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Cool, there’s my productivity down again...I think on the CWA porn I posted a picture of PLAAF mustang in Chinese colours from the military museum in Beijing.
 
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Looks like a pretty shoddily built pad to me - an Osprey has a powerful downwash, more powerful than a Chinook, but not that much more powerful than a Chinook, and Chinooks' are used for such things occasionally.

The crew might have some responsibility given that they know their aircraft and Addenbrookes don't, but a pad should not break up like that.
 
Built? Looks more like they just laid down some rolls of flooring.

The air ambulance will be able to land on the grass, the pain might be the access for stretchers with wheels etc. with expensive beeping medical shit attached across that to the hospital entrance quickly.
 
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This happened in 2007 but I had never seen or heard of it before, and YouTube just suggested it to me.

That's cutting it a bit fine is it not? :eek: The tip of the left wing must have been not much more than a metre off the ground...

 
Wow. Presumably landing gear is built roboustly enough to withstand multiple cycles and the occasional heavy landing? That must have been some heavy load...
 
Was a freight flight.

More speculation here

 
Was a freight flight.

More speculation here


From that thread:

Turns out it is likely due to a known 787 issue, whereby the nose gear locking pin could easily be installed in the drag race pivot link by mistake, which could lead to gear collapse during ground testing.

Oh dear
 
Can't the air ambulances just land on the grass if need be?

Depends on the need...

If it's wet a helicopter could sink its landing gear into the mud - happened to the RAF Chinook recently - added to that an ambulance might not be able to get the helicopter. Stretchers are problematic because they're get stuck in wet grass let alone mud, and even on dry ground they'd bounce like fuck.

Then you have this.
20210618_144001.jpgIts a neo-natal life support pod. The baby inside weighs about 2lb, the pod that keeps them alive weights just short of 500lb. that simply can't be moved across anything but concrete...
 
Interesting... CX are going to certify the A350 for single pilot operation (in the cruise for now).


Completely unpersoned operation is obviously the end goal here. It makes a lot of sense but there will be shrieking from reactionaries.
 
Interesting... CX are going to certify the A350 for single pilot operation (in the cruise for now).


Completely unpersoned operation is obviously the end goal here. It makes a lot of sense but there will be shrieking from reactionaries.


Was surprised on my last Cathay flight to notice that they had four pilots, seems that is standard for >12 hour flights. At around £250 an hour per captain and £170 an hour for a first officer, that's a hell of a wage bill. Two means that much of the time the cockpit will only have one in there, three would mean that there could always be two up front, so why four? Seems excessive.
 
Was surprised on my last Cathay flight to notice that they had four pilots, seems that is standard for >12 hour flights. At around £250 an hour per captain and £170 an hour for a first officer, that's a hell of a wage bill. Two means that much of the time the cockpit will only have one in there, three would mean that there could always be two up front, so why four? Seems excessive.

Currently there always has to be two crew in the cockpit so they have to have an augmented crew to allow rest. When I was at Cathay we used to do LAX-HKG flights that were over 15 hours in the 400F with 4 crew. Doing 15 hours in the cockpit with no break would be quite dangerous from a fatigue management perspective.
 
Currently there always has to be two crew in the cockpit so they have to have an augmented crew to allow rest. When I was at Cathay we used to do LAX-HKG flights that were over 15 hours in the 400F with 4 crew. Doing 15 hours in the cockpit with no break would be quite dangerous from a fatigue management perspective.


Have done SFO-LAX, it is a long flight, was daylight all the way and I must have got through more than a litre of vodka, straight from the airport to a party too (((my liver))). Still don't see why not three up front (upstairs on my flight, was a UA 747), would allow 4 hours rest each on a 15 hour flight...
 
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