#rudder-k

[touhoutunes]

Title: アサルトオブチキン (Assault of Chicken)

Arrangement: Pizuya’s Cell

Vocals: めいど

Album: 惻隠の情とシェイム

Circle: Pizuya's Cell

Original: Seraphic Chicken

[luxudus]

The Six Lords of Ko-ve-dor, and an introduction to my friend's project Star Odyssey

One last art piece to end the year on a high note. It's an entry @jennywolfgal's sophont in her sci-fi / spec-evo / worldbuilding project Star odyssey. A far future where humanity and a few other advanced species help to found a Galactic Coalition of Worlds spanning half the galaxy. Everyone go follow her and check out her project!

I genuinley consider this atm my magnum opus in every aspect, Linework, Texturing, Coloring, Composition, and ESPECIALLY rendering.

    The Commonality of Ko-ve-dor is an alliance between multiple sophont species evolving side by side on the same planet. All working together towards the prosperity for all denizens of the known galaxy.

     Planet Ko-ve-dor, also known as Kepler-442 B, is a super earth in a 3 planet star system all orbiting a K-Type main sequence star known as O-uosa. Ko-Ve-Dor’s higher mass, larger magnetosphere, denser atmosphere, 3 moons, larger continents and O-uosa’s longer lifespan make Ko-ve-dor a superhabitable world. Capable of hosting more biodiversity than our own earth for a far longer time.

    Plantlife on Ko-Ve-Dor is just as complex as it’s animal life and it shows. Most terrestrial flora possess a segmented exoskeleton that vary in shape and size akin to an insect. Most forms of plantlife exhibit both radial and bilateral symmetry in their overall body plan. Some species of Ko-ve-dor plantlife can even take in their surroundings with special segments that act as one big sensory organ.     And aside from some greenish phytoplankton, most flora on this world take on a red pigmentation to make the most out of its star’s dimmer light.

Not only is Ko-ve-dor more biodiverse than earth. But it’s greater abundance of life and more surface area means there's far more consumable biomass too. Allowing it’s animal life to reach greater heights and the option for greater brainpower. This paired with evolution’s trend towards more socialization. Means that sapient life has developed not once, or twice. But six times, all within a similar enough time frame for them to all interact with one another.      As each sophont species is a good representative of Ko-ve-dor’s kingdom of life. We will be skipping over the planet’s animal life to discuss their biology.     The Dor-Eø are the largest of the six sophonts and represent the planet’s many soft-bodied invertebrates. They take on a body plan very similar to earth’s flatworms. And being filter-feeders, they fill a niche not too different from whales. Their large carpet-like fins are actually enlarged partially external gills to aid in respiration. And they manipulate their environment with their two mitten shaped mandibles and opposable tusk thumbs.     They live in tight-knit nomadic pods where they ride the waves in search of plankton. They hunt said plankton like dolphins, continuously switching roles to either shepard the plankton and strike the condensed schools. And as they achieved sapience they’ve built nets to catch more plankton and dorsal fin flags to distinguish which pod they’re apart of.     The Dor-Ssri’ii represent a sapient species of aquatic, radially symmetrical fish analogs. They possess twelve eyes, with three on each side, a four sided jaw, and eight fins, four anterior fins and four posterior fins. Their intricate color palette helps them blend in with the yellow and red reefs.      They live in borderline eusocial schools where they manipulate their environment through their mouth like a tuskfish

    The Ko-Ka’Kta are terrestrial relatives of the Dor-Ssri’cai, these are a sapient species of para-reptilian pack hunters native to the deserts and shrublands of Ko-ve-dor. They retain their radial symmetry and are quite basal compared to their relatives. Their forearms have atrophied into small rudders used by females to attract mates and live in matriarchal packs.     And they manipulate their environment with four highly specialized tongues. Their lack of claws or fangs pushed them to crafting an array of weapons to hunt. That and their hierarchical pack structure paved way for sapience    The Ko-A’atur represent the most derived group of Ko-ve-dor’s Vertebrates. Descending from a group that forgone their radial symmetry and became secondarily bilateral. Their heads hyper-elongated to the point where it’s now two separate body parts all together. Their lips have pulled back and became large flaps to cool off and express emotions.     Of all the sophonts they live the least socially, They forage and occasionally hunt in groups of 3-5 individuals. But the social bonds formed are so tight and complex that it managed to bring them up to sapience.     Onto life in the sky. The Ve-Huik are one of two representatives of Ko-ve-dor’s aerial invertebrates. They are a species of hexapodal invertebrate flyers protected by a sturdy exoskeleton. They fill a niche similar to parrots,  capable of crushing nuts and fruits with their large mandibles that clench together like a fist. They live in small flocks and communicate by short whistles and hums. And they manipulate their environment with their remarkably dexterous six legs.    

    And lastly the Ve-Z’qi, a Is a seafaring relative to the Ve-huik, they are a sapient species of flying arthropod analogs native to the many coastlines of Dorveko. They live in nomadic flocks, hopping from island to island. They hunt their aquatic prey by looking for disturbances in the water before diving in to catch their target     Their history is one defined by sheer first contact and a long road to equality. The Dor-Eø and the Ve-Z'qi,a were the pioneers of exploration due in part of their nomadic lifestyles giving them a global range to freely explore. Slowly each species would suddenly learn the existence of their contemporaries and how to work with them.     Their society is egalitarian and very xenophilic, each species is born with full citizenship and everyone regardless of origin and identity are treated truly equally. yet their government is surprisingly autocratic. Each planet is ruled by a handfull of philosopher kings and queens who come from all walks of life. And are chosen by the state based on their view of life and understanding of the humanities. All to improve the lives of their people. They are also very welcoming towards outsiders, and have made themselves a beacon of liberty and safety for the galaxy's downtrodded.     With so many different sapient minds at work in a society that promotes harmony and teamwork. The Ko-ve-dor Commonality has advanced rapidly, being able to become a spacefaring civilization a thousand years before mankind. Their architecture and spaceships are large and bulbous, containing vast aquariums and spacious domes to accommodate all the different lifestyles. And have become one of the Galactic Coalition of Worlds' most important members.     Depicted here is a human diplomat posing with a friend group eager to take a photo with an unfamiliar face.

I'm happy i managed to get this out before 2024, though there still maybe work to be done, mainly to expand on their worldbuilding, and i hope everyone else has a happy new year!

[usafphantom2]

On This Day In 1970 The Grumman F-14 Tomcat Made Its First Flight

December 21, 2019 Military Aviation

the first Full Scale Development (FSD) Grumman F-14A Tomcat (BuNo 157980) during its first flight in 1970. (Image credit: Grumman)

It’s the anniversary of Turkey’s first flight.

On Dec. 21, 1970, the first Full Scale Development (FSD) Grumman F-14A Tomcat (BuNo 157980) took off for its maiden flight from Grumman’s flight test centre at Calverton, on Long Island.

The poor weather conditions forced the two test pilots flying the first “Turkey” (as the aircraft would be later nicknamed), Grumman chief test pilot Robert K. Smyth and project test pilot William Miller, to cut the maiden flight, carried out a month ahead of the contracted data, short. However, in spite of the short duration of the flight (consisting in a few visual patterns with wing swept forward), the F-14 had taken to the air for the first time: the first of many flights in the U.S. until the last one conducted in 2006.

An F-14 with bomb markings earned during Operation Desert Fox in 1999, aboard USS Enterprise. The aircraft’s role evolved during the years and the F-14 also carried out the bomber mission in a variant also referred to as “Bombcat”. (Image credit: Author).

The F-14 BuNo 157980 took off for the second test flight on Dec. 30 with the two test pilots swapping their seats: Miller sat in the front cockpit and Smyth in the back. The second flight is quite famous in the story of the Tomcat, as the aircraft crashed due to hydraulic failure: a mishap that was caught on camera by a chase plane.

Ezoic

Here’s how we described that second sortie in a previous article we published here at The Aviationist:

It was during this flight that a chase plane noted that the Tomcat was leaving a trail of smoke: shortly thereafter the F-14 experienced a primary hydraulic system failure forcing Miller to head immediately back to base.

While they were preparing to land, the secondary hydraulic system also failed, due to the use of the emergency nitrogen bottle to lower the landing gear: once it failed, the crew tried to rely on the Combat Survival System which had to supply the power to the rudders and tailerons only.

However this last limited control system showed signs of failing as well, the pilot lost control all over the aircraft and the crew was forced to eject.

The breakdown was caused by a fatigue failure of both titanium main hydraulic lines due to a coincidence of pump resonance and a loose connector: ironically, the F-14’s hydraulic system was fixed by changing from titanium to stainless steel hydraulic lines only.

As you can see from footage (around 03:20 min), the crew ejected only few meters above the trees but, luckily, they suffered only minor injuries.

Sadly, Miller died on 30 June 1972 when its Tomcat crashed into Chesapeake Bay during preparation for an air display with the tenth FSD F-14 (BuNo 157989), while Smyth passed away this year.

Both Smyth and Miller contributed in bringing the last in a long tradition of Grumman Cats to life.

The F-14 is still flying in Iran.

About David Cenciotti

David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.

@theaviationist via X

[scotianostra]

On January 31st 1918 a series of tragic evens occurred on the Firth of Forth which has become known as The Battle of May Island.

This was one calamity after another, at 18:30 a secret navy exercise known as EC1 involving the 13th Submarine Division (known a K-boats) and a number of Destroyers, Battleships and Light Cruisers had sailed from Rosyth.

The K-boats were specially designed to operate with a battle fleet and soon all the waiting boats were ready to sail. The orders were simple; all boats would follow in line and sail out of the Firth of Forth, head north passing the Isle of May before eventually heading direct north to meet up with the

At the head of the line, two cruisers would lead the way; HMS Courageous and HMS Ithuriel which were backed with submarines K-11, K-12, K-14, K-17 and K-22. Then came the   battle cruisers which included HMAS Australia, HMS New Zealand, HMS Indomitable and HMS Inflexible with their destroyers. Finally HMS Fearless which was backed by submarines K3, K-4, K-6 and K7. In total with each boat sailing in a single line, it stretched for 30 miles.

At 18:30 the boats sailed from nearby Rosyth and were sailing with dimmed stern lights and were maintaining radio silence due to the sighting of a German submarine in the area earlier that day. The fleet were not helped by misty conditions whilst travelling under the cover of darkness. Then luck changed and disaster struck. Submarine K-14 rudder jammed and the boat struck K-22 and unfortunately both boats were locked unable to break free from each other.

The huge battlecruiser HMS Australia narrowly missed the stricken K-boats and disaster had been averted. But not for long. Communication eventually reached the lead Light Cruiser HMS Ithuriel about the original collision and the captain of the ship decided to turn around and head back to the two K-boats which had struck each other. Alongside the Light cruiser, the other K-boats also followed her back but communication was poor and unfortunately the boats and submarines further back, lead by HMS Fearless were unaware of the accident ahead and ran straight into their sister flotilla.

Over the following minutes, disaster struck as HMS Fearless rammed K-17, and the submarine sank with the loss of all life in a matter of minutes. Submarines K-6 hit K-4, and nearly cut her in half but locked together but had K-7 fast approaching. Spotting K-6, she just managed to avoid her, but was totally unaware of K-4 lying across her path, and a further collision ensued. The second hit proved fatal for K-4, and she sank. Only nine men were pulled from the water, and one of these died before he could receive medical treatment.

That evening a total of 104 men lost their lives as two submarines were sunk, four submarines were damaged along with the light cruiser HMS Fearless. Despite it being remembered (black humour) as the ‘Battle of the Isle of May’, there were actually no enemy warships involved and only a combination of bad luck and human error resulted in such a great loss of life. The terrible events of that night took place just 1.5 miles off the north end of the Isle of May. It will never be forgotten.

[hiighhonors]

(  TOBY  STEPHENS,  CIS  MAN,  HE/HIM.  )  could  that  really  be  TRISTON  ARRYN,  the  RULING  LORD  of  THE  EYRIE  and  HAND  OF  THE  KING  entering  the  keep  ?  king’s  landing  is  sure  to  benefit  from  the  FIFTY  SIX  year  old’s  ability  to  be  both  COMPETENT  and  PRAGMATIC,  but  beware,  whispers  also  say  they  have  been  known  to  be  HARD-HEADED  and  STUBBORN.  their  loyalty  belongs  to  ORYS  BARATHEON  and  they  SUPPORT  the  notion  of  peace  throughout  westeros.

       S T A T I S T I C S

☽ name : triston arryn

☽ nickname/s : tris

☽ title/s : lord of the eyrie, hand of the king

☽ age : fifty six

☽ gender : cis male

☽ pronouns : he/him

☽ sexual orientation : homosexual

     B L O O D  T I E S

☽ parents : lord benedar arryn, jirelle mallister

☽ siblings : one sister, likely married! so hmu

☽ spouse : tbd tbd tbd tbd but she's dead. sorry 

☽ other family : mallisters of seaguard! arryns of gulltown! in laws from his wife's side

☽ children : lord utp arryn, son & heir. lady alyse arryn. lady utp arryn.

     P E R S O N A L I T Y

☽ positive traits : here

☽ negative traits : here

☽ skills : here

☽ habits : here

☽ likes : here

☽ dislikes : here

     A P P E A R A N C E

☽ hair : deep copper auburn, still bright in his age, mostly kept trimmed short. an auburn beard, kept thick and long.

☽ eyes : clear pale blue, framed by deep lines, charming but determined

☽ notable features : his hair is unmissable, and he is generally known for his large physical presence, broad shouldered and immediately noticable.

☽ clothing & style : tris dresses practically and comfortably, generally in riding leathers unless for an official court appearance. he favours the arryn colours of blue and white, often mixing this with blacks and midnight blues. he is not against finery when it suits his political purposes, but in general prefers quality over anything flashy. most notable would be his chain of linked golden hands.

     P L O T T I N G  H O O K S

☽ platonic : tris needs political allies. he is a good, successful hand, keeps the nobles in hand, and has a calming effect on the council room whenever he is present, but he cannot be everywhere at once and is always suspicious that the other councilors do not take their job as seriously as he does. he is intrinsically loyal to house baratheon over the realm and has his faults, but overall he keeps a firm hand on the rudder of the realm and i would love him to have a good solid faction of support at court! people who respect his honour and stability - even if he's not very exciting.

☽ romantic : to the outside world triston arryn is a typical nobleman - more honourable than most, perhaps, given that there were no rumours that he was unfaithful to his wife while she lived, and he has no bastards and frequents no whorehouses. he is courteous to ladies and popular with them for his tranquil charm and his genuine interest in their lives, but since his wife's death he has been able to dodge any offers of remarriage through claiming grief - and his old age. deep down, however, triston is all too aware of where his heart belongs: he has been orys baratheon's man for as long as he can remember, since he fostered at storm's end, and though the king does not reciprocate his feelings, triston has accepted his own feelings well enough. there may be few, very few dalliances with other men in the past, but only with those who are hyper discreet. he is uncomfortable around those who are flamboyant with their paramours and would not tolerate such in any brief relationships he has had. overall: a man who is so repressed he makes himself miserable. gay divorce era etc.

☽ antagonistic : triston is more loyal to orys baratheon than to the realm, or even the throne, and he has made no secret of it. he is the king's man, and does not tolerate opposition. through the years he has made unpopular decisions, not only financially, but also because he will not accept any rebellious rumblings, no matter how justified, and comes down with an iron fist on those who do not toe the line. families of those he may have imprisoned (or worse) will resent him, as will other great houses who view the eyrie as having too much power and influence at court. tba !!!

[fireteampassenger]

Dread Pirate McGrath

TYPE: Audio

DESCRIPTION: Audio turned over from Ghost: Puca (Guardian: Kyra)

PARTIES: Four [4]. One [1] Lightbearer-type, Class Warlock, designate Kyra [K]. One [1] Lightbearer-type, Class Hunter, designate Ashley [A]. One [1] Lightbearer-type, Class Titan, designate Rook-8 [R], One [1] Ghost, designate Tallo [T] (Guardian: Ashley)

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[A] SWEEP THE DECK, LANDLUBBERS, OR IT'S THE BRIG FOR YOU!

[K] Ashley! Get down from there!

[A] NAY! THE OTHER CAP’N’S MIGHT SIT PRETTY IN THEIR CABINS, BUT DREAD PIRATE MCGRATH LEADS FROM THE CROWS NEST!

[K] Please, you’re embarrassing me.

[A] THE ONLY EMBARRASSMENT BE THE GALEY SLAVE RAPSCALLIONS WHO THINK THEY CAN FACE OFF AGAINST THE SCROUGE OF THE STARS!

[K] You’re not a…oh forget it. Hey Rook, check the engines, make sure we're good to go.

[R] Ok.

[A] NAY BELAY THAT!.....CHECK THE RUDDERS AND MAINSAILS YE SCALLYWAG.

[K] What? I…I already told them to do that.

[A] DON'T YE PLAY COY WITH ME! I BE THE CAPTAIN, AND YOU, WENCH, THE MEASLY BILGESNIPE!

[K] Do you even know what a bilgesnipe is?

[A] .....HOIST THE COLORS! WE SET SAIL FOR THE CARIBBEAN!

[K] *groan*

[R] This is your fault. I told you, don’t show her those movies unless you want “Dread Pirate McGrath” for the next month.

[A] THAT’S “CAPTAIN” DREAD PIRATE MCGRATH TO YOU, QUARTERMASTER!

[R] Make that two months.

*explosion*

*alarms*

[K] Crap, enemy ship, portside!

[R] I’ll check the damages!

[K] Alright Puca, let's see what this whole arc thing is all abou…where's Ashley?

*cannon fire*

[A] AVAST!

[T] Captain down.

[K] Ugh.

[lastconcourse]

Halloween: Basement, bedroom:

half-overcast sky, windows somewhat alight with sun

an alive white Stove rolls in: Its burners lift and drift to its low sides,

mount, uncoil and re-wrap to make four wheel-rims.

Rain on a skylight glass: the wet window is a scalp

Gypsum boxes and corners are the walls of a skull.

Wheelstove: I miss cooking you lunch,

your basement was our rib cage

….my hands feel useless…

I can’t find our lungs.

A clothing rack on tank treads drives in. It stops, and speaks:

“You never want to wear the gifts I get you”

A microwave turns into a gondola on a burlap airship. It hovers and replies:

“I made him dinner; he won’t even touch one plate of what’s leftover….

So ungrateful.”

Hallway more brightly lit;

new knowing of losses+Time’s flight

Thinking forwards from the dirt diamond by a gas station

craftsman siding is the skin on timber cheekbones.

Wheelstove: Make my longing travel:

from low in the angry left corner, toward far up as a balloon fish in the top right sky.

As for now;

I just was, and will again be alone,

cooking a memory in our rib cage.

A disk of dim sunlight on my Autumn;

the cloudcast sky; a gray crystal dome

is a VTOL craft with a gantry

and two large parenthesis for clamps

and it floats over the proscenium arch,

its steel propellers turning through noonlight rain:

That’s the Sunlightfog arriving.

Bed frame is the rib bones; window drapes the torso skin

The fogged window is an unclean jacket

Wheelstove: soul + pictures encased are

shot out the bell of a glass musket into ↑ orbit ←

That for them. But for me? Should I, that? should I even think

that I in the Heavens should forgiven be? I look out the window—

Sunlightfog: I’m ease of mind. I’m peace which drifts foreverywhere

Wheelstove: One who can’t be killed?

***

Seven years back, one side of the mattress burned

and the burnt leftovers froze.

Now three ungloved hands pick up

pieces; of the crumblechank of ice + crumble of roasted wool

,and unload them in a trough of carbon fluid, at downstage middle;

brown flurry, slowly drips through a factory.

Now the stove acts by remembering:

one cold hand flips a toggle on the console of the Anatomy-Arranger:

Sheetfoam+ash+springs melt, flow, harden into beams

and are welded bolted and wrenched together as bones, with muscle,

and drinking-straw tendons.

***

A robotic duck with a chainsaw head walks in and fells an oak tree,

The tree trunk is stripped barkless, halved, and carved into a duo of legs that stomp on the porch.

A soda can opens like a barnacle, and tapemeasure-tendrils wave out.

Clotherack:

“that was the last drink, I am so thirsty, you couldn’t save some for me?”

A suitcase opens like a clam. A tongue made out of an exercise band ejects a greasy steel block which goes high to the left, and impacts the airship: Now the Airship bursts and crashes to the floor.

Microwareship:

“I am….popped”

Car Keys+Diploma+Portrait+Toolbox+Keycard+Tombstone

personal items are all melted/mixed→crumpled→flooded with Sunlight,

poured in a bubble-shell which is then released to swim upward; so

records of identity become a jellyfish big as the day sky

over the big stage floor: ↓

Rusted Keys+ID photo+Birth Certificate+Razor+Backpack+Shoes ↓

Rustad Keyis ID Phorta Binth Certofecate Razop Bapacker Shoesar ↓

Ruystald Keyris g’ID Phortans bingth Cero’fecalle ba’padder Sho-seart ↓

cruystald kteynris ogi-Ortans Bwingths cepro’fepelle bar-pudder s-Hseart ↓

cruystal k-Tenrils oi-orgtans Wingths ePro’fepeller baRudder H’seart

Crystal Tendril Organs Wings Propeller Rudder Heart

↓

This Soul-Shield/Heaven-Enterer is now

Shot through a green glass pistol from the past, through Earth’s present orbit, then past Time itself.

[kvalenagle]

Since Pridelord has been out for a bit now, maybe it's time to show one of the amazing Brenda Lyons interior art pieces. Rudder is a cerulean kingfisher + giant river otter gryphon who lives next door to the Winter Jungle, a flooded forest that's only a dry 'jungle' in the winter months.

[aerovanti]

7 Essential Books Every Aviation Professional Should Read 

Aviation is a field of perpetual evolution and innovation. Whether you're an aspiring pilot, an aviation engineer, an air traffic controller, or an aviation enthusiast, staying well-informed is crucial to success. One of the most effective ways to gain a comprehensive understanding of aviation is through reading. The following list compiles seven essential books that every aviation professional should consider reading to deepen their knowledge and expertise.

"Stick and Rudder: An Explanation of the Art of Flying" by Wolfgang Langewiesche Wolfgang Langewiesche's classic masterpiece, "Stick and Rudder," is an indispensable guide for anyone aspiring to become a pilot or seeking to enhance their flying skills. This book delves into the fundamental principles of flying, explaining the relationship between an aircraft's controls and aerodynamic behavior. With clear explanations and insightful anecdotes, Langewiesche demystifies the art of flying, making it a must-read for aviation professionals of all levels.

"Fate Is the Hunter" by Ernest K. Gann Ernest K. Gann's captivating memoir, "Fate Is the Hunter," offers a unique perspective on aviation through his personal experiences as a pilot. Gann narrates thrilling anecdotes from his time as a commercial pilot, providing readers with a glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of early aviation. This book offers valuable insights into the human aspect of flying and the critical decision-making that aviation professionals face, making it an essential addition to any aviation enthusiast's library.

"The Wright Brothers" by David McCullough David McCullough's meticulously researched biography, "The Wright Brothers," pays homage to the aviation pioneers. Wilbur and Orville Wright's determination and innovation led to the world's first powered flight, forever changing the course of history. This book sheds light on the brothers' journey, from humble beginnings to groundbreaking achievements, inspiring aviation professionals to push the boundaries of what is possible.

"Introduction to Flight" by John D. Anderson Jr. For those seeking a comprehensive textbook on the principles of flight, "Introduction to Flight" by John D. Anderson Jr. is an excellent choice. This book covers various topics, including aerodynamics, propulsion, and aircraft performance. It's an essential resource for aviation students and professionals, offering a solid foundation in the science behind aviation.

"The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents" by David Beaty Safety is paramount in aviation, and "The Human Factor in Aircraft Accidents" by David Beaty explores the role of human error in aviation mishaps. By analyzing various accidents and incidents, Beaty highlights the critical impact of human factors such as communication breakdowns, fatigue, and cognitive biases. This book is a valuable lesson in aviation safety and encourages professionals to prioritize human factors in their daily operations.

"Airframe" by Michael Crichton While not a technical manual, Michael Crichton's thriller "Airframe" offers a gripping exploration of the aviation industry's inner workings. The novel follows an investigation into a mysterious airplane accident, uncovering corporate intrigue, media sensationalism, and technical complexities. This fictional tale provides aviation professionals with a suspenseful yet thought-provoking narrative that raises questions about the real-world challenges faced by the industry.

"Skyfaring: A Journey with a Pilot" by Mark Vanhoenacker "Skyfaring" by Mark Vanhoenacker provides a poetic and captivating perspective on flying. As a pilot for a major airline, Vanhoenacker shares his unique experiences and insights into the beauty of flight, the global interconnectedness it brings, and the awe-inspiring views from the cockpit. This book offers a refreshing take on aviation that reminds professionals of the wonder and privilege of their chosen field.

these seven essential books offer a diverse range of insights for aviation professionals looking to expand their knowledge and deepen their understanding of the industry. Each book contributes a unique perspective that can help professionals excel in their respective roles, from technical manuals to personal narratives. Whether you're a pilot, engineer, or enthusiast, these readings have the power to inspire and inform, fostering a deeper appreciation for the art and science of aviation.

[pesoprima]

Those fucking Centauris

In the tall waves of altspace a massive freight ship rocked and tossed, it's thousands of cargo containers straining the strong aramid rigging and steel plating. At the bridge were half a dozen nervous men and women. Most were monitoring for damage. The new gal at the helm jerked around the wheel for split second maneuvers. Her head's eternally rotating to see around the ship.

She steered the ship through waves twice the size of skyscrapers and avoided those taller than Mount Everest. She cursed every time gray blobs of liquid splashed against outside AR cameras and drones.

The captain looked through his own pair of Augmented Reality goggles. "We are six lightyears from the target, when are you taking us back to stable waters?" he yelled over the scraping metal and splashes.

"Soon!" She yelled back.

"You said that three hours ag—"

"Eleven o'clock, fifty, fast!" navigation yelled.

"Seen it!" the helmswoman replied.

She maxed out the starboard jets, hard. Crew's inertia jolted them to the side. Bow of the ship broke through the giant fifty meter wave, almost sending the crew through the front.

The captain continued: "Need I remind you the safe relative transfer velocity is zero?!"

"I know!"

"Then why are we skirting around the five k at such ridiciolus speed?! The trough will— FUCK, WHY ARE YOU SENDING US INTO IT!?"

Said trough came: a gargantuan chasm preceeding and suceeding every wave two kilometers high or higher.

"Shortcut!"

I can't take control of it now, she commited us to it, the captain thought, she'll throw us into a planet! Fucking Centauri bitch!

"All brace!" he commanded.

Steadily the ship rotated forwards and took a dive straight down. The rudders and jets were barely scraping the surface, making control nigh impossible. Safety harnesses kept everyone immovable, even the standing helmswoman clenching the wheel as if she wanted to break it's steel skeleton.

Ten seconds into the dive the surface started to slooowly level out.

"We're gaining forward speed! Control surfaces in water!" she yelled, "Rotating us towards a new exit! Nav, I'll put us into orbit towards the station! Double check that entry angle will be one-eight-zero to the surface if exit is two-seven-eight-point-six-o! New exit point is at marker Ava! Check for traffic!"

"What?! Orbit?!" captain yelled back, "With this speed you'll shoot us into the fucking PLANET! We won't be able to stop in time!"

"That's why I'm going to go tangentally to the planet! New exit location, cap!"

What the fuck is she on about?

"Nav!"

"Repeat new exit angle!"

"Two-seven-eight-point-six-o!"

She won't be able to rotate in time! And... this isn't the escape location I set in. Marker Ava she said!?

"Turn to two-seven-eight-point-five-nine! TWO-SEVEN-EIGHT-POINT-FIVE-NINE! Exit clear!"

"Exit clear! Angle error within safety margin!"

"Why the fuck are you taking an exit elsewhere and so FUCKING CLOSE TO THE PLANET!? WE ARE AIMING TO EXIT AT THE MOON!" panic had set into captains voice.

"You said you wanted it fast! The sea gave us a new shortcut!"

"You were going in blind!"

"Never! I adapted us to the ever-bloody-changing nature of this dimension captain! This isn't a road! It's constantly moving!"

"I don't give a—"

"Exiting in three!"

The captain shut his mouth and scrambled for the arm rests.

"Two!"

He was clenching them so hard the plastic might shatter.

"One!"

Everyone on the bridge was silent. What would they even say after one of, if not, the most dangerous altspace navigations of their lives? Only the helmswoman Ava smiled and broke the silence:

"I've put us into a transfer orbit to the station. We'll dock in 4 hours."

More silence. She unbuckled herself and pulled in her chair to sit.

"Navigation."

"Yes captain?"

"Is what she said true?"

Ava exhaled a laugh.

"Yes captain. She got us really close."

"Close to danger?"

"No. She got us eight hundred kilometers above the surface of the planet. With that much speed an orbit was established without aditional burns. Just a small correction one. Nothing big."

The captain leaned down to put his face into his palms.

"Okay... okay... Helm?"

"Yes captain? Ava answered.

"What the fuck?" he asked. Deadpan, just no energy to be angry.

"This is my standard operating procedure. You know we Alpha Centauris are good at sailing the alt, so you asked if I could do it quickly. I could. And I did.

"Your exit strategy would leave you orbiting the moon. Then you'd have to transfer a waay bigger distance to get here. It is safer, I admit it. Following the calmer, more consistent currents and exiting at them is the best for an average sailor. But."

"But?" he murmured through his hands.

"If you'd look at your fuel gauge, you'll find a cool fact."

Holy shit, he thought to himself, she went through a quarter of what we usually use.

"You are a good captain, I like your savings policy. What is it, for every dollar saved each of the crew get five percent? That's twenty million saved right there on fuel."

The other four crewmembers' eyes grew wider. They quietly cursed in approval.

"And look at the time."

HOLY shit. She saved us eight, no, nine and a half hours.

"You said you got some urgent cargo there. Clients will be happy to give a dollar extra per unit for your urgency."

The crew smiled from ear to ear and looked at the helmswoman.

I could get them to give a dollar and twenty for this. Nobody else will dock as fast as we will. No, a dollar. The twenty is for good rapport. Fuck, she got me at least three mil extra, after the crew bonus too.

The captain sharply inhaled and stood up straight.

"Alright. Seems we are eating like kings tonight!"

"Fuck yeah!" the four of his old crew yelled unanimously.

"Get the docking checklist in order! Adam, Con, make sure we still have all our cargo on board!"

The two men scrambled for the EVA lockers out of excitement. Ava smiled at the happines she caused in the crew. She took out her own helmsman's checklist to go through with the others.

The captain walked towards her with a professional gait. They looked at eachother briefly. He dropped to one knee, looked her straight into her confused eyes, and emotionlessly asked:

"Will you work for me fulltime?"

Everyone present blew their sides from laughter.

[usafphantom2]

Habu Hill is more than just a vantage place for watching the SR 71 flying in and out(and, in 1968, the A-12s). The vicinity of this area is where the remains of the #978 are buried. On Jul. 20, 1972, SR-71 (known as the “Rapid Rabbit” because of the Playboy logo she sported on both rudders throughout most of her career) crashed at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan.

Airman Jody Liliedah wrote about his eyewitness experience in Air and Space magazine in October 2015. On the afternoon of July 20, 1972, I was in my maintenance truck, eavesdropping on the tower frequency. Word had gotten around that an SR-71 would be landing soon. Usually, the Blackbird pilots weren’t a chatty bunch, but I could hear the anxiety in the voice of this one. I heard the tower warn him of a 90-degrees-to-the-runway crosswind of 35 knots gusting to 50 knots—a typhoon was on its way. I could’ve sworn I listened to the tower advise him to consider an alternate airport. Landing anywhere else was out of the question. The SR-71 wouldn’t have had the fuel, and everyone understood without discussion that the brass wanted that airplane on the ground and out of sight as quickly as possible I sought out a good vantage point to observe the landing: a small concrete building, which housed fuel pumps, about 50 yards from the runway the SR-71 was headed for. I climbed to the roof and settled in. I could see the landing lights before I could make out the airplane, perfectly lined up with the runway, three or four miles out. I couldn’t have been more focused if I were landing the da** thing myself. The main landing gear touched down, and despite the horrible crosswinds, the fuselage was aligned perfectly with the runway’s centerline. It looked like the pilot was going to pull off a picture-perfect landing. But as soon as he deployed his drag chute, a wind gust blew it to port. I watched the nose shift to starboard. Then one of the left main landing gear tires exploded.

‘The pilot jettisoned the chute, poured the coals to the burner, and rotated away from the runway, climbing back into the sky to circle around. nose up and tires on fire, for four or five seconds. When the left gear collapsed and the wing struck the runway, the left engine exploded and debris flew high into the air. The entire airframe began to spin, still traveling down the runway at probably 150 mph, and finally, the right gear buckled.

‘The flaming wreck continued sliding down the runway, still on the centerline, until it finally drifted off to the left, into the grass. It came to rest about two-thirds of the way down the runway, about 4,000 feet from where I stood watching, jaw agape. watched the pilot and reconnaissance system operator in their bright orange flight suits leap from the remnants of their aircraft and run from it as fast as they could. I jumped down from the building and several of us started running toward them, but a fire truck and a base security car cut us off. The officer in the car ordered us to stay back.

‘Five hours later, the typhoon was upon us.’

The pilot, Captain Dennis K. Bush, and the RSO, Captain James W. Fagg, escaped without injury. A crew from Palmdale led by Mel Rushing was deployed to our detachment and did the cutting up and the disposing of the structural remains and the location was on Habu Hill

Post~ Linda Sheffield Miller

@Habubrats71 via X

[knowlessman]

doo doo DOO dooo, doo doo dootdoot doo, doo doo DOO doo, doo doo DOOTDOOTDOO dootdoo (bnha s2e21-25)(it's the FI-NAL EX-AM…)

(excuses re quirks and skimpy costumes, midnight and mt lady catfight) why

okay this OP might slap actually, the higher voice gives some idfk contrast or whatnot, makes it interesting. that and the generally more… introspective (?) tone of voice of the main singer? idfk I like this one

I hear tell we start getting less mineta at some point, when's that? ( :

bakugo studies?

…idk what I think about momo tbh. mid, I guess. kind of a Captain Carrot almost, except not OP; she doesn't even get to, like, win. the competence and likability are there, but Carrot's acknowledged overpoweredness and impossibly-perfect benevolence give him a compelling weirdness that momo doesn't have. momo doesn't stand out any more than kyoka does, but kyoka has a "cool teenager" personality and a rad costume.

don't try to make me relate to laserguts (he apparently got the 18th-highest score out of 20, also tho who in the entire fuck grades midterms by ranking the students what the shit is that)

…this blonde guy from B is the most forgettable little shit who ever lived, is he the guy with the Ditto ability from the horseplay event, that I wanted to not have to hate? : / -- k, Ninja Misty's name is Kendo and also she does have a name, she could turn out cool even if she doesn't seem to get a lot of screentime outside of hitting whatshisname

yaoyorozu. yaoyorozu. is it just because they're less common letters? is that why that one's harder to remember than uraraka? idfk

"I'm gonna do better than you, deku, whether you like it or not! you too, guy who only lost to me because he couldn't decide whether to tie one arm behind his back and was eminently unbothered about the result anyway!" vegeta gonna vegeet

"this time, you'll be fighting against the teachers!" … fun? this show has too many fun bits wtf it's almost just jojo but with a plot, no, more than one plot at a time, that actually have enjoyable writing in them -- curious if we'll see what Tonka Tough and… I can't even think of a joke for this one, but like, new surprises, this show is a neverending fucking birthday it's unreal

"deku and vegeta are a te my fucking gawd this is gonna be hell on a stick icanteven -- "oh and they're fighting jesus" vince mcmahon with laser eyes

obviously they would put the pervert against the other pervert smh

…wanna figure out whether they meant "if one escapes you win" or "if BOTH escape you win" but trying to understand what the rules are in this show has not proven fruitful so far so wever

so sato is basically choji from naruto then. meh -- 'XD almost surprised they could get the rights for the oraora but then I forgot Japan is a bit less Scrooge McDuck about copyright

(froppy and tokoyami) ah k so mr grin does clones… of some kind -- …I was not expecting Team Ice Climbers to be a thing, but I'm not NOT here for it -- (froppy doing...?) uh. -- 0_0 oh! oh, she can just regurgitate stuff, phew 'XD I misremembered what she said her other power was and thought the bird was gonna throw her stomach across the finish line

(iida and ojiro) "FUSION!" facepalm -- "you're going to have to toss me" counter is at 2. not complaining, I just think it's funny that that might end up being a common tactic here -- facepalm while looking back over the notes again iida is yoshi

(yaoyorozu and todoroki) "unless you've got a rudder and a lot of sails hidden in that bodice…" at least they paired her with another professional -- if we could just stop putting the 15-yo's chest in center screen that'd be great -- more to the point tho she Got To Do Things and had them work so good on that. and even when she wasn't sure of her own plan, she made the matryoshkas as flashbangs to begin with. you love to see it

(uraraka and laserguts) "do you like deku?" "WAAAA :O" lets go and flies backward then turns into a flying kick on sheer instinct mission failed successfully 'XD

(mina and kaminari) "I wonder how the principal will fight" this is gonna be REAL stupid, can't wait -- eh. 's good. no notes.

fuck yeah, been wondering what Korg's quirk is. also jiro's here too, happy bout that too -- oh, animals -- aye, mic's a hard counter to both. hm -- "these puny little ants outnumber him a hundred to" I mean yeah you get it -- 'XD koda doesn't like them either tho. Gonta Gokuhara, he is not

(hagukure and shoji) hagukure continues to mostly only be there for perv jokes -_-

(worst character and the tape guy) yeah this one's gonna be annoying. maybe they'll just skip it and do a cutaway thing saying they lost because mineta's worthless -- goddammit this fucker gets half a whole episode -- whoop de doo. she isn't attached to her whip tho… -- why'd that work? she fucking let him go for no reason. she wasn't even stuck to the ground herself, I don't think.

…I don't think I have anything going on tomorrow and my sleep pattern's already fucked, hell with it, might as well finish out the season here

"god explosion murder: origins" we know his origins, he has an inferiority complex because he was the king bully in a small town and thought he was the only kid who was gonna get into a big-name school, and he's just now being confronted with the fact that bluster and ego stop getting you anywhere past a point (when you aren't born a zillionaire) -- gonna be hard to talk vegeta out of flunking himself; best-case for deku is all might knocks him out and deku somehow pulls a win out of nowhere. I just really don't see bakugo getting nearly enough character development in nearly enough time to pass this, he's solidified too dense -- "you've been saying the greatest hero always wins since we were kids." yeah and he just stopped forming memories after that -- toss counter at 3 'XD -- JEEZUS, all might pulling the pro Smash player moves with that recoil tackle

-- well, I was sort of right about bakugo being knocked out. tbh tho I'm amazed that he let deku even touch one of his gauntlets, let alone fire one. he makes it hard not to underestimate and think the worst of him, but he keeps being scarily capable of cramming tactics into his head along with the piles and piles and piles of violence and hatred and self-hype

does it count as bakugo learning something from deku if what he learned was how to break himself in a bloodyminded grasp, not even for the moon, just to pass an exam, so that somebody has to fix him?

"some moved toward a new goal…" (shows uraraka) some got through on pure and unadulterated luck you mean

oh yeah, Handface and The Darkness are things. forgot about them. -- THE DANCING BOY HE'S HERE -- and, uh, Stab-Girl

I guess this one sets up the next season? we'll see

okay so I was understanding right that handface still doesn't like anything about stain and his "ideals," at least we're right side up on that. -- The Darkness is a good manager. spookily good.

uh. so. mr everything-i-touch-i-break has an arm around deku. did he just, like, win? -- …tea. frankly I dint know he wanted anyth - I'm sorry?

-- i -- …um. moving on? I think?

stain masks. freedom of merch, I guess : / getting weird with it this episode, I guess

"he yammered on about why he was doing what he was doing and got all over the news. I attacked a school for no explicit reason at all and everybody forgot about me. what's his secret, why are his ratings so much better than mine?"

uraraka could have wandered in from, it feels like, 60% of all the anime in existence. however, she does sometimes - well… the one time she really had her own plan was against bakugo and it didn't work, I dunno whether I can confidently say that she Gets To Do Things significantly more often than Sakura so far. : /

huh. not even an outro, then. but, uh, yeah, plot and things. quarter to five.

[sandyhookhistory]

"The Death Of A Ghost Ship... And The Birth Of Another." Eighty Years Ago Today - (Sunday) January 24th, 1943: Anyone who's ever been at sea will tell you it is a dark and mysterious place, and that are plenty of things that can happen without reason or explanation. People, planes, and ships can vanish without a trace - or reappear out of nowhere. Today's story is an example of both. Our story begins three weeks ago, on the 3rd,in the central Atlantic, in the middle of nowhere.. no, really. The nearest land is Barbados, which is 1,100 miles to the west. This is the literal 50-Yard Line between the Caribbean Islands... and the Coast of Africa. The English tanker "SS British Vengeance" (Photo 1) is loaded with 82,000 barrels of fuel products and straggling behind Convoy TM-1, bound for Gibraltar. U-514 (IXC) picks her off. 27 men are killed, but 27 others make it over the side and are picked up by the British corvette HMS Saxifrage (K 04, Flower-Class, Photo 2). The warship takes off after the Convoy, and the stricken tanker is left to sink... but she doesn't. She drifts through the war for 21 days.. until her lifeless hulk is found, and finally put out of its misery by U-105 (IXB) and a pair of torpedoes. As this tale ends with British Vengeance sliding beneath the waves, over 2000 miles to the north, a new eerie maritime story is written. The "SS Ville De Tamatave" (Photo 3) is a 5,000 ton French ship captured by England. She is alone, heading for New York, in savage weather. The winter of 1942-43 is one of, if not the, worst winter in recorded history in the North Atlantic; a violent storm will rage for 116 days straight. And this poor ship is now trapped in it. Some 550 miles northwest of St. John's, Newfoundland, she radios in that her rudder had snapped off in the raging sea. Without rudder control, the 400-foot ship is helpless - she'll be violently tossed like a bath toy until she ends up broadside to the wind and capsized by the waves. We'll never know for sure.. because Ville De Tamatave is never heard from again and vanishes without a trace. All Hands - 71 Crew and 17 Passengers, 88 Lives in total - vanish with her. Just Another Day... (at Fort Hancock, New Jersey) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn0Khc2AhTV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[treefifeniner]

UÇAK KAZALARINDA İNSAN VE İLETİŞİM-SİZLİK FAKTÖRÜ #CRM 1

Robert L. Helmreich Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin H. Clayton Foushee Senior Professional Staff, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

1950'lerde güvenilir turbojet taşımacılığının tanıtılması, hava taşımacılığı kazalarında çarpıcı bir azalma ile ilişkilendirildi. Uçak gövdeleri ve motorlarla ilgili sorunlar azaldıkça dikkatler, uçuş güvenliğindeki diğer arıza kaynaklarının belirlenmesine ve ortadan kaldırılmasına çevrildi. 1959-1989 arasını kapsayan Boeing kaza raporlarına göre, ekonomik onarımın ötesinde uçak hasarı içeren kazaların yüzde yetmişinden fazlası insan kaynaklı sebeplerle ilişkilendirilmektedir. Bu insan performansı sorununun tanınması, "pilotaj hatası" teriminin neleri kapsadığını ve onu azaltmak için ne yapılabileceğini anlamak için bir dizi bağımsız çabayı teşvik etti.

NTSB tarafından yürütülenler gibi uçak kazalarına ilişkin soruşturmaların resmi kayıtları, kritik anlarda mürettebat koordinasyonunun başarısız olduğu durumlara dair tüyler ürpertici belgeler sunar:

İniş takımı gösterge ışığının arızalanmasıyla dikkati dağılan bir mürettebat, otomatik pilotun devreden çıktığını fark etmeyerek uçağın bir bataklığa inmesine izin verdi.

Bir yardımcı pilot, kar fırtınasında kalkış sırasında kalkış itkisinin düzgün bir şekilde ayarlanmadığından endişe duyuyor ve uçak stall olup Potomac Nehri'ne çarparken bile kaptanın dikkatini çekemiyor.

Aletli iniş haritalarını ve bunların havaalanına göre seyir konumlarını gözden geçirmeyen ve ayrıca minimum iniş irtifasının altındaki bir dağa çarpmadan önce tekrarlanan Yere Yakınlık Uyarı Sistemi uyarılarını dikkate almayan bir ekip.

Çalışmayan iletişim aletleri nedeniyle dikkati dağılan bir mürettebat, kontrol listelerini tamamlayamaz ve kanatçıklar uzatılmadığı için uçak kalkış sırasında düşer.

Bir kaptan, yardımcı pilot ve Hava Trafik Kontrolü arasındaki uçağın mevcut yakıt durumuyla ilişkili bir tartışmanın getirdiği iletişim sorunu ve bu sırada yakıtın tamamen bitmesinin ardından meydana gelen kaza.

Bir mürettebatın, yolcu pilotlar tarafından kanatlardaki buzlanmanın güvenli uçuşa engel olacağı konusunda bilgilendirilmesine rağmen, uçuş görevlisinin durumu operasyonda görevli pilotlara aktarmaması sonucu gerçekleşen kaza.

Bu vakaların her birindeki tema, kişilerarası iletişimdeki başarısızlıklardan kaynaklanan insan hatasıdır. Bu kazalar meydana geldiğinde, havacılıkta insan hatasının resmi olarak incelenmesi uzun bir geleneğe sahipti. Bununla birlikte, araştırma çabaları, bireysel operatörün ekipmanla arayüzünü çevreleyen geleneksel insan faktörleri konularına odaklanma eğilimindeydi. Bu tür bir soruşturma, jet taşımacılığı kazalarında nedensel olarak tanımlanan faktörlerin çoğunu ele almıyor gibi görünüyordu ve araştırmacılar, araştırmalarının kapsamını genişletmeye başladılar.

Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'nde, NASA'nın Ames Araştırma Merkezi'ndeki bir araştırmacı ekibi, uçuş operasyonlarında daha geniş insan faktörleri konularını keşfetmeye başladı. Charles Billings, John Lauber ve George Cooper, yapılandırılmış bir görüşme protokolü geliştirdiler ve bunu, mürettebat operasyonlarındaki insan faktörleri ve "pilotaj hatası" kazaları hakkında havayolu pilotlarından ilk elden bilgi toplamak için kullandılar.

Aynı zamanda, George Cooper ve Maurice White, 1968 ve 1976 yılları arasında meydana gelen jet taşımacılığı kazalarının nedenlerini analiz ederken, Miles Murphy, NASA'nın gizli Havacılık Güvenliği Raporlama Sistemine bildirilen olayların benzer bir analizini yaptı. Bu araştırmalardan çıkarılan sonuç, belgelenmiş kazalar ve olaylardaki "pilotaj hatası"nın, "stick ve dümen (rudder)" yeterliliğindeki eksikliklerden çok, ekip iletişimi ve koordinasyonundaki başarısızlıkları yansıtma olasılığının daha yüksek olduğuydu. İş yükü yönetimi ve görev delegasyonu, durum farkındalığı, liderlik, diğer ekip üyeleri dahil olmak üzere mevcut kaynakların kullanımı, kılavuzlar, hava trafik kontrolü, kişiler arası iletişim (kıdemsiz mürettebat üyelerinin kritik durumlarda seslerini yükseltme konusundaki isteksizlikleri dahil) ve uçuş güvertesinde etkili bir ekip ilişkisi kurma ve sürdürme süreci dahil olmak üzere bir dizi özel sorun alanı belirlendi.

Avrupa'da, Elwyn Edwards kaza soruşturması kayıtlarından yararlandı ve sistem tasarımı ve operasyonlarında SHEL insan faktörleri modelini geliştirdi. Kısaltma, genellikle işlemleri yöneten belgeler olan yazılımı temsil eder; donanım, mevcut fiziksel kaynaklar; mürettebatı oluşturan insan operatörlerden oluşan canlı donanım; ve çevre, sistemin çalıştığı dış bağlam. Canlı yazılımın işleyişini incelemek için modelini geliştiren Edwards, trans-kokpit otorite gradyanı (TAG) adlı yeni bir kavram tanımladı. TAG, şu gerçeği ifade eder: kaptanlar, kaptanın rolü ve yetkisi ne fazla ne de eksik vurgulanarak, diğer mürettebat üyeleriyle optimal bir çalışma ilişkisi kurmalıdır.

1970'lerin başındaki operasyonel toplulukta, Pan American World Airways yönetimi, Pasifik'teki birkaç "pilotaj hatası" kazasının ardından mürettebat eğitimi sorunlarıyla ilgilenmeye başladı. 1974'te, Federal Havacılık İdaresi'nin (FAA) emekli Yönetici Yardımcısı David D. Thomas başkanlığındaki bir uçuş operasyonları inceleme ekibi, uçuş ekibi eğitiminin tüm yönlerini inceledi ve bir dizi önemli tavsiyede bulundu. Bunların başında "mürettebat konsept eğitimi"nin kullanılması geliyordu. Bu yaklaşıma göre, hem simülatör eğitimi hem de kontrol, tek pilot gelişimi olarak değil, koordineli faaliyetler yürüten tam bir ekip bağlamında yürütülecekti. Aynı zamanda Pan Am kılavuzları, ekip kavramlarını dahil etmek ve ekip faaliyetleri ve iletişimlerine yönelik sorumlulukları daha eksiksiz açıklamak için revize edildi. Bu eylemler, operasyon ortamında temel bir değişikliği temsil etti ve daha etkili ekip koordinasyonu için organizasyonel bir çerçeve sağladı. Eğitimde artık mürettebat faaliyetlerine odaklanılmasına rağmen, vardiyaya iletişim ve koordinasyona ilişkin resmi bir eğitim programı eşlik etmiyordu. Mürettebat üyeleri, etkili ekipler olarak çalışmakla görevlendirildi, ancak resmi rehberlik ve talimat olmadan bu hedefe ulaşmanın yollarını geliştirmek zorunda kaldılar.

Mürettebat düzeyindeki sorunların, kazaların ve olayların yüksek bir oranının merkezinde yer alması, uçuş operasyonlarında emniyetin belirleyicilerini anlama sürecinde önemli bir başarıydı. Bununla birlikte, ekip performansını iyileştirmek için başarılı stratejilerin geliştirilmesi, grup davranışının belirleyicilerinin ve bunların nasıl etkilenebileceğinin anlaşılmasını gerektirir.

29.12.2022

[touhoutunes]

Title: にじいろの雨 (Rainbow-Colored Rain)

Arrangement: rudder-k

Vocals: >>96

Album: 東方歌謡祭

Circle: HAPPY I SCREAM!!

Original: Retrospective Kyoto

[lonestarflight]

"A U.S. Navy Naval Aircraft Nactory N3N-1 Canary trainer on a seaplane ramp at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, circa 1942. The plane has panels removed for maintenance just aft of the engine.

Note: This N3N is BuNo 0265. This airplane is the only N3N-2 that was ever built. It was made to help correct some flight characteristics by raising the location of the horizontal elevator in relation to the lower wing. This is 0265 with a -1 rudder fitted as the -2 rudder was a different design all together. You can see the differences in tail design by looking at any picture of the -1 version."

NHHC: 80-G-K-13390, 80-G-K-13390