The Sunderland flying boat doing a ‘touch and go’ was pretty cool
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Ryanair grounding some now
https://www.theguardian.com/business...g-and-fuselage
Spose Dreamliners will end up with structural concerns one day
Funny the names of these parts isn't it. Up until a few days ago I thought pickle forks were very small forks one might use on gherkins and pickles lol.
Benny1 probably has a view on how durable the carbon fiber birds will be.
There was an excellent radio interview a few days ago with an aircraft engineer on this issue where he explained every mechanical device, cars, bridges, aircraft, etc suffers fatigue from day 1 of use & parts will eventually need replacing. This part did exactly what it is supposed to do, ie not break, but show a tiny hairline crack indicating earliest stages of a degree of fatigue reached many many cycles before it becomes a safety issue. The problem is not one of safety but of perception to the public & that’s fundamentally why they will replace these pickle forks well before their use by date. He went on to say the issue was raised by unions not aircraft engineers & implying a political motive. I remember talking to an elderly relative who flew bombers during WW2 & his descriptions of aircraft half shot to pieces with bits missing still able to fly home.
Yeah, I did a bit of flight training on little two seater Tomahawk aircraft back in the day https://www.airteamimages.com/piper-...te_221239.html
and when they had stress cracks in the tail rotor they would just drill a small hole through the aluminium to stop the stress crack spreading.
Used to do the books of a couple of helicopter operators and I'll never forget the time when they sold one of their AS350B squirrel's. The sale and purchase documentation and engineers reports contained a page and a half of items that weren't perfect but the Helicopter was still considered "airworthy" I was told this is not abnormal.
Social media going on about now that Luxon has gone AIR have reinstated their pink flight to the Sydney Mardi Gras
Good for shareholders - servicing a cause and a couple of extra full flights