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Editorial 3 A short editorial by our Editor in Chief, Roger Hak. VSV Symposium 4 The Brakecie was present at the Symposium, and we want you to get up to speed! WW1: Aces 7 In continuation of the first Brake, here is another WW1-anniversary article. Brake the Ice 8 We came up with a bunch of things in order to help you start a conversation with someone! (Success not guaranteed) 10 Space Beers Beer is something that is generally liked a lot, so we tried to come up with a few ways to get beer to astronauts! A drunk BrakeCie... 12 is a happy Brakecie! We went on a pubcrawl and we want to share the experience. Airbase & the ALW Did you know?
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As May is the lustrum month, all the activities are on the back of this Brake. Happy 14th Lustrum VSV ‘Leonardo da Vinci’!
RECTIFICATION In the paper airplanes article of the last Brake the F-15 only had one point in “Style”. Of course, this should have been 5 points.
Editorial It took a while but here it is: The second edition of the Brake! A lot of events happened during the past few weeks. We are now in the last quarter of the year and time is going really fast. I hope you did well on your exams and now that you have opened the Brake I encourage you to read it completely. This Brake contains humorous but also serious articles.
With the whole Brake we did a pub crawl through the beautiful city Delft. Luckily our Secretary Jori had to stay sober so he jotted down anything that was interesting about that night. I can assure you, that was a lot! This
Brake also features a very useful article about “Breaking the Ice”: Pick up lines and how to start a conversation! I’m sure after you have read that article there is no reason anymore to be shy when you see your dream-girl or -guy. While I’m writing this editorial I saw on the news that a Russian supply aircraft was spinning out of control containing 3 tons of food and other supplies. Of course our dear astronauts will not survive this so we are launching a crate of beer for them into space. How we are doing this will be featured in an article. As usual we will give you an
overview of the events that happened the past few weeks and we also give you a sneak preview of what is about to happen. As you all have noticed the Lustrum Month has started. This month is packed with activities to celebrate the 14th Lustrum. Make sure you follow everything on Facebook because there are a lot of activities you don’t want to miss. The next Brake will be dedicated specifically to the Lustrum so stay tuned for that. Happy reading! Your editor in chief, ROGER HAK
Introducing the BrakeCie
Here’s the BrakeCie! From left to right: Valère, Jori, Roger, Rintati & Jan.
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VSV Symposium On the third of March a symposium was held at the Aula of TU Delft. The general theme was “Journey of a lifetime”. The cycle of aircraft development.
The symposium was organized by the Aviation Department of the VSV ‘Leonardo da Vinci’. They did a great job in arranging very interesting speakers! The cycle of aircraft development was a clear theme that determined the structure of the symposium. The first speakers talked about designing and testing an aircraft. While speakers later of that day talked more about for example operating an aircraft and many more things. Axel Flaig, Airbus Axel Flaig was appointed Senior Vice-President for Research and Technology in September 2014 at Airbus. Mr. Flaig gave a very
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interesting presentation about all the new innovations airbus is working on. Since it’s the first stage of a lifetime, he talked about the design of an aircraft. Interestingly enough he pointed out that the two main aircraft manufacturers Boeing and Airbus both have enough different airplane types so that they can deliver to whatever request an airline makes. That is why Airbus is redesigning airplanes with modern engines and better aerodynamic properties. The A350 XWB is their newest airplane. Mr. Flaig showed a video of the maiden flight and testing. Ric Parker, Rolls-Royce Richard Parker was appointed Director of Research & Technology, Rolls-Royce Group in January 2001, and is based in Derby, United Kingdom. He is responsible for direction and co-ordination of Research &
Technology programmes across all the Rolls-Royce businesses, worldwide. Mr. Parker gave us an interesting look behind the scenes of Rolls-Royce. He showed us a lot of different engines that Rolls-Royce have developed so far and what they are currently working on. Also a few interesting aircraft configurations were shown. Michiel van der Maat, Fokker Technologies Michiel van der Maat is Vice President Defense Programs at Fokker Technologies. We all know that Fokker doesn’t design and build airplanes anymore. But what does it do nowadays? Fokker is actively involved with
the F-35 program and gets funds from the government to develop instruments that are used on the F-35. This subject is interesting since it comes back in the news numerous times. Michiel gave us interesting insights and a more clear view of what’s being done with the F-35. Michiel van Dorst, KLM Michiel van der Dorst is Executive Vice President Flight Operations at KLM. He gave us a presentation about a very specific topic. Pilots at KLM are trained to fly two types of aircrafts (the B777 and B787). Of course a lot of questions about safety come in to play. Is a pilot able to operate two different aircrafts properly? The answer is yes. KLM trains their pilots for example with flight simulators and so far it’s working out fine. Someone asked an interesting question. Can we substitute pilots by computer programs in the future? According to Michiel this is the ultimate goal because it’s safer than pilots. However, of course the public needs to have trust in this idea so it’s going to take a while before the cockpit becomes empty and filled with computers. Besides, the technology is not sufficient enough yet. Miriam Hoekstra – van der Deen, Schiphol Group Mrs Miriam Hoekstra has been the Director Airport Operations at Schiphol since September 1st of last year. She replaced Birgit Otto, the Executive Vice President & COO of the Schiphol Group. The presentation that she gave fit perfectly within the “Operations” sub-theme. She explained all the hassle and struggles of trying to run an airport as smoothly
as possible. This meant that not only the air traffic had to be controlled, but there also has to be maintenance, (noise) pollution control, snow and bird control and of course there has to be adequate ground control in order to get everyone to the right spot. No wonder that there are over 65.000 (!) jobs provided by Schiphol. One of the key things that I can remember is that she explained that Schiphol is not trying to compete with Heatrow, Charles de Gaulle or Düsseldorf on the regional level, but that they are trying to compete with Dubai on the international level as a hub for all the worldwide flights, which is going pretty well. You could probably say that the ambitions are there, but you can never tell what the future will bring. Paul Riemens, LVNL The last speaker of the “Operations” part was Paul Riemens. Mr. Riemens specifically talked about the air traffic control, an area of expertise that he has been dealing with for over 30 years. He started out as an air
traffic controller but nowadays he is the CEO of Air Traffic Control of the Netherlands (LVNL). Because of this, he has a lot of knowledge about the changes that were made in the past and the differences that are yet to come. After explaining all of the current steps that an aircraft has to go through when it wants to land or depart there was a large part about “The Future of Air Traffic Control”, which I personally found to be very interesting. One of the things was that planes in the future are going to have a 4D-trajectory. This means that a delay is going to be as much of a distortion to the flight path as a deviation. These optimal trajectories currently aren’t possible because countries all have their own airspace, which leads to inflexible flight paths as flights have to traverse certain points. This was also a point that was discussed; flying can be more efficient if there were bigger blocks of airspace (like a single European airspace) instead of a lot of smaller blocks. Of course, this will not be realized in the
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near future because of politics, but a few countries like Germany and the Netherlands are currently experimenting with this in order to have more flexibility in military exercises. All in all, a very nice presentation that showed a side of operations you rarely hear about. Hans van de Velde, Arkefly Mr van de Velde, the first speaker of the “Engineering, Maintenance and End of Life” section, is the managing director of Arkefly. He is responsible for the efficiency and safety of their operations. Arkefly is of course the Dutch branch of the TUI group, the #8 airline of Europe. They are one of the launch customers of the new Boieng 787 Dreamliner and they have the youngest fleet in the Netherlands, a fact that he was very proud of. He explained the tract of becoming a launch customer, which started with ordering the plane back in 2005. They received their first plane in 2014, this means that they had to wait almost 10 years! However, while being a launch customer has it’s positive
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points it also has a lot of negative points including uncertainties about delivery and performance and the fact that the crew can’t get any existing training. Arkefly (kind of) solved this by working together with KLM on simulators, as KLM would get the plane only a small amount of time later. He also talked about the fact that they weren’t just buying an airplane; they were buying a promise. The 787 is of course the first airliner that is primarily made out of composites. While the first delivery was delayed by 3,5 years, the aircraft lived up to and went beyond the expectations, resulting in an aircraft that was very good on maintenance both on the hardware and software site. Mr van de Velde was of course very pleased with this. Derk-Jan van Heerden, AELS The last speaker of the day is Derk-Jan van Heerden, and, as far as my knowledge goes, he is the only speaker today that graduated at our University! His entire history in the aviation sector has been about the endof-life phase of aircraft. He re-
ceived the Best Graduate Award from the Dutch Royal Aeronautical Society and worked a short stint at KLM, where he managed the disassembly of a Boeing 747. After this he started his own company, AELS (Aircraft End-of-Life Solutions). Because of this he was mentioned in the “40 under forty” list made by Aviation Week & Space Technology. He explained that he was basically filling a niche in the market with AELS, as most old planes are just parked in the desert somewhere, as this would be cheaper than to scrap them according to regulations. What AELS tries to do is disassemble the plane into parts, and sell them. This is why they try to work with big airlines, as they can get a lot more for parts that have a documented maintenance history. For example, on a well-documented plane the engines represent 50% of its value! If not documented, the engines are still worth a lot of money, but in order to be used as replacement parts they have to be certified again, which costs time and money. Everything that can’t be re-used is at least tried to be recycled for use on future airframes. In order to do this, the company is split into 3 parts; Disassembly & Dismantling, Aerospace Materials Recycling and Component Management. Recently they made the choice to acquire Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 airframes in order to disassemble them and make a profit on them, which is unique. All in all, Mr. van Heerden was the perfect person to close the “Journey of a Lifetime” themed Symposium of 2015. ROGER HAK & JAN POST
WW1: Aces
Two years before the end of the Great War, dogfights between fighters became the main aeronautical activity in Europe. The aircrafts of that time had no electrical system of any sort and the technological differences between the Allied and the Germans were not significant. So the skills and strategies were the keys to survive battles. Seriously, who never dreamed of being one of those fighters pilot envied and feared by all, an ace of WWI ? Struggled between the passion for flight and the duty to kill. Let us try to immerge ourselves into the life of the two most decorated flying aces of WWI, the Red Baron and the White Stork. First things first, the training of the pilots. The need of pilots were so important that the training phase was almost over,
when the pilot could take-off and land without breaking the airplane. So let’s say that the real training was to survive a few battles. Here is the hard and vicious reality of this war; the more you survive, the more you are skilled, hence higher are the chances to survive… After 5 kills confirmed, a pilot officially became a flying ace. The top 2 of the flying aces ranking of the Great War were the German Manfred von Richthofen, also known as the “Red Baron” with 80 confirmed victories and the French René Fonck, also called the “White Stork” with 75 victories. These two men were totally opposites. Von Richthofen came from a rich family of bureaucrats, to him fighting was a kind of sport. Being very popular back then, he painted his aircraft in red to be recognisable in order to fear his opponents, this
is also the origin of his nickname. Unlike his brother Lothar who flew in the same squadron, the Red Baron was not particularly famous for his manoeuvres and preferred using elaborated team strategies to shut down enemies. He got killed in action on April 21 in 1918. On the other hand, Fonck was born into a family of workers and more discrete than the Red Baron. Tactically, Fonck preferred fighting alone. He was famous for being literally untouchable, because his aircraft has never been hit by a bullet. Indeed, he survived the War and entered politics after it. Those two opposite men probably had the passion for flight and the sense of duty in common, but that’s all. Their respective ways of fighting were completely different, but apparently led to the same result in battle : victory. If you were one of those flying aces of the Great War, who would you be ? VALÈRE GIRARDIN
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Brake The Ice Brake the ice: how to (not) use pick-up lines Considering the male/female ratio of students in Delft, walking up to a girl on a night out might be scary. This sometimes results in men suffering from the infamous “Delft-syndrome”. Especially first conversations walk into the soup easily. To prevent this, the Brakecie presents: Brake the ice: how (not) to use pick-up lines. “How heavy is a polar bear?” -“Heavy enough to brake the ice.” This may sound funny to you when it’s the first time you hear it. Point is: it is probably the most overused pick-line in Delft and surroundings. Unless
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you want to come off as someone who has no originality and probably eats the same every day, do not use this. Never. Another ice-related opening that can be quite lame is throwing ice blocks on the floor, stepping on them and saying: “Now that the ice is broken, *insert standard question here*…” Most people know of this way to open the conversation, but there are actually very few people that tried it. Using it might thus give you some points for courage. It’s still pretty tricky though: the execution must be flawless and you have to be really sure of yourself. Acting super awkward or not being able to literally break
the ice blocks will also not figuratively break the ice for you. YOLO! If you are in a special kind of weird, this method might work. Ask random questions and do random things. Think out of the box. Let your (drunk) mind explore the depths of your creativity and see if you can find your soul mate. Level 1 of this category usually results in pick-up lines like: “Do you always wear your shoes over your socks?” If you want to launch out, you can also climb to the highest level and go for “Broek uit, op je hoofd.” So putting your pants on your head.
There is a really big chance the person you are trying to open a conversation with will just give you a weird look, roll their eyes and walk away. These people don’t understand. However, if someone sees how this is funny and even participates in your weird act, a nice evening could be ahead of you: You have found someone of the same level of weirdness. That sits well moustache. “What do you study?” “Where do you come from?” “What is your name?” “Where do you live?” “Do you come here often?” This are actually things you might be interested in, but to ask this questions out of nowhere is boring. Ask them later on in the conversation or use them to avoid awkward silences. “Have you met *name*?” Using your friends is for a lot of people a no-go. Except for the one mentioned above, because if the friend makes himself out of the feet quickly, it is as if he never was there. It is still not an ideal situation, so if your friend goes over to someone to say “Hey, *your name* over their wants to talk to you.” Or “Hey, my friend here wants to know your name.” it is an absolute don’t! Where is your bravery! You automatically look like someone who is indecisive and cowardly. And no, that is not attractive. “Not Punny!” A risky way of breaking the ice is by making stupid pun jokes. “Know what’s on the menu? Men-u” It’s all about the way you bring it. You may sound super
lame like: “Are you a banana? Cause I find you a-peeling.” But you can also sound really funny. People that actually like these kind of puns are rare. And as worst case scenario the other person doesn’t even get the joke. You should always have a good come-back pick up line in your mind. If the other person responds plainly by saying: “Hold your waffle, you are drunk!”, make yourself sound even more lame by saying: “I’m not drunk, I’m just intoxicated by you!”. “Fortune favours the bold” There is always that one type of guys that is either super desperate or is in YOLO mode. When they see a nice girl it’s all-in or nothing for them. They show that they have courage and that they are a bit naughty. “Can I buy you a drink or do you just want the money?” or, “Here is €30. Drink until I am really good looking, then come to talk to me.” I can assure you that these ones aren’t going to cut it the majority of times. But hey, think out of the box. If someone actually likes one of these or “sees it through the fingers”, you are bound to have a good night. You just found the right partner!
No-gos These are the worst of the worst. Sometimes they might help you brake the ice, but usually you’ll sound like desperate guy with “The Delft Syndrome”. Girl, you better have a license, cause you are driving me crazy Yeh… I think it’s pretty clear. Ultra-lame. Succes rate 6%. If you were a burger at McDonald’s you’d be the McGorgeous. Very risky. Logical reaction: “Did you just compare me to junkfood?” Succes rate below 0. Which means that you lose girls. Did you sit in a pile of sugar? Cause you have a pretty sweet ass. *Clap clap clap* This one might work on Kim Kardashian. Enough said. Succes rate 1% My love for you is like diarrhea, I just can’t hold it in! Eww that’s just gross. Get away from me! Succes rate 10% What’s your favourite silverware? Because I like to spoon... Secretly this one is pretty funny. Succes rate 69% RINTATI ROZA & ROGER HAK
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Spacebeers People like beer. I like beer, all other members of the BrakeCie like beer (maybe that’s the reason we’re called the brokcie nowadays?) and I’m pretty sure that 99% of the people at our faculty like beer. So we can safely say that astronauts probably also like beer. There are a few practical problems of getting it to them in space though. For one, beer isn’t technically necessary for you, so it isn’t send up by rocket as supplies.
There are a lot of other factors: you can’t properly drink out of a bottle in a zero-g environment, the bottle probably wouldn’t survive the launch. Even more, we have no idea if a bottle of beer in a vacuum would stay intact. A few sources on the internet suggest that the bottle cap, when sealed, can resist over 2 bar of pressure. However, I’ve got no clue if the glass itself can withstand pressure differences that are like this or even higher! More problems are the fact that astronauts need to be sober in order not to jeopardize what they’re doing and the fact that all of the carbon dioxide in
the beer would quickly be gone, leaving you with a terrible thing: a flat beer. There already have been several successful attempts to get beer (technically) into space. The first (claimed attempt) was a can of Naturel Light (or Natty Light for the initiated among us), an American light beer. In 2011 they were asking people on their Facebook page what kind of cool things they could do. One answer to this was, of course, send it up to space! So they tied up a cooler with a vacuum-packed can and a camcorder to a weather balloon and let it fly. They of course claimed that they made it to space, but in reality it only went up to 30 kilometres (which probably would still make it the highest beer) which isn’t space. One more reason to hate advertising. NASA actually selected an experiment from the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) in 2013, which was supposed to find out how brewing would be different in space, but there are no further
records of this. The closest thing to a space beer was an attempt by American brewer Ninkasi, which can best be explained by their press release: “In 2014, the brewery’s co-founders embarked on a new kind of mission – the Ninkasi Space Program (NSP), with one ultimate goal: send brewer’s yeast to space, return it to Earth and use it to brew delicious craft beer. After a successful rocket launch in October 2014 from Spaceport America, Ninkasi is proud to introduce Ground Control, an Imperial Stout brewed with...” Is this cheating? Well, yeah, kind of. And this still doesn’t get us our beer in space! Another option, that may be better if we are ever going to expand throughout the galaxy, is to harvest all of the molecules in space itself. It’s not really logical to find fields of barley and hops out in space, is it? This idea was also brought forward in a Ted.X talk in Perth (https://www. youtube.com/watch?v=tF1o-dNwE8c). However, we still aren’t really that far in getting our friends on the ISS a beer. You could always seal beer like soda is sealed, which is in a vacuum bag that needs a special device to make sure everything doesn’t just spray out and send that up, but there’s no fun in doing that! If you package it like this you could probably also shoot it up in a space gun (which doesn’t exist right now, let’s be honest) because the water won’t com-
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press. This would of course be very cool, but like everything mentioned until now, it doesn’t really help us. The future promises a lot with spaceplanes such as the Skylon, Dream Chaser and developments of SpaceShipTwo. My guess is that if someone is going to be the first person to drink a beer in space it’s going to be on one of these. Fact 1: the G-load-
ing is low enough for the bottle to survive. Fact 2: most people getting a trip with these are there for the experience so they don’t have to stay sober. While great, this still doesn’t get beer to the ISS. Our current best chance at launching beer is sending them up with one of the low g-loading launchers, that are also used to send up humans (like glass
bottles, humans also do not like to be under a heavy load). You’d still have to come up with some way of damping the acceleration on the bottom of the bottle, and a single beer would cost about $4000, but honestly we just have to wait for Inbev, Anheuser-Busch or Heineken to create one of the biggest promotional stunts ever! JAN POST
Sources: http://io9.com/comingsoon-beer-brewed-with-spaceyeast-1692466949 http://www.denverpost.com/ news/ci_24253100/colorado-6th-graders-beer-making-experiment-headed-space http://science.nasa.gov/ science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast21sep_1/ https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=tF1o-dNwE8c
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A drunk BrakeCie...
Every student at the TU Delft university should have done it once: a pub crawl. Bumping from one bar to the other, tasting different ambiances and having fun till one drinks one too many beer. The BrakeCie went out doing fieldwork, rating bars, tasting their beers etc., but to avoid ‘The Hangover’-movie kind of situation one of us would stay sober and try to report the whole evening. 9:02 PM – The evening was young, but already cold and dark. Our journey was going to start at the ‘Proefbokaal’. There was no one, just an old man in a corner and the bartender looking at our weird onesies. The weirdest special beers were chosen (of course Rintati chose the biggest one) and now the evening really started. We came to the conclusion that ‘Proefbokaal’ was the perfect place to start a third World War.
9:46 PM – For too long the conversation goes about politics, but who is too blame? This place is a small, characteristic bar. A bar where you would meet your oldest friends to bring up forgotten memories while drinking some nice Belgian beer. 10:00 PM – It is time to go to the next bar, but when we cross the bridge one of us tries a trick on the railing of the bridge. It goes all wrong and the other four of us were quiet. Surely it looked more like suicide. I knew this was a bad sign for the evening, only too bad we did not film it for home made videos.
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10:03 PM- Our next destination is the ‘Doerak’. It is pretty full inside and there is a lot of ambiance. A good choice so far. The famous ‘Kwak’-beer is ordered. A famous beer everyone in Delft should have tried once. Everyone starts getting tipsy, recognizable for their change in English accent. 10:35 PM – I was interested in what everything was thinking at this precise moment. One was thinking how the beermat was going through both tables, the other was in the mood for a hot choco and another one just find Roger very annoying. My thoughts were only dealing with the fact why I chose the life of a sober man. 10:48 PM – Everyone was in the mood for chicken, certainly the combination of beer with chicken. The next destination does not count as a bar, but is really worth passing by. Everyone in the group was also convinced chicken was good for the biceps, and that’s because Rintati came
up with a very sophisticated theory that looked, if I recall correctly, this: Broccoli is really healthy and tasty. You eat Broccoli with chicken. And chicken is good for the biceps. While singing, yelling and dancing our journey continued to the ‘Bierfabriek’. 10:55 PM – What a deception, no chicken anymore, but we were not totally defeated. We found consolation in unlimited free peanuts! While the accent of Roger turned in Indian-English, I was enjoying free peanuts. 11:30 PM – We were heading towards the bar ‘Locus Publicus’. First, everyone was in the mood for some Jazz, but besides the Jazz bar was closed, I do not think they were very able to dance on Jazz right now. So we chose this English pub instead, ” 11:45 PM – So I thought it was a good idea to buy everyone a pint of Guinness. *Evil Laughter* It took everyone a very long time to finish that pint. We even start-
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ed a drinking game to increase the pace. In this game we were at this one point that someone had to come up with the name of an animal starting with a ‘O’. This resulted in someone saying Oehoe. Of course, we found a connection to the terror oehoe and while I don’t know the story around it, all what’s written in my notebook is: Roger: “We are going to catch the terror oehoe with the wigwam of Rintati.” Meanwhile Roger claims that yesterday the grass was blue and Rintati wants to sleep. Valère came up with a very tricky question. How would you decorate your pub? Everyone started thinking with their creative drunk minds. Rintati says: “Wood!” and falls asleep. Suddenly our genius Jan says: put a mirror on one side of the pub, then you only have to decorate the one side!
11:50 PM – Pfew, slowly but surely the pints of Guinness are finished and everyone starts talking trash. Roger starts a very interesting conversation with Rintati in which he calls her a dude for 16(!) times. At some point the topic of the conversation turned to mathematics. Roger: “If you add one plus one it does not equal two. It equals one. It’s like one big bread. You know, dude, you put two breads together and that happens.” Valère doesn’t care about Roger’s lame story and starts showing off with his ability to write the number pi with more than 40 decimals! However, we are starting to feel hungry and get ready to go to Alev
12:00 PM We are at Alev and meet some people from the BarCo. In the Alev a lot of random stuff happened. I think everyone knows that at Alev the toilets are upstairs. Well, Rintati did her performance of the night by jumping off those stairs. After that she told the Alev guy that her mother comes from Sambal. Rintati buys Valère a Turkish Pizza. Valère didn’t want that at all but he is not complaining (yet). 12:25 PM – So we arrived at Jori’s place. Drunk some beer. Ate “tostis”. Chilled for a long time. Jori was going to sleep now since he had training the next morning. The rest went to Oude Jan. 13:00 PM – We arrived at Oude Jan. Because Jori was gone now, Roger started taking notes and that was kind of the big mistake or the big success of the night. Pages were filled with really random shit and I’m happy to share that with you. Rintati has no idea how she is going to get home. Meanwhile Valère is super hammered and we realize that they also have peanuts at Oude Jan! Rintati ordered some chocolate milk. Wise choice. The Oude Jan is a very nice place but the only spot that was left for us was the spot at the mirror. This was way
too confronting for us according to Jan. We even made some pictures at that mirror. XX:XX PM – Because time was unknown and the story is not cohesive anymore, I’ll just write down some random notes that happened after or during the Oude Jan. According to Valère it’s tradition in Switserland to kiss a lot of girls. Rintati is going home after a cool dance on “Ik voel me sexy als ik dans”. Big problem: Rintati lost her bike. Jan is helping her. Jan: “Tomorrow I’m so screwed”. Rintati: “I can’t walk home”. Roger: “I have to pee”. With those last quotes I want to wrap up this pub crawl article. Of course a lot more happened that night but these are some highlights that we wanted to share with you. We had a lot of fun this night and thanks to this article we won’t forget it! JORI DAMOND & ROGER HAK
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More activities! Airbase 2015 In march, on Friday the 13th, a special evening was promised by the VSV. About thousand people prepared their party outfits, overcame their superstition and headed to the faculty of Aerospace Engineering to experience the legendary and famous Airbase party! The halls and the cantina were transformed into a beer- and danceproof fest. Everything that a party needs to succeed was present: enough JupiLR’s for everyone, great music from amongst others DJPJ and Billy the Kit and a photo booth and FOCO’s to capture the night on camera in case memories would be lost…
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Because photo’s sometimes speak louder than words, here is a short photo collection of the night. ALW The ALW has always been a very special weekend for the VSV. It gives the active members the opportunity to connect with each other while enjoying some warm Schulti beers (and for the unlucky amongst us: surprise ices!). Three members of the Brakecie were present and for us this was a weekend where we got tested on our drinking capacities. Luckily we all did survive ;) On the first night the members
got to show their singing skills in a karaoke party. If I speak for myself, the Brakecie did a really good job on ‘I want to Brakecie’ by Queen. On Saturday we woke up to the delicious scent of old beer on the floor. We got through the day and during the pubquiz that was won by ‘Denaldi’ everyone lost their hangover. This meant that we were ready for the Beer Olympics! Sunday the VSV members proved that next to doing complicated aerospace calculations, we are also good at cleaning! Well, at least we tried to ;) Then we headed home to Delft again. It was a weekend to remember. RINTATI ROZA
Did you know that....? 1. The winglets on an Airbus A330-200 are the same height as the world’s tallest man? 2. Lufthansa is the world’s largest purchaser of Caviar, buying over 10 tons per year? 3. American Airlines once saved $40,000 by removing 1 olive from each salad? 4. Brakecie is also known as ‘Brokcie’? (And we have no idea how this happened) 5. When a plane is landing at night, they dim the interior lights in case you need to evacuate upon landing? It’s because your eyes are already adjusted to the darkness so you’ll be able to see better once outside the plane. 6. Sjoerd, The President of the VSV Leonardo da Vinci, talked nonsense for almost 2 hours when we were heading to the ALW? 7. Did you know the longest recorded flight of a chicken was 14 (bravo) seconds? 8. Flight attendants of cheap airlines get extra salary if they catch you on having too large luggage? 9. Most planes flying internationally have their home country’s flag painted on or around their tails. Generally, the flag is facing the proper way round on the left (port) side of the aircraft, and backward on the starboard side. Why? Because that’s how it would look if a real flage were hoisted on a pole above the
airplane during the flight.
10. The windows in an airport control tower must be tilted out at exactly fifteen degrees from the vertical to minimise reflections from both inside and outside the control tower. 11. Even if you strapped on giant wings, you could never fly because the human heart can’t pump blood quick enough to satisfy the enormous strain of flapping. When flying, a sparrow’s heart pumps more than 450 times each minute! 12. The world’s record for consecutive loops in an airplane - 2368 - was set in 1986 by David Childs in a specially designed aerobatic aircraft. 13. National Geographic exlporer Mike Fay has reported that many Africans in small villages (few of whom have ever flown) have a word for the manmade objects that they occasionally see flying overhead. They call them Boeings. 14. To withstand the landing weight of a fully laden jumbo jet (more than 900,000 pounds) commercial airport runways are between two and four feet thick! 15. The energy released by the three Space Shuttle main engines is equivalent to the output of 23 Hoover Dams.
16. You can fit 6 million golf balls inside of a Boeing 757 freighter. 17. The engines of the 777 arealmost the same width of a 727! 18. The average passenger car would operate for more than a year on the amount of fuel transferred through the air refueling boom on a Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker in one minute. 19. The last plane using vacuum tubes (the Mig 25) was taken out of frontline service in 2005. 20. Add together every pilot who’s ever flown Concorde, and there still has been twice as many astronauts! 21. Dirty underwear and toilet paper has helped grown plants on the ISS. 22. If two pieces of the same type of metal touch in space, they will bond and be permanently stuck together.
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