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Wednesday, June 07, 2006

Fun with Disks

Quote from a big red friend.

This is why I don't like sitting next to the engine when I fly. The disk broke out of its own engine, went through the bottom of the fuselage, and almost went completely through the engine on the other wing. This happened during a ground test a short while after the passengers disembarked from a JFK to LAX flight. Thankfully, no one was hurt and it was a GE engine

At 1230 PM, Friday, June 2, 2006 at LAX. American Airlines Boeing 767 doing a high power engine run had a #1 engine HPT failure. HPT let go and punctured left wing, #2 engine, peppered fuselage and set fire to the aircraft. The turbine disk exits the engine and slices through the aircraft belly and lodges in the outboard side of the #2 engine.

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

Hiking Posts

http://www.nynjtc.org/trails/no-car.html

Friday, March 31, 2006

Interpretive Posting

Let me interpret a polite response to an internet exchange about a planned dinner get-together on the upper east side near our friend.

Saigon Grill is pretty good I Like it. It's very low key But Dave probably wont like it and no frills Dave definitely wont like it, but the food is good.

I'm up for anything, and honestly, I don't mind traveling(thanks, though, Em).
The upper east side is a giant pit of blandness in the varied metropolis of NYC. Any chance to leave this culturally barren land, however trivial and unreasonably cumbersome, will be seized upon to flee before the vacuum of suckiness which is the UES implodes upon itself.

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Negin Party and Boat Party

Ebi and I made an awesome S.O.A.P. Theme T shirt, which we havent photographed. And the Boat party went Swimmingly Too. Here is an awesomely BAD Photo of Junior and a much better one of Me and RK -- at least its better of her. Hopefully I will get some more photos soon and expound on what we did.