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, wh...

Thankfully, I had the lasagna.

https://www.aviation24.be/airlines/unit ... n-airport/

https://www.koin.com/news/alaska-airlin ... -portland/

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, in...

When you thought that the 737-MAX was the Frankenstein of the planes... Here you have the new NASA / Boeing MD-C-152-737. https://www.infobae.com/america/ciencia-america/2024/03/08/la-nasa-mostro-un-anticipo-del-avion-cero-emisiones-que-prepara-junto-a-boeing/ That's very cool... NASA has figured o...

And it seems Boeing has joined the very exclusive FUBAR-itude club that is organizations featured on John Oliver's show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc

To be fair, a lot of people have experimented with alternate means of stopping trains, like putting buses or tractor-trailers in front of them, and it never seems to work very well.

It's a bunch of people who have convinced themselves that all politicians are s**theads, and somehow think that electing the worst s**thead they can find to office will somehow improve things.

Hard to say who would want to buy it. It isn't really near anything, other than a muddy bend in the Missouri River.

In fairness, isn't that true of all of St Louis?

They do have this cool arch that according to at least one person, could be used as a runway if laid on its side.

Not aviation-related but funny: https://www.reddit.com/r/tires/comments ... s_to_pass/

Lots more in the same vein in that subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... ine_flush/

The comments...

One excellent video here on the door plug accident. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROeGKs4xTfs Indeed! I know some are not fond of how drawn-out some of Mentour's videos are, but I have to say I'm impressed with the effort and research that go into them, and the production values have reached quit...

I wonder if anyone has checked to see whether the doors are properly attached.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Shittyaskflyin ... _approach/

LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16loqtKr4So

Huge bonus: a pretty realistic AI-generated 3-holer.

Not a train expert, but I read that trains have brakes on all wheels which are spring loaded in the "max braking" position and the spring is resisted by air pressure. So for normal braking you release part of the pressure and then re-pressurize the lines to release the brakes (there are b...

I saw something last night that reminded me that, in spite of lousy customer service, relentless pushing, not_doors sometimes falling off aeroplanies, and squid-related conspiracies, flying can sometimes be enjoyable.

This is said thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSz0vhVOcGk

Good point! According to the intarwebz, COF is around 0.5 for a dry rail, 0.3 for wet, and a bit less if frost is present. I know leaves can also have an effect but couldn't find a number for that condition, probably because it's so variable. Dumb question but, do trains have brakes on all the wheel...

Please view the video then fill out the survey below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vro8zImhJ4g

The technology described is:

__ Scary

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__ Terrifying

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Railroad manages to do what airlines have never done (right?) and have a 3-way collision: https://6abc.com/train-derailment-norfo ... /14485779/

Hmm... looks like that person is using a ground-launch bassoon instead of the more common shoulder-launch type.

Was playing a bit with Chat GPT yesterday. I asked for the sequence of notes for The Star-Spangled Banner. Said sure, here it is, and gave me a sequence of notes for not_The Star-Spangled Banner. I pointed it out and it said sorry, my bad, here you have the correct one. Which was another not_correc...

But do you trust AI?

'Cause from what I read, by next week AI will be doing everything. We just have to sit on the front porch all day sipping a mint julep, and watch the dollars roll in.

Unstabilized approach, go around go around you cowboy pilot improviser!!! (cue the thread title)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/wJ739Ld8o8A

So the dude does a little decrabbing on final... what's the big deal?