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Search: Posts Made By: Slats One
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Forum: Rumours & News
10th Feb 2017, 15:15
Replies: 16
Views: 16,188
Posted By Slats One

Aerolinas Arguementinas

ok, slag the media, esp the Daily Mail coverage, BUT, have you noticed the thrust reverser is semi-deployed on the engine in question - the casing gap ring is clear.


Casing slid back to partial...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Jan 2014, 16:05
Replies: 146
Views: 86,764
Posted By Slats One

This door issue has been around for a while

I hate to sound smug, but nothing new here -you've heard the scuttlebutt on this have you not?

The alleged door problems on the 380 doors are a known. Emirates has had at least one diversion due...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Nov 2013, 15:28
Replies: 26
Views: 12,439
Posted By Slats One

Tom Stoney at the helm

The training Capt in the Shannon sequences was Tom Stoney - ex RAF Bomber Command and BOAC Comet fleet. Wonderful chap so they say. In the LHR -SIN run film footage the SFO went on to be a well known...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jun 2012, 13:27
Replies: 2
Views: 3,876
Posted By Slats One

The photos in Secrets of the Spitfire are old,...

The photos in Secrets of the Spitfire are old, original, but good.

As well as the unseen Type 224 shots, there is an 1894 photo of Sir Frederick Lanchester with his elliptical wing with washout -...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Jun 2012, 13:18
Replies: 2
Views: 3,876
Posted By Slats One

Secrets of the Spitfire - Revealed BOAC's Bev Shenstone's story

'Secrets of the Spitfire the story of Beverley Shenstone the man who perfected the elliptical wing by Lance Cole - published by Pen and Sword books. just out.


If you are under the...
Forum: Private Flying
2nd Feb 2011, 14:42
Replies: 65
Views: 8,568
Posted By Slats One

Think on to glider skills

If you are going to be an airline pilot, one day, one day, you are going to need enhanced situational awareness and an appreciation of your aircraft's wing loading, wing energy and descent profile,...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Aug 2010, 12:38
Replies: 185
Views: 45,379
Posted By Slats One

Disbond of my belief

After reading this thread focus mainly on rudder ratio and related control systems and human inputs, I am now forced to ask:

Are we going to now consider the events of 2005 when an A310 of Air...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Jun 2010, 13:27
Replies: 35
Views: 15,363
Posted By Slats One

Haines- who he?

Now would that be the same Andrew Haines who has made it to being cited in content on the Letters page of Flight International this week...

Would that be the same CAA decision that Sir Richard...
Forum: Rumours & News
27th May 2010, 12:42
Replies: 35
Views: 15,363
Posted By Slats One

Giver her a break will you- at least she did not...

Giver her a break will you- at least she did not use the meaningless cliche of the moment- "going forwards" or worse, its newer derivative "moving forwards"...

She is an American - she speaks CNN...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Mar 2010, 11:03
Replies: 35
Views: 14,660
Posted By Slats One

Been here before

In most of the cases being discussed here, the crew elected to return due suspicion of damage. However, does anyone recall the China Southern A340 that staggered off a certain LHR runway with a...
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Mar 2010, 10:37
Replies: 147
Views: 90,905
Posted By Slats One

Fate being the hunter

As two previous posters have noted, this has been going on for decades- 'Dudley' 'Scar on cheek'.

Fate is the Hunter. Ernest Gann.

Nothing is new under the sun....
Forum: Freight Dogs
23rd Dec 2009, 14:23
Replies: 99
Views: 40,445
Posted By Slats One

Nostalgia moment

Residents of Old Town Swindon Wiltshire UK are used to the sight of DC8 60 series long body ( Air Charter Exp) howling in at two thousand feet and then making an elegant and relaxed 30 degree bank...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Sep 2009, 10:53
Replies: 49
Views: 30,313
Posted By Slats One

Good Memories - thanks for that point. FYI...

Good Memories - thanks for that point.

FYI - yes F100 has had stuck main gear incidents - as oppossed to the previously more common gear collpase event. F100 stuck main gear incidents prior to...
Forum: Rumours & News
15th Sep 2009, 10:31
Replies: 49
Views: 30,313
Posted By Slats One

Thanks Gents

Well Gents, thanks for the abuse- do you think I would type what I did without some basis of fact...

Thanks to Dutch Bru for providing some actual logged events via the Aviation Safety Network...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th Sep 2009, 18:10
Replies: 49
Views: 30,313
Posted By Slats One

Captplaystation is dead on target. When I...

Captplaystation is dead on target.

When I worked out of Schiphol we got so used to F100/ 70 and F28 gear collapses - usually the starboard gear - or stuck gear - that it became a non-event.
...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Aug 2009, 12:17
Replies: 47
Views: 29,457
Posted By Slats One

Hmm - a bit of a snide shot across my bows there...

Hmm - a bit of a snide shot across my bows there , and for your info, there is plenty of freely available information in Iran - it is called the web and played a major part in recent socio-political...
Forum: Rumours & News
4th Aug 2009, 11:45
Replies: 47
Views: 29,457
Posted By Slats One

Saha Air 707 loses 2 on climb out

Cannot see this anywhere here? Did we miss it? Or am I blind...

Aug 3 Iran. Saha Air Boeing 707 lost 2 donks with fire on T/O: Seems well handled- returned on remaining 2 and had a minor runway...
Forum: Fragrant Harbour
30th Jul 2009, 11:09
Replies: 38
Views: 8,936
Posted By Slats One

slow-motion it

If you make a careful frame by frame, slow- motion analysis of this footage, you will observe some significant wing distortion - which indicates the level of sink rate applying. I note that the crab...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2009, 13:34
Replies: 15
Views: 23,516
Posted By Slats One

Ah - no I did not mean the B2 - which is both...

Ah - no I did not mean the B2 - which is both Horten and Northrop- esque.

If you can find a shot of the Horten 60 degreee sweep job you will see what I meant.

Try the Nurflugel web site.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2009, 13:01
Replies: 15
Views: 23,516
Posted By Slats One

Oops

That is an eff on-eleven old boy.

I was thinking of the stealth fighter - as i am sure some subtle response humour knows. Perchance I gave it the wrong number- F117 would be nearer would it not?...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Jun 2009, 12:29
Replies: 15
Views: 23,516
Posted By Slats One

Before anyone carries on with opinion and words...

Before anyone carries on with opinion and words like "baloney", may i politely suggest that you go and read David Myrha's excellent book, The Horten brothers and their all wing aircraft- published by...
Forum: Tech Log
15th Jun 2009, 11:54
Replies: 4,593
Views: 3,289,114
Posted By Slats One

All very true, but as I have studied composite...

All very true, but as I have studied composite construction and use for 30 years, I can no longer remain silent as I read this thread.

Composites are safe.

Composites age and we have few...
Forum: Rumours & News
23rd Mar 2009, 14:58
Replies: 519
Views: 326,373
Posted By Slats One

The MD-11s handling issues are well established-...

The MD-11s handling issues are well established- so is its nasty prediliction for flipping over.

But that does not mean that such issues caused this crash- we will all have to wait.

However,...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
16th Mar 2009, 12:13
Replies: 33
Views: 10,202
Posted By Slats One

Factoid One: All new aircraft have teething...

Factoid One:

All new aircraft have teething troubles - who ever makes them.

Factoid Two:

Of note the SQ A380s havebeen flying around for over one year with consistent, regular problesm...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Feb 2009, 16:17
Replies: 50
Views: 18,545
Posted By Slats One

Even SQ are suffering...

This may be relevant,

I just flew SQ back from SYD on the A380.

Ex SYD the thing was half empty in Y and had about 20 per cent load factor in C.

Ex SIN the next A380 was about 60 per cent...
Forum: Private Flying
11th Jan 2009, 08:54
Replies: 175
Views: 45,701
Posted By Slats One

Are any of us glider pilots?

Heads up, Slats One here- I have the gliding obsession. Indeed I am currently in Australia on a gliding holiday and my last vario reading was +12 with averagerer at +10 and it took ages to get down,...
Forum: ATC Issues
13th Nov 2008, 03:28
Replies: 0
Views: 509
Posted By Slats One

ATCs - read FAA advisory in Medical Forum on Lariam /mefloquine

Pls see post in medical forum on this issue
Forum: Medical & Health
13th Nov 2008, 03:26
Replies: 4
Views: 1,246
Posted By Slats One

ATCs warned off mefloquine/'Lariam' by FAA

:=

Mefloquine -aka 'Lariam' the effective anti-malaria drug has been controversial for over a decade.
At first the side effects stories were dismissed as 'media hype and hysteria' - by certain...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Oct 2008, 10:47
Replies: 402
Views: 147,987
Posted By Slats One

Smile Lear's leap

One wonders if Learmount will comment on the landing at Learmonth...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Sep 2008, 11:31
Replies: 30
Views: 11,425
Posted By Slats One

Philipat If you consider my experienced,...

Philipat

If you consider my experienced, trained, safety culture - sensible caution (not over caution) "clueless" as you say, and think I "do not have a clue",
I suggest to you that we have...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Sep 2008, 09:17
Replies: 30
Views: 11,425
Posted By Slats One

If , the this incident was as bad a reported, how...

If , the this incident was as bad a reported, how come the airframe left DPS as scheduled on the return flight not long afterwards...

A more thorough beneath the skin inspection would surely be...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
10th Sep 2008, 09:50
Replies: 34
Views: 5,625
Posted By Slats One

My weekly Dc-8 fix

My house is directly under one of the final leg turn points for Lyneham, so, up-to - several times a week, I get that lovely long body, long podded DC8 whistling over at 1,000 ft. So elegant- not a...
Forum: Tech Log
8th Sep 2008, 18:09
Replies: 69
Views: 18,355
Posted By Slats One

Ref: VC10 deep stall - Chris- I was not saying...

Ref: VC10 deep stall - Chris- I was not saying the Ten could not or would not deep stall, what I was saying- clumsily it seems- was that unlike other t tailers, no VC0 airframe has ever been lost...
Forum: Tech Log
8th Sep 2008, 10:46
Replies: 69
Views: 18,355
Posted By Slats One

Rainboe: forgive me my cheek, but you said 'we'...

Rainboe: forgive me my cheek, but you said 'we' lost Vc10s at 'Kano and Addis' - surely you mean Lagos- not Kano. (Addis is correct though for the EAA - 5X-UVA )

I know I am not wrong about Lagos...
Forum: Tech Log
3rd Sep 2008, 10:28
Replies: 69
Views: 18,355
Posted By Slats One

Quite. And let us not forget that Vickers...

Quite.

And let us not forget that Vickers BAC tried desperately to upgrade the VC10 but met a BOAC brick wall. The SVC10 Super 200 was ready to go- seating 212 pax, with tip and leading edge root...
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