Right now he is at 10,000 feet in a holding pattern off Hawaii getting ready to land. The aircraft seems to be quite fragile. Weeks ago, I was reading that after he landed in Japan, it had some minor damage on the ground when all the ground handlers were holding it down in the wind. This was before ...

As of 12:38:19AM Monday, June 1, 2015 UTC time he is over the Sea of Japan on his way to Hawaii

Is this the researcher you are thinking of? He has had quite a busy week. His first adventure reported on 2015-April-18 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/united-airlines-stops-researcher-who-tweeted-about-airplane-network-security His second adventure reported on 2015-April-19 http://www.cnet.co...

There was this one trip that 4 of us took for business to Baltimore MD. The arrangement was to fly there in the morning, have meetings all day, and then fly home in the evening. I wore my nice business meeting suit and tie, with my briefcase and small carry-on bag. I did not bring my shaver or anyth...

Sounds like a near approach to this incident, except with a more modern aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan_Island_incident

I've always dreamed of having my own high-performance jet. Now if only I could come up with some serious $$$'s.

Hmm, I wonder what a 5000 hour inspection would turn up...

Could they have had a bird-strike at that altitude in the middle of the night? Maybe with a large bird like a hawk or an albatross or a vulture or some other large heavy high-flying species which is active at night? What if on top of a hypothetical bird strike, their oxygen system was not properly m...

This is really sad. Condolences to the 17 year old pilot's family and friends. This situation hits a bit close to home. This guy must have really liked flying. I soloed (some decades ago) at age 16. I passed my flight test several days after my 17th birthday with 90-something hours. However, unlike ...

This reply might contain more details than you might care for, but since you expressed interest, then here you are. The RC model in the video is similar to the model that he flew in the 2012 competition. (I was unable to easily locate his 2013 information) Here is his 2012 version: http://rcshare.co...

+1, if you have the coin for the degree and are really interested in it, do it. You might even snag a good position with an aerospace company and combine your fun. +1 on what he said. One of my friends here in Ottawa has a degree in aerospace engineering, and in his day job he designs instrument pa...

burhead1 wrote:Not a lot of surface area on the rudder.

Hmmm, well of course the only time you really would miss it is if you have two engines out on the same side.......

Yeah, saw the dude on CBC saying "twice the normal speed " - sheesh. Man, I really wish these reporters would get their facts straight. One (rather mangled) quote from the Ottawa Sun: "Burnstein said Air Canada taxied passengers to end of the runway after the plane landed safely. Emergency crews, a...

When lightning strikes a tree, the electrical current flows down the trunk. All the moisture inside the tree trunk and under the bark starts to boil with the heat, and when it turns to steam then the tree trunk bursts open and the bark gets jettisoned. One loose analogy would be a package of micro-w...

Here is part of a lecture from when I was listening in a class in university many moons ago. Visualize yourself standing on a seashore and the waves are coming in. The seashore is a straight-line beach (not a curved beach, not crescent-shaped). All the waves are coming in regular straight lines, eve...

Agent no. 4 OK, anything else? What about our friends in the former east bloc? Agent no. 1 I met with our Russian friends yesterday, and we agreed to put aside all our past differences. Putin and all his staff will fully support our scripted story. Agent no. 4. Very good. How about latin america? Ag...

Shadowy agent no. 4 Gentlemen, I have good news! Agent no. 3 Good news? We've already got both Osama and Saddam fully on-side with our plan. They've both committed their own bacon to it, and they've promised that none of their lieutenants and their extended families would ever contradict the officia...

Shadowy agent no. 3: Don't forget that it is also necessary to pay Osama bin Laden enough money so that he agrees to take full credit for the results. Plus OBL has to agree to become the object of a search by the full US armed forces and US intelligence. Furthermore, it is also necessary to pay all ...

We don't have cable, and the rabbit ears seem to work fine with the little converter box. Since we are saving money each month from not having cable, we use the money to help pay for a meal at our favorite restaurant. The only problem with this new extra box is to remember which remote is needed to ...

Someone was using this as his avatar.

1+1=11 duh! I think you mean 10. In binery it's three. Actually, that's a good point. 1+1 = 10 (for base-2 binary arithmetic) 1+1 = 1 (for a logical-OR function in software engineering) 1+1 = 2 (for base 10) Hmmm.... as the computer engineers will tell you, there are 10 kinds of people in the world...

pilotsteve wrote:48÷2(9+3)
Whats the answer?

Wait a minute, it just dawned on me where all this is coming from.

Hey Steve, is this the skill-testing question on the back of your winning lottery ticket?

I have a Sharp scientific calculator, When I type the equation in as 48/2(9+3) it gives an answer of 2 . When I type it in as 48/2*(9+3) it gives an answer of 288. No word of a lie. try it. Wow that is scary stuff. Let's do an experiment with a hypothetical situation. Imagine I've just bought a nic...

Oh no, it looks like the team I'm cheering for is losing. Come on team, we need more people to vote for 288. If you start with this: 48/2(9+3) you have to realize that the multiplication sign between the 2 and the parentheses is implied, as other people have already explained. You also have to reali...

Hard work is always the key. He is absolutely right about the hard work. I started taking flying lessons when I was about 15. My parents had to drive me to the airport when I first started. I earned the money to pay for the lessons myself. Back then, I had to work about 9 or 10 hours to earn enough...

If they are planning to knock out the Libyan air force, it would seem easiest to use tomahawk cruise missiles to take out the fixed radar installations, and then use unmanned drones armed with missiles to take out the Libyan fighters and helicopters while they are on the ground refueling. .... unles...