Posts Tagged ephemera

a constant c?

It all started with a discussion around the tea-table a few days ago, about the fact that a lightyear is a measurement of distance and not of time, because a light year is the distance travelled by a photon over the period of a year. (d=s*t for those who like the maths, or the area [...]

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Airbus safety record during testing

Following on from information about a wrecked A340-600 for Etihad during engine tests on Thursday 15th November, with follow-on information indicating that Airbus may have failed to follow it’s own procedures, leading to several injured in the resultant crash against the engine test-pen walls.
Today we hear of an issue with de-pressurisation on a pre-delivery test [...]

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