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Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning

21st Jul 2008, 10:19

Replies: 4

F-111 Fuel Tank Danger

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Posted By brine

F-111 Fuel Tank Danger

The following newscast from Australia indicates that F-111s have a unique safety problem. Anyone know what the specific problem is? Brine...

Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning

25th Jun 2008, 15:23

Replies: 4

Front or Rear?

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Posted By brine

Yes, Squealing Pig. I meant the way instruments...

Yes, Squealing Pig. I meant the way instruments are either inserted from the front with the bezel proud of the panel, or from the back with the glass flush with the panel.
One reason I was asking...

Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning

23rd Jun 2008, 10:20

Replies: 4

Front or Rear?

Views: 916

Posted By brine

Front or Rear?

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, and it may be a little academic now that glass cockpits are used extensively.
But do pilots prefer front-mounted or rear-mounted instruments?As an...

Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning

15th Jun 2008, 16:16

Replies: 14

Rearward Facing Passenger Seats

Views: 1,703

Posted By brine

Rearward Facing Passenger Seats

As far as I know, Britain's Royal Air Force has been the only aviation group to fit rearward-facing passenger seats in its transport aircraft.

Has any research been done to ascertain whether this...

Forum: Tech Log

11th Jan 2008, 13:31

Replies: 18

Old Oz DCA/Dept Aviation Operational Notes ('blue books')

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Posted By brine

You probably won't be interested in this but,...

You probably won't be interested in this but, when I was on technical training at RAAF Forest Hill (Wagga Wagga, NSW) back in the 1950s, a Lockheed Electra was carrying out some of the first flight...

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

11th Jan 2008, 13:04

Replies: 4,932

HEATHROW

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Posted By brine

Yes, I'm near Hemel. Not far from the Magic...

Yes, I'm near Hemel. Not far from the Magic Roundabout. Now that really is a marvel of the road makers art!

Thanks for the input. Yes, it is too late but nothing wrong with 'blue-sky' thinking....

Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes

10th Jan 2008, 17:56

Replies: 4,932

HEATHROW

Views: 1,726,037

Posted By brine

Heathrow's Roads

The architects keep designing new terminals, and access roads are added bit by bit. So the road system in and around our busiest airport is a total, confusing, mess.

Someone, somewhere, should...

Forum: Questions

18th Dec 2007, 10:05

Replies: 4

Fuel Dumps

Views: 1,107

Posted By brine

Fuel Dumps

My cousin recently flew in a Singapore Airlines 747 which developed a fault 4 hours after take-off, turned back and had to dump a few thousand gallons of jet fuel before landing.

So what happens...

Forum: Engineers & Technicians

3rd Dec 2007, 10:36

Replies: 7

Fuel Gauging - Component Confusion

Views: 2,328

Posted By brine

One thing that makes capacitance systems so good...

One thing that makes capacitance systems so good is that the fuel and vapour in the tank are measured.

The aircraft attitude makes no difference (or shouldn't!) to the reading. In aerobatics, the...

Forum: Tech Log

29th Nov 2007, 10:16

Replies: 5

Good/Bad Instrument Panel Colours?

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Posted By brine

Good/Bad Instrument Panel Colours?

Instrument panels come in many colours: British were black, then light grey; American a tasteful mid green; Russian bright turquoise blue/green; western airliners light grey or a pleasant beige; GA...

Forum: Safety, CRM, QA & Emergency Response Planning

8th Oct 2007, 16:57

Replies: 39

Wind Farms & Aviation Safety

Views: 8,172

Posted By brine

Wind Farms & Aviation Safety

Here in the UK our government ministers, and politicians of all parties, whose total knowledge of electrical power generation would probably fit on a pinhead, have decided that we are to have...

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