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I find it interesting that none of the automatic alert stuff seems to have flagged the problem.

I wonder if ATC staff pack clean underwear? That was probably better than coffee to wake her up for her shift.

I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of ketchup bottles hit the wall in unison.

Woody wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 04, 2024 11:17 am

This needs investigating by a Daily Mail aviation expert

They clearly were aware of all the schools and hospitals on the ground and kept pulling up sharply to avoid them.

I've started playing with the Hard Word on the Stuff quiz page. It's one of those where I reckon I get it within ten seconds or not at all.

Hydromet wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 02, 2024 11:00 pm

Haven't heard of it in Oz. I presume its insurance to cover your costs in case someone sues you?

Sometimes you can use it to sue someone else, although I suspect that's based on how likely your insurance company's legal people think you are to win.

The video showed one of the AA ground staff said she wanted to press charges, but later changed her mind when police explained she would need to take time off work and appear in court. This one is on the airline. They should be supporting their staff by paying them while they're in court, because i...

Used to fly in/out of Truckee frequently many years ago. I would take students up there for moutain training in helicopters. Very unforgiving airspace for an airplane in bad weather. Pretty unforgiving for ground vehicles too, as you try to get through Donner Pass. And on foot, as the party after w...

I wonder how much they have to take wind speed and direction into consideration when driving one of those around. I see it's got an anemometer on the tip.

I saw a Tesla Cybertruck in the wild for the first time today. It is Fugly! :-o [-X :-q Also have seen some less than kind reviews as well. I'm sure there will still be plenty of people with a lot of money and without clues that will have to have them. I parked next to one a few weeks ago and that ...

Looks like an Oozlum Worm.

How big a diameter cable do you need for a 1000ton lift? I could probably dust off my school physics and look up tensile strength of steel, but I figure it's easier to ask here first.

That was something I found difficult when I was travelling internationally when different countries changed at different times and airlines didn't change at the same time. Back in 2000, when the US DST change was in April, the weekend after the UK, we went forward an hour in the UK, then flew to Bo...

Is if you never see them, and they never reply to correspondence, and your senators really live in Ottawa, and have people plow their yards in winter to pretend they are (as they are legally required to be) actually residents. How do you manage that in winter in Canada? With a pneumatic drill or ex...

I have been following https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ Kennedy seems to be the topic of the week. Every side seems to think Kennedy will hurt Biden more than Trump. Indeed, any Third party candidates in any elections will hurt the Dems more than the Republicans. There are assorted attempts across...

One of my previous employers has a fancy solution for tool tracking on production lines. Mostly cars, but I think they've got pictures of an aircraft line too. For cars, it's possible to set things up so that as a car comes into the area, the system wirelessly programs the torque wrench to the corre...

The remaining question, given the recent information about the ship having serious electrical problems in port, is do the crew get several thousand Brownie Points for doing everything possible when the crisis happened, but lose several million BPs for setting sail with an unsafe ship in the first p...

I looked at that picture and wondered which bridge of the three you were asking about.

G~Man wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:26 pm

Well I know it is in Penzanze from my days on Nimrods at St. Mawgan, but no clue who he is......

Think miners' safety lamps.

Pilot didn't make it. A man who died after a private plane crashed at a well-known airfield has been named by friends and colleagues as pilot Simon Riggs. Emergency services were called to Imperial War Museum (IWM) Duxford, Cambridgeshire, at about 13:41 GMT on Tuesday. The victim, aged in his 50s a...

Inevitably the local media started talking about how safe the Bay Area bridges are, and we are reassured that they're much safer than the one that collapsed, being designed to withstand earthquakes and similar major upsets. They also pointed out that a lot of the bridge supports are in relatively sh...