The totally off-topic thread

[penegal]

Our house is on stumps and a good 2+ FEET higher than others around us.

Good to hear... I hope the water doesn't get anywhere near that high

 

[markis10]

Straitmans next purchase:

With +1's approval

Without asking +1 for approval

 

[mjt57]

Re: Ask The Pilot

Grown men chasing a leather bladder around a paddock. The only thing that would make it interesting would be arming the spectators, and allowing them to take the occasional pot shot. Equally cricket would be made immeasurably better if the balls were randomly explosive.

Not really an aviation topic though...

But entirely true, although I must confess to be a Collingwood supporter. My interests are more in MotoGP, F1 to a lesser extent, and the local V8s if I remember that they're on.

But to stay OT, these race vehicles really fly....

 

[SeatBackForward]

Re: Ask The Pilot

But entirely true, although I must confess to be a Collingwood supporter. My interests are more in MotoGP, F1 to a lesser extent, and the local V8s if I remember that they're on.

But to stay OT, these race vehicles really fly....

F1 cars are just upside down airplanes.. (ok thats probably not going to be a good enough explanation on this forum!). But heres a comment from the Cabin Pressure radio series:

ARTHUR: How do the wings give it lift?
CAROLYN: What?
ARTHUR: The wings are really heavy. How does bolting two ginormous lumps of metal to a ginormous lump of metal give it lift?
CAROLYN: Oh, because they are wings. They're like birds' wings.
ARTHUR: Yeah, but birds' wings flap. Ours don't flap. They've got flaps, but I once watched the flaps, all the way to Stockholm. And take it from me, they're seriously misnamed. So, so why does having wings make the plane leave the runway?
...

ARTHUR: Oh, yes, about that, um, I wanted to ask you something, Skipper. Mum was telling me this morning the planes fly because they've got wings.
DOUGLAS: Is there anything that woman doesn't know?
ARTHUR: But she didn't really explain, why the wings lift us up.
DOUGLAS: Ah, well, essentially..
MARTIN: Uh, Douglas, he asked me. Listen carefully, Arthur. The wing is curved on top but flat on the bottom. When it meets the air, its split in two. The air that goes over the top has further to go, so it has to go faster to keep up with the air underneath, that reduces pressures above the wing, giving us a lift.
ARTHUR: Ah, fantastic! Thanks, Skipper. I, I totally get it now.
MARTIN: You are welcome.
ARTHUR: Except, why does it have to?
MARTIN: Why does it what what?
ARTHUR: Why does the air on the top have to keep up the air at the bottom? Why don't they just..split up?
DOUGLAS: For the sake of the kids?
...
DOUGLAS: Arthur, you were asking why the air over the wind has to keep up with the air underneath..
ARTHUR: Oh, yes, do you know?
DOUGLAS: Indeed, I do. Attend. The air is not passing over the wing. The wing is passing through the air. So the curved upper side stretches the air forced over it apart, reducing pressure, producing lift. The lift pushes up. The weight pushes down. So as long as the lift is more than the weight, up we go and that, my friend, is how an aeroplane flies.
ARTHUR: Got it! Right. Yes. Cracking. I completely get it now.
DOUGLAS: Good. You see, is that quite easy to grasp when it's explained properly by someone who understands..
ARTHUR: So that's why planes can't fly upside and down?
DOUGLAS: Uh..Yes, they can.
ARTHUR: Can they?
DOUGLAS: Well, of course they can. Haven't you seen the Red Arrows?
ARTHUR: But doesn't that mean the curved side of the wing is on the bottom? So the lift is pushing down as well as the weight. How does that work?
MARTIN: Yes, Douglas. How does that work?
DOUGLAS: Well, Arthur, there's a very simple explanation. But just to finish what we were saying, Martin, I think it's entirely up to you whether you let the cat in the hold freezed to death.

 

[medhead]

Grown men chasing a leather bladder around a paddock. The only thing that would make it interesting would be arming the spectators, and allowing them to take the occasional pot shot. Equally cricket would be made immeasurably better if the balls were randomly explosive.

Not really an aviation topic though...

Point taken. Perhaps slightly relevant to the question of pilots dealing with football teams as passengers. :?:

But entirely true, although I must confess to be a Collingwood supporter. My interests are more in MotoGP, F1 to a lesser extent, and the local V8s if I remember that they're on.

But to stay OT, these race vehicles really fly....

Those [expletive] cars having been going around and around and around. It's been SO [expletive] BORING! With apologies to the 12th man and 1980s F1.

Could a mod please move or delete all the recent off-topic posts in here?

I would suggest that the discussion of behaviour of football teams is relevant to the question raised about pilots dealing with disruptive passengers. In fact I already did.

 

[docjames]

/joke/

Just get a seaplane. Plenty of runway. :mrgreen:


/serious/

Best wishes to all those in Gippsland affected by the flooding.

 

[Princess Fiona]

Princess Fiona, damn I'm not an eBayer. Will my wife laugh like you at 1:26?

drmikki, now that is an expensive room

I'm pretty sure she will "Erica" is quite something when she moves

 

[medhead]

Just got my invite to the Midwinters celebration at Mawson. Plenty of accommodation, I just need to arrange transport. Any suggestions? Preferably with OW.


Sent from the Throne

 

[Bundy Bear]

I received a good news text from Qantas today a flight delay on my connecting flight, I had booked a flight with a 1 hr 10 minute connection in Sydney that has now stretched to 2 hours 20 minutes, I can't think of worse places to spend an extra hour.

Also have the food portions got bigger, how am I going to fit dessert.






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[penegal]

I received a good news text from Qantas today a flight delay on my connecting flight, I had booked a flight with a 1 hr 10 minute connection in Sydney that has now stretched to 2 hours 20 minutes, I can't think of worse places to spend an extra hour.

Also have the food portions got bigger, how am I going to fit dessert.

Happy Flighting. It doesn't look that big to me...

Did you have lunch on the way down?

 

[Must...Fly!]

Haven't eaten anything all day, figured the off topic thread would be a refuge.

Now I'm more hungry!!

 

[TonyHancock]

I received a good news text from Qantas today a flight delay on my connecting flight, I had booked a flight with a 1 hr 10 minute connection in Sydney that has now stretched to 2 hours 20 minutes, I can't think of worse places to spend an extra hour.

Also have the food portions got bigger, how am I going to fit dessert.

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Gotta love those F lounge chips!

 

[JohnK]

Pretty boring until 1.26 after that I had tears rolling down my cheeks

I was waiting for something exciting at 1:26 but it was still boring! We either watched a different clip or I must be getting old....

 

[drron]

What a beautiful day in down town Devonport today.Sunshine,not a cloud in the sky.got to the hospital at 0830 where the temperature was reading -1C.Went to go to lunch at 1230 and it had soared to 5C.certainly different to Singapore last week.
At Mersey Bluff beach though there were 2 young women attired in short shorts and tank tops!
Any way no problem I have a nice internal heater this week-a 1966 Wolf Blass vintage port.

 

[JohnK]

Normally we have a Billabong at the front of our house.

Today we have a vast lake!

Way more water out the front of your place than I saw in 2009! :shock: Hope all is OK.

 

[Katie]

I do not like water in houses. Hope that 2 feet+ is more than enough, straitman!!

 

[medhead]

Man the Queen loved those old British aircraft, I could see my face/feelings reflected in her smile when they went overhead.

 

[JohnK]

Also have the food portions got bigger, how am I going to fit dessert.

That looks about as big as my lunch today which consisted of salmon and avocado sandwich and small apple. I was still starving....

 

[amaroo]

View from the Lancaster Bomber & Spitfire doing the flypast up the The Mall for the Jubilee - BBC News - Pilot's view during Jubilee flypast of Buckingham Palace

 

[LiamR]

Gotta love those F lounge chips!

I think we've had this discussion before, they aren't that amazing.