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bull3964 posted:I really get the feeling that adding ice to drinks to make them really cold is a uniquely western thing. People have thought that that chilled drinks were cool for a long time, but till relatively recently, it was an unattainable luxury.
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bull3964 posted:I really get the feeling that adding ice to drinks to make them really cold is a uniquely western thing. I dunno about uniquely western, but I know from experience that at least in China and some other parts of East Asia it's widely believed that drinking cold water (especially together with food) is bad for you. Even people who don't believe in that particular superstition/old wives tale (and they're probably in the majority these days) sometimes prefer to drink lukewarm or even hot water (or just tea), probably out of habit. TheFluff fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Mar 28, 2016 |
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Mar 28, 2016 04:49
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The Locator posted:Have some whistling Corsair goodness. God what a beautiful aeroplane. I might have to dig around the attic and see if I have Combat Flight Simulator 2 somewhere.
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Mar 28, 2016 19:40
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monkeytennis posted:God what a beautiful aeroplane. I might have to dig around the attic and see if I have Combat Flight Simulator 2 somewhere. Its a bit grindy but War Thunder is a pretty good multilayer game for warbirds; they have planes from prewar all the way up to Korean War era jets.
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monkeytennis posted:God what a beautiful aeroplane. I might have to dig around the attic and see if I have Combat Flight Simulator 2 somewhere. I spent a million hours with combat flight simulator 2. I wish they would make a new pacific theater simulator that is VR compatible.
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monkeytennis posted:God what a beautiful aeroplane. I might have to dig around the attic and see if I have Combat Flight Simulator 2 somewhere. Enjoyed the Corsair being included in Battlefield 1943, albeit in slightly less realistic form.
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Mar 28, 2016 19:58
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The Locator posted:Have some whistling Corsair goodness. Now imagine this video if the Corsair was burning grape juice and running actual WEP manifold pressure settings. 
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Mar 28, 2016 20:16
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...grape juice? Is that some old slang term for methanol?
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Enourmo posted:...grape juice? Is that some old slang term for methanol? 115/145 octane Avgas, sometimes called Avgas 115. It's dyed purple, unlike 100LL which is blue, or 80/87, which is red. The only place I've ever seen it is Reno.
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MrYenko posted:115/145 octane Avgas, sometimes called Avgas 115. It's dyed purple, unlike 100LL which is blue, or 80/87, which is red. The only place I've ever seen it is Reno. That's about the only place you will see it too; IIRC they have a refiner blend a special batch of purple drank specifically for them and that's all that ever gets made. Even the green stuff (100/130) is getting hard to find too; about the only place in Canada that will have a semi-reliable supply of that are the forestry services, for their piston-powered water bomber fleets.
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Can I ask a question relating to R101? I found a description of R101 "chief engineer" Lt. Col. VC Richmond as "an enthusiast of lighter than air flight - not really trained as a engineer - a good manager of men." First question: does this surprise anyone? Second: Is this in any way typical of older aerospace projects? Because I guess I thought like it is today would be like it was, IE the person in charge of engineering decisions would be an engineer, abet one now acting as a manager.
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Mar 28, 2016 22:26
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Enourmo posted:Its a bit grindy but War Thunder is a pretty good multilayer game for warbirds; they have planes from prewar all the way up to Korean War era jets. Also Corsairs own bones in WT. If you're not a bad.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Can I ask a question relating to R101? Well, the way it is today, the guy in charge of the engineers would generally be an engineer. And the guy in charge of him can spell engineer. And the guy in charge of him knows there are people in his employ who build things that fly, and that they cost too much money.
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Linedance posted:Well, the way it is today, the guy in charge of the engineers would generally be an engineer. And the guy in charge of him can spell engineer. And the guy in charge of him knows there are people in his employ who build things that fly, and that they cost too much money. Yeah so I guess imagine the guy who can spell engineer working as the chief engineer and I guess you got it
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Ugh, Delta shuffled my DTW -> AUS flight off to Endeavor Air (formerly Pinnacle Air). This is the second change they've made with this flight. So now I'll be flying in style in a CRJ-200s flown by these guys. Frankly, I'd rather walk.
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Everywhere that I've work in aerospace everyone has been an engineer (except techs) from the bottom to about Project/Program Manager, Directors are sometimes from the business side. And there is a sprinkle of support jobs like logistics, financial people, IT support...etc. But everyone I work with day to day is some kind of engineer.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Ugh, Delta shuffled my DTW -> AUS flight off to Endeavor Air (formerly Pinnacle Air). This is the second change they've made with this flight. So now I'll be flying in style in a CRJ-200s flown by these guys. Frankly, I'd rather walk. Relax, I can guarantee the pilots will never do that again.
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Midjack posted:Relax, I can guarantee the pilots will never do that again. Not those pilots, certainly.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Ugh, Delta shuffled my DTW -> AUS flight off to Endeavor Air (formerly Pinnacle Air). This is the second change they've made with this flight. So now I'll be flying in style in a CRJ-200s flown by these guys. Frankly, I'd rather walk. Well at least you'll be riding in (semi) comfort as that route is flown by all CRJ-900s which are significantly better than the POS 200.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Well at least you'll be riding in (semi) comfort as that route is flown by all CRJ-900s which are significantly better than the POS 200. You're right. For some reason I thought it was going to be a -200 instead of a -900.
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MrYenko posted:That was Chuck Aaron doing the stunt flying. You can see his GLORIOUS MUSTACHE in several scenes. True Story: Good stunt pilot. HORRIBLE AT FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS, or showing up on time. They spent 30 minutes looking for him during that shoot while he wandered off to sign autographs for people in the square.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Can I ask a question relating to R101? I'm just kind of curious why you think someone who attended University at the Royal College of Science and worked as a young professional doing structural analysis for one of the largest engineering firms in London at the time isn't actually capable of doing engineering work? "Not really trained as an engineer" isn't saying much. Our VP of Engineering isn't really trained as an engineer but his PhD in physics and 40 years of experience is a pretty good substitute.
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Murgos posted:I'm just kind of curious why you think someone who attended University at the Royal College of Science and worked as a young professional doing structural analysis for one of the largest engineering firms in London at the time isn't actually capable of doing engineering work? It's a good question. I think I might be encountering some ex post hoc reasoning as to why the R101 disaster happened. Richmond also had lots of practical design experience from the first world war designing blimps. Another kinda spit-take quote I got from this same source was that R100-R101 were really a prototyping program for imperial airships, but that it was necessary to lie to parliament about that and tell them that the airships would actually be used in service in order to get them to pay for it. If so 1) somebody definitely lost track of this lie at some point, and 2) it may have been forgotten in the face of showing the superiority of government run enterprise over private - which is unfortunate.
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Jealous Cow posted:31028G39KT I used to live directly under that approach path. It was cool as gently caress even though the planes were usually pretty pedestrian.
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http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/montreal/magdalen-islands-plane-crash-1.3510975 6 confirmed dead. Make that 7 dead including TV analyst and former cabinet minister Jean Lapierre. Plane was an MU-2B of all things. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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In nicer news: http://www.wral.com/small-plane-makes-emergency-landing-on-i-540-in-raleigh-pilot-unhurt/15606584/ A piper loses an engine over I-540 in Raleigh, NC, and the pilot lands and steers into the median safely.
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I didn't think anybody but USAF contractors flew MU-2s anymore because they had wonky flight characteristics.
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When I worked at Waco Regional airport there was one based out of there. Didn't work a ton of them otherwise but they weren't super rare either, in TX.
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Godholio posted:I didn't think anybody but USAF contractors flew MU-2s anymore because they had wonky flight characteristics.
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Boeing cutting 4-8k jobs over the next year, right when they're supposed to be ramping up 777X and 737 max production, what gives with that?
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747 and 767 lines are both likely to get shut down, I think.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:747 and 767 lines are both likely to get shut down, I think. To be honest I thought 767 production had ended ten or so years ago already
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Well if relations are to be believed they're moving a bunch of jobs to Charleston because South Carolina is a right to work state and lol LIEberals. Or something to that effect.
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simplefish posted:To be honest I thought 767 production had ended ten or so years ago already They're only building tankers and freighters at this point.
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rscott posted:Boeing cutting 4-8k jobs over the next year, right when they're supposed to be ramping up 777X and 737 max production, what gives with that? Look at how they planned the 787. They want to outsource production of individual parts.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:747 and 767 lines are both likely to get shut down, I think. The 767 is transitioning to KC-46 production. I don't know if anyone is still ordering 767 freighters, but if not Boeing might be cutting jobs since the KC-46 will be low-rate for a while.
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CommieGIR posted:Look at how they planned the 787. They want to outsource production of individual parts. They've always outsourced production of individual parts. They're now outsourcing entire assemblies.
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Godholio posted:The 767 is transitioning to KC-46 production. I don't know if anyone is still ordering 767 freighters, but if not Boeing might be cutting jobs since the KC-46 will be low-rate for a while. The cargo market blows right now and fuel is cheap so demand for new-build freighters is extremely low. I think there are extant orders for 767-300Fs but why bother with new build when you can get retrofits off cheap airframes?
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:They've always outsourced production of individual parts. They're now outsourcing entire assemblies. That is what I meant. Individual sub assemblies.
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