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Forum: Rumours & News
17th May 2021, 16:08
Replies: 76
Views: 26,820
Posted By vaneyck

They never realised they were in a stall, and the...

They never realised they were in a stall, and the right-seater flying never acknowledged the PNF's quiet call out of Alternate mode, so he might well have believed he couldn't stall, being in normal...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Nov 2019, 18:22
Replies: 113
Views: 126,587
Posted By vaneyck

As to the question of the F/O taking control - A...

As to the question of the F/O taking control - A comment from one of his examiners at a training and proficiency check (p 39) says:

Needs to be quite a bit more assertive in
what is needed from...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Nov 2018, 16:10
Replies: 2,099
Views: 1,467,275
Posted By vaneyck

Interesting that the Safety recommendations...

Interesting that the Safety recommendations criticise the pilots of the flight before the final one for continuing to destination, but approve Lion Air's actions leading up to that flight and the...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Nov 2016, 18:28
Replies: 20
Views: 6,354
Posted By vaneyck

The paper cited in Riff Raff's post describes it...

The paper cited in Riff Raff's post describes it as, "...a real, fully functional, bomb that used lead for the core instead of plutonium." and not a cement dummy. That suggests the Uranium tamper...
Forum: Military Aviation
14th Sep 2016, 22:11
Replies: 12,075
Views: 3,613,190
Posted By vaneyck

In Michael Gilmore's latest memo referenced in a...

In Michael Gilmore's latest memo referenced in a couple of the articles mentioned above (it can be found at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3035572/DOT-amp-E-AF-IOC-Memo.pdf there are a...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th May 2016, 23:24
Replies: 12,075
Views: 3,613,190
Posted By vaneyck

I stand corrected. What an incredibly...

I stand corrected. What an incredibly time-consuming and no doubt expensive process.
Forum: Military Aviation
24th May 2016, 16:21
Replies: 12,075
Views: 3,613,190
Posted By vaneyck

t43562 "This video is very long and uneventful...

t43562
"This video is very long and uneventful so don't watch more than a couple of seconds of it. It seems like a painful process if this has to be done to a large deck area."

Presumably that...
Forum: Accidents and Close Calls
30th Apr 2016, 15:59
Replies: 45
Views: 29,034
Posted By vaneyck

Yes. The behaviour of the two men who rushed to...

Yes. The behaviour of the two men who rushed to the plane after the pilot had extricated himself from 2 minutes in that desperate position reminded me of Dr. Johnson's rebuke to Lord Chesterfield in...
Forum: Tech Log
27th Jan 2016, 16:43
Replies: 106
Views: 24,215
Posted By vaneyck

Thank you very much for this, joema, it's...

Thank you very much for this, joema, it's fascinating. As it happens I just got through re-reading the main CAIB final report - one of the best-written and organised reports I've ever come across -...
Forum: Tech Log
2nd Jan 2016, 21:22
Replies: 290
Views: 53,475
Posted By vaneyck

William Langewiesche used to write for the...

William Langewiesche used to write for the Atlantic and I subscribed partly for his well-written and informative articles. He was hired away by Vanity Fair 8 or 9 years ago, to much surprise, but I...
Forum: Tech Log
22nd Aug 2011, 18:04
Replies: 3,435
Views: 1,668,735
Posted By vaneyck

5 degrees?

In the BEA press conference linked by jcjeant, J-P Troadec says:

'the pilot should have applied the unreliable IAS procedure and in fact this procedure consists specifically of adopting a pitch...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Aug 2011, 16:30
Replies: 470
Views: 150,255
Posted By vaneyck

Langewiesche

I enjoy William Langewiesche's reportage very much. I used to subscribe to the Atlantic, and now I subscribe to Vanity Fair, largely due to his presence as a staff writer. That said, bubbers44 points...
Forum: Rumours & News
29th Jul 2011, 23:33
Replies: 109
Views: 86,696
Posted By vaneyck

grease monkeys

Can't speak for the poster who came up with 'greased monkeys' (and I wouldn't want to anyway), but the expression 'grease monkey' is old American slang for 'mechanic'. It was usually used for car...
Forum: Tech Log
24th May 2011, 23:13
Replies: 16
Views: 2,865
Posted By vaneyck

Ben Sandilands' Plane Talking associates these...

Ben Sandilands' Plane Talking associates these incidents with Qantas' outsourcing its RB211 maintenance to Hong Kong:
Dual dangers hanging over Qantas, as we know it | Plane Talking...
Forum: North America
20th Nov 2010, 22:34
Replies: 4
Views: 2,029
Posted By vaneyck

Most Novas are shown as Horizon in GB, and most...

Most Novas are shown as Horizon in GB, and most Horizons are shown on Nova, sooner or later. Has Horizon had a show on AF 447 yet?
Forum: Rumours & News
16th Jun 2010, 11:11
Replies: 103
Views: 41,363
Posted By vaneyck

In this interview from last October The Leonard...

In this interview from last October The Leonard Lopate Show: Highest Duty - WNYC (http://beta.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2009/oct/15/highest-duty/) Capt. Sullenberger describes his decision-making...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Jun 2010, 10:32
Replies: 103
Views: 41,363
Posted By vaneyck

Sully has spoken about this a few times. He says...

Sully has spoken about this a few times. He says he spent some seconds thinking about what would be best and decided that, time being so short, it would be best to have passengers just brace for...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Feb 2010, 12:02
Replies: 2,015
Views: 714,787
Posted By vaneyck

Agreed that one such statistic can mislead, but...

Agreed that one such statistic can mislead, but the Buffalo News series of articles, particularly in their attention to the regional airlines, are in my opinion responsible, well-researched, and...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Feb 2010, 09:45
Replies: 2,015
Views: 714,787
Posted By vaneyck

As to tailplane stall: Yes, it was settled long...

As to tailplane stall: Yes, it was settled long ago that that was not what the Colgan flight was experiencing. But if the pilot had in his muddled head memories of the NASA video and thought he was...
Forum: Rumours & News
21st Feb 2010, 13:03
Replies: 2,015
Views: 714,787
Posted By vaneyck

The tail-plane stall NASA video may be relevant...

The tail-plane stall NASA video may be relevant in this respect: It was mentioned in a couple of newspaper articles (sorry, can't offer proper citations) that according to Colgan pilots, they were...
Forum: Rumours & News
10th Feb 2010, 23:05
Replies: 2,015
Views: 714,787
Posted By vaneyck

It was excellent. I believe Miles O'Brien, who...

It was excellent. I believe Miles O'Brien, who wrote the program and appears in it as interviewer, posted a couple of times on PPrune asking for help and information, probably on the Buffalo thread.
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Jan 2010, 23:03
Replies: 69
Views: 26,722
Posted By vaneyck

Here are parts 2 & 3 of the Buffalo News series...

Here are parts 2 & 3 of the Buffalo News series linked to in the first post on this thread. Part 2 is about automation and airmanship; Part 3 about private flight schools. Nothing much new to regular...
Forum: Rumours & News
11th Nov 2009, 18:59
Replies: 104
Views: 25,701
Posted By vaneyck

According to the NY Times article Langewiesche's...

According to the NY Times article Langewiesche's book is an expansion of his Vanity Fair article of June 2009, available here:
US Airways Flight 1549: Anatomy of a Miracle | vanityfair.com...
Forum: South Asia and the Far East
31st Oct 2009, 10:32
Replies: 2
Views: 814
Posted By vaneyck

NY Times article on Air India's problems

There's a longish, interesting article in the New York Times on the deterioration of Air India.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/business/global/31airindia.html?_r=1&ref=global-home&pagewanted=all
Forum: Rumours & News
31st Oct 2009, 10:09
Replies: 2,015
Views: 1,058,608
Posted By vaneyck

You can get the interview in a different format...

You can get the interview in a different format at http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2009/10/15 or download the podcast of Leonard Lopate's show (Sully's interlocutor, and a very good...
Forum: Rumours & News
30th Nov 2006, 15:26
Replies: 59
Views: 21,501
Posted By vaneyck

I too was wondering why they were finding Po 210...

I too was wondering why they were finding Po 210 everywhere, including the aircraft. By coincidence I read this last night, in The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, pp579-80:
Forum: Private Flying
12th Oct 2006, 22:44
Replies: 140
Views: 31,529
Posted By vaneyck

Network news is weighing in. The anchor on the...

Network news is weighing in. The anchor on the NBC evening news show just asked sternly, "Why are small planes allowed to fly so close to tall buildings?" Later he wondered darkly, "what if there had...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
10th Aug 2006, 21:10
Replies: 460
Views: 35,147
Posted By vaneyck

Just heard a NY city official saying he's known...

Just heard a NY city official saying he's known of this plot for several months, and thanking the British security services for keeping him in the loop.
Let's see: officials on both sides of the...
Forum: Rumours & News
13th Aug 2005, 10:20
Replies: 245
Views: 68,330
Posted By vaneyck

Article in today's NY Times on high error rates...

Article in today's NY Times on high error rates at TRACON in New York. Also on the backbiting and long-simmering dislike between the controllers and the FAA.


...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Aug 2004, 17:40
Replies: 166
Views: 46,511
Posted By vaneyck

Funny that the second site you get in Google for...

Funny that the second site you get in Google for Cyclonite tells you how to make the stuff in bomb-sized batches. The writer points out that most articles only give recipes for industrial quantities....
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd May 2004, 16:13
Replies: 52
Views: 12,842
Posted By vaneyck

"Would it be a good procedure, in a conflict...

"Would it be a good procedure, in a conflict situation, for an ATCO to ask something like this "XXX do you have RA info? follow it , contact me after ..." , prior to give instructions blindly?"

Is...
Forum: Rumours & News
16th May 2004, 14:34
Replies: 29
Views: 5,814
Posted By vaneyck

charterguy-- The 55 (not 50) mph limit was...

charterguy--

The 55 (not 50) mph limit was dropped some years ago. Most states have a 65 limit.

Congress has demanded that manufacturer's 'fleets' meet a minimum limit, currently 27.5 mpg....
Forum: Tech Log
8th Feb 2003, 00:55
Replies: 232
Views: 75,140
Posted By vaneyck

Picky Perkins-- The NY Times of Feb. 5 ran an...

Picky Perkins--
The NY Times of Feb. 5 ran an article summarizing the paper you cite, under the title NASA Was Told in 1990 About Vulnerable Protective Tiles Here's the URL:...
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