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Polymerized Cum posted:It's a DC-10. They should fill the fuselage with fire retardant, so when it inevitably spirals into the wildfire it will put it out. I couldn't help but laugh, but come on dude, the DC-10 is a good bird. It was an expensive path to MAKE it good, but good, nonetheless.
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And it's perfect for this application; they just have to orbit the fire until the cargo door blows out!
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Used Sunlight sales posted:Jacked this off my twitter feed. God dammit, there's a reason for those "do not flush toilet while parked" signs in the bathrooms!
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Welp, that didn't take long. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U6IJ-LS3Xs&t=79s
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drat, it really does look better in flight than it does in that picture. I didn't even notice the weird squishy nose. I'm not sure how much of that is just the caveman in me dumbstruck when something the size of an airliner takes off and actually flies, though. It's still impressive, even though I've watched it happen for the entirety of my life.
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This particular hospital thinks that when approaching the aircraft, you should look like the guy from that Pearl Jam album. Safety first.
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Polymerized Cum posted:Waiting for my partner to go pee (her bladder is the size of a walnut) Interesting door design there.  IFR with the gunner's window open.
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Triggs posted:Interesting door design there. Even though the air conditioning on the BK is so loving powerful it literally blows frost, the ECU is not available during takeoff, climb or landing. Some hot days in the summer, I really wish we could just keep the doors open until 1000' AGL
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Used Sunlight sales posted:Jacked this off my twitter feed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh04tJXcYzk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BglU98n278
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Polymerized Cum posted:Even though the air conditioning on the BK is so loving powerful it literally blows frost, the ECU is not available during takeoff, climb or landing. Some hot days in the summer, I really wish we could just keep the doors open until 1000' AGL What's preventing you guys from flying with the doors off?
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Triggs posted:What's preventing you guys from flying with the doors off? Part 135 and CAMTS regulations. And the fact that there would be a trail of poorly secured soft medical equipment like suction catheters and gloves.
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MrYenko posted:I couldn't help but laugh, but come on dude, the DC-10 is a good bird. It was an expensive path to MAKE it good, but good, nonetheless. Speaking of which, saw this at Pearson International yesterday. I had no idea they were still hauling passengers...or is this the tragically uncool MD-11?  Also: mid-50s Life had a special issue on aviation. A few pics: Just meal preparation for a long flight - filet mignon. 60 years from now, scientists will say your meals will be made to order by the robot-chef in the aircraft galley, using food super-concentrates! Everything from De-odorized durian to the finest chicago hot dogs will be selectable!  From jack rabbits to O'hare, it's just a short hop   They also had a fold out of all current USAF aircraft flying together. On the opposite side is all the then-current USN carrier aircraft on one carrier deck.   
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Jesus, that is too many jets. How could we have paid for the development, production, and maintenance on all those different airframes?
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That's an MD-11. I think World still might have some pax configured DC-10's and there are probably a few in the third world, but I can't think of any main lines still flying them. KLM and Finnair are two of the big MD-11 holdouts. FedEx is probably salivating at the idea of getting the rest of them.
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I believe the MD11 is going away now that KLM are getting their 330s.
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MrYenko posted:That's an MD-11. I think World still might have some pax configured DC-10's and there are probably a few in the third world, but I can't think of any main lines still flying them. KLM and Finnair are two of the big MD-11 holdouts. FedEx is probably salivating at the idea of getting the rest of them. I can see at least one of them everyday, parked by the highway as a reserve aircraft for something more efficient (777 or A330) that is actually carrying its passengers and cargo nowadays. I was lucky enough to fly the sim one friday evening (one week after the FedEx Tokyo crash), and flew the old Hong Kong approach with it a couple of times. Happy days.... you know, she's actually not a bad ship from a systems point of view, easy to operate with lots of things going on automatically, just relatively poorly conceived aerodynamically and structure-wise. Still, I think it's sad to see them go... before long, all that will be left in our national fleet are twins in different sizes.
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Nebakenezzer posted:On the opposite side is all the then-current USN carrier aircraft on one carrier deck.  bigger Also, 
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Cygni posted:Welp, that didn't take long. Watched it live (at work so it's slightly less sad and vaguely work related, we had it on the big monitor). That video is much better than the awkward "news" style panel discussion Airbus was doing during the event. I like the raccoon mask over the windshields. I wish AC was getting a350s but we're going all boeing for wide bodies so that's pretty unlikely.
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Nice. My skillz with ifranview are still a little basic; I couldn't figure out how to create the seamless image from three parts. Also: re: blind airplane: so crazy it just might work?
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Nebakenezzer posted:Also: re: blind airplane: so crazy it just might work? Well, there are two schools of thought on aircraft stability: Every other pilot and engineer in the world says you need it; that one guy who drew the picture says you don't... and while you're at it, propeller driven aircraft with a thrust-to-weight ratio > 1 don't have propellers that are that small, they have helicopter rotors Captain Postal fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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So what would it look like if the RAF got the fighter they wanted instead of the F-35? Or if California decided to get real aggressive about ending high-speed chases?  This guy has nineteen pages of drawings of real and fictional aircraft in different paint schemes. I thought it was pretty cool. http://ws-clave.deviantart.com/gallery/6112394 Edit:  
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Nebakenezzer posted:Nice. My skillz with ifranview are still a little basic; I couldn't figure out how to create the seamless image from three parts. It's essentially the 'fan wing' concept, and yes, it works, incredibly STOL. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asJqvrikQSA#t=2m30
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Nebakenezzer posted:Nice. My skillz with ifranview are still a little basic; I couldn't figure out how to create the seamless image from three parts. I used MS paint.  bigger 
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Used Sunlight sales posted:Jacked this off my twitter feed. Every year people bitch and complain that we should get these, or those canadian seaplanes, or the Evergreen 747 over into Australia to fight bushfires, but fail to remember that we have zero infrastructure to actually support them- Airports near fires cant handle the big jets like the DC10's or 747, the terrain we fight fires in isnt really big plane friendly and we have no lakes or reservoirs big enough for the seaplanes to work off. Instead we use little Air Tractor 802's and put pilots with brass balls the size of the moon in them so they can do stupid poo poo like this  
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As I was waiting for my ride at Reading last Saturday, my buddy & I puzzled over this hangar queen. It looks like the predecessor to the Viking, and is Grummanesque, but we couldn't identify it. There is a radar pod on the port tip, and a big fuckall searchlight on the starboard.  VVV drat, that was fast. I didn't know the Neptune had JATO. Thanks VVV PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Jun 15, 2013 |
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Lockheed. Pre-Orion.
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Couple photos of nice WWII aircraft color photos I snagged from here: http://life.time.com/history/wwii-before-and-after-d-day-color-photos-from-england-and-france-1944/?iid=obinsite#1 P-47  P-38 
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MrYenko posted:That's an MD-11. I think World still might have some pax configured DC-10's and there are probably a few in the third world, but I can't think of any main lines still flying them. KLM and Finnair are two of the big MD-11 holdouts. FedEx is probably salivating at the idea of getting the rest of them. World still has a few passenger MD-11s for military charters, but they retired their DC-10s. Biman Bangladesh might still be flying one or two though, that's probably who you're thinking of.
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just found this threadPolymerized Cum posted:Would anyone be interested in, like, a huge photobomb of stuff from my work? Please do this. Especially pics of the inside. I'm a doctor who's hoping to do some helicopter stuff in the future and would love to see your setup. Gone up in essex's MD902 and poked around a demo 429 before 
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ChickenOfTomorrow posted:Holy cannoli. How much can those li'l things hold? anywhere from 2500 to 3100L. From memory theres generally 6 based in Adelaide hills, 2 at Port Lincoln and 2 at Mt Gambier during the fire season. During the winter they use them for crop dusting!
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I havent seen the KLM MD11 in Vancouver in a while, makes me sad. DC10 was my favorite airliner.
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Sky Bahamas destroys another perfectly good airplane. That plane was just up here a couple of weeks ago for an engine swap. Rest in pieces, 340B-316.  They broke another one a few years ago when the chief pilot forgot to check the position of his gear handle before he started up.  Oops. That was a loving great airframe too, very well maintained before SB took possession of it.
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Had that 747 tanker do a demo drop about a mile or so from us a few years back.. and then land on our piddly-rear end barely 5500' runway to top it off. Didn't even use it all.  as gently caress.
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Acid Reflux posted:They broke another one a few years ago when the chief pilot forgot to check the position of his gear handle before he started up. Due 340s not have WOW switches?
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Not with any kind of safety interlock, astoundingly. If the handle is up and the pins are out, the gear *will* fold when hydraulics come on. One of many design decisions that still causes me, even after six years of working on them, to say "Why would anyone do that?!?" at least once a day.
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Holy loving poo poo, do I hate Air China. Wife was supposed to fly from Changchun->Beijing->Vancouver->Toronto->Sudbury. I show up in Sudbury to pick her up and no wife. Seems that the plane was delayed coming in to Beijing and there was no way to make her Vancouver flight. So the airline decided to give her the same ticket, for the next friday (because that's the only time I can pick her up). They told her it was the exact same flights, and her old printed eticket would work as the reference number would be forwarded when typed in. She shows up for her flight the next friday (14th June) and the lady at the desk says she has to show up at least an hour ahead of her flight. She tells the lady at the desk she is 3 hours early, and the lady informs her it's leaving in 55 minutes. They didn't book the exact same flights, and didn't tell her the times had changed. Naturally they took no responsibility, conveniently forgot everything they told her, and said it was her responsibility to confirm tickets (partly true). So for the past 4 days I have been trying to get the credit I have from that missed flight put towards a new one, but the customer support in the LA office is just full of the daughters of wealthy Chinese Nationals who want an excuse to live in the US without having to go to school. All they do is say they will check, hang up, and never call back. When asked for their names so I can keep talking to the same rep, there is a pause (can hear them thinking) and then they give me a fake name. How do I know it's fake, because when I call back and ask for their name, they tell me that nobody with that name works there, or that they are sick that day and not in the office. When I try and get transfered to a supervisor they say, "hold please" and just ignore the line until I hang up. I think they might hire from the same pool as Bell Canada. Next time I will avoid them like the plague, even if I have to spend an extra $200 to fly Air Canada or another carrier.
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