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December 15, 2021

30 Years Ago A Boeing 747 Flew Supersonic In A Dive - Simple Flying

The story begins on an Evergreen International Airlines Boeing 747-100, registered N475EV. The aircraft had recently been converted to a freighter for the use of charter operator Evergreen. On 12th December 1991, the plane was flying from Newark to Tokyo, with a stop in Anchorage, when the crew noticed a failure warning on the inertial navigation system (INS).

The flight was carrying six crew and cruising at 31,000ft over the province of Ontario. Upon noticing the INS warning, the crew rechecked their instruments and noticed a shocking change. The 747 had banked 90 degrees to the right and was descending at an angle of 30-35 degrees.

This uncontrolled descent caused the aircraft to accelerate rapidly and fall over 10,000 feet before the pilots could regain control. The 747 stabilized at 22,500ft before the crew landed safely in Duluth, Minnesota.

All eyes were on what caused the 747 to act this way. The answer was a 3x15ft hole in the forward section of the right-wing. The panels from the gaping hole caused damage to the flaps and the horizontal tail sections. However, it was unclear if the hole was a result of, or cause of, the 747s rapid descent.

The result of this rapid descent was the 747-100 exceeding its maximum speed limit of Mach 0.92. Official reports suggest the aircraft reached at least 0.98 Mach during its descent. However, some reports indicate the plane reached speeds as high as Mach 1.25, well beyond the supersonic limit.

While the NTSB initially did not confirm speeds higher than 0.92, Boeing has made statements to the effect in the past. In the Chicago Times in 1992, a spokesperson said,

“Original flight tests of 747s conducted in 1969 and 1970 took 747-100 models to speeds of Mach 0.99. In addition, Boeing knows one case in which a 747 operated by Evergreen International made an emergency descent at speeds that exceeded Mach 1.”

Bahmni Wiki - Confluence

Bahmni is an easy to use, complete, open source Hospital Information System (HIS) and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) that aims to meet the needs of low resource environments by leveraging a tapestry of existing open source products. Bahmni is an OpenMRS Distro. Website: http://www.bahmni.org

Who Was Rowland Brown And What Was His Connection To The Boeing 747? - Simple Flying

Clive Irving highlights in an article on HistoryNet that Brown, head of the program’s configuration group, solved both of these issues seamlessly for Sutter. He looked at dozens of configurations before placing two standard cargo pallets side by side and drew a circle around them. This move created a vast cargo hold and a main deck just under 20 feet in width. Additionally, to solve the evacuation issue, he drew two aisles. These simple but effective moves pushed the direction of the cabin in the right direction, assisting the birth of the commercial widebody.

What Hollywood Should Learn After Netflix's 'Cowboy Bebop' Was Canceled After Only Three Weeks – RedState

A studio’s first concern when bringing something from the past into the present is to listen to what the fans have to say about it. They won’t please everyone, but it’ll at least give them a very good starting point to build off from. These are the people who know this property better than anyone else. You don’t go jumping out of planes without experts first showing you the ins and outs, and you don’t recreate properties without the experts doing the same.

Calling fans “toxic” or other deriding labels is a surefire way to have your recreation live in infamy and eventually forgotten. Studios need the fans more than they know. They’re the ones with all the passion for the project.

WH Nailed on Afghanistan Lies as They Flout Law Requiring They Turn Over Info – RedState

H.R. 5305, the Extending Government Funding and Delivering Emergency Assistance Act , requires that the DHS secretary submit a written report 60 days after the enacted date that breaks down how many Afghans are in the country. The breakdown must include how many evacuees are at U.S. overseas bases or nonmilitary holding areas abroad, as well as the number of lawful permanent residents, SIV holders, SIV applicants, nonimmigrant visa holders, and refugee referrals.

The Biden team blew all that off. So one has to ask: why? They have lied from the outset about the people that they evacuated, and they continue to try to obscure the nature of the people they evacuated.

According to reports, Biden himself ordered them to evacuate “Afghans at risk” and “Families with women and children” — people who didn’t even have to have helped the U.S. or who hadn’t been previously vetted — to fill up the planes. The Congressional requirement would make them have to explain all that and how many were security concerns.

The curious case of a map and a disappearing Taiwan minister at U.S. democracy summit | Reuters

WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A video feed of a Taiwanese minister was cut during U.S. President Joe Biden's Summit for Democracy last week after a map in her slide presentation showed Taiwan in a different color to China, which claims the island as its own.

Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that Friday's slide show by Taiwanese Digital Minister Audrey Tang caused consternation among U.S. officials after the map appeared in her video feed for about a minute.

Biden 'Democracy Summit' Went All Kinds of Wrong After Disastrous Taiwan Insult – RedState

Peznt Journalist
@PezntJournalist
Irony @ The Summit for Democracy 12/10

  1. Taiwan minister's map shows Taiwan separate from China
  2. Video feed is cut when it comes back to her
  3. "Any opinions expressed by individuals on this panel are those of the individual, and do not necessarily reflect the views US gov't"

2:38 PM · Dec 13, 2021 //

Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
The Chinese Communist Party no longer needs to censor our friend Taiwan.

Why?

The Biden admin does it for them. 🤡🤡🤡
Michael Sobolik
@michaelsobolik
WHAT?

The White House cut the video feed of Taiwan’s Digital Minister during the Summit of Democracies.

Why?

Because Audrey Tang’s slide show displayed 🇹🇼 in a different color than 🇨🇳

This is insane. https://reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/curious-case-map-disappearing-taiwan-minister-us-democracy-summit-2021-12-12/
9:13 PM · Dec 12, 2021

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