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Crosswinds make for some hairy-looking landings, but the landing gear is designed to take it. Does this count as drifting a 747? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtnL4KYVtDE
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Splizwarf posted:Diagnostic procedure: 2. FOQA program analysis. Thank god it's non punishable, but an ASAP report highly recommended.
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SlapActionJackson posted:Crosswinds make for some hairy-looking landings, but the landing gear is designed to take it. Kai Tak had an amazing approach procedure. http://unforbiddingcity.com/2013/03/24/checkerboard-hill-and-the-crazy-kai-tak-airport-approach/ This article is great explanation for folks that don't normally read approach plates just how insane this approach was.
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I would describe that as completely insane. And awesome.
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Riscas posted:Well it's definitely gonna need new tires in the back. And new crew seats, if they can't recover them from Cap and co-pilot's asses.
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I've been a passenger during a landing in very turbulent crosswinds once. It's definitely one of the most pants-making GBS threads moments in my life.
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Collateral Damage posted:I've been a passenger during a landing in very turbulent crosswinds once. It's definitely one of the most pants-making GBS threads moments in my life. My dad was in one that landed hard enough to collapse the gear on one side, sending the plane skidding off the runway on its wing. This did not help my youthful fear of flying.
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Collateral Damage posted:I've been a passenger during a landing in very turbulent crosswinds once. It's definitely one of the most pants-making GBS threads moments in my life. Not that it even remotely compares to landing a 200 ton aircraft, but I did once let out a little bit of butt butter doing a crosswind landing in a piper warrior, when a gust of wind almost blew me off the centerline of the runway. I'm was and still am a very new student pilot and probably should have waved off the approach anyway, but that sealed it. I need to start flying again drat it 
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That first video, I am impressed at the flying that guy did. For all intents he did a hell of a job keeping the bird *mostly* stable. That seemed to be the absolute ragged edge of safe to land though.
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EightBit posted:Until that plane gets almost to the ground you could believe it was VTOL. That pilot must have trouble sitting with balls like that. This is mostly a function of the crazy long zoom, I think.
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My VW bus has had sloppy steering since I got. Now I know why. That is the lower bearing race of the input shaft.
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Wow. It looks like someone welded something on there. Or are we talking about the [concave?] ring behind it? I'm having a hard time mentally parsing the picture.
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I don't think that problem was going to fix it's self
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Feb 23, 2014 05:17
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I saw this today and thought of you all:
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nitrogen posted:I saw this today and thought of you all: I don't see any failure here. I see AI.
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nitrogen posted:I saw this today and thought of you all: This is the lowest effort Bosozoku exhaust.
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I can't hate inappropriate flappers on exhausts.
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Geirskogul posted:Wow. It looks like someone welded something on there. Or are we talking about the [concave?] ring behind it? I'm having a hard time mentally parsing the picture. That part that looks like a weld is a heavily spalled bearing race. There was a very thick puddle of fine metal flakes in the low point on the steering gearbox. Rest of the box looked immaculate considering it is 37 years old.
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Cakefool posted:I can't hate inappropriate flappers on exhausts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGlOuk4wEn8 pretty much the best really.
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I need to get video of my friend's '71 Dodge D300 dually with the most low-effort redneck stacks I've ever seen. The two pipes are maybe 1 3/4" in diameter and the engine still doesn't produce enough backpressure to keep the flappers open, so it sounds like skeletons loving in a pile of rusty spoons while it idles. Funniest poo poo ever, I think I pissed off the PO when we bought it by laughing so much. Once it's running again the first thing I'm doing is taking a hacksaw to those stacks. Terrible Robot fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Feb 23, 2014 |
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Cakefool posted:I can't hate inappropriate flappers on exhausts. 
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It's so beautiful.
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Had a lucky? Mechanical failure on fri night. Went to lake placid from longisland with my gfs family in their Denali. Left at six got there at eleven and right as we enter the block the the right front wheel bearing goes in a very loud way had it fixed the next day for 500 at a local shop.
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 I cant imagine what would cause the truck's wheels to suddenly escape.
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tentative8e8op posted:
Wheels, hell. That's the whole godamned axle. See also; American Graffiti.
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So your AC compressor seized but the clutch is fine? Well...
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Seat Safety Switch posted:So your AC compressor seized but the clutch is fine? Well... Was fine.
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Don't worry, it's a Brembo AC clutch.
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tentative8e8op posted:
Sometimes it just happens. 
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What's that? Rearends falling out of trucks you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYsMXk-OR18 It isn't only trucks, either. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjE-wHsjZ_E Really though he probably hadn't maintained the rear suspension properly and hit a pothole and the brakes at the same time or something and it just overstressed it. e: remember the rearend in the roadkill ratrod charger thrashing around under heavy braking in the latest episode? Yep, if they don't stiffen up the rear leafs or put a traction bar in it, eventually it will do something like this, or just ruin the leafsprings.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:So your AC compressor seized but the clutch is fine? Well...  That uh...says a lot about the power transmission properties of that belt at least.
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Pivit posted:Sometimes it just happens. Looks like the rear has some non-Euclidean geometry, now 
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Every time I look at it, this photo makes the hair on the back of my neck go up. 
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Splizwarf posted:Every time I look at it, this photo makes the hair on the back of my neck go up. Seat Safety Switch posted:So your AC compressor seized but the clutch is fine? Well... It took me a minute. I thought it was just some part that was painted red or something. Then I took a closer look, and it's a red hot piece of metal isn't it? I don't have enough knowledge to know what that's supposed to look like, but I'm betting "glowing" is not the correct state for an AC part.
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 drat hose from the grease gun. After I sung it's good graces even.
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Funzo posted:It took me a minute. I thought it was just some part that was painted red or something. Then I took a closer look, and it's a red hot piece of metal isn't it? I don't have enough knowledge to know what that's supposed to look like, but I'm betting "glowing" is not the correct state for an AC part. It is the compressor on the Ac system. It is driven by the engine belt but has to cycle on and off so there is an electrically controlled clutch built into the pulley. If you listen to your car when the ac is on you can hear it turn on and off, normally with a click, a whirring noise from the spinning compressor. and a change in the engine noise because it has to do more work to power the load. The compressor in the photo is seized and will not turn. When the clutch engaged something had to give and it looks like the clutch started slipping and making huge amounts of heat from friction. I am pretty impressed that the belt didn't slip. The person probably would have stopped driving it or at least turned off the ac if it had because belt slipping noises are just plain awful.
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Shifty Pony posted:The person probably would have stopped driving it or at least turned off the ac if it had because belt slipping noises are just plain awful. Not in cold weather areas, belts start shrieking and people just rev the throttle until it warms up enough to silence itself.
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xzzy posted:Not in cold weather areas, belts start shrieking and people just rev the throttle until it warms up enough to silence itself. Yeah, if you're out walking here and it's below -10 you can A. hear Fords approaching from a mile away because their power steering is howling and B. hear any car that's over 5 years old because the belt is making the sound of a baby seal getting stabbed in the eye.
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