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

"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, A/K/A Dolt-45,
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

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

DC-9 "powerback".


The big sin for those was touching the brakes. If they needed to stop, the drill was to stow the buckets and then apply forward thrust. For if the pilots touched the brakes whilst the airplane was moving backwards, a tail strike would ensue, and that was A Bad Thing.
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2 comments:

Keaaukane said...


How does that work? I would think the forward thrust would cancel the rearward thrust. Is it the angle of the buckets?

3/15/2015 1:49 PM
Deadstick said...

The buckets redirect the exhaust forward, so the only forward thrust comes from what fraction of the gas misses the buckets.

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3/15/2015 6:31 PM

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