Dumbest Things You've Heard about the US Airways crash

[CubCaptain]

I saw embry riddle try and simulate the crash in a crj. I couldn't stop laughing.

You think that was funny. Check out these toolsheds trying to score their 15 seconds of local news fame with Daniel Webster's "737" simulator! :nana2:

http://www.wmur.com/news/18498676/detail.html

 

[beechpilot]

Local news here in Portland found an instructor to "demonstrate" a water landing in a simulator. So, they filmed the instructor landing a seminole frasca sim in the water... oh well, seminole and A320 are pretty much the same thing anyway.

WHAT??? Heck I'm suprised they didn't film someone doing it on Microsoft Flight Sim.

 

[NJT916]

little bird

Little bird? I heard it was the killer bees...I've got video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQfVte5nfg0

 

[derg]

"A crane is lifting the million pound jet a foot per hour to let the water drain".

 

[derg]

WHAT??? Heck I'm suprised they didn't film someone doing it on Microsoft Flight Sim.

"Inside Edition" did.

I crap you not.

 

[jtrain609]

Might the thing actually weigh that much with all the water in it?

Nope, even with my horrible math, and if the entire fuselage was 100% filled with water the thing would only top out around 298,000 lbs. That's with water weighing 64.42 pounds per cubic foot and assuming 2000 cubic feet within' the aircraft (Pi x radius squared x height, or 3.14 x 49 x 13).

 

[derg]

Folks, we've got a mathlete here!

 

[OldTownPilot]

It would be pi* R squared * Length

More like 15,000 cu ft (at 100 feet long)

Equals 985,000 lbs

Jtrain BUSTED!

 

[derg]

Why don’t the airlines place sturdy aluminum netting at the front of their jet engines? Trains had cow-catchers. Planes need bird-catchers.

Paul Marx
Towson, Md., Jan. 16, 2009

 

[jtrain609]

It would be pi* R squared * Length

More like 15,000 cu ft (at 100 feet long)

Equals 985,000 lbs

Jtrain BUSTED!

You have just proven why I got C's in every single math class I ever took.

 

[OldTownPilot]

pi*r^2*h would be right in a vertical cylinder like a soup can.

Close.

 

[Cptnchia]

pi*r^2*h would be right in a vertical cylinder like a soup can.

Close.

Suppose I turn the can on it's side. Then doesn't height become length?



"They call me Mr. Parser."

 

[OldTownPilot]

Suppose I turn the can on it's side. Then doesn't height become length?



"They call me Mr. Parser."

Yep. It all depends on the orientation. So I should call it pi*r^2*(distance perpendicular to the radius)

 

[OldTownPilot]

This discussion right here is the dumbest thing I heard about the crash.

 

[Cptnchia]

This discussion right here is the dumbest thing I heard about the crash.

You're the one who posted the formula!

 

[FLflyer]

A 911 call that CNN keeps reporting:
"A US Air big DC-9 or -10 has crashed into the Hudson River. ... Oh, my gosh!"

 

[derg]

This discussion right here is the dumbest thing I heard about the crash.

Oh come on man, we're pilots!

The intellectual equivalent of three house cats, a single unopened can of Fancy Feast and a can opener!

 

[Seggy]

This whole link sums it up...

http://www.wftv.com/video/18498499/index.html

 

[Minuteman]

Why don’t the airlines place sturdy aluminum netting at the front of their jet engines? Trains had cow-catchers. Planes need bird-catchers.

Paul Marx
Towson, Md., Jan. 16, 2009

Hey! This could make a good episode of Mythbusters!

They could start off with footage that shows what a bird attack does to a pressure bulkhead. Then look into that microwave thing they're making up for "inter-stage engine anti-ice", but with the power turned up even more.

 

[CubCaptain]

This whole link sums it up...

http://www.wftv.com/video/18498499/index.html

I like how after they hit the water she says "Continue." Yeah I guess it might be a bad decision to try to go-around at that point. anic: