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Enourmo posted:Suspension, apparently. 
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Enourmo posted:Suspension, apparently. 
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Mar 24, 2016 04:22
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That took me a good bit longer than it should have to get. Bravo.
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Mar 24, 2016 04:28
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Enourmo posted:Suspension, apparently. Holy poo poo. That is a  
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God drat. Content for this page:  I'm still trying to figure out how I ended up with chunks of solid rust inside my sealed tail light. There was another piece so big I couldn't take it out through any of the holes, so I'm guessing it used to be part of the reflector housing.
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Mar 24, 2016 04:33
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Is it a Volkswagen?
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Civic, but the rust hole in the quarter panel on that side is so big that anything coming at the side of the car probably has a straight shot at the back of the tail light.
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Mar 24, 2016 04:35
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Enourmo posted:Suspension, apparently. Oh that's good. That's real good.
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Crossposting from the OSHA thread. A truck hitting a bridge is a failure, right? Last Saturday a flatbed truck hauling a boom lift hit a bridge because the driver loaded it incorrectly: he had the boom extended way up such that he managed to hit a 15' bridge doing 125km/h. I heard second hand that two of the final drive gears exploded, and that the counterweight (a piece of steel weighing over 2 tons) fell off and skidded 300' to a stop on the highway. No one was injured but Jesus, I bet that made a noise.    Also one of the drivers from my company took a video as he drove by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoG3YR8MTxw
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Mar 24, 2016 06:32
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I got stuck in some of that traffic. Also, whats up, BC buddy?
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EKDS5k posted:I bet that made a noise. Insert boom joke here.
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Enourmo posted:Suspension, apparently.  Is it time to post this horrible mechanical disaster again?  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/24/software_problems_bork_f35_fleet_til_2019/
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quote:The F-35 is the first modern US military aircraft not to have a heads-up display. Instead, pilots will wear the display as part of their helmet, but the current level of software development means that the helmets can't handle night vision, which leaves pilots at something of a disadvantage. 
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Mar 24, 2016 22:00
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I like how a 1/4 chance of death is not a serious problem.
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Maybe they figured that if you're in a situation that warrants using the ejector, your chance of death was already 100% so a 75% chance of survival is actually pretty good.
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Mar 24, 2016 22:43
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From a study I was helping do research for, that actually doesn't sound all that much worse than the accepted normal rate of injury.
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Mar 24, 2016 23:00
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Yeah but aren't things supposed to get better when you make them newer and ten times more expensive?
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Mar 25, 2016 00:04
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In the DoD contracting world? gently caress no.
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xzzy posted:Maybe they figured that if you're in a situation that warrants using the ejector, your chance of death was already 100% so a 75% chance of survival is actually pretty good. Git gud. If you need to eject its your fault.
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Slavvy posted:Yeah but aren't things supposed to get better when you make them newer and ten times more expensive? ahahahahaahaha Seriously. When's the last time ANYTHING in the world got better?
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I find it hilarious how people run around criticising soviet tanks for lack of crew safety and other stuff like that but somehow 1 in 4 chance of death from using the death prevention device is totally ok. e: Midjack posted:ahahahahaahaha The new mustang started out as a hunk of poo poo and has gotten better I guess? I'm admittedly struggling to come up with more. Superduke 990 to 1290 is arguably an improvement if you don't like death I guess. Everything gets 'better' in the sense of being safer and more dependable but also kind of lamer and worse at the same time.
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Midjack posted:ahahahahaahaha Have you heard the Good News of our Lord, V8? Right now is the best time so far to be alive if you like horsepower.
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Well yeah, but improvements in tire technology just mean that all that power turns into speed instead of smokey burnouts.
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Midjack posted:ahahahahaahaha Well, Viagra is better than Spanish Fly. And ummm...heated front seats?
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Slavvy posted:I find it hilarious how people run around criticising soviet tanks for lack of crew safety and other stuff like that but somehow 1 in 4 chance of death from using the death prevention device is totally ok. On the other hand, riding a jet into terrain at any speed is ~ a 1 in 1 chance of death.
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Midjack posted:ahahahahaahaha Commercial airliners.
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BraveUlysses posted:Commercial airliners. Counterpoint: commercial boarding
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Safety Dance posted:Well yeah, but improvements in tire technology just mean that all that power turns into speed instead of smokey burnouts. Which just means we need more power to continue our smokey burnouts, which means we need more tire to contain that power, which means we need more power, ad infinitum. It's a wonderful circle. edit: It is pretty awesome to think that engine technology has progressed to a point where my little 1.6L Fiesta is in the same range of power as the V8s I grew up with and installing some new software can make it even more powerful. wolrah fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Mar 25, 2016 |
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BraveUlysses posted:Commercial airliners. What are you, 5'8"?
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:On the other hand, riding a jet into terrain at any speed is ~ a 1 in 1 chance of death. Yes but you would be awaited in Valhalla.
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ShittyPostmakerPro posted:Yes but you would be awaited in Valhalla. Chrome isn't a LO material, though?
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Beach Bum posted:What are you, 5'8"? The planes are much, much better. People still pick the cheapest flights so that's why we are treated like cattle.
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BraveUlysses posted:The planes are much, much better. People still pick the cheapest flights so that's why we are treated like cattle. Having recently been a passenger in an MD80, I'd take just about any other plane in that class.
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MD80s are the worst. DC9s with lipstick. Even 717s are a completely unpleasant experience, so it doesn't seem to be related to the age of the plane itself. If you ever want to experience what air travel was like in the 60s, fly on an MD80.
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SNiPER_Magnum posted:MD80s are the worst. DC9s with lipstick. Even 717s are a completely unpleasant experience, so it doesn't seem to be related to the age of the plane itself. Air travel in the 60s was still route-regulated, and most narrow bodies were still 2+2, even in coach. 
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EightBit posted:Having recently been a passenger in an MD80, I'd take just about any other plane in that class. The designers were high as gently caress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R0CViDUBFs
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Lol at that compass, I'd love to have been in that meeting. "Guys, we forgot a compass, but we've got a little spot behind the co-pilot, the only problem is that we'll have to make compasses with backwards writing and little rear view mirrors that aren't aligned with our dial in your seat through the looking ball system. Any objections?" "nope, sounds good!"
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mekilljoydammit posted:From a study I was helping do research for, that actually doesn't sound all that much worse than the accepted normal rate of injury. Yeah, while the F22 deserves all kinds of criticism, ejecting from a fighter is not happy fun times. The rockets provide a minimum of like 10G acceleration, and as much as 20G in some airplanes IIRC. This incredibly violent event happens while explosives are punching a hole through the canopy (or the seat is punching its way through) and possibly the airframe is breaking up around the pilot. Ejection is basically a guaranteed serious injury of some kind, it fucks pilots the hell up.
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Our division officer had to punch out in....'03 i think, the leg retention straps broke both his legs and he fractured several vertebrae iirc. This was in a legacy hornet. 10 years previously our commanding officer survived a near mach 1 ejection when his f14 flew apart at the sound barrier during a highspeed pass. Theres a video of it somewhere. Captain "wailing" Jennings. A great man. On my last navy deployment, an awesome LT. landed a legacy hornet with dual hydraulic failure in a storm at night because he was afraid that if he puched out he would get hurt and wouldn't be able to fly anymore. The man was balls personified. He flew most of the post repair check flights and always flew the most broken bird back to the beach. At the end of a deployment, he flew a cobbled together hornet that had been sitting broken for months. On the catapult i was pumping hydraulic fluid into it as fast as it was dumping out and the flight controls were spotty and he still took the shot just so nobody had to stay behind to babysit a jet after a 9 month deployment. Naval aviation is filled with men and women who are the hardest of the core and the ejection seat is reserved for imminent death. I still belive that more than half would ride the bird down before they punched out. Anyways, thats my ramble about ejection seats and fighter pilots. Also sea stories may get exaggerated with retelling, its been a while. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 12:18 on Mar 26, 2016 |
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