United plans to reduce it’s flying this fall and in doing so will also be reducing it’s flight attendant work force by 1,550 people. According to the airline, the flight attendant reductions need to be in place by October 31st, 2008. The furloughees will be able to keep their medical and flight benefits, the airline says.
Welcome to the easiest way to fly on a PC, period. Easier then even the easiest flight simulator. This is a pretty cool site which allows you to fly through the mountains with your mouse. Although I haven’t tried it on an older PC, I’d think it might be a little processor intensive - So fair warning. All you have to do is follow the link below and play around with your mouse a little bit. You’ll see that it doesn’t let you get too close to the mountains but it still provides for a few minutes of entertainment. Also the music they choose for the score seems to have been the perfect choise, at least to me.
This series of photos documents the measures taken to absorb the impact of a Harrier which was unable to lower it’s landing gear by normal means. As you can see ground crews secured mattresses beneith the aircraft.
What they didn’t count on was the Harrier sucking those mattresses into it’s engine.
Although this looks to be a promising new design in aircraft technology, it does raise a few questions:
- The effects of a bird strike or multiple bird strikes
- Takeoffs from anything other than FOD-free surfaces
- Any sort of malfunction in the mechanics that drive the main fan
I would suppose that if the fan were similar to that on a reel lawn mower, the results from taking a bird strike would be parallel to those of such a mower on doggy doo-doo.. But I wouldn’t think those benefits (if they can be called that?) could also be extended to rocks and sticks, just as they aren’t on reel lawn mowers.
United plans to reduce it’s flying this fall and in doing so will also be reducing it’s flight attendant work force by 1,550 people. According to the airline, the flight attendant reductions need to be in place by October 31st, 2008. The furloughees will be able to keep their medical and flight benefits, the airline says.
Capt’n Chris
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Welcome to the easiest way to fly on a PC, period. Easier then even the easiest flight simulator. This is a pretty cool site which allows you to fly through the mountains with your mouse. Although I haven’t tried it on an older PC, I’d think it might be a little processor intensive - So fair warning. All you have to do is follow the link below and play around with your mouse a little bit. You’ll see that it doesn’t let you get too close to the mountains but it still provides for a few minutes of entertainment. Also the music they choose for the score seems to have been the perfect choise, at least to me.
Capt’n Chris
Capt’n Chris
