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ApathyGifted posted:Yeah, my thought process as I figured that photo out was:
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ApathyGifted posted:Yeah, my thought process as I figured that photo out was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2MVDY8o7Bs
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"Say...what's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?"
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Gorilla Salad posted:Here, have it in 1920x1200, it's really worth a look: This is awesome.
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A) Holy. gently caress.  B) What the hell type of piston engine plane were they in that could run with an L-39?
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Neither this, CFIT, or the Venezuelan flight mentioned are even close to the situation I was talking about. Air New Zealand is the closest, but even that was a matter of being a whiteout.
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It's a Beechcraft Bonanza, I think. And the L-39 isn't exactly a fighter jet...it's got pretty straight wings and according to 5 seconds of googling stalls at around 90KIAS. The L-39 has the potential to be a lot faster obviously but both planes share part of their envelope.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Sorry about the Facebook video, but check this out. Any idea who these guys are? Al Fursan, the aerobatics team of the UAE Air Force.
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Gorilla Salad posted:Here, have it in 1920x1200, it's really worth a look: What mountain is this, anyway?
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Nebakenezzer posted:What mountain is this, anyway? Bryce3D Peak.
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This is a better mountain edit: Since I have the folder open anyways:    this one is credit to someone in this thread. 
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Jonny Nox posted:Since I have the folder open anyways:
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Comrade Gorbash posted:I'm generally not a big fan of the all-over flag or design mural paint jobs, but the Dutch ones always look amazing. The Canadian ones are usually pretty good too. Yeah, I have this pic as part of my references for the Revel model of this paint scheme. It's actually really subtly done. One of my favorite models. Canada does okay too I guess: 
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Jonny Nox posted:This is a better mountain The navy really hates multiple airframes, don't they?
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CarForumPoster posted:The navy really hates multiple airframes, don't they? Well, the Prowler is dead now too. Is the Greyhound?  RIP dead navy airframes    etc. edit 2: last one. Promise. It's just.... uuuuuuuunnnggggggg 
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I swear the Vigilante was probably designed thinking aircraft carriers were just going to keep getting bigger.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I swear the Vigilante was probably designed thinking aircraft carriers were just going to keep getting bigger. It was built around the mk28 nuclear bomb. Literally 
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  Boeing’s 737 had its maiden flight fifty years ago today. This date of this flight is closer to Great War than to the present day. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Apr 9, 2017 |
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Jonny Nox posted:Well, the Prowler is dead now too. Greyhound isn't dead but is being phased out by the V-22 as of 2014. However E-2 is here to stay and C-2 and E-2 share a lot of commonality so V-22 adds another airframe.
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CarForumPoster posted:Greyhound isn't dead but is being phased out by the V-22 as of 2014. However E-2 is here to stay and C-2 and E-2 share a lot of commonality so V-22 adds another airframe. And its called the CMV-22 which has to be the silliest designation currently active.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I swear the Vigilante was probably designed thinking aircraft carriers were just going to keep getting bigger.  
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ApathyGifted posted:Neither this, CFIT, or the Venezuelan flight mentioned are even close to the situation I was talking about. Air New Zealand is the closest, but even that was a matter of being a whiteout. Air New Zealand wasn't even a normal whiteout if I understand it correctly (A normal whiteout being when you are in severely limited visibility restrictions due to snow). Because the airplane wasn't where the crew thought it was, they thought that the gigantic white thing in front of them was just an ice shelf down on the ocean, when in fact the ice shelf was behind them. The clouds made the white of the mountain blend in to the point where they just couldn't make out the shape of it. They apparently had excellent visibility, it's just that everything they could see was white, and they were in the wrong place.
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Well, the Skywarrior *was* designed thinking aircraft carriers were going to get bigger, since the USS United States was still scheduled for construction while it was under development.
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charliemonster42 posted:
Like Sagebrush said, it's not a really fast plane, despite its sleek look. One time my flight school did a photo shoot of one, and I flew the camera ship, an Extra... also not a fast plane. We didn't even have to use flaps on the 39 (so it didn't look slow in the photos) but it would have made things easier. 
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vessbot posted:Like Sagebrush said, it's not a really fast plane, despite its sleek look. One time my flight school did a photo shoot of one, and I flew the camera ship, an Extra... also not a fast plane. We didn't even have to use flaps on the 39 (so it didn't look slow in the photos) but it would have made things easier. 300x202? What the gently caress is this, 1995?
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Sagebrush posted:It's a Beechcraft Bonanza, I think. And the L-39 isn't exactly a fighter jet...it's got pretty straight wings and according to 5 seconds of googling stalls at around 90KIAS. The L-39 has the potential to be a lot faster obviously but both planes share part of their envelope. Fair point. Just looked like the L-39 was flaps up and cruising pretty good, but they could be just after takeoff. It might not be a fast jet but it'll still cruise at above 300ktas, which was the first thought that popped into my head. charliemonster42 fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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56k warning! Lots of pictures! Long load time!
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Jesus^ https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/united-passenger-forcibly-removed-flight-refusing-give-seat-134930951.html
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How may we re-accommodate you today? https://twitter.com/united/status/851471781827420160 mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 18:50 on Apr 10, 2017 |
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mlmp08 posted:How many we re-accommodate you today? Oh jesus http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/united-airlines-flight-overbooked-1.4063632 quote:Bridges said the airline was forcing paying customers to give up their seats so that they could be given to airline employees flying stand-by who needed to work a flight in Louisville on Monday. The loving backlash they'll rightfully receive it would have been cheaper to charter or deadhead one of their own ac for their staff.
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mlmp08 posted:How many we re-accommodate you today?
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If I were that passenger, my only response to anyone from UAL trying to talk to me would be "Talk to my lawyer"
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evil_bunnY posted:I'mma reaccomodate your rear end outa your office https://twitter.com/PRWeekUS/status/842484619744178176
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"Talk to my team of top flight lawyers who airdropped onto my lawn 15 minutes after this was posted to Twitter."
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They just have to keep sweetening the offer until people start to take it. Eventually it will become appealing enough for the people that realize they didn't have to be there if there was enough cash in it and maybe a free flight anywhere or something in the mix..
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Comrade Gorbash posted:"Talk to my team of top flight lawyers who airdropped onto my lawn 15 minutes after this was posted to Twitter." You mean re-accommodated midflight to his lawn. edit: supposedly republic never offered cash, just flight certificates. $800 in flight certs is nice but people flying Sunday night probably need to burn a PTO day to take the offer.
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