MartinW

I'm beginning to suspect that it may have been his team mate that got tangled in his chute. Unless of course it simply folded on it's own, without interference. Hence the low altitude and lack of reserve deployment. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3132425/Red-Devils-parachutist-CAUGHT-mid-air-chute-failed-open.html They were preforming a "stack", one jumper directly under another.

According to the Army... "The Red Devils, the British Army’s parachute display team since 1963, says it’s the first time in 25 years that a parachute has failed to open properly. The team carries out over 60 displays every year." “We can confirm that the Red Devil parachutists are both safe and sound. For the first time in 25 years they had a parachute fail,” a message posted on the show’s Facebook page said."

That occurred to me too John. Perhaps he hadn't enough altitude to cut away the main chute and deploy the reserve? http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/skydiving5.htm

A Red Devil parachutist had a lucky escape when his chute failed to open during an airshow - but a team-mate caught him in mid-air. The Army freefall parachute display team was performing at the Whitehaven Air Show in Cumbria on Friday night when the parachute failed. Pictures on social media show the men coming down together and crashing into the harbour waters. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-33209713 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOLHc2OwGiA

Needles, let's stick to aviation. If this becomes a political debate, guess who will get the blame. Let's respect Joe's wishes. Of course, if anyone wants to debate this over at JF where off topic is allowed, I'm ready to go.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562101 I could show you the research. But as this is a forum devoted to aviation, I suggest we move on and debate the aviation aspects of this story only. I'm not sure why you mentioned "burden on the tax payer" to be honest, when we are supposed to be avoiding such controversial topics. Lets stick to aviation.

Brett, you should feel sorry for the people they left behind. They are mostly starving, or dreadfully opressed. As ploitical comments like "burden on the tax payer" have been made, i suggest we debate the aviation aspects of this story from this point on.

Gentlemen I'm stunned by the dreadful and ignorant comments I read in this thread. There have been a few cases in the past where idiots have done this as a prank, but the majority do this out of desperation. Do you really think they are all morons who jam themselves in a wheel well and risk being crushef because they think it will be great fun? Whether motivated by a desire to escape persecution or seek economic prosperity in the West, this method of transit represents the ultimate desperation.

The roof? Who said it was the roof? Fell from the wheel well onto a roof. But how they managed the journey at altitude is beyond me. Lack of oxygen and rather cold. Believe it or not though, at very low temperatures, the human body can enter a kind of hibernation state. Lets consider though, the extreme circumstances, the desperation, that would encourage someone to attempt such a thing.

Good grief, this is awful. Same thing happened in 2012. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3130926/Stowaway-falls-death-jet-approaches-Heathrow-Second-man-survives-11-hour-journey-South-Africa.html http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/stowaway-falls-death-london-after-5910205

Sonar happens well before the obstruction is meet The link below is interesting. a recent patent sheds some light on how Prime Air will work. According to the patent, the drones will find their destination by continuously tracking the location of the purchaser’s smartphone While this might seem strange at first glance, this implementation enables delivery to customers who might not be at home. The patent, for instance, references how a package might even be delivered to a boat. Furthermore, in a hypothetical world filled with Amazon drones flying to and fro, the

I hope you recognised that as humour, I'm never quite sure. Our trained bats would be bred in captivity and inoculated against all known diseases. We could also utilise nanotechnology, nicked from alien spacecraft stored at Area 51. Inject them with a few million nanobots and they should be good to go.

Sonar happens well before the obstruction is meet So basically you are saying the drones will be bats. I say we should simply train bats. Flying foxes are the worlds largest bats, I reckon those guys would be strong enough to carry a small package.

I bet landing will be tricky. The drones are autonomous. Guided by GPS. So what happens if there's an unexpected obstruction. I would be astonished if they were sophisticated enough to recognise and avoid, for example, a car parked on a drive.

As I said previously in this thread... "Amazon were accused of that in 2013. They assured shareholders it wasn't. Since then there have been 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th generation vehicles. In short they have spent plenty of dosh and employed 60 plus staff." So no, no way would I believe this was merely a publicity stunt. As for premium service, absolutely, could well be. Don't forget, this will be Amazon PRIME Air. The Amazon Prime service requires annual membership. I would imagine the drone service would have an additional and probably substantial extra charge. Yes it is "a limited set of

Yep, seems Philae is awake and has contacted home. On its blog, ESA said Philae had contacted Earth, via Rosetta, for 85 seconds on Saturday in the first contact since going into hibernation in November. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-33126885 "Philae is doing very well. It has an operating temperature of -35C and has 24 watts available," said Philae project manager, Dr Stephan Ulamec. Scientists say they are now waiting for the next contact. If they can get the data back, they should have months to wade through.

Pitch though, not angle of attack.AOA is the pitch up or down relative to the velocity vector. AOA will thus be lower.

On my phone so ignore dodgy errors. I recall the 787 has a 30 degree pitch limit. So I wonder if the pilot flipped switches on the over head to overide the limit. Or, given that the 787 has no hard flight envelope protection like the bus, did he merely apply the extra yoke force required.

Your video certainly looked like 50 degrees didn't it?

I agree in regard to camera angle. As an ex professional photographer I've forgotten much, but no, not parallax in this instance. Parallax is the perceived position of an object when viewed along two different lines of sight. For example an image viewed through the viewfinder of a twin lens reflex as opposed to an SLR. Viewing lens sees the image from a different location, requiring compensation by the photographer, unless you want your sexy models head cut off. I can't see how parallax would result in the apparent deck angle of a 787 being different. As for perspective, flattened perspe

And then of course, irritated by the 787 showing off it's prowess at the Paris airshow, the RAF nipped out for some low lever flying practice in Wales. Bet the local residents weren't too happy.

Good job Mutley's 787 on his recent trip was loaded with fuel and passengers... he wouldn't have liked this. I recall reading about how a 757, sans fuel and passengers, has the same power to weight ration as an F4 Phantom. Feel free to correct me aviation fans.

A very good idea. Seems we haven't in the last couple of posts. so... So we know that the installation of software also deleted the vital torque calibration parameters for the engines. Each engine has an associated ECU of course. If an ECU detects the absence of the torque calibration parameters it automatically shuts the engine down, or at least reduces the engine RPM to idle. The pilots wouldn't receive a warning until 400 feet. This auto shutdown is to prevent issues with faulty engines unexpectedly powering up. What Airbus didn't envisage of course is this happening to 3 out of 4 engines

I haven't said what my opinion is yet. It reminds me of "sweat" and sour sauce.