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General Discussion Area / Re: Will this help....

« on: 17 June 2021, 08:10:33 »

The L1011 was certified to 420. If a/c weight and ATC permitted, we would ocsnly get up to 410, with OAT’s of as low, in my personal experience, as -67C. We would optimally fly at the highest level for fuel consumption, commensurate with the most favourable meteorological conditions, winds etc. conducive to the most comfortable ride and the best ground speed, and comfortably within our max allowable weight for the altitude to avoid being too close to “coffin corner”.  See Coffin Corner Aviation.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Will this help....

« on: 17 June 2021, 07:38:32 »

Airliners at cruising height (FL300-FL410) normally report outside temps in the -50C to -60C range. -56C seems to be the most common one. I doubt a Shackleton bothered those altitudes very often though :-)

Haven't personally seen anything colder than -60C, but not saying it doesn't happen.

The Tristar etc at BA easily, and regularly flew over 30,000 

I said Shackleton, not Shackeng. A previous Avitar Shackeng used suggests he preferred 8 screws to 3 blow jobs :-)

IIRC some older aircraft were certified up to eithr FL450 or FL490 - I think Learjets and possibly early B-747's . The newer stuff struggles not through technical capability, but because regulations now give a time limit to get from maximum cruising altitude down to 18000? ft in the event of a sudden cabin depressurisation. Therefore most newer stuff, including all the Airbus liners, are only certified to FL410. AIUI.

Puhlease! 8 screws, PLUS, to borrow your somewhat crude analogy, 2 blow jobs.

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General Discussion Area / Re: GB news starts today.

« on: 15 June 2021, 19:51:47 »

The Guardian, compulsory reading for BBC employees, circulation 110,000.
The Daily Mail, 1.1 million.

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General Discussion Area / Re: GB news starts today.

« on: 15 June 2021, 19:45:10 »

And don't just accept the shite that the BBC put out, complain....get your friends to complain. It's easy, just an online form. If you don't get a reply, complain.....to your MP if necessary, it is a public funded entity after all.

I have, frequently, and, unsurprisingly, got nowhere. The programme Feedback on radio 4 was a good example of the BBBC’s woke agenda. Having listened to it over many years, I do not recall the Beeb EVER accepting listeners’ criticism.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Will this help....

« on: 15 June 2021, 07:38:38 »

Sadly, this really is part of the day job, as there are fewer environments which present such extremes of temperature as automotive (-40degC up to 95+degC ambient is not unusual)

One of them is aerospace, where stuff has to work in ambients between -40C  (Parked in the open in Norway in Winter) and +125C (parked in the open in Saudi Arabia in summer). Initial internal temperatures can exceed 200C before the Air Conditioning in the avionics bays gets the temperatures down to 125C. Then they take off, up to 40000 ft where the outside air temp is -40DegC.

You wish.

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General Discussion Area / Re: Good enough for our army but......

« on: 06 June 2021, 07:22:19 »

There's stories every day about this invasion, the Lawyers that helped with this claim are known to assist in beating the system, Then there's the Invaders that are wearing £500 trainers, i-,phone12 etc.  O and inspector Clouseau can't even find were they keep buying 20ft ribs and 30+ life jackets from, can't see them being towed to the beach, loaded up, and then launched.

The French have big legal and illegal immigration problems of their own. Why would they do much to stop those who are just passing through, especially since we cut ourselves off from EU cooperation

.

So no change there then

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General Car Chat / Re: Brake pads

« on: 05 June 2021, 17:19:29 »

Result , set of OEM front pads for £35, boxed, opened, but genuine OE label and codes. (Not Motorcraft). Ford retail: £129.24.
From eBay, arrived in 2 days. Sorry TB. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: Good enough for our army but......

« on: 05 June 2021, 12:26:08 »

Napier Barracks, previously known as Shorncliffe Camp, where I was born,  and where my father was stationed in the QORWK. It is probably a bit more salubrious nowadays. 

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General Discussion Area / Re: WTF is...

« on: 05 June 2021, 11:14:41 »

There was an amusing story with this operation. On checking in to the hospital I was required by a doctor to sign a disclaimer, which, in the small print, allowed anyone other than the consultant to carry out the op. Not happy with this, I crossed that section out before signing, and said doctor was somewhat discombobulated.
Arriving at theatre the following morning, feeling quite mellow after the pre-med, the consultant pulled his mask down to identify himself as he leant over, saying with a smile,  “Satisfied?”

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General Discussion Area / Re: WTF is...

« on: 04 June 2021, 19:43:12 »

Out? Or out out?

out out.

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General Discussion Area / Re: WTF is...

« on: 04 June 2021, 19:40:03 »

After several injections of something which didn’t cure it, I had an operation to expose the tendon which was then scraped to remove inflamed tissue. I think, as I was out at the time. It did fix it.

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Car Parts, bits For Sale & Wanted / Radio Type CDR 2005

« on: 03 June 2021, 15:18:35 »

I have the supplement to Audio manual TS 1523-3 titled as above. Edition is Oct.2001
Free to anyone.

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General Car Chat / Re: So what have you done to your car today?

« on: 01 June 2021, 07:57:27 »

It nearly made a 90 miles trip without the inidcator packing up.  I did about 60 miles before giving up the ghost.

Headlight had quite heavy condensation inside again this morning, which has now disappeared in this sun.

Do they fit the same component to BMWs & Audis?

Due to complaints, now an optional extra. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Brake pads

« on: 29 May 2021, 19:40:33 »

 

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General Car Chat / Brake pads

« on: 29 May 2021, 12:59:07 »

Recommendations please for good quality pads for my Mondeo. Last service they were 5mm so although only a few hundred miles since I’d prefer to change them before the stealer does the service. I prefer softer pads to ‘high speed’ ones, as my hooning days are over.