Forty-Six Degrees on the Ramp: Writing an Ambient Profile for a Gulf Summer
A 44 °C shade reading is not the ramp temperature. How to build a segment-by-segment ambient profile and convert it into a working gel mass.
Nine Litres, Thirty-Four Hours Airborne: Sizing Gel to Box Volume
How to size gel mass per box for 30-40 hour air lanes: the heat-load sum, the 0.45-0.55 kg/L starting ratio, and the three cases where the ratio fails.
Where the Heat Gets In: A Tuna Loin’s 26 Hours From Boat to Airside
A 25 kg yellowfin loin left a processor in Manta at 0 degrees, spent four hours in a chiller truck, eleven hours in a consolidator’s cold room, then nine hours on a pallet at a 31 degree cargo terminal. By the time it was weighed for the flight the core was 5.8 degrees and the box showed conde…
