HU Two Progs

[airboatr]

Dave,
The other poop was the 337 they used for the chase plane.
All that time to prep for the test and that's what they used.. really...

Oh what's this? the chase plane is having a hard time keeping up with the 727.

Who'd have thunked it.

[Dev One]

Now you can understand why it needed 6 'pilots' to land a Jindivik or a Meteor at Llanbedr sucessfully & repeatably, plus a whole lot of gear to make it work....
Keith

[speedbird591]

I'll never know We had a power cut last night and I checked the Sky+ box this morning. Part Recorded, it said, 45 mins. So there's no point in watching that! I'd better spend the time creating my own, unintentional, crashes on the laptop

Ian

[hobby]

Not a word in that programme about rearward facing seats. It would have been an interesting adjunct to place two more instrumented dummies strapped/unstrapped in rearward facing seats in the centre section of the 727 and compared their probable injuries with the two dummies actually used in forward facing seats.

I seem to remember that the RAF adopted rearward facing seats in some Transport Command aircraft (Brittanias?) but that system was not adopted by civilian airlines because passengers are said to prefer travelling facing in the direction of travel. It has been said that rearward facing seats do limit the severity of any injuries suffered in a crash.

One interesting point that could be seen in the programme was that the emergency exits over the wing as made for the 727 do not allow an incapactated survivor to be carried out of the aircraft quickly without the injured person suffering a bashing to one or both elbows.

[speedbird591]

The Trident had a number of rearward facing seats IIRC although it didn't make much difference for the poor people in Papa India. BA's Club class seats are arranged so that half of them are rear facing and I never once had anybody state any preference for facing forward or backward. I suppose the only time they have been in an accident situation would have been Mike Mike at Heathrow but I don't think there were any serious injuries anyway. So we still don't know for sure. BTW - if you are lucky enough to find yourself in one, don't forget to check the different brace position!

Ian

[TSR2]

Different brace position? Go on Ian, do tell, I don't think my 25000 bronze avios will stretch to that

[speedbird591]

Different brace position? Go on Ian, do tell, I don't think my 25000 bronze avios will stretch to that

In the unlikely event that you do find yourself in a Club World seat, you'll be given a personal briefing on how to brace. Until then, this will give you all the information you need to know.



Ian

[DaveB]

Perfect

ATB
DaveB

[TSR2]

Is that the Ryanair flight training card?

[DaveB]

As an aside.. I totally missed the Heroes of the Skies reruns about the Tuskegee airmen but watched it online today. Well worth the effort

ATB
DaveB