Burning fuel....

 

Found the culprit

 

Sorry to labour this one but I had not even considered detonation cord risk , This reaction vid is worth a watch - also for the comments at the end about the current Reds media situation..

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One of the fun parts of my job…flying with dudes from other branches of the military. Today, I’m flying with a retired USMC A-6 / F/A-18 driver…so I ask, “Why do you have The Grinch in your uniform hat?” He responds, “It was my call sign in the USMC…probably because I hate everybody.” So I say, “Well…you should wake up 15 minutes earlier than usual tomorrow just so you can hate me more…because I’m one of those bastard child USN SH-60B rotorheads.”

BONUS: Here’s a pic of the inside of The Grinch’s uniform hat…and his Breitling Headwind automatic…

 

Neat callsign, wonder if the pilot is a spaceflight fan.

 

Did you float test it?

While on the boat during deployment, some busted stuff would get float tested…throw it overboard and see if it floats.

 

I believe callsigns are assigned, often indicating the task (or mis-indicating sometimes), not chosen by the crew.

Could be apocryphal but I read that a military pilot had to report to Mill ATC that he had forgotten his callsign. Response was "Adopt callsign STUPID1".

Ah yes, here we go..... https://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-48116-p-2.html

 

I'd like to perform a C4 check on it but they want me to send it back to Mx Ctrl...sigh*

 

So this is day five flying with The Grinch…and look what he does…he whips out another Breitling and a Glycine. WTFO?!?!?

 

Man, that Glycine has been on my list for a while...idk how much longer I can stave off the itch

 

Side note, got to go for a quick ride in the back today

 

Rather surprised this 747 continued on its journey - Maybe they wre unaware of the damage? Lucky nobody got hit on the ground in Belgium.

Couple shocked as 747 plane engine falls through shed roof (msn.com)

 

Seems it was part of the cowling. It's not an uncommon occurrence for them to come loose, perhaps less to detach completely. So provided the engine temps are OK why not carry on? As this was a freight operation I suppose they'd want to retrieve the cowling, knock out the dents and refit later

 

There are no indications of a cowling separating in the cockpit and as you said because its a freighter (no windows) it would be quite difficult to spot it especially as its a core cowl section. Another 747 last year blew the LPT climbing out of Maastricht. There are some photos of the liberated turbine blades stuck in car roofs. Our 747 fleet is about to pass through 30 years as an average age and the manual we use the most is the MEL

 

Especially on the A320 series, was quite a regular occurrence, and still happens, last one was about a week ago I think.
One of the pax filmed the inner fan cowl beat itself to death before departing the aircraft.

 

There is really no excuse for this anymore. They performed a fail safe modification where you have a key with a flag to lock the latches and still Murphy gets around it. The problem is the line tech and copilot rarely get right under the cowl to give the latch a bang to test if locked or not. The issue is so bad that the new A320NEO has a flag protruding from the cowling if the latches are in the unlatched position.

https://safetyfirst.airbus.com/preventing-fan-cowl-door-loss/

 

A rare photo of a wild Vulcan in its natural environment..... result of an air speed indicator failure yesterday (photo from the interweb)
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Discussed in detail here: https://www.pprune.org/aviation-his...d-escape-wellesbourne-16th-sept-2022-a-2.html

And, while I think of it, is anyone else a Pprune member? I'm counting 20 years in a couple of months time. One of the then mods saw me reading as a guest at work and encouraged me to join although I was flying a desk and the occasional glider.

 

Wow, close one!!

 

I am a member of PPRUNE quite a while, not a 20 stretch like you but long enough. I rarely post anything as I find the engineering section limited to say the least. Jet Blast is my go to thread as its an eclectic mix of my kind of banter and my all time favourite thread on PPRUNE was - You know you are flying in Africa when...... lots of laugh out loud material there.