Spitfire was a combat aircraft. This confused me.
If I delivered a racing car to Lewis Hamilton it wouldn’t make me a racing driver(if they could me in the car).
ATA pilots did the behind the scenes flight work to free up combat pilots.
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Yeh, these would often need to be flown around for repairs/maintenance or taken to and from arenas of combat (North Africa, for example).
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Also from factories in North America to either theatre or training areas. Women did not fly the trans-Atlantic routes, but consider the 3-women crews who flew Lancasters from Malton, Ontario to Cold Lake, Alberta with just a map and a compass. Radios were fitted at deployment.
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I’ve duly considered it and
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I don’t believe it.
Everyone knows women can’t read maps.
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This is one of the many reasons I hate flying:
On November 22, 2020, passengers onboard a FlySafair Boeing 737-400 in South Africa were left shaken when cabin pressure failed, leaving three of them bleeding from the nose, five with severe ear pain, and one in need of medical attention. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing in George. Perhaps “shaken” is too tame a word.
An investigation launched into the incident by the Civil Aviation Authority has concluded, providing answers as to what happened to cause the carnage.
While the plane was climbing through 32 920 feet above mean sea level to a cruising altitude of 33 000 feet, the crew broadcast a Cabin Altitude Warning followed by a Mayday, requesting emergency descent. Things got so bad aboard the flight that the pilots put on their oxygen masks, but “oxygen masks were not deployed in the cabin area.
The aircraft commenced a descent to 10 000 feet. Once the flight was levelled off the plane diverged to George Airport where it landed safely on runway 29.
Before the flight took off, a senior cabin crew member informed the pilot-in-command that two of the doors weren’t closing properly. They were disarmed and closed again three times with a technician watching from the outside before they stayed shut.
Three times!!!
After take-off, “the crew had no lateral navigation and vertical navigation”. In addition to this, “the throttle hold stayed on after take-off, and the autothrottle was disconnected manually”.
For the remainder of the flight, there was no autothrottle available.
TimesLIVE reports that the traffic collision avoidance system on the aircraft, which reduces the risk of midair collisions was also inoperative during the flight.
And “during the initial stages of the [emergency descent to about 3km], the thrust levers retarded to low idle”, setting off cockpit alarms including one that warned the pilots the aircraft’s speed was too low.
Image: The low idle warning light in the cockpit of a Boeing 737-400, Civil Aviation Authority
The website b737.org.uk, which contains contributions from pilots and engineers worldwide, says: “The minimum engine speed for all flight phases is high idle, which varies with flight conditions.”
The emergency descent and loss of cabin pressure ultimately came down to damage to an air duct in the plane:
The plane in question, which appears to have its fair share of troubles before it took off, was manufactured in 1991 and had logged 65 823 hours (equivalent to 7½ years) in the air.
Its last safety inspection before the flight took place on October 27, and its airworthiness certificate was due to expire on April 30, 2021.
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Damn, that was a narrow escape. Depressurization at altitude is incredibly dangerous - our bodies can adapt to that shift in oxygen content at the rate we climb a mountain, but the same 6 000 meter zone can be fatal if it happens quickly.
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Another Boeing bad news story. Was it 737’s that had been grounded on mass before Covid due to faults identified on them (presumably a different model of 737)
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Mr Wittman reportedly told police that the cat had on multiple occasions “brought me back from the brink”.
Chicken or egg, isn’t it. He acted rashly trying to get the cat back, but the cat wasn’t there to stop him going a bit crazy in getting it back.
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Lost and hungry, what’s next? Euthanization.
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My Brother worked for United Molasses in Bidston/Wallasey in the late Seventies and early Eighties. I remember sometimes when he came to see my Mum he would smell of it. It was quite a nice smell. To my recollection it smelled something like Marmite, a bit yeasty. He sometimes got my Mum a jar of the stuff and she would make a drink from it it she had a chesty cough.
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Can you drink molasses! Isn’t it a thick semi-solid stuff! What do you use it for! Here, it used to be a winter delicacy to eat a pan-cake like thing with and cook some other indigenous dishes.
In the battle of the three stooges about who gets to be head of the CDU (Merkel’s party), the incompetent twat beat the evil twat. Glad he gets promoted for doing such a stellar job in my home state.
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molasses is the syrup from sugar extraction from sugar cane (or beet). Generally in english it refers to the second ‘molasses’ heating giving a rich dark syrup that has a bitter taste (despite contaning sugar) it uses vary from additive to sauces (colourant and some flavour), baking (dark fruit cakes) and beer brewing. Sugar content varies those with low sugar content wouldn’t be nice on a pancake but great in cooking or brewing. It can be very thick (like tar).
You probably put golden or sugar syrup on your pancakes (this comes from the1st ‘molasses’ of sugar cane and is rich in sugar and has a much lighter colour) it is very sweet (even sickly sweet). It is also used in cooking but as a sweetening agent. Can be very runny like runny honey).
Both are strictly molasses so I presume in your country you use the term for all sugar syrups then grade them by colour and/or sweetness.
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There are so many smells that trigger memories of my childhood, downtown until I was six and then the North End up until I was eighteen. All coming from the docks area. I also remember a strong smell of cheese and onion around the Park Station/Duke Street area in the mid seventies for a couple of weeks. I believe it came from a place over Duke Street Bridge that made flavourings for crisps.
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