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- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Il-76 crash near Ivanovo, Russia
- Replies: 0
- Views: 50
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Waldo Pepper Lounge
- Topic: The "Funny Reddit aviation post" thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2886
Re: The "Funny Reddit aviation post" thread
I don't know what to say about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Shittyaskflyin ... s_stoopid/
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:13 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Fly-by-nothing?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 71
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 113
Re: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
True, but it has fewer middle seats than other "proper airliners", and the engines are in the back where God intended them to be!
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:50 am
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
- Replies: 9
- Views: 113
The Chinese built my perfect airplane...
...a DC-9 with modern... darn near everything!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib9xxUFOVqo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comac_ARJ21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ib9xxUFOVqo
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 8:23 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
Re: Railroad Thread
Yeah I knew about the neutral thing, but in D I get engine braking down to a surprisingly low speed... I'd say 4 or 5 MPH. And you're certainly right about the friction thing... though a train has orders of magnitude more wheels than a car. I guess I was thinking more in terms of everyday things peo...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 117
Re: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
...and only once was there a significant failure. And I blame Tom Hanks for that one. I can't remember where I heard this but a funny story about that movie... The people that made it were screening it to test audiences so they could make tweaks before it was widely released. The feedback they got ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:48 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 117
Re: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
On-topic sort of... I was talking to my wife the other day about the space program, specifically the 1950s-1960s part of it. I feel that one part of that program that doesn't get much credit is it proved that things can be made really farkin' reliable when we want to. Prior to that if your car didn'...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:42 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
- Replies: 6
- Views: 117
Re: Engineering Shortcomings Thread
(Runs around room, agitated and waving hands) WHAT? I CAN"T SELECT JUST ONE!!!
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
Re: Railroad Thread
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. Unrelated but possibly interesting: I wonder if I went out on the highway, got my ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
Re: Math….
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'll take a crack at doing this in my head... 0.5 MPH/second? I'm thinking if a train decelerates linearly (an ASSump...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:43 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
Re: Railroad Thread
I... don't recall there ever being an inspection! Though I only worked there for about a year and a half. The unit wasn't in any packaging... but I think it was in the bottom of a file cabinet covered in dust. I will say I've owned cars in this state for over 40 years and never had that test perform...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:04 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
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, wh...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
Thankfully, I had the lasagna.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:27 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
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, in...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:12 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
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
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:44 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 540
- Views: 200943
Re: Railroad Thread
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.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: Political Discussion Forum
- Topic: "This is your captain. Brace for impact"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 733
Re: "This is your captain. Brace for impact"
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.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:20 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
They do have this cool arch that according to at least one person, could be used as a runway if laid on its side.In fairness, isn't that true of all of St Louis?
Hard to say who would want to buy it. It isn't really near anything, other than a muddy bend in the Missouri River.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: The Waldo Pepper Lounge
- Topic: The "Funny Reddit aviation post" thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2886
Re: The "Funny Reddit aviation post" thread
Not aviation-related but funny: https://www.reddit.com/r/tires/comments ... s_to_pass/
Lots more in the same vein in that subreddit.
Lots more in the same vein in that subreddit.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:55 pm
- Forum: The Waldo Pepper Lounge
- Topic: The "Funny Reddit aviation post" thread
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2886
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:54 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:00 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
- Replies: 192
- Views: 44804
Re: 737 Max troubles;:The latest news...
I wonder if anyone has checked to see whether the doors are properly attached.