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FrozenVent posted:The Ohio replacement needs an organic CAP capacity. I think there are schemes afoot to let it launch UAVs out of its missile tubes.
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Nebakenezzer posted:I think there are schemes afoot to let it launch UAVs out of its missile tubes. torpedo tubes I think, but yeah... 
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SybilVimes posted:torpedo tubes I think, but yeah... I see the red against the sky and can only think that Southwest has found a new way to reduce turnaround time.
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Much delayed Sun 'N Fun pictures: UH-60 and C-130J  Haaaaawwwwgggg  Sex  P-8 Poseidon  We actually got a tour through this one. I can only imagine that it's light years better than sitting in the back of a P-3 for hours on end. Berlin Airlift Memorial C-54  Gave em the $3 to walk through, has a cool museum inside, with some artifacts, and stories of both flight crews and German locals. The C-54's navigator's desk  Slightly simpler, nowadays...  PT-6 repowered C-47    The following three are from the seats on top of the FSDO building. The airboss is pretty much the only one with a better view of the airshow itself.    Gratuitous Sea Dart  
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MrYenko posted:PT-6 repowered C-47  I need to be inside of that thing
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It never occurred to me that P-47s would come with 'some assembly required', but here's the official USAAF video on how to assemble your newly purchased P-47: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2D3k0sJ8HM
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MrYenko posted:Much delayed Sun 'N Fun pictures: For a second there I thought Asiana was running flights to Lakeland.
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SybilVimes posted:It never occurred to me that P-47s would come with 'some assembly required', but here's the official USAAF video on how to assemble your newly purchased P-47: Great I was going to head down to Ikea, this'll come in handy!
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SybilVimes posted:It never occurred to me that P-47s would come with 'some assembly required', but here's the official USAAF video on how to assemble your newly purchased P-47:
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SybilVimes posted:It never occurred to me that P-47s would come with 'some assembly required', but here's the official USAAF video on how to assemble your newly purchased P-47: I really love how much they emphasize that reading the instructions must be done first. I kind of want to see the blooper reel from before that got stenciled on the crates and added to the procedure. Not that I've ever had to go digging in the garbage for instructions after the fact or anything.
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Acid Reflux posted:This applies to some smaller mil-contract civil aircraft as well. It's amazing what you can get away with after applying a single "Experimental" sticker to the side of a King Air 350. From conversations with folks that used to fly for me, getting a bird x coded with FAA wasn't a fun process.
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slidebite posted:I know there was that rumor of buried Spitfires in Burma, but how cool would it be that in some forgotten corner of a depot somewhere there are crates of brand new Jugs (or whatever) next to crates of cosmoline slathered rifles. 
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SybilVimes posted:It never occurred to me that P-47s would come with 'some assembly required', but here's the official USAAF video on how to assemble your newly purchased P-47: "The bolts holding the wing are brought to the correct tension with a two-finger pull on an 8" wrench with at least three threads showing." Calibrated torque elbow for life! "Kerosene or another suitable solvent...." not a glove nor goggle in sight. No gloves for the propeller locknut lube of castor oil and WHITE LEAD. I hope there's at least some direction to wash hands at some point. I love everything about this and halfway wish we could still do aircraft maintenance this way. However, someone found out we were putting a lot of pilots into shallow aluminum graves by forgetting tools in flight controls, not torquing things, and just generally being slapdash. I think the significantly lower mishap rates are a good thing.
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...did the 1960s and 1970s just assume nobody wanted to wear pants at work?
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Davin Valkri posted:...did the 1960s and 1970s just assume no Yes
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So that's why flying was so much more pleasant when I was a kid...
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Do a GIS for 'Airasia hostess'. Those uniforms are still a thing in Asia.
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Davin Valkri posted:...did the 1960s and 1970s just assume nobody wanted to wear pants at work? Does anybody?
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Davin Valkri posted:...did the 1960s and 1970s just assume nobody wanted to wear pants at work? The one hyping they got right. Seriously, I'm laying in bed right now and I was just saying to myself that I don't mind going to work so much, I just don't feel like putting on pants.
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FrozenVent posted:The one hyping they got right. THERE'S GOTTA BE A BETTER WAY
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Preoptopus posted:*photos* I seriously wonder how the not-that-pretty ladies looked in those sillyass clothes. Surely it'd have been awkward?
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The not-that-pretty ladies didn't get hired as stewardesses
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A reminder for DC goons, the WW2 flyover is this friday. I'm going to try and park somewhere off GW to watch, hopefully the lots are open and not full.
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God drat, look at all that leg room.
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Dead Reckoning posted:God drat, look at all that leg room. Check out the guy in shades. 
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How many aircraft were damaged as a result of static discharge from all that Polyester?
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PSA for the pretty ladies: don't take unauthorized sexy pics in your uniforms!  Or maybe do...
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Davin Valkri posted:...did the 1960s and 1970s just assume nobody wanted to wear pants at work? If I didn't run the risk of razor-sharp, red-hot metal hitting me in the dick, I wouldn't wear pants when practising my trade.
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MohawkSatan posted:If I didn't run the risk of razor-sharp, red-hot metal hitting me in the dick You say this like it's a bad thing 
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Tremblay posted:From conversations with folks that used to fly for me, getting a bird x coded with FAA wasn't a fun process.
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sanchez posted:A reminder for DC goons, the WW2 flyover is this friday. I'm going to try and park somewhere off GW to watch, hopefully the lots are open and not full. I wish that I could be there. Hopefully, it will be like Rolling Thunder (motorcycle event) and they'll let you pull over the edge on the parkway to watch the fun.
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Dead Reckoning posted:God drat, look at all that leg room. And there's so much space between each row of seats, too!
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I've taken two flights on 717s operated by BLUE1 over the last week and have noticed something strange that I haven't noticed with AirTrans' fleet. When takeoff thrust is applied the recirculation system seems to shut off. The over seat blowers stop and the vents along the overhead bins go quiet. In fact the whole cabin gets eerily quiet. It stays like this during climb out, my ears popping all the the way, until just after the 10k feet announcement. This happens again on decent, the recirculation stops and starts seemingly randomly during decent. What's going on here? Are they waiting to pressurize until they pass 10k to save money or something?
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32604552 The interesting one is the maximum set altitude - maybe he was considering depressurisation? I know this is a navel-gazing piece of journalism which is trying to gain traction off of what's by now old news, but it's interesting in that detail, I feel.
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I wish the news would stop harping on the depression aspect and further stigmatising the condition. Committing mass murder isn't a symptom of depression or even manic depression.
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Jealous Cow posted:I've taken two flights on 717s operated by BLUE1 over the last week and have noticed something strange that I haven't noticed with AirTrans' fleet. These systems depend on bleed air from the engines; bleed air comes from the first stages of the compressor. They're turned off for any situation where you might need every last pound of thrust from the engines: take off is obvious, but if you have to go around on a landing, you might need lots of thrust in a hurry.
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LUBE UP YOUR BUTT posted:I wish the news would stop harping on the depression aspect and further stigmatising the condition. Committing mass murder isn't a symptom of depression or even manic depression. This is quite true. I think the real psychological motives are too complex for the media to grasp, so they've settled on "depressed -> suicide."
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