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Forum: Military Aviation
18th May 2020, 10:53
Replies: 283
Views: 204,312
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

If you ain't got the smash......

….you are going to crash. Speaking as a low-level jet aerobaticist, what were he thinking?....pulling up after take-off (low energy) into a barrel roll and compounding that by losing the roll-rate at...
Forum: Tech Log
17th Apr 2018, 16:09
Replies: 20
Views: 8,552
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

787-8 and 787-9 ETOPS cancelled (RR Engine flaws)

SUMMARY:
We are adopting a new airworthiness directive (AD) for The Boeing Company Model 787-8 and 787-9 airplanes powered by Rolls-Royce
plc (RR) Trent 1000-A2, Trent 1000-AE2, Trent 1000-C2,...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Mar 2017, 10:28
Replies: 31
Views: 33,699
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

swarf =chip detector light/ tooth = sun/planetary disrupt

Always best to get a chip-detector light first from the swarf of a lube fail or misalignment. Not good when the sun/planetary enmesh leads to a tooth detaching. That leads to the prop-torque inducing...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
8th Oct 2016, 11:28
Replies: 11
Views: 3,432
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Best MH370 theory yet?

Look at the Ben Sandilands blog on crikey.com (last month referring to Blaine Gibson's fire-damaged debris) for a link to the first really credible theory on MH370
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Aug 2016, 16:19
Replies: 50
Views: 21,317
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

An Associated Conundrum

I'll venture just a similar hypothetical in the same vein - but with some vital differences peculiar to aircraft type. Disregarding cost index and fixed altitudes and speeds, can we look at a...
Forum: Rumours & News
2nd Aug 2016, 07:42
Replies: 76
Views: 58,155
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Bit off topic but recently read an interesting...

Bit off topic but recently read an interesting (but incomplete) dissertation on the FMS and the whimsicalities of some systems when dialling up waypoints. Mention was made of how the Helios 737 flew...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd May 2016, 17:13
Replies: 1,184
Views: 2,632,177
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Organfreak. TKT = Teflon/Kapton/Teflon (that's a...

Organfreak. TKT = Teflon/Kapton/Teflon (that's a much safer aromatic polyimide wiring insulation). That was the smart Airbus move.
Most of the Kapton is now in the boneyards in a vast array of...
Forum: Rumours & News
19th May 2016, 09:09
Replies: 1,184
Views: 2,632,177
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Timer device ex Cairo (in wheel-well IED) that...

Timer device ex Cairo (in wheel-well IED) that gets it through Paris and after departure CDG, completes the circuit to the barometric device that then initiates on descent Cairo. Not rocket science...
Forum: Tech Log
27th Jan 2011, 08:47
Replies: 3,893
Views: 1,541,460
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Seemingly Very Relevant to AF447......

Federal Aviation Administration
14 CFR Part 39
[Docket No. FAA-2011-0029; Directorate Identifier 2010-NM-279-AD; Amendment 39-16583; AD 2011-02-09]
Airworthiness Directives; Airbus Model A330-200...
Forum: Military Aviation
8th Dec 2010, 07:45
Replies: 23
Views: 5,915
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

That "RPI versus CPI" RORT

Ministers have been studying plans to allow funds to water down their own rules promising members minimum annual increases in pension payments.

About six in 10 private-sector pension schemes...
Forum: Tech Log
2nd Nov 2010, 01:17
Replies: 49
Views: 38,731
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

In a Similar Donkey-Konk Vein

http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/432141-not-good-etops-erops-twin.html

The current A330 malaise
Forum: Computer/Internet Issues & Troubleshooting
31st Oct 2010, 05:42
Replies: 35
Views: 5,494
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Try disabling Network Discovery. Even if you...

Try disabling Network Discovery.

Even if you don't run a network, some API's may suggest to the operating system that it should look for one. That can result in delay (hourglassing) or in some...
Forum: Tech Log
7th Aug 2010, 06:25
Replies: 3,893
Views: 1,541,460
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Everybody talking at once......avoiding that annoying superheterodyne squeal

Murphywasright addressed the problem of mutual interference if aircraft were to be broadcasting their data on the one V/UHF frequency. This has been resolved within "link" technology. i.e. no mutual...
Forum: Tech Log
7th Aug 2010, 05:56
Replies: 3,893
Views: 1,541,460
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Bearing in mind the limited width of the ITCZ in...

Bearing in mind the limited width of the ITCZ in the area of AF447's demise, and given the considerable range (air to air) for a high altitude loitering Zephyr drone, it should be possible to keep...
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
5th Aug 2010, 01:20
Replies: 26
Views: 8,586
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

You need more than Safety Enhancements to sell Red Bull as a spectator sport

Having watched two Red Bulls, I'm of the opinion that underwing paint-guns and attacks on spectators with cannister-droppable dye-filled water balloons would enhance the experience by introducing...
Forum: Tech Log
4th Aug 2010, 12:33
Replies: 3,893
Views: 1,541,460
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

That P2P solution - Pragmatics and Practicality

The post by the Shadow at #1782 (http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/395105-af-447-search-resume-90.html#post5823516) suggested a mutually supportive P2P solution for flight recorder data...
Forum: Military Aviation
24th Jul 2010, 15:35
Replies: 98
Views: 30,729
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

The Low-down on Low and Slow

I'm still haunted by some of the mistakes that I made over many low-level displays (jets/big radials/ 4 engined/glider/helo). I guess it's just a stage that you can go through in a military career....
Forum: The Pacific: General Aviation & Questions
3rd Jun 2010, 11:00
Replies: 28
Views: 10,509
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Australia Raises Minimum Wage

But ADF pensioners, DFRB, MSBS and DFRDB recipients and disability veterans will just continue their rearward march... at a now increased pace.


03 june 2010

By RACHEL PANNETT...
Forum: Military Aviation
30th May 2010, 07:12
Replies: 23
Views: 5,915
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Senator Steve Fielding's Petition - Sign up now

A Fairer Go For Our Veterans Petition :: Senator Steve Fielding (http://www.stevefielding.com.au/a_fairer_go_for_our_veterans_petition)
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for a fairer deal for military superannuitants and...
Forum: Rumours & News
14th May 2010, 14:14
Replies: 1,543
Views: 856,732
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Approach Visual Illusions for Runway first third upslope

Notice the pronounced upslope in the first third of the runway (image of 09 appch at post 303 above). The effect of this (first third only) limited runway field of view in poor visibility is an...
Forum: Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific
13th May 2010, 05:15
Replies: 71
Views: 64,792
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

Some not so good F35 News

The David Axe piece at War Is Boring Wary of Advertiser, Magazine Pulls Critic off F-35 Beat (http://www.warisboring.com/?p=5184) is good.

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Aviation Week Grounds Top Critic of...
Forum: Military Aviation
23rd Apr 2010, 08:12
Replies: 23
Views: 5,915
Posted By WeeWinkyWilly

As the Election remorselessly approaches...

......this matter needs to be kept in the forefront of the minds of serving and ex-Defence members alike - not to mention those considering joining up.
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