Bridges have been killing people for much longer than airplanes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
Not_karl, please don't ever talk about banning planes again until you accomplished banning all bridges first.
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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 63
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 63
Re: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
Yeah, Tampa in the 80's, just googled it. That and a bunch of others: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/a-list-of-major-us-bridge-collapses-caused-by-ships-and-barges/3575959/ Oh, I remember this one: Mobile, Alabama: 1993 Sept. 22, 1993: Barges being pushed by a towboat in dense fog hit and...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:21 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 63
Re: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
I have been asking myself this question since I first saw the video early this morning. How come that the bridge doesn't have those reinforced concrete fences in front of the main pylons? Especially such an important bridge in such an important port that has so much traffic of so many huge ships. Th...
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:53 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
- Replies: 16
- Views: 63
Re: THERE HAS BEEN A NEAR TOTAL SHIP-BRIDGE DISASTER!!!!!!
It's evident that the bridge didn't read the book.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:31 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: F.A.O.: 3WE
- Replies: 1029
- Views: 236520
Re: F.A.O.: 3WE
That's not me. I never looked like Donald Trump.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: F.A.O.: 3WE
- Replies: 1029
- Views: 236520
Re: F.A.O.: 3WE
I want one!IMG_0594.jpeg
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:41 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: This alternate-units stuff is getting out of hand...
- Replies: 15
- Views: 825
Re: This alternate-units stuff is getting out of hand...
Corgi² maybe.(About 16,000,000 Corgis)I took this screenshot a long time ago and forgot to post it.
Screenshot_2023-06-13-18-13-02.jpg
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Airyplany pix
- Replies: 3
- Views: 44
Re: Airyplany pix
The passenger twin-engine plane featured in picture 2 (and subsequent pictures cluttered with the hands of an ape) is definitively some old DC-9. The fighter jet whose tail is seen above a piston engine, and subsequent pictures show more in full, is I think an F-5, but al earlier version, since late...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 6:31 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 391228
Re: Guarded switches
It’s a completely different kind of MCASIt’s a completely different kind of MCAS, altogether.
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: 787 troubles, the latest news..
- Replies: 1103
- Views: 391228
Re: 787 troubles, the latest news..
One thing puzzles me about this though... I can see even a guarded switch being accidentally bumped and actuated. But it seems like for this incident to happen, the switch would have to be not only bumped, but held for a period of time. Do we think that's plausible? I thought the same. Either that ...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:41 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 108
Re: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
Carnot has left the chat.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: What is it with Alaska Airlines?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 60
Re: What is it with Alaska Airlines?
Of course the article is illustrated with the photo of a building with a huge BOEING sign because, why not? Also from the article: Jones allowed law enforcement to search his luggage, where agents found "multiple notebooks with writings describing how to operate an aircraft, including take-off,...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
Unrelated but possibly interesting: I wonder if I went out on the highway, got my car up to exactly 60 MPH, then put it in neutral and let off the gas without touching the brake pedal, would it stop in under a mile? Fixed. Leaving the shift in D will cause it to decelerate faster yet in the beginni...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
Maybe my very first sentence on this topic gave that up?Gabriel’s wonder at the crappy braking is at least somewhat fueled by “this is how it is”.
I have been always amazed about how bad trains brake, and I don't understand why.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:00 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Math….
You do you.I'll take crack
Both of you are right, elaw and ChatGPT.
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:34 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Math….
Ok!Ass-uming constant deceleration, what is the deceleration rate of a train that takes a mile to go 60 to zero.
Don’t tell me, I’m going to ask ChatGPT
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:41 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
While I go grab some popcorn, I'll leave this here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/232.103 Great!!! There are the train brake performance specs!!!! Except as otherwise provided in this part, all equipment used in freight or other non-passenger trains must, at a minimum, meet the Associatio...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:27 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
While I go grab some popcorn, I'll leave this here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/49/232.103 For what it's worth (approximately zero), around 1,000 years ago when I worked as a mechanic I used to do the annual automotive inspections required by my state. The law required, and we possessed, w...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Brake summary
In the derailment + collision, I am betting that the brakes on both trains performed within approved ranges, thus no need for the “further analysis” you’d like to see. If not_you doesn't do the analysis, how does not_you know that they performed within approved ranges? The analysis can be as short ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:02 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
It's a pity that the NTSB did not analyze why these trains' braking was so poor.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:16 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Brake summary
Anyway, dynamic braking or not, non-locomotive cars are surely still fitted with brakes, right? RIGHT? The general discussion is braking & effectiveness. That may be YOUR general discussion. Not mine. The whole train brakes in emergency is fairly effective by my adjectives- What are your adject...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
Something I thought of re braking... take a look at this (what I think is typical for the USA) attachment of a railroad rail to a tie: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Dogspike-on-wooden.jpg The rail is restrained vertically by lying on the tie (downward) and the spike (upward, i...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:15 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 181
- Views: 43853
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
It is interesting / depressing (but kind of understandable) how anything that happens in a Boeing plane these days become newsworthy. At the same time, it is not surprising since the media is so crazy to make aviation catastrophe news where there are none. Like: A mother of two from Indiana , Stefan...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 181
- Views: 43853
Re: It's not a good day to be a 737...
https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/united-airlines/boeing-737-max-8-suffers-left-main-gear-collapse-during-landing-houston-airport/ Meh. https://www.koin.com/news/alaska-airlines-safety-concerns-cargo-door-pictures-portland/ :o :o :o :shock: :shock: :shock: Most likely not Boeing's fault. This door...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 493
- Views: 199588
Re: Railroad Thread
There was a classic runaway train Swiss cheese automation fueled derailment in CA. First, the dispatcher didn’t know what he was doing, fudged on car weights and maybe even sent the train without enough locomotives. The train had front and rear locomotives- not_electronically linked, but crews and ...