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Postby columbia » Fri Mar 16, 2018 12:59 pm

Autonomous Rotorcraft System Nominated For Top Aerospace Award


https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archiv ... rophy.html

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Postby RonnieFranchise » Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:33 am

Mulder and Scully aren't doing anything since the season ended, give them a call.....

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Postby NTP66 » Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:13 am



The GE9X engine (for the 777-8/9) being tested on Boeing's 747 looks both awesome and ridiculous.

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Postby tifosi77 » Fri Mar 30, 2018 2:46 pm

That's kinda funny.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 7:26 am

Anyone catch the 60 Minutes segment on Allegiant Airlines? Scary stuff. The highlights:
According to a new report by 60 Minutes, budget airline Allegiant Air has more midair incidents than all other airlines. To put a figure on it, roughly half of the airline’s flights have midair breakdowns. Incidents include aborted takeoffs, loss of cabin pressure, smoke in the cabin, unscheduled landings and even engine failure. And they’re roughly 3.5 times more likely to suffer them than other airlines.

Why? In a word, “age.” Allegiant’s fleet is old by industry standards and some planes in its fleet have been flying for 22 years. And those years of wear and tear mean that they’re more likely to break down.
More to read: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/allegiant- ... the-radar/

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:05 am

Vindicated.

I will never fly a budget airline. There are some thing that I think are worth the price premium.......... actually, perhaps a better way to phrase that is I don't think it's a premium to pay for the peace of mind that an aircraft isn't going to fall apart mid-air.

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Postby NTP66 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:08 am

Vindicated.

I will never fly a budget airline. There are some thing that I think are worth the price premium.......... actually, perhaps a better way to phrase that is I don't think it's a premium to pay for the peace of mind that an aircraft isn't going to fall apart mid-air.
My thoughts exactly.

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Postby DigitalGypsy66 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 10:11 am

"You get what you pay for"

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:27 pm

WOW

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/airpl ... 80417.html
A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely in Philadelphia Tuesday after the jet violently depressurized when a piece of an engine flew into and broke a window, according to passenger accounts and air traffic controllers.

One passenger's father-in-law, relaying information from his daughter, said the impact was so severe that a female passenger was partially sucked out of the plane when the window imploded.

“One passenger, a woman, was partially … was drawn out towards the out of the plane … was pulled back in by other passengers," he said in a phone interview with NBC10.

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Postby dodint » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:30 pm

Neat.

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Postby dodint » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:34 pm

The article has been updated and your excerpted passage has been removed.

A woman did have a heart attack, though.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:43 pm

The article has been updated and your excerpted passage has been removed.

A woman did have a heart attack, though.
Yikes, gotta love the "fog of war" reporting that comes out after this stuff.

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Postby dodint » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:44 pm

I wanted to see a woman plugging a hole in the plane like in a cartoon. :(

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:46 pm

This part:
One passenger posted a Facebook Live video from the plane during its descent.

Marty Martinez said: “Something is wrong with our plane! It appears we are going down! Emergency landing!! Southwest flight from NYC to Dallas!!”
Annoyed me for some reason. Sign of the times that was his first instinct in the event that his life may ostensibly be over soon. I'm sure he was imagining all of the LIKES and SHARES his post was going to get, along with the network interviews, if he managed to survive this incident. :lol:

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 1:55 pm

People don't get sucked out of planes during explosive decomps. However, it is not uncommon for a layer of fog to appear in the cabin after such an event. Which would be kind of fun to see.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:39 pm

U.S. federal investigator: 1 dead after plane with engine failure makes emergency landing in Philadelphia - @AP
https://t.co/z8WXSbfsCl https://t.co/OZ6Ao0FKrg

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Postby eddy » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:41 pm

U.S. federal investigator: 1 dead after plane with engine failure makes emergency landing in Philadelphia - @AP
https://t.co/z8WXSbfsCl https://t.co/OZ6Ao0FKrg
This is the first fatality aboard a U.S. airline flight since February 2009.

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Postby LITT » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:42 pm

In my imagination the person got sucked out ass first but I guess their head must have went and broke a neck or had some severe exposure/hypoxia?

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Postby dodint » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:46 pm

No one got sucked out. A woman had a heart attack.

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Postby grunthy » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:46 pm

People don't get sucked out of planes during explosive decomps. However, it is not uncommon for a layer of fog to appear in the cabin after such an event. Which would be kind of fun to see.
You can get sucked out of a plane durin explosive decompression. You just cannot get sucked out like Goldfinger.

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Postby LITT » Tue Apr 17, 2018 3:55 pm

No one got sucked out. A woman had a heart attack.
Oh well there You go. Got a full dose of that fake news from WaPo

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Postby Shyster » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:06 pm

Vindicated.

I will never fly a budget airline. There are some thing that I think are worth the price premium.......... actually, perhaps a better way to phrase that is I don't think it's a premium to pay for the peace of mind that an aircraft isn't going to fall apart mid-air.

Really depends on the airline and its approach to its fleet. Some LLCs like Allegiant Air operate pretty old iron. Others operate new aircraft. For example, the big European LCCs Ryanair and EasyJet have relatively new fleets with an average age of seven years or less, and here in the U.S. Frontier Airlines will be getting part of the largest order of Airbus A320neo-family aircraft ever. Frontier is owned by Indigo Partners, LLC, which also owns part or all of Chilean LCC JetSmart, Mexican LCC Volaris, and Polish LCC Wizz Air, and at the 2017 Dubai airshow Indigo Partners ordered 430 Airbus narrowbodies (273 A320neos and 157 A321neos) to be distributed to those airlines. Frontier will be getting more than a hundred of those brand-new aircraft. Spirit and JetBlue also have fairly new fleets and plenty of new aircraft on order. So LCC does not necessarily mean ancient (or poorly maintained) aircraft.

Aircraft age also isn't a per-se cause of incidents. Delta is famous for having a much older fleet, on average, than most large national carriers, but Delta also has a huge in-house repair/maintenance program and actively buys up aircraft being retired by other carriers in order to cannibalize them for parts. That's how Delta has been keeping its own fleet of older MD aircraft running relatively trouble-free. It doesn't sound like Allegiant has the maintenance program necessary to keep those older aircraft in good running order, and most of the problems Allegiant has been having come from its remaining Mad Dogs. Those aircraft are slated to be phased out by November 2018 and replaced by Airbus A319s and A320s, some of which Allegiant is buying new.

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Postby meow » Tue Apr 17, 2018 6:33 pm

No one got sucked out. A woman had a heart attack.
She probably killed herself when she realized they were landing in Philly

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Apr 17, 2018 8:57 pm

No one got sucked out. A woman had a heart attack.
She probably killed herself when she realized they were landing in Philly
I rarely use this, but that is POTW material right there. :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Apr 18, 2018 6:31 am

Source of the post Some LLCs like Allegiant Air operate pretty old iron.
Well there's your problem. Iron is an awful choice for aircraft.

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