bouncypete

When a cell phone has a weak, or no signal, it increases the power level to the cell phone cell radio. Transmitting radio signals is one of the most power hungry tasks a cell phone performs. This is why you're noticing a worthwhile saving in battery power when you put your phone in flight mode. It's also why you can watch movies saved to your cell phone all the way across the Atlantic and you still have plenty of battery power left when you land. Yet if you spent the same amount of time as that transatlantic flight walking or driving in a rural area with patch cell coverage. Your phone deleted its battery far more.

You have a bonfire and that big pile of combustible matter disappears, leaving behind a tiny pile of ashes. Where to you thing ask that stuff has gone? The simple answer is you've turned it into tiny particles and spread all over the downwind area of your town.

You need to use a Bluetooth headset when using a cell phone, otherwise you'll get brain cancer.

Sounds a lot like MJN Air and G-ERTI. Surprising rice anyone?

Airlines have ALWAYS been able to have specify that their aircraft are fitted with airstairs to the Boeing 737. It was even an option on the 737-200 Pros - You don't have to wait for ground handling to bring or take away steps to the aircraft. Which if you operate to a small airport, can be really useful for your on-time departure stats. Cons - Your carrying unnecessary weight, which means you have a small fuel burn penalty. On large fleet of aircraft, even tiny fuel burn penalty adds up. You also the cost of maintaining the airstairs and the airstairs door in the pressure hull.

The tree line I've indicated with a red tag on Google maps is the (now disused) railway line that's featured in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines. As you can see, it's virtually next door to Old Warden/Shuttleworth. https://preview.redd.it/1rmf4dk0vf4h1.png?width=1008&format=png&auto=webp&s=7ee5a8d9d1e04ad0e9489deda330f6f7a88a93cc

I think to understand the answer to that question, you've got to know how other airliners work in the first place. I haven't worked on the Airbus but I have worked in the 787 and yes, it's very, very different from earlier Boeing's. That said, there is some commonality with the 777 but there still is significant differences to the 777. Even simple things like the potable (drinkable) water system is different. Because the 787 does not use bleed air, it can't use the air pressure to pressurise the water system so on the 787, it's electrically pumped around the aircraft. And it also has an ultraviolet filter in the water system. Instead of individual computer boxes to control systems like brakes it used 16 General Orocessor Modules and the software is loaded onto up to 3 different GPM's for redundancy. The brakes are electric, not hydraulic. The hydraulic systems are 5,000 psi, not 3,000 psi. The spoilers droop when the flaps are lowered to create a more efficient wing. The power electrical equipment is liquid cooled, not air cooled. Instead of thousands of wires running down the entire length of the fuselage all carrying power, there are far fewer wires running to Remote Power Distribution Units and the power branches off locally from the RPDU. There is a lot, lot more but you get the idea. It's very different from previous Boeings.

I suspect you don't have any idea how realistic a proper full motion simulator actually is. It's nothing like a Microsoft simulator. Even without the motion enabled the simulation can be so realistic they you 'think' the simulator is banking.

It wouldn't be long before you dug yourself into what health and safety consider to be a confined space. Before everyone shots me down for this, there are a lot of gases that are heavier than air thus can displace the oxygen in the hole and suffocate you. For example, carbon dioxide from decaying organic matter, groundwater and fermentation. Hydrogen sulfide from anaerobic bacterial decay in swamps, sewers, manure pits, and some sediments. Methane from decomposition, landfill gas, marshes, coal seams, etc. Whilst the health and safety executive will not stop you digging in your garden, they might be called in to investigate your corpse.

My local university runs degree courses on accident investigation. They have the wreckage of several fixed wing aircraft and helicopters, together with cars and even railway carriages to train the students on. [Link](https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/facilities/accident-investigation-facilities)

That 'thing' on the left of the screen, partially obscuring the cameras view of the first officer, is the weather radar. It's on a track, so when either the captain or first officer wants to view the weather radar, they unlock the track and slide it in front of themselves.

There's the Royal Naval aviation museum relatively close to Fairford. [Link](https://maps.app.goo.gl/TU71TjVaEjuxn45Q6?g_st=ac) Plus there's the Haynes motor museum near the aviation museum as well. [Link](https://maps.app.goo.gl/f6hFvr3NFqAGTk146)

Congratulations

I've not long arrived home from work and had a shower. I like working late shifts (14:30 - 23:00) I see more daylight in the winter and I can wake up naturally and have a soft start to the day, rather than waking up to an alarm clock. I can get stuff done before I go to work. My commute is much easier and there's less management interference when I'm at work.

Yep, that's my point. When he said a few years ago I think he meant a few decades ago. 🤣

I think you're missing remembering that. It's been far more than a few years since I could buy fish AND chips for £3 - £4

That's probably to wash the chlorine off their chicken.

That's really what I'm saying in the latter part of my post.

Good point, thanks.

Good point. Thanks

Farming is just too confusing to me. 69% of the total area of the UK is farmland, which means that only 31% is the bit with shops, houses, places of work, entertainment and transport. Here's where it gets confusing. 49% of all the cereal crops grown is the UK if grown for animal feed. The farmers growing those crops (like Jeremy) say they can't make any money growing those crops. The farmers buying that animal feed say it's that animal feed is too expensive for them to make any money from animals. Also, it stands to reason that out of the vast amount of land given to farming, some of it will be in land that is less than ideal for a particular type of farming. IE. The soil is poor, too wet, too dry too steep. In Jeremy's area the soil is brash. There's only a thin layer of soil and what is there is full of limestone making it vulnerable to dry weather. No amount of internet posts can change that.

I've flown on two different IL76 and it took a few of five to fly each one. A captain, First officer, flight engineer who also operated the throttles, radio operator and navigator. (Plus a load master). I don't know if this is because each of the aircraft I flew on was so old, and later built IL-76 were built with more advanced systems, such as auto-throttle and inertial navigation.

TL:DR, They've not landed because they had to. They've landed back at Gatwick because there is better maintenance support at Gatwick, and greater risks of technical delays if they continue to their destination. Even though there might not be any apparent issues in flight, they still need to carry out a lightning strike inspection as soon as it lands. And if they inspection does find any issues, it'll be far easier to fix it at Gatwick than it would be down route in Malpensa. For example, if the radome on the nose of the aircraft has been damaged, they won't have one of those at Malpensa. And due to the size of a radome, It'll be far harder to transport one to Malpensa than it will be to put one on the back of a lorry at their main base at Luton and drive to round the M25 to Gatwick.

This is a loaded question. Some parents WANT their children to have a phone, so they know where they are and can do other things. Like work to pay the mortgage. And some children demand a phone from their parents. The question as it is posed won't take this into account.

I think that aircraft was built about 28 years ago.

As a Brit, what annoys me a being in a bar, restaurant or music venue and hearing an American bellowing "Hey, where ya from". I say bellowing because that's what everyone else in the bar or restaurant thinks. To the American, they are just speaking at a normal volume.

This is a very large subject. However, as someone who is about to retire. The very basics of a pension would be useful. I'm ok, I've taken professional advice. But so many people of my age have simply no idea. Some people haven't been saving enough. Others have no idea how much they have got and seem to be intending to work far longer than they need to be. As a result, they'll probably be the richest person in the graveyard.

I didn't think any -300's were delivered with PW engines.

Look out Decoy Pricing on Google. [Additional link to Wiki](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoy_effect)

And the visible differences between this image and a 767 cockpit image is that the 757 displays EPR, N1, N2, N3 on the EICAS screen. Whereas the 767 only had N1 and N2. There is also a 'Rich' position on the fuel control cutoff switch (which is only used when the ambient temperatures are really low). Not visible are the differences on the overhead panel.

As a rule of thumb, the sun heats the land mass together when the air above it, the warm air over the land rises, this in turn draws the cooler air from the sea onto land. Hence, the wind direction tends to be onshore.

https://www.reddit.com/r/airplanes/s/Ddtm0pB3vJ

That's not completely true. It mostly depends on the land owner where the chargers are sited. The Irish fossil fuel company AppleGreen owns the Welcome Break service station chain and they do not allow Tesla to 'open to all' at any site Welcome Break service station because they have the revenue for their own charging network AppleGreen to protect. There are also other sites that are not open to all, such as at Gridserve Electric Forecourts. Rugby Service station etc.

If you can home charge, living in Cornwall, Wales or North Yorkshire isn't a big problem. You don't generally need a rapid charger near your house. Usually, you only need a rapid charger that's over 100 miles away.

I've done 85,000 miles in my Tesla. I've been as far as Stuttgart and as remote as the Mull of Kintyre and I haven't had any issues.

It's not using the hydrogen, or building the aircraft that's the problem. It's creating hydrogen in the first place. Whilst there are other forms of clean energy, of simplicity, I'll refer to wind turbines. You can't create an economic business if you can't predict the amount of hydrogen you create and can sell. Therefore, you can't reliably 'just' use surplus energy from the grid. The electrical distribution grid has to be balanced all the time, so the grid won't allow you to build a turbine to feed into the grid if that grid in that area is already adequately supplied. Turbines are already sited at locations where the wind is relatively predictable. In the massive off-shore wind farms those turbines are not just randomly placed, they are placed in such a way that it reduces turbulence across the neighboring turbines. Ultimately, anyone building a hydrogen plant is going to have to generate their own energy and they'll have to absorb the days where there isn't any wind, or there isn't any sunlight. As there just aren't enough hours in the year where there is surplus energy in the existing electricity grid to be able to tap into and create a reliable source of hydrogen to supply at the volumes aviation would consume.

There is a university near me that is researching hydrogen for aviation and they also have a lab where they develop biofuels. Long story short. Hydrogen isn't happening soon. As an aside, Carrington is about 12 miles away from Cranfield where the R101, Skyship and Airlander were built. [Link](https://www.cranfield.ac.uk/press/news-2025/new-advanced-research-facility-to-support-net-zero-is-completed)

The 'problem' with hydrogen is that it doesn't exist naturally anywhere on earth. And there's really no cheap way to make it. Sure you can make it from green energy but you have to put a significant amount of energy into it, for what you get out of it. I.E. you put a lot of kWs into it just to get a kW of energy. Which will always make it far more expensive to use hydrogen than it is to use a battery and an electric motor. As a further example, I believe you're looking at $30 - $36 per kg to fill a hydrogen car in California. Therefore to fill up your Toyota Mirai it's roughly $150 - $200 which will take you just over 300 miles.

I'll add to this that ultimately, the government had to choose between defending the country using nuclear submarines, or aircraft. They couldn't afford both.

I'm old enough to remember cars without seat belts at all. 😳

Let me rearrange your thinking. Aluminium planes absolutely DO corrode. In fact, they are surprisingly good at corroding when they are not flying as anyone who was in aircraft maintenance during COVID can tell you. Thankfully the aircraft in this photo is never going to fly again but it's a good example. https://preview.redd.it/t14zcf840wqg1.png?width=1008&format=png&auto=webp&s=bd2b285fdc3cf88cd38ee5dc60374fa7b024c8e2

Jaws was released over two years BEFORE the last execution by guillotine in France. Whilst this fact does make me feel old, it still shocks me as I was at school when the movie was released, so I remember the hype.

Jaws was released over two years BEFORE the last execution by guillotine in France.

Most probably someone has thrown yet another vape into their recycling waste.

The fuselage is round, and there isn't really a vacant area to stow a RAT at the very bottom (middle) of the fuselage. Besides, you've also got to consider ground clearance. However, the transition area between wings to the fuselage is blended smoothed by the use of composite fairing panels referred to as wing to body fairings and this area creates a lot more scope to stow a large bulky ram air turbine and its associated equipment.

The National Museum of the US Air Force, The Museum of Flight in Seattle and the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum WERE on my list to visit when I retire in a years time. However, I'm not from the US. I love visiting the US and I've been there nine times. However, where I was there 3 years ago, I felt attitudes to visitors had noticeably changed, for the worse. And you had the election since that visit. So I've shelved that museum visit plan indefinitely.

I've been to the NASA museum at Houston and I've been to the Kennedy Space Centre and they are good. But equally, the [Technik Museum at Speyer in Germany ](https://speyer.technik-museum.de/en/) and the sister museum [Technik Museum Sinsheim](https://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/) are very good and have a broader display of space and aviation, especially considering they are not actually NASA, so they don't have first dibs on the artifacts to display.

The airline I work for uses one of [these](https://www.multimover.co.uk/product-page/multi-mover-xxl-20t) to move engines around in our engine bay and our hangars. It's powerful enough to move a 787 GenX engine and it is substantially easier to position the engine in tight places than a conventional diesel tug. Especially when your trying to position the engine between the C-ducts, ready to lift it into place on-wing. Plus you don't have to shout guidance instructions over the clatter of an engine to the tug driver.

The BAD part would be having a DIESEL powered tug lugging that engine about. Why? Because it'll be towing the engine from an enclosed space, to an enclosed space. Even in a vast hangar diesel fumes can quickly become 'unpleasant'. Besides, electric motors can pull like a train. In fact the diesel engine on a diesel train only generates the electricity for the electric motors which power the wheels.

I've no idea about this Piper Cub but I was involved in modifying a C150 into a taildragger. Basically this was a kit and we had to fit a new box section into which the main legs fitted and that box was installed a lot further forward than the original box section.