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  1. danny_galaga
    Agreed. You could actually lay up on it, and just let it become part of the structure.
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    Yes, I actually mentioned earlier I had made a pla part and painted it. Then thought leaving it in the sun would dry it faster. Warped in less than an hour 😄 And now for ultimate thread drift, the part in question, a custom controller for the Sega mega drive pinball game, Dragons Fury. The eyes are the flippers, 'nose bone' is PAUSE/START and you rattle his skull for tilt ☺️ The base plate warped in the sun, but I managed to straighten it up enough with a hair dryer.
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    It's a little puzzling, isn't it? There's a lot of skill designing that. It seems incongruous that the same person didn't take into account the heat range. I can think of two scenarios. Either the file was sent off to somewhere to print and they misunderstood the brief, or else maybe there was an engine fire or something that heated it up way beyond reasonable, with fire somehow extinguishing itself when it crashed. Although having just said that, with engine stopped you'd think the fire would be less likely to go out, not more 🤔
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    There are of course different materials and methods. So maybe a 3d metal print would work. No idea what that would cost though. I've only used pla and abs. I left a pla print id painted out in the sun to dry the paint faster. It warped within an hour 😄
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    Plane totalled, landing short of runway.Pilot only minor injuries. A good reminder I guess that it gets toasty under the hood! https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w932vqye0o
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    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.
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    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
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    Totally. How many litres a minute would it be pumping? It's going to be an instant fireball with no damage to the tank.
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    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
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    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.
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    I particularly love the 'fast forward ' feature that projects where they will land 🙂
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    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
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    Exactly. In fact, we are slipping it into the SIDE the wind is coming from 🙂
  14. danny_galaga
    I don't know what that means. Like I say, the mnemonic works for me 🙂
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    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.
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    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)
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    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.
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    Side slip? Or forward slip?
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    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
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    Juan Brown is starting to think that as well on reviewing more footage
  21. danny_galaga
    Whatever. Once again I have to unfollow my own post. Thanks.
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    Update from Juan Brown. Mentions it's reminiscent of the crash in Chicago in 1979
  23. danny_galaga
    I'm sorry I hurt your feelings but you think it's nice to constantly hear how something isn't great in your view, even though that's not part of the discussion? Do you not like ANYTHING in the world, even though realistically nothing can be perfect? Can you not just sit back appreciate something, warts and all? It's quite tiring. I mean, this all started on a thread about an emergency landing of a Spitfire, but then you felt you had to tell everyone what a crappy engine it has blah blah blah. The engine out wasn't because it has a crappy engine, but because of a lack of maintenance, particularly of the fuel pump. I think every thread that involves engines you've got to point out why you would have designed it better, and they must have all been dolts, what were they thinking etc etc. Maybe you could start a thread on all major engines ever designed, and explain how you would have done it better. Start with the Merlin 😇
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    Skippy gets it. Relax, we can still be friends. I just know that whatever we talk about, to expect that you will know exactly what's wrong with the thing, and that you wouldn't do it that way, and get the hell offa my lawn! I'm just glad you weren't on the NASA team in the sixties, because the commies would have put a man on Mars before NASA even got a chimp into space 😄
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    Saw this other angle on the news. Murphy's Law certainly kicked in to create the maximum amount of carnage 😞
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