PS Is it me, or do ships break a lot?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna152425

In which an airline pilot / speakist informs us as to how problems with buses caused a huge ship to topple a not_railroad bridge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOOogUZY3g

PS Is it me, or do ships break a lot?
/Not brake, as ships have no PSI for such things.

And that is the kind of issues that I have with unions...
I absolutely support the concept of collective bargain and unions, the right to strike, etc, etc, etc...
The problem is not the concept, it's the implementation. The CORRUPT implementation.

Concur

What’s it doing now?

The same thing it's been doing for the last 9 hours...

I do have to say I find Windows updates annoying at times but I've never had them take anywhere near the amount of time in that video. That person must be running Windows off floppy disks or something.

You might be an engineer if...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACIncrvZ6g

...while watching the "spinning dots" as your Windows 11 computer updates, you think the ones "falling" down the right side of the circle are accelerating at a rate > 1 G.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSjZEWTqn3k

Bonus: funny Reddit discussion with a bunch of rampers explaining they would not try to put out such a fire basically "because it's not my job": https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... at_seatac/

Prop
Rule 2
Travel on a train

Fixed.

That, and sign posts way too close to the edge of the runway.

...you're not going: https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/s ... 442330.php

What’s palm oil?

A relative of hand lotion, probably.

It'll make your engine run silky smooth, and reduce visible wrinkles!

Dan Gryder seems to have stolen the warning light from the stack?

Did he blame it on the NTSB?

Oh c'mon now, reconfiguring landing gear can't be that hard - these guys seem to have figured it out:

Sorely missing from the article is information on what actually “powers” the bacteria

AAAAAAAA batteries*?

* Not included.

NTSB report apparently is out on the Caravan that crashed in Burley IA a while back. Our speakist Juan has an interesting theory on a partial cause of the accident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWCkzJEpcnw Report (PDF): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestRepo...

Yeah but they were flying a 767... how bad could it be?

I think the "by the book" answer for airliners is very simple: if you bounce, you go around. Period. I think "experts" recommend the same philosophy for light planes, but I'm pretty sure early in my training my instructor guiding me on recovering from a bounced landing, and the r...

..."spot the squid reference"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpgute0cy6Y

2) Your helmet strap is loose. This thread is titled checklist, procedures, rules for God's sake!

I suspect in that individual's case, the helmet strap is unnecessary... the helmet is kept firmly in place by his animal magnetism.

Has anyone here seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtL60wk4gys I watched it (just the pilot, and yes what a pun that is) and while it wasn't awful, I'm having trouble understanding why people seem to love it so much (7.0 on IMDB). Someone in the comments praised it for its "technical ac...

I said to someone once that it's a sure sign you're getting old when people you consider to be your peers start dying of age-associated things like heart attacks and strokes. I'm definitely getting old...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkmOX95mr1g

Dammit, something was violated!

Excuse my excitement , given the inherent dangers of going around , underslung engines , somatogravic illusions , fatal software flaws and pilot stupidity I thought I was going to witness an amazing TOTAL AIR DISASTER!!!! And... did you notice where most of the participants in the video were standi...

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