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0:50..0:55 describes Nouveau Cuisine perfectly! I think you're actually paying for all the silver service food covers they use in Nouveau Cuisine, it's certainly not for the few scraps of food on the plate! |
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One of my mechanics is about to torque these replacement axle bolts to 525 ft/lbs.
And yes, the axle is solid mounted to the frame. |
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
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And yes, the axle is solid mounted to the frame.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
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Is that how this vehicle was designed? What sort of vehicle are we looking at there?
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...9810159baa.png The front axle is sprung on leaf springs but it doesn't have shocks up there. It has hydraulic cylinders and valves that lock the flow in and out of them when not traveling to increase stability when working over the side. |
Originally Posted by sixshooter
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Gradall XL3100 "highway speed" hydraulic excavator
The front axle is sprung on leaf springs but it doesn't have shocks up there. It has hydraulic cylinders and valves that lock the flow in and out of them when not traveling to increase stability when working over the side. So... no outriggers? Just "Well, let's hope she don't tip?" https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...f0847a7226.png |
Don't exaggerate Joe. You are riding on those air-spring tires.
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Originally Posted by chiefmg
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Don't exaggerate Joe. You are riding on those air-spring tires.
When you have a solid 43 minutes to kill, this is an interesting video to watch: |
He handled that well!
I'd like to watch a dramatisation of the in-cockpit audio of QF32, but it was all over-ridden by the recorder as it kept running while they tried to shut down port outer, which just refused to shut down. As a result the only detailed reporting of what went on is in de Crespiny's book 'QF32".. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...cc5365cb70.png https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...fe1edc2113.jpg |
Originally Posted by Gee Emm
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...the only detailed reporting of what went on is in de Crespiny's book 'QF32"..
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Originally Posted by Gee Emm
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I'd like to watch a dramatisation of the in-cockpit audio of QF32, but it was all over-ridden by the recorder as it kept running while they tried to shut down port outer, which just refused to shut down.
But, then, there's probably not a checklist in the QRH for "uncontained engine failure, followed by runaway of a different engine, while on fire." https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...311f812ec9.png
Originally Posted by Gee Emm
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As a result the only detailed reporting of what went on is in de Crespiny's book 'QF32".
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I wonder what that wing weighs. A typical WW1 fighter weighed less than a ton, and that was just a bit over 100 years ago.
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The first powered airplane flight occurred in 1903. The Wright Flyer traveled 120 feet at a peak groundspeed of 27 mph, powered by a 12 horsepower engine.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...be3ad80249.png The first human spaceflight occurred in 1961. Yuri Gagarin circled the entire planet in 1 hour and 46 minutes, travelling at around 17,600 mph. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...e9276bf414.png Gagarin's flight aboard Vostok 1 took place nearer in time to the Wright Brothers first flight than it did to the present day. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...bff3d05b97.png |
Originally Posted by rleete
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I wonder what that wing weighs. A typical WW1 fighter weighed less than a ton, and that was just a bit over 100 years ago.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...3d09b38148.jpg The thing about the aircraft of this vintage is that they had no brakes, and the pilots had to slow them by dragging thier feet on the ground ... https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...0ac60f3c3e.jpg Thanks for those links gents, I will follow them up. Joe, I think the sense of relief of getting that bent thing back on the ground in one piece, and the subsequent crisis of whether to get the passengers off immediately even though the plane was sitting in a sea of fuel, probably overtook a few checklists. Maybe that was why the pilot-in-command (de Crespigny) failed the check? His book doesn't say why he was failed. |
Originally Posted by rleete
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I wonder what that wing weighs.
A 747-400 wing, empty, weighs 43,090 kg, about 95,000 lbs. Now, the wing on a -400 has an area of 524.9 m^2, which is about 20% more than an NBA basketball court. That's a single wing, mind you. Most 747s were built with two of them. The A380s wing, by comparison, has an area of 845.8m^2, which is 61% larger than the -400. (That airplane is fucking huge.) While mass does not scale linearly with surface area, we can expect that the A380s wing, empty, is probably on the order of around 50% heavier than the -400's. So, ballparking it, maybe 150,000 lbs. Which is even more than Hustler's mom. And, perhaps more relevant, slightly more than a first-gen Boeing 737. The whole airplane, that is. Fully fueled and loaded with passengers and cargo. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...8dae468348.png |
Lengthy but interesting followup interview. If it's all true, then this guy has a really interesting story.
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All this aviation stuff has got me feeling nostalgic for N6066R, the 1965 Cessna 172 I learned to fly in.
Six Six Romeo had a great sound to it. Rolls right off the tongue. It was destroyed by hurricane Charley in 2004. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...7c3e2e5b59.png Rest in pieces. Coda: a person cannot walk upright inside the wing of a Cessna 172, unlike an A380. |
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