Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: USS America

I love me some expresso!  

Great! Does that mean you two are going to stay up tonight and get the turn done?

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


Artwork by The Amazing Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Mynok


How bout them Gamecocks! Wooooot!

Mike

"Good times will set you free" - Jimmy Buffett

"They need more rum punch" - Me


Artwork by The Amazing Dixie

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

What's a Gamecock?

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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ORIGINAL: scott1964

Medical Office in Mesa, AZ, USA

Customer: “I need to get an appointment for my son right away!”

Me: “Okay, has he seen the doctor before?”

Customer: “No. He had an appointment but he missed it.”

(I get the patient’s name and check him in the computer. He missed a consult appointment on 8/10 and didn’t call to cancel. He simply didn’t show up. It is now 9/27.)

Me: “Okay, our next available appointment is October 22nd.”

Customer: “That’s not soon enough! Don’t you have anything sooner?”

Me: “That’s our next available routine appointment. If you want to have his primary care physician call and speak with our doctor, we may be able to move it up, but right now I can’t put him in our emergency slots.”

Customer: “Why not?”

Me: “It’s our policy not to give out emergency slots to patients who have previously no-showed appointments.”

Customer: “What if it’s an emergency?”

Me: “Given that his original appointment that you missed was six weeks ago, I find that unlikely.”

Customer: “He’s got hormones in his brain!”

*long awkward silence*

Me: “He’s a teenage boy, right?”

Customer: “It’s an emergency!”

" Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room. " President Muffley

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With the Garden Simulator 2010 you can create your own garden. Plant different flowers, fruit or vegetables. You can move about freely
and design the garden according to your own ideas. Establish paths, place decorative items and take care of your crop. There are more than 40 objects available which you can purchase with your earned money. Besides the career modus, various missions await you. A sophisticated weather system, day and night changes and detailed graphics provide a realistic gameplay.

Features:

* Career mode and free game
* Numerous mission
* Many creative options
* More than 40 tools, plants and decorative objects
* Flowers, trees, fruit and vegetables
* Weather system and day/night changes
* Animals such as moles and snails
* Addition of new objects via modding for unlimited game fun
* Detailed graphics

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Rememberence Sunday, watching the marchpast on TV.  My living room always seems to have a bit of dust or grit in the air at this time of year...

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

A & B: WitW, WitE, WbtS, GGWaW, GGWaW2-AWD, HttR, CotA, BftB, CF
P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: stuman

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ORIGINAL: BrucePowers

What's a Gamecock?

I have a couple of answers, but I don't want to get banned

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Rememberence Sunday, watching the marchpast on TV.  My living room always seems to have a bit of dust or grit in the air at this time of year...

Hello Martin!

I hope you are Ok and everything is good...

BTW, seen my question to you few days ago about A380 and RollsRoyce Trent 900?


Leo "Apollo11"

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to Apollo11)

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Rememberence Sunday, watching the marchpast on TV.  My living room always seems to have a bit of dust or grit in the air at this time of year...

Hello Martin!

I hope you are Ok and everything is good...

BTW, seen my question to you few days ago about A380 and RollsRoyce Trent 900?

Can't say I did mate, what was it? Not sure if I'll be able to answer but I'll give it a go

Prior Preparation & Planning Prevents Pathetically Poor Performance!

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P: UV, WitP, WitP-AE

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

Hi all,

OK - here is the repost (original here http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2563820&mpage=196�):

Martin, as our in house (erm... in "THE THREAD" ) aircraft engine expert - what do you think about A380 and Rolls-Royce Trent 900 issues?


Leo "Apollo11"

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to Apollo11)

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ORIGINAL: Dixie


I understand that both recent events were down to problems somewhere in the oil systems. The Qantas one looks like a failure of a turbine bearing causing it to seize and then spit out a few blades. IIRC the Trent is based on the RB211 but with a few added goodies (extra LP turbine stage for example). It looks like it's either the HP or IP turbine that's given up and broken away and taken a big chunk of translating cowl (part of the thrust reverse system) and cold-stream duct with it. The image shows a nice chunk of the core engine missing just in front of the bulge in the engine fairing.


Sitting at home with a nice knowledge or aircaft I can happily say losing one of four engines isn't an issue, but if you're sat on an aeroplane that's just lost an engine it's probably different

Have I bored you enough yet? I can get more technical if you want (you really don't btw)

When you see the Southern Cross, For the first time
You understand now, Why you came this way

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ORIGINAL: rtrapasso

i understand that it was considered a design failure (on the A380), not so much because the engine failed but because when it did, it was not contained in the "armored box" of the engine, but punctured the wing when it blew out...

So, not so much that the engine failed but rather that it might have taken out a wing as well... iirc, wing failure on an aircraft is not good!

When you see the Southern Cross, For the first time
You understand now, Why you came this way

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ORIGINAL: DivePac88

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ORIGINAL: Dixie


I understand that both recent events were down to problems somewhere in the oil systems. The Qantas one looks like a failure of a turbine bearing causing it to seize and then spit out a few blades. IIRC the Trent is based on the RB211 but with a few added goodies (extra LP turbine stage for example). It looks like it's either the HP or IP turbine that's given up and broken away and taken a big chunk of translating cowl (part of the thrust reverse system) and cold-stream duct with it. The image shows a nice chunk of the core engine missing just in front of the bulge in the engine fairing.


Sitting at home with a nice knowledge or aircaft I can happily say losing one of four engines isn't an issue, but if you're sat on an aeroplane that's just lost an engine it's probably different

Have I bored you enough yet? I can get more technical if you want (you really don't btw)

No not boring Dixie, but very informative thank you.

Now my question;

is that engine designed to do that, sort-of like a cordless kettle that only lasts two weeks, so you have to buy about thirty of the things a year?

Bigger boys stole my sig

(in reply to DivePac88)

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

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ORIGINAL: Apollo11

OK - here is the repost (original here http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2563820&mpage=196�):

Martin, as our in house (erm... in "THE THREAD" ) aircraft engine expert - what do you think about A380 and Rolls-Royce Trent 900 issues?

I understand that both recent events were down to problems somewhere in the oil systems. The Qantas one looks like a failure of a turbine bearing causing it to seize and then spit out a few blades. IIRC the Trent is based on the RB211 but with a few added goodies (extra LP turbine stage for example). It looks like it's either the HP or IP turbine that's given up and broken away and taken a big chunk of translating cowl (part of the thrust reverse system) and cold-stream duct with it. The image shows a nice chunk of the core engine missing just in front of the bulge in the engine fairing.


Sitting at home with a nice knowledge or aircaft I can happily say losing one of four engines isn't an issue, but if you're sat on an aeroplane that's just lost an engine it's probably different

Have I bored you enough yet? I can get more technical if you want (you really don't btw)

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ORIGINAL: Dixie

Not designed to as such Offhand I can't remember exactly how the casings are built, but iirc there isn't anything to really stop the turbine blades if the do break loose. There's a casing (like a kevlar net I think) at the front to contain the LP fan blades (because they're bloody huge) in the event they break away. The turbine blades by comparison are a lot smaller.

Engines can (and usually do) last for thousands and thousands of hours 'on wing'. I'm sure that my instructor mentioned (in February) that TAP had an engine on one of their aircaft since the 90's. Especially in the civvy world having an engine that broke down on a regular basis would kill a company. Seeing as airlines are based on making money they'd soon stop buying your stuff if it broke down every 1,000 hours or so.

On the RB211 the final turbine stage (the largest blades) are about a foot long, the further forward in the engine you go the smaller the blades are. The HP blades are really tiny, again iirc, only a couple of inches. The LP fan blades are about 3' long each and made from a heavy titanium alloy so they're more of a problem if they break free. Usually I only see the LP fan and the LP turbine first hand, everything else I see through a boroscope so it's harder to judge sizes. I've got no reason to think the turbine blades are any bigger on the Airbus.

As for the wing, it's an airframe part and is therefore boring to me (even if I am technically qualified for airframe work). But, the wing spars are chunky bits of metal and are set back from the leading edge, the hole just looks bad because it's in the wing. The leading edge would maybe contain hydraulic lines (for the LE slats), engine controls and maybe refuel pipework. I'm not sure on how the AB has it's hyds set up, newer aircraft are generally less reliant on hydraulics than older ones so there might not be anything much leading through the front of the wing.

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