Nocheez posted:

I forget what comedian said it, but basically it goes: have you ever taken a trip on a highway and wondered, why are Christians such terrible drivers?

Kith posted:

https://i.imgur.com/Ac6d6HX.mp4

Eye protection is important.

shortspecialbus posted:

Hey i've got a new derail for everyone - discuss

https://i.imgur.com/5ZoYZ9H.mp4

Free Cheese posted:

HOLY poo poo disgusting, falling at that angle would spill any food/drinks on board

Dillbag posted:

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Memento posted:

There's plenty of ladders that have basically zero strength once you start applying loads laterally to them as opposed to parallel or sub-parallel to their length. They have warnings on them that say things like "never use as a platform". I know the load in this one isn't quite perpendicular, but it's getting there.

shortspecialbus posted:

On Cirrus planes and a couple others, but not exactly common.

Discussion of airplane chutes tends to lead to enormous argumentative derails for whatever reason

mostlygray posted:

I've been 225-245lbs my whole life.

Say Nothing posted:

Synthbuttrange posted:

Do the containers lock to each other top to bottom? I didnt know that.

Facebook Aunt posted:

Your poor mother!

mostlygray posted:

I'll contribute to this. My uncle recovers small aircraft crashes, for insurance purposes primarily. Usually in the mountains. They normally aren't recoverable enough to rebuild. He told me about a Cirrus crash that he had to recover in the high desert in Wyoming. The guy did everything right. He feathered the prop and popped the chute. My uncle could even could see that the prop marks on the ground were straight. The pilot did his best.

Didn't work. Everyone died. It wasn't the pilots fault. He had a control surface failure of some sort and did his best. If anything, the parachute at least left some pieces for his family to bury. That's not so bad in the long run I guess.

I have no beef with the parachute concept. If, in an area with no open fields, better to drift straight down with a complete engine failure. I suppose.

Fasdar posted:

Imagine showing off your million-ish dollar toy to your friends only to kill them all in Wyoming, the worst of all possible states.

LifeSunDeath posted:

gently caress speaking of OSHA, this jackass doctor at my hospital rides a segue around with his group of med students, like ON THE UNIT. And not just any segue, it's got no handle bar post, it's like a giant version of a lovely hoverboard. I have no clue why he does this or how he could possibly be allowed to, because it's clearly not an assistive device as it's super unsafe.

Buttcoin purse posted:

In an emergency, you must put on your own oxygen mask before helping others. Please contact a flight attendant if you need an oxygen mask that fits a snout or beak."?

Fasdar posted:

Imagine showing off your million-ish dollar toy to your friends only to kill them all in Wyoming, the worst of all possible states. Perhaps the knowledge of the parachute made him skip steps in his pre-flight check due to overconfidence???

Speaking of crazy aviation poo poo, this video on the attempt to build an American supersonic jet liner is something this thread would appreciate: Not only would it create so much friction in flight that it got hot enough to soften anything but titanium, incorporate variable geometry wings, and run on four after-burnered turbojets (making it extremely rear end heavy), it also would have probably deafened thousands each year!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y91Zr480Tn4

Synthbuttrange posted:

Do the containers lock to each other top to bottom? I didnt know that.

Fasdar posted:

Imagine showing off your million-ish dollar toy to your friends only to kill them all in Wyoming, the worst of all possible states.

Collateral Damage posted:

Are there any current planes larger than fighters that are capable of supercruise?

oohhboy posted:

The Concord has to use afterburners too. Super cruise just wasn't possible back then.

mostlygray posted:

I've been 225-245lbs my whole life. As high as 275lbs. It's never encumbered me but I always have to think about it. Aluminum ladders suck. Unless you have wood or fiberglass, you're screwed. I've broken more aluminum ladders than I can count. Put a bundle of shingles on your shoulder and head up and they buckle if you so much as wiggle.

We need to bring back wood ladders. I've be at the top of a 40' wood ladder without worrying but if I get over 15' on an aluminum, I start pissing myself. With wood, if you climb on the outside edge of the rungs you're fine. With aluminum, it doesn't matter. They just buckle with no warning. At least wood makes noises to let you know that you're too fat.

shortspecialbus posted:

Most airplanes with an airframe chute are closer to a quarter million dollars, but I suppose that's irrelevant.

What *is* relevant is that Wyoming is nowhere near the worst of all possible states. That has to fall on Nebraska, Ohio, or Indiana (discounting anything south of Indianapolis where it's actually decent.) Wyoming is largely empty and has decent scenery for most of it. The 3 I mentioned are flat, boring, and absolutely nothing worth looking at in the entire state.

tsa posted:

Ohio and Indiana suck but there's far worse you probably have never been to. Like lol if you'd rather live in west virginia or oklahoma just lol

mostlygray posted:

I'll contribute to this. My uncle recovers small aircraft crashes, for insurance purposes primarily. Usually in the mountains. They normally aren't recoverable enough to rebuild. He told me about a Cirrus crash that he had to recover in the high desert in Wyoming. The guy did everything right. He feathered the prop and popped the chute. My uncle could even could see that the prop marks on the ground were straight. The pilot did his best.

Didn't work. Everyone died. It wasn't the pilots fault. He had a control surface failure of some sort and did his best. If anything, the parachute at least left some pieces for his family to bury. That's not so bad in the long run I guess.

I have no beef with the parachute concept. If, in an area with no open fields, better to drift straight down with a complete engine failure. I suppose.

Sagebrush posted:

it's basically the same argument you get with seatbelts, motorcycle helmets, anti-lock brakes, or any other safety equipment -- one side says "it's a safety feature, it can only make the activity safer" while the other says "no it encourages unsafe behavior/lack of training/overconfidence in newbies." also the against-side will often bring up some unbelievably implausible failure mode as "evidence" that the safety feature is actually less safe (e.g. seatbelts will cut off your head).

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In 2014, with just under 6,000 airplanes in the fleet flying an estimated 1,000,000 flight hours, there were only 3 fatal Cirrus accidents. Considering the demanding weather conditions many of these airplanes operate in, that’s an impressively low number. This isn’t a fluke either: the number of fatal Cirrus accidents has dropped from a pretty awful 16 in 2011 to 10 in 2012, then 9 in 2013. The indefatigable Rick Beach at the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association has calculated a fleet fatal accident rate of 0.42 per 100,000 flight hours for the past 12 months, or 0.84 for the past three years. Both of these are down dramatically compared to recent history, and are probably below the rate for general aviation as a whole. Suffice it to say, that has not always been the case.

What’s causing this drop in fatal accidents?

A compelling case can be made that it’s the parachute. While some pilots spent the past few years debating the merits of a whole airplane parachute (“real pilots don’t need one!”), the Cirrus community was busy changing its training philosophy. After too many accidents where the pilot tried to be a hero and deadstick his airplane into an impossible situation, the mantra became “pull early, pull often.” While somewhat tongue-in-cheek, the lesson is serious: CAPS is an essential safety feature of the airplane, not an afterthought. A good pilot will integrate it into his training, his everyday briefings and his emergency planning.

The numbers tell quite a story. While fatal accidents have been dropping, the number of CAPS deployments have been increasing. In fact, 2014 marked the first time the two curves crossed, with more CAPS events (12) than fatal accidents (3). This is significant, because while pulling the red handle may total the airplane, the pilot and passengers will almost always survive if it’s done within the limitations of the system. Out of 51 total CAPS events, there have been 104 survivors and only one fatality.
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Certainly, adding a parachute to an airplane is neither cheap nor easy. At roughly 80 lbs. and $25,000, it’s not practical to add one to every airplane. But it deserves more serious consideration than most pilots give it. After all, we pay lots of money for other tools of marginal use. I think parachutes will save more lives over the next 10 years than angle of attack instruments, to take just one popular example.

Adding a parachute also won’t make you a better pilot. The red handle can’t do anything to prevent scud running and it can’t help you fly a better ILS. This raises the one serious question that remains about CAPS, and it has been debated since the first Cirrus was delivered in 1999: does the presence of a “get out of jail free card” encourage pilots take more risks? Psychology suggests that it might, but the statistics above don’t necessarily show that to be true. At a certain level, though, it doesn’t really matter. Pilots with thick wallets and thin logbooks always have and always will wreck airplanes. But if they walk away from it because of the parachute, at least they have the chance to learn from their mistake. Many doctors in V-tail Bonanzas never had that chance.

tsa posted:

wood ladders are loving terrible lol

maybe try not using the cheapest piece of poo poo aluminum one you can find

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Many doctors in V-tail Bonanzas

mostlygray posted:

I've been 225-245lbs my whole life. As high as 275lbs. It's never encumbered me but I always have to think about it. Aluminum ladders suck. Unless you have wood or fiberglass, you're screwed. I've broken more aluminum ladders than I can count. Put a bundle of shingles on your shoulder and head up and they buckle if you so much as wiggle.

We need to bring back wood ladders. I've be at the top of a 40' wood ladder without worrying but if I get over 15' on an aluminum, I start pissing myself. With wood, if you climb on the outside edge of the rungs you're fine. With aluminum, it doesn't matter. They just buckle with no warning. At least wood makes noises to let you know that you're too fat.

tsa posted:

Ohio and Indiana suck but there's far worse you probably have never been to. Like lol if you'd rather live in west virginia or oklahoma just lol

Gorilla Salad posted:

They're called twist locks and are a brilliant bit of design pretty much no one outside the industry knows about but, without which, the modern world would be an incredibly different place.




EDIT: Found the video the gif came from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXXnEzXAip4

mobby_6kl posted:

So how does that actually lock the container? Despite doing it like five times in the video, it's not very obvious what it actually does other than move the spinny thing at the top.

mobby_6kl posted:

So how does that actually lock the container? Despite doing it like five times in the video, it's not very obvious what it actually does other than move the spinny thing at the top.