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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:"Interrogate the airplane" is such an entertaining mental image, at least compared to the more mundane reality of it. I'm partial to the word "fondle." It captures the slight feeling of violation, or at least impropriety, from my esteemed vantage as master and commander of my aircraft, when maintenance is probing data, via ACARS, that I didn't even know existed, (much less displayed to me in the cockpit) while I'm on the phone with them.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:"Interrogate the airplane" is such an entertaining mental image, at least compared to the more mundane reality of it. The airplane and engines are Canadian, so I assume it involves asking politely, and maybe offering some poutine or Tim Hortons in trade for the relevant fault codes.
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Ola posted:The flying bits are in the minority in this clip, but it fits in this thread as well as several others within the same topic space I figure. Just so people know, this is a previously lost D-day documentary made from early film returns for VIPs like Churchill and Stalin. I've watched a third of it and the whole "old timey context, 60 fps" is persistently mindblowing to me e: at 15:50 there's a "strafing is a man's job, tokero" moment Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 03:09 on Nov 15, 2020 |
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hobbesmaster posted:Look, the airbus control laws chart clearly says you can fly with rudder and elevator trim as a mechanical backup! I’m sure that’s something that is extremely viable. Fly, yes. Land?
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MrYenko posted:Land? Somewhere, eventually.
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Safety Dance posted:Somewhere, eventually. “You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?”
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MrYenko posted:“You want to be particular and make it a runway, huh?” I just finished my CPL and landed on a runway....uhm, once.
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Ola posted:The flying bits are in the minority in this clip, but it fits in this thread as well as several others within the same topic space I figure. lol @ the "dude, if you didn't see your local company in the compilation we didn't mean to throw any shade" slide.
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Sagebrush posted:No, fly-by-wire jets need electrical power to fly, and the planes are designed with that mind. The F-16's control stick, for instance, only moves about 10 degrees in each direction, so even having a direct hydraulic connection as a backup wouldn't make much sense. I thought I remember the SR-71 checklists being posted here and a bunch just ended with "eject".  Maybe somebody can find the posts because my memory tends to embellish things (everybody's does really).
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Charles posted:I thought I remember the SR-71 checklists being posted here and a bunch just ended with "eject". My dad got the big hard copy manual back in the 90s when it got published and I remember one of the checklists being “Failure of A and B Hydraulic Systems” and the only item on it was “Eject.” A lot of others were four or five items long and ended the same way.
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yeah that's how it is for a lot of jets. I recall that if you have an engine-out in an F-104 with less than 10,000 feet of altitude, you are supposed to eject, because even in the cleanest possible glide ("glide") you are still going to descend at 7,000 feet per minute. 11,000fpm once the gear is dropped. And similarly if you are in a Harrier and your nozzles get jammed forwards, precluding a vertical landing, you also eject, because the gear is not designed to take the stresses of a conventional landing.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:I just finished my CPL and landed on a runway....uhm, once. Just in case you didn't get the reference... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7rueLOU6Fs&t=320s Rest in peace, Al Haynes and Denny Fitch. You saved a lot of people that day.
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BobHoward posted:Just in case you didn't get the reference... His whole speech is fascinating, ended up watching the whole thing.
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Hurricane landing mishap: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-cambridgeshire-54931793
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BobHoward posted:Just in case you didn't get the reference... Al Haynes came to my college once and gave that talk. It was legit spine tingling to hear him speak about that accident
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Apropos of nothing, we currently have planes from three different NASCAR racing teams in our facility for various levels of maintenance and modifications. Listening to the customer reps talk poo poo about each others' jets and maintenance practices is fascinating. I can't even imagine what the actual car guys must be like. I've suggested to my boss that maybe we could have them taxi-race a few laps around the field, but so far he hasn't been willing to pass that along. I'll keep trying.
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Sagebrush posted:yeah that's how it is for a lot of jets. Speaking of which, I spied a lonesome-looking F-104 sitting on the apron pulling Gate Guardian duty at the Easton, MD airport on the MD Eastern Shore. Turns out it's a rich guy's toy that he *donated* to the airport: https://www.i-f-s.nl/news/fx51-fg813-donated-to-easton-apt/ They just had it sitting outside looking all lonesome. =/
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An Alaska Airlines jet hit a grizzly bear while landing.
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Should have abearted that landing
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"How did you hit that, I warned you like three times!" "Frank, all you kept saying was 'Bear left'."
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That's already buffed out I guess.
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Great, another thread making unbearable puns, this one's gonna get grizzly.
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Pilot: “where’s the end of the runway?” Tower: “if you feel a bump, that’s ursine.”
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Uuuhhh uuuhhhh....... poo poo I guess that plane was loaded for bear?
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He was just trying to get at the cargo hold with all its delicious picanic baskets. 
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Warbird posted:Uuuhhh uuuhhhh....... You don’t have to panda to your audience like that.
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Guess that grizzly wasn't a fan
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Guess that cowling couldn’t bear the impact force.
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Must have been a real kodiak moment
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GlassEye-Boy posted:Guess that cowling couldn’t bear the impact force. Hopefully the engine isn't bruined.
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Fat chance of coming out from such a hairy landing like that unsgaythed
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The bear hit that plane.
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Somebody’s right to bear arms was infringed
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I didn’t even know bears could fly
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i own every Bionicle posted:I didn’t even know bears could fly When military aviators heard an airliner struck a bear, they assumed the worst.
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Really wish everyone would stop ursine around.
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*kills self*
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FuturePastNow posted:but is the bear ok? Last I heard it wasn't bearing up under the strain.
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Arson Daily posted:*kills self* I can bearly believe you broke the bear joke streak at 19, wanted the record. 
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