Notice: At the advice of Not_Karl , and inspiration from the pedantic jabbing of Gabriel that in a constant descent a high-lift wing does not_produce more lift, I am (hopefully) trolling Boing Bobby to see if he will bite on the old downwind-turn 'paradox'. Perhaps Evan will cite a procedure for tu...

Fixed.

Nope. Neither "International Business Machines".
Think Spanish. Thing big. Inmenso in fact.

Oooh, Immense Ball of... Manure!

bola de caca grande?

How does that spell IBM?

Not popcorn-worthy so far :( . Gabriel, the hell better aeroengineer, is engaged. If you critically analyze Boeing Bobbieee's words, he states that a plane will lose airspeed from gaining the tailwind, however in his 500,000 thousand hours of multiple aircraft, including a Piper Cub, he has never f...

Maybe I was not clear...we had slowed a BUNCH...reversed and returned to idle...it was the last third of the roll out...AND THEN the speed brakes were REDEPLOYED.

...My limited knowledge of chemistry suggests that lithium in a bucket of water is probably not the smartest idea..... Please, no Cowboy improvisation based off basic knowledge of Chemistry* Stick to the QRH! *(It is cool to throw those particular 'metals' into water, and seriously, I dunno...ENOUG...

In our modern PC world, does the aforementioned cryptic, insider acronym still exist?

Should it not be NOTAPS?

Thanks in advance.

Notice: At the advice of Not_Karl , and inspiration from the pedantic jabbing of Gabriel that in a constant descent a high-lift wing does not_produce more lift, I am (hopefully) trolling Boing Bobby to see if he will bite on the old downwind-turn 'paradox'. Perhaps Evan will cite a procedure for tu...

At the advice of Not_Karl , and inspiration from the pedantic jabbing of Gabriel that in a constant descent a high-lift wing does not_produce more lift, I am (hopefully) trolling Boing Bobby to see if he will bite on the old downwind-turn 'paradox'. Perhaps Evan will cite a procedure for turning int...

Questions in Red. Outbound: Republic E-170,[/b] One of 7:00AM specials (not quite as bad as the 6:00 AM specials). After boarding I feel a thud/shudder at the same time there's a noise of a whiny hydraulic? motor lugging down to a near-complete stop...this happens about three or four times. Shortly...

...Strange airline report: ' ... despite poor weather and poor visibility the aircraft was cleared to land...'. It's always and solely the captains decision if he accepts a landing clearance or goes around. Here he decided most probably poorly. Does that airline really try to blame the tower contro...

It IS amazing, though, how quickly the structure disintegrated once the tailfin was out of the picture.

...but not that dissimilar from some of those aerobatic planes and maybe that Brasilia that lost their horizontal stabilizers.

You do know what IBM stands for, don't you?

I do not...

...as to the topic of the thread, I think this is a near-perfect example of why we need more regulations for back up reservation computer systems!

That...

...is AWESOME!!!!!

Very simple:

Cheap composite rudder failure within 18 months...

(And no backup for reservation systems.)

Indeed.

Was it Sickbag that expressed this exact sentiment in our own forum here...the forum of superiour aviation intellect and humour?

Edit: Indeed, it was Sickbag...he should contact The Onion and ask for royalties for having the idea first.

...280 hp...

That's not particularly enlightened.

Are you a USA citizen and like football played with an elliptical ball that is carried and thrown more than kicked and cricket that has four bases and 90-degree field of play?

Shouldn't that be 205 KW?

For the area, quite a normal landing. Per Indeed . I continue to consider seeking employment there. I think I have superior knowledge of fundamentals and would then be an insider like Flyboy and Dummy. Of course, sooner or later, my old-fashioned absent mindedness (pretty average in that category) ...

Still the question of why some well trained, fairly experienced guys would violate procedure and land with an excessively negative vertical speed seems like one we should be interested in... Pressure from a massive backlog generated by an obsolete system's failure? There's a thread at a different o...

...along with weak reporting and even ass-hat, unsubstantiated, speculative comments from someone identified as a pilot . http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/09/14/plane-skid-landing-indonesia-jnd-orig-vstop.cnn I had hoped the touchdow...I mean slamdown would have been part of the video. I blame t...

...Something must have failed with the internets, as I never forget anything .

Indeed!

We need regulations for more upgrades!

.. .What Per's friend says applies also to Spanish: We use " sombra " for both shade and shadow ... If only the same could be said for that nice brief phrase which *we use to imply: Relax, enjoy life and don't work too hard. *Footnote: We? Yes, we non_spanish-speaking people... ...and rur...

I just don't see ITS's genius humour in Evan's stuff.

Sock-puppet troll, maybe. ITS_not.

Regarding Espanol... Apologies if I missed something, but was there a 'better' way to say "In the Shade"? You and/or Gabbie pointed out that it means more "In the Shadow" and I get the subtleties of those two in Ingles; however, Mexican folks have their Sombrero hats (which provi...