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Qantas maintenance fills oxygen tanks with nitrogen {Gadling}
Dec 19th 2007 9:30PM It would help if people who wrote blogs of this sort knew even the tiniest thing about actual aircraft operations. (I'm a pilot.) In the first place, what was being refilled was not the supply for all those passenger oxygen masks that drop out of the overhead if there's an emergency, it was the cockpit-masks source of emergency oxygen.
In the second place, the few aircraft that were affected had their tanks topped up, not refilled. If a crew-supply tank is depleted in any way, even partially, it is replaced, not refilled, with a bottle that has been filled from a secure source, not a rampside cart. Which means that here and there a tank 90 or 95 percent full of oxygen because of inevitable minor leakage was replenished with a bit of nitrogen. The air you and I breathe is already 78 percent nitrogen, so that's not the end of the world, despite what the Melbourne doctor said under the assumption that empty tanks were being refilled with nitrogen.
After all, what does he know? He's an excellent doctor but a lousy airline pilot.
VIDEO: Autoblog shows how to unlock your car with a cell phone {Autoblog}
Jun 1st 2007 2:48PM Even if it did work, what do you do next? Stick the cellphone in the ignition? All you have is a dead but open car.
VIDEO: "Warm Up" Audi's first commercial for the R8 {Autoblog}
Mar 29th 2007 8:51PM Aluminium. Ever heard of potassum? Chromum? Lithum? Helum? Magnesum? Strontum? Unobtanum?
So why should it be pronounced "aluminum"? makes no sense.
NASCAR Scandal! Toyota, Waltrip in shame, fined big time {Autoblog}
Feb 16th 2007 9:05AM "Jet fuel"??? I understand that jets are fast, but they burn, basically, kereosene. What's that going to do for a racecar?
GM caves on robot suicide ad, changes ending {Autoblog}
Feb 9th 2007 9:01PM Why he got fired was the only clear thing about the commercial. He dropped a bolt, at the beginning of the film. I don't agree with the tsuris about suicide and all that, but I did feel it was a stupid, depressing, unconvincing and not-believable spot.
