slidebite posted:

One of my flight choices back when I did the LH 744 flight was BA. I read their business class reviews on their "ying-yang" style seats and they seemed to be almost universally condemned. That said, it can't be BAD and I think many of the contributors on the frequent flyer forums are divas and basically the aircraft equivalent of DSLreports posters.

hobbesmaster posted:

https://dereklow.co/singapore-airlines-suites-class/

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

How is the air here moving, is it being pushed away from where the cloud is?
https://twitter.com/MikeCollierWX/status/1141535119318179840

Jonny Nox posted:

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

How is the air here moving, is it being pushed away from where the cloud is?
https://twitter.com/MikeCollierWX/status/1141535119318179840

Nebakenezzer posted:

The daily beast is Rebutting the Atlantic Story.

Question: do we know about the depressurization/re-pressurization?

quote:

This is nonsense, and Langewiesche should have known so, since he recounts the importance of the sole source of physical evidence that eventually came to light, when more than a score of pieces of debris from the 777 washed up on beaches in the western Indian Ocean.

One of the largest pieces, an outboard wing flap, was found on Pemba Island off the coast of Tanzania, in June 2016. This was highly significant to investigators because this flap could only be activated for takeoff or landing by command of the pilot. It could not be independently moved by the autopilot.

After several weeks of detailed scrutiny, investigators concluded that the flap had not been deployed, and therefore the jet had plunged into the ocean once its fuel was exhausted without any human intervention.

Langewiesche, suggesting the opposite, adds his own dramatic color by saying “The airplane disintegrated into confetti when it hit the water.”

That idea is absolutely confounded by the solidity of the pieces of debris that survived. The main and heaviest parts of the jet, the engines and the fuselage, would have been shattered on impact, but never shredded like confetti. Confetti better describes Langewiesche’s detective work.

Humphreys posted:

Anyway have this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyC2urCl_4

Humphreys posted:

I just got asked on a Facebook group if an F-14 counts as a 'Fixed Wing' aircraft. Cheeky fucker!

mlmp08 posted:

Variable geometry wing.

Now commence arguing whether slats and such count as variable geometry. And whether it matters if leading edge or trailing edge. And if it matters if manual or automatic. And if it matters whether analog or digital.

Ola posted:

An F-14 has variable sweep, which is a subset of variable geometry. Other subsets include variable camber and incidence. I guess flaps change the effective camber, but do they really change the geometry of the wing? I would say no. They are part of the wing system, but the separate from the airfoil structure. A true variable camber wing could perhaps make do without flaps, or to put it on its head, you can make do without a variable camber wing be having a non-variable wing with flaps/slats.

"Commence arguing" was meant literally, right??

Sagebrush posted:

Well, the only other kind of winged aircraft is a rotary wing aircraft, so obviously it's a...

...hmm.

quote:

Ever had a nightmare in which you wake up at night, alone, strapped in a seat in a completely dark and freezing cold room with no means to contact anyone?

That's the story Air Canada passenger Tiffani Adams told about what was supposed to be a simple 90-minute flight from Quebec City to Toronto Pearson International Airport earlier this month.

Her account was posted on the airline's Facebook page by her friend Deanna Noel-Dale.

Adams, who has since been experiencing anxiety and insomnia, wrote that she fell asleep in a row of seats on a nearly empty flight, and by the time she woke up the plane had arrived at its destination and had been parked away from the nearest terminal.

Her cellphone battery was depleted, therefore useless, and there was no power on the plane to recharge it.

No one else was on the pitch-black plane.

Adams made her way to the cockpit, where she eventually found a flashlight. The light helped her figure out how to open the main exit door. But there was no gangway, so she was staring at what she said was a 40 to 50 foot drop to the ground, hardly an attractive means of escape.

She focused the flashlight on the plane's exterior, hoping that the reflection might catch someone's attention. In time, the driver of a luggage cart came to her rescue.

Adams said Air Canada representatives offered her a ride home and then called her twice to apologize and say they've launched an investigation into how she was missed by the plane's crew when everyone else got off the flight in Toronto.

She says she's still recovering. "I haven't got much sleep since the reoccurring night terrors and waking up anxious and afraid I'm alone locked up someplace dark," she wrote.

A representative for Air Canada confirmed Adams' account, adding they "remain in contact with her."

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada:

Craptacular posted:

So, inflate the evacuation slide?

mlmp08 posted:

One of my friends was on a flight where the nose-wheel collapsed, they slid down the runway, fire crew responded, but there was no fire.

The crew explicitly ensured no one inflated the evacuation slides. Their reasoning was that there was no danger of fire and someone was possibly going to suffer a sprain or other minor injury on the slide if the didn't just wait for a riser.

He was pretty bummed out about that.

FuturePastNow posted:

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada:

A Travel Nightmare: Waking Up Cold And Alone In A Darkened Plane

quote:

Adams made her way to the cockpit, where she eventually found a flashlight. The light helped her figure out how to open the main exit door. But there was no gangway, so she was staring at what she said was a 40 to 50 foot drop to the ground, hardly an attractive means of escape

Craptacular posted:

So, inflate the evacuation slide?

mlmp08 posted:

One of my friends was on a flight where the nose-wheel collapsed, they slid down the runway, fire crew responded, but there was no fire.

The crew explicitly ensured no one inflated the evacuation slides. Their reasoning was that there was no danger of fire and someone was possibly going to suffer a sprain or other minor injury on the slide if the didn't just wait for a riser.

He was pretty bummed out about that.

Wingnut Ninja posted:

Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada:

A Travel Nightmare: Waking Up Cold And Alone In A Darkened Plane

Wingnut Ninja posted:

*heads out to sea in a flat spin*

Also, don't take naps when flying Air Canada:

A Travel Nightmare: Waking Up Cold And Alone In A Darkened Plane

Finger Prince posted:

This kind of story is the type of thing that makes me despair for humanity. To go to the news with something like this? I fell asleep on the train once and had to find and ask a conductor if it could stop at the next station and let me off. It was embarrassing, and I had an "oh poo poo where am I and where am I going" moment when I woke up, but I didn't go tell the news about it, and I certainly didn't suffer anxiety and night terrors from loving FALLING ASLEEP AND WAKING UP IN THE DARK! Jesus Christ. I get why PR is bending over backwards to make sure she's feeling ok so she doesn't sue, that's a whole other what's wrong with this world discussion though. But how is this anything but the personally embarrassing story of "oops I fell asleep when I shouldn't have, and got in a minor predicament because of it". A grown rear end-adult having night terrors and anxiety because they fell asleep on public transport and woke up in the dark not sure exactly where they were.

vessbot posted:

It's a bigger deal than that. The plane was not hooked up to a gate so she had no way off, and if she hasn't gotten lucky and had someone notice her leaning out the door with the flashlight, she could have been stranded overnight or even multiple days. Now let's also imagine it was winter in Canada, and you see the problem. Add to that the stress of a possible misunderstanding in our very rational post-9/11 world over why she had accessed an unauthorized area and tampered with equipment...

Minto Took posted:

And I thought I was an rear end in a top hat for not being sad that Dave Mustaine has throat cancer. As someone with General Anxiety Disorder, please choke on a bowl of poop.

Finger Prince posted:

This kind of story is the type of thing that makes me despair for humanity. To go to the news with something like this? I fell asleep on the train once and had to find and ask a conductor if it could stop at the next station and let me off. It was embarrassing, and I had an "oh poo poo where am I and where am I going" moment when I woke up, but I didn't go tell the news about it, and I certainly didn't suffer anxiety and night terrors from loving FALLING ASLEEP AND WAKING UP IN THE DARK! Jesus Christ. I get why PR is bending over backwards to make sure she's feeling ok so she doesn't sue, that's a whole other what's wrong with this world discussion though. But how is this anything but the personally embarrassing story of "oops I fell asleep when I shouldn't have, and got in a minor predicament because of it". A grown rear end-adult having night terrors and anxiety because they fell asleep on public transport and woke up in the dark not sure exactly where they were.

Finger Prince posted:

Sorry to hear that, but do you go tell the news every time something causes you to suffer from an anxiety attack?

Jealous Cow posted:

Go back to reddit, op.

Finger Prince posted:

None of this is actually a thing that would have happened. She literally flagged someone down within a couple of hours of waking up. It's an airport, the biggest, busiest airport in the country, not a gulag.

Finger Prince posted:

some loving personal responsibility.