Posted on 06/15/2025 3:39:57 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
“Later in the video, note the lack of noise except for a few seconds when the 787 is on a full power takeoff and climb out. “
I would think that if the engines were operable they would have been at max thrust ...
During the takeoff on the YouTube video, the engines are at full power - but yet you literally can’t hear them except for a couple seconds when the exhausts are pointed directly at the camera area. Even then, it’s only for a couple seconds until the engines get further away.
The GEnx is *really* quiet.
Many smart phones are set to engage noise cancellation *while* recording video, not just phone calls. The S25 is notorious for having terrible audio while recording video because it doesn’t. Lots of videos on YouTube on how to fix that. Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql2JSh7dCYo
My suspicion would be a problem with the accessory gearbox.
https://www.geaerospace.com/news/articles/manufacturing/magnitude-manufacturing-genx
When I watched the video, if didn’t seem like a very big fireball to me considering the size of the aircraft. But there were buildings obstructing the view, so maybe there was more fire.
“The FO was in that cockpit with 1100 hrs total time. That’s just a data point but a ridiculously low amount of time for an ATP rating. In the U.S. 1500 hrs minimum is required and it wouldn’t be in a top line aircraft. “
I the U.S. you can get a restricted ATP with less than 1500 hours with graduation from a certified flight school but that wouldn’t get you into a 787 carrying passangers.
Yup I misstated.
The restricted trainee in Toronto is the one that put the plane on it’s lid last winter. She was flying a Delta regional airline in a Bombardier CRJ900LR not a 787.
“The 787, like a lot of post-WW2 large aircraft, has a significant wing angle of incidence or angle of attack.”
Are you implying AOI and AOA are the same?
“The B-52 having an opposite angle of attack is why those things look like they’re nose down when they’re flying level.”
I hope you are not implying that B-52’s fly with a NEGATIVE AOA!
Interesting, that flight path is at odds with the videos and Verbal description of the plane “using the last brick in the runway” before taking off.
“The S25 is notorious for having terrible audio while recording video because it doesn’t. Lots of videos on YouTube on how to fix that. “
My S25 Ultra has AI audio editing. Very effective.
That’s after the fact, not while it’s recording, which is the problem for many users.
Some people use them interchangeably. I’m referring to the wings’ angle compared to the fuselage. When the 787 is flying straight and level, the fuselage is nose up. When the B-52 flies straight and level (and even when climbing out, sometimes) it’s nose down.
“Some people use them interchangeably. “
Some people are ignorant.
It’s what the idiot journos are using and we have entirely too many people that still listen to them, sooooo in order to get the info in a form they’ll get...
I saw a video of the undercarriage of the aircraft while it was taking off. Was the RAT / RAM deployed just before the crash?
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Yes. The RAT deployment was visible on the original video. What was public previously was a video of a display Of the original video. I long ago learned that when it comes to aviation accidents, it best to wait until the complete investigation is done.
Which is the basis of the linked video subject.
The journos presented to the public a video of a cell phone video instead of up loading the cell phone video.
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Yes, I read about that as well.
When TDY in Asia (during the Vietnam war), the BUFFs took off nose up. (They were loaded with bombs, clustered on the pylons on the underside of the wings, and stuffed in the bomb bays.) They were so heavy with ordinance that they took off with minimum fuel, right behind a C135 tanker.
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