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hobbesmaster posted:Usually the only places passports aren't accepted are where they're trying to also establish residence, not just citizenship or identity. I have no idea why that'd be the case here. Ah, yeah, that actually makes sense. I didn't think about that, though I too can't imagine why that would be an issue in this case. EDIT: I remember having to carry my passport around for a week to buy liquor and cigs every time I renewed my drivers license in my early 20s. God that must have seemed weird to everyone. Thankfully the encroaching baldness has very much rendered that a non-issue at this point; there had to be some advantage, right??? PT6A fucked around with this message at 04:37 on May 20, 2019 |
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“It’s the military and they do everything the dumbest way possible“ is why.
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Godholio posted:My understanding is that there's a limited and underwhelming bus tour. I've done it, and it was worth it, but it is limited. If you're there all day anyway, it's a good way to break up the outdoor exhibits at Pima. Escape the heat via air-conditioned bus, then return to Pima and finish the exhibits. When I went, we caught some pristine C-27s being washed down.
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fknlo posted:Cool photo opportunity and all, but that's a really bad place to be. F-16's have a tank of Hydrazine on board for the APU. I wouldn't get near a crashed F-16 for love or money.
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I still don't get what happened with the C-27s. The army bought them, then the air force got them, then they got mothballed, and never used or something? None of it makes sense.
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Mortabis posted:I still don't get what happened with the C-27s. The army bought them, then the air force got them, then they got mothballed, and never used or something? None of it makes sense. They're going to go to the Coast Guard or possibly the U.S. Forest Service now. So... hooray? 
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StandardVC10 posted:They're going to go to the Coast Guard or possibly the U.S. Forest Service now. So... hooray? What's USFS going to do with them? Can they be made in to air tankers? that would be cool.
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The Army wanted in-house cargo airlift support, got it in the form of the C-27, Air Force "won" an inter-service pissing match about who gets to fly fixed-wing aviation assets (everyone except the Army), so the Air Force got the C-27s that the DOD had already purchased, but didn't loving want them because they already have a massive fleet of C-130s/17s/5s that they can't afford to keep in the air, so the Pentagon is desperately searching for someone to GIVE the things to, before 60 Minutes does a special on the program. It's the politics of the largest organization, with the most money in the world, an array of government contractors hanging off their teet, kickbacks, blowbacks, and rampant greed and corruption. E^^ it'd have to be water bombers.
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Elviscat posted:The Army wanted in-house cargo airlift support, got it in the form of the C-27, Air Force "won" an inter-service pissing match about who gets to fly fixed-wing aviation assets (everyone except the Army), so the Air Force got the C-27s that the DOD had already purchased, but didn't loving want them because they already have a massive fleet of C-130s/17s/5s that they can't afford to keep in the air, so the Pentagon is desperately searching for someone to GIVE the things to, before 60 Minutes does a special on the program. May as well use them up now. US Gov. can't even get rid of them as Leonardo refuses to service any American C-27J sold on. Guess they got real pissed about the whole deal and didn't want to get hosed out of more money.
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PT6A posted:I'm kind of tempted to see if I can board a plane with my "aviation document booklet" next time I fly commercially, just for shits and giggles, now that I'm thinking about it. It's federally issued photo ID so I don't see why it wouldn't work, but I'm guessing it'd throw them for a loop. You can. It's on the list of acceptable photo ID. Worst case they'll hold you there until they can look it up. To fly internationally you'll still need your passport.
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drat the RCAF shoulda gotten C-27Js instead of the C295s for SAR duties because sounds like there would be a good source of lightly used replacements available.
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priznat posted:drat the RCAF shoulda gotten C-27Js instead of the C295s for SAR duties because sounds like there would be a good source of lightly used replacements available. People brought this up at the time; maybe the no service from Leonardo was a deal-breaker
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Niki Lauda has died.
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Jonny Nox posted:Niki Lauda has died. Somewhere in the great beyond: "Hey James, finally made up those extra laps."
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Elviscat posted:The Army wanted in-house cargo airlift support, got it in the form of the C-27, Air Force "won" an inter-service pissing match about who gets to fly fixed-wing aviation assets (everyone except the Army), so the Air Force got the C-27s that the DOD had already purchased, but didn't loving want them because they already have a massive fleet of C-130s/17s/5s that they can't afford to keep in the air, so the Pentagon is desperately searching for someone to GIVE the things to, before 60 Minutes does a special on the program. See what I find insane is that the Army didn't get them back after the Air Force immediately threw them away.
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Mortabis posted:See what I find insane is that the Army didn't get them back after the Air Force immediately threw them away. The Air Force really , really does not like the idea of the Army having it's own fixed wing air assets. Though why they didn't get pissy about the Citations and Gulfstreams I don't know.
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:The Air Force really , really does not like the idea of the Army having it's own fixed wing air assets. Then they'd have to share?
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:The Air Force really , really does not like the idea of the Army having it's own fixed wing air assets. And yet the Navy's army has its own air force. Go figure.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:And yet the Navy's army has its own air force. Go figure. Maybe the army should have its own air force. They could have used those c-27s to deploy zodiacs or amphibious landing craft or something. Give the air force flying boats to make up for it, full of special air force infantry.
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the navy already has an army and an air force so just roll em all into that imo
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Why not get recursive? Navy's army's air forces' navy's army...
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Mortabis posted:Why not get recursive? Navy's army's air forces' navy's army... PLANMC really missed an opportunity here.
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Mortabis posted:Why not get recursive? Navy's army's air forces' navy's army... Unterseeboot "Hermann Göring" of the 1st Fallschirm-Panzer-Marineinfanterist Division Hermann Göring.
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Saw the Canadian Coast Guard Surveillance Dash-8 doing low-ish loops along stretches of river in the BC lower mainland this morning, looking for oil spills and the like. Great looking plane https://www.airliners.net/photo/Transport-Canada-Surveillance/De-Havilland-Canada-DHC-8-102-Dash-8/2721437
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I think a few months back this thread was talking about crappy little Tecnam twins? Well, I found their spiritual ancestor: Two 100-hp Continental O-200s, max speed 130 mph, engine-out ceiling 2,000 feet, engine-out climb rate lol no.
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StandardVC10 posted:
Usually, the remaining engine should be sufficient to get you to the scene of the accident, but I think that will actually crash short.
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A Falcon 8X apparently established a coast-to-coast speed record, California to New Jersey in four hours and a half. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDA8Sv7QN9U
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Finger Prince posted:Maybe the army should have its own air force. They could have used those c-27s to deploy zodiacs or amphibious landing craft or something. I can grok why the USN no longer has flying boats, but I still cannot understand why the USCG doesn’t buy US-2s.
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Cat Mattress posted:A Falcon 8X apparently established a coast-to-coast speed record, California to New Jersey in four hours and a half. Yeah, you're going to be seeing more of that as the jetstream does progressively fuckier things.
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MrYenko posted:I can grok why the USN no longer has flying boats, but I still cannot understand why the USCG doesn’t buy US-2s. What tactical advantage does a sea plane give though.
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e.pilot posted:What tactical advantage does a sea plane give though. Performing rescues further from shore than can be done with a helicopter? Rescue could also be extracting divers or something.
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hobbesmaster posted:Performing rescues further from shore than can be done with a helicopter? 
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Gotta be some pretty calm conditions to put a seaplane down in open ocean!
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priznat posted:Gotta be some pretty calm conditions to put a seaplane down in open ocean! Catalinas certainly did it.
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priznat posted:Gotta be some pretty calm conditions to put a seaplane down in open ocean! I can't find the video at the moment, but I remember there being a Japanese open sea floatplane taking off and landing in some pretty  sea states.
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StandardVC10 posted:I think a few months back this thread was talking about crappy little Tecnam twins? Well, I found their spiritual ancestor: Don’t you be mean to the twin champ  Neat (?) fact - it has flap, prop, mixture, and gear levers that are hooked up to nothing to allow the pilot to develop the muscle memory for emergency procedures etc.
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StandardVC10 posted:I think a few months back this thread was talking about crappy little Tecnam twins? Well, I found their spiritual ancestor: Its most distant ancestor (the Aeronca C-2) managed to fly on just 26hp!
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hobbesmaster posted:Performing rescues further from shore than can be done with a helicopter? That's what the combo package of HH-60's and HC-130's to refuel them is for. The 106th out of Gabreski on Long Island did a long range rescue waaaaaay out into the Atlantic last year, and the 176th out of Anchorage rescued the guys on the Cougar Ace when it dumped a couple hundo spookykid fucked around with this message at 02:12 on May 23, 2019 |
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