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Final Destination 6 - Aeroflot
Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
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Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, in America I don't think we have rules against reintroducing planes involved in deadly incidents, but are still airworthy. The shrine is a bit wild, though.
We have a word for US movies and books portraying Russia: "klukva" (cranberry). Because in every US made movie and US written book amount of lies and confabulations about Russian history and Russian culture is so high, that it deserves a special word. E.g. I was reading a book recently by John le Carré and had to stop after reading about 50 pages. I simply couldn't continue. E.g. there's a scene where Russian traitor…
1. In much of the country, people drink vodka like people drink Coke, not oligarchs in Moscow though.
2. Much of restaurants in Russia are indeed Chechen owned. Great many of Japanese, Chinese, Korean restaurants, and street food in general in Russia have Chechen owners.
That the real Russia.
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd agree if it was almost any other country meanwhile the Russian state has complete control of the media and 99% of the country's area is essentially empty
And that is exactly "klyukva leaking into seemingly serious reasoning" I was talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37041836 There are myriad of reasons why this is not realistic, but if I were to pick the most obvious, that would be 1. No, there is no "complete control of the media", IDK why people assume it to be the case. Broadcast federal tv has to be politically correct, but not too much beyond…
>No, there is no "complete control of the media", IDK why people assume it to be the case. Broadcast federal tv has to be politically correct, but not too much beyond that.
This is why recent prigozhin roadtrip to moscow completely didn't happen at all according to russian media ? or is it just a case of been "politically correct" ? and tv station absolutely not given talking points by kremlin ?
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
they don't have proper specs, manufacturing equipment, materials, engineers, machinists, etc. they been trying to source parts from india, china, iran, etc.
For sure, they will be using half-butted homegrown (or made in those countries) clones, just like you would see in the Soviet era. It will lead to a gradual but increasing incidence of air disasters. Russian friends, please avoid flying if you can.
most likely clones. those days everybody semi-capable seems to be directed towards weapons manufacturing/etc. there is enormous shortage of workforce even for lower level skills manufacturing.
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd agree if it was almost any other country meanwhile the Russian state has complete control of the media and 99% of the country's area is essentially empty
And that is exactly "klyukva leaking into seemingly serious reasoning" I was talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37041836 There are myriad of reasons why this is not realistic, but if I were to pick the most obvious, that would be 1. No, there is no "complete control of the media", IDK why people assume it to be the case. Broadcast federal tv has to be politically correct, but not too much beyond…
> No, there is no "complete control of the media", IDK why people assume it to be the case. Broadcast federal tv has to be politically correct, but not too much beyond that.
How do you recocile that with the journalists assassinated, arrested, and/or driven from the country?
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
This would have made sense 12 months or even 9 months ago, but we're now 18 months into a war that Russia's government had otherwise been preparing domestically for. Again: what gives?
It’s an incompetent oligarchy where competence is dangerous and gets you sidelined. Rotten from the top down.
And here come 2 minutes hate people
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
> but they are certainly not falling out of the skies they will be shortly and you won't hear about it unless you're on it
Hard to hide an airliner crash in this day and age. Certainly over land, anyway.
Why would they want to hide it? Perfect opportunity to agitate a little more against "the west". From the perspective of someone who blows up apartment buildings to get a unifying war it's not really a risk, it's potential upside.
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hard to hide an airliner crash in this day and age. Certainly over land, anyway.
I'd agree if it was almost any other country meanwhile the Russian state has complete control of the media and 99% of the country's area is essentially empty
That could happen 60 years ago, I guess. Nowadays everyone uses Telegram, everyone possesses smartphone with camera, there are bloggers with millions of subscribers who are outside of political control.
That said, few weeks ago major internet providers in Russia started to roll out VPN blocks with DPI. There are other obvious signs that Russia prepares for the external Internet cut off. So I wouldn't bet for this situation to continue for much longer.
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#149What’s going to be the effect of increased use of the engine? Airlines like to derate their engines for takeoffs that don’t require full performance in order to save wear and tear; how much quicker are the engines going to require overhaul due to extraordinary reverse thruster usage?
I guess the brakes involve more rapidly consumable items, but this seems like a decidedly suboptimal solution when it knocks a good portion of operating life off an expensive precision jet engine. Sucks to fly in Russia, I guess.
Re: Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
And that is exactly "klyukva leaking into seemingly serious reasoning" I was talking about here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37041836 There are myriad of reasons why this is not realistic, but if I were to pick the most obvious, that would be 1. No, there is no "complete control of the media", IDK why people assume it to be the case. Broadcast federal tv has to be politically correct, but not too much beyond…
> No, there is no "complete control of the media", IDK why people assume it to be the case. Broadcast federal tv has to be politically correct, but not too much beyond that. How do you recocile that with the journalists assassinated, arrested, and/or driven from the country?
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