Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-14-2013, 06:27 AM
Gets Weekends Off
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08-14-2013, 06:27 AM
Wind the clock beoch
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08-14-2013, 06:29 AM
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08-14-2013, 06:30 AM
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08-14-2013, 06:41 AM
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At those forces, something's already broken loose (some seat tracks are lousy designs) and blunt force trauma gets them. What are really strange are the abdominal injuries involving the GI tract. The injured party can be walking around in low or moderate pain with no real externally visible injury, then die before diagnosis can be completed as a result of toxicity or blood loss. I used to own a Bonanza with the swing over yoke design. I planned to swing it over to the other side of the cockpit and force the door open immediately after trimming into best glide if ever it were necessary ... I don't like the way yokes are designed in most general aviation aircraft ... kinda like a harpoon. In my own airplanes the first money I spend on upgrades are really good shoulder harnesses for every occupied seat.
If you want to get really ticked off about outsourcing and compromised components in aircraft:
Seat maker Koito's deception results in FAA airworthiness directive
Despite receiving numerous objections from multiple parties the US FAA has issued a new airworthiness directive for aircraft seats made by embattled Japanese manufacturer Koito Industries, which falsified test data on some 150,000 seats in the world fleet.
08-14-2013, 06:48 AM
veut gagner à la loterie
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Is it better to have a control column over a yoke that goes in the dash?
... or I guess a side stick is best?
... or I guess a side stick is best?
08-14-2013, 06:49 AM
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08-14-2013, 06:51 AM
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08-14-2013, 06:54 AM
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Don't know if I've got an opinion on side sticks. Most of those that I've had experience with involve composite airframes, which are a whole 'nother topic.
08-14-2013, 06:59 AM
Sho me da money!
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Alaska
If this AA/USAir merger ends up dead, AA has to survive and they will make a play for a smaller yet profitable airline. I think ALK would be first and JB second..
Needless to say DAL will not sit by quietly......
That has me worried, ALK has a very dangerous lack of scope and DAL/ALK will of course tell ALPA that existing contracts for airlines such as SKYW will have to be honored (think lack of scope at ALK and the immediate future with 100 seat deliveries) in a merger.....
Not a settling future IMHO
Needless to say DAL will not sit by quietly......
That has me worried, ALK has a very dangerous lack of scope and DAL/ALK will of course tell ALPA that existing contracts for airlines such as SKYW will have to be honored (think lack of scope at ALK and the immediate future with 100 seat deliveries) in a merger.....
Not a settling future IMHO
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