FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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As someone interested in science, try sitting down at a table with an 85
year old grandmother, a six year old, and a high school dropout and
explain lift to them.........oh yes.....and do it so that they
completely understand every aspect of it on the science and engineering
level.....and do that in 30 minutes. :-))


I'm going to try that with Anthony, right after I learn to walk on water.

Bertie

Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
:


As someone interested in science, try sitting down at a table with an 85
year old grandmother, a six year old, and a high school dropout and
explain lift to them.........oh yes.....and do it so that they
completely understand every aspect of it on the science and engineering
level.....and do that in 30 minutes. :-))


I'm going to try that with Anthony, right after I learn to walk on water.

Bertie

You mean you CAN'T walk on water??? Damn!!!

Hey...you're missing all the fun over at RAS. Check out the thread on
Mxsmanic. I swear, I must be picking up some good troll habits from you
Bertie :-)))
Dudley

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Dudley Henriques

Robert M. Gary writes:

I have no doubt that our buddy from France firmly believes he can land
a 747 if necessary. In fact he's done it hundreds of times.

If the airplane is normally airworthy and with the use of automation, I have
virtually no doubt of it. Flying by hand is much more uncertain, depending on
many things.

They tried, in one previous show, to duplicate the old cartoon shotgun
barrel blow up with the barrel unwinding. They tried to use modern shotguns
which are made from solid tubular steel. Shotguns made before about 1920
were generally made by wrapping steel wire around a mandrel and using the
old blacksmith welding with a hammer and anvil.
Those barrels would have flaws and weak spots.

What they showed with landing the NASA simulator is that any person with
some level experience with a cockpit display can control an airliner. Most
FAA controllers would not have the experience to describe the cockpit and
give useful instruction in how to manually fly with the autopilot or where
the switches are located, or how to use the radio to even start the
"rescue."

Maybe they should have an in-flight movie before each take-off on how to fly
the airplane, do you think TSA would allow that?


"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
...
| On Dec 8, 9:32 pm, Jim Logajan wrote:
| "Jamie and Adam take wing to test if a person with no flight training
can
| safely land an airplane and if a plane can take off from a conveyor belt
| speeding in the opposite direction. Tory, Grant, and Kari jump on some
| Hollywood-inspired skydiving myths."
|
| Quoted from the Discovery channel
schedule:http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-schedule...=1.13056.24704....
|
| (My local paper's weekly TV schedule has just the brief summary "Landing
a
| 747" so I presume the plane they attempt to land without training is a
747.
| Will be interesting to see if they try the real thing and are not
limited
| to a simulator.)
|
| I have no doubt that our buddy from France firmly believes he can land
| a 747 if necessary. In fact he's done it hundreds of times.
|
| -Robert

For those outside the US, you can find it with a search for
mythbusters on piratebay.org now, but you didn't hear that from me.

In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

Hey...you're missing all the fun over at RAS. Check out the thread on
Mxsmanic. I swear, I must be picking up some good troll habits from you
Bertie :-)))
Dudley

There are NO good troll habits. (-{

They only good way to respond to a troll is to ignore it. (-{

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

On Dec 13, 10:19 pm, James Sleeman wrote:
For those outside the US, you can find it with a search for
mythbusters on piratebay.org now, but you didn't hear that from me.

Argh, before anybody else does, don't bother if you're only wanting
plane ona treadmill, because, they dropped it from the episode.
Quoting from the MythBusters forum...

--- Begin Quote ---

I have just received an email from Dan Tapster, executive producer of
MythBusters.

Thanks to all the activity, he can't log in and asked me to post this
for him.

quote:
"Adam? Jamie? Dan? Someone step up and tell us what happened tonight."

Dear all,

As wbarnhill called out, I thought I should step in to what is rapidly
becoming a hornet's nest. I will try to calm things down but I don't
hold out much hope!

First up, for those concerned that this story has been cancelled,
don't worry, planes on a conveyer belt has been filmed, is
spectacular, and will be part of what us Mythbusters refer to as
'episode 97'. Currently that is due to air on January 30th.

Secondly, for those very aggrieved fans feeling "duped" into watching
tonight's show, I can only apologise. I'm not sure why the listings /
internet advertised that tonight's show contained POCB. I will
endeavour to find out an answer but for those conspiracy theorists
amongst you, I can assure you that it will have just been an honest
mistake. At one point
several months ago, POCB was going to be part of Airplane Hour.
Somewhere, someone has mistakenly posted the wrong listing. It will
have been a genuine mistake but nonetheless it was a mistake which is
unacceptable. As said I will try to find out what went wrong and hope
that you will see fit to forgive the team at Discovery.

Thanks in advance,

Dan


And with that, the entire board is going "READ ONLY" until I can clean
up the mess.

MythMod

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Bob Noel wrote in news:ihatessppaamm-
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In article ,
Dudley Henriques wrote:

Hey...you're missing all the fun over at RAS. Check out the thread on
Mxsmanic. I swear, I must be picking up some good troll habits from you
Bertie :-)))
Dudley

There are NO good troll habits. (-{

They only good way to respond to a troll is to ignore it. (-{


Is this a troll?


Bertie

Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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As someone interested in science, try sitting down at a table with
an 85 year old grandmother, a six year old, and a high school
dropout and explain lift to them.........oh yes.....and do it so
that they completely understand every aspect of it on the science
and engineering level.....and do that in 30 minutes. :-))


I'm going to try that with Anthony, right after I learn to walk on
water.

Bertie

You mean you CAN'T walk on water??? Damn!!!

Hey...you're missing all the fun over at RAS. Check out the thread on
Mxsmanic. I swear, I must be picking up some good troll habits from
you Bertie :-)))

Wow! I'm honoured!

I try to stay out of RAS. You guys are generally sturdy enough to put up
with the kind of nonsense I generate, but I'd only be bullying some of them
over there. I don't like screwing up a really useful group..

Bertie

"Casey Wilson" wrote:


"Newps" wrote in message
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johnsonbomb wrote:

Dude, it's mythbusters. These guys are freaking brilliant and they
will cover this thing from all angles. I can assure you.

yeah, like when they shot frozen chickens thru a Cherokee windshield and
applied the results to airliners. Brilliant.

But they did do a mostly reasonable job with piercing the skin of a
pressurized fuselage with a 9mm. The shaped charge part was hokey.

And frightening. I think the results of the "experiment" caught
everyone off-guard. I know I for one have resolved to NEVER, EVER
place a shaped charge against the wall of an aircraft I'm flying on.

Mark" wouldn't be prudent" Hickey