old.Tohtori said:What i find fun is the engine testing.
First they make sure it's ok.
Then they throw all sorts of junk like frozen chickens(or thawed(sp?)) in them to see there's no "small problems" and THEN they hook it up to the planes.
Umm...does anyone else find something funny about it?
Chronictank said:flying is the safest form of transport
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tris- said:only if you get hit at 30 or less, then you can come back from the dead.
any faster your fucked
Heta said:oww, didnt strike me. But do you mean like scared cause you think someone will blow it up? or the old regular 80's I am so scared of flying cause I'm a retard and think god will smith us down from doing something man was not suppose to be able to do?
tris- said:im not sure on the accuracy of this.
chucking dead chickens into an engine doesnt seem to be the most professional way to test an engine that costs tens of thousands of pounds.
old.Tohtori said:They DO chuck stuff in a running engine and after that hook it up, which is ok, you have to test it, but it's at the same time odd since...what if that chucking just broke something
old.Tohtori said:Have to check the interweb about the testing procedure, atleast i know they test windshields(from mythbusters) with chickens.
Mojo said:They don't use the engines they test on planes that will eventually fly. They are just test engines.
tris- said:well an aeroengine is a lot different to a windshield. taken from volvos aeroengine test website -
cHodAX said:The second one has made me extremely paranoid about turbulance because I shit you not we were being tossed around something terrible to the point where people were crying.
tris- said:sounds the same as me, were you on my plane? also going to manc airport.
shit started getting thrown about then the plane free falled, was fabulous
Calaen said:I hate flying, I constantly tell myself I am going to die and picture how it would happen when I am on board the plane. I will happily read while flying but underneath the reading I am watching myself die over and over again.