danny_galaga

Early days. Who can say what happened. Right now think of it as a Doolittle raid.

Something like 1200km from the Ukrainian border.

Jesus, this stupid 15 minute no edit thing on this site... Obviously should say WAGE 🤪

Jokes aside, you may have seen that the Ukrainians converted an Aeroprakt Foxbat into a giant suicide drone and attacked a drone (😂) factory deep into Russian territory. Bombardier have said not too long ago they don't want their Rotax engines in military aircraft. The ZD would be a brilliant alternative if they are going to make more drones out of Foxbats. And cheaper too. If it's going to be blown up anyway, why pay more than you have to?

I quite often don't have the time to look at long videos, but I watched the whole thing. Really nice to see those sorts of videos. I enjoyed every minute 🙂

Apparently the average age of men in the US was $3600 in 1956. Seems a new c172 is about $400000, and the average US wage is about 64000. So definitely more expensive now by roughly a factor of two. I suppose it's not surprising for us since one of the attractions of ultralights etc is a lower entry price.

Maybe they've adopted the automotive (or Boeing 😄) model- send it out with design faults, and then endlessly keep paying to modify/fix the problems 😂

Simple, it costs them $1230000 to make.

Well, if he is trained by them it sort of is. You have to keep up with the times. Young people becoming engineers have grown up with smart phones etc. so that has to be part of the training. Train them to make the first step to switch off your phone and put it in your locker. Or whatever the problem is- why isn't he following the protocols? What is it in the training that isn't sticking? Are they lowering standards for recruiting? And etc.

I'm normally wary of saying what's happening to so and so, they are turning to shit. It's the logical fallacy of selected instance. But what's happening to Boeing? They're turning to shit 😄 Probably what I can more accurately say is- what's happening to maintenance standards, they're turning to shit.

Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 engine cover falls off plane, strikes wing during take-off on flight from Denver - ABC News https://amp.abc.net.au/article/103680234#amp_tf=From %1%24s&aoh=17125608534479&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

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OBJECTION! (Am I doing it right? ) 😄

I hear Cirrus make fuel efficient planes.

Cirrus is the safest aircraft on the market.

If you can't get rid of it, put it all in a box with a 'free' sign on it and put it out on the nature strip in front of your house. After two days when it's still there, swap the sign for one that says '$50 for the lot'. It should disappear in a few hours...

Cirrus 😈

That business model works with games consoles because you make your money selling software. Suspect it doesn't work so well in this scenario 😄

I agree with a lot of what you say there. To the question " are planes with parachutes really safer?" One would have to say yes, at least in the case of Cirrus. Will I fit a chute to my plane? No.

Is that the plane some famous baseball player crashed?

See my magazine photo above. Ballistic in 1983. That guy has big balls cutting the rigging to prove his chutes work 😲. He's standing, err hanging by his product 😄

From my August 1983 National Geographic, the issue that fired my imagination about ultralights when I was a teenager

That's really interesting garfly. I had actually imagined that the force needed was a deliberate safety feature, instead it turns out it's mostly because you are tensioning the firing pin mechanism. In the video he says that Cirrus now train owners on using it, which is good. I imagine they also get to pull on mock up one so they know what sort of strength is required.

I think when they say the expectation is the airframe is destroyed, they mean exactly that. EXPECT it to be destroyed. The saying is HOPE for the best, EXPECT the worst So if your airframe survives the crash, then YAY! But destroyed or not, YOU will survive.