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slidebite posted:One of my flight choices back when I did the LH 744 flight was BA. I read their business class reviews on their "ying-yang" style seats and they seemed to be almost universally condemned. That said, it can't be BAD and I think many of the contributors on the frequent flyer forums are divas and basically the aircraft equivalent of DSLreports posters. They're 'ok' but still far and away better than regular economy seats obviously. When not being served there's a divider that goes up between the seats so it's not like you have to be staring at the other person or whatever. The best business class I've flown on was an AA 787. Basically a private booth type thing that's mostly enclosed and a lot more comfortable than some others I've been on. Worst is Air India's. They have two planes that fly between Chicago and Delhi and one of them is much older than the other. The older one is absolutely terrible. A coworker of mine got a seat that had broken controls and wouldn't recline at all. Not much fun on a 14-16 hour flight. Also their food is terrible compared to the others that I've flown on.
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It's 11AM and I hadn't felt poor yet today. Thanks.
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 15:26 |
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How is the air here moving, is it being pushed away from where the cloud is? https://twitter.com/MikeCollierWX/status/1141535119318179840
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 15:56 |
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Yes the MH370 article was awesome. Thanks for linking it.
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 16:50 |
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:How is the air here moving, is it being pushed away from where the cloud is?
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 16:52 |
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The daily beast is Rebutting the Atlantic Story. Question: do we know about the depressurization/re-pressurization?
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# ? Jun 21, 2019 22:25 |
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Thunder head
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 00:11 |
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Charlatan Eschaton posted:How is the air here moving, is it being pushed away from where the cloud is? I've heard you can get some pretty nasty hail flying near the hammerhead like that. Wonder what type/model that aircraft is.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 00:32 |
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Wiper arm + the VGs on the nose gotta be from a 737.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 00:35 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:The daily beast is Rebutting the Atlantic Story. Not for sure, but there is circumstantial evidence of electric power bring switched off, then on again. The theory might be wrong, but this rebuttal is just rambling nonsense. quote:This is nonsense, and Langewiesche should have known so, since he recounts the importance of the sole source of physical evidence that eventually came to light, when more than a score of pieces of debris from the 777 washed up on beaches in the western Indian Ocean.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 03:46 |
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I just got asked on a Facebook group if an F-14 counts as a 'Fixed Wing' aircraft. Cheeky fucker! Anyway have this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyC2urCl_4
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 16:12 |
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Humphreys posted:
Did not know footage of that existed, thanks.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 16:30 |
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Humphreys posted:I just got asked on a Facebook group if an F-14 counts as a 'Fixed Wing' aircraft. Cheeky fucker! Well, the only other kind of winged aircraft is a rotary wing aircraft, so obviously it's a... ...hmm.
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# ? Jun 22, 2019 23:26 |
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Variable geometry wing. Now commence arguing whether slats and such count as variable geometry. And whether it matters if leading edge or trailing edge. And if it matters if manual or automatic. And if it matters whether analog or digital.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 12:37 |
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mlmp08 posted:Variable geometry wing. An F-14 has variable sweep, which is a subset of variable geometry. Other subsets include variable camber and incidence. I guess flaps change the effective camber, but do they really change the geometry of the wing? I would say no. They are part of the wing system, but the separate from the airfoil structure. A true variable camber wing could perhaps make do without flaps, or to put it on its head, you can make do without a variable camber wing be having a non-variable wing with flaps/slats. "Commence arguing" was meant literally, right??
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Ola posted:An F-14 has variable sweep, which is a subset of variable geometry. Other subsets include variable camber and incidence. I guess flaps change the effective camber, but do they really change the geometry of the wing? I would say no. They are part of the wing system, but the separate from the airfoil structure. A true variable camber wing could perhaps make do without flaps, or to put it on its head, you can make do without a variable camber wing be having a non-variable wing with flaps/slats. You can use the flaps to make the wing variable camber.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 13:07 |
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Sagebrush posted:Well, the only other kind of winged aircraft is a rotary wing aircraft, so obviously it's a... *heads out to sea in a flat spin* Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada: A Travel Nightmare: Waking Up Cold And Alone In A Darkened Plane quote:Ever had a nightmare in which you wake up at night, alone, strapped in a seat in a completely dark and freezing cold room with no means to contact anyone?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 13:59 |
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Every flight sim nerd’s fantasy. Okay let’s see... 1. BAT SW ON!
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 14:06 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada: So, inflate the evacuation slide?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 14:40 |
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Craptacular posted:So, inflate the evacuation slide? One of my friends was on a flight where the nose-wheel collapsed, they slid down the runway, fire crew responded, but there was no fire. The crew explicitly ensured no one inflated the evacuation slides. Their reasoning was that there was no danger of fire and someone was possibly going to suffer a sprain or other minor injury on the slide if the didn't just wait for a riser. He was pretty bummed out about that.
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mlmp08 posted:One of my friends was on a flight where the nose-wheel collapsed, they slid down the runway, fire crew responded, but there was no fire. I’ve gone down the emergency slides in a controlled environment, they suck. I wouldn’t want to go down one with a mass of typical panicky airline passengers.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:10 |
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They went that way!
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:19 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada: quote:Adams made her way to the cockpit, where she eventually found a flashlight. The light helped her figure out how to open the main exit door. But there was no gangway, so she was staring at what she said was a 40 to 50 foot drop to the ground, hardly an attractive means of escape In other news, Air Canada recently stunned the aviation world with a surprise purchase of 767s with the rare option of the main door located at the top of the rudder. Air Canada says the new aircraft will only be used on short haul domestic flights.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:29 |
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Craptacular posted:So, inflate the evacuation slide? Nah, gotta figure out how to get the APU running to get some cabin heat!
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:36 |
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mlmp08 posted:One of my friends was on a flight where the nose-wheel collapsed, they slid down the runway, fire crew responded, but there was no fire.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 15:52 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:
sth sth customer retention
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 17:39 |
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Do you get airmiles when abducted by the airline?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 17:41 |
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Good thing it didn’t happen in the US on a United flight. They probably would have stormed the plane with military equipment and “neutralized” the “hijacker”
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 17:46 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:*heads out to sea in a flat spin* This kind of story is the type of thing that makes me despair for humanity. To go to the news with something like this? I fell asleep on the train once and had to find and ask a conductor if it could stop at the next station and let me off. It was embarrassing, and I had an "oh poo poo where am I and where am I going" moment when I woke up, but I didn't go tell the news about it, and I certainly didn't suffer anxiety and night terrors from loving FALLING ASLEEP AND WAKING UP IN THE DARK! Jesus Christ. I get why PR is bending over backwards to make sure she's feeling ok so she doesn't sue, that's a whole other what's wrong with this world discussion though. But how is this anything but the personally embarrassing story of "oops I fell asleep when I shouldn't have, and got in a minor predicament because of it". A grown rear end-adult having night terrors and anxiety because they fell asleep on public transport and woke up in the dark not sure exactly where they were. Finger Prince fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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It's a bigger deal than that. The plane was not hooked up to a gate so she had no way off, and if she hasn't gotten lucky and had someone notice her leaning out the door with the flashlight, she could have been stranded overnight or even multiple days. Now let's also imagine it was winter in Canada, and you see the problem. Add to that the stress of a possible misunderstanding in our very rational post-9/11 world over why she had accessed an unauthorized area and tampered with equipment...
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:04 |
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Finger Prince posted:This kind of story is the type of thing that makes me despair for humanity. To go to the news with something like this? I fell asleep on the train once and had to find and ask a conductor if it could stop at the next station and let me off. It was embarrassing, and I had an "oh poo poo where am I and where am I going" moment when I woke up, but I didn't go tell the news about it, and I certainly didn't suffer anxiety and night terrors from loving FALLING ASLEEP AND WAKING UP IN THE DARK! Jesus Christ. I get why PR is bending over backwards to make sure she's feeling ok so she doesn't sue, that's a whole other what's wrong with this world discussion though. But how is this anything but the personally embarrassing story of "oops I fell asleep when I shouldn't have, and got in a minor predicament because of it". A grown rear end-adult having night terrors and anxiety because they fell asleep on public transport and woke up in the dark not sure exactly where they were. And I thought I was an rear end in a top hat for not being sad that Dave Mustaine has throat cancer. As someone with General Anxiety Disorder, please choke on a bowl of poop.
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vessbot posted:It's a bigger deal than that. The plane was not hooked up to a gate so she had no way off, and if she hasn't gotten lucky and had someone notice her leaning out the door with the flashlight, she could have been stranded overnight or even multiple days. Now let's also imagine it was winter in Canada, and you see the problem. Add to that the stress of a possible misunderstanding in our very rational post-9/11 world over why she had accessed an unauthorized area and tampered with equipment... None of this is actually a thing that would have happened. She literally flagged someone down within a couple of hours of waking up. It's an airport, the biggest, busiest airport in the country, not a gulag. Minto Took posted:And I thought I was an rear end in a top hat for not being sad that Dave Mustaine has throat cancer. As someone with General Anxiety Disorder, please choke on a bowl of poop. Sorry to hear that, but do you go tell the news every time something causes you to suffer from an anxiety attack?
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Finger Prince posted:This kind of story is the type of thing that makes me despair for humanity. To go to the news with something like this? I fell asleep on the train once and had to find and ask a conductor if it could stop at the next station and let me off. It was embarrassing, and I had an "oh poo poo where am I and where am I going" moment when I woke up, but I didn't go tell the news about it, and I certainly didn't suffer anxiety and night terrors from loving FALLING ASLEEP AND WAKING UP IN THE DARK! Jesus Christ. I get why PR is bending over backwards to make sure she's feeling ok so she doesn't sue, that's a whole other what's wrong with this world discussion though. But how is this anything but the personally embarrassing story of "oops I fell asleep when I shouldn't have, and got in a minor predicament because of it". A grown rear end-adult having night terrors and anxiety because they fell asleep on public transport and woke up in the dark not sure exactly where they were. Go back to reddit, op.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:20 |
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Finger Prince posted:Sorry to hear that, but do you go tell the news every time something causes you to suffer from an anxiety attack? No, but I’ve never been trapped in a cold and dark airplane.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:20 |
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Cold dark airplane naps are the best naps.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:26 |
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Jealous Cow posted:Go back to reddit, op. Yeah, how dare I express the controversial idea that people should take some loving personal responsibility. The moral of this story is don't fall asleep on public transport if you don't want to wake up someplace other than where you expected to be. How the gently caress anyone considered it to be national news is beyond me, but I guess I'm out of touch.
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:28 |
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Finger Prince posted:None of this is actually a thing that would have happened. She literally flagged someone down within a couple of hours of waking up. It's an airport, the biggest, busiest airport in the country, not a gulag. Planes get pulled over to hardstands and left for long periods of time at the biggest airports in the world. Why do you have an expectation of a random layman to assume that the airline will operate the plane for a flight before she's on it for too long? And at what threshold do you set this too long (clearly, more than "a few hours") before she is allowed to be legit freaked out by being stranded in a dark, isolated metal tube?
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# ? Jun 23, 2019 18:30 |
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Finger Prince posted:some loving personal responsibility. It is literally the cabin crew's responsibility to ensure no one is left on board before they leave.
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Flip the calendar by 6 months and she could have been killed.
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