Andrew Watson: The 'most influential' black footballer for decades lost to history

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  By Andrew Aloia BBC Sport Last updated on 11 October 2021 11 October 2021 . From the section Football Watson was a trailblazer who helped transform how football was played There are two murals of black footballers facing one another across an alleyway in Glasgow. One helped shape football as we know it, the other is Pele. Andrew Watson captained Scotland to a 6-1 win over England on his debut in 1881. He was a pioneer, the world's first black international, but for more than a century the significance of his achievements went unrecognised. Research conducted over the past three decades has left us with some biographical details: a man descended of slaves and of those who enslaved them, born in Guyana, raised to become an English gentleman and famed as one of Scottish football's first icons. And yet today, 100 years on from his death aged 64, Watson remains something of an enigma, the picture built around him a fractured one. His grainy, faded, sepia image evokes many differen
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Pilot Reveals Walk-Through Server Room Underneath Airbus 350 Cockpit

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It's even more off-limits to economy passengers than the first-class cabin.

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It’s no secret that pilots on long-haul flights have access to private sleeping quarters that passengers never see, but it turns out there are more surprises hidden away inside a modern airliner, including an entire server room full of rack mounted computers and electronics located beneath the cockpit.

YouTuber ‘bjornpilot’ is an airline pilot who flies Airbus 330, 340, and 350 aircraft who also likes to document their travels and globetrotting adventures with a wide-angle action cam on the end of a selfie stick. Occasionally, they also share videos revealing the secrets of air travel, which is what their most recent video focuses on while an Airbus 350 sits at an airport gate between flights.

If you assumed that, like a small single-propeller plane, the electronics and computers that power an Airbus 350 are all hidden behind the cockpit’s instrument panel and walls of the aircraft, you’re underestimating just how much computing power is needed to operate a modern airliner. Inside the cockpit is a trapdoor on the floor that leads to the plane’s avionics compartment beneath, which can really only be described as a full-on server room with floor-to-ceiling racks of computers and other electronics and enough room for someone to actually stand down there.

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It makes sense to put all of this equipment in one easy-to-access place so that maintenance doesn’t require parts of the aircraft to be completely torn apart, but the size of this compartment is what’s most impressive given commercial airliners never feel especially spacious inside. If you’ve ever watched Hollywood blockbusters like Flightplan or Air Force One, you’re probably questioned the plausibility of someone moving around a plane without going through the cabin. But bjornpilot also reveals an easy access door between the Airbus’ avionics compartment and the plane’s cargo hold, so the idea that you can stealthily move through an entire airliner undetected isn’t that far-fetched.

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I didn’t watch the video - are these details already publicly known/accessible? I always believed sharing videos like this are a no-no, as you’re possibly arming attackers with info of layout and locations they could use to compromise sensitive systems.
Also a reason to keep videos of the inside of your household off of social media.

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