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Hope all water has been drained from the AX-2s. Otherwise poor management?
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Railjunkie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:06 am Not to be a Debbie Downer but have we all forgotten that it took 14 attempts to get the equipment to pass. Does that not bother anyone?? Is that not like taking a square peg and just hitting it with a bigger hammer until it fits into the round hole.It means that there was a difference from the model to the real thing. They've finally got their model matching reality which means things will go easy smoother from here on out. going from how things should work on paper to how they actually work in real life is an art in and of itself.
Maybe it is just me...
edflyerssn007 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:40 pmYeah sure. Is that why the Boeing Max platform does so well??? Amtrak made "HAL" work because they had to. WAY to much TIME and $$$$$ invested in a train set that has yet to turn a wheel in revenue service.Railjunkie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:06 am Not to be a Debbie Downer but have we all forgotten that it took 14 attempts to get the equipment to pass. Does that not bother anyone?? Is that not like taking a square peg and just hitting it with a bigger hammer until it fits into the round hole.It means that there was a difference from the model to the real thing. They've finally got their model matching reality which means things will go easy smoother from here on out. going from how things should work on paper to how they actually work in real life is an art in and of itself.
Maybe it is just me...
A new Amtrak Acela train is testing in N.J. Are the replacements for 20-year-old trains coming?
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Officials confirmed that one of the 28 new train sets that will replace the current Acela trains — which are more than two decades old — on the Amtrak’s busy Northeast Corridor is on rails for testing without passengers on board.
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Amtrak officials said they still expect to roll out the fleet this year.
On Jan, 15 a new Acela train set was videoed speeding through Princeton Junction in Mercer County on a section of the Northeast Corridor line dubbed the “raceway” where the trains can hit a top speed of 150 mph.
“Alstom and Amtrak have commenced high-speed testing of the new Acela fleet on the Northeast Corridor, allowing Alstom to begin the next step in the safety certification process that leads toward launching revenue service,” said Jason Abrams, an Amtrak spokesperson.
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“There is only one test train — all others are not testing,” he said.
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Railjunkie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:08 am Is that why the Boeing Max platform does so well??? Amtrak made "HAL" work because they had to. WAY to much TIME and $$$$$ invested in a train set that has yet to turn a wheel in revenue service.The Boeing max platform works great. You have three high profile incidents. Two of which were total losses attributable to violation of the cardinal safety rule, " do not leave the terminal with critical safety gear not functioning". One of those planes had been written up for weeks. Those were totally avoidable losses.
.. They would have a hitchhiker in the cockpit, sitting on the jump seat just behind them. He was an off-duty pilot and, according to one Indonesian pilot I spoke to, a 737 Max captain for a Lion Air subsidiary.From GBN, who's about to take his first MAX flight next Saturday (and he is SOOOO worried )
But then there was a change. What had been an information failure suddenly turned into a flight-control one. Soon after the flaps were retracted, the airplane developed a mind of its own and rolled in a fast burst of nose-down trim. Apparently, this caused such a lurch that back in the cabin some passengers started praying. It was just the MCAS kicking in, because the three conditions necessary to trigger it had combined: The flaps were up, the autopilot was off and the captain’s angle-of-attack sensor was showing a stall.....Finally the ghost in the jump seat intervened. It is impossible to know if he was a better airman than the pilots in the front or simply had the advantage of an overview. Either way, he recommended the obvious — shutting off the electric trim by flipping the cutout switches. The captain flipped the switches, the trim stopped running away and the MCAS was disabled. It was that easy.
With the captain’s stick shaker continuing to rattle and the trim switches set to the off (cutout) position, the crew flew to Jakarta without further issue, adjusting trim as sometimes necessary by use of the manual trim wheels mounted on both sides of the central pedestal, and landed just before midnight. ...
Railjunkie wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:08 amI believe Alstom is having to eat the cost of this work being delayed rather than Amtrak. I understand Amtrak is losing out on potential revenue but I think things will move quickly over the next 12-24 months. I'd rather this project be delayed and be done safely than rushed like Boeing has been of late. I love the fail fast and move forward idea of SpaceX but that paradigm doesn't work for passenger trains. Alstom will deliver this contract and then continue to move forward with the CASHR contract if they win that using this design but upgraded for 220.edflyerssn007 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 20, 2024 1:40 pmYeah sure. Is that why the Boeing Max platform does so well??? Amtrak made "HAL" work because they had to. WAY to much TIME and $$$$$ invested in a train set that has yet to turn a wheel in revenue service.Railjunkie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:06 am Not to be a Debbie Downer but have we all forgotten that it took 14 attempts to get the equipment to pass. Does that not bother anyone?? Is that not like taking a square peg and just hitting it with a bigger hammer until it fits into the round hole.It means that there was a difference from the model to the real thing. They've finally got their model matching reality which means things will go easy smoother from here on out. going from how things should work on paper to how they actually work in real life is an art in and of itself.
Maybe it is just me...
Gilbert B Norman wrote: ↑Sun Jan 21, 2024 10:55 am From GBN, who's about to take his first MAX flight next Saturday (and he is SOOOO worried )Well, so far, no messages from United saying my MAX Sat AM flight to MIA has gotten the CX. They may have "subbed" a 737-800 for it. But what do I care; all I want is to get down there in time to hear The Cleveland Orchestra perform; and maybe get my 30 seconds with Franz Welser-Most at a post-concert reception (I also contribute - no earth-shaking amount - which appears to be my ticket to these receptions).