Posted on 01/15/2009 12:47:38 PM PST by Red Steel
Breaking now of Fox News.
Now THAT is one odd looking bird. Were those really in use?
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Oh yea, those guys had 10 lb brass COJONES keeping focused and in control to orchestrate nothing short of a miracoulous effort saving everyone on the plan and untold lives on the ground. Stuff of heroes.
And the other four were... Islamic jihadists on a suicide mission.
True. I’m thinking fuel bladders/military. Full bladders won’t let the water fill the spaces.
I don’t think the A320 uses fuel bladders, just aluminum tanks that likely stayed intact. So yeah, empty would float higher.
Dangit. I hate getting corrected on FR. ;-)
Knee deep in water is better than 6 feet deep under dirt.
The passengers looked to be standing on the wing and on the inflatable ramps with ferries rescuing them from the stills I saw. Looks like more than enough boats were there to respond, hopefully everyone made it out of the fuselage before it sank.
I wasn’t correcting you, i was merely adding to your commentary.
:)
“corn-cobbed” or “cored”
The way a jet engine is made, a large amount of air is compressed down into a much smaller volume of air by many stages of turbines. In each stage, the blades are smaller, thinner, closer together, more precisely made, and more lightly made. If “Foreign Object Damage” occurs to one of the earlier turbine blades and breaks it off, that blade progresses back through the engine and usually breaks off all the subsequent blades, coring the engine, and making it look like a corn cob.
The earlier stages of modern jets can handle a bird easily (they are called a “fan”, are very tough, and there is quite a bit of clearance), but if the resulting pieces don’t get rejected (and bypass the main part of the engine) and they are not sufficiently chewed up, when they reach the more precision stages, it is likely the engine will not survive.
Several times a day at a typical airport, runway checks are done to look for dropped nuts and bolts etc, since an engine can occasionally suck them up as it is passing - and that is real bad news since they don’t chew very well at all. Radar controllers will advise pilots of bird flocks when they can see them and if they have the time to do so. It may be the most common advisory a pilot gets when near the ground - and believe me that when such an advisory is given, all pilots on board are craning their necks and straining their eyes to see them... traveling at 200-300 feet/second doesn’t give you much time to respond when you find them. Every jet pilot is aware that bird strikes are dangerous.
Bird strikes are not by any means a new problem. (My only bird strike was of a crow and I took it on the landing gear, but we still went around and got a visual check before landing). Geese are about the worst, though. At higher than passenger plane landing speeds, goose strikes on the windscreen can be with an impact (if my memory serves) of on the order of millions of pounds of force... not good at all... and pilots have died in a pile of mushed blood, windscreen, and goose flesh.
Last I saw, it’s still floating. FAA reports everybody got out.
Its all Bush’s fault the plane crashed, luckily Obama saved them all!
Or so the MSM line will go.
That is one of the coolest sites I’ve ever been to. Had no idea this stuff existed.
It’s OK, I was guilty of faulty logic.
BTW, check out this article, headlined on Drudge.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95NQM883&show_article=1
What a freaking STOOOOPID AP reporter. “a bird” did this.
” A US Airways plane crashed into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines”
*a* bird.
OMG. Did this reporter pass first grade math? Certainly NOT smarter than a fifth grader
Reports are that everyone did.
Aircraft is now pushed out of navigation lanes and is at the shoreline near Stuyvesant High School.
sounds like the fox got there quickest. I heard hannity on his radio show reporting it before cnn picked it up. we now get him Live as well as Mark Levin at ksfo
They are moving it to a school,outside a school.
After you put the time in go right top there is a start button. Had the same problem until I saw it!
The “jerk” was one of the men who let all the women and children get out first.
And I imagine 99% of the people in the rescue effort were men.
So maybe you oughta put a lid on it.
I doubt that very much. Perception of time by persons in crisis and under stress is very distorted. Ten seconds can feel like a minute.
It's truly astounding that everybody survived. Not only was nobody badly hurt but they hardly even got wet! Wow!
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