RustyKnight In: Newton Aycliffe
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To be honest though BG if you look at the satellite images it was more like a puff of smoke coming from the volcano and by the time it gets over here there's probably one part volcano in 10 billion so a bit of health & safety gone crazy me thinks!
I'm glad i'm not living too close to the airport here or it would be closed permanently with the clouds coming from my house
it indeed is bad for planes! Even just a small concentration can have drastic consequencies.
It's like fine sandpaper in the air, and when a plane is moving at 700 km/h it can do a lot of damage (maybe a small concentration wont stop an engine - but it could do, and it definitely will ruin the paintwork)
RustyKnight In: Newton Aycliffe
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Well if there's a chance of chafed paintwork then thats more than enough to ruin the plans for tens of thousands of people!
Eltel a girl I know was meant to be flying from Leeds today and they've told her she should be out on a flight tomorrow lunchtime so the delay shouldn't be too bad hopefully!
bluesbiker In: Birmingham in th
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As an airframe engineer i can tell you that it's nasty stuff. It's highly corrosive to an aircraft structure. the ash is so fine it gets into the cooling holes in the turbine blade which then over heat annd knacker the engine with disasterous consequences.
Try putting a teaspoonful of 000-grade grit into your engine oil and see what happens. Then imagine it at 500-odd knots and 30,000 feet up with 400 passengers on board.
As long as they are flying again by 17th December I dont care wot the planes do... and if all else fails I can always ride over to Greece for Christmas (although with my navigation skills I would need to leave a week on Saturday) hmmm
BB said
As an airframe engineer i can tell you that it's nasty stuff. It's highly corrosive to an aircraft structure. the ash is so fine it gets into the cooling holes in the turbine blade which then over heat annd knacker the engine with disasterous consequences
Agree there mate.... As an aircraft engine technician working for the same company I can say that what blues says is no understatement.... fly through that and you could kiss yer ass goodbye..
As Im quite attached to my ass I think a few extra days in the sun are called for till it all blows over (literally)
Im sure if the airlines could get planes up they would as it must be costing them a fortune
i am well miffed about this..my mother in law is due to fly out to miami this eve to meet up with a cruise ship and spend a month away...she might not be goin now
sods law as i was lookin forward to not seein the old crow for a month lol
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