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| Thread ID: 64128 | 2005-12-04 07:01:00 | Sunday night Brain Bender - Airplane Physics | miknz (3731) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 410102 | 2005-12-06 19:30:00 | There will now be a two minute silence for rethinking...... Tony Has been a very long 2 minutes. What an interesting couple of days discussion it has been :D |
miknz (3731) | ||
| 410103 | 2005-12-06 22:33:00 | What an interesting couple of days discussion it has been :D Well, we finally got it off the gound, but the passengers were not happy about the delay . They all wanted refunds . Cheers Billy 8-{) :D |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 410104 | 2005-12-07 01:16:00 | I don't think it would get off the ground if it was sat there,but if it was sitting there,well............ :rolleyes: | Cicero (40) | ||
| 410105 | 2005-12-07 03:05:00 | Actually guys it didn’t fly! Nope, someone had forgotten to obtain Resource Consent for the conveyor and then OSH turned up and insisted that the whole darn thing had to be enveloped in 50mm reinforced steel before the engines could be started! So tuff luck all those who thought they were going flying! :p |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 410106 | 2005-12-07 06:39:00 | And CAA hadn't certified the runway so its off to pokey for the pilot. :mad: :mad: | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 410107 | 2005-12-09 21:38:00 | Sorry to bring this up again but I have just read this (edition.cnn.com) on CNN and got to thinking. If the direction of travel or wheel speed of the wheels on a plane have no bearing on whether it can take of or land and if everything has to do with thrust from the props or jet engines why did this planes reverse thrusters not stop it before it went through the fence and killed someone in a car? | miknz (3731) | ||
| 410108 | 2005-12-09 22:10:00 | Heavy snow, may have left the runway, may have been coming in a bit fast and a bit high, braking was not effective in the snow conditions, etc. They dont even know whether that runway had been cleared. I don't think anyone said that wheel braking was not relevant after landing. When planes land on ice/snow with skis, runway length has to be adequate as there is no braking other than reverse thrust. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 410109 | 2005-12-09 22:13:00 | Nothing to do with taking off, as this thread is all about. To stop a plane such as the 737 in the prescribed distance it requires both reverse thruster and wheel brakes. It also requires nose-wheel traction to steer the plane on landing, as the rudder will have limited ability at the low speeds to be effective. Brakes are not used in taking off .... I hope |
godfather (25) | ||
| 410110 | 2005-12-10 10:14:00 | Succinctly: Lack of (braking) traction + momentum. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 410111 | 2005-12-11 01:17:00 | Succincltly: The plane wouldn't have taken off. |
Greg (193) | ||
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