Would you get into a wood and canvas ? No, things have to evolve to allow future developments and improvements to happen. Remember the de Havilland Comet. It was a total mystery why they kept dropping out of the sky with monotonous regularity. The beginning of the jet age was our first introduction to metal fatigue and it enabled us to take that into consideration when designing future aircraft.
I agree the is still work in progress, and no doubt future events will require a rethink of some methods of construction. We have to keep moving forward, making improvements and learning from our mistakes.
Hi Jon, that is so cool. Glad you had a great experience. So where did you fly and which airline? Cheers Peter. I love flying a Piper Cub as well. Great skills. BTW the Boeing which I flew for seven years has a nearly identical flight control arrangement. Do you fear it as well? Hi Hugh and thank you for taking the time to comment. I must go back and see what doom and gloom I have written. If that is how I have come across, forgive me and I will be changing it. Happy flying. Clearly you watch a lot of aviation documentaries.
I just flew first time yesterday on a Dreamliner and it was awesome. I was on a ER last week which was also awesome. The is state of the art, loved it and would definitely recommend anyone who loves to fly, to try it!!
Hi Tialaita and thanks for stopping by. Absolutely pilots know how to fly. I have nothing but respect for our men and women who criss cross the sky every day with the lives of hundreds in their hands. To me it is still one of the most noble professions.
I envy you having flown on the , something I have yet to do. Up up and away. Tracking how long fuel is used from each tank helps to spot anomalies before leakage problems get out of hand. Also Air Transat flight which made a successful gliding landing in the Azores. ALL machines are made by humans! I totally get the burro analogy. Our advanced technology is often dependent or governed by seemingly unrelated historical traditions. It reminded me of why the Space Shuttle side boosters are the diameter they are.
The story goes back to makers of the railways and Roman carriage widths. In short the rockets had to fit through railway tunnels that were the width of two horses behinds.
Humans certainly are fallible and we certainly understand and appreciate that. Over time lessons are learned from events that slip through the system and as a result new systems or improvements are put in place so that the particular event can never reoccur. No accident occurs without it providing valuable data toward the prevention of future accidents.
As a result, flying has never been safer. At any moment thousands of aircraft are aloft safely transporting their payloads from A to B. That is indeed strange. Perhaps one of our readers may be able to help you with that. Thank you for stopping by. Once the Qatar dreamliner utilized power from fegpu during standby. While starting the plane after completion of boarding, the engines did not cranked by using our fegpu.
We had connected three 90 kVA power cables two near front landing gear, one at aft wing side by. Rear side we used mobile gpu of same power output i. But the plane engines did not started. After changing of front NATO fegpu cables with mobile gpu cables, one engine got successfully cranked.
Maximum power had supplied by the fegpu during standby without tripping; during starting also huge amperes were loaded on our fegpu. Then what is the reason for engines not getting started while connecting fegpu….????
After that flight departure, Emirates utilized the power from the same fegpu and same plugs and this flight cranked the engines by loading on our fegpu….!!!! No fault log observed from fegpu side. I somewhere heard that B should be cranked only electrically from the aft side receptacle by connecting 90 kVA input. Is that correct….??????? Safety through thorough maintenance is what keeps us all flying safely. Storms cause the jet stream to bend, cresting and dipping into waves that ride across the Lower Just like kinking a garden hose, it causes the flow speed to decline.
In the absence of large-scale weather systems, a zonal west-to-east jet is free to gather considerable speed, much like how we reach our fastest highway speeds on straightaways. The jet stream can usually get to speeds this high only in the winter because temperature differences between the north and south are maximised.
Temperatures on Tuesday hovered around minus to minus in eastern Canada while soaring well into the 80s over Florida. Such large differences in temperature and pressure power the wind. See also: Three record-breaking flights were the year's biggest events in travel.
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