Platystemon posted:

I found this in an old “gently caress-up Friday” on Reddit.com/r/AskEngineers.

Platystemon posted:

I found this in an old “gently caress-up Friday” on Reddit.com/r/AskEngineers.

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Being a combat flight, he had a box fin two thousand pound bomb on each wing station. The anguished pilot landed on the two 2000 lb bombs with a mighty "Whump!" but nothing detonated except the Commanding Officer after he discovered what had happened to one of his valuable aircraft. The pilot was medivacked to CONUS with a fractured vertebrae and a tooth-shredded rectal orifice. Not exactly a hero's departure out of Da Nang Air Base

twerps posted:

I accidentally put "speed setpoint+100%" instead of 0% into a VFD, causing a gantry crane to run away at full speed. It traveled at full throttle half down the runway. And that's what proofreading is for. ...And E-stop buttons.

Luckily nothing was broken but it gave me a hell of a lesson about double-checking parameters before firing things up.

Here's a photo of the crane when it was stowed for structural work.

https://i.imgur.com/djOgJfT.jpg

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[–]kk_knee 3 points 2 years ago
A crane operator at the Boeing Everett plant died because someone failed to flip the track stop. He drove right off the end of the track. I'd guess that's about a 100' drop.

[–]twerps 8 points 2 years ago
I got a call just after making this post that a crane operator from another plant owned by this customer died earlier this week when he hit the end stop at full speed and was ejected from the cab.
The incident last week just got a lot more real. I'm kind of in shock now.

CannonFodder posted:

Thankfully the carrier deck is actually rather high off the water. It's so high a B52 can fly below the flight deck.



The B52 looks like it's going down when it's actually in level flight because the wings are tilted up to facilitate greater lift during takeoff and allowing a big ugly fat gently caress to take off from shorter runways. I forget what the actual name of this tilted wing effect is though.

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During a storm in the Pacific Ocean, Atlas was down one set of landing gear. The rest of the squadron went and landed on a nearby island due to the storm, Atlas, had to dump his fuel and had one chance to land into the net. This is a great tribute to Bug Roach (Bug can be heard on the audio calmly talking the pilot down to the aircraft carrier) and his contribution to Naval Aviation. Footage is from March 9, 1987.

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- Nice Job Bug
- Hey Bug - Ball1 - You are superb.

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After the third fuel update call, Lizard 515 aircrew decided that the left outboard drop was going to require a little help and as recommended by NATOPS (which is The Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization program, responsible for rules and regulations governing safe and correct operation of all naval aircraft), they applied positive and negative Gs to force the valve open.

As explained by Gallagher, when the pilot moved the stick forward: “ I felt the familiar sensation of negative “G”, and then something strange happened: my head touched the canopy. For a brief moment I thought that I had failed to tighten my lap belts, but I knew that wasn’t true. Before I could complete that thought, there was a loud bang, followed by wind, noise, disorientation and more wind, wind, wind. Confusion reigned in my mind as I was forced back against my seat, head against the headrest, arms out behind me, the wind roaring in my head, pounding against my body. “Did the canopy blow off? Did I eject? Did my windscreen implode?” All of these questions occurred to me amidst the pandemonium in my mind and over my body. These questions were quickly answered, and replaced by a thousand more, as I looked down and saw a sight that I will never forget: the top of the canopy, close enough to touch, and through the canopy I could see the top of my pilot’s helmet. It took a few moments for this image to sink into my suddenly overloaded brain. This was worse than I ever could have imagined – I was sitting on top of a flying A-6!”

suuma posted:

Better than felling it without clearing the top, so tons of limbs get stuck in other trees and then fall randomly. They call them widowmakers for a reason.

Say Nothing posted:

Snowsplosion

moist turtleneck posted:

I like the drifting snow plows

https://i.imgur.com/U4CRBll.gifv

Memento posted:

He's just finishing with that saw - otherwise why is he lugging his chainsaw all that way up.

moist turtleneck posted:

I like the drifting snow plows

https://i.imgur.com/U4CRBll.gifv

BgRdMchne posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPGq7IYQHCM

The normally land based B-25 Mitchel taking off from the Hornet, a ww2 carrier to firebomb Tokyo.

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

I can't imagine what frequent tailhook decelerations would do to the cargo.

Phanatic posted:

At one point they were looking at the C-130 for use as a carrier on-board delivery aircraft (Ferrying important poo poo like VIPs and parts and mail out to a deployed carrier). So they first had to figure out if it could actually, you know, land on a carrier.

Yep:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM5AI3YSV3M

In one of the revolutions, they landed (without a tailhook), came to a stop, and then took off from where they stopped (without a catapult).

It was still too damned big and took up too much deck space so they didn't use it.

Synthbuttrange posted:

Police in a Phoenix suburb said a self-driving vehicle struck and killed the woman overnight Sunday (local time).

HardDiskD posted:

It's going to turn out that the controls did nothing, or the driver was asleep. Either way Uber gets off scot-free.

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

I've got no lost love for uber but "in the middle of the night in phoenix" screams "drugged-up/drunk person wandering around an unlit street in the dark" to me

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

I've got no lost love for uber but "in the middle of the night in phoenix" screams "drugged-up/drunk person wandering around an unlit street in the dark" to me

Wasabi the J posted:

I think the vehicle hitting them plays the main role.

boner confessor posted:

yeah, but it's not like these vehicles left the roadway. most of the time it's a pedestrian being where they should not be. people are shockingly bad at not getting hit by cars, it's part of the reason we should be reducing car use entirely because they're inherently dangerous

Ursine Catastrophe posted:

Johnny Aztec posted:

Was this dumbfuck really playing on his phone, at night, in the middle of a crosswalk?

Too retarded to live, christ.

boner confessor posted:

pedestrian deaths increased in the united states by 11% between 2015 and 2016, the largest increase on record

data is too spotty or limited to prove it but everyone assumes it's because of people playing with their phones while walking which includes wandering into traffic and getting hit

boner confessor posted:

pedestrian deaths increased in the united states by 11% between 2015 and 2016, the largest increase on record

data is too spotty or limited to prove it but everyone assumes it's because of people playing with their phones while walking which includes wandering into traffic and getting hit

boner confessor posted:

pedestrian deaths increased in the united states by 11% between 2015 and 2016, the largest increase on record

data is too spotty or limited to prove it but everyone assumes it's because of people playing with their phones while walking which includes wandering into traffic and getting hit

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Using police accident reports for Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and exploiting the introduction of the augmented reality game Pokémon GO as a natural experiment, we document a disproportionate increase in crashes and associated vehicular damage, injuries, and fatalities in the vicinity of locations where users can play the game while driving. We estimate the incremental county-wide cost of users playing Pokémon GO while driving to be in the range of $5.2 to $25.5 million over the 148 days following the introduction of the game. Extrapolating these estimates to nation-wide levels yields a total ranging from $2.0 to $7.3 billion.

boner confessor posted:

yeah, but it's not like these vehicles left the roadway. most of the time it's a pedestrian being where they should not be. people are shockingly bad at not getting hit by cars, it's part of the reason we should be reducing car use entirely because they're inherently dangerous

boner confessor posted:

pedestrian deaths increased in the united states by 11% between 2015 and 2016, the largest increase on record

data is too spotty or limited to prove it but everyone assumes it's because of people playing with their phones while walking which includes wandering into traffic and getting hit

ExecuDork posted:

If the driver of a car is playing Pokemon Go and catches the same pokemon at the same time as a pedestrian catches that pokemon and the car hits the pedestrian, who wins?

Johnny Aztec posted:

I'm not trying to be KIDS THESE DAYS but this guy is literally standing in the middle of the street.

boner confessor posted:

he was in a marked crosswalk and stopped for a moment, assuming traffic would see him - a bad assumption on his part

i saw a dude almost get hit by a bus the other week, i was waiting at the bus station and this guy just straight up walked in front of a bus because he was playing with his phone. still on the sidewalk but crossing a traffic cut and not paying attention. he about poo poo himself when this bus loomed up a foot from his head and honked its loud horn tho lol

Gunshow Poophole posted:

Depending on the state it is the driver's obligation to stop or yield to a pedestrian in a marked crosswalk. Growing up crossing streets in Illinois and I don't even think twice about it. Bad habit obviously but a legally binding one in many places

MF_James posted:

I like how part of that article is all about training and education. gently caress, where did we go wrong that people over the age of 16 need to be consistently reminded "Do not step into the street where the 3000lb steel boxes will kill you, flesh loses in this battle"