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

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Some Good Flying

The pilots of UA 497 landed their airplane at New Orleans after they had both smoke in the aircraft and a loss of its primary flight instruments. The airplane was apparently in IFR conditions when it happened.
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3 comments:

Stewart Dean said...

So just turn and bank, airspeed (if that) and altitude? How the dickens did they control the FADEC? Boy, am I looking forward to the blow by blow on this from AW&ST.
Yet, in spite of Gallic Airbus software rules that know better than the pilot, they *were* left with enough to limp home. Thank God it happened so soon after takeoff

4/05/2011 1:14 PM
BadTux said...

As much as I enjoy railing about inappropriate uses of computers (I design the bloody things, I know their limits), I must admit that their designers in automotive and aviation applications do a pretty good job of creating limp-home modes that will at least get you to a safe place before the beast dies. But yeah, that's a situation where I suspect the pilots had to change their undies after the plane came to a stop on the ground ;).

- Badtux the Flightless Penguin

4/06/2011 11:18 AM
Stewart Dean said...

More here:
http://avherald.com/h?article=43a6bc08&opt=0

4/08/2011 8:28 PM

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