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Top Personalized Gifts for February are Custom Model Planes
The beginning of 2011 was a great way for Warplanes, being under new management, to appreciate loyal and new customers by having a big sale on many selected airplane models. And as we go to the second month of 2011, Warplanes decided to offer another incredible deal to our fellow aviation junkies! We are slashing $200 off on any personalized model plane you want to purchase! You can now buy custom model planes priced $199 each.
Many holidays are celebrated in February. The most popular one is Valentine's Day! Flowers, chocolates, and greeting cards are so cliché so why not gift custom airplane models to your loved ones? It won't be just any other model plane since it will be customized to fit your personal preference. Some custom models are the Custom Gulfstream G-200 Model, Custom Lear 31 Model, and the Custom Beech BE 33 Debonair Model. Such an ideal gift for any aircraft enthusiast, wartime devotees, and model hobbyists whether young or old!
February is known to be Black or African-American History Month. This was started by Carter G. Woodson in 1926 as Negro History Week. And this is such a perfect time to maybe give out personalized airplane models to African-American friends or family members. One perfect model for such an occasion is personalizing the P-51 Mustang Tuskegee Model Airplane to your preferred specifications just like the Custom North American P-51D Model. The Tuskegee Airmen is the popular name of the group of African-American pilots who flew with distinction during World War II as the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps.
Also in February is President's Day or Washington's Birthday. Other than honoring the accomplishments of the man known as "The Father of his Country," the holiday is also a tribute to the general who created the first military badge of merit for the common soldier. Revived on Washington's 200th birthday in 1932, the Purple Heart medal is awarded to soldiers who are injured in battle. As with Memorial Day and Veterans Day, Washington's Birthday offers another opportunity to honor the country's veterans. This is an ideal event for people to show appreciation to dear veterans through giving remarkable custom model planes like the Custom Hughes OH-6A Model, Custom Boeing B-17G Model, Custom Harvard MK IV Model, and many more!
Order now and be amazed by Warplanes' flawless custom models!
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Southwest Airlines Grounding Flights After Gap Rips In Plane
The recent incident in mid-air aboard a Southwest Airlines flight is causing the air carrier to keep some of its planes on the ground. Problems with the aircraft that are not always easy to discover brought on a gap to open in the fuselage of a Southwest Airlines airplane just after takeoff on April 1. Luckily, no one was seriously hurt. The airline is grounding countless flights and carrying out inspections.
Landing for emergency means inspections galore
A five by one foot hole was ripped in a Southwest Airlines plane on Flight 812 near the cockpit on Friday, April 1, states USA Today. This was a flight going from Phoenix to Sacramento. Nobody was hurt in this flight that made an emergency landing near Yuma, AZ at a military base. Stress fractures in the aluminum “skin” of the plane were where the tear happened, which the aircraft got from normal wear and tear. Southwest claims that a seam opening up in the skin of an airplane is a very rare occurrence, according to Reuters, and a National Transportation Security Board spokesperson confirmed the airplane had undergone heavy inspection in March of 2010.
Countless aircrafts grounded
The couple of days after the incident, Southwest grounded 600 aircrafts. Monday, April 4, another 100 airplanes were anticipated to be stalled. Model aircrafts like this were inspected by the airline. This was to see if there were comparable cracks in any of them. This airplane was a Boeing 737-300. There are 171 of them owned by Southwest. Southwest is inspecting at least 79 of the 737-300s in its fleet, which is composed of Boeing 737 variants. The 737, according to Bloomberg, is the world's best selling airliner of all time. More takeoffs and landings are required for Southwest planes because of the short flights which can be more stressful on a plane. The small cracks that led to the hole being ripped in Flight 812 were about a quarter of an inch long and are difficult to detect unless an inspector is looking for them specifically.
Cost of travel going up every single day
Once a year, planes have an in depth inspection while being regularly inspected. Aircraft expiration dates are being considered by the Federal Aviation Administration though. Take-offs and landings could be very hard on an aircraft. Nevertheless, it is easier than paying $30 million to replace it. Regular airplane purchase could really hurt airlines. It might become even more expensive to purchase airplane tickets.
Information from
USA Today
usatoday.com/money/industries/travel/2011-04-03-Southwest-jet_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Reuters
reuters.com/article/2011/04/04/airlines-southwest-idUSN0320240220110404
Bloomberg
bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-03/southwest-737-jet-showed-previous-cracking-near-tear-ntsb-says.html
on a commercial airplane would it be possible to somehow break open a passenger window and crash the plane?
i had an argument that it would be possible to kick open an airplane window or break it open somehow and he said its impossible because the plane would crash and have no stability. i said only cabin pressure would be lost and the oxygen masks would come down so the people dont suffocate, but other then that the plane would continue on normally.
Funny you should ask.
Once upon a time, I was working the part-out of an old 727, removing the landing gears. We were off on a remote part of the field, and we needed to get a forklift. So the lead on the crew I was working on went off to get one, leaving the rest of us to just stand around and wait.
The company we were parting the airplane out for didn't want the cabin windows; the market was already flooded with them and they weren't worth much anyway. Two of the other guys on the crew got into an argument over the same exact question. Since there was nothing much better to do, they decided to resolve the question.
So, one guy went up in the cabin and out the emergency exit on to the wing, with a 3-lb sledgehammer (one of the short-handled ones). So he begins pounding on one of the cabin windows, really wailing away on it. After about 3 or 4 minutes, he gives up. The window is all beat up, distorted and scratched, but still in place. We pass him a crowbar, and he beats on it for a while with that. Finally, the window begins to bend, and finally pops out.
Now--as far as being able to crash the airplane because someone kicked out a window (which in and of itself would not be possible, unless you were either by yourself in the cabin or the rest of the passengers were too stupid to do something about you trying to kick out a window). No, you could cause a decompression--letting the pressurized air out, which in turn would cause the oxygen masks in the cabin to deploy like you mentioned.
While it's nice that they let the passengers suck on oxygen if there's a decompression, the ones to really worry about are the flight crew. Their oxygen system REALLY has to work; if it doesn't, it won't matter if the passenger system does or not. That's what happened to Payne Stewart and everyone else on board his airplane a few years back.
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