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Kilonum posted:Lol they took the profile private I didn’t even know you could do that.
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Kilonum posted:Lol they took the profile private lol that’s a shame, I’ll request a follow and post screens
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Feb 25, 2020 17:05
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There's a whole lot more here than aerospace content, but the Smithsonian has put 2.8 million images of their collection online. https://www.engadget.com/2020/02/25/smithsonian-open-access-collection-images/ All fully downloadable and covered under Creative Commons Zero license.
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Feb 25, 2020 21:58
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More bad 737 Max news. https://twitter.com/WSJ/status/1231046862402179073 Wait, that's the old more bad news. Here we go! https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1232550698203701249
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Feb 26, 2020 08:17
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At least of them are in one place. Close to the factory. Small miracles.
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at this rate is boeing just going to give up on the max?
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Feb 26, 2020 14:54
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Inacio posted:at this rate is boeing just going to give up on the max?
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The article says they're opening up the bonded surface survey and this is prob going to create a TON of rework for Boeing. If you're leaving FOD in fuel tanks, your bonding definitely isn't right.  about bonding and lightning strike requirements of aircrafts:Why bonding is hard:
For lightning, paint thickness specs are extremely tight because lightning damage to a panel goes up insanely fast with paint thickness. Too much paint = VERY BAD in a lightning strike. The FAA will probably be checking this too. The good part is the rework of bonding surfaces isn't bad. Again assuming its aluminum being bonded here, you can pretty easily sand off the chromate and brush on a similar conversion coating, then torque everything perfectly evenly so you have the max surface area in contact without warping the panel. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 18:55 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Feb 26, 2020 18:51
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Inacio posted:at this rate is boeing just going to give up on the max? Either that or the creditors give up on Boeing? Or more (?) realistic, cut the stock buyback program with like 30% and pay for all the improvements no problem.
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Feb 26, 2020 19:03
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Old Boeing might be able to deal, but current Boeing is following this sage advice: Except they seem to be hoping software shovels are good enough So, does Boeing have to pay airlines if the aircraft they sold them get grounded?
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Feb 26, 2020 19:38
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I think due to this thread I now find the AirforceProud95 MS flight simulator videos pretty amusing. Especially the ATC ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_JQYzFpN9I I’m the random 400kts balloon doing a barrel roll
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priznat posted:The way twitter goes I’m surprised he doesn’t have a blue check mark. If this were some TRUMPUS offical, they would
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Feb 26, 2020 19:39
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Nebakenezzer posted:So, does Boeing have to pay airlines if the aircraft they sold them get grounded? https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2019/12/14/boeing-pays-southwest-125-million-over-b737-max-grounding/ Yes, though it looks like Southwest had to sue.
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Feb 26, 2020 19:41
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The families of the dead passengers are suing, the airlines are suing, even the pilots’ unions are suing. Maybe we even see a supplier or two sue them in the future.
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Feb 26, 2020 19:56
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Kilonum posted:Lol they took the profile private Got a response saying that it did indeed violate their ToS but they didn't delete the account 
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Nebakenezzer posted:Old Boeing might be able to deal, but current Boeing is following this sage advice: Hole #1: Max Hole #2: Pegasus Hole #3: Dreamliner?
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Cat Mattress posted:Hole #3: Dreamliner? Perhaps related to Boeing's unilateral deletion of a couple parts of its lighting protection system.
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Cat Mattress posted:Hole #1: Max Don't forget to leave room for a 4th hole for Starliner. Boeing didn’t perform full end-to-end test of its astronaut capsule before troubled mission, ‘surprising’ NASA safety panel https://www.orlandosentinel.com/space/os-bz-boeing-safety-commercial-crew-20200226-bgvthodnjzgmlc36hsxcaopahu-story.html Overall the "Lets let the providers certify their own systems" approach in Commercial Crew has been less than stellar compared to cargo.
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External evaluations when done by the company itself: If it looks good from the exterior, it's probably fine.
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Okan170 posted:Don't forget to leave room for a 4th hole for Starliner. They’re not even loving trying at this point.
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Midjack posted:This one seems kind of like a threat: What did it say?
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lilbeefer posted:What did it say? I think that was the one that was like “It’s all fun and games until someone gets shot in the parking lot.” AREA MAN VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT PLANE NOISES
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lilbeefer posted:What did it say? quote:It's all fun and games till someone gets their head blown off in the parking lot.
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Did mayor Daley move to Scottsdale? gently caress airport noise complainers though
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Feb 28, 2020 16:38
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Super-slow-motion footage of the Chicago Air Show at 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPK1WM4YJQ
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Super-slow-motion footage of the Chicago Air Show at 4K: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esPK1WM4YJQ I'm gonna poke my head out after a really long time lurking to say thanks for posting this, it's one of the coolest things I've ever seen. The Ospreys in particular, this just proves that they are not viable aircraft, and can only fly by some sort of eldritch magic.
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I can't get over just how close the prop gets to the fuselage. Imagine being in the jumpseat closest to that bitch. It has to sound (and feel) like God is kicking the wall behind you with every revolution.
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Yeah during transition to airplane mode, at around 40 degrees angle, the proprotor blades are even with you eyeballs in the pilot seat. It’s pretty freaky. Oh and in airplane mode they are right outside that little door. The most frightened I’ve seen a crew chief is when that door has opened in flight leaving him inches from the tips.
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Watching an Osprey taxi/take off with the rotors at a ~45 degree angle just felt wrong somehow. They’re nothing short of aerodynamic blasphemy, a helicopter somehow masquerading as a plane.
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Feb 29, 2020 11:39
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Let's go back to a time when Discovery wasn't home to trash. Thankfully, there is a community of people who keep old Wings and other 80s/90s aviation docs available on YouTube. Watched this one last night about the AH-64 Apache and their efforts kicking off the Gulf War air raid campaign. It's pretty heaby considering a good chunk of of air time is dedicated to going over an Apache friendly fire incident using the actual helo footage and radio comms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=784kKOhfN-A
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What are you talking about? Discovery is not trash, Airline Repo is a perfectly reasonable show, not a collection of dramatized nonsense that would break hundreds of FARs and federal laws!  Though Mayday is still pretty good.
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Icon Of Sin posted:Watching an Osprey taxi/take off with the rotors at a ~45 degree angle just felt wrong somehow. They’re nothing short of aerodynamic blasphemy, a helicopter somehow masquerading as a plane. Lowest we can do is 60 degrees on taxi/takeoff. However I’ve known some pilots that have gone lower in the chocks because they suck.
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I’ve gone down to 45 taxiing but it was in forty knot winds. Those rotors are like parachutes in strong winds. You only need ~75 and a bump of power to roll over a set of chocks. Ask me how I know.
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Corn Burst posted:Lowest we can do is 60 degrees on taxi/takeoff. However I’ve known some pilots that have gone lower in the chocks because they suck. I couldn’t tell, it just looked like they were tipped over fairly far. I’m familiar with some of the aerodynamic blasphemies of helicopters, but Ospreys are another beast entirely.
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Found this gem from 1968 at a used book store this morning
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PT6A posted:What are you talking about? Discovery is not trash, Airline Repo is a perfectly reasonable show, not a collection of dramatized nonsense that would break hundreds of FARs and federal laws! Is anything on that show real? I loved one I saw recently where the supposed deadbeat took out a shotgun and started firing at the repo dudes, who took off in their car. But the shots of the deadbeat firing the gun were from a camera man still back at the original site. So we're supposed to believe that they just ditched this poor camera guy in the middle of nowhere with a psycho and a shotgun.
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Mr. Funny Pants posted:Is anything on that show real? I loved one I saw recently where the supposed deadbeat took out a shotgun and started firing at the repo dudes, who took off in their car. But the shots of the deadbeat firing the gun were from a camera man still back at the original site. So we're supposed to believe that they just ditched this poor camera guy in the middle of nowhere with a psycho and a shotgun. I'm sure its all completely staged, but there is a possibility that they are stories with some truth to them and the reenact them for dramatic effect.
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The weather channel followed an old employer of mine around and literally nothing about that show was true. None of the airplane shots were real, none of the patient shots were real (a huge HIPAA violation, they shot footage of the medical crew shocking a dummy for b-roll) and there was so much drama I’m sure that was all a setup too.
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bloops posted:Found this gem from 1968 at a used book store this morning Can't help but think there's a passage in this thing that's all "by 1998, all long-haul airline travel will be at hypersonic speeds, because Science!" "Surely airliners won't ever travel more slowly than they do now! "
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