Hangar Chat

I remember the days when before boarding a flight you stepped and a scale and your weight and your luggage weight were logged and given to the pilot so he could figure weight and balance. Our fattening population now has led to this. https://onemileatatime.com/news/united-airlines-blocking-seats-passenger-weight/ Noel

Oh my, last night's storm brought me a visit from Zeus, the which I've never encountered before! Around 2024 last evening I briefly saw a brilliant bright flash that seemed to illuminate the entire interior of my house accompanied immediately by the loudest BOOM I've ever heard. Instantly my home was plunged into utter darkness. At first, I thought a bomb had exploded in my back yard, but upon feeling my way to my computer desk in the stygian blackness to find one of my flashlights, followed by opening the front door, I noticed that my landlord's stately manor was still lighted, as were the neighbors houses still with power. I then deduced that it was a lightning str…

Just some more Star Trek Spaceship Pron: Reinterpreting a scene from one of the movies in a more exciting/spectacular and detailed way than depicted in the movie itself! And also you now get to see exactly why the rule says thrusters only, in spacedock! 😃 (The actual movie, for budgetary reasons, reused a scene from a previous outing, showing Enterprise sailing sedately and boringly through the doors, which never explained why Valeris seemed so concerned) Kudos to the dedicated and talented fans that take the time and effort to make this sort of stuff, for us!

Hello all, I have a question about the MD-80 warning systems. The stall sound at least on the test I have noticed from videos, includes 4 jolts of the yoke shaking, followed a high pitched “STALL!,” quickly followed by a slightly more quiet low pitched “stall!,” which sounds like it may come from another area of the cockpit. Why is this? Why not just a singular “STALL!,” warning? I have been a big fan of this old jet since I was a little kid, having flown many flights on it. By the way, is there more technical websites for this aircraft? Thanks and safe flights, Alexandre Trahan.

This is the well-deserved winner of a Nobel Prize for Literature's latest book. One quote: “Ultimately, money doesn’t matter. Nor do the things it can buy. Because no matter how many chairs you have, you only have one a$$.” I happen to agree. Most big lottery winners wind up much later saying it would have been better if they had never won that huge pile of free underserved loot. https://www.insidehook.com/article/music/bob-dylan-new-book-best-lines

If your idols disappoint you, try meeting them a second time.

Ryanair will begin modernizing its B737-800s with split scimitar fins this winter. According to Ryanair, adding the split scimitar to the wing tip will reduce fuel consumption by 1.5%. https://simpleflying.com/ryanair-spend-200-million-boeing-737-800s-more-efficient/

Last night on TCM I watched 'The Lion in Winter' and 'Anne of 1000 Days'. I find British history as depicted in these films, and others, so fascinating. I never tire of watching them. I pity British school kids who have to learn this history which extends much further back (did King Arthur really exist?) than our own history here in the US. We just have to study about a few dozen presidents but British kids have to know all about the Marys and Edwards and Elizabeths and Henrys and Charleses and Annes ad infinitum. But I guess there are only a few principals you have learn about. The ones that made history. And while we learn about the westward expansion…

"The feral roosters on the island of Oahu are growing in numbers in Honolulu, where they start crowing in the early hours of the morning." https://www.sfgate.com/hawaii/article/hawaii-feral-chickens-in-honolulu-17555886.php

A fatal Crash involving a ATR-42 in bad turbulence over Lake Victoria: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-63532896

On November 17, 2012 a Pasadena Police Department (PD) helicopter struck a stationary Pasadena PD helicopter while maneuvering to park at the Pasadena Police Benedict Heliport in Altadena, California.

I was just thinking, anyway to setup an intense flight as a passenger, like in VR. Like on a plane doing aerobatics or a jet flying low through mountains, I dunno, just a thought. Might be weird as a passenger.

The refineries situation and diverting oil shipments... jet fuel?

No, not the movie. The other night Betty and I were watching Ancient Aliens for lack of something better to watch. It was a more interesting show than most of them are however. They were discussing the evolution of intelligent beings on other planets. What struck me was how would they have evolved on a planet larger than ours and with a dimmer sun. They're eyes would be larger because of the dim light and they would be smaller because of the increased gravity of a larger planet. And, of course, they brought up the greys. But one thing never mentioned was how they would behave on our planet with reduced gravity. Would they be able to run faster or j…

At another forum a discussion about potential errors resulting from blocage of the Ram, Drain and / or Static ports of a Pitot system being modeled by different desktop simulators reminded me of ELITE IFT which I first got as a full version by v7, around 2000, and has been modeling this various types of failures since ever. I know icing effects have been modeled in simulators like fs9, fsx, ms flight, p3d, now also MFS, xp9, 10,11 and now 12, and even in DCS World, as well as in Aerowinx PSX. Wonder if the level of detail is such that users can actually make good use of the simulation to train for their RW flying, like, depending on which port(s) are clogged: …

The Spruce Goose celebrates the 75th anniversary of it's one and only flight today. https://www.yahoo.com/now/celebrating-75th-anniversary-american-icon-202000045.html Another iconic old timer made it's first flight 70 years ago last April. The venerable B-52. With all of the modifications and upgrades it's not the same B-52 your great granddaddy flew. A half dozen of them are about to be deployed to Northern Australia. RAAF Base Tyndall to be exact. Noel

Not my kind of music and no great names in starring roles but how I love that kinda corny horror musical. I love the songs if not the music. I guess I've seen this movie a dozen times or more. It was on last night and I stayed up a little past my bedtime to watch it. 'The Little Shop of Horrors.' It's light, entertaining, corny, funny and the real start is Audrey II a carniverous plant from another world. It's not for everybody, but I'm hooked on it. Noel

This video showed up early this morning, and I thought I'd pass it along since it involves recovery of a crashed aircraft and the pilot's remains.

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