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Where's Mkloby ?
Why did they call female marines "BAMS" ??
And don't forget "MRE's"
Charles
Thanks Doug for those!
Did the hawkeye get Hummer from the sound of the radome turning?
And what's with the A-3D? I'm guessing there were a few mishaps with them.
Thanks mate! I like to collect trivia too, hence the thread.I'm showing my ignorance here, but by 'spool up rate' do you mean picking up speed?
Here's some more trivia about spool up ...I worked for Northwest Airlines as a line mechanic and along the way I qualified as a "Run/Taxi" mechanic. When I was training on the Airbus A-320 the trainers kept warning us to be careful with our throttle movements because the response time (lag) with the CFM 56 engines was EIGHT SECONDS! Think about it, that's a heck of a lot of time to be waiting for something to happen, especially in flight, say on final approach.
Eight seconds!? If trying to waveoff that would seem like an eternity...
Dosen't sound too comfortable...! Is that due to it's size, or quality/ nature of the design?
Thanks for explaining the spool up rate, too. I thought that was what you meant, but wasn't sure.
All turbines, by their nature, have an inherent lag time... some worse than others, since exhaust gases pass through the turbine section which in turn drives the compressor - you can see the reason for the spool up.
By high bypass do you mean it has a system that allows it to dump larger amounts of fuel into the exhaust to give it a bit of push while the engine is spooling up?
Sounds like a miracle no-one else was killed in that crash, too....