13Jan 23
Size (and Units) Really Do Matter https://hackaday.com/2026/01/23/size-and-units-really-do-matter/
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Size (and Units) Really Do Matter

We miss the slide rule. It isn’t so much that we liked getting an inexact answer using a physical moving object. But to successfully use a slide rule, you need to be able to roughly estimate …

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FlohEinsteinMar 20, 2025
Back at Gimli in Dalvík. It's a tradition. 😊
The first time I ever came to this town, I only visited it because its name was familiar from Android programming class. And I stayed at this house because the name reminded me of a certain dwarf, and an plane disaster in Canada that was averted through side slipping. #Iceland #Dalvík #Gimli #Gimliglider
Stefan BohacekJun 17, 2024

#TIL (yesterday, really) about a 1983 aviation incident involving a Boeing 767 that ran out of fuel midway through the flight. The flight crew successfully glided the plane to an emergency landing.

"They tried out this same circumstances with several crews [in a flight simulator] and they all crashed."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8y8JBAr8dZ4

#GimliGlider #aviation #planes #flying

A Powerless Boeing Falls From The Sky! | Gimli Glider | FULL EPISODE | Mayday: Air Disaster

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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 23, 2023

Remember the 'Gimli Glider'? This couple does — he was the pilot and she was a passenger
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gimli-glider-40th-anniversary-captain-1.6915162

Gimli Glider: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
Canadian domestic passenger flight that ran out of fuel in 1983 at an altitude of 12,500 m.

The flight crew glided the Boeing 767 to emergency landing former Royal Canadian Air Force base in Gimli, Manitoba.

No serious injuries to passengers; minor damage to the aircraft.

#aviation #Canada #GimliGlider

Remember the 'Gimli Glider'? This couple does — he was the pilot and she was a passenger | CBC News

Pearl Dion never expected to fall in love with the man who saved her life. Now, she and the man who flew the "Gimli Glider" are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the famed emergency landing, along with their own 10-year partnership.

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Innocuous In Innisfil Has MovedJul 23, 2023

Good Morning #Canada
Air Canada Flight 143, commonly known as the Gimli Glider, was a Canadian scheduled domestic passenger flight between Montreal and Edmonton that ran out of fuel on July 23, 1983, at an altitude of 41,000 feet, midway through the flight. The pilots brought the plane down safely to a old Air Force base near Gimli Manitoba, scattering car enthusiasts who were using the runway for racing.

#CanadaIsAwesome #GimliGlider #AirCanada
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/when-a-metric-mix-up-led-to-the-gimli-glider-emergency-1.4754039

The metric error that almost ended in disaster | CBC

In 1983 an Air Canada Boeing 767 ran out of fuel and was forced to make an emergency landing in Gimli, Man.

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Jon PENNYCOOKMay 28, 2023

Gigantic #Boeing767 #glider

https://hawaii.hawaii.edu/math/Courses/Math100/Chapter1/Extra/CanFlt143.htm

"An amusing side-note to the Gimli story is that after Flight 143 had landed safely, a group of Air Canada mechanics were dispatched to drive down and begin effecting repair. They piled into a van with all their tools. They reportedly ran out of fuel en-route, finding themselves stranded somewhere in the backwoods of Manitoba."

#Boeing #glider #Gimli #GimliGlider

Canadian Airlines Flight 143