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MikeCrotch posted:WHAT??? What, have you not been in the wheelwell of a BUFF? (to be honest, my time under one was with the engines off, but it was on the active apron.) Right around the time the Soviet Union fell, my Boy Scout Troop had a field trip.  I'm the short guy in the ballcap (literally). IIRC the woman walking away was the pilot of that crew and had some kind of leaves on her collar, and for whatever reason didn't want to be in the photo. The guys obviously were having fun. I think they knew they were the stereotypical action-movie crew -- fat guy, old guy, Ron Livingston, black guy, hot blond guy, and Queen Bitch who turns out to have a heart of gold at the end of the movie.  One of those guys may be our favorite blogger Major Kong, he was flying out of Barksdale at the time. (the airframe, sadly, was a G-model, and went to the guillotine a few years after this photo was taken, but after it participated in Desert Storm.) Edit: loving Christ on a stick, two new pages with me at the top, I'm so sorry. Chillbro Baggins fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Jul 2, 2017 |
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Delivery McGee posted:One of those guys may be our favorite blogger Major Kong, he was flying out of Barksdale at the time. (the airframe, sadly, was a G-model, and went to the guillotine a few years after this photo was taken, but after it participated in Desert Storm.) This is Major Kong circa 1996 during his tanker days:  Dude on the end might be him.
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Huh, apparently I asked him about it three years ago, just found how to see PMs on Dailykos:Major Kong posted:That's not me but those guys look really familiar. We had two bomber squadrons back then and they might have been in the other squadron.
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Cocoa Crispies posted:Trying to figure out why, but here's a reference to the plane itself: http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19730727-1
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hobbesmaster posted:Uh why did the FAA buy a 727 direct from boeing? I imagine the FAA needs to have their own planes so they can fly around and inspect the country's aviation infrastructure. Make sure that the VORs and NDBs are doing what they're supposed to, test ILS systems, etc. I could be wrong but it makes sense to me that they'd do that sort of thing.
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I've seen a couple of the FAA's Learjets, they usually use a "Flight Check" call sign.
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Delivery McGee posted:What, have you not been in the wheelwell of a BUFF? (to be honest, my time under one was with the engines off, but it was on the active apron.) WHAAAT???!!!
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Pinning the landing gear/connecting the tow bar?
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Sagebrush posted:I imagine the FAA needs to have their own planes so they can fly around and inspect the country's aviation infrastructure. Make sure that the VORs and NDBs are doing what they're supposed to, test ILS systems, etc. Right but they have used aircraft for that, not new ones off the line.
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If they were buying a 727 brand new, it was probably because they needed a jet airliner to test with for whatever reason and there literally weren't any used jet airliners available yet.
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Phonetic alphabet you say? M as in Mancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4jxLxZrMfs Bonus B-17 bombardier seat footage: https://streamable.com/1jctt
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Delivery McGee posted:words I was trying to make an old timey joke about going deaf 
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MikeCrotch posted:I was trying to make an old timey joke about going deaf WHAT????
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MikeCrotch posted:I was trying to make an old timey joke about going deaf I couldn't even hear the whoosh of it going over my head.
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Jul 2, 2017 15:37
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I'm pretty sure I've made that joke twice this week and I still missed it. 
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I was on board. I liked it.
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The best part about going deaf is the realization that about 70% of the words that come out of people's mouths are completely unimportant.
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Dannywilson posted:The best part about going deaf is the realization that about 100% of the words that come out of people's mouths are completely unimportant. FTFY. If they can't be arsed to put it in writing or engage in obscene pantomime to get their point across then chances are it wasn't worth paying attention to.
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Man, I get why but it's a shame (for me) that the Delta 737-200 sim costs >US$10/minute - more if you only count flight time. I also get that the museum either runs it break-even, or to help the whole museum break even (I'm unclear which) so it's still a good deal. But it made me want to ask a couple of questions. I seem to recall hearing that sims have different classes or gradings, and that some count as loggable hours. First is that true? If so, if I turned up as a nobody, would my 30min "flight" be loggable? Where or when is someone entitled to a "proper" logbook? Would a proper pilot be able to log hours, like is it a type rating thing and Johnny Dipshit doesn't qualify for loggable time because every minute was probably spent crashing? I just realised that my knowledge goes as far as knowing log books and hours are a thing, but not further.
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You know how the British have that island in the south Atlantic with the expensive disaster of an airport? Well...now they have an island with *no* airport. http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-40442318
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Nebakenezzer posted:You know how the British have that island in the south Atlantic with the expensive disaster of an airport?
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david_a posted:So the runway can't handle an A330 Voyager, but C-17s are fine? I don't see any massive differences between the specs of the two. What am I missing? The problem with the runway is potholes that need repairs.
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Nebakenezzer posted:You know how the British have that island in the south Atlantic with the expensive disaster of an airport? The expensive disaster of an airport was on St. Helena, not Acension. This is a different isolated South Atlantic rock pile whose airport has a different issue 
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PT6A posted:The expensive disaster of an airport was on St. Helena, not Acension. This is a different isolated South Atlantic rock pile whose airport has a different issue My brain was breaking at first when it said the runway was an alternate landing spot for the space shuttle, and I couldn't even begin to imagine that was correct, given St. Helena's airport story before I realized they were talking about a different island.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear I was talking about a *different* south Atlantic British Island. Considering the money spent on St. Helaina, I figured the UK government giving up because some repair work needs to be done was pretty funny. I'm also guessing this is an island they'd like to be military-only.
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mlmp08 posted:The problem with the runway is potholes that need repairs.
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I watched a travel show where two Canuck doofuses visit Ascension and it looked pretty awesome tbh. They flew in on a RAF 747 iirc. E: Departures is the show, s1 ep5
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david_a posted:So why is that not an issue with the C-17? The article states they make monthly trips. It may well be that C-17s can stop and takeoff on a damned dime.
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david_a posted:So why is that not an issue with the C-17? The article states they make monthly trips. C-17s can comfortably land on unimproved dirt strips carved out of the jungle or whatever. That's kindof the whole point of a C-17.
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You gotta add the accompanying departure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=805M1svwp_8
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simplefish posted:Where or when is someone entitled to a "proper" logbook? https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1560273305/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Smash go on this bad boy, then write your name in it. As to whether hours in a 737 sim in a museum count, I don't know.
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You can log whatever you like, it's just anyone's guess as to whether it will count toward requirements for ratings or privileges.
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is it really so hard to believe a runway can be too rough for airliners but still ok for military tactical transport aircraft
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The Ferret King posted:WHAAAT???!!! Godholio posted:Pinning the landing gear/connecting the tow bar? glynnenstein posted:You gotta add the accompanying departure. Cargo planes, especially tactical airlifters, with no cargo (or airliners with no passengers) and just enough fuel to make it to a real strip have better thrust:weight than fighter jets. Sadly they also have a much lower "wings fall off" speed.
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FuturePastNow posted:is it really so hard to believe a runway can be too rough for airliners but still ok for military tactical transport aircraft Or insufficient for weak Airbuses but okay for stronk Russian plane! Up to and including the Il-62, I believe all their airliners were capable of operating from unpaved airstrips. Of course more than a few 727s and 737s are too.
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PT6A posted:Of course more than a few 727s and 737s are too.
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Delivery McGee posted:No, it was the pictured Boy Scout outing just after the fall of the USSR. I had the run of the underside of Better Duck II out where you can see the oil stains on Google Maps. Even then, I had to duck to get into the belly of the beast, as it were. I'd love to hear the cockpit voice recorders of when that C17 touched down and realized they weren't landing at an air force base.
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