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[bauble]

Originally Posted by Tel 911S

Nothing to do with motorsport , but just got sent a video clip & I am still wiping the tears from my eyes .
A little bit risque , so will probably go down well with Bauble .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An5a6h7vA00

That is absolutely disgusting, in very poor taste, and quite demeaning of woman in general.



Any more clips?

[Mike Bell]

With all the talk nowadays about pilotless planes and driverless cars, surprised crewless ships haven't been included. Appears some work on the concept is going on, though. I'm sure any tenthers with Merchant or Royal Naval experience will have a view……

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/spotl...cid=spartandhp

[Peter Mallett]

A concept that goes all the way back to the Titanic.

[andy97]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

With all the talk nowadays about pilotless planes and driverless cars, surprised crewless ships haven't been included. Appears some work on the concept is going on, though. I'm sure any tenthers with Merchant or Royal Naval experience will have a view……

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/spotl...cid=spartandhp

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/unmannedwarrior

[Mike Bell]

Thought I'd get a response, Andy!

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

That’s courtesy of Grant P. The next one will be with your permission, if you’re happy to give it.....

Mike I thought I had answered this, however, I can not see my post … so.

No problems, just help yourself. I would be honoured.

PS; usual fees apply.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by bauble

Mike I thought I had answered this, however, I can not see my post … so.

No problems, just help yourself. I would be honoured.

PS; usual fees apply.

You are very gracious, Sir! Your post is now on this thread, along with the two subsequent ones, as of little relevance to that Brexit thing......

[Mike Bell]

I thought the ‘No more than 10 year’s old’ tyre legislation for HGVs and others was already in place, but it’s not..... https://www.ukhaulier.co.uk/news/roa...be-an-offence/

Makes more sense than ‘lifed’ carbon fibre seats and seat harnesses!

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

You are very gracious, Sir! Your post is now on this thread, along with the two subsequent ones, as of little relevance to that Brexit thing......

Now you can get rid of that dreadful picture of Grant's.

[andy97]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Thought I'd get a response, Andy!

Indeed, but the RN is lagging behind I think. There was a time when we lead the way - angled flight decks, mirror landing sights, the steam catapult and the ski jump for Harriers were all British inventions to improve aircraft operations from Carriers.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by andy97

Indeed, but the RN is lagging behind I think. There was a time when we lead the way - angled flight decks, mirror landing sights, the steam catapult and the ski jump for Harriers were all British inventions to improve aircraft operations from Carriers.

That’s maybe why I have not heard more about robot ships in recent times- nothing’s been happening recently!

[crmalcolm]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Aircraft of all sizes can now, or have the ability to, fly without a human being sitting in the cockpit. One only needs to look at what the RAF and the USAF are doing with drones currently. After all, they are now the size of small private civilian planes.

The only reasons that pilots are required to be present on commercial craft are basically to reassure passengers and to be able to take over when the onboard technology goes awry.

There is one other reason why pilots are required - the typical large RPASs are operated from range via a satellite link.
This leads to two issues:

Firstly - the latency on a satellite link means that the time between the RPAS being exposed to an external influence, the pilot responding and the instruction being received again at the RPAS can be up to 5 seconds. To overcome this for take off and landing, the RPAS is controlled by someone at the ground via a Line-Of-Sight connection.

Secondly - if the connection to a RPAS is lost, the aircraft has a default routine of a climb to safe altitude and competing circuits until the connection is restored. This happens quite frequently, and would possibly be not tolerated by passengers.

[Mike Bell]

There was a Concorde prog (part 1) on C5 tonight. No idea if it’s a new one or a repeat, but I don’t care- watching footage of the plane taking off, in flight, landing or just parked still mesmerises me.....

[gary396]

I see one of our new F-35s on tonight's ITV fighter pilot prog needed another 're-boot' to get it started. Only took an hour to sort it out!

[bauble]

I predict that within five years the Tour de France will be run for riderless bikes.

Bound to happen.

[justracing]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

There was a Concorde prog (part 1) on C5 tonight. No idea if it’s a new one or a repeat, but I don’t care- watching footage of the plane taking off, in flight, landing or just parked still mesmerises me.....

Pretty sure it's a repeat but as you say always worth a watch. At the grand age of 21 nearing the end of my apprenticeship with the British Aircraft Corporation(now British Aerospace), I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks in Toulouse with a team undertaking flyover noise measurements with the French preproduction Concorde 02. Groups of us were operating as 2/3 man teams in the surrounding countryside and I drew prime position directly under the flight path after take off. Still brings a smile back

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by justracing

Pretty sure it's a repeat but as you say always worth a watch. At the grand age of 21 nearing the end of my apprenticeship with the British Aircraft Corporation(now British Aerospace), I was lucky enough to spend 2 weeks in Toulouse with a team undertaking flyover noise measurements with the French preproduction Concorde 02. Groups of us were operating as 2/3 man teams in the surrounding countryside and I drew prime position directly under the flight path after take off. Still brings a smile back

That must have been special. The sheer beauty of the thing..... My sisters and I treated our Dad to a ‘round the bay (Biscay)’ pleasure flight from Heathrow in one for a significant birthday. That was very special.

Going back to cars, interesting look at some VWs which never made production, now hidden in one of their museums....

https://www.autocar.co.uk/slideshow/...e-never-sold#2

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by bauble

I predict that within five years the Tour de France will be run for riderless bikes.

Bound to happen.

Now there’s a pointless application of the technology....

[Mike Bell]

Anyone we know, or someone masquerading as....? (Autocar reader’s letters today)

[morninggents]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Anyone we know, or someone masquerading as....? (Autocar reader’s letters today)

It was sent by email so can't be you know who. Far too complicated.

[andy97]

Originally Posted by gary396

I see one of our new F-35s on tonight's ITV fighter pilot prog needed another 're-boot' to get it started. Only took an hour to sort it out!

Many, many years ago, i worked on Sea Harriers (scary thought, i know!) and even then the Nav-Attack system was so complex that the student pilots didnt really understand it and so booked faults due to misunderstandings.
As maintainers we swapped black boxes, did a functional test and sent them on their way.
Subsequently i worked in the electronics workshops testing the black boxes removed from the aircraft. More often than not, No fault found.
If we couldnt understand the technology then, imagine the issues now!!!

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by morninggents

It was sent by email so can't be you know who. Far too complicated.

Cruel!

[Mike Bell]

Interesting how the landscape changes. Few years ago rural areas were quite rightly shouting loudly about slow / poor broadband. (And I’m sure many still are.) But appears now that you can live on an island of 100 houses and have full fibre into your abode. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49491794

The industrial estate out in the sticks where my workshop is also has full fibre to each unit, and yet in the middle of town, we are stuck with fibre supply to a box at least a mile away, then copper cable to the many hundreds of houses. And relatively, it is slow..... We need a campaign to have fast broadband in an urban environment!

[grantp]

Originally Posted by andy97

Many, many years ago, i worked on Sea Harriers (scary thought, i know!) and even then the Nav-Attack system was so complex that the student pilots didnt really understand it and so booked faults due to misunderstandings.
As maintainers we swapped black boxes, did a functional test and sent them on their way.
Subsequently i worked in the electronics workshops testing the black boxes removed from the aircraft. More often than not, No fault found.
If we couldnt understand the technology then, imagine the issues now!!!

Probably in a similar era or possibly slightly later I was involved with a software development that was developed to support field service engineers and included some interesting facilities to track serviceable items by serial number (or an other "unique" identifier) as i moved around an organisation.

One of the more disturbing discoveries as we spoke to prospective interested parties was that our Airforce experienced contacts described some problems with things like "Black Boxes" which were often changed based on reported faults and so, in those days, could end up scattered around the world with no continuous history of serviceability and repair activities.

So a box would appear locally with some sort of generic error note attached. The workshop would find no error and it would be put back on the shelf. Then fitted to another airframe when the next swap was required.

At the next time of failure, probably somewhere else around the world, the same process might well be repeated.

No traceability whatsoever. A developing or intermittent genuine fault in a black box unit could exist for years and never be corrected.

Or so we were advised.

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Interesting how the landscape changes. Few years ago rural areas were quite rightly shouting loudly about slow / poor broadband. (And I’m sure many still are.) But appears now that you can live on an island of 100 houses and have full fibre into your abode. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49491794

The industrial estate out in the sticks where my workshop is also has full fibre to each unit, and yet in the middle of town, we are stuck with fibre supply to a box at least a mile away, then copper cable to the many hundreds of houses. And relatively, it is slow..... We need a campaign to have fast broadband in an urban environment!

Openreach have already spent the cash though ... somewhere between your workshop and Grimsay.