The wind...

[Polar Bear]

Surprisingly low levels of damage apparent here in Rugby.  We have part of a neighbour's workshop roof (corrugated plastic!!!) In amongst our raspberry canes but other than high water levels in the rivers there appears little else reported.

I did notice whilst out on my walks and runs over the past two weeks that there were lots of work gangs doing serious levels of arboreal short back and sides.  I wonder if for once our council was well prepared?

[Peter]

I think we might consider in this "pissing competition" that the fact that more people weren't hurt or killed could be because they heeded the warnings and therefore the warnings were perfectly justified.  I think it's worth noting that the original red ("over-reaction") warnings were issued for the South-West and South Wales.  Nobody was killed in either of those areas, so the warnings may have been heeded.

[Wowbagger]

I had a stroll around the park yesterday as the storm was beginning to die down - about 3pm onward.

Quite a lot of tree debris, as one might expect. A couple of fences down, and two large trees down in the park. There were some carp anglers who had stayed throughout the storm. I have to say there were still some pretty alarming gusts whilst I was wandering around, and I walked on the windward side of trees where there was a choice.

I noticed when I went into the garden this morning that our neighbour's lilac was overhanging below head height, which it wasn't previously, It's a pretty old tree. I just nipped round to see them and the damage is fairly high up on their side, so I shall just cut the offending branches off when I get a round tuit.

[rogerzilla]

I wonder where the trampoline ended up?

They are, apparently, magnetically drawn to railway lines, where they cause all manner of havoc.  Especially electrified routes.

[ElyDave]

I thought that would be the fate oof ours at one point.

[FifeingEejit]

https://youtu.be/EFpwgXCwMNQ

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[rogerzilla]

It's as if the Tripods from the War of the Worlds had marched down the street.

[Basil]

Our power went off just before 8 this morning.  Luckily I was well prepped with the camping stuff, but with the mobile mast being out as well the day did drag a bit.
Especially as the light faded.  We had just agreed to adjourn to the pub for Chinese and alcohol when it came on again. 
We went anyway.   But didn't bother with the Chinese.

[Mr Larrington]

The lid of my black bin got blown open!  I may need counselling…

[Pingu]

Is there a book of condolence?

[TimC]

Doubtless TimC will be along when he gets his electricity back but AFAIK Airbuses are always driven one-handed coz they use a side-stick instead of the yoke used by Boeing.

And one hand on the throttles, ready for either go-around or full reverse thrust

This ^.  He would not want to put himself in the position where he would have to let go with one hand in order to add or remove power.

I thought the co-pilot would handle the throttles.

Absolutely not. The flying pilot handles all the flying controls. The non-flying pilot selects the services (flaps, gear) and does the radios and navigation. The idea that someone else (and it would have been the Flight Engineer) should handle the ‘throttles’ is a very old British anachronism that was, thank goodness, given up when the VC10 stopped being a civil airliner. It was literally a hangover from maritime practise, when the bridge would ask the engine room for more or less power. I watched it, aghast, on 10 Sqn’s VC10s back in the days when they ruled the Empire routes and you had to be a Squadron Leader to even look at one. Twats.

[SteveC]

And now we have Storm Franklin arriving...

[quixoticgeek]

Another day, another storm.

Can we have spring please?


Last weekend I sat on this bench with friends, enjoying the sunshine:

https://twitter.com/hildedejong/status/1495061089561817100

J

[Mr Larrington]

@TimC: out of curiosity, what did flight engineers do on FOREIGN airlines back in the Olden Days?

[quixoticgeek]

@TimC: out of curiosity, what did flight engineers do on FOREIGN airlines back in the Olden Days?

Foreign things...

J

[Mr Larrington]

Origami?  Bullfighting?  Applying the word “gravy” to substances that are manifestly Not Gravy?  We need specifics!

[FifeingEejit]

Having watched the engine room of PS waverly in operation how in fuck did that work in something as dynamic as a plane?

Which reminds me to check the maib to see if they've reported on that cock up at Brodick yet

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[TimC]

@TimC: out of curiosity, what did flight engineers do on FOREIGN airlines back in the Olden Days?

Bowed and scraped to BRITONS' aircraft passing, of course.

[TimC]

Having watched the engine room of PS waverly in operation how in fuck did that work in something as dynamic as a plane?

Very simple:

Pilot to Flight Engineer, "80% power please"

FE, " Yes, sir"

Pilot, "85% please, Eng"

FE, "85%, sir"

Pilot, "95% Eng. Lickety-split, old chap"

FE, "I have more, sir, if you need it..."

Pilot, "Um, everything you've got. Yesterday, if.... Oh. We appear to be down."

FE, "Finished with engines, sir?"

This image shows the VC10 Flight Engineer's panel, with his thrust levers lower left:

[Mr Larrington]

@TimC: out of curiosity, what did flight engineers do on FOREIGN airlines back in the Olden Days?

Bowed and scraped to BRITONS' aircraft passing, of course.

Of course   How foolish of me to overlook this vital function!  I presume Brexit has scuppered the practice and now they just point and laugh instead?

It’s getting pretty wind-noisy in darkest E17, and I hope it buggers off before this time tomorrow coz I don’t relish the prospect of riding a laden Perfectly Good Gentleman’s Mountain Bicycle back from the Shoppes both uphill and into the teeth of a Mighty Rushing Wind.

[FifeingEejit]

It's the though, speak, react delay I was thinking about.

P: Throttle down please
FE: yes sir, sir yes
P: we could alnd so much better and safer if there wasn't this 5 second delay

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[TimC]

It's the though, speak, react delay I was thinking about.

P: Throttle down please
FE: yes sir, sir yes
P: we could alnd so much better and safer if there wasn't this 5 second delay

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Quite.

[FifeingEejit]

Aforementioned Maib interim report seems to indicate engine room delay on going astern to slow the approach.


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[Cudzoziemiec]

https://twitter.com/hildedejong/status/1495061089561817100

J

Very good.  Every storm has a silver slider and all that.

[Cudzoziemiec]

As our bin collections were postponed from Friday to Monday by Eunice, I've put the recycling out. Probably somewhat optimistically as this new storm Franklin is stronger (on our street, probably due to direction of wind, shape of hill, etc) than Eunice was.