Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/24/2018 at 09:15 • Filed to: good morning oppo, Planelopnik

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One foot in the past, one foot in the future.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 04/24/2018 at 09:45

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Prop blades almost never break free, so I’ll take it.

/“jus sayin,” 1955 edition

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > ttyymmnn 04/24/2018 at 10:05

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Be careful over the Grand Canyon

OPPOsaurus WRX > Ash78, voting early and often 04/24/2018 at 10:08

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to be fare, blades almost never break free in modern times either.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 04/24/2018 at 10:17

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I think boarding doors should be in the middle of the plane, that way the 1st class passangers don’t have to have the people in isle 32 walk by them banging their grubby carry-on luggage down the isle.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 04/24/2018 at 10:30

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Hi.

ttyymmnn > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/24/2018 at 10:32

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That actually raises an interesting design point. In the early tail-draggers, like the Boeing 247 and Douglas DC-3, the doors were in the back because that part of the plane was closer to the ground than the front. The DC-6, with its tricycle landing gear, doesn’t have that problem, but it still loads from the rear. I wonder if having the passengers board from the rear is simply a holdover from an earlier era. Note the 707 in the background is loading from the front, as we do today.

Ideally, you would load a plane from the center, so half the passengers go one way, half the other. That would reduce the bottleneck caused by pax putting all their shit in the overhead bin. But then the pesky wing would be in the way. The A380 loads through no less than three jetways.

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/24/2018 at 10:33

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Nice.

ttyymmnn > My X-type is too a real Jaguar 04/24/2018 at 10:33

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Too soon.

Ash78, voting early and often > OPPOsaurus WRX 04/24/2018 at 10:40

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Rotor burst happen 1-2 times a year, but most are contained. But law of averages...we fly many, many more times today (and in fanjets, not short-range turboprops) so the odds aren’t in their favor.

I was shocked to learn this was Southwest’s first passenger fatality ever...

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 04/24/2018 at 10:41

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It looks like they kind of do that on larger planes, how else are you going to get 400 people on a jet in 30 minutes?

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > ttyymmnn 04/24/2018 at 10:43

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The ‘50s were an interesting time in transportation. Airplanes and trains both had such visually dramatic shifts because of massive changes in engine design, whereas in other modes of transportation the change was either evolutionary (cars) or hidden under the skin (ships and submarines, particularly nuclear). It must have been an interesting time to have been alive.

ttyymmnn > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 04/24/2018 at 10:46

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The 50s is, by far, my favorite period of aviation history for all the reasons you mentioned. Plus, it was very much the era of, “Well, let’s see if this works.” I mean, it wasn’t that they were making uneducated guesses, but they didn’t have all the computer modeling that we have now, which made the life of the test pilot much more interesting—and potentially fatal.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 04/25/2018 at 02:55

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Larger aircraft often do this, although closer to the first class/coach divide by the galley. When boarding a 757 or 767, for example, first class turns left and the scum turn right. A major reason for loading from the front to the back is for weight and balance purposes. As someone that nearly experienced a 727 tipping on its ass during an engine test after replacing an EPR gauge, I can tell you that W&B is no laughing matter.