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Petit Gregory posted:That's only if you didn't buy the Safety Alert DLC. The DLC does ‘t actually help with that issue😤
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Platystemon posted:The DLC does ‘t actually help with that issue😤 Its Down...Land Contact!
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The Lone Badger posted:Having a 'helicopter falls out of sky' button seems like a bit of a liability. Better have a 'helicopter stays in the sky' button that needs to be kept pressed until you are ready to land.
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Nenonen posted:Better have a 'helicopter stays in the sky' button that needs to be kept pressed until you are ready to land. Even that is a better design choice than GTA5 Keyboard bindings.
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Yeah, the "collective control" is basically the "do you want to go up, down, or stay level" control, there's no way to not have one. It's like if they tried that stunt in a car on the highway and someone stepped on the parking brake.
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axolotl farmer posted:Supposed to be a rich guy who bought himself a helicopter, read the manual and thought he could just go for a spin. I mean, technically he did just that 
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Jet Jaguar posted:Just reading the Wikipedia article boggles the mind, the only world that comes to mind isn't in German for a change. "Omnishambles" sounds about right. For those who don't know, the Berlin Brandenburg Airport is (was) supposed to open in 2011, replacing two older airports and serve as a regional hub for Air Berlin. It still is not open. It is now probably approaching €10 million over budget. Air Berlin no longer exists. It...has not been a particularly successful project, and there's a fair bit of OSHA-esque fuckery. Miles of cables were installed improperly. They - somehow - built escalators too short, such that the escalator took you up to a short, two or three step stairway. Hundreds of doors were mislabeled, meaning that in an emergency there would be chaos. The roof is alleged to weigh twice as much as it should. Also, the fire safety system did not work - smoke extractors did not extract smoke, alarms didn't work (see above re: wiring), etc. It turns out that the engineer tasked with designing the fire safety system was not in fact an engineer, which may have been related. In a desperate attempt to get the airport open, though, a plan was conceived. Instead of a functional fire alarm system in what was hoped to be one of the larger airports in Europe, the airport would hire about 800 minimum-wage workers to be stationed throughout the airport with bullhorns and mobile phones. If anyone saw a fire or smelled smoke, the employee would call 112 and lead passengers to safety. Fortunately, the government accurately described that plan as idiotic and refused to certify the airport to open. Today the airport is still not open. As I mentioned, they've had to start replacing some display screens and lights which have been running non-stop since 2011. There is a daily train service, which no one can buy a ticket for, because the ventilation system depends on trains moving air through the tunnels. I can't find any information about whether they've installed longer escalators. Schönefeld airport, which shares a runway when Brandenburg and was meant to be closed when Brandenburg opened, has since completed one renovation and begun a significant expansion.
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TorpedoFish posted:It is now probably approaching €10 million over budget. Aww. Everything in Europe is so quaint 
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Sagebrush posted:Aww. Everything in Europe is so quaint I don't know where that number came from but I trust the BBC: quote:The management company now says the overall cost of the project will be 6bn euros (£5.3bn) - if it opens as planned next year - up from an original projection of about 2bn euros. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48527308
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Wasabi the J posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TOS68qWHhw aw yiss Mothman baby I used to live in a town with a very old and lovely bridge over the Illinois River. It was always down to one lane due to work being done on it and the state has had a plan to replace it for 10 years with no money to do so. I talked to one of the guys who was working on the bridge and he told me to never look at the bottom of it. FuturePastNow fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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The Lone Badger posted:My understanding was that in modern aeroplanes if you attempt a stick input that will make the plane fall out of the sky the computer calls you an idiot and refuses, and you have to click through a bunch of disclaimers and liability waivers before it will do what you want. Apparently in helicopters if you push the button marked 'die' it will obligingly kill you? That's kind of true of the large modern commercial aircraft but not in the small general aviation and military aircraft. For most of simpler aircraft, jamming the aileron or elevator controls one direction would have pretty much the same affect as dumping the collective in a helicopter. Either way you might recover with enough altitude but the fixed wing could either roll or stall out of control and slam into the ground.
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Platystemon posted:This is my favourite helicopter failure story. quote:The whole time the pilot communicated the urgency of the situation by calmly saying, "You’ve got to do it buddy or we are going to die." 
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As a Mechanical Engineer working on forklifts please share more of these insane forklift tricks. My co-workers think I'm the most interesting person.
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Platystemon posted:This is my favourite helicopter failure story. Seriously, this story is nuts. On top of the original incident, they manage to land, stitch the collective control rod back together with a safety pin, and then they flew away in the helicopter again
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Baronjutter posted:I'm terrified of getting stuck in an elevator, but I've always wondered why they don't all come with a little panel you can pop out along with a hand-crank or something. At most you're only ever going to be moving a half floor. Just crank and slowly descend to the nearest floor then manually open the door. Save people from spending hours or actually starving to death in forgotten broken elevators. Don't worry you might not even live long enough to starve to death before you drown in your flooded metal coffin. Happy travels friend. Two Men Almost Drown in Flooded Elevator mustard_tiger fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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PittTheElder posted:Seriously, this story is nuts. On top of the original incident, they manage to land, stitch the collective control rod back together with a safety pin, and then they flew away in the helicopter again They did this in an episode of Benson. They crashed in a desert or something, breaking control rods, so they replaced them with golf clubs. Remember Benson? He's back, in golf-copter form.
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TorpedoFish posted:For those who don't know, the Berlin Brandenburg Airport is (was) supposed to open in 2011, replacing two older airports and serve as a regional hub for Air Berlin. It still is not open. It is now probably approaching €10 million over budget. Air Berlin no longer exists. It...has not been a particularly successful project, and there's a fair bit of OSHA-esque fuckery. BBb BBBut but but!!! German engineering!!?!?!?
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wesleywillis posted:BBb BBBut but but!!! German engineering!!?!?!? My recollection from the podcast was that the person they got to architect it basically designed an efficient hub without a bunch of extra shopping bullshit (specifically excluding that stuff) and they were into construction by the time they realized there was next to no retail space on the main thoroughfares. They then tried to reengineer the layout to cram a bunch more shopping which necessitated re-routing stuff that’s hard to re-route, such as the fire suppression system and having to add floors in places. Basically they took a building meant for one thing and tried to make it do something it was specifically designed not to do, and it’s basically the F35 in airport form.
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PittTheElder posted:Seriously, this story is nuts. On top of the original incident, they manage to land, stitch the collective control rod back together with a safety pin, and then they flew away in the helicopter again The dude that hung onto the outside of a flying helicopter for 30 minutes riding back in the truck instead was lol though
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Gaukler posted:My recollection from the podcast was that the person they got to architect it basically designed an efficient hub without a bunch of extra shopping bullshit (specifically excluding that stuff) and they were into construction by the time they realized there was next to no retail space on the main thoroughfares. I think I listened to the same podcast: as you say, it wasn't until they were building the drat thing that anyone who knew anything about airports go involved. It was a complete surprise to the govt to learn that an airport is only financially viable with lots of shops paying expensive rents.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't know where that number came from but I trust the BBC: The two figures only differ by forty thousand percent.
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Just watched one of the most spectacularly (non) OSHA things ever: perhaps you would like to know more about the National Pyrotechnic Festival in Tultepec, Mexico? http://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/brimstoneandglory/
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Shut up Meg posted:I think I listened to the same podcast: as you say, it wasn't until they were building the drat thing that anyone who knew anything about airports go involved. Yeah, http://www.radiospaetkauf.com/ber/ that did a really great (English) multi-part podcast about it. It's definitely the most entertaining podcast about loving up an airport (airportfuckling?) that you'll ever hear. There was also a lot of corruption with bribes and kickbacks and such, which is how they got to the point of building an airport without involving anyone who knows how to build an airport.
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wesleywillis posted:BBb BBBut but but!!! German engineering!!?!?!? The Germans may make decent consumer goods but holy poo poo I've never been part of any enterprise or project involving a German veto that hasn't been a shitshow. Also Jesus any buildings that Germans have a say in designing are universally trashtown.
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LifeSunDeath posted:The way that guy just stands there for a few seconds, no reaction. Just another day on the rails I guess.  Couldn't replicate this if you tried. Also: those boxes contain refrigerators.
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Memento posted:Just another day on the rails I guess. Leaning tower of freezas.
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That's a cool trick.
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Once upon a time, people hated children.
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Phanatic posted:Once upon a time, people hated children. I mean given the era the alternative was probably just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "they'll hang on" so using that strap would have made you a conscientious parent
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I like how it's explicitly not about the safety of the child but about keeping them tethered out of daddy's hair Also you couldn't make a better internal decapitation device than that if you tried, it's really about postnatal abortions shame on an IGA fucked around with this message at 04:16 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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shame on an IGA posted:I like how it's explicitly not about the safety of the child but about keeping them tethered out of daddy's hair Chicken Wire Neck Support.
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It's awesome to have sound on one of these "spectacular and expensive fuckup" video for once. Especially this particular one! Hipster_Doofus fucked around with this message at 05:19 on Sep 27, 2019 |
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Trying to paste from the imgur app, not sure if this'll embed. Turn on sound. http://imgur.com/gallery/R3YYenY
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Pyroclastic posted:Trying to paste from the imgur app, not sure if this'll embed. Turn on sound. That should work
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Memento posted:That should work Teamwork is so osha. 
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