Re: Refrigerator monitor ideas?

["Robert L Bass" <no-sales-spam@bassburglaralarms>]

"E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:eq4tul$9ea$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> "Robert L Bass" <no-sales-spam@bassburglaralarms> wrote in message news:5NWdnexeNuFi5ljYnZ2dnUVZ_tSunZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> How do they detect wing icing on airplanes?
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>> There's an audible warning device in the cockpit of almost every airplane called a "stall warning."  Of course, by the time that
>> one goes off the icing problem is pretty bad.  :^)
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> Nothign about the stall indicator
> allows it to detect airframe icing...

The comment was facetious.

> In fact, when picking up ice, a mechanical
> stall vane is likely to have ice in it and no
> longer work as intended.

Having never experienced wing ice (a bit of
frost on one night flight was the worst) I'll
take your word for it.  I don't really want to
find that one out for myself though.  :^)

> Loss of function of the stall vane (as well
> as your pitot-statics, of course) is one of
> the concerns.

> I don't know about snap rolling a 737,
> but I do know you can trim them up for inverted flight. Doesn't even require
> full thrust!  This is, of course, assuming
> a certain level of accuracy in MS Flightsim.

I'm sure you also know the only place where
737 pilots are even allowed to fly inverted is
in the simulator.  There's a good reason for
this.  The few times a 737 went inverted
(other than a barrel roll, which is a very
different maneuver that could never be
confused with a snap-roll) the airplane hit
the earth with total loss of life.

Also, due to the probability of hidden stress
damage, there's no way on earth Boeing
would let anyone do what Olson claimed
and then hand the airplane over to a customer
for use.  They're just not that stupid.

Face it, his entire tale was a lie.