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I witnessed GE sign off on unlimited operations for a CF6-80 that ran at flight idle for over two hours on a mixture of ~30% MobilJet II and 70% Skydrol. Jet engines give no fucks.
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ded posted:I have been through that area and it is very heavy with shipping. My boat was nearly run over a few times in that area. Transiting shipping lanes to port on the surface at night in a submarine is pretty much the last thing I'd ever want to do at sea. Except maybe shark cage diving.
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Jun 17, 2017 17:10
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Just listened to a line cook at Chipotle tell all his coworkers how awesome it's going to be to start nuke school after he ships out for basic in a couple months. His coworkers laughed at him.
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Aug 20, 2017 16:28
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ManMythLegend posted:My last ship was an FFG whose whole combat suite was built around UYK-7's. One of the troubleshooting steps for a loss of the UYK-7 was to remove it's CCA drawer, hold it at, "approximately shoulder height," and drop it straight down to the deck. The kinetic re-rack is an ancient, but effective repair procedure.
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Aug 22, 2017 09:49
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It blows my mind that the military runs a last-minute logistics chain on aircraft spares. Like, it's cheaper when run properly, yes, but it doesn't take kindly to interference like other people trying to break your stuff and kill your people. I had more flight-critical spares at a fly-by-night part 135 cargo airline than what I hear is standard from some acquaintances in the local ANG squadron.
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Aug 26, 2017 16:09
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Godholio posted:Whidbey is already claiming responsibility and that the crew will suffer. I hope they suffer not having to buy drinks for awhile. As fun goes, that's pretty loving harmless. Of course, it probably means that their military flying careers are over. 
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Nov 17, 2017 15:34
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Why in the name of gently caress is a seawater feed pump using the same oil supply as the main engines?
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Dec 26, 2017 20:03
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lightpole posted:Think she was built on Sunrise Shipyards and is a sister ship or similar design to the Matsonia, if you ever reach Oakland. The hull would be fine but I know on the Matsonia they replaced entire decks, around the evap, the contaminated steam generator and elsewhere. The piping was probably rotten as well. 6 months or so before this, the 2nd on the Matsonia managed to drop the water level in the boilers while blowing tubes and lost the plant. It took them like 2-3 days to get it back online due to trouble shifting back to the main buss from the ESB. The Matsonia was also lengthened. Ship is rather stiff for a container ship and a narrower beam than you would be used to. I know its going to vary wildly between different classes of ship (and even between individual ships,) but what's a rough average sustainable list for the propulsion plant on a ship? I know 15-20° is waaaaay into shits-going-poorly territory, but I kinda figured that ships would be engineered to keep running even in that kind of situation. My knowledge of steam plants is limited to the bolted-to-the-ground variety.
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Apr 5, 2018 13:56
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ded posted:Now imagine a 53 degree down angle. Now I'm imagining the Global Force For Good tagline playing over some poor schlub scrubbing boot prints off the bulkhead.
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Jul 27, 2018 16:12
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Punch it.
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orange juche posted:The Austal offering of an LCS is a joke and probably should not be taken seriously. Say it three times, I dare you.
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Jul 18, 2019 23:25
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shovelbum posted:Steam is so useful shoreside that it's probably hard to get genuinely experienced steam guys to go back to sea after however many decades of Navy I would think. Steam is alive and well in power generation. Even natural gas combustion turbines are almost always combined-cycle units with a waste-heat-driven steam plant.
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Sep 19, 2019 01:58
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There were B-26’s at Midway, but I don’t think there were actually any B-25s within a couple hundred miles during the real battle.
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ded posted:HY-80(ish) HY-Maybe80
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Wonder Free posted:When I transferred from the Navy to NOAA they gave me my own laptop and an iPad mini with Foreflight and cell data. It was... confusing? I was blown away after 8 years of sharing two computers amongst the wardroom and having a fleet of PFPS and JMPS laptops nobody knew how to update or connect to the network. Hey, are you just on the P-3, or do you fly the Gulfstream as well? Between amazon and ya’ll, the FAA went ahead and made Lakeland tower a 24hr operation. In 2020. The worst timeline. It might be the only expansion of service I see in my career.
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Aug 17, 2020 23:01
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MrMojok posted:Make Fish Names Great Again!  gently caress yes.
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Oct 16, 2020 00:24
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Nick Soapdish posted:If you're visiting Texas, take the time to drive out to Fredericksburg and visit the Pacific War Museum. During season, we went out there for heritage and it was really awesome +1 on this, it’s a fantastic museum.
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Feb 25, 2021 04:08
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lightpole posted:…cause we hit a whale. This is something I’ve always wondered about. Does this happen often with ships and submarines, or is it more infrequent?
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Jul 4, 2021 14:56
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Godholio posted:Apparently today was the first cut of steel for USS Doris Miller.  A rare good move in USN ship-naming.
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Aug 28, 2021 00:31
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PookBear posted:IIRC that's a really young tom hardy Tom Hardy was the one who gets caught with the German girl towards the end of the series, and dies in a jeep accident just after the war ends.
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Sep 4, 2021 03:18
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Wingnut Ninja posted:About two days later I get a call from the folks over at a different office asking why a particular system of theirs is offline. It turned out that they had, without any kind of documentation, installed their server in the [obsolete system] rack, which otherwise supported a completely different purpose. I assured them that, whatever it is, it's been properly handled, but it's now in another state so someone is going to have to go get it back. Forensic network management.
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Sep 4, 2021 18:35
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Goldwater and Reagan would be run out of today's GOP on an electrified rail. loving Dubya is making those assholes uncomfortable nowadays.
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orange juche posted:I got a dude I work with who hasn't gotten the jab, I asked him what his plan is, and he said NEET. I was loving incredulous, you're going to replace a 100k a year job with loving nothing? You can't collect unemployment if you don't get jabbed I am pretty sure. Did you ask your wife about this? Good loving lord where the gently caress do you think you're going to work, and how long do you think you'll be able to crash on someone's couch? Everywhere is going to get mandated if they're more than 100 employees. I have an old-payscale Operations Manager (so, guesstimate ~$180k/yr gross after locality and everything) who seems to be convinced that they’re going to be able to pick up a similar salary in the private sector (where no one is hiring without proof of vaccination.) 
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Your choices are Washington, Oregon, California, Hawaii, and Alaska.
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SquirrelyPSU posted:It was a mechanical relay. Percussive maintenance is a time-honored tradition in pretty much every mechanical/electrical/electronic field.
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Apr 27, 2022 14:13
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Holy poo poo the guy lighting the engine with a zippo.
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Feb 10, 2023 06:02
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Godholio posted:Same Customs office had a former AWACS crewmember who love to do stupid poo poo like pull interior panels off E-3s returning from overseas, because he "knows where people stash stuff." He never found a loving thing worse than a kinder egg. The best places to smuggle stuff on an airplane aren’t inside the cabin of the airplane.
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Jul 31, 2023 21:12
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I’m but a dumb civilian, and one who’s never been to sea on anything larger than a dive boat to boot, but how the hell do you mathematically quantify morale?
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Aug 10, 2023 23:56
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Arione posted:My guy, you are drinking the wrong mai tais. In fact they probably arent even actual mai tais. There is absolutely zero fruit juice in a maitai, only 1 oz of citrus (lime) Rock candy syrup is typically just 3:1 simple syrup. I make mine with demerara sugar for a hint of molasses flavor. You can also make your own orgeat if you’re a psycopath; It’s just fresh-pressed almond milk made into a 2:1 simple syrup. (Adjust your syrup to account for the liquid you used to make the almond milk.) Also, strong recommend for Smith and Cross rum. Why yes I’m on a slippery slope, why do you ask?
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Mr. Nice! posted:The infrared picked up the poo as it flew out of him. If the contractor that makes that sensor doesn’t use that footage in their product reel, they are loving up.
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Crab Dad posted:Seems rather small for a tug. Did no mention of mechanical issues get announced? 
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