"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
02/08/2018 at 09:26 • Filed to: None
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
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Skyfire77 replied to my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! post with this video and I had to share it with the class. Just listen to it. It’s glorious.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> ttyymmnn
02/08/2018 at 09:45 |
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I didn’t realize that the SR-71 used a mechanical link to start the engines. My experience has only been in commercial aviation, and we either used lots of electricity (787) or compressed air. Most of the ASUs we used were big diesel-powered monsters the size of Manhattan apartment, but Northwest had some cool and relatively tiny turbine-powered ASUs, essentially a small APU on a cart. But given how poorly our ramp rats treated ASUs and GPUs, most commonly just hitting the emergency shutdown instead of following proper shutdown/cooldown procedures, I can only guess that those turbine-powered units were expensive maintenance nightmares.