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by boing
Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:59 pm
Forum: Engineering/Technical Discussions
Topic: Tricks of the 727
Replies: 12
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Re: Tricks of the 727

The DB Cooper incident occurred before my move into this area but it was only a few miles north of us. The most recent report, from several years ago, is that money suspected as being part of his heist was found on the banks of the Columbia river so the mystery continues. Whether Cooper accidentally...
by boing
Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:57 am
Forum: Engineering/Technical Discussions
Topic: Tricks of the 727
Replies: 12
Views: 1214
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Re: Tricks of the 727

Another comment on the 727. The flight instrumentation was actually quite good though pretty dated. When I converted to the 757/767 types our simulator instructor failed my flight director system during an ILS approach so I simply reverted to raw data and landed. Very serious debrief, I should have ...
by boing
Sat Feb 03, 2024 1:33 am
Forum: Engineering/Technical Discussions
Topic: Tricks of the 727
Replies: 12
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Re: Tricks of the 727

I had the good fortune to fly the 727 in all three seats, you could actually say four because i acted as Line Check Airman checking out pilots new to the aircraft. This meant I flew as Flight Engineer, Co-pilot, Captain from the Left Seat and Captain from the Right Seat. It was a super pilot's aircr...
by boing
Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:10 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

I hope they didn't take that personally.

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by boing
Sun Jan 21, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V
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Re: The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

My lower drive two days ago, upper drive was the same. At least there were no travelling salesmen.
Yes that is ice not water.

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by boing
Tue Jan 16, 2024 8:04 pm
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: Not All It's Cracked Up To Be
Replies: 2
Views: 300
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Re: Not All It's Cracked Up To Be

Perhaps they did not read the warning on the package that said "Please do not build this runway on a volcano".
by boing
Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:01 am
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: More Boeing Bad News
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Re: More Boeing Bad News

We all see the pattern here, Create a new non-unionised spin-off company that you swear is independent and out source most of the work. If SHTF you swear that you didn't realise that this company is producing rubbish. Meanwhile you bust the unions at the parent company to the stage where everyone is...
by boing
Sun Jan 07, 2024 3:30 pm
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: More Boeing Bad News
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Re: More Boeing Bad News

“This Plane Was Designed by Clowns, Who Are Supervised by Monkeys” Boeing internal email, originally withheld by Boeing from the FAA True, talked to an old friend of mine that used to work at Boeing who attributes all of these Boeing problems to the McDonnell Douglas buyout. The mantra was: "Boeing ...
by boing
Sat Dec 30, 2023 3:50 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: I am asking for a friend.....!
Replies: 13
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Re: I am asking for a friend.....!

Dushan,

I would still say NZ. Great place for a vacation, they still have real sausages and we could avoid their darned customs checks.

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by boing
Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:13 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5697
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

OK, if you can't shoot down the missiles go for the launch aircraft, if you can't reach the launch aircraft go for the airfields they operate from. Now is the time for the allies to make a difference before Putin gets "re-elected". Whatever weaponry is required supply it and take the gamble. Putin c...
by boing
Wed Nov 15, 2023 8:43 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5697
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

As I suggested many months ago (post 4105 et al). Kinburn Spit is the key, Hola Prystan is the door,

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by boing
Mon Nov 13, 2023 8:27 pm
Forum: We Band of Brothers
Topic: Phyllis Latour: The secret life of a WW2 heroine revealed
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Re: Phyllis Latour: The secret life of a WW2 heroine revealed

An admirable group. Our French tutor at Grammar School was a wonderful lady, terribly direct and with the odd habit of walking through the corridors holding a two way conversation with herself in French. There was never any official disclosure because it was not the sort of thing you discussed in th...
by boing
Mon Nov 06, 2023 5:57 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5697
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

Now may be a good time to assess the wisdom of destroying the Nova Kakhovka dam. This has always bemused me somewhat because it seemed to be a victory of spite over military logic. With the dam in place the Russians had an easily defended, strategically invaluable, river crossing. Below the dam the ...
by boing
Sat Nov 04, 2023 7:26 pm
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: Man charged with attempting to crash passenger jet
Replies: 20
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Re: Man charged with attempting to crash passenger jet

I can only ponder why. In 25 years of working in aluminum tubing I do not remember a pilot who mentally concerned me. OK, people whose life styles or beliefs I did not like, people I thought were wimpy, people I thought were actually not very good pilots but no nut-cases. So, How many similar incide...
by boing
Mon Oct 23, 2023 5:20 am
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Iran issuing threats.
Replies: 13
Views: 1007
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Re: Iran issuing threats.

No need for an invasion John. Invasions are for when you want things left intact such as oil wells. Taking people back to the stone age because they were about to attempt to destroy your chosen way of life can be done these days with so much more precision and less fuss. I am all for nations wrestli...
by boing
Mon Oct 23, 2023 1:39 am
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Iran issuing threats.
Replies: 13
Views: 1007
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Re: Iran issuing threats.

Iran is in big trouble if they upset the West. All ports blockaded, oil pipelines shut-off, technical and military facilities destroyed. Every bit of Iran is within range of US cruise missiles fired at sea and every facility they operate is known. Iran is bluffing against four aces and they know it ...
by boing
Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:43 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5697
Views: 160291
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

The US has enough available weaponry to keep both Israel and Ukraine supplied for years and the new range of Chinese specific weapons are under development with entry to service predicted as late next year depending on who is reporting. Taking out Iran and Russia are good uses for these weapons with...
by boing
Sun Oct 22, 2023 3:21 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Iran issuing threats.
Replies: 13
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Re: Iran issuing threats.

Surely someone knows exactly where every Iranian weapons research and production facility is located. Level these first. Then flatten Bandar Abbas airbase and work up the gulf coast from there.

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by boing
Wed Oct 18, 2023 8:07 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
Replies: 5697
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

Someone viewed the identification plate data on the missile body recovered by the Russians and opined that these were very old production due for destruction in the very near future. The problem with controlling the semiconductor production is that so much of it has been outsourced overseas. When I ...
by boing
Wed Oct 18, 2023 3:14 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war
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Re: Millions of us might be **** if we ignore the Russian-Ukraine war

I wonder whether the ATACMS missile supply to Ukraine is is a warning to the Russians to back off from causing trouble in the Middle East?


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