FYI: Dec 12 MythBusters: Airplane Hour

"muff528" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
My first time was in the back of a Nash.

What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation

A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)

wrote:
Fukk Anthony, but don't assume because someone doesn't earn his living
as a pilot, he can't "fly" or that playing even in a jen-yoo-wine sim
necessarily means jakk****e...


Like this pica****pstnosenspost?

Jim Logajan wrote in
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A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:


Too small. Probably the old Nash "Bathtub"


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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"muff528" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
My first time was in the back of a Nash.

What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation

A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)


Yeah, but I think Dudley was referring to one way before the Rambler, maybe
even before the Kelvinators but he MAY not be THAT old! :-)

"muff528" wrote in message
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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"muff528" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
My first time was in the back of a Nash.

What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation

A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)


Yeah, but I think Dudley was referring to one way before the Rambler,
maybe even before the Kelvinators but he MAY not be THAT old! :-)
OOPS! Correction.......I guess "Rambler" was used throughout Nash's
history. I just think of Rambler as the more recent ones during the
American Motors period.

Tony P.

Jim Logajan wrote:
"muff528" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
My first time was in the back of a Nash.
What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation

A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)

It was a little convertible with solid rails forming the top sides of
the car where the top slid up over them instead of the way a usual
convertible functioned. It was a strange little car to say the least.


--
Dudley Henriques

"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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"muff528" wrote:
"Dudley Henriques" wrote:
My first time was in the back of a Nash.

What's a "Nash" ? ........ ;^)

,The younger generation

A Nash, as in Nash Rambler!? This video will enlighten you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

:-)

Yet, it's not nearly as butt ugly as the Nash Metropolitan.

Mxsmanic wrote:

F. Baum writes:

Jim, I caught just the parts of the show where J and A tried to land
the plane with some coaching from the sim instructor (Mainly to see
how the instructor would do this). These portions of the show were
amazingly brief (Possibly for security reasons ?) . The stuff they did
show was scary and I doubt they could have gotten awhay with some of
it in a real plane. I do watch the show for its "Infotaiment" value
but I remain unconvinced that someone could actually be talked down in
an airliner. I think it has been tried a time or two in GA after the
pilot became incapacitated.

A small GA airplane is completely different from an airliner, but in any case,
it has been done successfully in small planes. No circumstances have ever
required it in airliners, but it's certainly doable.

It's important to remember that the would-be pilot/savior would have
tremendous motivation to get it right the first time. When thinking
through that scenario, I always pictured having three or four people
in the cockpit - each with a limited job that they'd be walked through
by an expert on the radio... maybe each with a cell phone connecting
them to individual team members on the ground. Then it's just up to
those experts on the ground to talk each of them through about 1/4 of
the process of getting the plane on the ground in one piece (as
opposed to making a flawless landing on the numbers).

Of course, then they'd all be arrested upong landing for using their
cellphones in flight.

Mark "it's the price you pay for survival I guess" Hickey

Mark Hickey writes:

It's important to remember that the would-be pilot/savior would have
tremendous motivation to get it right the first time.

Yes. That could help or hurt, depending on the personality of the individual.

When thinking
through that scenario, I always pictured having three or four people
in the cockpit - each with a limited job that they'd be walked through
by an expert on the radio... maybe each with a cell phone connecting
them to individual team members on the ground. Then it's just up to
those experts on the ground to talk each of them through about 1/4 of
the process of getting the plane on the ground in one piece (as
opposed to making a flawless landing on the numbers).

That seems unnecessarily complicated. Especially with automation, as long as
the person in the left seat can push a button, turn a dial, and move a lever,
he can land the plane--provided also that he can follow simple instructions on
the radio.

Mxsmanic wrote:

No circumstances have ever required it in airliners, but it's
certainly doable.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0080339
http://imdb.com/title/tt0083530
http://imdb.com/title/tt0065377
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