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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!
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.
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.
Well, I'm sure that driving a 38,000 lb vehicle with no suspension at all at 60 mph is a luxurious experience.
So... no outriggers? Just "Well, let's hope she don't tip?"
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"..
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.
The armchair quarterback in me wants to ask "Wait, isn't it standard procedure to pop the breaker feeding the CVR after an emergency landing?"
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."
Originally Posted by Gee Emm
As a result the only detailed reporting of what went on is in de Crespiny's book 'QF32".
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.
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.
Gagarin's flight aboard Vostok 1 took place nearer in time to the Wright Brothers first flight than it did to the present day.
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.
Nine by my count, plus a supervisor and a couple of foremen (the AWM's Pfalz D xii, first post resto assembly)
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 ...
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.
I haven't been able to find a spec for that on the A380, but I did find it for the Boeing.
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 ******* 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.
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