Crash driver 'swerved to avoid octopus'

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-47144891

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It seems likely that a meteor (or satellite re-entry) disaster has narrowly been avoided.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-46181662

Google Earth

Tits.

Up

That's not Air Jamaica. Air Jamaica hasn't existed in a while.

oops...My misread.

THREAD LOCKED

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

Gangrene

Not much to go on....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45833239

Feel free to speculate

Presumably Air Niugini is the local pidgin version of Air New Guinea....

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-45674786

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7pRfix_sNg
Link fixed

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

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...

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?

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...

HOW DO I KNOW YOU ARE THE REAL KARL?

He is Not_me, so he obviously is Karl.

I suspect that this whole "Karl " business was just made up for a lark.

Wait a moment ...Karl....Lark

At last, Alles ist_Klar

But why are you all wearing white coats?

Phugoid.

Phugoid what?

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.

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

Indeed. 3WE may well have nailed it there.
As Julius Caesar once put it, "Veni, Vidi, Vici" - I came, I saw, I concurred.

That is a wonderful pun.

You're welcome
I must confess to being smugly satisfied with it.

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...

No. Liveries are of extreme, vital importance.

Indeed.
Livery failure can lead to diededness.

video here

Airborne too early?
Weight distribution?

... 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...