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Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jan 2024, 17:53
Replies: 66
Views: 20,739
Posted By Flyingmole

The West's prejuduce angainst the East

Reading some of the comments reminds me about an article I read in Autocar - British car magazine - many moons ago. It was about the arrival on our shores of the first Honda Civic and its like. While...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
16th Jun 2023, 13:45
Replies: 2
Views: 1,625
Posted By Flyingmole

BA 217 turnaround

BA 217 LHR-IAD just got as far as Ireland and then returned to base. I only looked it up because it flew a very atypical approach to LHR over High Wycome a few moments ago. Any idea whassup?...
Forum: Rumours & News
17th Jan 2023, 07:08
Replies: 1
Views: 3,380
Posted By Flyingmole

ATC chat, JFK runway incursion

Interesting article & recording of American Airlines 777 crossing runway just as Delta 737 is taking off.
...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
6th Nov 2022, 07:21
Replies: 46
Views: 25,270
Posted By Flyingmole

Precision Air crash, Lake Victoria

Sadly, just picked this up from Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/precision-air-plane-crashes-into-lake-victoria-tanzania-state-media-2022-11-06/
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th May 2022, 16:09
Replies: 44
Views: 10,433
Posted By Flyingmole

Gad! I used to fly in EAA Daks back in the 50s...

Gad! I used to fly in EAA Daks back in the 50s and 60s! I wonder if I flew in that one? In those days you realised why places were called 'Airfields'. That's what many of the landing areas for the...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
9th Apr 2022, 20:20
Replies: 13
Views: 5,351
Posted By Flyingmole

Ummmm I really think that even the Russians have...

Ummmm I really think that even the Russians have heard of FR24 and ADB-S
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
9th Apr 2022, 19:30
Replies: 13
Views: 5,351
Posted By Flyingmole

Boris in Ukraine

Interesting RAF movements to accompany the news that British PM has been in Kyiv today. First of all the KC2 that is sometimes his personal transport flew out of Brize and did this over Poland,...
Forum: Military Aviation
17th Sep 2021, 07:20
Replies: 1,599
Views: 358,133
Posted By Flyingmole

Given how "successful" (not!) decades of Green et...

Given how "successful" (not!) decades of Green et al protests around Faslane have been in blunting the British R boats and now V boats, methinks that there is not much there to worry about
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Aug 2021, 15:45
Replies: 41
Views: 10,925
Posted By Flyingmole

Whoops

Just realised: the Google pic I posted does not have North at the top: it is Nor'west. That means that the sun in the Hurri photo is around due South, so probably midday in the middle of winter.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Aug 2021, 15:32
Replies: 41
Views: 10,925
Posted By Flyingmole

Compare to today

Here's the same area today, courtesy Google Earth. As someone mentioned, you can see that the line in the roof of the factory is architecural. The top of the picture is North so the sun in the Hurri...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Feb 2021, 06:52
Replies: 36
Views: 11,869
Posted By Flyingmole

However there was a severe runway overrun of a...

However there was a severe runway overrun of a trooping Britannia (sorry, cannot remember precise details but I think it was in the Med area and I can remember seeing a photo of the plane nose-down...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
25th Sep 2020, 19:33
Replies: 9
Views: 4,340
Posted By Flyingmole

Landing gear?

Did a looooot of circling before going in. Landing gear issues?
Forum: Rumours & News
25th May 2020, 13:46
Replies: 1,808
Views: 3,079,520
Posted By Flyingmole

Please don't misrepresent my point. I was...

Please don't misrepresent my point. I was replying to a post that said we should be looking at aviation issues and not cultural issues. I was merely saying that insofar as cultural issues can affect...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th May 2020, 20:51
Replies: 1,808
Views: 3,079,520
Posted By Flyingmole

With respect, a key issue in aviation incidents...

With respect, a key issue in aviation incidents is human factors, and where such rituals can affect human factors they are relevant to identifying possible causation of incidents and accidents. I say...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
17th Apr 2020, 20:48
Replies: 39
Views: 16,722
Posted By Flyingmole

Oh really?

Mmm The military is not screwing around. Tell that to the crew of the USS Theodore Roosevelt
Forum: Terms and Endearment
13th Mar 2020, 10:46
Replies: 633
Views: 613,635
Posted By Flyingmole

But unfortunately what you have failed to factor...

But unfortunately what you have failed to factor in is just how infectious Covid-19 is. With Western European countries such as Germany now saying - based on their best available scientific advice -...
Forum: Rumours & News
7th Feb 2019, 07:27
Replies: 29
Views: 22,040
Posted By Flyingmole

Root cause?

Any aviation chaps out there have any ideas on what could cause enough smoke to convince the pilot to go 7700 and yet not leave any trace of ignition or combustion after landing? One presumes that an...
Forum: Rumours & News
6th Feb 2019, 20:21
Replies: 29
Views: 22,040
Posted By Flyingmole

Condor squawks 7700 mid Atlantic

FR24 showingCondor flight DE 2116 Frankfurt to Mexico squawked 7700 mid-Atlantic and staggered back to Shannon. No furthe info available as at 21.20 GMT.
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Dec 2014, 15:06
Replies: 243
Views: 267,184
Posted By Flyingmole

Not sure that I see the link between being over...

Not sure that I see the link between being over 60 and being useless. If and when Learmount speaks rubbish, then criticise and rebuff him intellectually and technically, but kindly refrain from...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
28th Mar 2014, 07:06
Replies: 109
Views: 35,772
Posted By Flyingmole

Depends on your handbaggage

Last thing on hand baggage. I travel with a £1500 laptop with massive amounts of data. OK, I do have back-up elsewhere, but if it a small aircraft that I have to exit in a hurry and the hull is...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2014, 09:26
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,326,651
Posted By Flyingmole

As I seem to have stirred the proverbial by...

As I seem to have stirred the proverbial by daring to refer to FR24 as a source of data, I'd like to make a point or two. (i) I get the strong impression that because it is not 'official' , many...
Forum: Rumours & News
8th Mar 2014, 07:20
Replies: 11,831
Views: 24,326,651
Posted By Flyingmole

Why is it meaningless to say Publicly Available...

Why is it meaningless to say Publicly Available Radar? And why do airlines and airports not (i) go to FlightRadar24 (ii) move the map to the Malaysia arae (iii) pit "MA" into the filters to track...
Forum: Tech Log
18th Oct 2013, 11:41
Replies: 976
Views: 217,895
Posted By Flyingmole

Loss of situation awareness & cognition

Anyone who wants a more informed view on this aspect of it should just go to AF447 full.mov - YouTube and listen to David Learmount's very persuasive case. His view is that it is not - as he puts it...
Forum: Rumours & News
24th Nov 2006, 19:40
Replies: 62
Views: 44,992
Posted By Flyingmole

I've done it for real on an Airbus

For those looking at the whole thing theoretically, a few years ago as a passenger outbound from Doha to LHR on a QA A300, we hit birds at V1. Brill pilot brought us to straight line stop, turned off...
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