Julius CSAR posted:

If you're not getting close to either business end of an aircraft, running or otherwise, you're not working on aircraft, sorry. Five feet from spinning props is all you need, and if you get bonked by a moving control surface you're a loving total idiot and should not be around aircraft ever holy poo poo.

I tripped over a comm cable one night while I was on ground and fell underneath the APU exhaust outlet, which on a B-1 is between the two engines, one for each side of the jet. There's only about three feet of clearance down there and I got a nice look directly into the APU compressor chamber. Time compression kicked in, so It all happened in slow motion so I could see the fuel being combusted and actually saw the compressor blades spinning, just before the exhaust blew me out of the way. It was like looking into the loving Eye of Sauron. My buddies doing the ops check emergency shut the down after the heard me yelling on the intercom. I was shaking, and it wasn't till I was back on the truck and someone said it smelled like something was burning that I realized I'd singed most of eyebrows off. I was mad pissed at myself for such a complete fuckup. It still shakes me up to this day when I think about it. But that glowing ring of death is forever burned into my memory.

Carbon dioxide posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxh3S5Ov5nE

DiHK posted:

Hmm, so I was thinking: what of instead of airstrip we used large treadmills for takeoff amd landing.

evobatman posted:

From my hometown.



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evobatman posted:

Say Nothing posted:

Imagined posted:

She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene.

evobatman posted:

From my hometown.



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Collateral Damage posted:

I feel like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Fire_disasters_involving_barricaded_escape_routes should be required loving reading for anyone who operates a public space of any kind.

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An inspection of the floorplan shows that 12 of the victims died of smoke inhalation and several more were injured when they ran into the freezer in a panic rather than to the front of the building.

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An extensive fire was considered unlikely because of a lack of flammable materials throughout the complex, other than packing materials in the rear.

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The fire was caused by failure of a hydraulic line which powered a conveyor belt supplying the cooker vat. When the original line developed a leak, a worker originally replaced it with new line and with new connections. Later the line, which was too long and created a tripping hazard, was shortened, but in the process the worker replaced the new end connector with the old fitting.

When the line with a customized connector was brought up to normal operating pressure, it separated from the connector at between 800 and 1,500 psi (5,500–10,300 kPa). Hydraulic fluid spattered onto the heating lines for the cooker and immediately vaporized. This vapor then went directly into the flame of the gas-fired cooker. The vapor had a relatively low flash point and erupted into a fireball. The ruptured hydraulic line then pumped 50 to 55 US gallons (40–45 imp. gal/190–210 L) of hydraulic fluid into the fire before electrical failure shut it down.

Nenonen posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire




and yes, this kind of thinking here:

turns out to be:

Memento posted:

There's a recycling plant here that burned last year, and while it was burning they were like "It's OK, don't worry, the smoke is thick but it's just paper and cardboard, no need to... Oh wait poo poo

Delivery McGee posted:

There's a recycling storage place here that burns every other year or so. My clothes I bought the day before and was wearing when I covered it still smell like smoke.



I'm surprised it didn't burn my eyebrows off.

Nenonen posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire




and yes, this kind of thinking here:

turns out to be:

a kitten posted:

Hey there's a song about this by Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyU-PvbOjlo

Gunshow Poophole posted:

hgow did I not know about this collaboration

Platystemon posted:

Condolences on your future aggressive cancer.

therobit posted:

The best thing about Mojo Nixon is he now hosts a country music show on Sirius XM.

a kitten posted:

Hey there's a song about this by Mojo Nixon and Jello Biafra

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyU-PvbOjlo

Grouchio posted:

Where is this Norway?

Pablo Bluth posted:

The bit I was talking about isn't in the video. Its a harrier landing where they tried to use a bunch of mattresses. The blaze seem to be the only one's to have kept a copy of the images that originated on a now broken webforum posting. I hadn't twigged TheBlaze was Becks thing.

quote:

This comes under the heading "truth is sometimes stranger than fiction".

That is a TAV-8B assigned to VMAT-203 in Cherry Point. They experienced hung landing gear (repeat gripe on that jet) and contacted base for troubleshooting. The EP involves cycling some circuit breakers, cycling the gear, and requesting visual inspection. If none of that works (which it didn't), you blow down the gear.

At some point, the squadron let the MAG CO what was going on (for what reason, I have no idea). He was worried that if they blew the gear down and the nose gear still hung up, it would crack the frame of one of the scarce T-birds. He directed that the pilot do a gear up vertical landing. It would crush the strakes and probably FOD the motor, but it's better than cracking the frame. He directed the mattresses to be placed under the nose.

When the pilot heard about all of this, he refused to do it unless he heard it directly from the MAG CO. The MAG CO got on the radio and told him to do it. The landing was pretty unremarkable, despite the photos. The damage was limited to the engine (Fodded), and the strakes (crushed). Expensive, but not the end of the world. When they jacked it up, they we able to blow the gear down with no problems.

This is when the story gets even weirder. Once the jet was in the hangar, relatively undamaged, an EZ-go golf cart came flying into the hangar and smashed into the jet, causing some D-level repair damage.

It turns out that LCpl. Schmuckatelli was huffing keyboard cleaner before making his parts run in the EZ-go. He got really dizzy, lost consiousness, and the cart went out of control. It drove directly into the hangar at full speed through a gap in the hangar doors and smashed the jet. Like I said, the truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. You couldn't make up something that bizarre.

By the way, the Harrier CAN land on asphalt (or dirt, or grass, etc). It just can't do a vertical landing on anything except concrete, steel, or AM2 matting. It will melt right through it. A Harrier at idle, with the nozzles in the hoverstop (down), will make a nice large pool of molten asphalt on a runway.

Banana Man posted:

All this fire talk reminds me of the Great White fire. The video was pretty haunting



(the numbers being the number of bodies in each of those areas respectively)

Banana Man posted:

All this fire talk reminds me of the Great White fire. The video was pretty haunting



(the numbers being the number of bodies in each of those areas respectively)

Skippy McPants posted:

Yeah, avoid the video. Those few frames of the front exit, where you see people stacked up like cordwood struggling to get out is easily in the top-5 of the most grotesque things I've seen on the internet.

Skippy McPants posted:

Yeah, avoid the video. Those few frames of the front exit, where you see people stacked up like cordwood struggling to get out is easily in the top-5 of the most grotesque things I've seen on the internet.

oohhboy posted:

Then there is this...

They don't make them like they use to. It returned to service until it got put into a museum. A F35 would shred itself like tin foil.

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Four days later a considerable international media presence witnessed the Alraigo sail into dock at Santa Cruz de Tenerife with the Sea Harrier still perched on its container. The aircraft was salvageable, and the ship's crew and owners were awarded £570,000 compensation.

Platystemon posted:

The worst thing I’ve ever seen was the New Taipei water park fire from 2015.

oohhboy posted:

here are some pictures. i thought there was a video but I might have been mistaken.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/6lc3sx/harrier_landing_on_an_unconventional_landing_pad/


What that doesn't cover is that the British already considered a failed nose gear so they had designed the nose to take relatively minimal damage in such a landing even without a stool.

Then there is this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD4oiBSXGDM

They don't make them like they use to. It returned to service until it got put into a museum. A F35 would shred itself like tin foil.

Banana Man posted:

All this fire talk reminds me of the Great White fire. The video was pretty haunting



(the numbers being the number of bodies in each of those areas respectively)

Anta posted:

I kind of want to know how a water park can burn, but judging from the reactions, I think I'm not watching any of that.

Nenonen posted:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_chicken_processing_plant_fire




and yes, this kind of thinking here:

turns out to be:

Boston Globe posted:

The scene after the fall was one of indescribable horror. Hundreds of men, women, and children were buried in the ruins. Some assured their friends that they were uninjured, but imprisoned by the timbers upon and about them. Others were dying and dead. Every nerve was strained to relieve the poor unfortunates, when, sad to relate, a lantern broke and set fire to the wreck. In a few moments the ruins were a sheet of flames. Fourteen are known to have been burned to death in the sight of their loved ones, who were powerless to aid them.