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Geoj posted:Given the rate at which the DoD is fire-selling surplus equipment to state and local governments/law enforcement I'm kind of surprised its not a defanged Apache.  Only a matter of time...
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Geoj posted:Given the rate at which the DoD is fire-selling surplus equipment to state and local governments/law enforcement I'm kind of surprised its not a defanged Apache. Actually the USFS Cobras have been in service for quite a while; when the Army divests of expensive as gently caress equipment it might as well go to benefit local governments and the active (army) component hasn't been flying Cobras for like 20 years. In flight school I landed at Panama City and there was one in parking so I got to talk to the guys for a minute. Asked if I could trade him for the keys to my TH-67 and they said no, hehe. There are probably gonna be a lot of sheriff departments picking up OH-58s on the cheap in the next couple years.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:There are probably gonna be a lot of sheriff departments picking up OH-58s on the cheap in the next couple years. Is the FAA still having kittens about that airframe even though it's just a goddamn 206a? I had heard they were giving former -58 pilots the shaft on time accrued in those due to them being  experimental...?
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Kerrow posted:Nato Days comming up next weekend. I'm bringing my camera so I hope I'll be able to get some decent shots. Viggen and Draken?
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PhotoKirk posted:I forgot that NASA had them. We were driving north on i-45 and I lost my mind when I saw it. I spent about 20 minutes telling my wife how SUPER FREAKIN' AWESOME THAT WAS and she just stared at me. Now you need to find a WB-57
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Cat Mattress posted:Viggen and Draken? Seconded. Also, Su-22, because of reasons.
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Does anyone know the history of this masterpiece? I first saw it in the late 90's so I assume it's less likely to be a photoshop. Did an off duty airman grab a camera and conspire with some jokers in Army Aviation?
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Photoshop has been around since 1988, so don't discout that this might be an early 'shopped image. The rotor blur looks way too consistent and the trees aren't being blown around significantly at all, so it's probably a 'shop.
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DeusExMachinima posted:Does anyone know the history of this masterpiece? I first saw it in the late 90's so I assume it's less likely to be a photoshop. Did an off duty airman grab a camera and conspire with some jokers in Army Aviation? Of the hundreds of times I've driven by one of those "Speed enforced by aircraft" signs on I-81 in Virginia, I have not once seen an Apache hiding in the pullout lane between the north and southbound lanes  (True story: I once met a guy who did get pulled over "by aircraft". Cops had a Cessna or some such and radioed down to a squad car on the ground.)
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The aircraft patrol is sneaky because the radar detectors are useless! They just time you between painted lines or some such, on the highways here anyway.
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hobbesmaster posted:Now you need to find a WB-57 Gotta go to Texas for those. Or Kandahar until recently. If we're talking cool NASA birds I think it's kind of cool that they have a MQ-9 and a Global Chicken, and I laugh every time I'm reminded that they still fly a DC-8. Was it in this thread or one of the other aviation focused threads that someone was posting a bunch of pictures from the Dryden/Armstrong fleet over the years?
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It wasn't NASA that was operating the WB-57 out of Kandahar, was it?
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ehnus posted:It wasn't NASA that was operating the WB-57 out of Kandahar, was it? Basically. Same aircrews and maintainers...I can't remember what the breakdown was between who was federal employees and who were contractors. There were obviously non-NASA reasons the planes were over there but from an O&M perspective on the plane itself it was the same folks who operate/maintain it in the States.
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DeusExMachinima posted:Does anyone know the history of this masterpiece? I first saw it in the late 90's so I assume it's less likely to be a photoshop. Did an off duty airman grab a camera and conspire with some jokers in Army Aviation? Has to be a photoshop: if it was real only the cheese wheel would be unmasked above the tree line. Also it looks pretty fake.
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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Has to be a photoshop: if it was real only the cheese wheel would be unmasked above the tree line. Also it looks pretty fake. Normally I'd assume it was shopped but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5Dxizy4ZE
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DeusExMachinima posted:Normally I'd assume it was shopped but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW5Dxizy4ZE You can do better than that for apaches pulling over speeding cars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpTdVPfWllM
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:At Selfridge last weekend I saw a Blackhawk in black and gold livery that looked for all the world like a Macomb Co. Sheriff bird. I was, shall we say, pissed and couldn't figure out why MCS needed a goddamned Blackhawk until I got up on it and saw it was a Border Patrol bird, obviously for keeping the Canadians at bay. Nope. They're for trolling down the beach in Miami, using binoculars to look at girls. 
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MrYenko posted:Nope. They're for trolling down the beach in Miami, using binoculars to look at girls. The primary justification of ANY helicopter is to look at girls. Why do you think the 64 has all those cameras up front?
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MrYenko posted:Nope. They're for trolling down the beach in Miami, using binoculars to look at girls. Ambihelical Hexnut posted:The primary justification of ANY helicopter is to look at girls. Why do you think the 64 has all those cameras up front? It's helicopter classics night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFtJMZEthP0
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Duke Chin posted:It's helicopter classics night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFtJMZEthP0 I would've paid good money to see their reaction for the fly-by. I really should've been a Warrant Officer.
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Frinkahedron posted:Of the hundreds of times I've driven by one of those "Speed enforced by aircraft" signs on I-81 in Virginia, I have not once seen an Apache hiding in the pullout lane between the north and southbound lanes I got a ticket that way on I-77 in between Canton and Akron in Ohio.
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Flikken posted:I got a ticket that way on I-77 in between Canton and Akron in Ohio. drat, didn't realize they were doing that here. Otherwise, I know Fantasy of Flight near Orlando likes to boast about how when they fly their Piper L-4J they cause people to slow down on the interstate (and have gotten a few complaints about it, apparently).
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mobby_6kl posted:Are you going there for both days? I'd join you but as I mentioned I'm already supposed to be at a wedding, though I might be able to slip out for the second day... Just saturday, unfortunately  The Osprey is nice surprise, though. The others..noted. 
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This was an interesting Advisory.quote:ATCSCC ADVZY 010 DCC 09/11/14 UPS GROUND STOP What do you think that was all about? Was it the crippled UPS plane that made an emergency landing at Chicago-Rockford? Maybe it was due to a solar storm? Or maybe it was just weather related.
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Duke Chin posted:It's helicopter classics night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFtJMZEthP0 Is that an E30 convertible?
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CharlesM posted:Oh ye of little faith indeed. "Eagle 974 roger! Can you give me the nature of your emergency?" Oh to be a fly on the wall in the CO's office.
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Pivit posted:This was an interesting Advisory. Says it right in the advisory: "Airline Computer Issues" Which probably means dispatch/SOC or whatever the UPS equivalent is can't calculate final loads or something, or communicate final loads/w&b/etc. to the crew because their computer network/system is down or crashed or something.
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YF19pilot posted:drat, didn't realize they were doing that here. The stateys do it all over, there are white marks on the highway that go perpendicular on straight stretches and the pilot does the stopwatch thing. Then radios it in to the troopers that are just sitting there.
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Flikken posted:The stateys do it all over, there are white marks on the highway that go perpendicular on straight stretches and the pilot does the stopwatch thing. Then radios it in to the troopers that are just sitting there. Oh, I know OHP does that, I've seen the lines on the roads and what not, I just didn't realize they were patrolling that section of 77 specifically.
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YF19pilot posted:Oh, I know OHP does that, I've seen the lines on the roads and what not, I just didn't realize they were patrolling that section of 77 specifically. I got nabbed in 07, and I commute that way everyday and have only seen it again a handful of times.
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iyaayas01 posted:If we're talking cool NASA birds I think it's kind of cool that they have a MQ-9 and a Global Chicken, and I laugh every time I'm reminded that they still fly a DC-8. Was it in this thread or one of the other aviation focused threads that someone was posting a bunch of pictures from the Dryden/Armstrong fleet over the years? I think it might have ended up in the spaceflight thread at one point.  And here is a big pile of them.
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ickna posted:I think it might have ended up in the spaceflight thread at one point. There is something very very strange going on with the plane at the top of centerline.
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Ardeem posted:There is something very very strange going on with the plane at the top of centerline. What, the Jetstar?
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Madurai posted:What, the Jetstar? No, the twin tailed fighter(f-15?) below it, that seems to have asymetical wings and three shadows.
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Ardeem posted:No, the twin tailed fighter(f-15?) below it, that seems to have asymetical wings and three shadows. F-15 ACTIVE 
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Ardeem posted:No, the twin tailed fighter(f-15?) below it, that seems to have asymetical wings and three shadows. It's this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_STOL/MTD The weird shadows are from the angled-upwards canards
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Well, I was right about something weird going on with that one. Nice to know what it is!
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Ardeem posted:Well, I was right about something weird going on with that one. Nice to know what it is! What about the one next to it? I spent half an hour tracking down the Rotor Systems Research Aircraft. It's a Sikorsky helicopter chassis, with the rotor system of an SH-3, landing gear of an F-5, and engines of an S-3 bolted on. It's also a helicopter with ejection seats. The reason it was so hard to track down is that there's no rotor system installed in that photo, with the SH-3 bits painted an exciting blue, so I couldn't figure out what the hell was going on with it, and wasn't looking in their helicopter section at all. The rotor bits are a nice color because it's in the middle of getting upgraded to the X-wing platform (shortly before the program was cancelled).
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Check out this sexy beast. The XB-19 that first flew in 1941: It could carry 37,000 lbs. of bombs vs. the B-17's 8,500 (the B-52 carries 70,000). Somehow hadn't heard about this one... Great story about it at Foxtrot Alpha: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/americas-real-wwii-flying-fortress-was-the-massive-doug-1632864365
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