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by unifoxos
Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:16 am
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: United Max Gear Collapse at IAH
Replies: 10
Views: 258
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Re: United Max Gear Collapse at IAH

Just wondering - is the speed of the a/c on the ground taken from the pitot? In the video above the speed was mentioned as 58 knots and then 30 knots as if the readings came too close together for the difference to be caused by braking, leading me to wonder if it was caused by wind gusting.
by unifoxos
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:43 am
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO
Replies: 27
Views: 535
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Re: United 777 Loses Wheel on T/O from SFO

Is it normal practice to brake the wheels on an airliner before retracting? If so wouldn't there be a lot of stress when the wheel stops suddenly?
by unifoxos
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:55 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: What's racist, what's not?
Replies: 12
Views: 397
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Re: What's racist, what's not?

Logically you are correct, but since when has logic played any part in justice?
by unifoxos
Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:41 am
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: NHS privatisation
Replies: 4
Views: 267
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Re: NHS privatisation

But who the hell would want to buy it? It's a black hole.
by unifoxos
Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Computer Chatter
Topic: Thought for the day - AI
Replies: 19
Views: 1484
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Re: Thought for the day - AI

I call it Artificial Idiocy Apart from the general demonstrations of total stupidity by the children who write software nowadays - for example assuming that somehow magically the approx 1 million people in the UK who have no mobile phone signal can still somehow receive a SMS code to enable them to ...
by unifoxos
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:13 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Looking for a cheap simple 4G candy bar
Replies: 18
Views: 397
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Looking for a cheap simple 4G candy bar

With the imminent demise of 2G/3G I have been looking for a replacement mobile phone. I have no signal where I live so I only use it when out and about and it doesn't really matter if it has 2G/3G or not, coverage from all networks is patchy around here. I don't have any need for data so a basic pho...
by unifoxos
Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:40 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: When did the flying bug first really bite?
Replies: 5
Views: 323
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Re: When did the flying bug first really bite?

Father was in RAF in the war (ground crew) and I relished his tales of life in the RAF. I read loads of flying stories and I dreamed of flying in the forces or commercially. Unfortunately, at age 10, polio put an end to those dreams, and it wasn't until I was about 25 that I first took to the air, v...
by unifoxos
Thu Feb 08, 2024 11:26 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Friday Jokes
Replies: 10859
Views: 470888
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Re: Friday Jokes

27 A vegetable = plant
28 Not very much = scant
29 Free money = grant
30 Religious ravings = cant
31 A heavy breath = pant
by unifoxos
Sat Feb 03, 2024 11:42 am
Forum: Engineering/Technical Discussions
Topic: Tricks of the 727
Replies: 12
Views: 1238
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Re: Tricks of the 727

I used to love them as a pax - while all the muppets were queuing up to get out of the front door, I would quietly slip out of the rear one and beat most of them to immigration.
by unifoxos
Mon Jan 15, 2024 7:52 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Do film makers have shares in electricity companies?
Replies: 8
Views: 566
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Re: Do film makers have shares in electricity companies?

I see that, but I was recently watching a film where a scene was set in a flashy apartment overlooking the Thames. The south wall of the very large lounge was completely glass. There was surely enough light there for anybody, certainly for my cheapo camcorder, but again all the lights in the place w...
by unifoxos
Sun Jan 14, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Do film makers have shares in electricity companies?
Replies: 8
Views: 566
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Re: Do film makers have shares in electricity companies?

That's quite correct, but in daylight the lights shouldn't need to be switched on, unless the room is seriously under-windowed.
by unifoxos
Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:20 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Do film makers have shares in electricity companies?
Replies: 8
Views: 566
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Do film makers have shares in electricity companies?

I have been watching a number of box sets of police detective programmes recently and have noticed that, in almost all cases, when the scene is set indoors, EVERY possible light is turned on in daytime, even if there was nobody in the room. Ceiling lights, wall lights, table lamps, all on with broad...
by unifoxos
Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Money
Replies: 11
Views: 1817
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Re: Money

Sounds about right - all the "experts" that I have read reckon about 6 months salary, that would be half my pension. Since I retired I have been putting into a separate account (called "Medical Accrual", but it can be used for any emergency) the same monthly amount as my last medical insurance (whic...
by unifoxos
Sun Dec 31, 2023 12:27 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Taking aircraft under bridges
Replies: 11
Views: 594
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Re: Taking aircraft under bridges

I have taken a (real, not MSFS) 737 sim under the Golden Gate Bridge for a bit of fun, wife, in jumpseat, who paid for it, most impressed.
by unifoxos
Sat Dec 30, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: I am asking for a friend.....!
Replies: 13
Views: 731
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Re: I am asking for a friend.....!

Argentina - save us the trouble.
by unifoxos
Wed Dec 13, 2023 8:03 am
Forum: Aviation Incidents
Topic: Stuck in the middle of nowhere
Replies: 10
Views: 622
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Re: Stuck in the middle of nowhere

Saw the title and though it would be about Rishi Sunak
by unifoxos
Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:10 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: Christmas dinner
Replies: 19
Views: 1412
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Re: Christmas dinner

All alone here with a 14 lb turkey to cook. Lady friends who would have come are both stuck in with illness and unlikely to make it, but the turkey is ordered and needs cooking. Sue and I used to host big family meals for many years but then decided it was more comforting to be just the two of us wi...
by unifoxos
Tue Nov 28, 2023 3:17 pm
Forum: Crewroom
Topic: When it's just the 2 of you...
Replies: 21
Views: 1952
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Re: When it's just the 2 of you...

Dining table, but it's in an area off the lounge so could see the box if required anyway - though view out the patio doors next to the table is better than the box any day.
by unifoxos
Tue Nov 21, 2023 10:01 am
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Funny thing about tunnels!
Replies: 11
Views: 1163
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Re: Funny thing about tunnels!

"underground airfields"

What size does a tunnel have to be for a bomber runway? Does it exit out of the side of a hill? Is there an entrance the other side for landing?
by unifoxos
Mon Nov 20, 2023 10:53 am
Forum: Politics & Controversial Topics
Topic: Funny thing about tunnels!
Replies: 11
Views: 1163
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Re: Funny thing about tunnels!

SIXTY or so miles of tunnels under the town of Epernay, 17 miles of those just for Moet alone.