#md-11

[outsidewolves]

[leechy]

[transhuman-priestess]

Stream Saturday! (January 31st)

Hey folks! After the...adventure that was last week's trip to Stansted Heathrow, we're doing something both shorter and a little chiller. Miami to New York, baybeeeee! We'll be taking an MD-11 the wrong direction from Sunny Florida to cold, dreary New York City (note: this is the "wrong" direction but is, in fact, the correct course of action)

Mark your calendar, 11:00 Pacific, 2:00PM Eastern, 1900 UTC.

Be there, or be square!

[nocternalrandomness]

[skyvancer]

History always repeats itself.

So you have probably heard of UPS flight 2976, the one in Louisiana that happened very recently, well I just cant get over the similarities between 2976 and American Airlines flight 191, because like what do you mean the left engine fell off both, and both planes banked to the right, plus AA191 was a dc-10 and what plane came after that? The md-11 (the plane 2976 was)

Rest in peace to everyone on board either plane

[stoneoferech]

UPS, McDonnell Douglas MD-11

[lonestarflight]

MD-11 Propulsion Controlled Aircraft

"A transport aircraft lands for the first time under engine power only, as this McDonnell Douglas MD-11 touches down at 11:38 a.m., Aug. 29, 1995, at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The milestone flight, flown by NASA research pilot and former astronaut Gordon Fullerton, was part of a NASA project to develop a computer-assisted engine control system that enables a pilot to land a plane safely when its normal control surfaces are disabled. The Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft PCA system uses standard autopilot controls already present in the cockpit, together with the new programming in the aircraft's flight control computers. The PCA concept is simple--for pitch control, the program increases thrust to climb and reduces thrust to descend. To turn right, the autopilot increases the left engine thrust while decreasing the right engine thrust. The initial Propulsion-Controlled Aircraft studies by NASA were carried out at Dryden with a modified twin-engine F-15 research aircraft."

Date: August 29, 1995

NASA ID: EC95-43247-3

[aviatrix-ash]

Checking out what's flying this morning and I spy- a lovely MD-11 :3