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Apologies for the potato picture, but I spotted this yesterday and thought it looked suitably insane. 
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Aug 23, 2016 14:15
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That's gotta be amphibious, right? I think I can just barely see a boat-hull fuselage through that fence.
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Aug 23, 2016 14:21
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Identification question: This helicopter with a long horizontal boom has been making straight passes every thirty minutes or so over my neighborhood for the past couple days. My best guess is that it's one of two possibilities: crop spraying (but I live in a suburban area, there are no crops around here). My other thought is some sort of radar mapping or synthetic aperture radar, and that seems more likely to me. Any clue what its doing? 
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Aug 23, 2016 14:27
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Spraying for mosquitoes?
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Aug 23, 2016 14:28
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It's a Lake Buccaneer
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Aug 23, 2016 14:31
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Adjusting the local chemtrail dosage.
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Aug 23, 2016 15:15
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Enourmo posted:That's gotta be amphibious, right? I think I can just barely see a boat-hull fuselage through that fence.
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Aug 23, 2016 16:13
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standard.deviant posted:No idea what it actually is, if anyone has ideas I'm curious. Captain Apollo posted:It's a Lake Buccaneer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Buccaneer Looks like it
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Aug 23, 2016 16:31
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Yeah thanks, missed that between helicopter chemtrail chat.
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Aug 23, 2016 16:38
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Enourmo posted:Spraying for mosquitoes? I live across the street from a freshwater harbor on Lake Erie so that might be possible. It doesn't look like its spraying anything when it flies over, but that doesn't necessarily mean that its not.
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Aug 23, 2016 16:44
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Captain Apollo posted:It's a Lake Buccaneer Growing up our folks inherited a summer house up in the Middle of Nowhere, VT. Our neighbor up there lived in NJ and owned a Lake, and would fly up every Friday after work, spend the weekend on the lake, then Sunday after dinner would fly home. I always wanted a ride, but he was seriously in vacation mode once he got up there and would only take the plane out when leaving on Sunday.
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Aug 23, 2016 17:03
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Luneshot posted:Identification question: This helicopter with a long horizontal boom has been making straight passes every thirty minutes or so over my neighborhood for the past couple days. My best guess is that it's one of two possibilities: crop spraying (but I live in a suburban area, there are no crops around here). My other thought is some sort of radar mapping or synthetic aperture radar, and that seems more likely to me. Looks like the one they use in the Chicago area to spray the forest preserves for gypsy moths (an introduced species slowly eating North America)
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Aug 24, 2016 02:17
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Oh the humanity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-37174417
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Aug 24, 2016 13:18
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Luneshot posted:Identification question: This helicopter with a long horizontal boom has been making straight passes every thirty minutes or so over my neighborhood for the past couple days. My best guess is that it's one of two possibilities: crop spraying (but I live in a suburban area, there are no crops around here). My other thought is some sort of radar mapping or synthetic aperture radar, and that seems more likely to me. About 10 years back some helicopters sprayed my suburban neighborhood for dutch elm disease iirc.
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Aug 24, 2016 13:24
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Hello Airplanes? It's Blimps. You win. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg-RPTiVa_Q Video of the slowest air crash in years
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Aug 24, 2016 13:38
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I like the comments making fun of the media requestsquote:Hi Lee would you have sex with my wife I would credit you of course.
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Aug 24, 2016 14:14
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Oh the humanity.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:27
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The R101 wishes its crash had been as boring as this.
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Aug 24, 2016 18:54
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Cat Mattress posted:The R101 wishes its crash had been as boring as this. to be fair the Maiden song would sound the same
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Aug 24, 2016 19:45
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Captain Postal posted:
All I can think of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms
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Aug 24, 2016 19:56
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Cat Mattress posted:The R101 wishes its crash had been as boring as this. I won't lie my reaction was "FFS Airlander crashes?! [watches video] I...huh. That's not so bad. DO YOU SEE HOW SAFE AIRSHIPS ARE, WORLD!?"
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Aug 24, 2016 20:24
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The multi-generational British commentary makes the video, for me.
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Aug 24, 2016 21:08
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http://youtubedoubler.com/j8Xp
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Aug 24, 2016 22:15
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Nebakenezzer posted:I won't lie my reaction was "FFS Airlander crashes?! [watches video] I...huh. That's not so bad. DO YOU SEE HOW SAFE AIRSHIPS ARE, WORLD!?" Devils advocate: the only part that was squished was the part with the squishy bits 
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Aug 24, 2016 23:09
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I just hope that the pilots had enough time to yell ♪ noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ♪ and run to the back of the cab in slow motion.
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Aug 24, 2016 23:15
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Luneshot posted:Identification question: This helicopter with a long horizontal boom has been making straight passes every thirty minutes or so over my neighborhood for the past couple days. My best guess is that it's one of two possibilities: crop spraying (but I live in a suburban area, there are no crops around here). My other thought is some sort of radar mapping or synthetic aperture radar, and that seems more likely to me. That's definitely a spray rig; but who knows what they're doing. Probably spraying something, but I once worked on a flight test program where we modified a similar Simplex spray rig to hold sensors on the spray boom. We left the tank/pump in place since the configuration already had an approved STC and it was less work just to leave it there. We were flying over an airfield in the Bay Area and a number of people called the police with concerns ranging from terrorist chemical attack to some (not so) secret government mind control program.
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Aug 25, 2016 04:26
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Aug 26, 2016 16:07
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That article is a year old.
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Aug 26, 2016 17:12
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Whatever brings more misery and suffering to amateur drone pilots, gently caress yeah.
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Aug 26, 2016 19:42
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haven't seen this posted yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kle80KB_s3I what'd you say Vr was again?
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Aug 27, 2016 00:55
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That's like me in a flightsim 
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Aug 27, 2016 01:18
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That pilot didn’t play enough KSP. The runway is free lift.
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Aug 27, 2016 01:26
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iyaayas01 posted:haven't seen this posted yet: Plane full of too many Americans leading to incorrect weight estimate? 
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Aug 27, 2016 02:04
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EightBit posted:Plane full of too many Americans leading to incorrect weight estimate? I do wonder if Ethiopian saves on fuel due to lighter passengers. 
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Aug 27, 2016 03:28
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I do wonder if Ethiopian saves on fuel due to lighter passengers. well Kenya forced their athletes to move into a shanty-town after the Olympic Village shut down because they were holding out for cheaper flights so apparently it's not enough of a difference to matter with that
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Aug 27, 2016 04:08
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EightBit posted:Plane full of too many Americans leading to incorrect weight estimate? Early rotation. You can see him start to carry the nosewheel waaaaaaaaaay early.
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Aug 27, 2016 13:45
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iyaayas01 posted:haven't seen this posted yet: Was he taking off with no flaps?
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Aug 27, 2016 17:21
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fatman posted:Was he taking off with no flaps? Nah, it looks like flaps 5.
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Aug 27, 2016 17:44
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fatman posted:Was he taking off with no flaps? No; the leading edge slats are deployed and there is some reflection of the trailing edge flaps, so they are deployed, just at a low setting, like flaps 5 or something. Flaps 1 is slat deployment only IIRC. A 737 apparently cannot takeoff with no flap or slat deployment; the rotation speed would be upwards of 195 knots which would exceed the tire speed for the aircraft.
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