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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
These 1/2 plane, 1/2 flying fan Osprey "aircraft" have a bad history of crashing and falling out of the sky for no reason. IMHO I would not fly in it for that reason.Except they are better than most of what the US military flies. See starting 11:30 https://youtu.be/QDBXwWlU64M?feature=shared&t=690 |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
But can be a big problem for spectators. :-(These 1/2 plane, 1/2 flying fan Osprey "aircraft" have a bad history of crashing and falling out of the sky for no reason. IMHO I would not fly in it for that reason.Except they are better than most of what the US military flies. See starting 11:30 https://youtu.be/QDBXwWlU64M?feature=shared&t=690 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI9gWlM0QY8 |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3343 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
XKCD comic on how to make more seats on the planes... |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Another case of a heavy truck running up the back of a bus. :-( Sixty people assessed by paramedics after truck and bus crash on Pacific Motorway near Beenleigh. Paramedics have assessed at least 60 people — the majority of them children — after a truck and bus collided on the Pacific Motorway at Stapylton this morning.Thankfully the truck was unloaded at the time or it could've been much worse. |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Thankfully the truck was unloaded at the time or it could've been much worse.Looking at that picture the trailer sure looks loaded and the ground around the bus looks like the load spilled from the truck. Could be wrong. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Nah; while the cover is over the trailer, but there's nothing in there (you can just see into the trailer as the drone comes back just before the end of the clip).Thankfully the truck was unloaded at the time or it could've been much worse.Looking at that picture the trailer sure looks loaded and the ground around the bus looks like the load spilled from the truck. Could be wrong. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
No it was totally empty.Thankfully the truck was unloaded at the time or it could've been much worse.Looking at that picture the trailer sure looks loaded and the ground around the bus looks like the load spilled from the truck. Could be wrong. What you see on the road behind the bus is "kitty litter" to soak up all the oil, diesel and other fluids that spilled from the bus' destroyed engine, gearbox and possibly the drive axle as well as the lot was driven forward in the chassis. ;-) I had to attend to several of these types of accidents and inspected the end results in the past, the engine gets totally broken while the crankshaft is driven into the gearbox shattering it and as there's very little slide action to their very short drive shafts the diff center usually gets punched out so all than needs a great deal of "kitty litter" to clean up. We use to carry 2 x 100L bags of the stuff around in the back of our inspectors' vehicles, but it was never anywhere near enough for just a busted engine alone. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Don't ignore the gondolier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vNZGwyvw3U |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well that's what you get when using dodgy parts to stay in the air. Footage has captured the shock moment a Russian cargo plane engine exploded mid-air, just shortly after takeoff. It just goes to show you what happens when inferior parts just to keep a fleet in the air. ;-) |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
Well that's what you get when using dodgy parts to stay in the air.The reporting from the Sun just gets worse & worse. No matter how many times they say say the engine exploded- the fact is it didn't. Even the very first sentence is wrong- "Dramatic footage shows the moment a Russian cargo plane exploded minutes after taking off." Complete and utter crap. It wasn't the plane, it was the engine. It didn't explode, it surged. What will be of interest in the investigation is why the crew didn't immediately reduce the power on that engine- the surging shouldn't have gone on for as long as it did. And extended surging like that does kill turbine jet engines. Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Another of those Robinson flying fan thingies fatally bites the dust yet again. :-( Missing helicopter pilot found dead after extensive search in remote NT. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I certainly wouldn't want to get onto any Russian aircraft these days. Russian Plane Malfunctions Tripled in Just One Year as Sanctions Bite. Russian plane malfunctions have tripled in just one year as Western sanctions imposed in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine suffocate the aviation industry.You'd certainly be playing Russian Roulette if yo do get on 1. Cheers. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22526 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
One more for the road Sir? https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-11/driver-daylesford-pub-crash-charged-by-police/103213184 Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
And you thought it only happened on roads. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67680559 |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Now most powerlines in that region at the bottom of the hill have orange and white balls on them so that they can be seen, but sadly this 1 got tripped down. :-( Two dead in light plane crash at Lilydale, north of Grafton in northern NSW. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22526 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-67693935 My choice of out takes is: But Tesla said the system's controls "may not be sufficient to prevent driver misuse". Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken: These people have decided what "auto-pilot" means ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/ |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13854 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
An example of people that are too stupid to be allowed to hold a driver's licence.After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken: Grant Darwin NT |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36768 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
It also an example of a Diet Coked fueled moron that calls adaptive cruise control "auto-pilot" when it's nothing like the real thing and then even the pilots running the real thing have to be vigilant just in case.An example of people that are too stupid to be allowed to hold a driver's licence.After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken:These people have decided what "auto-pilot" means ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/ Call it for what it really is and stupid people may stop doing stupid things with it. ;-) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
It also an example of a Diet Coked fueled moron that calls adaptive cruise control "auto-pilot" when it's nothing like the real thing and then even the pilots running the real thing have to be vigilant just in case.An example of people that are too stupid to be allowed to hold a driver's licence.After a number of "mysterious" crashes action is being taken:These people have decided what "auto-pilot" means ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/07/tesla-fsd-autopilot-wheel-weights/ One pilot that didn't understand auto-pilot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViO1j1iYn18 |
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