drink Polar in unrelated news, I sometimes get woken up by a Cathay Pacific 777-300ER doing a max performance takeoff at ~1:45am local time
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When they say they "scrapped" the Ghostrider, that can't possibly mean they actually shredded and recycled the whole plane, right? Okay, so the plane exceeded its g-limit. That means the structure is stressed and can't be flown. But surely the engines, avionics, weaponry, maybe even the hydraulics and such could all be reused?
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Sagebrush posted:But surely the engines, avionics, weaponry, maybe even the hydraulics and such could all be reused? Thats usually what "scrapped" means when it comes to aircraft.
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Sacré Bleü! The only ones who doesn't drink refreshing Schsczweppes are from the colonies. We are not colonials in civilized society, what what!
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hobbesmaster posted:Thats usually what "scrapped" means when it comes to aircraft. Generally this. Any life-limited components that weren't damaged in the incident will be removed and stored for later use. Everything else is pop cans.
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Sagebrush posted:When they say they "scrapped" the Ghostrider, that can't possibly mean they actually shredded and recycled the whole plane, right? Okay, so the plane exceeded its g-limit. That means the structure is stressed and can't be flown. But surely the engines, avionics, weaponry, maybe even the hydraulics and such could all be reused? Yea. What's still good is parted out amongst the fleet. Everything else is sent to be recycled or whatever. I would imagine that a lot of the airframe is still good. The wing box and other key structural components are shot, though.
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YF19pilot posted:Mother loving Schweppes? I say we turn them into glass. Anyone who drinks that dog piss instead of the smooth, rich flavor of Canada Dry doesn't deserve to exist. ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Sacré Bleü! The only ones who doesn't drink refreshing Schsczweppes are from the colonies. Last time I was on Emirates I think, I notice that the Schweppes tonic water doesn't even contain quinine. Heathens.
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~Coxy posted:Last time I was on Emirates I think, I notice that the Schweppes tonic water doesn't even contain quinine. Heathens. The devil you say?
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~Coxy posted:Last time I was on Emirates I think, I notice that the Schweppes tonic water doesn't even contain quinine. Heathens.
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Kilonum posted:I'm a Masshole so I drink Polar Man I totally forgot Cathay Pacific flew to Boston.
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CommieGIR posted:PETN is incredibly powerful explosive. And structurally, modern aircraft are eggs: super structurally strong until a tiny but critical part is compromised, then the whole thing collapses with extreme prejudice. The hole in pan-am 103 was 20 loving inches initially.
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Dannywilson posted:And structurally, modern aircraft are eggs: super structurally strong until a tiny but critical part is compromised, then the whole thing collapses with extreme prejudice. Clearly what we need is a return to the B‐17 school of engineering.
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Not to distract from the bomb chat but I filmed a quick little thing I thought was cool. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5a5TSb__rn4
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Bleü! Don't try writing in French.
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Godholio posted:~25. Got my 12 beat
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StandardVC10 posted:Man I totally forgot Cathay Pacific flew to Boston. Singapore Airlines used to do Singapore-Newark.
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http://www.bangaloreaviation.com/2015/11/dgca-report-finds-air-india-operated-787-with-only-4-of-47-screws-installed.html
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Platystemon posted:Clearly what we need is a return to the B‐17 school of engineering. So reinforce the parts that aren't broken on safely returned aircraft?
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Enourmo posted:So reinforce the parts that aren't broken on safely returned aircraft? You may have to start emplacing flak on final approach for that to show appreciable results.
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Enourmo posted:So reinforce the parts that aren't broken on safely returned aircraft? People often distill the solution down to that but it was actually a pretty creative and rigorous application of statistics, and of course for statistical validity you need a lot of samples, which works when you're sending hundreds of bombers out on missions which get hit in numerous places by thousands of enemy bullets and shells. Of course real world analysis isn't even needed in modern commercial aviation to apply that design principle, we can conduct computerized stress simulation and testing now, plus super strict testing of every single structural component before the plane even flies for the first time. The failure points of commercial jets are well known, it's just that reinforcing them the same way as b-17s would raise fuel costs, unacceptable given the purpose of said jets are to make money and not help get a bomb load to the target and the crew back through AA and enemy fighters It's a lot easier to prevent maintenance lapses than to convince the enemy not to shoot at you
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