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We had a base CO fired because he went cruising in his dress blues, tried to pick up a cop on a sting, ignored her "oh, I'm not working right now" poo poo trying to give him an exit, and got pushy with her until she went "okay fucker" and had him hauled in. Or the sub CO who was bringing prostitutes back to his stateroom. Some officers are Enlisted As gently caress at heart, in a bad way, with the false sense of invulnerability being a high ranking O gives you. And they still face forced retirement as their worst "consequence".
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You know that circumstance when someone's car is clearly hosed up, but they don't know it, and you have to drive past them really fast and start waving for them to pull over? Don't think you can do that here without a fighter jet. https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1748355382303453692?t=U_Y7gT-_ZdbukdJJVoHTyg&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:You know that circumstance when someone's car is clearly hosed up, but they don't know it, and you have to drive past them really fast and start waving for them to pull over? Oh trust me - the Pilots were aware, there's tons of sensors for fire and I doubt the engine was running properly and was showing it on the instruments.
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Yeah... At this point, I'm never willingly getting on an airplane again.
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pseudosavior posted:Yeah... At this point, I'm never willingly getting on an airplane again. im not 100% on the deetz, but the canadian forces bought their cc130h fleet in the 80s or 90s and they are still in service and flown daily. planes are so over-engineered, its bonkers. the plane probably doesnt even need both engines to fly. skip to 1:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wHrfBs82Tk
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CommieGIR posted:Oh trust me - the Pilots were aware, there's tons of sensors for fire and I doubt the engine was running properly and was showing it on the instruments. Oh of course, I'm just thinking about the filmer and people on the ground thinking about doing the equivalent of HEY HEY BUDDY, YOUR ENGINE IS ON FIRE pseudosavior posted:Yeah... At this point, I'm never willingly getting on an airplane again. Counterpoint: not much can survive the poo poo that planes have been through without fatalities. Getting into the planes are a gigantic pain in the rear end, but once you're in them, they're safe as hell. Probably scarier when a car door blows off or an engine blows and you lose power on a busy freeway! Edit: yeah like how loving wild is it that the plane only needs one engine to actually fly?
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All the “planes are actually really safe” stuff kinda goes out the window when a company like Boeing is found to be systematically undermining all the features and processes that enable that result I’d say it’s good we’re discovering things before we lose planeloads of people due to Boeing’s value engineering but we did lose multiple planeloads of people because of it
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There's still a solid order of magnitude between deaths per passenger mile in cars and the same stat for commercial planes. Not saying Boeing gets a pass on quality control, but it would take a lot of planeloads before flying wasn't the safest option for most trips.
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Tiny Timbs posted:All the “planes are actually really safe” stuff kinda goes out the window when a company like Boeing is found to be systematically undermining all the features and processes that enable that result Aviation has a perfect safety record. They've never left one stuck in the sky.
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:...but it would take a lot of planeloads before flying wasn't the safest option for most trips. https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1070521302652469248?s=20
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McNally posted:Aviation has a perfect safety record. They've never left one stuck in the sky. Boooooooo
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Also, officially RIP Sports Illustrated. It's no longer just a branded husk of some remaining reporters and weird dietary supplements. https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/1748392933013795327?t=YOu5tMN-CaniL-1BDbg5Yg&s=19
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facialimpediment posted:You know that circumstance when someone's car is clearly hosed up, but they don't know it, and you have to drive past them really fast and start waving for them to pull over? Atlas was the carrier who contracted for the rotator which got me to my deployment two weeks late because their planes kept catching fire.
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Tiny Timbs posted:All the “planes are actually really safe” stuff kinda goes out the window when a company like Boeing is found to be systematically undermining all the features and processes that enable that result theres a difference between all planes and boeing planes. id never willingly fly on a non-military boeing
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My Spirit Otter posted:im not 100% on the deetz, but the canadian forces bought their cc130h fleet in the 80s or 90s and they are still in service and flown daily. planes are so over-engineered, its bonkers. the plane probably doesnt even need both engines to fly. The Herc in general is designed to be able to limp to safety on only one of its four engines. It's a workhorse bird and it's very good at its job.
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Stultus Maximus posted:Atlas was the carrier who contracted for the rotator which got me to my deployment two weeks late because their planes kept catching fire. OK WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKS GOT PROMETHEUS IN MY ATLAS and fun day for planes: https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1748414891721961735?t=HQgBofORN6v5NTKBzBS7FQ&s=19 https://twitter.com/petemuntean/status/1748414446160969970?t=Ebm53ZnWUfG11dd5ywVq5g&s=19
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Lemniscate Blue posted:The Herc in general is designed to be able to limp to safety on only one of its four engines. It's a workhorse bird and it's very good at its job. Douglas airplanes, in particular, were built like tanks. In February 2010, I flew from Detroit to Washington on a DC-9 built in 1968. There was a strange juxtaposition on my last DC-9 flight in 2013 on a plane built in 1975 and equipped with wi-fi.
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facialimpediment posted:OK WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKS GOT PROMETHEUS IN MY ATLAS Uhh this poo poo seem like a real problem
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Why was it allowed to take off the weather is absolute poo poo lol
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Lemniscate Blue posted:The Herc in general is designed to be able to limp to safety on only one of its four engines. It's a workhorse bird and it's very good at its job. yea, i was meaning the cargo plane over miami, not the herc. i only brought the herc up because ours are old as gently caress and still flying safely.
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My Spirit Otter posted:theres a difference between all planes and boeing planes. A new one anyway. All NG 737s at this point have been through depot maintenance checks at this point and so you aren’t relying on Boeing assembling it correctly anymore, you’re instead relying on the aircraft owner.
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I’ve flown on a MAX 8 a couple times. It was fine, but given the current MAX track records, I’d probably rather be on an NG800. There’s really no difference from a passenger experience perspective.
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My Spirit Otter posted:yea, i was meaning the cargo plane over miami, not the herc. i only brought the herc up because ours are old as gently caress and still flying safely. Lockheed was too good for civil aviation. 
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C-130s make for a comfortable, if loud, flight. Especially if you have stretchers setup
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hobbesmaster posted:Lockheed was too good for civil aviation. That tri-jet design looks so loving cool
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facialimpediment posted:OK WHICH ONE OF YOU FUCKS GOT PROMETHEUS IN MY ATLAS https://twitter.com/Norm_Macdonalds/status/1748415341460361317 Norm Macdonalds here has immediately zeroed in on the most important aspect to this story. Somebody get him a WP column. hobbesmaster posted:A new one anyway. All NG 737s at this point have been through depot maintenance checks at this point and so you aren’t relying on Boeing assembling it correctly anymore, you’re instead relying on the aircraft owner. Not as encouraging as you might imagine, given the tendency under corporate profit-seeking to cut corners.
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CommieGIR posted:C-130s make for a comfortable, if loud, flight. Especially if you have stretchers setup The roll-in passenger seating was a treat as a little kid flying space-A around Alaska
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Lemniscate Blue posted:https://twitter.com/Norm_Macdonalds/status/1748415341460361317 That would be a funnier burn if it was coming out of National, I don't think there are many paid parking lots in Loudoun County.
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Tiny Timbs posted:Why was it allowed to take off the weather is absolute poo poo lol Aircraft land and depart in poo poo conditions all the time. It’s literally common and normal.
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Crab Dad posted:Didnt Norm die? A few years ago but his last name didn't end with an s.
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i think that blue check haver is probably not named norm or mcdonalds and his username is probably a dumb joke about the fast food franchise sounding like the comedians name. i will do more research and get back to you on this as soon as I can
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fknlo posted:Aircraft land and depart in poo poo conditions all the time. It’s literally common and normal. woah no way
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goatsestretchgoals posted:real norm would have made a funny About that quality yeah. I can see why people would be thrown
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Stravag posted:About that quality yeah. I can see why people would be thrown Thrown like OJ's hands at his dead wife.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4Xf_pEL_Kk they downgraded a pilot's pay from $55/hr to >$20 lmao
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Crab Dad posted:Didnt Norm die? Comedy-from BEYOND THE GRAAAaaaAAAaaaAAAVE! Relatedly, (David was her BIL) I get shitloads of emails from Kate Spade after getting a Christmas present for my wife. Guess you have plenty of time to write marketing emails when you are dead.
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