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priznat posted:This 100%. Paint it black and it is the Darth Vader of planes. There was a prototype with a black & red fuselage which looked amazing, spoiled by the wings & tail being silver though. Phone posting & not many colour photos but I'm sure you can find one if you're curious.
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If you want to inspire a love of aviation in people, how many discovery flights could you subsidise with the Jet-A bill from a single airshow? Or Young Eagles, for kids? That's how I got started down the road of poor, expensive life choices I'm on 
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When I was a kid in air cadets, I got to take a ride in the right seat of a Kiowa helicopter while the pilot hot-dogged it around a wetland. I knew right there that I wanted to be a helicopter pilot when I grew up. I am not a helicopter pilot, nor am I likely to ever be a helicopter pilot. On the other hand, the flight and other benefits I ended up with instead sort of almost make up for it.
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So I took nearly 400 photos at the USAF Museum. And I had a Google Photos album that was linkable until I noticed it listed my name. I'll cherry-pick the really good ones and collage them here later. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Jul 15, 2017 |
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Finger Prince posted:When I was a kid in air cadets, I got to take a ride in the right seat of a Kiowa helicopter while the pilot hot-dogged it around a wetland. I knew right there that I wanted to be a helicopter pilot when I grew up. That's what I said until a year ago (minus the helicopter bit, that poo poo is spendy) and now I'm exactly one hour short of a commercial pilot license.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So I took nearly 400 photos at the USAF Museum. And I had a Google Photos album that was linkable until I noticed it listed my name. Please do, that's a museum on my bucket list.
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Jul 16, 2017 01:46
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B-58 Hustler ejection pod:
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drunkill posted:V bombers best bombers. I always feel the Valiant gets the short end of the stick in comparison with the other two 
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um excuse me posted:B-58 Hustler ejection pod: I want one of those for my office.
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blugu64 posted:I want one of those for my office.
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Same but only if it includes the rocket ejection too. Also reminder they tested that ejection pod by sticking a sedated bear in it.
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Gibfender posted:I always feel the Valiant gets the short end of the stick in comparison with the other two Leading on from an earlier post, the all-black Valiant looked ridiculously cool too.
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Here's an imgbox gallery link to the images I thought were the 'best' out of the nearly 400 I took: http://imgbox.com/g/B61dIFoID0 (click on the first image, then use the -> in the top right to cycle through) The dump of the raw images direct from my phone's storage is nearly 2GB and I won't link a ZIP file of that until I've got a NAS box up and running again. Something they don't tell you about the Google Image 'unlimited hosting' is that they compress the images from RAW.  EDIT: And for some reason trying to get *all* of the images off my phone is making Windows poo poo itself.  Anyway, since the YF-23 was getting the most love, and they recently moved it so the angles on it were better:     Unfortunately there was no way to get around the back of the YF120 (or the YF-23 itself) without ducking a boundary or I would have gotten a shot from that angle. EDIT 2: Here's the link to the entire photo dump (360 someodd images) at RAW quality (this is a very large file and Dropbox might bounce it if/when too many people D/L it): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzgdmY1vD8-zeFFsN19hY0FwSUk BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 03:34 on Jul 17, 2017 |
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Jul 16, 2017 09:40
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Anyone know what this is? My buddy shot it today somewhere in Ohio.
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:Anyone know what this is? My buddy shot it today somewhere in Ohio. Looks like a C-123 complete with jet (booster) engines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-123_Provider
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I found another entry for "bizarre World War 2 air combat", though I don't have much detail. Somehow, a German BV 222 managed to shoot down a USN B-24 over the Atlantic.
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Jul 17, 2017 19:08
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Speaking of hard-to-believe flying boat facts: 
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Jealous Cow posted:
You say "gently caress," everyone without a connection to catch says "woo, extra miles!"
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BIG HEADLINE posted:You say "gently caress," everyone without a connection to catch says "woo, extra miles!" I'm not entirely sure they issue actual mileage flown, rather a predetermined amount at booking based on typical routing, or 500, whichever is greater. The planned distance was 415, actual 818. I'll report back.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:You say "gently caress," everyone without a connection to catch says "woo, extra miles!" Mileage calculations for credit are always based on a straight line.
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Air miles are currency and any relation to statute or nautical miles is purely coincidental.
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Mokotow posted:I was watching three Korean Air flights today on radar, all going to Seoul - two passenger flights were coming from Germany and routing north, while a cargo flight from Oslo, also to Seoul, was routing South, and their flight path crossed over Poland. The Passanger flight routing is the standard one, over St. Petersburg and Siberia, while the Southern routing goes through Turkey, Iran, all the -stans and over China. I can't figure out why they'd go that way, and there doesn't seem to be any on-route stops for that flight number either. Only thing I can figure out is that it avoids Russia, but what the gently caress would they be carrying from Norway to Korea, that couldn't be routed north? One possibility is that the different routings have different overflight fees. Russia is known for charging foreign carriers high rates for passing over. The routing might be quicker than the southern track, making it worthwile when carrying higly time-sensitive human cargo. Ordinary cargo is less sensitive to trip time differences of less than a couple of hours, making the longer but cheaper track better. Edit: There is a long-running overflight dispute between Norway and Russia, which means norwegian carriers are denied overflight rights. I don't know if that applies to all carriers flying from Norway though. catfry fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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https://www.google.com/maps/place/W...5!4d-93.5605515
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The B2 hangers are so stumpy 
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What's going on here? It almost looks like one of those B-52s that got chopped up as part of START II
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Looks like a firefighting training site. yup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp4oIDliD4
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Oh, rad. That makes sense.
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If you look around on Google maps, you'll see that most major airports and air force bases have one of those burnt-up planes somewhere on the edge of the field.
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bewbies posted:The movie Rush was significantly more exciting than any F1 season since at least 1994 The racing scenes in Rush were terrible. At least show things like drivers heel-and-toeing instead of the Hollywood "I'm going to change gear SO hard and stomp on the throttle SO hard." Grand Prix and Le Mans were the only two racing movies worth a drat.
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drgitlin posted:The racing scenes in Rush were terrible. At least show things like drivers heel-and-toeing instead of the Hollywood "I'm going to change gear SO hard and stomp on the throttle SO hard." What about the ones where they live their lives a quarter mile at a time?
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mlmp08 posted:What about the ones where they live their lives a quarter mile at a time? I can say with authority that that series is directly responsible for at least one deliberately murdered transmission. Specifically, he "wanted to do a sweet 180 like Dom," so while going down a highway(!) at 70 MPH, he immediately threw the vehicle into reverse and mashed the accelerator, because "that's how Dom did it in Furious 7." Thank God (if not Darwin) he never got to the part with the wheel. I still can't figure out where he thought he was going to go. Like, did he think he was going to teleport through the guard rails?
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mlmp08 posted:What about the ones where they live their lives a quarter mile at a time? 5 and 6 were excellent. 8 made my brain hurt with all the autonomous cars that were old Saturns and Chryslers.
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catfry posted:Edit: There is a long-running overflight dispute between Norway and Russia, which means norwegian carriers are denied overflight rights. I don't know if that applies to all carriers flying from Norway though. This would fully explain it - thanks! Edit: the rabbit hole goes deeper: "A 1956 agreement between the Soviet Union and Norway, Sweden, Denmark allows only Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) to fly the shortest route to destinations in Asia, the so-called Siberian Corridor, across Russian air space. SAS is partly state-owned by the three countries. " Korean Air factors into this in some hosed up way, though not cargo - saw a flight from Oslo to Seoul route north, though pretty much everything out of Norway to Asia does indeed take the southern routing. Mokotow fucked around with this message at 21:45 on Jul 18, 2017 |
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Given KAL's history with Russian air defense, it wouldn't surprise me if they use the most conservative possible interpretation of things like this.
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You know that AC flight that almost outdid Tenerife? quote:BREAKING Close-call at SFO: federal investigators reveal Air Canada #AC759 dropped as low as 81 ft http://www.airlive.net/breaking-close-call-at-sfo-federal-investigators-reveal-air-canada-ac759-dropped-as-low-as-81-ft/
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Jesus that's close.
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Jealous Cow posted:You know that AC flight that almost outdid Tenerife? For once they're not overhyping it. 
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Jul 19, 2017 01:05
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Guess what I'm doing right now?
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Jealous Cow posted:Guess what I'm doing right now? 
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