[Not_Italics]We will never know the feeling…

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.

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...

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...

A good guess.

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.

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...

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...

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

…apparently functional in 787s. (March 2024)

Evanie cites a need to reboot the computer occasionally.

I blame Aeroengineers and Boeing management.

"Perfect"…….3 engines

INDEED!

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?

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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

I’m sure we can come up with additional items.

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 ...

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 get a pen and paper, and do some ciphering.

I'd love to learn about that. I’d enjoy learning about it, too. You know that behavior of “we insiders know, and you outsiders don’t know?” It’s really strong in the RR world. You cited the Westinghouse air brake development, and that it was a long time ago. Since that time there has been rather li...

What are your adjectives, again? The regulators don’t give a flying nor rolling-on-rails phugoid what my adjectives are, what you think of my adjectives, what your adjectives are nor what you think about the general performance of train brakes. Sure, in a perfect world, trains would brake much bett...

I wonder if under the right circumstances, train brakes being more effective could make the rail move fore-and-aft?

It’s firmly connected to miles of rail each direction so it can’t slide too much.

Anyway, dynamic braking or not, non-locomotive cars are surely still fitted with brakes, right? RIGHT? The general discussion is braking & effectiveness. Trains have four “systems” -Air-powered friction brakes on cars. -INDEPENDENT air-powered friction brakes on the locomotives -Dynamic brakes ...

What if all of the engineering devoted to flattening the underside of nacelles of 3? Engines and new mounting brackets and MCAS and more had been devoted to…I dunno, a scaled down 787 wing slapped on a….757…