Heli Engineer Ed

Got a work experience lad in with us this week. He’s engaging, asks lots of questions, willing to get stuck in. Far from the norm, so found the time to take him over to see these two during lunch. #dontaskdontget

@gloucesterrugby That was about as much as fun as slowly lowering your head into a blender. Is reality check going to be on your New Year’s resolutions list? because that was dire. You are in denial if you think we will continue to pay to watch this shit show year in year out.

FULL TIME 🤝 Skyborne Airline Academy 🍒 21 - 30 💫 | #GLOvSAR

@RoyalMail DPD and a like have worked it out. Save yourself the bother of carrying items around all day/ then back to depot - just make it easy to do in the first place.

@RoyalMail why is it you still live in the Stone Age and try an attempted delivery before offering options on a safe space or alternative option. You could save yourself a lot of hassle if you do what everyone else does; and allow us to pre arrange before the first attempt!?!?

I even tried downloading the app. It’s parcelforce. No option to select safe place on this order, and also despite me saving a safe place preference for my address several times previous.

@JustEatUK got the short straw once again and delivery taking place before mine took far too long. Food is stone cold and ice cream completely melted. Food inedible. Why do you make it so hard for anyone to hold you fully to account and get past the arbitrary £10 back gesture?

@SheriHerman19 @TuckerCarlson No one in the UK cares about COVID. At all.

@TuckerCarlson Adore Russell Brand. None of the allegations against him are true. Why does Britain still care about Covid- which is what they seem to busy defending. 🙏

Russell Brand was once a famous leftwing actor, celebrated by the British establishment. Then he criticized the government for using Covid to turn the UK into a totalitarian state. The accolades abruptly stopped. A government TV station accused Brand of committing sex crimes against anonymous women they refused to name. Government officials called for his opinions to be scrubbed from the internet. Last month, British prosecutors charged Brand with rape and sexual assault. None of the charges are backed by hard evidence. All of them supposedly took place more than 20 years ago, one of them in the 1990s. The entire case is transparently political and absurd, a near-identical replay of the fake rape charges authorities brought against Julian Assange 15 years ago. Russell Brand, whose youngest child is barely a year old, now faces life in prison. He has no shot at a fair trial, because Britain is no longer a free country. Over the last few years, millions of foreigners have applied for asylum in the United States. Russell Brand actually deserves it. Say a prayer that the Trump administration comes to his rescue.

@KenCCheng @LangmanVince They wouldn’t, in almost any scenario. No one would. It seems that it’s over simplification in the video was just to describe how it works.

@LangmanVince Yes, but why would an experienced pilot move the control stick forward and back in an uncontrolled manner?

This was incredibly informative.

@cjdavis618 @LangmanVince No one has developed a way of making it work successfully due to rotating parts everywhere. There are examples of ejection seats (with explosive pins to release the blades first) but it’s generally never going to be a practical solution.

@LangmanVince Cirrus Aircraft have an option for a full parachute for the aircraft in case of failure. Do Helicopters have any options for that?

@limitedcards_nj @LangmanVince The helicopter was designed in the 50’s/60’s. It has mechanical linkages. Not likely that the pilot would have made such movements as demonstated in the video. It is an over simplification to explain how it works. A bit like how no one would ever full lock a car wheel at 80mph.

I know nothing about helicopters, but if it was this movement from pilot that caused this to happen, can any pilots explain why there isn’t some sort of software in place that would prevent this from happening? Like some sort of sensor system that would prevent that violent moment? It would seem to me that there should be some sort of computer that sits in between the controls and the blade system to prevent this sort of thing from happening?

@AsturV2 @FishwickDavid When rotors are turning in fwd flight they move up and down every single rotation. Check out the video where Chuck Aaron strapped gopro on to film how a blades move each rotation. Sometimes you see it, others it’s hard to see. No clear footage either way on this occasion

@Heli_Spanner @FishwickDavid But you'd still have some pitch oscillations, it's physics. What G-force was being applied to the rotor there? What's the point of moving the stick like that in straight and level flight? And why does the gearbox come apart too? Honestly, I'm not buying the mast bumping theory

The tragic helicopter crash into the Hudson River, Lots of people have been asking me what I think happened. These are my thoughts.

@AsturV2 @FishwickDavid The stabilizers are like wings and keep the fuselage generally straight and stable. The rotor disc moves more easily than the fuselage in this case of mast bumping

@FishwickDavid Hey Dave! As a two-wing pilot, I have a question: for mast bumping to occur, wouldn’t the helicopter pitch be oscillating violently due to the abrupt control inputs you mentioned? In the video, the helicopter appears to be flying perfectly level and then, it suddenly breaks apart

@1882UTC @FishwickDavid A mixture of maintenance based on calendar and hours flown. U.K. CAA mandate at least 12 monthly inspections but generally all of it is ‘over maintained’ to a degree. US rules slightly different but generally the same

@FishwickDavid Out of interest how often do you have to get it serviced & full health check Dave? 🤔

@TJPofTexas @MelodieOstmanRE @GrantCardone Yes. That’s the gearbox at the bottom of the hub so the mast hasn’t separated. ‘Mast bumping’ can also chop off the tailboom if severe enough so it is possible that is a cause.

There is not proof that the "Jesus nut" failed. This was more likely a "mast bump" where the inside edge of the spinning rotor hub (which is able to pivot to control direction) contacts the driving shaft in an uncontrolled manner resulting in a failure of the shaft. This can occur due to improper, erratic movement of the collective by the pilot, or possibly by extreme environmental conditions such as heavy wind gust, especially while the helicopter is at high load (cargo weight, extreme speed, extreme direction change, etc).

Talked to a number of my pilot friends -“This isn’t normal.” What was Siemens CEO Agustin Escobar, working on?

@LBC @NickFerrariLBC Note how he doesn’t seem to give a fuck about how he dressed to meet our King. Reassuring to know what he really considers important.

What's the difference between Zelenskyy's, Churchill's and Musk's attire for the White House? Nigel Farage explains to @NickFerrariLBC.

@bayraktar_1love @Macker202

Russian infantrymen are learning to ride motorcycles.

@SpoogemanGhost @KremlinRussia_E @mfa_russia @Macker202

📢 @KremlinRussia_E @mfa_russia you are going to have a very, very bad week in cyber. This is the 2nd power plant we got into, this one bigger than the last and using a gas-turbine engine. We have actually been in it since July, but today was the day to see it downed. 👊🇺🇦 This was in full operation until today, I will post those screenshots next. This is the most sophisticated SCADA HMI system we have ever attacked. The interesting bit is that we could not geolocate where is in Russia, as the IP is registered in Moscow but we unsure of where it is Actually routed to. Op-Encore will continue for the next several weeks at least, these are only the opening moves. We will not stop until Russia is defeated or we run out of targets. Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 @ZelenskyyUa @DefenceU @DefMon3 @TDF_UA @Ukrainy_1991 @DI_Ukraine

@front_ukrainian @Macker202

⚡️Another unique footage of the shooting down of the 🇷🇺Russian kamikaze drone "Shahed-136" by fire from the on-board machine gun of the 🇺🇦Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter

@mpmwilko interested to know your views on the North Street Car park development Max. Any comments? Could we do better here or is this an act of self sabotage? Incredibly disappointed to see this plan approved.

@artdeco_fan @thewisdomofray @CheltCivicSoc @CheltenhamBC They need voting out. Enough is enough.

@thewisdomofray @CheltCivicSoc @CheltenhamBC Cheltenham is not safe in their hands! The craftmanship and attention to detail that graced many buildings of the past seems to be considered unimportant nowadays 😒

Last night @CheltenhamBC’s Planning Committee voted unanimously to permit the development of the former Black & White/North St car park. We strongly support the principle of redevelopment but we opposed the poor quality of the proposal. Read more here: cheltcivicsoc.org/objection-to-b…

@Tendar @Macker202

The Ukrainian army rolling calmly through the Russian village of Plekhovo, Kursk Region, and greeted by some citizens with “Slava Ukraini”. Source: Telegram / Mysiagin