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PCjr sidecar posted:The Foo Fighters were early proponents of independent HIV research voices, too. 😬 For context for those wondering: quote:In January 2000, Nate Mendel led a benefit concert in Hollywood for AIDS denialist group Alive & Well AIDS Alternatives with a speech by founder Christine Maggiore and free copies of her self-published book, What If Everything You Thought You Knew About AIDS Was Wrong? Additionally, the band's official website featured a section devoted to Alive & Well. Sandra Thurman, then director of the Office of National AIDS Policy stated this was "extraordinarily irresponsible behavior" because "[t]here is no doubt about the link between HIV and AIDS in the respected scientific community." Links and references to Alive & Well have since been removed from the band's website.
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PT6A posted:Excellent trivia, I'm glad I know this now. ED FORCE ONE, collided with its ground tug in Chile, damaging both port engines and sending both operators of the ground tug to hospital with serious injuries. https://www.ironmaiden.com/news/article/ed-force-one-damaged https://www.ironmaiden.com/news/article/ed-force-one-repaired the_more_you_know.gif edit: i stand corrected, they trucked the stage show kit from chile to argentina, and my faulty memory inserted the chartered 747 from Europe with another plane they (didn't) fly the equipment on. Edit 2: Bruce Dickinson is type rated on the 737, 757 and 747. Someone at Atlas Air get this man a post musical career retirement job SeaborneClink fucked around with this message at 04:36 on Apr 28, 2021 |
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Charles posted:😬 What the gently caress.
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Charles posted:😬 Her wikipedia entry is a hell of a read.
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SeaborneClink posted:Edit 2: Bruce Dickinson is type rated on the 737, 757 and 747. Someone at Atlas Air get this man a post musical career retirement job He lives in France and voted for Brexit. As a pilot he has plenty of paperwork experience; bureaucracy is likely the only part of the British economy growing this year.
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Advent Horizon posted:He lives in France and voted for Brexit. Oh Bruce! Nooooooo.  Pour one out for teenage fan me. Edit: https://www.nme.com/news/music/iron-maidens-bruce-dickinson-voted-leave-eu-quite-relaxed-brexit-2413027 Turns out he's dumb as a bag of hammers.
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Apr 28, 2021 08:43
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I got a fever, and the only prescription is more Brexit.
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PT6A posted:And Bruce Dickinson flying his own goddamn 747 (well, leased) for the last Iron Maiden tour. In addition to having been an airline captain and forming an aviation consultancy in his off time. Bruce Dickinson's cousin Rob is the singer of the less known but still popular band Catherine Wheel, and also started Singer Porsche
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Midjack posted:Her wikipedia entry is a hell of a read. "My daughter dying of AIDS is a conspiracy in BIG MEDICINE to smear my reputation."
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Let me introduce you to a former AIDS denialist magazine, Continuum. Guess why it's a "former" magazine.
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https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1387421233285898244 The Fly Navy Heritage Trust's Sea Fury T.20 has made what appears to be a rather dramatic wheels-up landing after 'engine trouble'. Both pilots said to be safe and well, so I feel OK in making a 'the front fell off' reference. I think this is the same Sea Fury which was rebuilt in the 90s after being damaged in another forced landing due to engine failure.
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Deptfordx posted:Oh Bruce! Nooooooo. Hes a boomer pilot, of course he thinks that!
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BalloonFish posted:I think this is the same Sea Fury which was rebuilt in the 90s after being damaged in another forced landing due to engine failure. Sounds like they need to send it to California for an R-2800 swap. I’ve heard the Centaurus is a great engine *if* you can keep it supplied with a lot of rare parts.
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how many more warbird crashes are we going to get before the FAA puts the kibosh on them, these airframes aren’t getting any younger
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It’s almost never the airframe, though. It’s always the engine. These aren’t a C-90, they’re designed to be USED and then maintained by a crew who would just swap it off the aircraft for a perviously-rebuilt one. A left/right mag check isn’t sufficient when there are dozens of cylinders. I would bet the compromise solution would be a calendar teardown of engines. And it probably won’t apply to only warbirds.
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Advent Horizon posted:It’s almost never the airframe, though. It’s always the engine. This. The old power plants are PoS maintenance nightmares.
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hobbesmaster posted:Hes a boomer pilot, of course he thinks that! 
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BalloonFish posted:https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1387421233285898244 That certainly is wheels up. 
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e.pilot posted:how many more warbird crashes are we going to get before the FAA puts the kibosh on them, these airframes aren’t getting any younger you know how all you technically need to start with for it to count as 'restoration' is a single corroded spar with a data plate stapled to it? maybe this is just warbird mitosis--build a new fuselage around the engine, strap a new engine to the fuselage, and all of a sudden it's two restored seafuries 
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e.pilot posted:how many more warbird crashes are we going to get before the FAA puts the kibosh on them, these airframes aren’t getting any younger I feel like the FAA would've quashed things, if they were going to, after Nine-O-Nine since that had multiple fatalities. That Sea Fury and the Avenger from a week ago were just airframe damage.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:you know how all you technically need to start with for it to count as 'restoration' is a single corroded spar with a data plate stapled to it? maybe this is just warbird mitosis--build a new fuselage around the engine, strap a new engine to the fuselage, and all of a sudden it's two restored seafuries The FAA put a stop to that a couple years ago. Now you need to have a substantial structure that’s repairable, not just replaceable.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:you know how all you technically need to start with for it to count as 'restoration' is a single corroded spar with a data plate stapled to it? maybe this is just warbird mitosis--build a new fuselage around the engine, strap a new engine to the fuselage, and all of a sudden it's two restored seafuries Warbird of Theseus 
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e.pilot posted:how many more warbird crashes are we going to get before the FAA puts the kibosh on them, these airframes aren’t getting any younger Mention this to the warbird crowd and you'll get an earful that will last for a decade or more, and probably eventually devolve into anti-government weirdness as well. Quite how they square "the government is evil" with "remember WW2" is not something I'd like to think too much about.
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They should just replace all those ridiculously complex radials with Honeywell 331s (and like a thousand pounds of ballast) and call it a day
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Deptfordx posted:Warbird of Theseus Witness the Champaign Aviation Museum's B-17, being built up from bits of no less than 5 other B-17s.
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You see having warbirds not fall out of the sky at random would reduce historic accuracy
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I appreciated this. Thanks.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Quite how they square "the government is evil" with "remember WW2" is not something I'd like to think too much about. Old Government good, many manly men. New Government bad, did you know they give new recruits a card in basic training and-
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hobbesmaster posted:You see having warbirds not fall out of the sky at random would reduce historic accuracy 
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Witness the Champaign Aviation Museum's B-17, being built up from bits of no less than 5 other B-17s. I think all the Saturn Vs on display are mix and match.
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Zero One posted:I think all the Saturn Vs on display are mix and match. WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DISPLAY ROCKETS NEVER FLEW?!?
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Nebakenezzer posted:WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DISPLAY ROCKETS NEVER FLEW?!? YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THIS S-IB AIN'T NEVER BEEN TO THE MOON?
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Nebakenezzer posted:WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DISPLAY ROCKETS NEVER FLEW?!? But it's a little interesting. I guess the one in Huntsville is all the same rocket but it was only a test unit. quote:Two at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville:
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e.pilot posted:how many more warbird crashes are we going to get before the FAA puts the kibosh on them, these airframes aren’t getting any younger As I said before, I think it's far more likely the FAA puts the kibosh on *passenger* flights within warbirds, and restricting their activities to flyovers and static displays at airshows. They aren't going to do anything to dissuade rich people from their hobbies, but it's within their remit to keep people from dying in crashes that are wholly preventable by simply saying "no more for-profit flights." Could be as simple as slapping an Experimental designation on any rebuilt aircraft that fits the designation of a warbird. That wouldn't preclude air racing, but it might nix racing aircraft from performing at air shows doing anything other than high speed passes and looking  on the ground.
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hobbesmaster posted:Hes a boomer pilot, of course he thinks that! Hey. There are three or four of us who aren't chud-fucks.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Witness the Champaign Aviation Museum's B-17, being built up from bits of no less than 5 other B-17s. I think I'm okay with that, that's like concentrated B-17! I also understand that components and parts need to be replaced and repaired. If the parts are from the same era produced by the same companies that created the originals, that seems acceptable. But if too much of the plane is new manufacture, it starts to feel, watered down, at least.
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Sad news for space fans. Michael Collins died today. He lived about 800 feet from me, but I never got to meet him and tell him how his biography was funny as hell and easily the most honest of all the Apollo astronauts'. Apparently, he worked out at the local YMCA and if I hadn't let myself go to hell the past five years I could have annoyed him with questions while on the Stairmaster. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/28/509599284/forgotten-astronaut-michael-collins-dies
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ausgezeichnet posted:Sad news for space fans. Michael Collins died today. He lived about 800 feet from me, but I never got to meet him and tell him how his biography was funny as hell and easily the most honest of all the Apollo astronauts'. Apparently, he worked out at the local YMCA and if I hadn't let myself go to hell the past five years I could have annoyed him with questions while on the Stairmaster. He does have a very special distinction though: of the photo taken of the lunar lander, with earth in the background, he is the one singular human, living or dead, since the beginning of time itself, who is not included somewhere in that photo.
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e.pilot posted:how many more warbird crashes are we going to get before the FAA puts the kibosh on them, these airframes aren’t getting any younger If they look too closely at ww2 era planes someone may start asking uncomfortable questions about b-52 airframes.
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Midjack posted:If they look too closely at ww2 era planes someone may start asking uncomfortable questions about b-52 airframes. So long as they’re in military hands...
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