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I hate the holidays but I present to you my favorite Christmas Eve story: Frederick Forsyth's The Shepherd, as read by Alan Maitland
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Carth Dookie posted:A Google search reveals that Australia has had a rather more extensive aircraft carrier history than I'd realized. HMAS Albatross near Nowra has the Fleet Air Arm Museum which is easily worth a visit if you're ever in the Illawarra Region.
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Dec 25, 2017 13:41
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I had a cab driver once that claimed he was a deck hand aboard the Bonaventure.
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Dec 25, 2017 16:49
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~Coxy posted:HMAS Albatross near Nowra has the Fleet Air Arm Museum which is easily worth a visit if you're ever in the Illawarra Region. Also HARS. I enjoyed HARS a lot more, it's very hands on.
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Dec 26, 2017 00:47
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Post-war France: had some bitchin' aircraft     Okinawa crash:  AIRSHIP KOMMIT:     Pretty sure this is a boner joke:  Given the mechanical history of the B-29, this is an approp joke (say it out loud:)   Something something North American Dragon:   I feel like this picture needs a caption, like "I see U tiny bitch"  The B-32 Dominator: America's unnecessary world's most advanced strategic bomber     This is actually just outside Gander - in 1946, a Sabena airlines DC-4 crashed, killing 27 while 16 passengers and one crew member survived. Apparently this airplane were filled with richers fleeing the Nazis with as much wealth as they could carry, and the rescue crews all retired shortly after.  SAR in a flying boat in Newfoundland. Apparently even this landing point was a mile long hike to bring survivors out; this was one of the first rescues to use helicopters.  Think this is what the kids are calling thicc    Flying over...something bombed  OK, now look at this picture. How the hell did it get there?  Hey China, it was called the tradewind         A good sharkmouth:    
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Dec 27, 2017 02:49
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The Bf-110 was my favorite aircraft as a kid
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Dec 27, 2017 03:11
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Dec 27, 2017 05:57
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anyone nostalgic about WWII era aviation should have to fly 5,000 miles at 150 mph in a noisy metal box
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Dec 27, 2017 15:01
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Ju-88 Love This one has a BMW infection:  Thankfully, no GDCS CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Dec 27, 2017 15:30
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what is this setup out at edwards AFB? I know there's this museum thing but those all look airworthy to me I see a C-130, hawker hunter, F-111, B-1, C-141, C-47...E-6? a rivet joint and B-57, I don't know what the other ones are.
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Dec 27, 2017 15:59
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bewbies posted:what is this setup out at edwards AFB? Its the flight testing wing, they keep a couple aircraft around for various duties. There is a B-2 in the hanger there. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Dec 27, 2017 |
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Dec 27, 2017 16:07
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Isn't this the B-36 that flew with a nuclear reactor inside to see if nuclear aircraft could become A Thing?
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beep-beep car is go posted:Isn't this the B-36 that flew with a nuclear reactor inside to see if nuclear aircraft could become A Thing? No, that's probably BM-033 / 492033 from the 7th Bombardment Wing 
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^^ beaten like the child of a suspected communistbeep-beep car is go posted:Isn't this the B-36 that flew with a nuclear reactor inside to see if nuclear aircraft could become A Thing? No, this aircraft is one of the trainer/early production series, I think. The NB-36H looked like dis: 
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Dec 27, 2017 17:11
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bewbies posted:what is this setup out at edwards AFB? I'm impressed as hell at that C-47. There are *still* C-47s in the USAF.
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Dec 27, 2017 17:19
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Nebakenezzer posted:Something something North American Dragon: Douglas.  Much like the B-18 was a bomber based on the wings and engines of the DC-2, the B-23 Dragon was a bomber based on the DC-3.
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Dec 27, 2017 18:19
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bewbies posted:anyone nostalgic about WWII era aviation should have to fly 5,000 miles at 150 mph in a noisy metal box Did it a bunch of times, but more like 2000 miles only. Would not trade the experience for the world. Still nostalgic about WWII era aviation.
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Dec 27, 2017 20:48
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bewbies posted:what is this setup out at edwards AFB? That B1 is probably for parts, not sure about the others maybe future museam pieces? There are some other fun things laying around just to the south. https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8159015,-117.8636008,115m/data=!3m1!1e3 https://www.google.com/maps/@34.8864036,-117.8679741,230m/data=!3m1!1e3
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Dec 28, 2017 01:19
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Drones used for blood delivery in Rwanda
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5214895/Chrissy-Teigen-documents-woes-Tokyo-flight-Twitter.html posted:Federal authorities are investigating how an unticketed passenger was able to board a flight in Los Angeles bound for Tokyo after the plane which was carrying 150 passengers including Chrissy Teigen and John Legend was forced to turn around mid-flight on Tuesday. Whoa, she's busted the whole thing wide open. quote:'There is a 20 minute interview before we can get off the plane!! ...' wrote Teigen. And the worst part? quote:Lum also claimed that while she and other passengers received $200 vouchers, the individual who boarded the wrong flight got a $500 voucher. So uhh that would be a bit annoying. I suppose you can't just fly on to Japan because Japan doesn't want a plane arriving with some random guy who wasn't meant to be on the plane and is on it for unknown reasons, so you have to send it back to LAX to work out if it's terrorism or stupidity?
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Dec 28, 2017 02:26
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Apparently it was two brothers, one on united, the other on ANA but somehow one made his way onto the wrong plane and no one noticed for a while.
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Dec 28, 2017 02:29
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Pretty much a non story that happens with some frequency (though they generally catch it before pushback, often because someone is sitting where someone else is supposed to sit.) So of course the Daily Mail picks it up and runs with it, because pretty girl. All that's missing is how much her house is worth.
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Dec 28, 2017 02:35
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Oh hey, I met a dude who worked on that project. He was telling me how the planes have redundant control surfaces, and they built a computer vision system that watches the plane test each control surface before each flight. The servos they use usually fail in an extreme position; when that happens, the plane's avionics just deal with it until it can return home. Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Dec 28, 2017 |
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Dec 28, 2017 02:49
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Plinkey posted:Apparently it was two brothers, one on united, the other on ANA but somehow one made his way onto the wrong plane and no one noticed for a while. quote:'They keep saying the person had a United ticket. We are on ANA. So basically the boarding pass scanner is just a beedoop machine that makes beedoop noises that register to nowhere,' tweeted Teigen as her plane made its way back to LAX on Tuesday. ANA and United have a joint venture and both operate flights flying LAX-NRT that depart at 10:45 am. ANA175 - a 777: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/ANA175/history/20171227/1845Z/KLAX/RJAA United 32 - a 787: https://flightaware.com/live/flight/UAL32/history/20171227/1845Z/KLAX/RJAA ANA175 is also known as United 7925. There were two United flights going from LAX to NRT departing at 10:45am. Are ANA flights handled by United on the ground at LAX?
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Dec 28, 2017 03:12
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If they schedule flights as well as United does everywhere else they're departing from adjacent gates. 
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Dec 28, 2017 03:14
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Yeah knowing how United runs things on the ground I'm surprised this isn't a daily occurrence.
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Dec 28, 2017 03:33
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quote:...Staying close to the coast of California rather than heading out into the Atlantic. “Journalism.”
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Dec 28, 2017 03:36
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Plinkey posted:That B1 is probably for parts, not sure about the others maybe future museam pieces? The B1 is a test plane for future B1 mods. Edwards also has 2 B52s for the same reason. Its also the only B1 that didn't have all its nuclear arming stuff removed and welded over as part of the START treaties, so it shows up in Clancy-esque books doing stupid stuff a lot.
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Dec 28, 2017 05:12
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MrYenko posted:“Journalism.”  I didn't notice that. The map even says Pacific on it 
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I was once on a plane where my seatmate got on the complete wrong flight heading to the wrong side of the continent. I was going to Vancouver and they were going to Winnipeg, Toronto or some loving thing. Basically the gate was some 60+ year old lady standing there waving people by, and there were 3 or 4 planes on the apron with all pax controlled by that single gate and only the flight attendant(s) once you got to the stairs to the AC. That kind of poo poo has to happen all the god drat time on commuter flights... although on an international I would have hoped it would have been a smidgen better. Should have known it wasn't.
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Dec 28, 2017 06:33
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drat beedoop machines!! I knew they was frauds!
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Dec 28, 2017 06:37
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I vaguely remember a standard cabin announcement they used to give about "this is flight ### to Wherever, if you're not going to Wherever see a flight attendant now" but that doesn't seem to be a thing anymore. Wouldn't have necessarily caught this passenger either...
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Dec 28, 2017 06:46
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I mean if yo were in ANA economy and you were supposed to be in United economy you’d probably shut up too!
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Dec 28, 2017 06:53
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hobbesmaster posted:I mean if yo were in ANA economy and you were supposed to be in United economy you’d probably shut up too! Well it's not like they'd savagely beat you and drag you off the ANA for coming clean, at least.. Save that for when you get seated on United.
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Dec 28, 2017 07:01
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Xenoborg posted:The B1 is a test plane for future B1 mods. Edwards also has 2 B52s for the same reason. Eh, I worked out there on them for a while and I'm not sure. It's missing something very obvious which would designate it as a nuc model with hard points still in place and all. Unless you worked there more recently then me and they don't do that anymore for some reason. It's probably 068 which was a pile of poo poo plane.
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I'm on the B52 side, so I don't know the particulars of the B1 neutering. As part of NEW START there were a few LRUs that we removed from half the B52 fleet, and I thought a similar thing happened to B1 minus the Edwards one. Edit: also both Edwards b52s are POSs because they don’t keep them in configuration, do mods without telling us, and just don’t do some tctos. Xenoborg fucked around with this message at 08:25 on Dec 28, 2017 |
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Dec 28, 2017 08:04
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Kinda, just run out there and tell me if it's 68
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hobbesmaster posted:ANA and United have a joint venture and both operate flights flying LAX-NRT that depart at 10:45 am. Speaking of this, Air Canada runs flight AC557 and AC577 from LAX to YVR that take off within an hour of each other usually with gates next door to each other. Its really loving confusing to me and I fly a ton.
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Plinkey posted:Kinda, just run out there and tell me if it's 68
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Kinda looking forward to seeing that line in February. I'll be visiting that museum.
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