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That other guy that stole a plane was also an airport worker. Clearly the solution is to chain every airport worker to the machine they work on to make sure they can't steal any planes.
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He safely landed a Beechcraft so if nothing else at least we can confirm he's not a doctor
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shame on an IGA posted:He safely landed a Beechcraft so if nothing else at least we can confirm he's not a doctor 
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shame on an IGA posted:He safely landed a Beechcraft so if nothing else at least we can confirm he's not a doctor 
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shame on an IGA posted:He safely landed a Beechcraft so if nothing else at least we can confirm he's not a doctor excellent
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shame on an IGA posted:He safely landed a Beechcraft so if nothing else at least we can confirm he's not a doctor
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shame on an IGA posted:He safely landed a Beechcraft so if nothing else at least we can confirm he's not a doctor 
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lol! https://i.imgur.com/MUlqHCv.mp4 
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eeey, I'm walking' here!
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This is what happens when the plane starts on a treadmill and the treadmill drops away.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:This is what happens when the plane starts on a treadmill and the treadmill drops away. How much do you tip your waitstaff if the plane is on a treadmill?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:How much do you tip your waitstaff if the plane is on a treadmill? Depends, is the wait staff also on the treadmill? 
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Clearly the child holding its string is hiding. Nefarious! We must demand a stop to these meddling kids!
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Do you have to pay extra if you want the banner to hover?
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:This is what happens when the plane starts on a treadmill and the treadmill drops away. Came here to post this. Good show.
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Piper cub dude trying to make an extra buck? My dad always talked about how they’d fly backward, given enough headwind.
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Red six does not seem to be having a good time off it.
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SR-71 instructor pilot giving a literal first-person explanation/tour of the SR-71B's backseat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K7lO3Z7avI At 1:49 there's a label that literally reads TATTLE TALE BOX. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 18:56 on Sep 4, 2022 |
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BIG HEADLINE posted:SR-71 instructor pilot giving a literal first-person explanation/tour of the SR-71B's backseat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K7lO3Z7avI Neat to see more of NASA's tradition of cute irreverant labels for one-off things, like:
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Otteration posted:Piper cub dude trying to make an extra buck? My dad always talked about how they’d fly backward, given enough headwind. There's a handful of Cubs (and Cub clones of some sort) that fly in/out of the airfield across the street from my house on a regular basis. Even on calm days they seem to be moving slower than the 50mph road traffic.
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Here’s the first J3 checklist google came up with: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56ec2e722fe1315b8c7a7551/t/5ae0c46c03ce64e139fadb82/1524679788505/NC6128H+Checklist.pdf Cruise 73 mph Top: 83 mph Stall: 39 mph Best glide: 50 mph Approach: 45-55mph Normal climb is 55 mph So, yes traffic on a 50 mph speed limit road is likely to be faster than a J3 cub doing stuff at very low altitude (ie approach to land/climb)
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vessbot posted:Neat to see more of NASA's tradition of cute irreverant labels for one-off things, like: vessbot posted:And: No pic but another one I heard from a retired shuttle pilot/current Aero Spacelines pilot was that the shuttle landing checklist dryly notes that ensuring landing gear is lowered is crucial for reducing wear on the runway
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HookedOnChthonics posted:No pic but another one I heard from a retired shuttle pilot/current Aero Spacelines pilot was that the shuttle landing checklist dryly notes that ensuring landing gear is lowered is crucial for reducing wear on the runway It's an important note when your divert is half a continent away.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:No pic but another one I heard from a retired shuttle pilot/current Aero Spacelines pilot was that the shuttle landing checklist dryly notes that ensuring landing gear is lowered is crucial for reducing wear on the runway You just reminded me of this banger from essentially the Shuttle POH (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/390651main_shuttle_crew_operations_manual.pdf): quote:WARNING And then there's this shorter training document (https://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/pdf/383447main_intact_ascent_aborts_workbook_21002.pdf) just about entry and descent, which I read most of it, and it had like 10 amazing quotes that I had compiled into a text file, which now for the life of me I can't find 
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https://twitter.com/raf_luton/status/1566362295709605890
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lmao for many reasons edit: Aeronautical Insanity: the most environmentally friendly way to deliver semi-nuclear bombs to baddies. Previa_fun fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Sep 5, 2022 |
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I'd have gone with "fusion bombs" myself to rope in the theoretical physicists.
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Wtf is a semi nuclear bomb
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Arson Daily posted:Wtf is a semi nuclear bomb Truth be told, all bombs are nuclear bombs insofar as they contain atoms. 
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Arson Daily posted:Wtf is a semi nuclear bomb A fizzle? BIG HEADLINE posted:I'd have gone with "fusion bombs" myself to rope in the theoretical physicists. But that’s be something vaguely correct so wouldn’t be appropriate.
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I STILL get momentarily like “WTF?!? No!” on these 
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hobbesmaster posted:A fizzle? True fusion bombs are still theoretical and last I read their yield would be so close to 1:1 with current technology as to make them worthless as a weapon. As I'm sure you're well aware, thermonuclear bombs need fission as a trigger to jump-start a fusion reaction. That'd be the hook to get the physicists to angrily  in the replies.
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That sound you just heard was the collective aneurysms of thousands of SNP members.
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gently caress... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...obox=1662360559 quote:Private jet flies across Europe into Baltic Sea after losing radio contact
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Cable Guy posted:gently caress... off. quote:Fighter jets from Germany, Denmark and Sweden were scrambled to try to make contact with the crew in the air as the plane continued to fly across northern Europe, “but they saw no one”, Swedish search and rescue operation leader Lars Antonsson told AFP. 
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mobby_6kl posted:off. Blancolirio says that the cabin will frost/fog over if you lose pressure (and therefore also climate control) at altitude. (He also said the fighters saw "no movement", not "noone", in the cockpit, don't know where he got that from.)
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mobby_6kl posted:
When the learjet carrying Paine Stewart lost pressurization and crashed I believe the fighter pilots sent to intercept the plane reported that the windows of the airplane had iced over and that they couldn't see either the pilots or the passenger. maybe that happened here too? Either way RIP
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Genuine question: shouldn't planes be smart enough to be able to bring themselves down in altitude in the case of depressurization? Like obviously we're not at "autopilot land the plane" yet but you would think they could step down in altitude to at least theoretically allow someone to recover. I know I'm making it sound easier than it is but also doesn't seem impossible or even improbable.
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ranbo das posted:Genuine question: shouldn't planes be smart enough to be able to bring themselves down in altitude in the case of depressurization? Like obviously we're not at "autopilot land the plane" yet but you would think they could step down in altitude to at least theoretically allow someone to recover. I think there are systems out there that can do that, but the bigger problem is that depressurization can kill you faster than it takes to get down, especially if it happens too fast to get your masks on.
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