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I had an uncle who was an aeronautical engineer from post-war till the 80s and this is reminding me that at one point he gave me some of his collection of small poster sized (like 24x18-ish) promotional prints of a bunch of planes from the era. I hung them in my room like the huge nerd that I was and now have zero recollection of what happened to them, but I'm guessing it involved a garbage bag once girls started to come over.
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Jealous Cow posted:I hope whoever investigates his inevitable fatal incident releases the video from his go pros. Do we know what Jerry did before this poo poo? Because he reeks of a person who got successful mostly by luck but who thinks it was skill and smarts and continues to press that luck in other venues.
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Has anything like this happened before (the Airbus tail thing wasn't this widespread a d long, was it)? I'm very curious about next steps. The 737max has to get recertified at some point, right? But do they all get sold at a discount to Rwanda Airlines while the major carriers keep fixing the fleets that they are flying today while their 737maxes are grounded, and then buy new planes from Airbus?
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Bring back the Dornier 328!
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It could have been shot down by a canadian crop duster pilot in an open cockpit cloth biplane left over from WWI as long as he had a flare gun?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:With the exception of *that one gate*, DCA has no business being a hub of any kind.
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Rip Testes posted:Not sure if this always happens or if this some air patrol operation surrounding the inauguration.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Does anyone have any recommendations for books on early commercial air travel? I’ve got stuff about early air combat but not people flying airliners around in the ‘20s and ‘30s.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Oh hell yes, that’s perfect. Thanks!
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My brain ateuggled to rectify the placement of the nacelles and the sound of a piston motor begrudgingly firing up. It took far too long to realize those weren't turbines.
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Isn't this guy already dead, and the only remaining mystery is exactly how? Gravity still seems most likely but adding fire to the mix is interesting.
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Homemade 12 ga chain shot? Bring back 19th Century naval loads.
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FunOne posted:Yes. Look up the logistics on the Falkland island bombings. 
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PT6A posted:The Ilyushin IL-18 is a plane I find beautiful for no particular reason, I just really like how it looks. I am apparently alone in this, no one else seems to feel any affection for it. I'm a basic bitch and that era for me is Connie or GTFO.
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Arson Daily posted:I looked it up and a 777-300 burns around 7.5 metric tons of fuel per hour, so this jerkoff burned up about 5000 gallons of jet fuel because they wouldn't wear a piece of paper across their face.
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Salami Surgeon posted:they closed gate 35X.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:it has mainly international service since its insanely inconveniently located compared to DCA. domestic service is mostly on united, a dogshit airline that smart people avoid. (i hear its a lot better now but don't care to find out!) Adding metro access won't change how far out there IAD is, but it would at least make it less inconvenient. I believe they're still working toward that 60-year-old goal, but aren't there yet.
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Curious about how the finances worked on those, because Continental got CLE to build a commuter flight terminal which has now been empty for 8 years after the United merger, but United is on the hook to continue paying it off. I'm having a hard time believing a government body in Cleveland did something right.
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dupersaurus posted:FedEx Also, air tankers. Edit: yeah, what hobbesmaster said.
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Advent Horizon posted:I assume when you say ‘air tankers’ you mean the KC-10 Extender but there is a fleet of civilian DC-10s (not MD-10) still in use that are known as tankers: Would love to experience one of those loud old bastards flying low, but also, would not want to be in the middle of a wildfire.
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Nebakenezzer posted:If you need a laugh, here's a found and explained video of the CL-1201, that late 1960s Lockheed project on the biggest airplane you could build with modern technology. It starts off bizarre, then actually gets even more so. Like "the engineers were just having a laugh" levels of WTF.
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Zero One posted:They had a remote parachute but it was a little late.
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That was a cool as hell read. Thanks for posting it.
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Not a pilot, but I'm on the approach to a GA airport and a lot of the bizjets that land there sound more like a whine compared to the roar of bigger planes.
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Caveat that I'm not a pilot, so I know poo poo about poo poo, but I listened to the VASAviation recording of some of the ATC and something seems off from the official story. The guy seems to understand a lot of stuff that someone who has no idea about flying might not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MDwzNtDMlA
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Ok, I'm a victim of lovely reporting because I missed entirely the part about him being a plane nerd. That makes a ton more sense.
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Shifty Pony posted:Before BRAC closed Myrtle Beach AFB my father used to have A-10s do practice runs on him while he was doing bulldozer work in the woods. Said it was both interesting and unnerving.
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Who's Zed?
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The flash when it hits the wires is just 
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What birds are at 38k feet?
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hobbesmaster posted:The avherald comments saying left engine is out and it’s Vmc roll may be on to something. That was on takeoff, though. Edit: That was the flameout of the left engine, but the fatal mistake was accidentally killing the other one while trying to deal with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransAsia_Airways_Flight_235?wprov=sfla1 stealie72 fucked around with this message at 03:58 on Jan 16, 2023 |
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superdylan posted:Yeah its huge and dark and a little depressing, you are going to poo poo your pants when you spend a day at Evergreen museum. Ideally, you get the aircraft donated. Whoever was using it decides they're done using it and doesn't want it to go to the scrap yard, so they donate it to your museum. Otherwise, you buy it. Larger museums will have some kind of fund to purchase new collection items, but I'm not sure about one-man passion projects, and will spend the money to get something key for their collection. Interestingly, it's considered ethical to sell your own collection items to put money into this fund, but not ethical to sell objects to pay for other expenses. A lot of museums look rich on paper, but that money is untouchable for anything but adding to the collection. If you've got a curator worth their job, they've developed extensive connections in whatever their field is, and are often the first call that the nerds that are huge into that subject makes when they want to sell something. Or, you find the guy who has a farm field full of old planes that he bought surplus after The War and make an offer. Or try to get him to leave the collection to the museum. Odds are the curator will be friendly with the auction houses that deal with their subject and has probably done a few assessments of things up for auction, so may get an early alert of what's coming up for auction. So, can you buy an F5? Maybe. This guy owned a B-36: https://www.clevescene.com/cleveland/21-photos-of-northeast-ohios-deserted-plane-sanctuary/Slideshow/38344514/38216211
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shame on an IGA posted:Which also speaks to why for some rare and high profile items like the shuttle orbiters the bidding process for museums is highly competitive, not on a purchase price basis but the standpoint of "which institution actually has the resources and longevity to take care of this thing properly?"
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Pablo Bluth posted:Cockit view from a A400m doing a touch and go on a beach.
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Humphreys posted:I wonder if the Ruskies idea was to douse the drone in fuel and have it set alight from their engine exhaust heat on close flybys
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Airlines should totally keep doing those "single pilot" studies: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna76275
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PhotoKirk posted:Transparent aluminum?
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Shits like a young adult novel. Good on those kids.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:yeah, when people lament that old surplus WWII planes, boats and equipment was just trashed outright rather than finding a second use, a lot of it is through ignorance of just what a difference a military opex budget (especially wartime) looks like compared to nearly any other endeavour.
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