#airplane crashes

[faramirsonofgondor]

Everybody here in the U.S. or even people outside the U.S. who are wondering why there’s so many plane crashes happening right now: Trump put a hiring freeze on air traffic control, fired people who are in charge of helping keep airlines safe (the head of the TSA), and disbanded an aviation safety committee, the head of the FAA was all but forced out, all the while other republicans are saying that TSA should be disbanded and airline security should be left in the hands of airlines themselves, and now Trump is blaming it on DEI, despite the fact that air traffic control is severely understaffed at the moment. I’m genuinely not sure if this is due to blatant arrogance and ignorance or if they’re playing at some bigger goal - like shutting down airlines due to “safety concerns”, all I can really say right now is if you can get out, do so, and if you can’t, try.

[mckitterick]

Timing is everything

this famous photo was featured as a center spread in the British Daily Mirror newspaper on Oct 9, 1962

photographer Jim Meads was with his two children as the then-experimental Mach-2 Lightning F1 fighter jet roared in to land at De Havilland Airfield near their home

a fuel leak caused catastrophic failure and the plane flipped. pilot George Aird ejected at the last moment, hit a greenhouse, and fell through the roof, breaking both legs as he landed unconscious on the ground. the water from the sprinkler system for the tomatoes woke him, and his first thought was that he must be in heaven

more on the plane and photo here: X

[trivia-polls-daily]

No cheating, please! Answer the trivia question to the best of your ability, then check below the cut! Please do not give away answers in comments or tags!

Answer below:

The U.S. officially adopted the word "mayday" in 1927.

https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/mayday.htm

[olowan-waphiya]

'''It's one of the biggest mysteries in modern aviation history. In March 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport en route to Beijing and lost communication about 38 minutes into the flight. Military radar tracked the aircraft as it veered off course before the signal (and the plane) disappeared somewhere over the Andaman Sea and Indian Ocean.

All 12 crew members and 227 passengers were presumed dead, and search-and-rescue efforts yielded no signs of the doomed plane apart from a few pieces of debris that washed up on coastal shores months later. Now, scientists have partially reconstructed the possible origin and drift path of that debris via a novel means: extracting data about ocean temperatures stored in shells of barnacles, according to a new paper published in the journal AGU Advances.''''

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

watching the 10th vid about how a plane cash happened bc the pilots couldn't tell which way their plane was going: Wow humans are really bad at flying. probably why we invented airplanes!

watching the 11th vid where a pilot steers directly into the ground by accident: i guess we did also invent airplane crashes too, huh

[bma1852]

Mayday

Image by Alan Dobson from Pixabay I’ve mentioned before that I don’t always sleep when I should. I suffer from “OMS” (Old Man Syndrome). Sometimes, when this is the case, I will turn on the TV. One of the shows I like to watch in the middle of the night is called “Mayday.” They go over actual airplane crashes and report “70% of all air crashes are due to human error.” At one time, I wanted to be…

[socialjusticeinamerica]

[meruz]

how it feels to be at the airport during the holidays

[doostyaudi]

I kinda like him...

Toonar <<33

[saywhat-politics]

[dronescapesvideos]

Lt. Quentin Aanenson returns to base after his P-47D Thunderbolt was hit by flak, which led to a collapsed undercarriage. August 1944 🎥 New P-47 Documentary: https://youtu.be/TAOD_8gPBcY

[kacievvbbbb]

What is fun about the last time Shanks saw Mihawk he was probably 29 on the cusp of 30 and then they fall out and they don’t really reconnect until Mihawk is middle age and Shanks on his way there.

That’s alot of time to miss someone you used to know intimately. A whole life has been lived there. And think how much Mihawk must have changed how much shanks himself has changed. All this to say that I really think Shanks loves watching this version of Mihawk being domestic and having his little old lady hobbies.

He loves watching him cook and bake and talk about recipes and how to make sure the little gremlins under his care are getting the proper nutrients. He loves watching him tend to his garden with his ridiculously domestic sun hat, he loves watching him pick strawberries and put them into a little quicker basket and plant and harvest cocoa trees for Perona, and teach Zoro how to chop vegetables really fast and embroider his little flower patterns and read erotica and newspapers Like the same thing and take naps in the sun spot like a cat and interact with the kids and just he likes seeing Mihawk live his life because I will never come down from the hill that Shanks really kind of subconsciously worries about him and his loneliness and kind of the empty way he was living his life.

Cause like I think for shanks it’s such a jarring juxtaposition with the Mihawk that’s still freshest in his memories 10 years ago. 20 something young dangerous and wanted. Mihawk back then was probably the definition of vagabond literally bound to nothing and no one except occasionally shanks. Sailing around in a tiny ass boat with only wine and his sword a one man calamity.The Mihawk he remembers was always itching for a fight and would gladly start one. And because I headcannon Mihawk probably didn’t get his title till after his big blowout with shanks this is still a Mihawk with a lot to fucking prove and he’ll prove it every chance he gets. This is a Mihawk who still regularly accepts challengers and is also actively challenging people. This is a Mihawk that is hunting marines for sport (or revenge Or both) His life revolves around wine, sword-fighting, violence and blood shed and in the way only a man that doesn’t even realize how lonely he is it revolved around shanks.

I just think 20 something Mihawk had 1 friend and 1 hobby and hewas a lonely fuck who was so intensely single-mindedly putting all his energy into both he ends up kind of losing both (shanks crumples under the weights of his expectations and he literally positions himself so far above the crowd in swordsmanship and the one fight he actually does want to have is ruined for him that for a long period of time he doesn’t even experience the same joy that he used to while fighting it’s just another thing he can no longer fully indulge in) 20 something year old Mihawk was a discontent mess rapidly spiraling into depression and nihilistic boredorm and like Shanks can’t do anything about it because Mihawk won’t do anything about it he won’t even properly acknowledge it’s happening. And suddenly they aren’t friends anymore the love of his life literally walks out of it.

And then 10 years go by and zap suddenly here’s this 41 one year old man mostly unchanged but definetly more mature on the cusp of something truly life changing and then there’s this 43 year old with an island and a home and these 2 kids that he can’t even properly contextualize how they fit into his life and that must be so jarring one moment shanks remember A 29 year old nihilist that is literally breaking his heart and now here’s a “mellowed” out little old grandma hobby having middle aged man doing needle point on a Sunday evening come to take his place. A whole life lived in 12 years and Shanks didn’t get to see a lot of it but he’s so glad to see this now, that he gets to have this now.

[e-22912]

Is it bad to say I have a crush on adult showrunner morty...?

[victusinveritas]

Hey if President Fuckwad and most of his staff are going to be flying in it...this might be a very good thing for a bunch of the country except where it makes a rapid unscheduled high speed landing.

[transmechanicus]

I go through all the trouble of converting my itunes library to .mp3 so i can post songs without spotify and fittingly tumblr only appears to accept loads as .MPREG so i guess i'll go fuck myself and try again.

[madcat-world]

Scrapyard - Alexander Forssberg