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Boomer The Cannon posted:If 'Aluminum Overcast' ever appears at your local airport, do yourself a favor and go check it out. It's an amazing restoration. She is the highest-hour B-17. 
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Saw some airplanes today Aluminum Overcast and Aeroshell over the Arch.  aeroshellarch by RReiheld, on Flickr  like-a-jet-over-troubled-waters by RReiheld, on Flickr [edit] Huh, I'm wrong. That is a Harrier II+ out of MCAS Cherry Point. VMA-223 The Bulldogs. Maybe being the former home of McDonnell Aircraft means you get a harrier for your airshow either military or private. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 00:25 on Jul 5, 2012 |
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Slo-Tek posted:
The rules for the USAF make little distinction between military and private (or public non-military, whatever) airshows...it just has to be judged a worthwhile enough event to justify sending the jets. I'd imagine the USMC policy is similar. Nice pictures, by the way. In sadder news, they recovered the bodies of the two Turkish crewmembers of that F-4 that was shot down last month. Also, the search for the two missing crewmembers from that Tornado mishap off of Scotland has been called off, and when it resumes it will be a recovery operation...and one of the two survivors who were recovered earlier has died in the hospital. 
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Saw some Airplanes in Boston yesterday, Navy decided to send the Wasp up here for Fleet week and the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, and the Blue Angels had just been in Portsmouth, NH for an airshow there. Blue Angels performing first of 4 flybys  Some other F/A-18s, not sure if C or E model  E-2C, fucker was LOUD  H-53 of some sort  USMC C-130, it came in low and I didn't have my camera ready.  And the last Blue Angels flyby More pics here: http://imgur.com/a/OZ278 BONUS: Massachusetts National Guard testing their field guns for the 1812 Overture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOFbrbZUTEM mlmp08 posted:Sounds like you're describing Eagle Claw. It wasn't so much that sandstorms crippled the birds as they contributed to poor visibility resulting in a Stallion slamming into a Herc tanker, which pretty much ruined everything for everyone except the Iranians. We actually sold a bunch of them to Iran prior to the revolution. Kilonum fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Jul 5, 2012 |
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Jul 5, 2012 13:14
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So, i'm guessing helis are welcome here, right? Because I fanboy'd out over these two OH-58 Kiowas last night, they were doing an airshow over the lake prior to last night's fireworks show:       Crazy banking moves and lots of high-speed passes over the water and the boats below, the blue and white one skimmed just over the top of a few pontoon boats a few time. It was awesome.
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Surprised I didn't see a link to the Air France Flight 447 final report, so here it is: (big pdf) http://www.bea.aero/docspa/2009/f-cp090601.en/pdf/f-cp090601.en.pdf EDIT: as far as crash reports go, this one as a lot of interesting info. Lots of images of debris, cockpit panels, the data recorders and that sort of stuff. 0toShifty fucked around with this message at 02:12 on Jul 6, 2012 |
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Jul 6, 2012 02:06
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Uh I am confused about the US Army livery but civvie-wearing pilot. Is that a privately owned one?
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HeyEng posted:Uh I am confused about the US Army livery but civvie-wearing pilot. Is that a privately owned one? Registration Type: Corporation Owner: Mid South Aviation Institute Address: Black Rock, AR 72415 United States Region: Southwestern
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front wing flexing posted:Registration Type: Corporation I wanna own a Kiowa.
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Jul 6, 2012 02:18
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front wing flexing posted:Registration Type: Corporation Stuff like this is why I love AI. I had no idea where either of those came from, just that they must be local. Makes sense that they'd be from Black Rock, that's about half an hour away or so.
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 This is a lake just beyond my place of residence. Just about every day once May rolls around, I'll be woken up by the sounds of float planes doing float plane stuff. These guys fly so low over my roof that I can easily hit them with tennis balls on their approach in (I don't). I am super envious that there are people in this world who legitimately think, "Should I take the plane to Anchorage or the car?!"
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Jul 6, 2012 02:35
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HeyEng posted:I wanna own a Kiowa. Buy a Long Ranger and paint it drab.
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HeyEng posted:
My parents live less than a mile away from there and I went to elementary school just up the hill. I used to stand by the playground fence and watch the planes. It was also cool watching jump practice and the CH-47 convoys north to Fairbanks. Occasionally they'd land a helo on the field and give students tours.
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Advent Horizon posted:My parents live less than a mile away from there and I went to elementary school just up the hill. I used to stand by the playground fence and watch the planes. If you ever come back, go hike up Mt Baldy and follow the coast line from Elmendorf to just about a mile or so north. You might get lucky and get to see a bunch of C-130's and C-17's conduct airdrops/airborne jumps.
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My mom and I once hiked the Butte and were standing on the top when we heard some loud wind. It turned out to be four fighters flying to the bases from the Knik Glacier area. They came by us at eye level and right when they were alongside one peeled off and did a missing man formation. I can only assume they were practicing since I don't think there were any funerals in the area.
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HeyEng posted:I am super envious that there are people in this world who legitimately think, "Should I take the plane to Anchorage or the car?!" My old boss up here owned a Super Cub; long story but he was flying with the Aggressors up north to keep his currency, so he would have to travel up there TDY basically once a month. Once he bought his plane and got it airworthy he pretty much stopped driving there TDY and would just fly himself up there. One day he was tooling along and his engine quit (trouble with the carburetor I think), so he dead sticked it down onto the Parks. Some Army dude happened to be driving along, so they tinkered for a bit and got the engine running again, the Army guy went and blocked off traffic, and off he went...only to have the engine quit again on final to Eielson. One IFE and one more dead-stick landing later he just had to call for a tow off the runway. The real kicker is that a few months after this he successfully flew the Super Cub all the way down to Texas. HeyEng posted:If you ever come back, go hike up Mt Baldy and follow the coast line from Elmendorf to just about a mile or so north. You might get lucky and get to see a bunch of C-130's and C-17's conduct airdrops/airborne jumps. Anyone who is going to do this, I'd particularly recommend doing it during a Red Flag, as you are almost guaranteed to see some jets doing some CDS or sandbag drops...next one is in August. Since we're having Anchorage chat, anyone know what's up with the C-119 that was parked by the Everts Air Cargo terminal at Ted Stevens? Saw it tonight as my flight was landing, would it be one of those two that are based out of Palmer? Speaking of Everts, I never get tired of seeing their DC-6s...I make a point of stopping to watch whenever I see one tooling around the airfield here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Rpa-UL_Qo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT9YDyce4wc
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One of those two was stranded in Anchorage for years while they scavenged parts to fix the one stuck on Kodiak. http://www.flyingboxcar.com/ When I was at UAF I used to love when the Everts C-46s took off. With a full load they would climb so slowly you could just about count rivets as they passed over the campus hill.
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Kilonum posted:
Those are C's. Vert stab antenna configuration is a little different on the Super.
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Jul 6, 2012 17:00
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OptimusMatrix posted:Here's video of a Brazilian Jet blowing the windows out of a glass building because of the shock wave. That rules, if that happened in the US though, everyone would be going crazy cheering.
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Jul 9, 2012 04:18
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This photo has been making the rounds on some av-blogs. DC flight sunk into the tarmac from the excessive temps.
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Jul 9, 2012 05:28
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Thats some lovely pavement. At least the jet is OK.
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Jul 9, 2012 05:36
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n420AW is the BEST callsign ever. AW = my initials.
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Woke up to the sound of the annual 4th of July airshow going on over my house (I work nights) and watched the F-22 for a bit until he vanished over the horizon...and came back with a buddy!  
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Philip J Fry posted:Woke up to the sound of the annual 4th of July airshow going on over my house (I work nights) and watched the F-22 for a bit until he vanished over the horizon...and came back with a buddy! I've always liked the late '40s/early '50s paint scheme on Bill Anders's Mustang, complete with buzz number. (He still owns Val-Halla, right?)
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That P-51 is the Val-Halla. If you squint, you can make out the 'Halla' in the shadow right behind the prop.
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I went back to the local air and space museum, and had the time to go inside today. 2 things I noticed: the interior displays were vastly improved since the last time I was there and they were doing poo poo tons of restoration/preservation to the planes outside. First, look at this plane as seen in August 2011.  DSC_0088.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr And today:  DSC_0692.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Before:  DSC_0100.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr After:  DSC_0694.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Before:  DSC_0097.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr During (they were working on stripping this guy down and building it back up)  DSC_0698.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr And tons more than that. Basically everything was having the cockpits and other parts sealed off from the elements, all new paint on the landing gears, holes patched up. It was wonderful. Now onto other stuff. BONE  DSC_0587.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr DAT rear end  DSC_0597.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr This was one of the engines used in the B-1A program. Only 23 built (this isn't a replica).  DSC_0631.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr F-111 porn.  DSC_0717.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr  DSC_0713.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Forget the model.  DSC_0599.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr b83 nuclear weapon. The sign claimed that you can fit one of these on an F-22, but I dunno how. It was big. Would be hilarious to see though.  DSC_0602.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Genie Air to Air nuclear weapon.  DSC_0603.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr BDU-38 practice bomb, designed to mimic the flightpath of a nuke.  DSC_0604.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr I imagine an F-22 carrying that B83 from earlier would look something like a B-52 carrying a pair of these. AGM-28 Hound Dog. Thing was massive.  DSC_0627.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr Finally, a Texan (I think) parked in front of the prop off of a B-36. B-36 were loving huge.  DSC_0628.jpg by MrDespair, on Flickr
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Mr. Despair posted:b83 nuclear weapon. The sign claimed that you can fit one of these on an F-22, but I dunno how. It was big. Would be hilarious to see though.  The wiki article says that, but it has absolutely no citation and as far as I know the F-22 was never nuclear certified. There are plans to certify the F-35 (eventually) as a replacement for the F-16 in the tactical role employing B-61s, but nothing with the Raptor, and as far as I know there never was since up until well after the end of the Cold War the Raptor was supposed to be a pure air supremacy machine, in the vein of the F-15C...the air to ground mission was added in well after the conclusion of the ATF competition.Was that at the Ellsworth museum?
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iyaayas01 posted:Was that at the Ellsworth museum? Sure was. I accompanied him on this day. 
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Mr. Despair posted:
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HeyEng posted:Thats some lovely pavement. At least the jet is OK. In the pavement's defense, it's a REALLY lovely aircraft.
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Polymerized Cum posted:In the pavement's defense, it's a REALLY lovely aircraft. http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/N420AW.html
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grover posted:Clearly, the F-22 would be certified nuclear NOT for the B83, but for the AIR-2 Genie. You know, to counter any swarm tactics designed to send up more aircraft than the Raptor has missiles. You laugh, I guarantee this has been discussed (well, not the AIM-2, but a newer missile).
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iyaayas01 posted:
It was Ellsworth (I wouldn't be shocked if they had pulled some of that info from wikipedia. Dunno where else they would have found it).
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http://www.airport-world.com/news-articles/item/1705-rolls-royce-reveals-world%E2%80%99s-only-lego-jet-engine Lego RR Trent, anyone?  
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Make it a Lego GE-90 and we'll talk
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Quoting from a long time ago (June of last year!), but...OptimusMatrix posted:Noo. B-17 crashed. ...is going to be rebuilt! http://www.libertyfoundation.org/index.html
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Holy poo poo awesome! It's like that Qantas jet but a million times cooler and harder to do. edit: actually George Washington's Axe might be a better analogy here...
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