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Party Plane Jones posted:https://twitter.com/PaulSzoldra/status/979121232674263040 Who is this VanderWel idiot they interviewed? People see "chief engineer" and they think "tech savvy software geek" when in fact it's a 50-something hunt&peck typist who still forwards unfunny emails and gets his son to sync his Fitbit for him. I agree with that Edwards guy. "Hysteria".
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Phanatic posted:That helicopter crash in NYC looks like a stupid human trick: I hate to laugh at this but it looks like I'm going to anyway.
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Finger Prince posted:Who is this VanderWel idiot they interviewed? People see "chief engineer" and they think "tech savvy software geek" when in fact it's a 50-something hunt&peck typist who still forwards unfunny emails and gets his son to sync his Fitbit for him. stuxnet
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Mar 29, 2018 03:30
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shame on an IGA posted:stuxnet Or, the press release was too loving boring. "we had a security compromise, it was dealt with promptly, production and safety were not affected" vs "holy poo poo it was like y2k up in here! We called the VPs and everything! One of the machines stopped working until they fixed it! But seriously the whole place could have exploded! Who knows! Maybe even planes start falling out of the sky! I don't loving know but it's way more exciting sounding than speccing rivet hardness which is what I do 99.9% of the rest of the time!"
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Mar 29, 2018 03:59
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Finger Prince posted:Or, the press release was too loving boring. "we had a security compromise, it was dealt with promptly, production and safety were not affected" vs "holy poo poo it was like y2k up in here! We called the VPs and everything! One of the machines stopped working until they fixed it! But seriously the whole place could have exploded! Who knows! Maybe even planes start falling out of the sky! I don't loving know but it's way more exciting sounding than speccing rivet hardness which is what I do 99.9% of the rest of the time!" Moh riveting than what I do.
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Hermsgervørden posted:Moh riveting than what I do. 
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Hermsgervørden posted:Moh riveting than what I do. 
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Midjack posted:I hate to laugh at this but it looks like I'm going to anyway. Selfie Generation killing themselves off (and other innocent people)
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Mar 29, 2018 12:26
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Finger Prince posted:Who is this VanderWel idiot they interviewed? People see "chief engineer" and they think "tech savvy software geek" when in fact it's a 50-something hunt&peck typist who still forwards unfunny emails and gets his son to sync his Fitbit for him. Yeah, exactly. The chief engineers primary job is to make sure that the engineering process is sound across all the engineering departments. That is defining the design cycle, approved analysis methods, required design artifacts and review requirements for the process of performing engineering tasks. No one should expect the chief engineer to have a clue about IT issues.
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Delivery McGee posted:
You've got this exactly backwards--Rolls-built examples were hand-fitted by workers picking the best-match parts out of bins; Packard had the equipment to machine to a higher tolerance and built them standard.  http://www.museumofflight.org/aircraft/Wonder-Womans-Invisible-Plane
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HookedOnChthonics posted:You've got this exactly backwards--Rolls-built examples were hand-fitted by workers picking the best-match parts out of bins; Packard had the equipment to machine to a higher tolerance and built them standard. Does wonder woman's plane have tricycle gear or is it a tail dragger? I can't tell which side I'm looking at here.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:You've got this exactly backwards--Rolls-built examples were hand-fitted by workers picking the best-match parts out of bins; Packard had the equipment to machine to a higher tolerance and built them standard. It's one guy's recollection, but I always liked this exchange: quote:In his book “Not Much of An Engineer”, Rolls-Royce engineer Sir Stanley Hooker recalls his introduction to the matter with Ford:
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You'd want to be facing the front of the plane while reading the information placard, so I think it's got conventional gear.
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^-- to clarify before anyone gets confused, "conventional gear" to the FAA means what it meant in 1940, i.e., tailwheel
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Hermsgervørden posted:Does wonder woman's plane have tricycle gear or is it a tail dragger? I can't tell which side I'm looking at here. Museum of Flight posted:Wonder Woman’s Invisible Plane was designed by the enlightened Amazons of Paradise Island using highly advanced Amazon engineering.
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vessbot posted:^-- to clarify before anyone gets confused, "conventional gear" to the FAA means what it meant in 1940, i.e., tailwheel My car has a standard transmission too
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Mar 29, 2018 20:35
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Unsurprisingly, the technology has been successfully militarized. (old as gently caress, I know)
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Craptacular posted:Unsurprisingly, the technology has been successfully militarized. Seems like the Mach 2.6 propeller technology didn't interest anyone, though.
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Craptacular posted:Unsurprisingly, the technology has been successfully militarized. Screw the stealth plane, I'm interested in the stealth missiles in the background.
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Potato Salad posted:Screw the stealth plane, I'm interested in the stealth missiles in the background. You got me.
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Mar 30, 2018 06:19
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I looked.
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I've posted Aussie mustering, but this is cool seeing how the Robbies work with the ground crew |https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5nFtqGCZ88
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https://giant.gfycat.com/WhoppingPoliteAsianwaterbuffalo.webm That'll buff out.
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://giant.gfycat.com/WhoppingPoliteAsianwaterbuffalo.webm If only they'd waited till evening.
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://giant.gfycat.com/WhoppingPoliteAsianwaterbuffalo.webm How does that even happen? Was it the fault of the guy driving the tug? Because if so, god drat I'm glad I am not that guy.
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Mar 31, 2018 05:12
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For those around/near DC/Northern VA: https://m.facebook.com/events/150514185658935?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%223%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D&aref=3
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Sagebrush posted:How does that even happen? Was it the fault of the guy driving the tug? Because if so, god drat I'm glad I am not that guy. Historically, the guy driving the tug just keeps driving all the way back to the line shack, gets out of the tug, and hands his badge and keys over to the supervisor. Instead of taking a drug test.
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Sagebrush posted:How does that even happen? Was it the fault of the guy driving the tug? Because if so, god drat I'm glad I am not that guy. When that happens, the wing walkers often get a chunk of the blame, since the person driving the tug generally has very limited visibility as to where the wingtips and tail are relative to obstacles, so they rely on the wing walkers to warn them if there's something getting too close to the airplane.
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Sagebrush posted:How does that even happen? Was it the fault of the guy driving the tug? Because if so, god drat I'm glad I am not that guy. This one was in very heavy (like unusually heavy for the area) fog in Ben Gurion with no wing walkers.
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I was wing walking one of our DC-10s one night as we backed it up against a closed hangar door on the north side of MIA. We had a different tail parked there immediately beforehand, so we had just removed the forward chocks, and left the aft chocks as a parking guide for the tug driver. He put the wheels directly on the chocks, and the other wing walker and myself signaled to stop, and began to walk in to place the forward chocks, but the tug driver (a contractor) had other ideas. He apparently thought the airplane was stuck on something, so he gave it a stab of throttle, bounced both mains over the chocks, and drove the tailcone of #2 about two feet through the hangar door. The tip of the upper aft rudder and vertical stab got wedged in there too. Sadly, it was in the days before camera phones. The hangar door is STILL damaged, a decade later. The airplane was grounded for over a month, because (unrelated) problems were found in the cowling after they dropped #2.
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okay who has a link to more info on that one cause gently caress
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:okay who has a link to more info on that one cause gently caress https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/88r8ao/footage_of_the_warbirds_over_wanaka_yak3_incident/
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Apr 2, 2018 01:27
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Guess he was using that 7700 cheat code.
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Party Plane Jones posted:https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/88r8ao/footage_of_the_warbirds_over_wanaka_yak3_incident/ quote:The display organizers are alway under pressure to keep things moving and on time. The display that needed the cherry pickers had to run to time. The cherry pickers are slow-moving, so driving them out just for there display was time they didn’t want to waste so they pre-positioned them near to where they would be needed. The risk mitigation was a briefing to pilots not to use the part of the airfield on which they were parked.  Is he saying that the "normal" grass runway was blocked so they were supposed to use an unmarked area instead and he landed on the real marked runway? Heres the chart: 
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 New Dyson engine looking good.
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yakity yak
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