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slidebite posted:
Haha thats a good one!
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i really want to know what the death lever was and why the pilot was grabbing it
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Jun 10, 2023 11:21
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OMGVBFLOL posted:i really want to know what the death lever was and why the pilot was grabbing it Rotor brake, afaik. For slowing down the rotor at shutdown, and stopping it freewheeling when parked. Pilot wasn't grabbing it, he was pushing up, checking that it was fully released.
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Jun 10, 2023 11:26
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so pulling on it would have been like a cheeky surprise hand brake turn.
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Sagebrush posted:i find it difficult to believe that one person moving around could have a significant effect on the CG of a B-29 Superfortress, but maybe i suppose Was gonna say, given that there's turrets all over, 12 crew, and a bomb bay load of 20,000 lb it seems unlikely that it would be CG. Might be just that they don't want the pax wandering around by themselves getting up to mischief?
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Jun 10, 2023 12:59
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When I was in the Air Force I worked with a guy whose callsign was fifi. Stood for “loving idiot loving idiot”
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Jun 10, 2023 13:14
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In a weird coincidence, I just checked ADS-B Exchange to see what the loud airplane I could hear overhead was and it turned out to be FIFI.
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Also coincidentally I just read about a pilot, call sign Fifi. loving idiot, loving idiot.
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~Coxy posted:Was gonna say, given that there's turrets all over, 12 crew, and a bomb bay load of 20,000 lb it seems unlikely that it would be CG. Since it was overhead, I looked into this more and, at least these days, you can move around according to the ticket info (https://www.airpowersquadron.org/b-29-superfortress) you can move around, but there are limitations based on which seat you have.
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Jun 10, 2023 17:57
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Oh hey, those four kids from the Cessna 206 crash in Columbia that were mistakenly reported found a few weeks ago were actually found alive! https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/four-missing-colombian-children-found-alive-jungle-sources-2023-06-10/
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Safety Dance posted:Oh hey, those four kids from the Cessna 206 crash in Columbia that were mistakenly reported found a few weeks ago were actually found alive! As impressive as the headline is this is actually even another level: quote:BOGOTA, June 9 (Reuters) - Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country's south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia's President Gustavo Petro said.
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Jun 10, 2023 18:16
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Safety Dance posted:Oh hey, those four kids from the Cessna 206 crash in Columbia that were mistakenly reported found a few weeks ago were actually found alive! Holy poo poo that's amazing. I've been watching the Alone show recently and five weeks in the wilderness is a tall order even for prepared adults sometimes. Glad at least the kids made it.
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Jun 10, 2023 18:18
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Shits like a young adult novel. Good on those kids.
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stealie72 posted:Shits like a young adult novel. Good on those kids. Hatchet except you’re dragging a toddler and baby brothers around too. I’m hoping we’re going to get a ton of detail on this, it’s nuts. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 18:34 on Jun 10, 2023 |
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Jun 10, 2023 18:20
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Flight 29 Down for Babies
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I bet the fact that they were from an indigenous community had a lot to do with it. The older kids probably already knew how to collect food and water and maybe even hunt, and they were most likely participating in caring for the baby already too. God drat american kids growing up in civilization getting too soft to survive a plane crash and 5 weeks in the jungle  But yeah really seriously impressive. I want to know the full story too
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Jun 10, 2023 19:05
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Going to be a heck of a "what I did on my summer vacation" report.
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Unsurprisingly, the  government has finally taken steps to officially seize that Russian An124 that's been stuck at YYZ since the invasion.
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Sagebrush posted:I bet the fact that they were from an indigenous community had a lot to do with it. The older kids probably already knew how to collect food and water and maybe even hunt, and they were most likely participating in caring for the baby already too. A 4 year old is impressive enough but the 10 month old may not have even been fully weened. 5 weeks! Even if they had whatever the baby normally had onboard it would’ve run out! I’m guessing they “puréed” some fruit, however that wouldn’t be nutritionally complete. For babies under a year that can result in major issues surprisingly quickly. Maybe it’s my western experience with having a little kid but I’m truly astonished.
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When you're in a survival situation like that, things like "optimal nutrition for long-term development" kind of get trumped by "eat literally anything you can to stay alive today".
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iirc the kids were rescued by a remote indigenous tribe in the area fairly quickly and the tribe radioed it in or something but the location is hard to get to
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Even in my fanciful survival dreams, where I’m like “yeah I read those novels, I could survive at thirteen years old in the Amazon jungle”, nine is an “uhhhh I doubt it”, and caring for a preschooler and a baby in that environment is “I don’t like my odds of that even as an adult”.
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https://i.imgur.com/mGez4DO.mp4 What a waste of money though, I can still see it!
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mobby_6kl posted:What a waste of money though, I can still see it! Mister President, this isn’t Truth Social.
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mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/mGez4DO.mp4 One thing about the B-2 that is apparent at an air show demo is how directed the engine sounds are. They’re relatively quiet until the engines are actually pointed right at you. Though maybe that was more of a direct comparison to F-16s thing
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Sapozhnik posted:iirc the kids were rescued by a remote indigenous tribe in the area fairly quickly and the tribe radioed it in or something but the location is hard to get to That's what was reported in May, but it got retracted and the article posted above seems to contradict it.
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MisterOblivious posted:From the OSHA thread: While the brake pads on the rotor brake are puny and only designed to slow down the last 100 RPM with the engine off and it *probably* wouldn't cause the helicopter to crash, I wouldn't want to test it. And yeah, this was the 2nd time the lady tried to touch and I would have landed and made her walk home. (And allegedly she tried to touch it a 3rd time).
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Xakura posted:Rotor brake, afaik. For slowing down the rotor at shutdown, and stopping it freewheeling when parked. whoa. in that light he seemed quite restrained and professional in his reaction also illustrating how intense helicopters are. fixed wing aircraft don't have a "stop wings" lever afaik. maybe old fighters with folding wings
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OMGVBFLOL posted:whoa. in that light he seemed quite restrained and professional in his reaction Aren't you forgetting about the "wings fall off" switch?
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OMGVBFLOL posted:"stop wings" lever That’s spoilers though.
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mobby_6kl posted:https://i.imgur.com/mGez4DO.mp4 Hmm Sailfish have learnt to fly. Thats seriously an impressive bank angle though.
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Humphreys posted:Hmm Sailfish have learnt to fly. Thanks, now you've triggered me into hearing Sail on repeat in my head all day. 
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Scam Likely posted:Thanks, now you've triggered me into hearing Sail on repeat in my head all day. Sail Likely
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Scam Likely posted:Thanks, now you've triggered me into hearing Sail on repeat in my head all day. Sail away sail away sail away
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Someone voiced wanting the full story of the 4 children in Colombia. The movie might be a little ways off still, but here is the first one in print: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65871238 "Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle" tl/dr big sisters are good to have
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EasilyConfused posted:Since it was overhead, I looked into this more and, at least these days, you can move around according to the ticket info (https://www.airpowersquadron.org/b-29-superfortress) you can move around, but there are limitations based on which seat you have. They don't let you go through the tube that goes over the bomb bay because it'd be a PITA to try and get someone having a health problem out of it. Anyone who has tickets for the flight deck stays on the flight deck, anyone with tickets for the gunner's positions midship stays in the gunner's area Some insane people even pay to never leave their seat
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Dr.Smasher posted:Some insane people even pay to never leave their seat Why would you leave that seat?
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Sound https://i.imgur.com/OrIansR.mp4 mllaneza posted:Why would you leave that seat?
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mllaneza posted:Why would you leave that seat? Apparently you legally can not leave that seat.
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