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  1. danny_galaga
    I saw the remake. It wasn't TOTALLY awful. They did at least find a similar type of plane and got it to flying condition. But agree, not a patch on the original. Blue Max is on my movies to see list. Yes, isn't that museum fantastic. I didn't even know it was there. Went for the Omaka airshow.
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    Remember that it's an ultralight. With full fuel maybe it can carry two hundred kilos of people. If you have no people to fly it, you have to fill it full of stuff to make it fly. Have a look at the system in this Cessna. It does not look light. Assuming you still have 100kg to play with, that would be in the ballpark of people saying it looked like a 50kg plastics explosion. Hard to know how the environment around the explosion affects our view of it. For instance if the plane went through a wall, concrete roofs may have suppressed the fireball. You can bet the Ukrainians (who know what they loaded the plane up with) are very carefully analysing every shred of info they can get. Even in that footage they can count all the smashed windows (sadly I believe the drone didn't hit the factory but the dormitories next to it) and get an estimate of the force. That's just the footage we see right now. They'll be trawling through eyewitness accounts, all footage available etc. even looking at the mushroom cloud is going to tell them something. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/cessna-turned-drone-foreshadows-future-unmanned-opportunities/
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    Can't blame studios for using CGI etc. It's often cheaper, and obviously MUCH safer. But I agree, there's something special about seeing it done for real, whether it's the car chase scenes in films like The French Connection, or Christian Bale actually losing nearly 30kg for his role in The Machinist or of course this movie.
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    One of my favourite movies of all time 😊 I bought the DVD a while ago and it turned out to be NTSC, so thanks for the heads up. Will watch this via Chromecast on my ol Samsung tellie 🙂
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    Early days. Who can say what happened. Right now think of it as a Doolittle raid.
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    Something like 1200km from the Ukrainian border.
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    Jesus, this stupid 15 minute no edit thing on this site... Obviously should say WAGE 🤪
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    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?
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    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 🙂
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    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.
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    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 😂
  13. danny_galaga
    Simple, it costs them $1230000 to make.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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    forgot to add
  18. danny_galaga
    OBJECTION! (Am I doing it right? ) 😄
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    I hear Cirrus make fuel efficient planes.
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    Cirrus is the safest aircraft on the market.
  21. danny_galaga
    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...
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    Cirrus 😈
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    That business model works with games consoles because you make your money selling software. Suspect it doesn't work so well in this scenario 😄
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    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.
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    Is that the plane some famous baseball player crashed?
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