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Those Iraqi pilots go straight from DLI to flight school. Goddamn is that a recipe for disaster.
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inkjet_lakes posted:Note how close that Tornado gets to its shadow at times Sometimes a Tornado has to fly so low that even 23mm rounds that fall short can still ricochet up and get a kill.
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Jun 26, 2015 01:21
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That Kenyan dude with the self built plane conducted a test flight
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Jun 26, 2015 01:35
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Looks like everything was going according to plan, until the landing gear malfunctioned
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Jun 26, 2015 01:46
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That ... seems to be missing a few important pieces. Like a vertical stab.
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Ardeem posted:That ... seems to be missing a few important pieces. Like a vertical stab. And a LWR greater than 1.
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Dead Reckoning posted:Will they be putting a stake through its heart, filling the cockpit with holy wafers, and burying it in consecrated ground? They're going to strip everything that looks like maybe it'll work, because spare parts are oddly hard to get at times. They peeled everything off 0008 that didn't burn or bend in the crash landing and subsequent fire. Tinker even had "can birds" on the ramp from time to time because so much poo poo had to be sourced from far-off places or just fabricated. Christ, they picked Yukla 27 for parts to put back in the inventory. And that was 20 years ago.
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Jun 26, 2015 05:31
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Cann birds are a fact of life in most USAF mx units. But yeah, they're totally going to strip everything off of that bird and then some, spare parts is actually the biggest reason AMARG exists in the first place.
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Jun 26, 2015 06:22
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congrats everyone we did it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5LdkPaERhI
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Jun 26, 2015 07:56
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Duke Chin posted:congrats everyone we did it. Is it wrong that I expected it to go exactly like the Kenyan dude's ?
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That seems like a very low climb speed for a combat jet...
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Jun 26, 2015 09:10
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DCH-3 Otter went down with 8 people sightseeing from a cruise. I think a guy I work with and his family are on the same cruise. :/ http://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB11871130314313103897904581071500184640590 E: Wrong cruise for the guy I work with.
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Duke Chin posted:congrats everyone we did it. I'd like to know how much fuel the aircraft was carrying.
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Jonny Nox posted:That seems like a very low climb speed for a combat jet... It's not actually aerodynamically flying yet, when it leaves the ramp. It's still in transition from powered-lift to forwards flight. You can see the nozzle swivel as it leaves the ramp to keep the commanded pitch angle. Every time I think of how hosed the F-35 program is, I just think of how hosed the QE class procurement has been for the RN... ...And then they're going to fly F-35s off it.  
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Jun 26, 2015 16:56
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They're putting my girl down.  Attending the festivities today and tomorrow.http://www.whidbeynewstimes.com/news/309891341.html
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Psion posted:I think that really depends on how much $40 is worth to you. You'll survive regular economy but you probably won't like it. Is that worth $80 for both legs? y/n. I'd go for it, personally. Air travel is lovely enough as it is, might as well be a little more comfortable while you're dealing with it all. And I'm shorter than you, probably This was my view AUS -> ATL last week on an MD-90:  Plus there was the added bonus of the condensation from the AC unit pouring on a few people, myself included.  Thankfully my upgrade cleared ATL -> BDL because I was not looking forward to another 2 hour flight in the back of the bus.
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The gently caress? You had water pouring out of the AC into the cabin bad enough that they had to hang towels?
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slidebite posted:The gently caress? You had water pouring out of the AC into the cabin bad enough that they had to hang towels? Yup. Especially during takeoff & climb out it was all running along the interior lighting toward the back of the plane & raining on us. The flight attendants told us not to open our air vents because they would spray water. Unfortunetely for the guy in front of me his vent wouldn't close all the way.... 
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MD-80s/90s are the worst, this is just further proof
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 http://imgur.com/a/EeFUt?gallery Some guy got clearance to publish photos of a refuelling session. Surely someday someone'll bring a 50 megapixel monster camera
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Mooecow posted:Yup. Especially during takeoff & climb out it was all running along the interior lighting toward the back of the plane & raining on us. I had this happen to me on an Air Canada CRJ about halfway from Saskatoon to Vancouver.
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Jun 26, 2015 18:28
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Psion posted:MD-80s/90s are the worst, this is just further proof My only love of them is comes from how old they are and Delta just keeps flyin them. poo poo, I mean Delta was flying the DC-9-50 (yes yes, not an MD-80...) until January 2014. The last aircraft of that make was delivered in 1975. block51 fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Jun 26, 2015 |
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block51 posted:The last aircraft of that make was delivered in 1975. 1981, Wikipedia's chart is backwards, the first deliveries were in 1975, last in 1981
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block51 posted:My only love of them is how old they tend to be and Delta just keeps flyin them. poo poo, I mean Delta was flying the DC-9-50 (yes yes, not an MD-80...) until January 2014. The last aircraft of that make was delivered in 1975. The MDs are still by far my favorite aircraft in the Delta fleet. 16 FC seats, 2x3 seating if your upgrade doesn't clear, and they are quiet up front. I'd much rather fly on them then any CRJ/ERJ, A319/320 or 737. Although I will admit by the end the DC9s were getting really tired. They hadn't updated the interiors in them in years and it really showed.
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Mooecow posted:The MDs are still by far my favorite aircraft in the Delta fleet. 16 FC seats, 2x3 seating if your upgrade doesn't clear, and they are quiet up front. I'd much rather fly on them then any CRJ/ERJ, A319/320 or 737. The problem with saying ERJ is that the ERJ-145 is the worst jet and the ERJ-170/175 is the best.
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hobbesmaster posted:The problem with saying ERJ is that the ERJ-145 is the worst jet and the ERJ-170/175 is the best. 30" pitch... yeah, no. 'Lets make a plane more cramped than the 737' isn't a race you want to win.
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Lol I flew ATL to BDL yesterday on an MD 88, luckily no water was pouring on me. Sitting in 10B kinda sucked a little but it was better than the Embraer I flew on the last time I went back east to see family
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Jun 26, 2015 18:46
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The lesson in all this is avoid anything with a T-tail.
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SybilVimes posted:30" pitch... yeah, no. 'Lets make a plane more cramped than the 737' isn't a race you want to win. Whereas
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SybilVimes posted:1981, Wikipedia's chart is backwards, the first deliveries were in 1975, last in 1981 Thanks! The thing that inspired me to even look up solid dates was a flight my dad took from ATL to CHS a few years back. He commented that it was on a DC-9. I was amazed as I had no idea they still flew them! Edit: A cool video by an MD-80 pilot extolling the virtues of it from his perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R0CViDUBFs
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Timmy Cruise posted:I had this happen to me on an Air Canada CRJ about halfway from Saskatoon to Vancouver. Good old CRJ rain-in-the-plane. Always fun to play "is it condensation, or a leaky beacon/antenna?"
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Linedance posted:Good old CRJ rain-in-the-plane. Always fun to play "is it condensation, or a leaky beacon/antenna?"  that would mean leaks into the pressure boundary?
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Timmy Cruise posted:
An antenna is a penetration point almost by definition. It's not like aircraft are double-hulled. Besides, the pressure vessel leaks (air) like hell, already. You just have to pump more in than leaks out. Which is easy with turbine engines.
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When I was stuck a few weeks ago in Asheville a few Tstorms rolled through and dumped enough rain to make the cockpit roof hatch leak in a CRJ. I was watching with nervous glee to see if any water was going to hit the center console and short out the avionics
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vulturesrow posted:They're putting my girl down. My brother always said the nicest/most "has his poo poo together" guys from flight school seemed to become Prowler guys
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Timmy Cruise posted:
Sitting outside on the ramp in a rainstorm unpressurised, water gets in, saturates the insulation blankets, pools on the ceiling panels. Then (generally) on rotation, it all spills out and people get wet. Or, in a humid hot day, the kind that breeds thunderstorms and heavy rain, the air conditioning creates loads of fog machine condensation, which collects on the colder metal skin, saturates the insulation blankets, drips on to the ceiling panels, pools, people get wet. Or, passenger 3 seats up put a 2 liter bottle of water they bought in the terminal in the overhead bin, didn't do the top up, it leaked, found its way out somewhere else in the cabin, people get wet.
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Guess if you don't feel it on the inside, you've gotta wear it on the outside, eh Jumbo? (yes I know Transaero does sick paintjobs on their birds)
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If we're doing animal airplanes, I saw this in Brussels earlier this month, from the jetway: Tintin was a French language, Belgian comic of some sort edit: modeled after this shark-submarine, I suppose: 
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