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babyeatingpsychopath posted:The old mechanic at our shop pulled out his old sheetmetal toolbox and had these stickers on it. These are from when he was at SAC back in the 50s. I have this same sticker!  It was actually made by the Constellation Group, a restoration group out of Arizona that no longer exists. They had a flyable Super Constellation they restored in MATS markings that they toured airshows with back in the 90s. I bought the sticker from the souvenir table they set up next to the plane at the Hamilton Ontario Airshow. This would be like twenty years ago when they still did full scale international airshows there. That plane no longer flies, it was sold and is now in static display in South Korea. http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-mats_connie_korea.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXYuufuVu8 So not actually from the 50s, but pretty cool to have anyway. Edit: In that article I posted one of the old guys has a shirt with that design on it. Fornax Disaster fucked around with this message at 18:01 on Jul 20, 2018 |
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Okay this looks amazing, how do we watch the whole thing? https://youtu.be/aZxgEi8gEsE
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drunkill posted:Okay this looks amazing, how do we watch the whole thing? Unfortunately as a brit i'm not super comfortable about wartime nationalistic stuff right now for some reason A shame because it looks gorgeous
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Jul 20, 2018 20:53
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can someone make a movie about the hurricane goddamn it
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MikeCrotch posted:Unfortunately as a brit i'm not super comfortable about wartime nationalistic stuff right now for some reason quote:Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth[e] last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour." Even Churchill knew it was all downhill from there.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:can someone make a movie about the hurricane goddamn it Seriously, it's always kinda mystified me how some planes are glorified/become national symbols of an era while others, in the same class, are completely ignored. Things like how the Lancaster is The British Bomber of WW2 while the Halifax is just completely ignored, or how the B-17 is the iconic American bomber while more Liberators were built. Interesting how our mythmaking happens.
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Seriously, it's always kinda mystified me how some planes are glorified/become national symbols of an era while others, in the same class, are completely ignored. Things like how the Lancaster is The British Bomber of WW2 while the Halifax is just completely ignored, or how the B-17 is the iconic American bomber while more Liberators were built. Interesting how our mythmaking happens. I mean the Spitfire looks loving awesome and the Hurricane looks like Generic Late Interwar Inverted V-12 Fighter so that's probably part of it.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I mean the Spitfire looks loving awesome and the Hurricane looks like Generic Late Interwar Inverted V-12 Fighter so that's probably part of it. And the B-17 looks cooler than the B-24
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Plinkey posted:Yeah, is pulling into the grass normal to slow down on a glider?
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Seriously, it's always kinda mystified me how some planes are glorified/become national symbols of an era while others, in the same class, are completely ignored. Things like how the Lancaster is The British Bomber of WW2 while the Halifax is just completely ignored, or how the B-17 is the iconic American bomber while more Liberators were built. Interesting how our mythmaking happens. Supposedly the B-17 units got more film crews.
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yo I got to see a B-29's power turrets operated and swiveling today it was RAD AS HELL
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:I mean the Spitfire looks loving awesome and the Hurricane looks like Generic Late Interwar Inverted V-12 Fighter so that's probably part of it. I like the Hurricane better because it's the fighter that did the bulk of the work in the Battle of Britain and it was made of wood and canvas. Don't need no fancy elliptical metal wings Anyway, yeah, I like the WW2 planes aesthetically and technologically, but there's always a damper put on my enthusiasm knowing that they were killing machines, and they really did kill a lot of people. It was necessary to stop the Nazis, but in the end, the Spitfire's "symbol of freedom" that those people in the video brag about while the orchestra swells really just amounts to a lot of dead kids on both sides. Old warbirds don't have to be about killing, though. The flight school down the road is getting an L-5 Sentinel, apparently. There's something we can all enjoy!
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StandardVC10 posted:Supposedly the B-17 units got more film crews. The B-24 was just *not* a photogenic aircraft. It might also be the fact that the B-17 was a revolutionary product of a 'recovering' America while the B-24 was one of prompt necessity.
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StandardVC10 posted:Supposedly the B-17 units got more film crews. I think the B-17 mythos is also due to it being in service earlier, so it showed up in more propaganda material/newsreels early in the war, especially during the initial USAAF daylight attacks against Germany, when the photos of badly damaged B-17's managing to limp home started to appear in magazines and newspapers.
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StandardVC10 posted:Supposedly the B-17 units got more film crews. It's possible, although arguably the most famous footage of B-24s is that hosed-up low-level raid over Ploesti, where they were just getting hammered by AA.
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Two significant accidents today, both involving Warbirds. A de Havilland Venom crashed in Wisconsin, pilot was killed and two on the ground injured. http://www.wbay.com/content/news/Plane-crashes-near-Sheboygan-Falls-488762471.html And a C-47 crashed in Burnet, Texas, everyone got out but with injuries, and the bird burned out on the ground: https://www.kxan.com/news/local-news/breaking-crash-destroys-antique-plane-at-burnet-municipal-airport/1314564561
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Other bad airplane news: C'mon Air India how hard is it to fill up that airtight tube with lethal gas to kill all the insects inside
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Nebakenezzer posted:Other bad airplane news: C'mon Air India how hard is it to fill up that airtight tube with lethal gas to kill all the insects inside Where there's people, there's critters. It's inevitable. You can choose to live in a fantasy land where you believe this isn't the case, but it has nothing to do with reality. At least it's not two foot long rats chewing up all the insulation and poo poo behind the panels. The fact that there's as few assorted infestations as there are is kind of indicative of how well these things are controlled.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Other bad airplane news: C'mon Air India how hard is it to fill up that airtight tube with lethal gas to kill all the insects inside I'm waiting for my delayed air India flight right now. My standard travel procedure though is the moment I get home I strip naked and all clothing from myself and my luggage goes in the wash. This should be standard procedure for anyone that travels, outside or inside the US.
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So how do you deal with bedbugs anyway When she's on the ground, just soak everything in a tincture of nicotine Also just listened to the dollop on the dole airplane race
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I really enjoy the dollop and while they have some misses they have far more hits IMO. Despite their warnings about sound quality (legit) this is a pro listen.
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Surprise they lied and then tried to send us to a hotel an hour away from the airport (without traffic) telling us it would be ready by 1 pm. They would not give this in writing but it was "for sure!". I just rebooked on to a British airways flight and leave in an hour now.
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Sagebrush posted:Anyway, yeah, I like the WW2 planes aesthetically and technologically, but there's always a damper put on my enthusiasm knowing that they were killing machines, and they really did kill a lot of people. It was necessary to stop the Nazis, but in the end, the Spitfire's "symbol of freedom" that those people in the video brag about while the orchestra swells really just amounts to a lot of dead kids on both sides. Those kids were very fine people.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So how do you deal with bedbugs anyway Remove the upholstery in the affected area and spray with a local pesticide. For multiple occurrences or reports, next step is seal up and fumigate. There's pest removal companies that have specialized services for airplanes.
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For my air India flight after 4 hours delay they wanted to take us to a hotel an hour away and gave us their word that it would leave by 1 pm! They would not put it in writing of course and the hotel they took us to had no rooms ready. I managed to catch the last seat out on a British airways flight to London that left a couple of hours later. Sitting in London now waiting for my flight home. As far as I can tell the air India flight never left and they're probably trying to pack people on the other daily flight. Downside is today has been hilariously long. Upside is I get to ride a 787 for this leg. As for bugs, they actually sprayed the cabin on the way from India.
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Finger Prince posted:Remove the upholstery in the affected area and spray with a local pesticide. For multiple occurrences or reports, next step is seal up and fumigate. There's pest removal companies that have specialized services for airplanes. Is it the nature of airtight seals that makes this much more effective than fumigating in a house? I thought even if you fumigate the bed bugs can still return. Also, LockMart's new airship has something cool to check for pinhole leaks
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Probably, plus there's not really anywhere else for them to run to and infest compared to a house, which typically has other dwellings nearby that bedbugs will invade.
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Stuff on Wired possibly of interest ITT: loon balloons to deplune dunes [of dead spaces in signal coverage] The Isrealis have an unbelievably weird looking drone medivac capsue. I'm looking at it and thinking naturally helicopter/airship or even a Fieseler Storch or similar would be better. The flying taxi grift continues at Uber Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jul 22, 2018 |
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Jesus christ why do they even bother coming up with numbers for this nonsense? You could say it's going to cruise at Mach 3 100 ft. off the ground, and transport passengers in luxurious accommodations that bring to visions of Xanadu itself, and it would be not significantly less likely that what they've actually proposed. The FAA isn't going to allow a bunch of flying taxis to zip in and out of cities using unproven technology while carrying passengers, it simply will not happen in anything approaching the near future. Do they even look at the timeframe for designing and certifying an aircraft that using normal-rear end technology that already exists, and operates within the existing legal framework? gently caress sake, that usually takes well over five years on its own. This lunacy makes me angry! PT6A fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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poo poo, I fly a drone professionally, and there are tons of places I cannot operate - such as Class B airspace -without an expressed waiver. Now, that's supposed to change soon for Part 107, but that still means UAVs under 50-lbs. and staying under 600' in most metro areas. The jump from that to a passeger-carrying-size craft? Not happening anytime soon, if ever.
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PainterofCrap posted:The jump from that to a passeger-carrying-size craft? Not happening anytime soon, if ever. "Don't you want to be remembered as the President that finally made flying cars a reality?" 
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PainterofCrap posted:poo poo, I fly a drone professionally, and there are tons of places I cannot operate - such as Class B airspace -without an expressed waiver. Now, that's supposed to change soon for Part 107, but that still means UAVs under 50-lbs. and staying under 600' in most metro areas. No poo poo! Did they even bother to look this poo poo up or did they figured they'd just gently caress around and break some laws like they usually do?
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Sometime in the near future, a lobbyist will slither into the Oval Office: Cars already fly. They're just really poorly aerodynamically designed.
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Behold, the AWACS porn version of "yer on guarrrrrrrrrd": https://theaviationgeekclub.com/e-3...n-desert-storm/
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Nebakenezzer posted:Is it the nature of airtight seals that makes this much more effective than fumigating in a house? I thought even if you fumigate the bed bugs can still return. Clicked the link thinking it was going to be like a dye in the lifting gas to make leaks obvious Nope, it's Repair Drones Like In My Sci-Fi Video Games
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Behold, the AWACS porn version of "yer on guarrrrrrrrrd": https://theaviationgeekclub.com/e-3...n-desert-storm/ I don't know where they're getting that headline from, in the story the F-14 is targeting a striker coming off the target area, not the E-2. The E-2 wouldn't have been anywhere near that.
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PT6A posted:No poo poo! "We have an app, it'll disrupt all the things!" Is basically all the planning most tech companies do, since they just assume that the government will allow them them to proceed with whatever harebrained scheme they've come up with. Every six month or so, someone comes up with an app that they claim will be the "Uber for airplanes" by letting people buy rides on small private airplanes, and every single time, those get smacked down by the FAA for being illegal.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Behold, the AWACS porn version of "yer on guarrrrrrrrrd": https://theaviationgeekclub.com/e-3...n-desert-storm/ https://theaviationgeekclub.com/lockheed-martins-f-22-f-35-hybrid-for-japan-will-cost-177-million-instead-of-133-million-per-aircraft/
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slidebite posted:This is what caught my eye linked on that page, an F35/F22 hybrid? How long has this been a thing? It has yet to be a thing, actually. But the proposal is just a few months old.
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azflyboy posted:"We have an app, it'll disrupt all the things!" Is basically all the planning most tech companies do, since they just assume that the government will allow them them to proceed with whatever harebrained scheme they've come up with. The weirdest thing is there's nothing illegal about that as far as I can tell, provided you follow the applicable laws. But then you're talking aircraft charter with a novel booking method, and that poo poo's still pretty expensive. All the disruption poo poo is about finding the One Weird Trick [that breaks the law, but not enough that you get in serious trouble] in order to save a bunch of money. That poo poo will not work with aircraft. PT6A fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Jul 23, 2018 |
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