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Walty McWaltface
Homepage | The Old Flying Machine Company
The Old Flying Machine Company, formed in 1981 by Ray Hanna and his children Mark and Sarah, maintains and operates rare historic aircraft in airworthy condition.
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Homepage | The Old Flying Machine Company
The Old Flying Machine Company, formed in 1981 by Ray Hanna and his children Mark and Sarah, maintains and operates rare historic aircraft in airworthy condition.
Was talking bout Ray Hanna at the weekend
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Everything you could ever want to know about the Peoples Liberation Army Air Force.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
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.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Thanks DD, loved that. So many facts! It is cool as fuck. And they gave it D-Day stripes to make it cooler.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Doh. 2 min. 30 sec.
www.itv.com
Air ambulances unable to land at Addenbrooke's Hospital after helipad destroyed | ITV News
Critically ill patients can't be flown directly to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge after its helipad was destroyed by a military aircraft. | ITV News Anglia
www.itv.com
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Doh. 2 min. 30 sec.
Air ambulances unable to land at Addenbrooke's Hospital after helipad destroyed | ITV News
Critically ill patients can't be flown directly to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge after its helipad was destroyed by a military aircraft. | ITV News Anglia
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.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
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.
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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teuchter
je suis teuchter
I think this might be the worst explanatory diagram I've ever seen.
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
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?
Caramba!
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
All a bit "No Highway"
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
Jolly good.
Was a freight flight.
More speculation here
More speculation here
BA 787-8 G-ZBJB suffers nose gear collapse at LHR - FlyerTalk Forums
British Airways | Executive Club - BA 787-8 G-ZBJB suffers nose gear collapse at LHR - Live incident at London Heathrow Fire and rescue, Airside Safety are currently at the scene of a B787 dreamliner operated by British Airways. The B787 has suffered from a nose gear collapse which has sparked a...
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
Was a freight flight.
More speculation here
BA 787-8 G-ZBJB suffers nose gear collapse at LHR - FlyerTalk Forums
British Airways | Executive Club - BA 787-8 G-ZBJB suffers nose gear collapse at LHR - Live incident at London Heathrow Fire and rescue, Airside Safety are currently at the scene of a B787 dreamliner operated by British Airways. The B787 has suffered from a nose gear collapse which has sparked a...www.flyertalk.com
From that thread:
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
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.
Its 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...
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Interesting... CX are going to certify the A350 for single pilot operation (in the cruise for now).
www.reuters.com
Completely unpersoned operation is obviously the end goal here. It makes a lot of sense but there will be shrieking from reactionaries.
EXCLUSIVE Cathay working with Airbus on single-pilot system for long-haul
Cathay Pacific (0293.HK) is working with Airbus (AIR.PA) to introduce "reduced crew" long-haul flights with a sole pilot in the cockpit much of the time, industry sources told Reuters.
Completely unpersoned operation is obviously the end goal here. It makes a lot of sense but there will be shrieking from reactionaries.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Interesting... CX are going to certify the A350 for single pilot operation (in the cruise for now).
EXCLUSIVE Cathay working with Airbus on single-pilot system for long-haul
Cathay Pacific (0293.HK) is working with Airbus (AIR.PA) to introduce "reduced crew" long-haul flights with a sole pilot in the cockpit much of the time, industry sources told Reuters.
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.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
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.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
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...
