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Godholio posted:Why yes, I'd love to fly for 12-16 hours with either a cold can of soup I can't heat up or a sandwich I can't keep cold. Food poisoning builds character.
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I ate cold soup all the time in college. Chicken corn chowder, wegmans generic brand, right out of the can.  That was really out of pure laziness more than anything.
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Aug 15, 2015 06:11
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Clearly you should be eating MREs. They're still going with "warrior airmen" right?
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I think the Mauler has the Skyraider beat for gross weight. I was flying to Europe once and this girl next to me was all smug because she had a meal from Whole Foods instead of whatever they were serving on the plane, telling the stewards "No, I don't eat airplane food". Joke was on her though, her meal hadn't been refrigerated for like 8 hours by the time she tucked into it and she spent the rest of the flight vomiting.
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Aug 15, 2015 07:49
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I wish every "whole foods person" story ended that way. And all was right in the world.
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hobbesmaster posted:Clearly you should be eating MREs. They're still going with "warrior airmen" right? Can't use the heater on a plane. We got MREs for a few days when the chow hall was shut down for some reason.
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ehnus posted:I think the Mauler has the Skyraider beat for gross weight. She might have had a bad attitude, but I agree with the sentiment. Economy class airplane food is gross as hell.
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Ardeem posted:Fire bombers are loving nuts! yup https://www.facebook.com/KOMONews/videos/923255744409425/ bonus pic of cameraman after: https://www.facebook.com/KOMONews/photos/a.121893224545685.20775.114431401958534/923243971077269/?type=1
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Godholio posted:Can't use the heater on a plane. We got MREs for a few days when the chow hall was shut down for some reason. Who uses the heater?
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Aug 15, 2015 12:35
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It's tough to use the heater on a plane because there aren't any rocks available.
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Colonial Air Force posted:It's tough to use the heater on a plane because there aren't any rocks available. Surely "or something" is available on a plane.
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Just leave it on top of some 1970's radar equipment for a while. That stuff puts out plenty of heat. Why no, chief, I don't know how hot pocket crumbs got melted into the pulse amplifier power supply... Wingnut Ninja fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Aug 15, 2015 |
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Just leave it on top of some 1970's radar equipment for a while. That stuff puts out plenty of heat. Or on the dash with the anti-ice turned on. Full cockpit AC + full windshield anti-ice/defog = warm burritos and a cool smoke machine effect from the vents!
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Kilonum posted:yup I love all the people at the beginning of that video running to try to get out of the path of that drop.
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ehnus posted:I think the Mauler has the Skyraider beat for gross weight. Amazing how much technology you need to be all natural.
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Yeah, so I posted the challenge but forgot to make my own submission... Gross weight (piston):Skyraider Wingspan (piston) this Swedish WWII plane that looks like a single engine B-17 Gross weight (turboprop): Fairey gannett Wingspan (turboprop):don't know Gross weight (jet):F-105 Wing span (jet):ER-2
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I just looked up the answers that I came up with and I'm fairly certain I'm 4 for 6. Missed a really obvious one.
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vessbot posted:Yeah, so I posted the challenge but forgot to make my own submission... The Gannet has two engines.
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MrYenko posted:The Gannet has two engines. omg spoilers plz 
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MrYenko posted:The Gannet has two engines. What is the distinction in this case? Wooper fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Aug 15, 2015 |
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Wooper posted:What is the distinction in this case? In the Gannett's powerplant, each engine drives a single propeller independently of the other engine/propeller. So it is technically a twin-engine aircraft. There are other powerplants out there that combine the output of two gas turbines in a common gearbox, driving a single propeller (the Soloy TwinPac comes to mind). In that powerplant, each gas turbine is controlled independently, and can be shut down + secured independently, but either gas turbine can drive anything attached to the gearbox.
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Wooper posted:What is the distinction in this case? If you can shut an engine down and not be a glider, you're not a single engine airplane. (Or helicopter, for that matter. A PT6 twin-pac is still a multiengine.)
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holocaust bloopers posted:in the K's anyway thanks for the trigger rear end in a top hat, I just got done wet-ink signing and dating literally over 50 lost forms letters. (it was mostly As and Hs which makes it even more hilarious) ehnus posted:I think the Mauler has the Skyraider beat for gross weight. ayup
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"Too close for missiles, switching to guns."
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The Ferret King posted:A C17 I thought it was, but then I saw the livery and was confused  Didn't they (Boeing) have an abortive sales idea / thought on selling C-17s as civilian freighters? Would have been hellishly expensive.
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Dead Reckoning posted:"Too close for missiles, switching to guns." After Indian pilots boasted that their Sukhois made short work of the RAF's Typhoon in the latest Indradhanush exercises, the British pilots went looking for easier prey.
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movax posted:I thought it was, but then I saw the livery and was confused Up until they tore down the factory that made them, you could buy a Civilian C-17. There were no takers, I'm guessing because for one C-17 you could buy like ten old 747s.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Up until they tore down the factory that made them, you could buy a Civilian C-17. There were no takers, I'm guessing because for one C-17 you could buy like ten old 747s. C-17 factory is still going, at least until the end of next month.
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On a related note I was at a family reunion today on Whidbey Island and I could swear I saw a Skyraider fly overhead at one point. It was a single radial engine retractable gear plane with squared off wingtips. Probably just a T-28 though. edit: Wait! The aviation museum at Skagit Regional Airport has a flying Skyraider, maybe it was that one!
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movax posted:I thought it was, but then I saw the livery and was confused Ask Lockmart about that concept involving the L-100: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Delta-Air-Lines/Lockheed-L-100-Hercules/0533934/L/
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Huh. I learned something today: Two were built (this isn't one of them - this is a flying boom demo - it's the first 747 off the line which is now in... Everett?) and sold to Iran. One crashed, the other is still in service.
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Captain Postal posted:
747 #1 is in the 2nd lot at the BMF in Seattle chilling at the moment. She just got re cleaned up last summer/fall as I recall.
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Iran is still the place to be if you want to see gorgeous old 747s.
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An Indonesian ATR-42 went down in darkest New Guinea: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/indonesia-plane-carrying-54-crashes-in-province-of-papua-1.3192691
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ehnus posted:On a related note I was at a family reunion today on Whidbey Island and I could swear I saw a Skyraider fly overhead at one point. It was a single radial engine retractable gear plane with squared off wingtips. A friend of mine up in BC posted about seeing a Skyraider flying around too yesterday. Also I lived in Oak Harbor for a year.
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SyHopeful posted:A friend of mine up in BC posted about seeing a Skyraider flying around too yesterday. Also I lived in Oak Harbor for a year. Looks like there were a couple airshows in BC yesterday, Comox and Chilliwack, perhaps it was doing its rounds. Either way, it was too cool to see.
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StandardVC10 posted:C-17 factory is still going, at least until the end of next month. Sort of. They're in the final steps on the last 2 or 3 aircraft but assembly is complete, over 80% of the factory is shut down, and a lot of the tooling has already been auctioned off.
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This continues to be a bad weekend for aviation. Yesterdays American traffic control problems, and today an Indonesian airliner flew into a mountain and there's been a midair in southern California.
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Ardeem posted:This continues to be a bad weekend for aviation. it's not all bad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_6bZ2Kzaj8
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