NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, will be playing my Rush favs over the weekend.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOO, will be playing my Rush favs over the weekend.
Rip Christopher Tolkien
No more source material rewrites/releases I guess. Reminded me to get the fall of gondolin
MI8m8
No worries, Simon will carry on profiting from grandfather's legacy.
Derek Fowlds from Yes Minister and Basil Brush - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51147182
Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197
RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by GeromeDoutrande
RIPQuote:
Originally Posted by GeromeDoutrande
Kobe Bryant dead in helicopter crash.
Sounds about right.
Man, sure bummed about that dead rapist.
What's with all the CFIT happening in California.
This particular case, weather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spaztick
Visibility too poor for flying. LAPD had grounded all their helicopters.
His daughter died with himQuote:
Originally Posted by Dorvil Barranis
Helicopters seem pretty dangerous
Yeah, no. Quite the opposite. You really need to do stupid shit to crash it. Google heli emergency landings.
Almost as bad as the BBC showing footage of LeBron James during the obit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paradox
https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-n...-rate-climbingQuote:
Originally Posted by rufuske
https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality...state-by-state
Sadly it gives road fatalities in deaths per 100-million-miles while the helicopter article gives data in deaths per 100,000 flight hours. Assuming an average speed-per-road-mile of 40mph, that comes out to 1.12 deaths per 2.5 million drive-hours. If we assume 30mph, it’s 1.12 per 3.3 million drive hours.
Per that article, the fatality rate for helicopters in 2018 was 1.64 per 100,000 flight hours. Or 41 per 2.5 million flight hours.
Helicopters are dangerous, relatively speaking.
Some data on motorcycles puts the per-hour rate on motorcycles (again using our 40mph average speed) at 25 per 100,000,000 miles, or 2.5m hours. https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/f...rcycle-crashes
So that means helicopters are more dangerous than cars (unsurprising) or motorcycles (kinda surprising).
And if you assume a lower average speed per hour in your fatalities-per-mike to fatalities-per-hour conversion, the helicopter only gets proportionally more dangerous.
Looks like I'll be trusting my gut instinct on transport fatality chance more often.