In training each de-icer are all told and shown where to and not to spray the fluid! This must be a case of pure lapse in concentration!

If Biggles doesn’t switch off the APU air supply the poor guy doing the spraying can concentrate all he likes and the PAX are still going to get a lung full!
Don’t be too hard on the guys doing the de icing they are working in low temperatures, poor conditions and have got everyone on their backs to get the job done quick.
It amazes me why people are always trying to avoid de iceing. When ever I get asked “Eng do you think we need to de ice?” I always say, “yes, de ice”, I always think that a tank full of de icer is always cheaper than a smoking hole at the end of the runway. Call me old fasioned:)

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It is standard proceedure to shut off the air conditioning when de icing, If you don’t….

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nice pics!!!! whats with the PIA airbus am i missing something at Man these days 🙂

JASON

Saw one at LHR two weeks ago. I too thought that they had gone to the “great apron in the sky”.
I like the autumnal light on your pictures, very nice.

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I was under the impression that at least some versions of the 74 had tail surfaces fitted with amounts of depleted unanium – or some other such dense material… but I may be wrong!

The 747 and the Tristar had depleated uranium used in certain parts of the flying controls. As for other modern transport aircraft, I don’t know.
Depleated uranium is SUPOSEDLY safe un less you start drilling or cutting it. There are stories of scrap depeated uranium mass ballences being cut up and used as rivet “Bucking bars” due to them being very heavy for their size:eek:

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My wife don’t care, as long as it has a drinks tolley on board.

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The jet had been undergoing servicing at EAS Industries in Perpignan and flying circuits for 90 minutes before it crashed, an emergency services spokesman said

An hour and a half circuits and bumps would have shook the defects out of her. Any defect due to maintenance would have shown up long before then

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Hi all
The A330 has an air driven starter motor. Hear is a picture of a 737 starter motor.
http://www.b737.org.uk/powerplant.htm#Misc_Photos
Its the thing on the end of the large silver pipe.
ALL Airbus and Boeings, except the 787 are started by air starters. They are all prety much the same shape as this one but the do get a little bigger.
The 787 from what I gather is going to use the generator as a starter. The BAC 1-11 used to use it’s constant speed drive as a starter (CSDS). That used to change rotational direction after starter cut out making that disinctive whine that we all know and love
They are all oil lubricated, all held on by a “Vee band” clamp.
Not filling one with oil would not do it any good but, as this one was FOUR days out of maintenance I don’t think that had anything to do with it. I doubt that one would last that long without oil.

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