Submitted 8 months ago by Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net to [deleted]
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While I love this, I can’t pass up the opportunity to explain “pop goes the weasel”.
The song references the cost of food items in its first verse, followed by “that’s the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel”. What exactly a weasel was is up for debate; it could be rhyming slang for a coat, or it could mean the pre-electric type of iron that was heated on a stove before use on clothing. In any case, “pop” was slang for pawning an item for money.
So weasel->stoat->coat?
“Weasle-and-stoat, coat”, yeah. Tho I prefer the pre-electric iron theory, personally. I feel like I read somewhere that those were common things to pawn when money was tight, back in the day.
Pilot: Mayday mayday mayday, we’ve had an engine out
Tower: Is it a full or partial engine out?
Pilot: Partially out of the cowling
That’s just advanced individual cylinder block cooling.
Extreme compression relief, makes starting it easier.
Did the cylinder really seize and get pushed away from the block? That must be exciting to hear/see.
Exiting to hear/see & that exciting extra split second to actually comprehend what you already understand happened.
Basically dafooqing.
Hey, at least it’s not as horrible as those boeing MAX planes.
Please state the nature of the mechanical emergency.
The plane has a slight case of hemorrhoids
Plane strained a little hard, happens to everyone
All right then. Nurse, tricorder.
Maybe the little piston just got curious and wanted to see what the outside world was lol about.
External combustion?
Pilot: Commits suicide between day 1 and day 2 of hearings investigating issue
Nah, Boeing just hires a hitman to fucking shoot you
You mean ‘to assist in your suicide.’
I mean get some blue and white paint and just make it look like R2D2, problem solved!
That’s a herniated piston. NBD, just needs a good push and some duct tape.
Free range cylinder
Isn’t… the cowling supposed to prevent that sort of thing from occurring?
On jet engines the cowling/housing is suppose to contain the blade shrapnel.
On a piston engine, as seen in the picture, the cylinder is never suppose to become detached from the engine block. There are a few ways a cylinder can detach, but most likely is lack of maintenance.
The skin of that cowling doesn’t look thick enough to do more than streamlining. You’re thinking of the containment ring found in jet engines.
Nope - contain blades on jets yes but the cowling isn’t going to stop a solid metal chunk that the head didn’t stop.
Starboard engine experienced a spontaneous ejection in one of its internal combustion cylinders. No Bueno.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Pop goes the diesel.
Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s definitely not a diesel engine though.
herrvogel@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It also doesn’t look like an small furry rodent but nobody’s talking about that.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
This one doesn’t seem to have popped fortunately