Airplanes and dateless nights
- (bionerd)
- (73)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 10:48:43 AM EDT
Sure it would
- (drewk)
- (4)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:08:47 AM EDT
Or short the stupid fly-by-wire crap.
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- (2)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:14:04 AM EDT
if airbus does the same testing as we do
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:45:31 AM EDT
Oops, forgot the <sarcasm>
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:48:14 AM EDT
Yeah, but they dont think that is what happened here.
- (bionerd)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:21:02 AM EDT
Nit. Airbus is not exclusively French.
- (mmoffitt)
- (67)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:13:52 AM EDT
I know
- (bionerd)
- (1)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:17:07 AM EDT
Forgot something.
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:34:37 AM EDT
This one was... it was Air France
-NT
- (jake123)
- (64)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:17:53 AM EDT
Air France Concord
- (bionerd)
- (63)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:29:39 AM EDT
Please madame, it is Concorde! :)
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- (62)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:37:22 AM EDT
Potato/Potatoe
- (bionerd)
- (61)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:51:17 AM EDT
"BA flew to NY in 2 hours 34 minutes and all I got ..." :-)
-NT
- (Another Scott)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:55:25 AM EDT
Feh. The Shuttle does it a lot faster.
- (mmoffitt)
- (48)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 12:08:55 PM EDT
I certainly try to avoid landing in aircraft of any kind
-NT
- (tuberculosis)
- (47)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:37:30 PM EDT
No accounting for taste, I guess.
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- (46)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:39:15 PM EDT
Look what happened to that "perfectly good airplane"
-NT
- (tuberculosis)
- (45)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:40:46 PM EDT
Who said it was "perfectly good"? It was FBW donchaknow.
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- (44)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:43:54 PM EDT
Is that really so much less reliable than FBM?
- (tuberculosis)
- (43)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:52:36 PM EDT
Um, it would have been nice to FBM on these.
- (mmoffitt)
- (42)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 04:13:38 PM EDT
What the intent behind FBW?
- (admin)
- (41)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 06:03:48 PM EDT
A few things
- (tuberculosis)
- (15)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 07:18:27 PM EDT
Interesting.
- (admin)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 07:34:07 PM EDT
Problem is digital failure is ... well, digital
- (drewk)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 07:56:51 PM EDT
When it's accepted on automobiles, I'll be a believer.
-NT
- (a6l6e6x)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 08:08:28 PM EDT
United 232
- (bionerd)
- (11)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 08:47:10 PM EDT
Probably not.
- (inthane-chan)
- (1)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 09:04:37 PM EDT
Re: Probably not.
- (pwhysall)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 01:30:36 AM EDT
Re: Do regular people think about these things?
- (a6l6e6x)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 09:10:42 PM EDT
ICLRPD (new thread)
- (ben_tilly)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 09:11:32 PM EDT
Regular?
- (Ashton)
- (5)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 11:41:26 PM EDT
I recently found out that my FIL worked out there.
- (Another Scott)
- (4)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 08:19:13 AM EDT
{chortle}
- (Ashton)
- (3)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 01:52:05 PM EDT
Thanks. Is this your old haunting ground?
- (Another Scott)
- (2)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 02:03:52 PM EDT
{snerfl}
- (Ashton)
- (1)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 02:57:52 PM EDT
ad some hair to this picture, slim down the jawline
- (boxley)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 03:23:32 PM EDT
not as much fun as picturing ground zero nuclear
- (boxley)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 07:39:24 AM EDT
Doesn't FBW mean
- (imqwerky)
- (4)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 07:38:12 PM EDT
FBW == Fly By Wire. HTH!
-NT
- (jb4)
- (3)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 09:30:11 AM EDT
I know... :-D
- (imqwerky)
- (2)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 10:46:35 AM EDT
Let's examine the entrails a little more.
- (Another Scott)
- (1)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 10:51:58 AM EDT
I stand, er, sit corrected! :-P
-NT
- (imqwerky)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 10:54:47 AM EDT
It's mostly a philosophical thing with me. </smirk>
- (mmoffitt)
- (19)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 11:59:25 AM EDT
I think this argues for better FBW actually
- (tuberculosis)
- (18)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 12:36:31 PM EDT
I agree.
- (Another Scott)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 01:02:37 PM EDT
Say what?
- (mmoffitt)
- (16)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 02:48:30 PM EDT
What "trained pilot"?
- (jb4)
- (1)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 10:16:25 AM EDT
Doh! </me slaps self on forehead>
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 01:23:57 PM EDT
My guess
- (tuberculosis)
- (13)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 02:12:57 PM EDT
in an f16 turn off the computer
- (boxley)
- (1)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 02:14:20 PM EDT
You're so much more succinct that I am.
- (tuberculosis)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 02:16:55 PM EDT
Then why do Boeing FBW aircraft *all* have "off" switches?
- (mmoffitt)
- (10)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 03:00:31 PM EDT
Probably the pilots demanded them.
- (Andrew Grygus)
- (4)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 03:08:29 PM EDT
I always like this one.
- (mmoffitt)
- (2)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 03:13:16 PM EDT
But at Mach 3, you'll get found REAL fast....
- (jb4)
- (1)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 04:11:17 PM EDT
Or 3 states away from where you're supposed to be. ;0)
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 05:31:11 PM EDT
As goes chess ---> so goes 'piloting'___[???] (new thread)
- (Ashton)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 04:10:04 PM EDT
IIRC, depends on aircraft design
- (tonytib)
- (4)
- Aug. 5, 2005, 05:55:34 PM EDT
Actually, it won't be the USAF/USN that are the first to...
- (CRConrad)
- (3)
- Aug. 6, 2005, 06:09:45 PM EDT
Guess the F117 doesn't count?
-NT
- (drewk)
- (2)
- Aug. 8, 2005, 09:32:53 AM EDT
Which first flew in 1977.
-NT
- (pwhysall)
- Aug. 8, 2005, 02:03:41 PM EDT
Live and learn. I only knew it was butt-ugly. ;-)
-NT
- (CRConrad)
- Aug. 8, 2005, 05:59:41 PM EDT
Very possible to have lunch
- (bepatient)
- (10)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:11:30 PM EDT
OT: Hey Beep.
- (mmoffitt)
- (6)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 03:35:35 PM EDT
Re: OT: Hey Beep.
- (bepatient)
- (5)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 04:45:51 PM EDT
K. Thanks.
-NT
- (mmoffitt)
- (4)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 04:53:39 PM EDT
Got any links? Will follow up.
-NT
- (bepatient)
- (3)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 06:16:02 PM EDT
Here's a couple.
- (mmoffitt)
- (2)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 12:05:04 PM EDT
I know there's support for this
- (bepatient)
- (1)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 03:01:19 PM EDT
I don't think its that far off.
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 4, 2005, 05:13:16 PM EDT
Do tell!
- (rcareaga)
- (2)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 04:10:44 PM EDT
Dunno about him, but a girl I worked with did it this way.
- (mmoffitt)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 04:15:22 PM EDT
Biz trip
- (bepatient)
- Aug. 3, 2005, 04:29:48 PM EDT