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  1. 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.
  5. danny_galaga
    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
  8. danny_galaga
    Whatever. Once again I have to unfollow my own post. Thanks.
  9. danny_galaga
    Update from Juan Brown. Mentions it's reminiscent of the crash in Chicago in 1979
  10. 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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    Woops! Wrong link!
  14. danny_galaga
    You still seem to be saying it's eyes are too close together, so I guess you just don't get it 🤷‍♂️
  15. danny_galaga
    Some footage. Very tragic. Is that an engine on fire on the port side?
  16. danny_galaga
    3 pob. https://www.whathifi.com/hi-fi/vinyl/vinyl-records-will-be-around-forever-the-tiny-vinyl-founders-on-the-black-discs-enduring-appeal
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    Yes, was a real eye opener for me years ago when I first did my ppl training. Did the two hours basic IFR. When the instructor gives you the frosted glasses and starts doing steep turns and climbs and descents for several minutes. Then it's "what attitude are we now?" "We are in a steep left turn" Then it's off with the glasses and damned if we aren't flying straight and level 😲 Years later, and now I've gone the ultralight route with ra-aus, and unless I missed it somehow, they don't seem to do that demonstration. I think there's no better way to tell you to stay out of the clouds than that one lesson.
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    It's a quad cam engine. There was a short animation on Sesame Street when I was growing up. Two kids are drawing. The first kid draws the usual stick figure of a person. The second kid draws the Mona Lisa. The first kid says "her eyes are too close together".
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    That can't be right, nev says he's the only one left in the world that can restore and renovate engines 😄
  20. danny_galaga
    That's great, but you realise my beautiful Lamborghini engine block is not the only engine to not be perfect, right? And, since Lamborghini produced that engine for 50 years with just incremental refinements, I think it can't have been too bad a design. Not bad for the first engine they ever built 🤷‍♂️
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    Introducing the "Neville' 😀
  22. danny_galaga
    What are you waiting for? The best sports car the world has ever seen is locked up in your head! You'll be the most revered auto engineer in history and no one will ever be able to fault your wonderful chassis, body and engine design. And all of us here can one day say 'we knew that guy when he only talked about being the best designer in the world. Then one day he proved it, and there was no doubt. He really was the best engineer that ever was, and ever will be' 😇
  23. danny_galaga
    The Muira might be the second model. It's a beauty. The first I think was the 350 gtv , which wasn't nearly as elegant. I'm sure they learnt a lot building the first design. Sounds like you should design a sports car. You seem to know how it's done 😇 Highest price paid for a Muira. There was a low point with a lot of classic cars at one stage. I remember Nicholas Cage bought an ex Shah of Iran Muira for maybe $200,000 around 20 years ago. Anything from the Shah would have virtually no miles in it, so a good catch 🙂 https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/hagerty-insider/4-9m-lamborghini-is-the-most-expensive-miura-ever-sold/
  24. danny_galaga
    Mid engine, behind the driver. V12. One casting doesn't automatically mean the gearbox shares the oil. It makes for a more compact and sturdy structure. Funny you mention reliability. Ferruccio Lamborghini had a successful tractor factory. Successful enough he bought a Ferrari. But it kept breaking down, so he asked his engineers if they could make something more reliable 😇
  25. danny_galaga
    To be fair, the main reciprocating part that might let go in a car would be a con rod.
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