The image that I posted with the smoke was at Avalon back in March.
I can see way too many issues with that. The safety area for any bombing range is measured in miles. Many of them. And even then, we’ve been known to miss the entire range.
LOL! US Navy is having trouble just landing planes on the runway at the moment Accident Boeing P-8A Poseidon (737-8FV) 169561,
You don’t have to look terribly hard to find many cases of military aircraft ending up where they shouldn’t. Generally there’s a bit of an excuse in that many of them have somewhat challenging behaviour. This aircraft though, is basically just a 737. Of course, there’s no shortage of pictures of 737s where they shouldn’t be.
That’s the Marines…though it was a Marine airbase.
But not always. There was a year in which someone managed to order a version of the Mk82 (500lb bomb) that only had about 60lb of explosive with the rest being inert filler. They went bang, but not very. The normal HE form of the bomb had around 400lb of explosive. I'm not sure what the other form was used for, or why we would have had it, though it sounds like somebody filling in an order form got a digit wrong.
Or a beancounter counting each grain of HE and thinking why have 400lbs when 60lbs will still go bang?
But that bang won't be an earth shattering kaboom, right?
Doesn't the ADF only have a bark rather than a bite?. No earth shattering stuff needed then...
Doesn't the ADF only have a bark more than a bite?. No earth shattering stuff needed then...
60lb of HE with lots of containment. It wouldn't have the blast of the normal weapon, but would still be substantial. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it.
Well was a sarcastic comment about how budgets affect the ADF. In any case let me know when the ADF is really "potent"
Rather a sad fact of life these days. Some people need to be permanently immersed, or their heads collapse. Or something similar.
That has always been the case. They will then be the ones who try to take their luggage during an evacuation, or complain that their mask didn’t work during a depressurisation (because they didn’t activate it). Actually I don’t care if their mask doesn’t work, as that could improve the gene pool, but by taking luggage they risk others.
Probably not, but that has always been the unknown. There was a chance, albeit low, that there could be interference, and during many stages of flight, margins are small enough that even tiny errors could give extreme results. But, for the people you describe, risking other people is perfectly acceptable as long as they get their dose of bits.
We were supposed to obey the same rules as the passengers with regard to the phones in flight. But, at all other times, they were on, and given the number of times we had to make calls from the aircraft on the tarmac, I doubt that the airline would have functioned without them. Most of the pilots would have spent bare minutes per year in the normal office environment, so any rules they had there, we neither knew nor cared about.
