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Fwd: "New " - FAASafety.gov
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Reported Drone Collision Was a Birdstrike [feedly]
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Reported Drone Collision Was a Birdstrike
// AVweb Top News
Although it hasn't been officially confirmed, last week's reported collision between a drone and a Piper PA-23 was, in fact, a bird strike. Residue on the aircraft's de-icing boot was analyzed by the Smithsonian Institution and found to contain the remains of a small, non-predatory bird, sources familiar with the investigation told Avweb on Friday. The NTSB has opened up an investigation on the incident but we weren't given a specific schedule on when its findings might be released.
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Boeing Sees Need For 558,000 Pilots [feedly]
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Boeing Sees Need For 558,000 Pilots
// AVweb Top News
Boeing says the world will need more than half a million pilots over the next 20 years and it's ramping up its efforts to fill the training gap. At a news conference at EAA AirVenture, Sherry Carbary, VP of Boeing Flight Services, said aerospace will generate $5.6 trillion in revenues in that time as more people gain access to air travel.
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015
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Nichelle Nichols Will Fly on a NASA Mission [feedly]
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Nichelle Nichols Will Fly on a NASA Mission
// Neatorama
(Image: CBS)
Actress Nichelle Nichols played Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek television series. Now, at the age of 82, she's leaving Starfleet for service with NASA. The tabloid The Mirror reports that Nichols will fly on NASA's SOFIA space telescope. This modified 747 flies at an elevation of 50,000 feet to observe strange new worlds. Nichols told fans about this mission during a reddit AMA. She writes:
SOFIA does not, sadly, fly into space. It's an airborne observatory, a massive telescope mounted inside a 747 flying as high as is possible. I was on a similar flight, the first airborn observatory, back in 1977. It's an amazing experience, you get a totally different perspective than from earth.
I do hope someone gets some great pictures.
-via The Geek Twins
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Sunday, August 2, 2015
Nichelle Nichols Will Fly on a NASA Mission [feedly]
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Nichelle Nichols Will Fly on a NASA Mission
// Neatorama
(Image: CBS)
Actress Nichelle Nichols played Lt. Uhura on the original Star Trek television series. Now, at the age of 82, she's leaving Starfleet for service with NASA. The tabloid The Mirror reports that Nichols will fly on NASA's SOFIA space telescope. This modified 747 flies at an elevation of 50,000 feet to observe strange new worlds. Nichols told fans about this mission during a reddit AMA. She writes:
SOFIA does not, sadly, fly into space. It's an airborne observatory, a massive telescope mounted inside a 747 flying as high as is possible. I was on a similar flight, the first airborn observatory, back in 1977. It's an amazing experience, you get a totally different perspective than from earth.
I do hope someone gets some great pictures.
-via The Geek Twins
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
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Playboy Model Sues Airline Over Cockpit Selfies. Poor girl. She looks like she is really being abused. She only realized it later.
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Playboy Model Sues Airline Over Cockpit Selfies
// Aero-News Network
Pilot And Copilot Have Been Fired From Aerolineas Argentinas First, there were the cockpit selfies of Playboy model Victoria Xipolitakis posing with the pilot and copilot of an Aerolineas Argentinas airplane reportedly taken during takeoff and landing ... with at least one showing the model touching the airliner's controls.
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Saturday, July 11, 2015
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Evil plane seat design would ruin whatever good remains of air travel [feedly]
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Evil plane seat design would ruin whatever good remains of air travel
// The Verge
Viewed from above, a sitting human being looks like a T-block from Tetris. The shoulders jut to the sides, and the legs protrude forward in a narrow line. It's not the most efficient shape in Tetris, a game in which the goal is to fill all space with Tetris blocks, but fortunately humans aren't pieces in a video game. Or they weren't, until now.
Zodiac Seats France sees this human tessellation as opportunity. The airline seat manufacturer has patented with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) the "Economy Class Cabin Hexagon," a truly nightmarish idea that lives somewhere between Saw and The Twilight Zone. Basically, the idea is to take the middle seat — already the worst seat on a flight — and turn it around 180 degrees so as to maximize space.
The patent is full of dystopian illustrations. Let's start with Figure 1:
You may notice that, with this configuration, your in-flight infotainment screen will be supplemented with persistent eye contact from your neighbors. Please also note where hands rest — easier to see now that we've added color:
That's right, this patent is pro-butt touching. Rampant butt touching. Let's put that in a pullquote to really emphasize the point.
Rampant butt touching
Figure 2, providing us another angle of this compact craziness, is just a little more reserved with its inter-row public displays of affection, implying top-of-the-leg and handholding instead (again, we've added color for the sake of clarity). Take this time to picture yourself in this situation. Now picture yourself having to get up and go to the bathroom in this Brave New Setup. Now imagine turbulence.
Having the patent doesn't mean that Zodiac Seats will make this, mind you, but it does mean that someone (or a group of someones) had to first think of this idea, create the patent, get approval within the company, and then submit it for approval to an international organizational body on the off chance someone one day thought, "Sure, let's try this." Because true darkness lies within us all.
See also: A sadly relevant piece from The Onion ca. 2009
Related Video: The better way to board a plane
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Fwd: "Pilot Insights – Who’s Flying?" - FAASafety.gov
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| Pilot Insights – Who's Flying? Tell me if this situation sounds familiar: You are flying with a friend in her aircraft. All is well until you set up for landing and hear ATIS is calling for some strong gusty crosswinds. Although you have more total flight time than your friend, she has a lot more experience in this particular plane. Not dissuaded by the rough winds, your friend executes a safe, albeit scary landing. After exiting the runway, you each say, "I never would have done that if I was by myself, but I figured you knew what you were doing." | |
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