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Forum: Tech Log

5th Mar 2014, 23:43

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Habsheim

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Posted By Linktrained

Dozy #596 " We're talking a crash...

Dozy #596

" We're talking a crash that happened almost 24 years ago and there hasn't been one like it since."

In the 1950s and 1960s many of the accidents were regular " repeaters"....

Forum: Tech Log

21st Feb 2014, 14:29

Replies: 813

Habsheim

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Posted By Linktrained

O. W. Thank you for the tree height....

O. W.

Thank you for the tree height. Perhaps this was not clear enough to whoever planned this flight.

( Someone born in the late 1840s advised her R.F.C. pupil pilot son "not to fly too...

Forum: Tech Log

21st Feb 2014, 11:09

Replies: 813

Habsheim

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Posted By Linktrained

Owain Glyndwr, " Necessary thrust...

Owain Glyndwr,

" Necessary thrust increase was applied too late..."

Or too low ? Or both ? The planned height was supposed to be 100 ft.

(I do not recall the actual height of the...

Forum: Tech Log

20th Feb 2014, 15:11

Replies: 813

Habsheim

Views: 153,894

Posted By Linktrained

In #410 I did suppose ( with no evidence ) ...

In #410 I did suppose ( with no evidence )

" This may have been a display which had been practiced a number of times successfully, perhaps along a standard R/W...
If there were no trees."
...

Forum: Tech Log

13th Feb 2014, 22:40

Replies: 813

Habsheim

Views: 153,894

Posted By Linktrained

TREES

Farnborough had NO trees exceeding 500 ft. ( QFE ) along the extended centre line of the R/Ws ( IIRC ).
THAT factor alone, would have made a lot of difference for Gordon Corps' demonstration, if...

Forum: Tech Log

30th Jan 2014, 00:52

Replies: 813

Habsheim

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Posted By Linktrained

Habsheim was 25 years ago but still some of the...

Habsheim was 25 years ago but still some of the lessons are there to be learned by newbies (as well as by one 86 year old !)

As a trainee at Hamble in 1949 we heard only a limited amount of the...

Forum: Tech Log

28th Jan 2014, 11:43

Replies: 813

Habsheim

Views: 153,894

Posted By Linktrained

I should have used the phrase "potential energy...

I should have used the phrase "potential energy ..." again.

And I had forgotten/neglected to think, of THAT feature of A320's FBW.

I'm sorry.

After " Flight Idle " had been selected the...

Forum: Tech Log

28th Jan 2014, 00:22

Replies: 813

Habsheim

Views: 153,894

Posted By Linktrained

Chris Scott, Hi, This may have been a...

Chris Scott, Hi,

This may have been a display which had been practiced a number of times successfully, probably along a "standard R/W" somewhere. To have to alter the R/W on "short finals", to...

Forum: Tech Log

23rd Jan 2014, 22:47

Replies: 813

Habsheim

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Posted By Linktrained

Doxy, The Wirek Wire recorder issued to me as a...

Doxy,
The Wirek Wire recorder issued to me as a 20 year old in 1948 recorded data DIGITALLY on a long steel wire. It couldn't do anything else, just ON or NOT ON..... It was the size of a small...

Forum: Tech Log

13th Jan 2014, 14:54

Replies: 813

Habsheim

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Posted By Linktrained

The flight had been briefed to be at 100 ft along...

The flight had been briefed to be at 100 ft along R/W 34 L.
Perhaps due to the realignment with grass R/W 34 R the aircraft used some of its potential energy (now only height and airspeed, with...

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