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I found this interesting, In Ireland in 1996, a model airplane lost radio control because the receiver's batteries ran down and ended up making a relatively good landing 10km away on a taxiway at Dublin Airport.
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Alereon posted:I found this interesting, In Ireland in 1996, a model airplane lost radio control because the receiver's batteries ran down and ended up making a relatively good landing 10km away on a taxiway at Dublin Airport. The AAIU report posted:The propeller had lost one blade and there was also damage to the engine and lower side of the nose. There was evidence of wingtip ground contact by the right wing, and there were cracks in the lower fuselage near the undercarriage area, consistent with a heavy landing. Propeller fragments were found in the landing area. That is actually pretty drat good for zero control zero fuel.
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Apr 23, 2015 21:46
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Alereon posted:I found this interesting, In Ireland in 1996, a model airplane lost radio control because the receiver's batteries ran down and ended up making a relatively good landing 10km away on a taxiway at Dublin Airport. Date of Manufacture:- 1996 Total Flying Time:- 6 hours Wing Span:- approximately 3.0 meters Fuselage Length:- 1.8 meters Weight (empty, zero fuel):- 6.8 kg Thats a big RC plane.
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Apr 23, 2015 21:54
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Had an amazing experience today. Got to do a fly over of some podunk race track with a section of planes. Even better? It was my hometown and my parents got to go. I should have some video here soon from the ground and maybe some gopro footage if any of mine turned out.
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Apr 24, 2015 01:53
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iyaayas01 posted:Well poo poo.  
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Apr 24, 2015 03:08
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Oh man what is with that paint job 
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Apr 24, 2015 03:25
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That looks like wall paint.
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Apr 24, 2015 04:04
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I imagine that's a preservative layer of some sort.
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Apr 24, 2015 04:06
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That's one sorry-looking Bone.
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Apr 24, 2015 05:00
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hobbesmaster posted:I imagine that's a preservative layer of some sort. That's kind of what I was thinking, too - but isn't that poo poo usually way brighter-colored for sun/heat/UV reasons? Then again, that's a never-gonna-fly-again Bone so  .ed: like, why even keep the refueling port white lines if it's preserve-o-paint?
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Apr 24, 2015 05:04
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Duke Chin posted:That's kind of what I was thinking, too - but isn't that poo poo usually way brighter-colored for sun/heat/UV reasons? Then again, that's a never-gonna-fly-again Bone so The way it is now, it kind of looks like someone brought their kid in to partly color over the OD with the largest 'Forest Green' Crayola marker ever made.
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Apr 24, 2015 05:24
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 It's like a peacock showing its feathers!
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Apr 24, 2015 05:52
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Apr 24, 2015 07:41
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Assuming that's not just a picture with the wheels shopped out, I'd call that a sufficiently low pass.
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Apr 24, 2015 08:00
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And after he did this he STILL flew ~90 miles back to his home airport and took the props off! 
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Apr 24, 2015 08:41
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Pimp My Choppah: http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/bell-525-helicopter I gotcha beat on this one: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3050249/Amazing-refit-Boeing-747-mystery-billionaire-took-three-years.html
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Apr 24, 2015 12:56
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This reminds me, we've all seen the B52 minimum interval takeoff footage, but most here probably haven't seen the vulcan equivalent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js3AWp1AM94 An older 'scramble' test, but not showing as much (except the beautiful all-white nuclear flash livery of the vulcan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFT5mrMF5o Bonus lightning QRA scramble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBDF60o2Ns8
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SybilVimes posted:This reminds me, we've all seen the B52 minimum interval takeoff footage, but most here probably haven't seen the vulcan equivalent. I watched this with the sound muted, and I'm still sympathetically deaf.  
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MrYenko posted:I watched this with the sound muted, and I'm still sympathetically deaf. Yeah, it really makes you wish that they'd gone ahead with the b.3 variant (a cruise missile carrier version with the olympus 301 afterburning turbofan version, improved from the concorde version of the olympus)
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hannibal posted:As previously promised, here's my photos from the Pacific Aviation Museum. Why is there a Starfighter with folding wings? It seems like the one plane in the world that needs it least.
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Madurai posted:Why is there a Starfighter with folding wings? It seems like the one plane in the world that needs it least. http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/fun-facts/lockheeds-navy-f-104-u-s-navy-markings.html Guess it's either mislabelled one of the 2 XF5V prototypes, or mocked to look like one? (e: altho that article has a photo captioned as F-104A so I'm confused, were they F-104Es or -As ?) SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 18:46 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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SybilVimes posted:http://www.warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/fun-facts/lockheeds-navy-f-104-u-s-navy-markings.html Further down in the article: quote:Gentlemen:
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Does anyone know about how airlines assign flight numbers? Is there any rhyme or reason to how they do half of this? I'm sure it varies on an airline to airline basis - some seem to keep the route number the same regardless of which plane flies it and some keep the same flight number attached to the same plane no matter what it's doing - but it's not consistent and if there's some underlying pattern I sure don't see it. My favorite is when you see the same plane keep a flight number 3 times in a day as it hops across the country and then that flight number magically appears on another airplane at another airport and goes to a completely different place for the last flight of the day. I guess basically hit me with any stories you've got about assigning flight numbers? I'm curious about it.
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Psion posted:Does anyone know about how airlines assign flight numbers? Is there any rhyme or reason to how they do half of this? Nobody knows how this works, including the airlines. Otherwise you wouldn't get multiple aircraft with the same loving callsign.
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Apr 24, 2015 21:05
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Psion posted:Does anyone know about how airlines assign flight numbers? Is there any rhyme or reason to how they do half of this? The ranges mean something consistently at least.
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Apr 24, 2015 21:36
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Odd numbers are westbound and even numbers are eastbound… or vice versa, it kind of depends?
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Apr 24, 2015 21:39
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MrYenko posted:I watched this with the sound muted, and I'm still sympathetically deaf. Having been lucky enough to see the Vulcan display a few times in the early 90's, I can only imagine how awesome it would have been to watch a Black Buck raid take off - 11 Victors & 2 Vulcans in close succession 
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hobbesmaster posted:The ranges mean something consistently at least. Except when they don't. Seriously, the days of airline flight numbers meaning anything are long gone.
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MrChips posted:Except when they don't. Seriously, the days of airline flight numbers meaning anything are long gone. They just need to make the official callsign associated with the actual aircraft and then call it whatever the gently caress they want on the ground so that the idiot passengers don't get confused when a plane breaks and has to be replaced. e: It's bad enough that I've seen two aircraft with the same callsign hundreds of miles apart going opposite directions confusing the poo poo out of the controller trying to give one a shortcut until he figured out what was going on. How they both ended up on our frequency I'll never know. fknlo fucked around with this message at 22:28 on Apr 24, 2015 |
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Apr 24, 2015 22:25
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MrChips posted:Except when they don't. Seriously, the days of airline flight numbers meaning anything are long gone. I frequently do a flight out of "silicon valley's airport" (SJC) that's flight number 404, so hopefully we don't have an airplane vanish while doing that route...
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SybilVimes posted:An older 'scramble' test, but not showing as much (except the beautiful all-white nuclear flash livery of the vulcan) Good news! They got away in two minutes, and the missiles would arrive in 15! The End! Oh, cold war. You find some strange poo poo cheerful.
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Psion posted:Does anyone know about how airlines assign flight numbers? Is there any rhyme or reason to how they do half of this? Sometimes there is significance in a flight number. British Airways kept the Concorde flight numbers for their A318 that flies to JFK from London City. Jetblue uses certain numbers for milestone flights (JBU1 is JFK-FLL which was their first flight).
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Apr 25, 2015 01:43
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Delta varies flight numbers by operating carrier as far as I can tell.
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fknlo posted:They just need to make the official callsign associated with the actual aircraft and then call it whatever the gently caress they want on the ground so that the idiot passengers don't get confused when a plane breaks and has to be replaced. I've seen the same callsign depart airports less than 100nm from each other. Telling an airliner he has a new callsign is always fun. 
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fknlo posted:Nobody knows how this works, including the airlines. Otherwise you wouldn't get multiple aircraft with the same loving callsign. This is for something like Delta 1873 where they need more numbers than the four digits allow, have the same number two ways on a route, and then one flight gets delayed so they do a substitution, right? Edit: flight numbers http://crankyflier.com/2015/03/24/why-does-united-change-its-flight-numbers-so-often-ask-cranky/ Cocoa Crispies fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Apr 25, 2015 |
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Ain't nothing til you get formation callsigns going. PROPS 51, 52 and 55 are in the pattern, PROPS 50 with 53 and 54 are coming in for the overhead. We'll be dropping off 54 and then PROPS 51 will take the 50 callsign to go out VFR with 52 and 53. And then the four other squadrons on base decide to have their own _____50 formation at the same time
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Cocoa Crispies posted:This is for something like Delta 1873 where they need more numbers than the four digits allow, have the same number two ways on a route, and then one flight gets delayed so they do a substitution, right? Sometimes when this happens, they truncate the callsign and add a letter. Delta, or DAL4345 becomes DAL345A.
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Prop Wash posted:Ain't nothing til you get formation callsigns going. PROPS 51, 52 and 55 are in the pattern, PROPS 50 with 53 and 54 are coming in for the overhead. We'll be dropping off 54 and then PROPS 51 will take the 50 callsign to go out VFR with 52 and 53. And then the four other squadrons on base decide to have their own _____50 formation at the same time Cue Godholio or mlmp08 talking about the way the Navy has one callsign until they "go tactical" then the same airplane on the same flight has a completely different callsign.
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iyaayas01 posted:Cue Godholio or mlmp08 talking about the way the Navy has one callsign until they "go tactical" then the same airplane on the same flight has a completely different callsign. It's dumb and rarely briefed.
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