#why planes crash

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JESSICA DUBROFF

1988-1996

            Jessica Dubroff, 7, was an American trainee pilot who died attempting to be the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across America. On the tragic day, she was accompanied with her flight instructor, Joe Reid and her father Lloyd Dubroff.

            Jessica was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, US and moved to San Francisco. She grew up not owning toys, not permitted to watch TV and didn’t enrol in a school. She started taking flight lessons from Reid on her 6th birthday and was an enthusiast. She had over 33 hours flight training, and even though the media labelled Jessica a pilot, she wasn’t legally to be a pilot due to her age, the minimum age requeirement is 17. Whilst on flights, Reid had to be on the controls during flights in a dual yoke flight arrangement. She and Reid would be on the controls at the front and her father Lloyd at the back.

            The trio arranged a "Sea to Shining Sea" flight which was promoted as a bogus ‘record attempt’ due to her young age. Reid considered the flight as simply flying with a child sitting next to him and her parents paying for it. The flight sparked a lot of media coverage and Jessica became an instant celebrity.

            On 11 April 1996 they had knowledge of the forecast weather conditions in Cheyenne Regional Airport. As they were boarding their plane as it was raining but her father stated that they could ‘beat the storm’ which was approaching. Despite the conditions becoming worse, Reid decided to go ahead with the flight and took off at 8:24am despite reduced visibility. The plane lifted off, climbed slowly and was wobbly, the plane then fell rapidly crashing onto a road in a neighbourhood in front of somebodys home. The three were killed instantly.

            The crash was caused by Reid’s decision to take off in poor weather conditions, overloaded aircraft and it wasn’t able to maintain airspeed. Reid was sitting on the right, however, the main control instruments were on the left in front of Jessica. Investigators believe they went through with the flight due to ambition and media commitments.

            The incident featured on TV series Why Planes Crash.

#jessicadubroff #whyplanescrash

[roseworth]

ok now im gonna get into it. i really believe that the original plan for gotham war was that jason was gonna die. like honestly it would make a lot more sense than what actually happened

basically jason cant join the fight because of the fear adrenaline thing. so hes sitting around doing nothing, hears about the meteor so he takes the batwing and flies it into the meteor

and the page after this is an explosion. and i mean. the shit theyre saying is absolutely him talking like hes about to die. this is completely him believing that hes going to die after he does this. and bruce is talking to him like hes about to die too

we see him two more times after this:

and thats it. we see him seeing the explosion safely from a parachute, then we see him comforting bruce after selina's death. neither of these have any significant affect on the plot or character arcs. not to mention the fact that nothing with jason actually got resolved! he still has the drug boosting his fear response!

THEN. the only time jason is mentioned after this is here

this feels a little like "i wanted jason to have a peaceful life and now hes dead" i could just be making that up or reading things that arent there but like... it makes sense to me

like am i crazy or does it really seem like they were planning on killing him

[ranticore]

Unreleased Setting Friday

ages ago i posted One picture of Limes, my alien character, on main without context. Limes comes from a sci-fi setting I was messing with for a while in early 2023/late 2022

They are photosynthetic "mimic" aliens who change shape from a base body plan over only a few generations to match the organisms around them - it was originally based off of that plant that "sees" its immediate neighbours and grows similar leaves to blend in :) limes was born in the Amazon to a small established group of its species that had mostly mimicked new world monkeys and margays

the panels on its back are photosynthetic. the body lacks bones and is operated by a hydrostatic system, with the tail in particular being straight and rodlike by default until warped by hydraulics into a prehensile structure.

These are really old designs now and the top image is actually the most recent hehe

Anyway there's a whole near-future story about the earth-born aliens and humans cooperating to fend off attacks from another faction of the same alien species who are raiding human technology for their power sources and essentially, basically, the entire setup is JUST to justify the presence of living aeroplanes :) as livestock guardian animals who accompany regular air freight and defend them from attacks. The story is about Limes, an engineer of the biomechs, working with a human biologist/behaviourist whose job is to train the livestock guardians to guard the freight.

[ahalliance]

what if qantoine was like . on the island originally. before even the fed came along . the temple being really old and mossy seems to point to some ancient origins . and the comic relates how the people who would eventually become the federation got to the island and maybe struck a deal with him to be allowed to set up camp there? and so he’s the figure in the sixth panel

[ducktracy]

i've gone on an hours long bender consisting of ogling at every balloon flown in the Macy's Parade and need everyone to look at this 1938 photograph of the Ferdinand the Bull balloon. doesn't it make you so at ease.

[thatonebirdwrites]

Invention Fail

Korra: *throws a ball for Naga with a burst of airbending. Naga chases after it eagerly* Korra: I wonder where Asami is? *A crash comes from the side of the mansion, and a wall blows outward in a blast of electricity*

Korra: *ducks* WOAH. *Runs toward it* ASAMI! *Asami staggers out with her hair frizzed, and her hands on her hips.* Asami: Dammit, I thought I had it this time. Korra: *crashes into her* What happened? Are you okay? Hold on, let me get some water... Asami: *turns and kisses Korra on the cheek* I'm fine, Korra. I... simply miscalculated, that's all. *sighs* Will have to rerun the equations and account for... that unfortunate side effect. Korra: Wait, wait. Math causes explosions? *eyes widen* woah, maybe I should learn math after all.

[babisawyer]

Jackie realizing she’s gonna have to take care of shauna and jeff’s ghost baby

[graveyard-society]

so this is basically what happened in that one episode of the anime right

[thatlittledandere]

[quietwingsinthesky]

i forgot if i ever sent you this but thoschei song. to me

CORRECT. oh thats a bop.

[intriguingpeoplebyangelafloyd]

JESSICA DUBROFF

JESSICA DUBROFF

1988-1996

            Jessica Dubroff, 7, was an American trainee pilot who died attempting to be the youngest person to fly a light aircraft across America. On the tragic day, she was accompanied with her flight instructor, Joe Reid and her father Lloyd Dubroff.

            Jessica was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, US and moved to San Francisco. She grew up not owning toys, not permitted to watch TV and didn’t enrol in a school. She started taking flight lessons from Reid on her 6th birthday and was an enthusiast. She had over 33 hours flight training, and even though the media labelled Jessica a pilot, she wasn’t legally to be a pilot due to her age, the minimum age requeirement is 17. Whilst on flights, Reid had to be on the controls during flights in a dual yoke flight arrangement. She and Reid would be on the controls at the front and her father Lloyd at the back.

            The trio arranged a "Sea to Shining Sea" flight which was promoted as a bogus ‘record attempt’ due to her young age. Reid considered the flight as simply flying with a child sitting next to him and her parents paying for it. The flight sparked a lot of media coverage and Jessica became an instant celebrity.

            On 11 April 1996 they had knowledge of the forecast weather conditions in Cheyenne Regional Airport. As they were boarding their plane as it was raining but her father stated that they could ‘beat the storm’ which was approaching. Despite the conditions becoming worse, Reid decided to go ahead with the flight and took off at 8:24am despite reduced visibility. The plane lifted off, climbed slowly and was wobbly, the plane then fell rapidly crashing onto a road in a neighbourhood in front of somebodys home. The three were killed instantly.

            The crash was caused by Reid’s decision to take off in poor weather conditions, overloaded aircraft and it wasn’t able to maintain airspeed. Reid was sitting on the right, however, the main control instruments were on the left in front of Jessica. Investigators believe they went through with the flight due to ambition and media commitments.

            The incident featured on TV series Why Planes Crash.

#jessicadubroff #whyplanescrash

[ohello0]

What are Boeing putting their planes together with?? Rubber bands and peanut butter? Hopes and dreams? Hot glue and masking tape?

Not sure what to do with myself knowing they spent time and resources assassinating a whistleblower instead of just like,,,, fixing their planes

[elfqueen006]

Another day, another job hunt. My long fics got my hanging on by a thread, and they gonna be hard as shit to write.

[ahalliance]

this bit from baghs’ lore is haunting me . a blackboard with all the francophones’ initals . were all of them originally island experiments that managed to escape like qbaghs?

[erinthesails]

Hmmm yellowjackets really felt like it had a grand plan in season 1 but now at the end of season 2 it's becoming really clear they were probably always jj abramsing this shit

[foreignobjecticus]

This was pretty fucking wild. His wing tip must have missed the building by a centimetre, istg. Dude did super fucking well (also it's not a runway he's landing on; it's a taxiway). Looks like he didn't pull up in time tho (fair, he was fucking panicking and didn't even deploy any flaps) so you can see the propeller strike the ground, but it looks like it wasn't even turning before that.

Also super wild that someone caught this footage, hello? Helicopter?