OT : 757 Bird Blender

http://www.flightlevel350.com/Aircraft_Boeing_757-200-Airline_Thomsonfly_Aviation_Video-8457.html

I know they're meant to be able to carry on on one engine, but its always
nice to have proof.

 

Fark.

 

Amazing power from one engine, look at the rate of climb in maintains. I'm
surprised they can't make them bird proof by now though.

 

You haven't met that many blondes have you, you should try an Essex girl
mate.

 

Dr Zoidberg banged the rocks together and they said :

"Look ma! The afterburner won't light!"

 

Not what you'd want to see out of the window , is it?
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BTDT, no drama. Well, not from me anyway.
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

One of the things that always amuses me about this kind of thing is
this:

Imagine the scene. Hero Pilot has sat in that seat for a total of, what?
5 or 6000 hours. Not much has ever happened. Suddenly, without warning,
there is "BING! BING! BONG! BINGLEY-BONG! AHOOOGAH! AHOOOOOOOOOOGAH! BAD
STUFF! BAD STUFF! BING! BONG! BINGLEY-BINGLEY-BONG! AHOOOOOOOGAH! YOU'RE
GONNA DIE! WAH! WAH! AHOOOOOOOGAH!"

And then, *then* they announce over the RT, in *completely normal
tones*:

"Mayday, Mayday, Mayday..."

Me? I'd be at *least* three octaves above normal.

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Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

From Feb '02 ...

"On a tangentially related slant, when Linda and I flew to Egypt on
our honeymoon, the starboard engine on our 737 failed. Loudly and
smokily.
"what was that?" said everyone. As I could see it from my window seat,
at the back (fags), I replied "the engine's just gone bang". Calm as
you like. No bravado, just matter of fact. Mayhem ensued, and I
genuinely could not understand why. We turned round, and returned to
Luton, whereupon we were chased up the runway by firetrucks, and meat
wagons. Again with the hysteria.

To this day I don't know *why* I didn't join in. I simply was not
concerned to the outcome."


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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, SD

Yebbut.

1) You weren't driving.
2) You were still in shock from having just married Linda.

It proves nothing.

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Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
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SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Oh dear. You're not going to enjoy exercise 17 of the PPL course then!

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, AW

Heh. Already done EFATOs. Exercises are one thing...

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Wicked Uncle Nigel - Podium Placed Ducati Race Engineer as featured in
Performance Bikes and Fast Bikes

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SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (Falling apart) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Honda ST1100 wiv trailer

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wibbled:

and shit does happen - one of the cylinders on a mates Cherokee 6 let
go, fortunately with enough altitude to divert safely. It was quite an
interesting 12 minutes apparently.

 

In this case it would only take one more bird to cause disaster. 4 engines
better than 2!

 

We were working on a project looking at CD ROM Media egress from high speed
drives (exploding CD's) a few years ago, and hired some bod in Oxford to do
some high speed filming of the drives at egress point.

He had been doing some filming for an engine (or blade mfr) a few months
before he did our work.

They launched dead chickens into these things for testing purposes.

He said the effect was amazing, the blades didn't shatter but flexed/bent
out of the way, which I found pretty amazing for a bit of metal that's
turning at a fair ol' rate of RPM.

 

They've been doing this for the last fifty years, at least.

_Sometimes_ they just flex and move out of the way, and of course the
designers will try and make them do just that if they can, but above a
certain size/weight, depending on the engine, of course, they will
break. When they do, the next design feature you want is that of
containment, such that all the bits get kicked out of the back rather
than exiting through the sides...

Then of course, there's the old story of one young lad who was sent
out to get some more test chickens from the local supermarket and came
back with a frozen one, with rather interesting consequences...
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....like this: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1644738/posts

I like how in the bottom picture the bit of engine sticking out of the
cowling was actually from the other engine, and has passed through the
fuselage to get there.

 

Glances up at Hard Hat

 

....and they get the radio protocol stuff right. He's probably used the
radio for yonks without once needing to prefix with Mayday, then he
starts doing it without once forgetting. Incredible.

Never mind the guy in the plane. If I was just in the tower I'd be
shitting myself.

 

All credit to the guy. OK so they train for bird strikes during take off
as it's the most common time for it to happen, but he dropped into the
emergency mode perfectly and landed heavy with no trouble.

I've had a bird strike in a Condor[1] during take off. It hit the prop.
I had to fly a couple of circuits to get the bird blood and guts off of
the wind shield so I could see to land.

[1]
http://home.clara.net/acf/scale/scale-pics-2/low-wing/condor-D62b-G-BADM/
condor-D62b.html