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- Tue May 21, 2024 4:57 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: What do we know about Metroliners?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2
What do we know about Metroliners?
I recall flyboy referring to them by a joke name, but I THOUGHT they were an OK aeroplanie? “Widowmaker, Death Pencil, Terror Tube and other nicknames” imply above average on the did-died the paying passengers potentiometer. Never rode one, I can imagine it might be uncomfortable for folks besides G...
- Tue May 21, 2024 2:58 pm
- Forum: Flight Simulator Discussion
- Topic: Now* [i]we[/i] can be closer to living the dream for cheap!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 64
Re: Now* = 1986
I was very proud of my joystick with sub logic FS on my Commodore 64 in 1986.
- Mon May 20, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Traffic congestion at Flyover.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 66
Re: Beautiful display of the CORRECT number of engines!
As you might expect, 3WE has watched the cemetery from aeroplanies several times.…watching aeroplanies from a cemetery.
Indeed, it would be a convenient place to stall spin crash burn and did died.
Ironingly, Ozark 809 was a little bit short when it crashed.
- Mon May 20, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Traffic congestion at Flyover.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 66
Re: HISTORIC Traffic congestion at Flyover
(Wicked cool jetphoto) :clap: TWA = "Three Wholer Airlines"? The 727 was THE most popular airliner for a very long time. And, yes, some older ones had the special oval inlet. Some hell better aeroengineer thought an oval was better…then the circular faction won out… All without PowerPoint...
- Mon May 20, 2024 11:46 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Ban all helicopters…
- Replies: 2
- Views: 24
Ban all helicopters…
El Presidente de Iran…
Probably won’t help World Peace.
Conspiracy theories will be offered.
We seem to fare poorly in the IMC department…
…in an ‘aeroplanie’ where one can avoid some of the risks of going 140 knots 100 feet above the ground in minimal visibility…
Probably won’t help World Peace.
Conspiracy theories will be offered.
We seem to fare poorly in the IMC department…
…in an ‘aeroplanie’ where one can avoid some of the risks of going 140 knots 100 feet above the ground in minimal visibility…
- Mon May 20, 2024 12:49 am
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 747 engulfed in fire during take-off
- Replies: 6
- Views: 42
Re: 747 engulfed in fire during take-off
Indeed.
I ass-ume it’s a nice magenta line and moving map. Still, it looks close.
I ass-ume it’s a nice magenta line and moving map. Still, it looks close.
- Sun May 19, 2024 10:53 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Traffic congestion at Flyover.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 66
- Sun May 19, 2024 10:48 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 747 engulfed in fire during take-off
- Replies: 6
- Views: 42
- Sun May 19, 2024 1:21 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: 747 engulfed in fire during take-off
- Replies: 6
- Views: 42
Re: 747 engulfed in fire during take-off
¿Exageración en los medios de comunicación, modismos lingüísticos que no se traducen correctamente, o ambas cosas?
- Sat May 18, 2024 10:39 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Near Total Turbulence Disaster
- Replies: 5
- Views: 38
Re: Near Total Turbulence Disaster
As stated above, the drop is certainly scary, but the subsequent pull up is where the cheap composites are exposed to stress..I like that moment where all passengers realize at the same time that they're in a cheap-composite-crackerbox.
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:22 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Stupid cowboy monkey pilots did not_
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19
Stupid cowboy monkey pilots did not_
bother with W&B calculations nor load bearing abilities.
The text on this also implied the involvement of Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote
The text on this also implied the involvement of Roadrunner and Wyle E. Coyote
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:13 pm
- Forum: Aviation Discussion Forum
- Topic: Near Total Turbulence Disaster
- Replies: 5
- Views: 38
Near Total Turbulence Disaster
While I trust the industry for safe flight, this look a couple of standard deviations unpleasant and this (and the following ‘relentless’ pull up) would trigger a good dose of foffieness and prayer in me.
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- Sat May 18, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: An interesting theory
- Replies: 13
- Views: 155
Re: An interesting theory
To clarify: What I’m getting from DAN is the approach being insidiously bad. The steepening approach path with horrendously bad timing causes the pilot to be ever so slightly behind… WITH VERY CRAPPY TIMING Descending fat, dumb, happy and competently. Ok, I’m high, I need to correct…look away briefl...
- Sat May 18, 2024 1:22 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: An interesting theory
- Replies: 13
- Views: 155
DAN Juan is batshit crazy…
BUT
Is he basically correct that the gal did almost nothing wrong hitting a lightless tower that basically was in a reasonable, instrument-enhanced glide path?
[Hour-long video and I’ve only skimmed it]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN3RJaW618
Is he basically correct that the gal did almost nothing wrong hitting a lightless tower that basically was in a reasonable, instrument-enhanced glide path?
[Hour-long video and I’ve only skimmed it]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN3RJaW618
- Fri May 17, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Traffic congestion at Flyover.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 66
Re: Traffic congestion at Flyover.
Yes.Cheap organic, carbon-based composites?
With much fuselage delamination.
No.I hope they're equipped with hush-kits
- Fri May 17, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Traffic congestion at Flyover.
- Replies: 8
- Views: 66
Traffic congestion at Flyover.
ATL, ORD, DFW, DEN can suck it.
VFF is overwhelmed and holding aircraft on the ground.
VFF is overwhelmed and holding aircraft on the ground.
- Fri May 17, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: Airline Pilot Q&A
- Topic: New Video of 321 Power Cord Fire
- Replies: 2
- Views: 36
New Video of 321 Power Cord Fire
https://youtu.be/JGnUexrYlwY?si=7DYklz9l5RIUbj0F Ok, Evanie, and Gabe and I all fell for the outsider trap. WHY ISN’T SOMEONE SIMPLY FLIPPING THE BREAKER AND SIMPLY HITTING THE FIRE WITH AN EXTINGUISHER?!?!???? But then we think about it a bit more and realize there ARE breakers and guarded switches...
- Fri May 17, 2024 12:50 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: Interesting (recent) total air disasters
- Replies: 68
- Views: 19662
Interesting Train Disasters
Trains _________________________________ [Add your favorite verb & clarifying lingues]…trains…
Footnote: Commentary from foamers/gradepervs included
https://youtu.be/MHo-rdcu4ek?si=AQqqabv3ghGpKzjz
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: F.A.O.: 3WE
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 242192
Re: F.A.O.: 3WE
Yes.
I hate you (Due to jealousy)
I hate you (Due to jealousy)
- Wed May 15, 2024 6:52 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Apropos of nothing...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 38
Re: Apropos of nothing...
What’s it doing now?
- Wed May 15, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: We just made deplaning more efficient
- Replies: 5
- Views: 52
Re: Another hand-luggage evacuation success!
...put a decent fire extinguisher by the plane and train rampies how to use it? Maybe rampies fear being put in a scab list by the firefighters' union . Indeed! Flyover is a pretty traditional union town (teenagers are required to join the grocery workers union if they have a summer job bagging gro...
- Wed May 15, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Aviation Safety Discussion Forum
- Topic: We just made deplaning more efficient
- Replies: 5
- Views: 52
Re: We just made deplaning more efficient
The ironing here is pretty damn thick: While Evan would like volunteer-staffed inflatable rescue rafts, do you think we might put a decent fire extinguisher by the plane and train rampies how to use it? Edit: I'm sure there were probably a few good fire extinguishers available...but the video isn't ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 6:05 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: F.A.O.: 3WE
- Replies: 1080
- Views: 242192
Re: F.A.O.: 3WE
By the way, in an emergency, it’s 0 PSI to the brakes ;) No wonder trainies don't brake ... Because I do not_trust Gabriel, The Piss-Poor Trainbrakeengineer, to actually chime in with edifying comments, I wanted to remind everyone that 0 PSI in the brake pipe sends roughly 90 (maybe slightly less) ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Idiomas de lingues
- Replies: 6
- Views: 56
Re: Idiomas de lingues
I would be careful if you were jump seating on an airliner.Definitively me by 3.b (1) and (2) (but not_3). And proud of it!
- Mon May 13, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Off Topic Forum
- Topic: Railroad Thread
- Replies: 543
- Views: 202944
Measured pull up…
…followed by dynamic (and maybe friction) braking.
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