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by 3WE
Tue Mar 19, 2024 12:58 am
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
Replies: 177
Views: 43260

Re: In my informed opinion...

Bring back the:

707
727
757
767
747
DC-9-30, 40 and 50
Connies
Electras
FH-227s
DC-3, 7, 8
Shorts 360
Cessna 152
by 3WE
Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:15 pm
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
Replies: 177
Views: 43260

Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...

Wrong! Duct tape and baling wire! Plus, for the doors/plugs, I’m thinking a good tie down ratchet strap or two are in order. Maybe a sheet of good 4 by 4 wire concrete reinforcement mesh? I guess the screwdriver might be useful to un-jam the go-forward switch on a pilot seat. And WTH?, you can’t fix...
by 3WE
Sun Mar 17, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: Mildly amusing…
Replies: 0
Views: 10

Mildly amusing…

by 3WE
Sat Mar 16, 2024 2:55 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Replies: 1103
Views: 390504

Re: 787 troubles, the latest news..

Two words: Cheap composites in and around the switch and cover.

And it almost is MCAS…the motor keeps running…

I’m sure Evan has some recommendations.
by 3WE
Fri Mar 15, 2024 4:17 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Replies: 1103
Views: 390504

Re: 787 troubles, the latest news..

It does not_reconcile with:

1. The rumor of the instrument screens going blank (not_that windows computers don’t_do that from time to time.

2. Nor would I think you’d put passengers on the ceiling.

3. Gabriel ignored my Airplane! prompt.

4. Yes, ban fish and lots of other things.
by 3WE
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:19 am
Forum: Political Discussion Forum
Topic: [b]We[/b]...
Replies: 1
Views: 36

Are you Brianie?

I know you are not_an EMT, PPL, British nor_overly bombastic about carry ons during emergency evacuations…

But you sure are good at rejecting photos…

Your submission to RoyalFamilyPhotos has been rejected…
by 3WE
Fri Mar 15, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: (More) IA image creation shenanigans
Replies: 58
Views: 934

Re: "A Boeing 747 with windmills instead of engines"

[Not_Italics]We will never know the feeling…
by 3WE
Fri Mar 15, 2024 9:32 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Replies: 1103
Views: 390504

Guarded switches

SUPPOSEDLY:

Hostie brings pilots “the fish.”

They bump a guarded switch on the back of the pilot seat.

The pilot seat begins moving forward.

Shoves the pilot into the control column.

Dive ensues.

Commentary:

It’s a completely different kind of MCAS, altogether.
by 3WE
Fri Mar 15, 2024 12:33 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
Replies: 9
Views: 84

Re: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...

Carnot has left the chat. I didn’t quite understand his engine when I took chemistry. It would be fun to review. In the meantime [not_italics]we are planting soybeans. How are things with you at the water-splitting, carbon-reducing oxygen factory going? Carnot’s only going to be using a limited amo...
by 3WE
Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:05 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: What is it with Alaska Airlines?
Replies: 6
Views: 42

Re: What is it with Alaska Airlines?

Thankfully the cockpit door appeared to Not_be missing its nuts or pins. Not _exactly…but I think you hit on something… He was seated next to the door plug. Fearing did dieding, he made a desperate CRM maneuver for safer seating in the cockpit… ”Hi guys, I got a PPL, so I can monitor the transponde...
by 3WE
Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: What is it with Alaska Airlines?
Replies: 6
Views: 42

What is it with Alaska?

A good guess.
by 3WE
Thu Mar 14, 2024 9:28 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
Replies: 9
Views: 84

Who cares about DC-9s and 757s and 737-MXs?

What we really need is an airplane to haul windmill blades, and by golly aeroengineers are working on it!

Because it’s good for the climate to burn jet fuel to fly blades, one at a time, and they still have to be trucked to and from the runway.


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by 3WE
Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:01 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Replies: 1103
Views: 390504

Re: MCAS…

Evanie cites a need to reboot the computer occasionally. I guess Boeing didn't expect their aeroplanies to last 22 days , let alone 240. In all fairness, neither did I . Did you make a typo? 18 months is 540 days: our generally-agreed longevity estimate. Evanie’s no fly list? They handled this bett...
by 3WE
Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:54 pm
Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
Topic: Fly-by-nothing?
Replies: 2
Views: 57

Re: Fly-by-nothing?

https://www.avweb.com/flight-safety/technical-event-cited-in-787-sudden-loss-of-altitude/ Oops. Wrong. Not_nothing. Super genius airpersonship and buttocks avoided a relentless pull up and stall spin crash burn and did died. That being said, I am afraid that Verbie’s plane did invoke a “What’s it d...
by 3WE
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:52 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: (More) IA image creation shenanigans
Replies: 58
Views: 934

Re: Meanwhile at Orchestraphotos…

Not_as entertaining as Not_Karl’s brill-yunt work, but definitely bizarre and not_intelligent.


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by 3WE
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:17 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
Replies: 1103
Views: 390504

MCAS…

…apparently functional in 787s. (March 2024)

Evanie cites a need to reboot the computer occasionally.

I blame Aeroengineers and Boeing management.
by 3WE
Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:11 pm
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
Replies: 9
Views: 84

Re: no

"Perfect"…….3 engines
INDEED!
by 3WE
Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:46 am
Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
Replies: 9
Views: 84

Re: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...

DC-9

BAC 1-11

ERJ 145, 175

CRJ

And I think I missed one or two.

Do you think it makes suction vortexes when powered up for takeoff?
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Railroad Thread
Replies: 493
Views: 198940

Cousin-in-law.

I have a fourth cousin-in-law (something like that) who is an engineer (the train-driver type) who made two, share-worthy comments. 1. There is a pay bonus for fuel efficiency. I’m thinking that diesel electric locomotives have a pretty simple MPG procedure with engine speeds and controlled electric...
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:47 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Railroad Thread
Replies: 493
Views: 198940

Re: Railroad Thread

My collection of very bold comments and displeasure with 3BS’s adjectives on this topic suggested an unrealistic view of the ability to improve it. I have been always amazed about how bad trains brake, and I don't understand why. Fixed. I answered the why (it’s as good as the brake engineers can ec...
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 5:08 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
Replies: 6
Views: 94

Re: Engineering Shortcomings Thread

The feedback they got was almost all positive, except for one person who didn't like it and wrote "Typical Hollywood 'feel good' ending... in real life, they all would have died." :? 1. Beautiful. 2. Sadly, the Space Shuttle didn’t perform as well. 3. Back on topic, I think maybe a good, ...
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:32 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Railroad Thread
Replies: 493
Views: 198940

Re: Railroad Thread

1. There also could be an "optics" issue with that. "The train operator saw the bus full of nuns over a mile away, but didn't hit the brakes until the last second." would cause quite the media frenzy. 2. I wonder if I went out on the highway, got my car up to exactly 60 MPH, the...
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Railroad Thread
Replies: 493
Views: 198940

Major ass-hat parlour talk.

3BS weak memory + BS Internet discussion crap = I MAY have read that the procedure for a truck across the crossing is don’t apply brakes until after you hit it…or maybe it’s immediately before you hit it, since the operator could be incapacitated. The theory being “all bound and wonky + the collisio...
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
Replies: 6
Views: 94

Engineering Shortcomings Thread

Unfortunately, things break. Where should we focus our attention to improve the world?

I’m sure we can come up with additional items.
by 3WE
Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:50 pm
Forum: Off Topic Forum
Topic: Railroad Thread
Replies: 493
Views: 198940

Re: Railroad Thread

I did go to the internet because I was 7th-grade-brain-locking that distance vs time is parabola and therefore the average speed must be some Calculus not_simple average. Additional comments: The primary point is railroads brag on public service safety announcements that trains can take OVER a mile ...

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