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Scam Likely posted:It's nice to hear other people also keep their shoes on for this reason. And it's not just for a botched takeoff. I have a weird fear of falling to death from a disintegrating plane without shoes on. Don't want my toes getting cold on the way down. It's a drat shame, Jenkins. This poor bastard froze to death on the way down because his little toesies were exposed.
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Cojawfee posted:It's a drat shame, Jenkins. This poor bastard froze to death on the way down because his little toesies were exposed. "Looks like this little piggy is going to... *puts sunglasses on* ... the morgue."
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Cause of death: terminal velocity. 
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Lord Stimperor posted:So I want to confront a midlife crisis before it happens. Suppose you're in your mid thirties. You finally have the money to go flying airplanes which you wanted to do since you were a kid. It turns out you're really good at it. If you had a but if money for training, are there any viable options for work or should you best leave it a hobby? I have a friend who switched from balloons to fixed wing in his mid-30s (time does not transfer over from ballooning, just to be clear). This was a couple of years before covid and in Canada. He wanted to fly airliners, but in order to build enough time to get to them quickly, he ended up paying a whole lot of money for hours and ratings rather than through working. He got laid off during covid but is now back flying for a major carrier.
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Scam Likely posted:It's nice to hear other people also keep their shoes on for this reason. And it's not just for a botched takeoff. I have a weird fear of falling to death from a disintegrating plane without shoes on. Don't want my toes getting cold on the way down. People should keep their shoes on regardless. If you don’t have a story of some socially incompetent weirdo stinking up your row with his nasty sweaty feet you’re probably the subject of a few..
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Loucks posted:People should keep their shoes on regardless. If you don’t have a story of some socially incompetent weirdo stinking up your row with his nasty sweaty feet you’re probably the subject of a few.. Taking shoes off isn't awful; it's the subhumans who take their socks off that should be thrown out of the plane.
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Loucks posted:People should keep their shoes on regardless. If you don’t have a story of some socially incompetent weirdo stinking up your row with his nasty sweaty feet you’re probably the subject of a few.. Wear wool socks and your feet won't stink.
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blindjoe posted:I bet they are spraying for Lymantria Moths? There was a spray over View Royal on June 17 Wow. This fits. Thanks for this. Love this thread. ❤️
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PeterCat posted:Wear wool socks and your feet won't stink. I do, but because I leave my clothing on when I fly it’s a moot point. Darn Tough socks are well worth the money ime.
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What is this in front of the intake on a 732?
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slidebite posted:What is this in front of the intake on a 732? part of a gravel kit, it blows bypass air in a downward fan in front of the intake to clear gravel. 737-100/200 only.
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It's part of the dirt runway kit those have and is http://www.b737.org.uk/unpavedstripkit.htm AzureSkys fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Jun 23, 2022 |
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I’d imagine that at this point probably a solid majority of operating 732s have the gravel kit installed.
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It actually isn’t to ‘blow gravel away’, it’s to dissipate any potential intake vortices that may suck in gravel. Intake vortices look like this: 
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Yeah, I knew it had something to do with the gravel kit, but didn't know what. Thanks. ^^ That link above actually calls them vortex dissipators .
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Advent Horizon posted:It actually isn’t to ‘blow gravel away’, it’s to dissipate any potential intake vortices that may suck in gravel. 
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`Nemesis posted:three injured It's an MD-82, registration HI1064 - https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20220621-1 Used to be an American Airlines aircraft, retired 2014. HI registration is Dominican Republic.
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man jet engines are cool as gently caress. The sheer amount of airflow is mind boggling
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Advent Horizon posted:It actually isn’t to ‘blow gravel away’, it’s to dissipate any potential intake vortices that may suck in gravel. It does make a V in the dirt in front of the engine though.
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mexecan posted:Wow. This fits. Thanks for this. Love this thread. ❤️ So, I assume you wrote TC and retracted your complaint?
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0toShifty posted:It's an MD-82, registration HI1064 - https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20220621-1 Ah, so it was just coming home to die.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Cause of death: terminal velocity. It's not the fall that kills you, it's the hypothermia from freezing air temperatures above 10,000 ft.
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AzureSkys posted:It's part of the dirt runway kit those have and is There's a short AI video at the end of the page: "... unpaved landing trials narrated by Peter Morton, 737 Marketing; and Lew Wallick, one of the test pilots on the first flight of the 737." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOpBXmqa0eY
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~Coxy posted:It's not the fall that kills you, it's the hypothermia from freezing air temperatures above 10,000 ft. Lose a lot of heat in the
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ImplicitAssembler posted:So, I assume you wrote TC and retracted your complaint? Correct.
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slidebite posted:Aztec duster? ImplicitAssembler posted:It's a twin engine GA plane, not a crop duster. It's a twin engine GA plane that appears to have been converted to do aerial spraying. You can see the tank in the passenger compartment in this image:  And you can see the spray arms under the wings in this image:  EDIT: Maybe it's doing some kind of mosquito spraying? Here's a King Air that's been converted to do just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzCixiQ4YAE EDIT2: Here's an undated letter from the company that owns the aircraft stating that they are using it, or another similarly converted aircraft, in a moth eradication program: https://www.lakecowichan.ca/dl/Twin%20Aviation%20Inc.pdf  ?
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n0tqu1tesane posted:It's a twin engine GA plane that appears to have been converted to do aerial spraying. As others have stated it has been spraying for invasive moths. Also flew over my house a number of times over the past few weeks.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/in-russia-western-planes-are-falling-apart/
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I want to see if I can walk across it https://twitter.com/MZulqarnainBut1/status/1537906427397742593 https://twitter.com/C_Timb/status/1537872819282972676
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Holy poo poo Is air travel failure cascading? What the gently caress is going on, I don't remember it ever being this bad
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Kesper North posted:Holy poo poo It turns out you paying ground crew less than fast food workers was not sustainable.
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hobbesmaster posted:It turns out you paying ground crew less than fast food workers was not sustainable. Stunned. STUNNED by this turn of events Nobody wants to work for no money no more!
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It's hilarious that capitalism's downfall will be capitalists capitalisming too close to the invisible hand of the free market.
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Cojawfee posted:It's hilarious that capitalism's downfall will be capitalists capitalisming too close to the invisible hand of the free market. It won't be capitalism's downfall, it'll be its horrible transformation into something neo-Medieval.
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I experienced that 20 years ago when a snow storm suddenly grounded everything. Quite a few planes were already out waiting for takeoff so it was a scramble to get them parked and unloaded. The bags just piled up in the baggage area like that. I think I spent about 12 hours then helping ticket agents sort them and passengers find where theirs ended up. That was with a full operational staff. I can't imagine how even more of a nightmare that must be.
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Context is that the author was afflicted by polio and had to sleep in an iron lung:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878826/ posted:Because I normally could only do things during the day, I went on a day trip on Concorde. There was an advert in the paper. I thought ‘I fancy that’ and sent off the money. Then I thought ‘Oh! Would my breathing be alright for that?’ So I rang Dr Spencer. Yes, he said that will be fine; you will enjoy it. And it was really really good. The only thing I was a bit worried about was when they started to talk about what we would do with the oxygen if there was anything disastrous because I wasn't at that time supposed to have oxygen. But then I thought if it got to the point we needed oxygen there was not much use in worrying because it would be too late anyway. It was really wonderful. 
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That's nice  I wish I got to fly on Concorde. Been inside one, but never in the air. Whelp, just checked into the first leg of my same-day return flights by Canada's ultra low-cost carriers. Lynx Air and Flair. Lynx doesn't even have an app, check ins need to be done via web, which is fine. System gave me 13F which I'm OK with. It made a point of reminding me during check in "Look, we have no services on the plane. No snacks, no drinks, no wifi, no entertainment. Nothing. Remember to eat/drink something before you leave and to charge up your electronic device because we don't have chargers on the plane." If you don't bring something on your device or a magazine have fun reading the emergency info card or puke bag for an hour. Expectations are quite low, but I am drat curious to be on the flying equiv of a 1982 Greyhound bus. I can handle that for an hour.
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I want to see if I can walk across it Why'd you post this picture of Heathrow on a normal Thursday?
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All those suitcases are embracing the spirit of Brexit by refusing to leave the country.
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