Jar Design A320 Crack Cocaine
Siri Vonbank
The captain of TransColorado Flight 2286 was the victim of a Uriah Gambit.The captain's fiance got him on cocaine as part of a scheme to collect his life insurance money so she could keep getting cocaine. She befriended him while he was a pilot so that his cocaine use would go unnoticed by the company's drug tests, allowing him to fly even after using cocaine. When his cocaine usage led to him being killed in a crash, she would collect his insurance money, and no one would think she had anything to do with it as long as she didn't tell anyone. But unfortunately for her, keeping the secret proved too much for her, and she became compelled to talk about it. Every fatal accident involving the Airbus A320 and every aircraft with its cockpit technology happened the way they did because of the way that Air France 296's investigation panned out.Airbus knew that there was a major problem in the way the A320 was designed in terms of allowing pilot inputs to be overruled by the flight computer. With the flaw in this design philosophy exposed in the crash of AF296, Airbus was faced with the prospect of having to redesign the aircraft from the ground up. Not wanting to go through with this, the investigators (affiliated with Air France) altered the black boxes to pin the blame entirely on the captain. So far, every crash of an A320 (or any aircraft with a similar cockpit design) with fatalities and accidental causes has either a cause and/or a contributing factor that can be attributed to the design of the aircraft's automation, which went largely unchanged since AF296.
- "Every Crash"? What about Gulf Air Flight 72? Or Armavia Fligh 967? Or Airblue Flight 202? Or Germanwings Flight 9525? Or Metrojet Flight 9268? Or EgyptAir Flight 804? Or Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771? All of those accidents could have easily taken place on any other airplane model.
- If I had said "every crash", that would've included the ones with deliberate causes. If the word "fatal" had been omitted, that would've included crashes where everyone survived.
- OK then, how do you explain Gulf Air, Armavia, and Airblue?
- So if TWA 800 was caused by one person dividing by zero, how many did so for MH 370 to disappear?
Smaller General Aviation aircraft do not have lavatories, this depends on aircraft size and purpose. The average Cessna will not have lavatories either, pilots have to plan their stops properly or rely on accessory such as the TravelJohn. Larger General Aviation aircraft such as smaller jets and aircraft designed for more than 4 passengers are more likely to have lavatories on board.
In modern airliners,the toilet seat sits directly on the holding tank It is covered by a shroud. Imagine a tank sitting on the floor of the bathroom and the shroud around it. That is the size of the tank. About the size of a large fishing cooler.The tank holds a mixture including formaldehyde. A contained pump with a screen continually recycles the fluid over and over.. The inlet has a screen in it to keep most of the solids out, the pump macerates any leftovers.
The tanks are evacuated and filled through plumbing that leads to ports on the aircraft exterior skin. The unit is modular and when empty surprisingly light.
Couple of side notes. When a plane is down and sitting in the sun the smell permeates the whole cabin. The shrouds around the toilet seat becomes extremely nasty yet was a favorite place for smuggling cocaine in the 80's.
On Instagram, Discord, Twitter, Threads and art gallery walls, Anasagasti is known as Ahol Sniffs Glue, a street artist with a two decades-long career who became a local legend by turning trash into art worth picking up.
Anasagasti takes a break from talking about his life, career, ideas and aspirations whenever he spots trash. At the waterfront park, he looks up from the cartoon face he drew on the can. He sees his next canvas bobbing in the water.
The first generation Cuban-American artist was born and raised in Hialeah with his older brother, Felix. His parents divorced when he was young, and his mother worked late shifts to pay the bills. He grew up drawing cartoons with his brother and saving up lunch money to afford CDs, he said. His mother died from breast cancer when he was a teenager.
He drags it out, precariously holding onto a small tree for balance and props it against a pole. Thirty seconds later, a pair of green eyes are sprayed onto the trash. He poses the blue thing just right to get a nice photo with the water in the background.
The rest of the process is like clockwork. Sweat drips from his eyelashes as he focuses on his phone. First, he posts the photo on Discord. The caption is a gift emoji. Then he posts it on Instagram. Gift emoji. Twitter. Gift emoji. And now Threads. Gift emoji.
Before he got sober, Anasagasti said he abused alcohol, cocaine and Xanax. But in 2020, during the height of the pandemic, he was presented with an opportunity. Rapha, a cycling apparel brand, reached out to Anasagasti to collaborate on jersey designs. Out of curiosity, he asked if he could get on a bike. And he was immediately hooked.
A couple years ago, when Miami was in the midst of an NFT craze, he invited Anasagasti to his podcast and later offered him an artist residency at The Incubator. Geographies of Trash developed from there, becoming a powerful movement that democratizes access to art and encourages environmental activism, he said.
This story was produced with financial support from The Prez Family Foundation, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners, as part of an independent journalism fellowship program. The Miami Herald maintains full editorial control of this work.
My daughter Diana and I picked out a Boeing 707 engine inlet at the aircraft boneyard in Tucson and had it shipped back to our home in Massachusetts. We were unable to identify the tail number of the aircraft but believe it was delivered to Qantas Airways in Australia in 1965. It ended its days with Tampa Cargo flying fresh flowers from Columbia to Florida, before being seized for cocaine smuggling:
We left unneeded parts behind in Arizona but it still weighed 365 pounds on the pallet when it arrived at home. I located a scrapped Pratt & Whitney JT3D guide vane disk in Connecticut. It came from MIT's version of the 707 based at Hanscom Field. The disk is a welded titanium structure and weighs 96 pounds. I strapped this to the roof of our SUV and received some interesting looks on the highway driving home:
We had to cut the inlet down to 28 inches fore-to-aft so it will fit through a household door. Diana assisted in drilling out rivets:
This early fanjet engine did not receive sufficient ram air at low speed, so eight spring-loaded cast aluminum doors were installed around the cowling. A great deal of internal structure of the inlet had to be cut away so the guide vane disk would fit inside. It was originally a foot or two aft, at the very front of the engine. With so many compound curves, the carpenter's rule of 'measure twice and cut once' was key. Jigs and fixtures were an important part of the project:
I discovered the miracle of the plasma cutter and don't see how I lived so long without one. It permitted precision metal cutting in tight quarters, without damage to nearby structure - not easy with other tools:
These engines did not produce enough bleed air to pressurize the 707 cabin so turbo-compressors were mounted in 'snouts' on top of three of the four engines. These fairings had to be cut down to proper length and doublers added to beef up the cut edge:
After weeks of work the inlet was brought up from the 'face down' position. Paint had been roughly stripped. When finished, the cowling would hang off the wall as if a jet had just flown into the room. The guide m< disk would sit in back with a simulated fan disk behind that, indirect LED strip lighting would provide a light. A conformal memory foam cushion would be on the bottom of the inlet as well as in the position of the bullet spinner in the center back. A weight reduction program was undertaken to bring the assembly down to 265 pounds empty, with the plan to hang it on the wall using three studs and cleat hangers.
An empty third-car garage served a workshop for this good-sized project:
The next step was producing a simulated first-stage fan including mid-span shroud on fan blades and twist in each blade. This rear view shows a highly modified 18-inch cake pan as fan hub with plasma-cut slots.
The tedious process of cutting, assembling and hand-fitting the fan blades was completed. Now the inlet was flipped over, completely stripped and partly disassembled in preparation for polishing the aluminum. The cast aluminum doors were removed, wet sanded and polished.
Located inside the inlet hub was be the 'brain' of the project - three power supplies to control a blower, vibrator motors and LED lighting. Three radio-controlled lamp dimmers control these.
After months of cutting, disassembly, cleaning and polishing, the pieces were put back together. The blow-in doors with new silicone foam rubber seals were installed with new stainless steel fasteners. Original left and right Pratt and Whitney decals were found on eBay and applied. Sheet metal joints were masked with tape and re-sealed with black silicone caulk.