Crash driver 'swerved to avoid octopus'
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-47144891
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- Wed Feb 06, 2019 12:10 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Annual squid roundup 2019
- Replies: 7
- Views: 307
- Fri Nov 16, 2018 7:00 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Word Association Thread
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 46170
Re: Word Association Thread
SePer
- Tue Nov 13, 2018 7:12 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Near meteor disaster?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 216
Near meteor disaster?
It seems likely that a meteor (or satellite re-entry) disaster has narrowly been avoided.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662
- Sat Nov 10, 2018 4:24 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Word Association Thread
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 46170
Re: Word Association Thread
Google Earth
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 9:39 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Word Association Thread
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 46170
Re: Word Association Thread
UpTits.
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 6:38 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Air Jamaica 757 @ GEO
- Replies: 4
- Views: 240
Fly Jamaica 757 @ GEO
oops...My misread.That's not Air Jamaica. Air Jamaica hasn't existed in a while.
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:12 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Word Association Thread
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 46170
Re: Word Association Thread
THREAD LOCKED
- Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:09 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Air Jamaica 757 @ GEO
- Replies: 4
- Views: 240
Air Jamaica 757 @ GEO
Not much detail on BBC, but seems to have returned to GEO with hydraulic problems after departure, then overrun on landing (due to said hydraulic problems?)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46154179
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46154179
- Fri Nov 02, 2018 12:34 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Word Association Thread
- Replies: 1032
- Views: 46170
Re: Word Association Thread
Gangrene
- Fri Oct 12, 2018 9:49 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Air India 737 vs wall during take off
- Replies: 5
- Views: 462
- Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:09 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: B 737-800 in the water in Micronesia
- Replies: 11
- Views: 599
B 737-800 in the water in Micronesia
Presumably Air Niugini is the local pidgin version of Air New Guinea....
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45674786
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45674786
- Tue Sep 25, 2018 2:49 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: For Per / Ancient Mariner, etc.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 385
- Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:16 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Total Livery ailure
- Replies: 11
- Views: 533
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 1:25 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Sod Skegness - Savour Sidmouth
- Replies: 2
- Views: 346
Re: Sod Skegness - Savour Sidmouth
It seems that a fuel priming device failure resulted in the engine running too rich and consuming fuel too fast until it ran out.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-45521814
https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-in ... -d2-g-bznk
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-45521814
https://www.gov.uk/aaib-reports/aaib-in ... -d2-g-bznk
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 3:21 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2336
Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing
OK, I buy the argument that increasing the aspect ratio can decrease the induced drag. But what about the tip vortices? If a wing is simply stretched but has the same form and lifting profile at the tip, it’s going to generate much the same vortices at the tip The claim that winglet orientation is i...
- Mon Sep 10, 2018 2:40 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing
- Replies: 30
- Views: 2336
Re: Boeing Deception: 777X Wing Actually Elongated 787 Wing
Winglets/sharklets are reckoned to economize 2-4% of fuel consumption, but the 777X's folding wingtips appear to lack them.
What's the deal?
Verbal?
What's the deal?
Verbal?
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 5:21 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: New AD Logo for 2018
- Replies: 53
- Views: 2887
Re: New AD Logo for 2018
The squid logo is effortless It combines a memorable image with a running joke It is a winner. It is_not, however, original AD artwork (correct me if I'm wrong, Sickie) https://www.google.com/search?q=mega+shark+vs+giant+octopus+plane+scene&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSlQEJ73tiwYQjmTcaiQELEKjU2AQaAggVDAsQ...
- Tue Aug 14, 2018 6:11 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: FAO Monchie
- Replies: 10
- Views: 615
Re: FAO Monchie
I suspect that this whole "Karl " business was just made up for a lark.He is Not_me, so he obviously is Karl.HOW DO I KNOW YOU ARE THE REAL KARL?
Wait a moment


At last, Alles ist_Klar

But why are you all wearing white coats?
- Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:49 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
- Replies: 16
- Views: 918
Re: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
Far be it from me to put words into another fellow's mouth, but the possibility that "phugoid" is intended as a somewhat contrived homonym cannot be excluded.Phugoid what?
Phugoid.
- Fri Jul 27, 2018 7:58 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Super Beluga
- Replies: 2
- Views: 431
Re: Super Beluga
First flight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBI_Z4sr9p8
Maybe I should have posted this in the "Ludicrous Livery" thread
(or the "Over-dramatic Music" thread?)
At 0:29 I think we see the answer to my speculation about pressurization
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBI_Z4sr9p8
Maybe I should have posted this in the "Ludicrous Livery" thread
(or the "Over-dramatic Music" thread?)
At 0:29 I think we see the answer to my speculation about pressurization
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 6:45 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
- Replies: 16
- Views: 918
Re: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
You're welcomeThat is a wonderful pun.
Indeed. 3WE may well have nailed it there.
As Julius Caesar once put it, "Veni, Vidi, Vici" - I came, I saw, I concurred.
I must confess to being smugly satisfied with it.
- Wed Jul 25, 2018 4:09 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
- Replies: 16
- Views: 918
Re: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
2. I looked at it several times- and then the guy starts saying "oh crap" I can't see or hear anything particularly wrong (however see below). I think that the plane is deviating to the left of the runway, hence the "oh crap". Not sure though. 3. Since we live for totally unsubstantiated parlour ta...
- Wed Jul 25, 2018 6:03 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: F.A.O.: 3WE
- Replies: 658
- Views: 46359
Re: Elvis did NOT_did died!
Indeed.No. Liveries are of extreme, vital importance.
Livery failure can lead to diededness.
- Tue Jul 24, 2018 8:27 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Another beautiful classic gone: "Bluebonnet Belle" DC-3
- Replies: 16
- Views: 918
- Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:10 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: FAO Messi of Aeroengineering
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2696
Re: FAO Messi of Aeroengineering
... The relatively good outcome of UAL was a great achievement...but it was NOT thanks to the 30000 hours TT of experience of Captain Haynes. That is an extremely bold statement. (Yes there are deletions, but neither the meaning nor the context are changed). Folks are faced with a barely controllab...