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  1. Marty_d
    The 2 storey thing gets me. Every segment on the second floor has to be movable. Having a carousel on single floor makes sense, and it'd be cheaper to build another one next to it. Plus, that way you fit 10 (in 2 buildings) because you don't have to leave a segment free.
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    There's an awful lot of empty desert in Nevada where they can practice.
  3. Marty_d
    Oops. Helicopter close call in Tasmania in 2024 unreported to safety authorities until video tip-off to ATSB - ABC News WWW.ABC.NET.AU An incident in which a helicopter crew disagreed before the aircraft hit a lake due to pilot miscalculation was not reported...
  4. Marty_d
    Is that you on the bike in the poster?
  5. Marty_d
    Imagine being in that car that drove straight through the fireball in the second after it hit.
  6. Marty_d
    Pretty amazing photos. https://www.twz.com/air/eurofighter-typhoon-canopy-shattering-bird-strike-captured-in-amazing-images
  7. Marty_d
    Which makes my point really. Jeezus we put proximity alarms on cars where the bum end is 3m behind you. But we expect RPT drivers to judge clearance on a wingtip which is 30-40m at 45 degrees behind them, going in different directions in a turn.
  8. Marty_d
    Oooh, that's pretty.
  9. Marty_d
    So if ships are "she" while planes are "he"... Possibly explains why aircraft carriers look pregnant...
  10. Marty_d
    Fluid exchanges I reckon.
  11. Marty_d
    Getting there .. https://www.techinasia.com/news/catl-unveils-battery-breakthrough-electric-aircraft
  12. Marty_d
    May be a silly question, but I've seen reporting on several instances of ground mishaps where a wingtip hits something. Why don't they have some sort of proximity alarm when there's a solid object in front of the wingtip?
  13. Marty_d
    Just buy a pair and find out!
  14. Marty_d
    The only problem with motorbike gloves is that it might be hard to manipulate small switches, toggles etc. Depends on the type I guess. I wear leather gauntlet gloves on the bike and they're not very supple.
  15. Marty_d
    I bought and fitted one, but haven't yet started the engine - so not much use to you. Also interested in opinions though.
  16. Marty_d
    https://www.bellsaviation.com/category/heatedsuits.html
  17. Marty_d
    If true, it's not a good look for the company that instead of taking a reported incident seriously by 2 long term senior staff, they cover it up and fire the reporters. That leads me to ask what else they cover up.
  18. Marty_d
    Air India Fired Two Cabin Crew For Flagging Issue in Boeing 787 AVIATIONA2Z.COM Two former senior cabin crew of Air India claim they were dismissed after reporting a Boeing 787 issue a year before the June...
  19. Marty_d
    And you got some inverted time in!
  20. Marty_d
    Ok, I know it's not strictly an aircraft engine, but I found it informative. Also some motoring history I'd never heard of. Six Decades Ago, General Motors Created A Ridiculous Twin Gas Turbine Semi-Truck That Looked Like A Moon Rover - The Autopian WWW.THEAUTOPIAN.COM General Motors once tried to reinvent trucking. This is the GM Bison a wild moon rover-looking semi-truck with two turbine...
  21. Marty_d
    I want to know how he expected to get the answer.
  22. Marty_d
    No, usually they fly Air Force One
  23. Marty_d
    I suspect the Jodel in the third pic is unrelated
  24. Marty_d
    None of them are particularly related either, apart from the 787 with "suspected technical snag" whatever that is (complex sausage?) which did a precautionary turnback. A bomb threat and a low fuel fighter have nothing to do with the Air India crash.
  25. Marty_d
    Interesting MTOW, not even 500kg. Great performance though.
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