danny_galaga

I doubt that any B 17 has done 92,000 hours though. And it wasn't pressurised. Obviously you'd still have to watch for things like corrosion of course but in the grand scheme of things there's a lot less to catastrophically go wrong.

I think the gist of it is that it's better those parts fail, than the whole wing snaps in half. Clearly, in this case it still ended in disaster but in general the idea makes sense. There's only so much you can plan for

Totally. How many litres a minute would it be pumping? It's going to be an instant fireball with no damage to the tank.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/cargo-plane-engine-accelerated-before-fatal-hong-kong-crash-investigators-say-2025-11-19/ One thrust reverser not working, which apparently is allowed. But on landing, that engine accelerated. A question for all you big boy pilots, how much of the reverse thruster aspect is automated? From the view of an ignorant like me, it sounds like that engine was just doing its job, just that it didn't 'know' that the reverse thrust mechanisms weren't in play

A brief video from Juan Brown, who coincidentally flew C130s in the National Guard. He points out it looks like the #2 engines propeller seems to be missing.

I particularly love the 'fast forward ' feature that projects where they will land 🙂

Analog nav computer for Soyuz missions. This is just fantastic 😊 Ken Shiriff does great write ups of interesting tech. I can't follow most of this, but I know some of you will. Follow it or not, this is EM porn 😊 https://www.righto.com/2023/03/reverse-engineering-globus-ink-soviet.html

Exactly. In fact, we are slipping it into the SIDE the wind is coming from 🙂

I don't know what that means. Like I say, the mnemonic works for me 🙂

Another update from Juan Brown, illustrating what 37 seconds looks like in a fully loaded MD 11. Also more discussion of the engine failure itself.

The quick and dirty mnemonic I use (remember they don't necessarily have to make logical sense) is that a forward slip is for going forward, and a side slip is going sideways (into a crosswind)

After going down a rabbit hole 😄 Of my landings, he would often say "That was solid, but safe." 😁 He flew Canberras in the Vietnam War.

Side slip? Or forward slip?

First minor insight into voice recorder mentioned (warning bell chiming). Also a number of different angles of crash in a video and drone footage of crash site. That footage is quite telling, it shows how extensive the damage was on the ground. https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/repeating-bell-heard-in-ups-plane-s-cockpit-as-drone-footage-reveals-crash-devastation-20251108-p5n8pu.html

Juan Brown is starting to think that as well on reviewing more footage