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Slo-Tek posted:Thing is, that a trip to the boneyard is not anything like one-way. Something past 40% of the aircraft that arrive at the AMARG leave again under their own power. Some as QF target drones, a lot to foreign militaries, and a goodly number, like the C-27's, back into service in the US. Thankfully, as noted, many if not all of these will see second lives with the USCG. The entire story of the Spartan program (heyoo) is a litany of interservice cock-measuring contests. e: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Air-Koryo/Tupolev-Tu-154B-2/2388766/L/ Is this a common practice or just something Koryo is forced to do because North Korea? Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Thankfully, as noted, many if not all of these will see second lives with the USCG. The entire story of the Spartan program (heyoo) is a litany of interservice cock-measuring contests. There's a photo on A.net of a similar JS flight crew using their coats to put out a brake fire at PEK. It's hilarious. This is just how JS works. I did a lot of effort posts on my flights with Air Koryo somewhere in the thread.
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Powercube posted:There's a photo on A.net of a similar JS flight crew using their coats to put out a brake fire at PEK. It's hilarious. This is just how JS works. I did a lot of effort posts on my flights with Air Koryo somewhere in the thread. What are the brakes made out of? Here are your posts. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3276654&userid=106012#post408966245
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My local airport doesn't do social media too well: http://www.timesreporter.com/article/20140202/NEWS/140209907
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Boomer The Cannon posted:My local airport doesn't do social media too well: I hope Southwest stays with us, but yeah, that's terrible.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:My local airport doesn't do social media too well: Hey, it's worked for SUX 
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It's "ID that line of planes I found at random on Google Maps" time again! This one is at Burlington International Airport in VT So far I see, NW to SE:
Any corrections to my guesses? This is where I grew up, and I remember looking across the runway at the Vermont Air National Guard hangars on the far side every time we flew out of there.
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Hey Ferretking were you the guy that kicked me out of the pattern today? Things were going great with one controller and I guess there was a shift change and we got the boot right there after. THANKS
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I'd call that an F-16 just NW of the Phantom, personally. The v-stabs and the exhaust point that way to me, at least. E: Yup, the nose, cockpit, and wing shape gives that too.
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ctishman posted:It's "ID that line of planes I found at random on Google Maps" time again! This one is at Burlington International Airport in VT That's an F-94A Edit Your first shooting star, that is. Pepperoneedy fucked around with this message at 04:58 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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ctishman posted:It's "ID that line of planes I found at random on Google Maps" time again! This one is at Burlington International Airport in VT I don't see any F-5's. Bunch of F-16's, and an F-18. Your bigger T-33 is a Northrop Scorpion, F-89. Oh weird, if you rotate the view away from north, a bunch of aggressor-paint F-18's show up. two tails is F-18....(or Iranian Sageh) Also, a Beech 18 north of the warbirds. Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 04:45 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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ctishman posted:It's "ID that line of planes I found at random on Google Maps" time again! This one is at Burlington International Airport in VT F-16 T-33 T-33 F-89 (compare the empennage to the F-94) Canberra F-16 F-4
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:Hey, it's worked for SUX Pff, FUK that SHT.
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Crossposting this from the Boston thread in LANDeadite posted:FYI on the 16th 50 milk street is having a new cooling tower delivered by helicopter if anyone wants to see that. My office is in the "sterile area" so I got an email about how I won't be able to work on a Sunday. Boo hoo I wish my camera worked 
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joat mon posted:F-16 Are we sure they're both F-16s? They don't appear to have identical stabilizers, or is it a generational/block thing? Plus it looks like the white one is slightly larger?
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Yeah, they're both -16s. BTV is the home of the VT ANG and they fly -16C/D and used to fly the A/B. Also, there's a Beech 18 variant NW of the main group. EDIT: and an OV-10 on the SW ramp http://goo.gl/maps/mi1Z3 Kilonum fucked around with this message at 06:26 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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If it's not obvious, those are all planes flown by the 134th Fighter Squadron of the Vermont Air National Guard, which operates right next to the airport.
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CharlesM posted:What are the brakes made out of? They're most likely steel brake pads. Carbon brakes have become increasingly common on aircraft in last 10-15 years, but I'd be surprised if a retrofit was ever designed for the Tu-154, let alone if they were produced anywhere that would have been allowed to export them to North Korea.
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So Aérospatiale became Eurocopter, and now they are changing to to Airbus Helicopters. Thats lovely. An operator was telling me that its going to create a mess with part numbers because there will be AS, EC and AB versions of the same parts now.
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drat it, more F-35 delays.  The Article posted:According to a Lockheed spokesman, the military hopes to take delivery of the first F-35s “sometime in mid-2015, or, you know, whenever. You just never know, with these things.” ctishman fucked around with this message at 09:23 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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azflyboy posted:They're most likely steel brake pads.
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Yeah, that's what I'm curious about too.
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azflyboy posted:Carbon brakes have become increasingly common on aircraft in last 10-15 years, but I'd be surprised if a retrofit was ever designed for the Tu-154, let alone if they were produced anywhere that would have been allowed to export them to North Korea. I guess there'd be a substantial chance of them cargo-culting piles of coal to finally achieve that next level of airplane brakes. Can't have that of course.
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The only way I've ever seen aircraft brakes cooled is with air from a huffer, or fans. Spraying water on them is frowned upon. That said, if the brakes are hot enough that they need to get cooled down faster than the ambient air can manage, I'm not going anywhere loving NEAR the gear for at least a half hour. I don't trust fusible plugs that much.
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Kilonum posted:Yeah, they're both -16s. BTV is the home of the VT ANG and they fly -16C/D and used to fly the A/B. Also, there's a Beech 18 variant NW of the main group. Why are they "displayed" inside the secure area where no civvies can see them? Because gently caress you, that's why. e:and 2 F-102's at http://goo.gl/maps/yfNzh e2:and this old T-29/C-131 http://goo.gl/maps/CVN1V D C posted:So Aérospatiale became Eurocopter, and now they are changing to to Airbus Helicopters. Thats lovely. And I'm sure all the new "Airbus Helicopters" aircraft will totally be entered into the FAA registry accurately as such. (One company near me has their Astra SPX listed as an "1125 Westwind Astra." I get that this is mostly my spergy nitpicking, but is reading a dataplate that hard?) Plastic_Gargoyle fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Bob A Feet posted:Hey Ferretking were you the guy that kicked me out of the pattern today? Things were going great with one controller and I guess there was a shift change and we got the boot right there after. THANKS I can't claim that one, I was off. When the weather is marginal as it has been for the past few days, some controllers are more willing to allow someone in the pattern than others. At some point if it's too hazy to see, or guys on the instrument approaches are going to be popping out of the clouds to find you turning final right in front of them, it just ends up being safer to shut the pattern down. What are you flying again? The other day I had a Navy King Air come to Corpus and want to hop over to Cabaniss field and do touch n goes. He probably went around the pattern once over there and said "gently caress this" then came back to Corpus and asked for an IFR clearance to go back to Truax. The weather has been kinda crappy for VFR work lately. We call the exchange between Corpus and Cabaniss a "Tower to Tower request" and it sorta went like this: quote:"Cabaniss tower, this is Corpus tower, tower to tower request" The Ferret King fucked around with this message at 17:33 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Anyone know if Boeing is flying their Seahawks 747 for the parade today? And if so, when? E: yes, over the stadium in the afternoon, south to north at about 2000 ft. Thanks local news site I otherwise never visit! Psion fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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United Airlines is dropping their hub at Cleveland. 
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Psion posted:Anyone know if Boeing is flying their Seahawks 747 for the parade today? And if so, when? Hmm I should go to the roof of my building. Any way to see the flight tracker? edit: will it be this? http://flightaware.com/live/flight/BOE12 Kia Soul Enthusias fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Feb 5, 2014 |
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Snowdens Secret posted:If you're not familiar with them, you may want to check out TFR's Airpower/Cold War thread and GiP's Current Events thread which both regularly get into this topic. Pretty much starting with the F-111, every platform that's suffered mission creep and the subsequent bloat it brings was set on that path in order to save money.
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Worthleast posted:United Airlines is dropping their hub at Cleveland. It's 200mi from the United hub at ORD, 300mi from the Continental hub at EWR, and 400mi from the United hub at IAD. It's a densely-populated part of the country, but not dense enough to support four hubs for a single airline that close to each other.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:It's 200mi from the United hub at ORD, 300mi from the Continental hub at EWR, and 400mi from the United hub at IAD. It's a densely-populated part of the country, but not dense enough to support four hubs for a single airline that close to each other. They are retaining a few useful directs and connecting through ORD isn't bad.
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Worthleast posted:United Airlines is dropping their hub at Cleveland. Also known as "the Cincinnati treatment"
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So Justin Briber allegedly hotboxes his chartered Gulfstream IV on the way to/from the Superbowl to the point the pilots had to use supplemental oxygen. I'm assuming they would have at some point asked him to knock it the gently caress off if it's endangering the safety of the aircrew/passengers. I know we have some charter/contract pilots, anyone want to chime in here? Does he not have to pass through customs security/bag inspection? What kind of repercussions could these pilots have faced for diverting instead of slogging on with O2 masks, or not diverting and choosing to continue. Does the FAA care about smoking (cigarettes/cigars) on charter or private aircraft?
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SeaborneClink posted:So Justin Briber allegedly hotboxes his chartered Gulfstream IV on the way to/from the Superbowl to the point the pilots had to use supplemental oxygen. I'm assuming they would have at some point asked him to knock it the gently caress off if it's endangering the safety of the aircrew/passengers. That sounds like some tiger-beat level reporting of STDH. However, the security/baggage handling at a private FBO is the counter guy waving at you while you walk through the lobby with your duffle bag full of drugs, or if you are concerned about local enforcement, while one of your entourage walks through with a duffle bag full of drugs.
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Slo-Tek posted:That sounds like some tiger-beat level reporting of STDH. It's pretty trashy, I was just watching the CNN ticker while not working. I assumed FBO security was like that
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Cocoa Crispies posted:It's 200mi from the United hub at ORD, 300mi from the Continental hub at EWR, and 400mi from the United hub at IAD. It's a densely-populated part of the country, but not dense enough to support four hubs for a single airline that close to each other. That's O'Hare, Newark, and Dulles for those keeping track at home.
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SeaborneClink posted:So Justin Briber allegedly hotboxes his chartered Gulfstream IV on the way to/from the Superbowl to the point the pilots had to use supplemental oxygen. I'm assuming they would have at some point asked him to knock it the gently caress off if it's endangering the safety of the aircrew/passengers. Oxygen masks on and then cabin pressure to dump. Of course that would kill him at really high flight levels. Not that anyone would complain. There is probably some FBO level security that he can just walk around. It is ultimately up to the charter pilot what he lets on and allows on his plane. Smoking can probably be gotten away with, even marijuana, but its ultimately what the pilot allows and what hes comfortable with, because its going to be his rear end that gets fired and loses his license. And if he diverted that pilot would have done the right thing legally but probably would've gotten fired for pissing off such a big name client as Bieber.
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SeaborneClink posted:So Justin Briber allegedly hotboxes his chartered Gulfstream IV on the way to/from the Superbowl to the point the pilots had to use supplemental oxygen. I'm assuming they would have at some point asked him to knock it the gently caress off if it's endangering the safety of the aircrew/passengers. Thats quite a game of telephone. tmz - ugh why am I quoting tmz posted:Sources high up in the sky tell TMZ ... Justin and a group of his boyz got ridiculously high in their SUV on the way to the airport for a coast-to-coast flight on a private jet. When the doors opened on the tarmac, the pilot tells us smoke billowed out, adding, "I almost had to put on an oxygen mask."
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