Just been reading some vague news that seismic activity has increased at the Mt Katla site in Iceland (over that of the increased activity since Eyjafjallajoekull blow) and a significant earthquake has been reported as of yesterday.

 

Predictions are that she'll blow her lid on the 3rd of May. The volcano's located beneath a glacier some 3/4 of a kilometer deep. Apparently, the melting ice would cause a flood equivalent to the combined daily outflow of the river Nile and Amazon!

 

This volcano is 100 times larger than Eyjafjallajoekull and we could be in for a nuclear winter for quite some time when it does erupt....which is imminent!

 

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I never said it wasnt big and wont cause devistaion, as I said, can mean no flights for 3 months maybe.

 

But I wont go as far as predicting nuclear winter lol

Have you had any interesting analysis reports back? Quite interested to know. Not sure how the filters work on hydraulic systems on airplanes. Do they have an external breather system as well as the obvious return and inline pressure filters?

 

nothing so far, we had to do scrapings on the fan blades (big 1st stage blades at the front) and one A319 had a thick coating on but i haven't yet seen the analysis results. the hydraulic systems have a 50psi header pressure to stop the pumps from cavitating. this header pressure is taken from engine bleed air so would eventually build up ash deposits in the systems. similarly, the potable water tanks are pressurised from engine bleed air, the engines main shaft bearings are an air/oil labyrinth seal so another risk of contamination. the avionics cooling air is taken from the side of the fuselage through several filters so they needed to be analysed also. if that filter clogs, the hundreds of computers would have the effect of your cpu fan stopping, overheat, shut down... rapid descent lol! the pitot and static ports have shown some evidence of build up even in such short exposure to the ash as have the surfaces of antennas.

 

this list goes on but i'll stop wibbling now as the northerners in the back row have all fallen asleep!

I heard SRT fecked off the Arabs during negotiations so the Arabs just said bye bye and went elsewhere. lol

 

SRT are owned by mubadala!

Interesting. Have you had any calibration problems with any of the pitot tubes?

SRT are owned by mubadala!

 

Yeah heard they are closing shop at Dublin & Stansted and merging other sites with their existing ADAT maintenance.

Interesting. Have you had any calibration problems with any of the pitot tubes?

 

no...

Yeah heard they are closing shop at Dublin & Stansted and merging other sites with their existing ADAT maintenance.

 

yeah dublin has already 'closed' (ish) and srt stansted is currently being prepared for asset stripping. srt zurich is up next starting early next year im told. adat is mubadalas original foothold and they bought the biggest competitor srt... then shut them down LOL!

 

most people have already been made redundant from srt stansted but a few office staff (including my mrs, double redundancy DOH!) are still there doing handovers and a small team of 30 nightshift hangar staff including myself are there due to a complication with an easyjet contract. basically until easyjet find an alternative base to carry out the work we will still be there, who knows when/where, if you find out let me know ;)

 

alanz works over the road at 'inflight' and rumour has it they have been in negotiations with easyjet to take on the work, easytech @ luton are building a new 2 bay hangar which could take on some of the work but that will take time. companies already doing work for easyjet are klm norwich, atc southend and virgin at gatwick but they are all too full to take on the extra work.

 

hopefully some1 will step up and take over the diamond hangar as stansted is a key location airport for an investor and can fit 6 a320/737 or 2 of the new 787's (:cool2:). when srt announced they are leaving to the baa they were told that they had to pay off the 65 year contract @ 6million a year and level the plot! the baa obviously know that because the diamond hangar was built for architectural awards rather than practicality that no fooker wants to take it over cause itsa useless shape/design!

Got a mate I used to work with at Diamond doing the server decommissioning, fingers crossed for you and the missus fella, someone will take on the hanger I hope and keep you going :)

Got a mate I used to work with at Diamond doing the server decommissioning, fingers crossed for you and the missus fella, someone will take on the hanger I hope and keep you going :)

 

cool, he prolly knows her then. we've had a fair while to get used to it since the hr1 was raised, kaz has got a date but i am just plodding along day by day not knowing when i'm down the road. it's my 3rd redundancy in 10 years so we are experts now lol! the industry is in tatters on the heavy maintenance side atm as the airlines can get it done so much cheaper overseas. if some1 does take over the diamond i think it'll be after we have all gone.

i better get the cover on the zed . shes only just been painted

that things gonna blow this summer, it was on newsround today. The kids are pre warned! Well what with that a new government and a double dip recession to look forward to....

Where is my passport time to leave.

aaahhhh a big natural cull...should get rid of some half breeds and improve the gene pool so ime staying here to make the most of it:D