Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, February 11, 2018

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

A DC-8:


This one almost went horribly wrong.
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2 comments:

Old NFO said...

Yep, good old J75s on it! Funny thing is, those same engines were used on Ashville class PGs!

2/11/2018 4:40 PM
CenterPuke88 said...

That close call is scary. I used the field elevation and the metar to calculate a density altitude of 9188 ft. The only comparable performance data I could find was for NASA’s DC-8-72 (same CFM-56’s), and they required between 2,300 meters and 3000 meters, depending upon takeoff weight. That was on a standard day at sea level, there was no correction data.

The field used had 3,500 meters plus a 200 meter overrun, but also has terrain rising above 30 meters at 1,500 meters from the runway end of Rwy 01. The -70 is also limited to a 9 degree initial pitch to avoid a tail strike. Assuming a perfect rotation and climb at runway end, that puts the flight path about 70 meters over terrain, but they looked quite a bit closer. Oh, did I forget to mention, the final 2,000 meters of Rwy 01 has a 0.78% upslope...

The Colombian investigation revealed the Captain “self dispatched”, rather than using the approved dispatchers at the airport, and the airline was banned from operations in Colombia.

2/11/2018 6:32 PM

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