High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
And when I said "hear" I now mean "heard" as, like me, she's taking early retirement . . . tomorrow in her case
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2hats
Dust.
M-B Mk16 zero-zero ejection seat.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
If the cover into the inlet story is true then more than one person didn't do their job. Ultimately the carrier's Cdr (Air) should carry the can as they failed to create a culture in which people were diligent.
Generally being involved in very expensive aviation mishaps is no bar to future advancement in the British forces. The US, by contrast, generally run a ruthless and much healthier blame culture.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Two staggered explosive charges followed by rocket ignition as the seat moves up the rails.
Lancman
Well-Known Member
Let’s assume that an air intake blank was not removed before engine start and that that was the cause of this extremely expensive accident. Why all these cries of “someone will have to be punished” ? Writing an instruction to remove the blank was the laziest, cheapest, and least reliable way of preventing this debacle. It should have been made impossible to start the engine with the blank in place at aircraft or blank design level.
High Voltage
In the top 97% of Urban's most interesting posters
Four things:
1. It's not an accident (see: Road Traffic Collision)
2. I bought that plane with my taxes
3. It's peace time. There is zero excuse for this happening
4. At least a Navy captain would've done the honourable thing and gone down with his ship
1. It's not an accident (see: Road Traffic Collision)
2. I bought that plane with my taxes
3. It's peace time. There is zero excuse for this happening
4. At least a Navy captain would've done the honourable thing and gone down with his ship
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Clearly someone is to blame and should be made to pay, say wages docked a tenner a week until the debt is cleared.
gosub
~#
1. Lessons learnt
2. Complacency over precedurures revised.
3. One highly skilled pilot lucky to be alive.
4. YOU ARE A CUNT.
gosub
~#
Stop his rum ration for a month , if it's really serious
Storm Fox
Trying the find the next noun to verb
The blame culture won't fix anything. Look the the Mentour Pilot channel on YouTube where he goes into commercial aircraft crashes and incidents, in nearly everyone a method of working is changed or training improved. It's very rarely just blaming the flight crew.
One simple example that passengers get to see every flight is the Flight Attendants are told "Arm Doors and Crosscheck"
They are told to do this and not just relying on just doing the arming when they feel like it
They have to check the FA opposite them have done it too in case the other person didn't hear, was distracted by a passenger at that moment. This is to set up a safety system that is very unlikely to be used anyway due to all the other safety systems in place.
So for a multi million pound fighter jet with an item that is a single point of catastrophic failure, there should be systems in place to prevent this from happening which rely on checks by more than one person.
T & P
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Bahnhof Strasse I have a bit of a dilemma and would be interested in your input.
We’re going to Madrid late 23/24 Dec returning 26th. I had to wait for ages for my OH to confirm whether she could come, and by the time we were ready to book last week we were already looking at the best part of £500 each with BA, or at least £350 with everyone else (won’t do Ryanair though).
If Omicron and the travel outlook gets worse, are tickets prices remotely likely to go down? And on the flip side, if things don’t get worse could tickets get significantly more expensive than nearly half grand, or even worse sell out? I’m torn between buying now and regretting ‘wasting’ a grand on two return flights to bloody Madrid if we’re not allowed to fly after all, or wait a couple of weeks to see what the Covid situation is only to have to pay £600 or more per head, or worse not find tickets at all.
We’re going to Madrid late 23/24 Dec returning 26th. I had to wait for ages for my OH to confirm whether she could come, and by the time we were ready to book last week we were already looking at the best part of £500 each with BA, or at least £350 with everyone else (won’t do Ryanair though).
If Omicron and the travel outlook gets worse, are tickets prices remotely likely to go down? And on the flip side, if things don’t get worse could tickets get significantly more expensive than nearly half grand, or even worse sell out? I’m torn between buying now and regretting ‘wasting’ a grand on two return flights to bloody Madrid if we’re not allowed to fly after all, or wait a couple of weeks to see what the Covid situation is only to have to pay £600 or more per head, or worse not find tickets at all.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
My guess, worth no more than yours. I don't think prices will go down much. If things get much worse travel will be business only again. If it turns out Optimus Prime isn't that much of an increased risk then prices will go up. I'd buy the £350 ones...
T & P
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Thing is I’ve get so many horror stories with vouchers/ refunds in case of Covid cancellations, I’d rather spend £150 more per head with BA, because at least they seem to be far more flexible and efficient with vouchers than the low costs.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
See also lead free bullets for health reasons.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
TBF, that's less about the health of the person the bullet is aimed at, and more about not poisoning the environment with all that lead...
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Depleted uranium. The healthy choice.
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
My sense of humour takes a while to kick in
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Won't get cheaper, but...
£319.72 each, out eco with one checked bag each, back business
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
^^^only 2 seats currently left at that rate btw.
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Fussy sods. Anything later is £512.
If you want the earlier, cheaper one held PM me the names. btw the return is Iberia A350, business class...
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
PM your names and I can hold the space until Saturday with no commitment needed.
T & P
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I’ve called my OH and it’s a hard no from her work about taking the 23rd off, so that’s off the cards now. Thank you for the offer though!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
T & P
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J-20, J-31 and now this… I’m starting to wonder if the Chinese have had spies posted at Lockheed Martin & Boeing continuously for the last couple of decades…
www.thedrive.com
Tailless Fighter-Like Airframe Spotted At Chinese Jet Manufacturer's Test Airfield
The object in question looks very much like a tailless fighter design similar to the U.S. X-44 Manta and new NGAD concepts.
www.thedrive.com
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Only idiots would fly at the moment - all pilots have forgotten how to do their job. Safer to get the train.
www.heraldscotland.com
Warning over pilots’ lack of flying after ‘serious incident’ involving plane
The rapid descent of a Tui Airways plane could be linked to its pilots being grounded for long periods during the coronavirus pandemic,…
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Only idiots would fly at the moment - all pilots have forgotten how to do their job. Safer to get the train.
Warning over pilots’ lack of flying after ‘serious incident’ involving plane
The rapid descent of a Tui Airways plane could be linked to its pilots being grounded for long periods during the coronavirus pandemic,…
You know a lot of train drivers have been off and maintaining their route qualifications by watching DVDs ?
