PING: Bertie - New Aviation Discovery

In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...markets22.html

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy

buttman wrote:

Aratzio wrote:
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...s-oil-markets-...

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy

She is referring to volcanic ash.

Damn, and I was hoping for a more entertaining reply !

Graham

"buttman" wrote in message
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On Aug 11, 3:00 pm, Aratzio wrote:
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...s-oil-markets-...

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy

She is referring to volcanic ash.

Somewhat related ----- I got into the habit of checking this site regularly:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
(OK OK -- my existence is getting a little boring.:-) and I've noticed that
the Aleutian Island arc has been getting more and more seismically active
during the past week or so. Especially around Adak. Usually this map shows
a total of around 200 quakes during a 1 week period. It's been hovering
around 400 lately with the Aleutian area, with the arc extending into the
mainland, accounting for more than 250 of these now. Major event coming?
....or maybe all the activity is relieving pressure on the area keeping a
major one from occuring.? I know that the second largest recorded
earthquake was at Prince William Sound.

TP

Eeyore wrote in
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buttman wrote:

Aratzio wrote:
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska
Airlines spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid
them because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly)
attached to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane
engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...es-oil-markets
-...

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy

She is referring to volcanic ash.

Damn, and I was hoping for a more entertaining reply !

Of course you were, planespotter.


Bertie

buttman wrote in news:35875056-c4d9-4b6b-a4fa-
:

On Aug 11, 3:00*pm, Aratzio wrote:
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...s-oil-markets-...

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy

She is referring to volcanic ash.

And that's less dangerous, how wannabe boi?

Bertie

"Aratzio" wrote in message
...
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...markets22.html

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy


There was an episode of "Seconds to Disaster" (if I recall correctly) that
had the story of a jet flying through volcanic ash, the plane glowed a weird
color with St Elmo's Fire, the engines shot flames out and eventually quit,
the wind screen became opaque, it was a helluva story. They finally got out
of it and landed safely, the engines refired after they got out of the plume
and the windscreen had a really small area the pilot could still see out of
to land from! The flight was from Italy or Greece or something, I have
forgotten where.

Darkwing wrote:
"Aratzio" wrote in message
...
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...markets22.html

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy


There was an episode of "Seconds to Disaster" (if I recall correctly) that
had the story of a jet flying through volcanic ash, the plane glowed a weird
color with St Elmo's Fire, the engines shot flames out and eventually quit,
the wind screen became opaque, it was a helluva story. They finally got out
of it and landed safely, the engines refired after they got out of the plume
and the windscreen had a really small area the pilot could still see out of
to land from! The flight was from Italy or Greece or something, I have
forgotten where.





I once dove a fighter through a simple rainstorm. It stripped the paint
off the airplane :-)
Volcanic ash would play havoc with an engine (not to mention the paint
job :-))

--
Dudley Henriques

I flew a T Bird thru hail at 35,000 ft plus. Dented the scoops,
leading edges of wings and horizontal and vertical stabilizers. Also
wiped all the navigation lights off. No engine damage.

Sounded like a buzz saw for just s few seconds.

Big John
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:09:44 -0400, "Darkwing"
theducksmail"AT"yahoo.com wrote:


"Aratzio" wrote in message
.. .
In an amazing overstatement of the incredibly obvious, Alaska Airlines
spokeswoman Mariann Lindsey has stated:

"The state of Alaska has many active volcanoes, we try to avoid them
because they affect airplane engines"

Yes, folks, large pieces of rock firmly (and not so firmly) attached
to earth are considered a bad thing for an airplane engine.

No word was given on how passengers or the rest of the aircraft are
affected by volcanoes.

http://www.forbes.com/markets/2008/0...markets22.html

or

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6gp4zy


There was an episode of "Seconds to Disaster" (if I recall correctly) that
had the story of a jet flying through volcanic ash, the plane glowed a weird
color with St Elmo's Fire, the engines shot flames out and eventually quit,
the wind screen became opaque, it was a helluva story. They finally got out
of it and landed safely, the engines refired after they got out of the plume
and the windscreen had a really small area the pilot could still see out of
to land from! The flight was from Italy or Greece or something, I have
forgotten where.

On Aug 13, 3:44*am, Tech Support wrote:
I flew a T Bird thru hail at 35,000 ft plus. Dented the scoops,
leading edges of wings and horizontal and vertical stabilizers. *Also
wiped all the navigation lights off. No engine damage.


I flew a 172 though an intense rain cloudburst and washed all the dead
insects off and you know how well they stick!

Cheers

Tech Support wrote in message
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I flew a T Bird thru hail at 35,000 ft plus. Dented the scoops,
leading edges of wings and horizontal and vertical stabilizers. Also
wiped all the navigation lights off. No engine damage.

Sounded like a buzz saw for just s few seconds.


Every time I get to thinking I'm an airman, you post one of these stories
and make me feel like a wussie.

Thanks a lot, Big John. ;^)