Take a 2019 Tea Break with Delta

[bauble]

Originally Posted by andy97

Now they are very impressive. Can operate in about 8 inches depth of water!, too, used water jets. I went on the “Shotover Jet” boats - the tourist thrill ride equivalent. Can turn througj 360 deg in their own length.

So can a Porsche I believe.

[delta]

When I stop racing I’m either go to be a C of the C or do commentating . Don’t worry hope to carry on racing for a good number of years .

[grantp]

Originally Posted by delta

When I stop racing I’m either go to be a C of the C or do commentating . (But) Don’t worry hope to carry on racing for a good number of years .

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Alfaholic

Looks like the perfect course & size for the jet boats raced in New Zealand

Now you’re talking!

[bauble]

Originally Posted by grantp

Grant, I see Delta as a Scrutineer. "Look at the state of these brakes, I can't pass them like that! Where's me toolbox?"

[MGDavid]

Originally Posted by bauble

Grant, I see Delta as a Scrutineer. "Look at the state of these brakes, I can't pass them like that! Where's me toolbox?"

[Peter Mallett]

And that coil looks dodgy too.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

And that coil looks dodgy too.

Nah, it’s never etc......

Question- Ryanair Pilots are on strike, but all their flights reportedly left on schedule this morning. So who’s flying the planes?

[grantp]

Originally Posted by Alfaholic

Looks like the perfect course & size for the jet boats raced in New Zealand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h8G6QdlbdM

Good grief, that's impressive.

Is the second person a navigator or a riding mechanic?

Or just a passenger paying for a race experience?

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by grantp

Good grief, that's impressive.

Is the second person a navigator or a riding mechanic?

Or just a passenger paying for a race experience?

I just want to know how they know where to go and where they've been so they know when they've got to the end!

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Nah, it’s never etc......

Question- Ryanair Pilots are on strike, but all their flights reportedly left on schedule this morning. So who’s flying the planes?

Probably some of those 800 Ryanair flight and cabin staff who are being threatened with getting the boot this Autumn. They have been bussed (flown) in from other European bases, and will have probably have volunteered to take over the duties of the UK based colleagues in the hope that they will be earn some brownie points with Mick, and therefore be saved from the chop later this year!

[andy97]

Originally Posted by grantp

Good grief, that's impressive.

Is the second person a navigator or a riding mechanic?

Or just a passenger paying for a race experience?

The second person is the navigator; they need one given the complex routes around the course they take at speed.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Probably some of those 800 Ryanair flight and cabin staff who are being threatened with getting the boot this Autumn. They have been bussed (flown) in from other European bases, and will have probably have volunteered to take over the duties of the UK based colleagues in the hope that they will be earn some brownie points with Mick, and therefore be saved from the chop later this year!

Yes, I though there must be a ‘few’ spare hanging around, and the company hadn’t bought Level 5 Autonomy forward.....

[Duddha]

@Delta

Question about Zandvoort, are we seriously running the bike & run race? If so we have to plan this

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Yes, I though there must be a ‘few’ spare hanging around, and the company hadn’t bought Level 5 Autonomy forward.....

As Ryanair only fly one type of aircraft, some common Boeing thing, anybody can pilot it. According to the Beeb even Union members are flying them. I hate strikers in the main. (No ocean jokes please).

[Mike Harte]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Yes, I though there must be a ‘few’ spare hanging around, and the company hadn’t bought Level 5 Autonomy forward.....

Mike, I know that you are joking - the smilie gives it away - but there are some, probably a handful or so, of fairly large airlines that would like to see the number of crew in the cockpit reduced to one, with the long time objective of not having pilots onboard at all.

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.

[bauble]

Originally Posted by Mike Harte

Mike, I know that you are joking - the smilie gives it away - but there are some, probably a handful or so, of fairly large airlines that would like to see the number of crew in the cockpit reduced to one, with the long time objective of not having pilots onboard at all.

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.

Passenger settled down in their seats, as a voice came over the PA system.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard flight 123, you are flying in the very latest, most modern, and safest aircraft ever made, it has every safety feature know to the aviation industry, the most sophisticated control system to have been fitted to any airplane before. Relax and be assured that your wellbeing is our primary concern, have no worries, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong nothing can......

[JasperClan]

Whilst watching the tv the other night about training our next generation of fighter pilots I was concerned in the section about the RAF's new multi-purpose jet, the F35 Lightning, that a username and password was required to start the systems. What was even better was when they were not accepted the instructor asked the pilot to switch it off and on again. When that didn't work the cameraman was asked to stop shooting so the instructor could fix it. Probably needed to ctrl/alt/del. Bit worrying when they cost £100 million each.

[E.B]

Originally Posted by grantp

Good grief, that's impressive.

Is the second person a navigator or a riding mechanic?

Or just a passenger paying for a race experience?

Navigator. Also ballast to balance the boat.

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by JasperClan

Whilst watching the tv the other night about training our next generation of fighter pilots I was concerned in the section about the RAF's new multi-purpose jet, the F35 Lightning, that a username and password was required to start the systems. What was even better was when they were not accepted the instructor asked the pilot to switch it off and on again. When that didn't work the cameraman was asked to stop shooting so the instructor could fix it. Probably needed to ctrl/alt/del. Bit worrying when they cost £100 million each.

Thanks for the vote of confidence in the plane- they’ve been playing / flying around overhead all day...... CTRL/ALT/DEL seems to be cure-all nowadays, even race cars......

[Mike Bell]

Originally Posted by E.B

Navigator. Also ballast to balance the boat.

Bit like a trials car or sidecar passenger.....?

[VIVA GT]

Originally Posted by bauble

Passenger settled down in their seats, as a voice came over the PA system.

"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard flight 123, you are flying in the very latest, most modern, and safest aircraft ever made, it has every safety feature know to the aviation industry, the most sophisticated control system to have been fitted to any airplane before. Relax and be assured that your wellbeing is our primary concern, have no worries, nothing can go wrong, nothing can go wrong nothing can......

You're on fire today Baub, another amusing anecdote.
(Mind you, if you continue to refer to my missus' high quality Home Baking as simply 'pies', this may happen more literally when she visits you with her blow lamp!)

[midgetman]

Originally Posted by Mike Bell

Bit like a trials car or sidecar passenger.....?

My greatest day came when I was a trials passenger for MG David once. Going up Bluehills 1 I bounced like no tomorrow and we scrabbled over the lip. He turned to me and said:

"Do you know, we wouldn't have got up that if it hadn't been for you!"

Fellow bouncers, just sometimes the driver appreciates us. Not often, just sometimes.

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[bauble]

Originally Posted by VIVA GT

You're on fire today Baub, another amusing anecdote.
(Mind you, if you continue to refer to my missus' high quality Home Baking as simply 'pies', this may happen more literally when she visits you with her blow lamp!)

OK Viv, I'll be nice as pie in the futu …...Oops!

[Gerard C]

Hey, Bob, what kind of thing did you ask for to deserve a blow lamp? Just to know…