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  1. Birdseye
    No, I'm not confusing anything with anything. I'm merely suggesting that the time taken by the ATSB to issue a report, may also be metered by a perception that what they produce should not leave them open in the slightest to criticism. Whether that be in the legal sense or the media circus. I'm not criticizing the ATSB at all, as their investigations should be as thorough as they can possibly be.
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    Is the underlying issue, that along with their dreadful TV programmes, we have also acquired the onerous litigatious ewnvironment from the USA? Draft, review, quality assurance etc., all smack of the 'covering of the backside' that has become necessary in just about any process. Not to mention that any report has also to be politically correct in order to meet the expectations of the media hounds.
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    In overall dimensions there wasn't much between the DC-3 and the Lancaster, but power and weight were a little..... (rounded figures) Lancaster (in late war use) Span 102', Length 69', MTOW 68,000lbs, Total power 6500hp DC-3 Span 95', Length 64', MTOW 25,000lbs, Total power 2200hp When the film was made in 1955 a lot of the bouncing bomb details were still classified secret.
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    The photo pops up in a few places with other claims, but I'm reasonably sure about the 1955 film reference. Size is of course relative. Appears big next to contemporary bombers, but tiny compared to the B52 at, for example Duxford.
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    According to what I've found, the photo is a scene from the movie The Dam Busters - released in 1955.
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    With the problems authorities around the world have dealing with Uber, how will they ever cope with flying Ubers????
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    Your friend gave you duff gen. If for any reason the Concorde could not make or maintain supersonic cruise, they would assess options which could include the best alternate airport. If it occurred early in the flight then a return to Heathrow or Paris was the most likely. While Halifax might have been an alternate option, the planned destination was always KJFK. Note that is not based on hearsay, but on the fact that I issued the clearance to quite a number of them.
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    Put the roof down on the MX-5 today, she's over the thousand hours now.
  9. Birdseye
    When I saw that a week or so ago I thought it was just an early April Fool's joke.
  10. Birdseye
    Interesting to pose a theory and then discount it in the same message :-) Multiple maydays in just a few seconds do question, what if any, level of incapacitation could have occurred..
  11. Birdseye
    Yes, that the engines were both 'turning' doesn't say that they were necessarily developing thrust.
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    A light crosswind is the optimum condition for vortex problems. In still air, the vortices will normally diverge towards the edge of the runway at 3 to 5 kts (that speed is as far as I recall), bring in a similar strength crosswind and one vortex will effectively sit on the runway. In the days when large jets did circuit training, it was common on a calmish day to see a vortex cause an indication on the anemometer after a few seconds or so. Then again there is always the exception. The aircraft I first soloed and the CFI that took me on my GFT were both written off in a vortex incident about 2 years later. That was on a quite breezy day.
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    Impractical, even if they had the real time wind info.
  14. Birdseye
    Lad I know did exactly that. He's just about due to come out, having flown the B737 on VIP and other tasks. Should walk straight into a decent job. Beats the hell out of flying clapped out Navajos on parcel runs and that sort of thing.
  15. Birdseye
    Works fine for me from the embedded video. Maybe your browser?
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    Two mechanisms in play here I think, firstly the general turbulence (often referred to as the slipstream) from the aircraft passing through the air and secondly the wake vortices. Those with gliding experience will have aware that you have to get low (or high) enough when behind the tug to avoid the slipstream.
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    Wake turbulence/vortex is a fickle beast. Many moons ago, an exec jet I was directing to the ILS at Heathrow reported that he had just 'flown into a brick wall'. Flying at 7000' he had hit severe turbulence as he crossed the track of a DC8-63 that had passed about 25 miles ahead of him. He was shaken and stirred!
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    Uses a RR Mamba twin turboshaft power pack and twin contra-rotating props. So it could be regarded as a single, but with two separate power and prop sources. It can fly on either or both.
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    A child only a mother could love.
  20. Birdseye
    Here's a sensible 'twin', but you wont get it down to 1320kg AUW
  21. Birdseye
    Had about 10 hours logged in that aeroplane.
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    Any chance that there is text in those lines you cannot see i.e. its white on white to prevent viewing? I've acquired and used similar techniques for other reasons in the past ;-)
  23. Birdseye
    From experience, never downplay any thoughts of self harm when speaking with the medical profession. Its about the only thing that will get their attention (and action). Unfortunately, I am not one to 'blow my own trumpet' and that extends to understating most things.
  24. Birdseye
    Chap walks into the chemist and asks for some deodorant. "Do you want spray or the ball type", asked the shop assistant. "I'd better have the spray, its for under my arms", he replied.
  25. Birdseye
    Surely no aeroplane can be *that* boring......
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