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Posted in Flying on May 27th, 2011
On 4 November, 2010 Qantas flight QF32, an Airbus A380 outbound from Singapore, ran into serious problems when a turbine on its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine suffered an uncontained failure. The crew professionally dealt with the incident inflight and successfully landed the aircraft without serious injury. It is also very interesting from a flight operations/safety […]
Posted in Flying on Dec 13th, 2006
Back in the early 1990’s I had the opportunity to “jump seat” my way around the world on a Qantas 747. On occasion I took a video camera onto the flight deck and recorded various aspects of those flights that would be of interest to aviation enthusiasts. Below is a collection of those movies. Enjoy. […]
Posted in Flying on Jul 6th, 2006
In an earlier post (Explosive Decompression at Altitude) the discussion followed that if there is a hole in the aircraft or some other factor that creates a decompression when flying at altitude then first priority is to get down to lower levels where oxygen is richer. People have been asking what happens if you are […]
Posted in Flying on May 11th, 2006
If you are flying in economy class how are you able to get power for your laptop? Most aircraft are equipped with sockets at regular intervals amongst the seating to allow cleaning staff to power their vacuum cleaners (refer image). Laptop power supplies can fortunately handle a broad range of voltages. In fact the mentioned […]