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jmowreader

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18. The wings are too far back
Mon Feb 9, 2015, 02:40 PM
Feb 2015

This might sound simplistic...but they make "lipstick cameras." They're video cameras about the size of a lipstick tube; the TV networks put them in race cars and on bobsledder helmets. Would it be possible, at least on new installations, to put lipstick cameras in fairings, mount them on the sides of the fuselage aimed at the engines, and stick a huge red button on the instrument panel that, when pushed, puts video of every engine you have on the centermost display? If they really wanted to get cool, pushing that button would also automatically "squawk 7700" because you wouldn't push that button if shit wasn't hitting the fan.

I recently found the "air crash investigation" shows on YouTube. There are several famous crashes caused by pilots shutting down the running engine, so this is an ongoing problem.

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