Humor Random Comments Thread

[jedidia]

So when I print a google map, it also prints me 5 pages of reviews for the place I was looking for... WTF??

 

[steph]

What do you do when you find an unexploded shell in Eastern Europe? Call the bomb squad? Naaaah, just take it home on your bike. True story, apparently.There's even a dashcam video of it from a passing car. Reminds me of that joke: Two transylvanians were sawing off a bomb. A third one sees them and goes "Are you mad? What if it explodes?" And they go "Don't worry, we've got another one".

https://transylvanianow.com/darwin-award-nominee-of-the-week-man-carrying-a-50-kg-bomb-on-his-bike/

 

[Artlav]

WTF??

Have you tried setting the page count to 1 in the printing options? :/

 

[jedidia]

Ha! No, I haven't, because I didn't see it coming. Nor did I think of it, because I print something like once every blue moon, I'm always glad if the thing works at all! :lol:

 

[Linguofreak]

Ha! No, I haven't, because I didn't see it coming. Nor did I think of it, because I print something like once every blue moon, I'm always glad if the thing works at all! :lol:

I didn't really get the impression that your WTF was so much technical as social, directed at Big Brother's Google's behavior. Am I right?

 

[C3PO]

Ha! No, I haven't, because I didn't see it coming. Nor did I think of it, because I print something like once every blue moon, I'm always glad if the thing works at all! :lol:

Printers are really bad at reading minds. :lol:

The other day I was printing a technical drawing for a crew(an A1 size floor plan), and I thought I had selected all the correct settings. When I hit [Print] I got a 19x38mm "drawing" from the label printer. :facepalm:

 

[jedidia]

I didn't really get the impression that your WTF was so much technical as social, directed at Big Brother's Google's behavior. Am I right?

Of course, but the solution suggested by Artlav is a very simple one that I did not think of.

 

[DanM]

Putting together applications for PhD programs is a nightmare but also kinda exhilarating tbh.

 

[Urwumpe]

The German Government Global 5000, which did a spectacular emergency landing after severe control issues during a test flight is now a complete loss. 3 of 4 wing spars are damaged beyond repair by the almost crash landing, the manufacturer and other experts don't recommend a repair.

Additionally to the wing structure, the landing gear and other parts also suffered heavy damage and would need to be replaced. A technician of Bombardier had installed a torque tube assembly in a wrong way, resulting in the ailerons reacting opposite to control inputs, the aircraft pulled up to 5G during the flight. The insurance of bombardier will thus likely have to pay the damage.

 

[tl8]

The German Government Global 5000, which did a spectacular emergency landing after severe control issues during a test flight is now a complete loss. 3 of 4 wing spars are damaged beyond repair by the almost crash landing, the manufacturer and other experts don't recommend a repair.

Additionally to the wing structure, the landing gear and other parts also suffered heavy damage and would need to be replaced. A technician of Bombardier had installed a torque tube assembly in a wrong way, resulting in the ailerons reacting opposite to control inputs, the aircraft pulled up to 5G during the flight. The insurance of bombardier will thus likely have to pay the damage.

302 Moved

So a good landing, not a great one


They sound quite lucky.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Sounds like a technician and an inspector are both in the market for a new career...

 

[Urwumpe]

A Bugatti Chiron just exceeded 490 km/h (300 mph) today in the local test area of Ehra-Lessien.

(Its a small kind of a cheat though: Ehra-Lessien has a 8 km long paved straight and the turns are designed for 200 km/h without perceived centrifugal force)

 

[Frilock]

Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986

ing hipsters

 

[Linguofreak]

It's not that vinyl is selling well, it's that digital download has displaced physical media, and nostalgia is the primary thing driving physical media sales. Vinyl has more nostalgia value than CDs, so it gets more of the nostalgia market.

 

[Quick_Nick]

"This Video Of A Rocket Sled Doing 6,599mph At Holloman AFB Is Absolute Insanity"

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[Urwumpe]

"This Video Of A Rocket Sled Doing 6,599mph At Holloman AFB Is Absolute Insanity"

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Still quite less impressive considering the dynamic pressure it must have it front of it.... Is that really a sled?

 

[Thunder Chicken]

A technician of Bombardier had installed a torque tube assembly in a wrong way, resulting in the ailerons reacting opposite to control inputs

How did they not catch that during preflight? Ensuring free and correct flight controls is a must-do on most checklists.

 

[Urwumpe]

How did they not catch that during preflight? Ensuring free and correct flight controls is a must-do on most checklists.

Maybe because the TTA effected the spoilers and not the ailerons as I initially thought from the news reports.

 

[Marijn]

How did they not catch that during preflight? Ensuring free and correct flight controls is a must-do on most checklists.

I think it's fairly common to check free movement only. Correct movement of the control surfaces is usually part of the daily inspection.

This video shows the walkaround. They even use a ladder to inspect the winglets (inspection wing at 10 minutes). But the ailerons are only looked at. https://bombardieratp.cae.com/videos/global-preflight-inspection

This video at 1m12s shows how the pilots do not visually confirm the correct movement, but ensure fee movement only:

In this vid at 0m42s, it looks like the pilot looks at the reflection in the windscreen to inspect the wing, but I am not sure. At least they film it.

I think this your answer. Correct movement is apparently a task of the maintainance checkout procedure. I coudn't find the flight manual. The final answer should be in there.

Edit: timestamps

 

[Linguofreak]

How did they not catch that during preflight? Ensuring free and correct flight controls is a must-do on most checklists.

I know that free and correct is a checklist item for single engine props, where you can see the control surfaces easily from the cockpit, but checking correctness will be more difficult on an aircraft that has a wing further back and little to no rear visibility from the cockpit.