^ Cute. :likecat:

What's in the drawer of things?

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Well, that's a bit of a let-down.

So awesome:

Reminds me of

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Yeah, see, they should have lowered the landing gear prior to landing the airplane. Then everything would have been ok.

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Somewhere in my computer I have pictures of a russian sukhoi test plane after a belly touchdown. we never heard what exactly caused it, one theory was that they had turned off aural warnings during testing and then got no warning before landing.

Don't you mean oral warmings?

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It led to the same result, in any case:

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Baseball is boring, but this is amusing. And the team is the Hartford Yard Goats, which is colorful.

https://youtu.be/ihwnFZlOLbM

Looks like the runway was foamed which means they knew it was going to be a gear up landing.

Yes, that photo is LOT Polish Airlines Flight 16, a 767. Combination of a failure of the primary hydraulics and an open circuit breaker upstream of the electrically-driven backup. An attempted gravity-drop failed, so they flew it until the fuel was depleted, then bellied it onto a prepared runway.


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http://theflyingengineer.com/out-of-...ar-up-landing/

https://www.flightglobal.com/news/ar...-probe-365584/

The aircraft was repaired and returned to service.

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^As long as nobody tries to be a hero, belly-landings are usually pretty uneventful.

Expensive though...

--Ian

I guess I dated myself... Used to be SOP in the Air Force if a suspected/confirmed gear malfunction was to foam the runway.

Resulted in a couple "pucker factor" landings...

There is not universal agreement upon this in commercial aviation. The Boeing 757/767/777 flight crew training manuals state:
By comparison, the Airbus A318/319/320/321 manual states:
Boeing's stress on time required to replenish suggests that this recommendation is motivated largely by the conservation of foam for later use in the event of a post-landing fire. And one of the reports I linked to above specifically noted that the #2 engine caught fire because the foam was unevenly applied and the airplane landed off-center to the right, whereas the #1 engine, which ingested a large quantity of foam during the landing, dig not catch fire.


Copies of both FCTMs for anyone who cares:

Airbus: http://www.fwia.com/publications/Manuals/FCTM_767.pdf

Boeing: http://www.737ng.co.uk/A320%20321%20...g%20Manual.pdf


Some commercial airports possess dedicated vehicles whose sole purpose is to evenly apply foam to the runway:

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My frame of reference = mid 1970's and military. Our manuals weren't written in lawyer speak.

In the case of the LOT flight the aircrew showed the value of experience (hours) but even with that they got shitty luck (after all the miles, gear didn't extend after all even with backup system). Good crew training + no fire = successful emergency landing.

Could've easily ended as a tradegy.

This is how i like to dip my chicken fingers.

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Yeah, I remember something my instructor once said to me. "A good landing is one you can walk away from. A great landing is one where the airplane can fly again."

By any reasonable metric, that was a great landing.

Here's a video of people who have been certified by the FAA (or equivalent foreign agencies) to be sane and reasonable doing shit that scares me.

Joe, any idea what was up with the 747 around the 3:30 mark? It looks like one of the landing gear was collapsed or didn't fully extend, but they knew there was a problem before it landed as you can see the emergency vehicles rushing out before it landed.

I have always liked watching crosswind landings.

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Grooooan:

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B52 landing gear was designed to track into a crosswind, in the early 50's...

That was Virgin Atlantic VS43, outbound Gatwick for Vegas.

A hydraulic actuator in the gear-retract mechanism for the right outer main had been improperly re-installed during service, rotated 180° out of position. It finally broke (its hydraulic inlet fitting apparently cracked or was knocked out of the body), during gear-up just after takeoff on Dec 29th 2014, about three months after it had been serviced. This caused the gear to jam in a partially-retracted position.

Incident: Virgin Atlantic B744 at London on Dec 29th 2014, hydraulic problem, landed safely without right main gear


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The crew detected the fault almost immediately after takeoff, so they aborted the Atlantic crossing and just made a quick hop out to the ocean to circle around while dumping fuel, before returning to Gatwick. So yeah, the airport had plenty of time to clear out inbound traffic and roll the equipment.


Here's a better video of it:

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Don't be the skvirrel:

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Another Electric Power Pest:


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Perhaps the most insidious of power plant pests are the fingernail-sized quagga (Figure 6) and zebra mussels. The invasive species originating from the Black and Caspian Sea region have caused millions of dollars in damage in the Great Lakes region, where they were discovered in 1988. Now, they are making their way through U.S. waterways. Their discovery at Lake Mead in 2007, and subsequent colonization of Lake Powell and parts of Central Arizona Project’s water-delivery system has put the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), Salt River Project, and other Western power generators on high alert.

I fucking hate quagga mussels. You can't eat 'em, you can't write good porno plots around 'em...

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Original version not modified by some chick without the artist's permission:

^^ Thanks Steve.

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I think I'm addicted to MT.net

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Maybe I'll give it up for Lent.... in 2020

I did not even know things like this existed.
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Yikes, that's cringe worthy

Now that you have the big red neck ford with the camo they would probably let you hang out with them.

It's actually to a pretty big genre. The boys at work love this shit.

One of the songs that really made it took off was released in like 2010.

He drops a line regarding Myspace. lol

You ever wonder what goes on in the midwest... Yup, here it is.

Oh... oh wow.

Live a sheltered life?

I, too, had no idea that whatever that is called was a thing that exists.


These fine folks have actually re-made the entirety of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as a Star Wars tribute.

And it ain't bad. Not everyone's cuppa, I'm sure.

Story time.

September 2015 through December of that year I was hired by a local to help prep him for two bodybuilding shows, one in Miami (NPC) and one local (ANBF). If the gym is empty when I train anyone I put on a Pandora station of their choosing. This seemed like a good idea until I started working with him and running his training camp....I had to listen to Big Smo, Colt Ford, Mud Digger, etc... for two hours a day...5-6 days a week

I wanted to fucking die.

That voice though:

Skip ahead to 3:35.


(Also, there is no legitimate reason why the pilot at 4:15 should still be alive. Pretty sure they broke all of physics / aerodynamics with that abort.)



Also II, see 0:35:





PMJ is always so full of win.

It's going to be a good lunch.

Cubanman approves.

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90 minute stogie.

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Apparently Sammy faked his death like Tupac.

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I was working on the C-17 program when we lost 173 at Elmendorf (~7:30 in that vid). The guy was practicing a stall maneuver for an airshow. I think it's still the only complete hull loss for the C-17. It's a tough bird.

I was wondering what happened there. It looked like it was completely under control, right up until it wasn't. Hard for me to imagine intentionally doing a stall in something that big, at so low an altitude... And watching that takeoff climb blows my mind. So very much wing-loading...


Jumpmaster be like "get the fuck off this airplane!"

Too low + Too slow + Bad luck/Hubris = Crash

Pilot Over Confidence Contributes to Fatal C-17 Crash in Alaska

747 was cargo that shifted (wasn't properly secured)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...shifting-cargo

Lots of dead people in that video...

@shuiend