AnimalChin posted:

Captain Postal posted:

I think you mean 100% laws of physics and newscorp bullshit. You can throw a burning match into that fuel and it won't ignite.

Boomerjinks posted:

gently caress YEAH AARDVARK gently caress YEAH

Geoj posted:

So wait, did the satellite actually catch that Sikorsky in flight?

Nebakenezzer posted:

(which wouldn't be totally bad, they could get across the Atlantic in a few days.)

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

Plane cancelled? Oh well, what are you going to do? Bitch and moan like a child?

Linedance posted:

no liquids over 100ml.

it is frozen sauce with meat.

Phanatic posted:

Well, except for Credible Sport.

Captain Postal posted:

What? I direct you to the A380. All fly-by-wire (because that never fails), multiple data links (not needed, but why not?) all braided into one strand so that a single piece of debris will cut ALL of them at once instead of damaging one and leaving redundant systems intact as a back-up.

grover posted:

But it was all caused by a single small oil leak.

MrChips posted:

Here's how it works (at least to my understanding):

Say you're looking for a trip and you browse Airline A's website, your tracking cookie will store your search query for later. Now, you go check Airline B's website. Their site sees you have a cookie from Airline A

babyeatingpsychopath posted:

Bombay Sapphire and tonic: you can chat with anybody now.

iyaayas01 posted:

It's a poor analogy (not the least of which because it's an indirect car analogy) but if you were carrying something in a pickup, would you rather hold it in place in the bed using a couple of cargo straps or by wrapping a shitload of twine around it?

MrYenko posted:

Supersonic ejection's best case scenario is probable crew survival upon landing. It makes no further promises.

SybilVimes posted:

Yak-15:

grover posted:

I discovered (while trying to pull up weather radar in a friend's plane) that my cell phone doesn't work very well from the air anyhow- lost the signal pretty quickly while climbing. I figure the antennas are designed to direct the energy horizontally, where people are; get above them, and you lose the signal. Kinda curious what experiences other people have had with this.

wdarkk posted:

Really, Lockheed?

wdarkk posted:

I mean their claim that this could ever be anything you could describe as affordable without snickering.

hobbesmaster posted:

Then you know theres a sub there so mission accomplished!

slidebite posted:

I am glad to see this although Dublin itself doesn't have a ton of appeal, but I assume it's an OK as a stop over to get to the rest of Europe?

grover posted:

If I were to get one negligible-cost perk on a 6 hour flight, I'd prefer it be a sandwich.

Barnsy posted:

Snecma are currently producing the engines that power the Rafale. They certainly haven't built other VTOL engines though...

Davin Valkri posted:

Well, he's famous (for a bunch of things, but in this context) for talking about the dangers of the military industrial complex in a speech. Something to do with that, I'm guessing.

quote:

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

A Melted Tarp posted:

I believe the pilots have the ability to drop masks manually, not just via pressure trigger. So perhaps he was giving the impression that the cabin was depressurized to keep everyone compliant.

Dr. Klas posted:

That sure looks like an Iranian mock-up...

Captain Postal posted:

That's not even the half of it. You know how a one way fare costs about the same as a return one (so they get the extra seat)? I've been told they're banning that too. You've gotta love a government that actually does poo poo for people rather than business.

VikingSkull posted:

S-3 Viking ejection system. 4 seater so you're seeing 4 simultaneous ejections there.