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shame on an IGA posted:John Landis directs the making-of documentary where we follow Microsoft all over chicagoland on a mission from god to get the band back together and avenge meigs field Keep John Landis away from anything related to aviation kthx
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Colostomy Bag posted:How the flying hell (no pun intended) did we end up with 755 of these things? It appears that they were dirt cheap and let ships that weren't built for helicopter hangars pretend they had helicopters. They're apparently still being used White Plains as target drones. I'm going to assume they're mechanically quite simple if they've been around that long.
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Went to a D-Day 75 event over the weekend at the former naval air station HMS Daedalus on the south coast of England. During D-Day this was the busiest Allied airfield in the world, being the centre of the ground-support operations. Spitfires, Seafires, P-51s and Typhoons flew over 400 individual sorties across the Channel in 24 hours. The weather was, unfortunately, very similar to the actual D-Day - F5 winds (18knots gusting 25+) at 45 degrees to the runway and heavy rain showers sweeping over the field every 15-20 minutes. So virtually all the flying displays/fly-pasts were cancelled. There were some aircraft on the ground to see, though, either airfield residents or visitors, some of which reflected Daedalus post-war history.  Cirrus Vision  SA/BAe Bulldog  DHC-1 Chipmunk  C182 amphibian - not that interesting in itself but we don't get many floatplanes here!  Auster AOP6  Inevitably, the only warbird that could cope with the weather was a C-47! That's All, Brother was the lead-ship of an 800-aircraft formation which delivered the initial paratroop drop over Normandy. It's recently been restored by the CAF and is over here for a European tour.  A B47, a C-47 and a guy's bald head.  Apologies for the terrible digital-zoom pic  Crowds gather to worship at the altar of the Gooney Bird...   Later, a P-51D, Tall in the Saddle, managed to drop in in a gap in the weather. She's a 'Red Tail' but rather late for D-Day, not arriving in Europe until February 1945 and operating in Italy rather than France.  Daedalus is now 'Solent Airport' and is home to Britten-Norman's production facility, so there were a few Islanders of various specs around.  B-N Defender-4000 with Seamaster marine surveillance radar. What a schnoz!  Fleet Air Arm public relations team were there with a Westland Lynx and the front half of a Sea Harrier. Of course on the following day, when I wasn't there, it was perfect flying conditions so there were Spitfires, Hurricanes, P-51s, Gazelles, Lynxs, WW1 replicas and all sorts flying about! BalloonFish fucked around with this message at 17:53 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 17:51
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BalloonFish posted:
Oh hey, I donated to the restoration of this plane a few years back. They finished sometime last year and had it at Wings Over Houston. 
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I love the DC3 / C47. They're gonna be flying even when we're all worm food.
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Jun 10, 2019 18:50
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Another helo went down in Manhattan, pilot confirmed dead. Hard landing onto an office tower. 
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Jun 10, 2019 19:55
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Naturally Selected posted:Another helo went down in Manhattan, pilot confirmed dead. Amazon needs a private heliport, they just can't land anywhere. but seriously isn't helo traffic super locked down in NYC?
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Jun 10, 2019 19:58
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wargames posted:Amazon needs a private heliport, they just can't land anywhere. Not sure on the official policies, but I'd think so. I honestly have no idea what a small helo was doing loving about in quite literally the middle of the city in pretty much zero-visibility weather. Good thing it didn't slam into someone's apartment/office, at least? E: For reference, 787 7th is the brown building peeking out on the left-center just in front of the under construction orange+blue one. Today the top of it was in fog/clouds. 
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Jun 10, 2019 20:17
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Wow those new super high rise apartments are ugly.
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Jun 10, 2019 21:21
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Yyyep. There's some interesting buildings that have come up and I'm probably commiting a cardinal sin of some sort but I actually like the crystalline ones like the BofA building/WTC, but those blank needledick towers are just obnoxious.
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Adiabatic posted:Wow those new super high rise apartments are ugly. It’s got that mediæval Bologna look. 
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Naturally Selected posted:the BofA building/WTC What's BofA
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Phy posted:What's BofA Bank of America tower. The crystalline one just behind the salesforce building bottom left of that shot. Thing is gorgeous when it's lit up or catches light. E: VVV Pretty sure after the citicorp thing NYC requires damping on all new ones. But I'm not an engineer or an inspector so who knows. Naturally Selected fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jun 10, 2019 21:35
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I wonder how much sway those really thin looking ones get, or if they have the active systems in the top to cancel it out (big pendulums or a mass on an oil covered slab etc) Or are they skinny enough the wind doesn’t shove em around as much. I would like a Nova PBS episode on this!
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Naturally Selected posted:Bank of America tower. The crystalline one just behind the salesforce building bottom left of that shot. Thing is gorgeous when it's lit up or catches light. I believe you mean “BofA DEEZ NUTZ!”
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Jun 10, 2019 21:36
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wargames posted:Amazon needs a private heliport, they just can't land anywhere. There are special flight rules for traveling up and down the river, the city has restrictions for tour operators, and there's a TFR over Trump Tower. But the southern tip of Manhattan is under class B up to 1400', and I don't see any restrictions other than for touring flights
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priznat posted:I wonder how much sway those really thin looking ones get, or if they have the active systems in the top to cancel it out (big pendulums or a mass on an oil covered slab etc) The pencil towers are really pretty amazing engineering wise. Also their design was purely the result of real estate availability, pricing, and greed.
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dupersaurus posted:There are special flight rules for traveling up and down the river, the city has restrictions for tour operators, and there's a TFR over Trump Tower. But the southern tip of Manhattan is under class B up to 1400', and I don't see any restrictions other than for touring flights The crash happened ~5 blocks from Trump Tower, actually (51st and 7th). If I'm looking at the FAA map correctly, that'd actually be right in the trump tower TFR.
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GlassEye-Boy posted:The pencil towers are really pretty amazing engineering wise. Also their design was purely the result of real estate availability, pricing, and greed. No doubt! Skyscrapers have always fascinated me. I got hooked when watching a documentary on the Citicorp building fuckup : http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2014/04/17/the_citicorp_tower_design_flaw_that_could_have_wiped_out_the_skyscraper.html
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Safety Dance posted:"One of the most complex aircraft engines ever built" sounds like a good thing until you realize it's a very bad thing.
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BalloonFish posted:
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Platystemon posted:I believe you mean “BofA DEEZ NUTZ!” Thank you. For a terminally online idiot like me, seeing a hanging bofa or ligma is like tapping out "Shave and a haircut" in front of Roger Rabbit
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evil_bunnY posted:the most MoD thing ever The only fixed wing aircraft in the inventory doesn’t have wings.
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Platystemon posted:I believe you mean “BofA DEEZ NUTZ!”  Welp, I'm so used to the name I totally missed it.Also, apparently pilot didn't have an IFR rating. While flying through Manhattan with total cloud cover starting below average building height.  Not sudden weather, either. Those clouds were around since Sunday.
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Jerry clown show at it again. This guy needs to be slapped with 91.13 and grounded, because I mean, holy poo poo. Skip to 20:15 e: Now with altitudes https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N8134Q/history/20190524/1746Z/KOAK/KOAK/tracklog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbgJ3GffGMk 
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Jun 11, 2019 19:57
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Isn't he too close to the bridge? No judgement call there.
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Jun 11, 2019 20:08
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Jerry Wagner is too close to the controls.
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hobbesmaster posted:Isn't he too close to the bridge? No judgement call there. Very likely, 1000ft above the highest obstacle within 2000ft in a congested area, which if the Bay Area isn’t a congested area I don’t know what is. Even if he is, the catchall of 91.13 should absolutely apply here. You don’t gently caress with critical infrastructure like this for your own sight seeing pleasure. A 414 could absolutely cause enough damage to close a suspension bridge for weeks if not months. e.pilot fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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Jun 11, 2019 20:25
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How does he get away with this when its posted on Youtube?
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Zhanism posted:How does he get away with this when its posted on Youtube? That’s the big question. This guy is actually local to me, if he wasn’t such a macho boneheaded idiot I’d reach out and instruct him for free because drat, he’s a loving awful pilot and I hate to see someone be that bad at flying and need instructing so badly. But his attitude is not the type to receive instruction well, he doesn’t even realize or care about what he’s doing wrong. Plus there’s no way in hell I want my signature anywhere near his logbook. e.pilot fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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e.pilot posted:Now with altitudes https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N8134Q/history/20190524/1746Z/KOAK/KOAK/tracklog Picked through this and found this data point. code:
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That correlates well with the video. Bay bridge is 526ft according to Wikipedia.
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In other words, way too loving close. Using Google map's built-in tools, that point is roughly 200ft (being generous) lateral distance from the bridge.quote:§ 91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General. xergm fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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How the gently caress did they not scramble jets to intercept him.
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Jun 11, 2019 21:29
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Jealous Cow posted:How the gently caress did they not scramble jets to intercept him. Sounds like he was on flight following with NorCal listening to the video.
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e.pilot posted:That’s the big question. Don't get yourself McGeehan'ed trying to look after a guy who clearly is a textbook case for the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Jealous Cow posted:How the gently caress did they not scramble jets to intercept him. They don’t want to scare the public. I’m only sort of kidding.
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Jealous Cow posted:How the gently caress did they not scramble jets to intercept him. https://skyvector.com/?ll=37.80693090272591,-122.23104776036931&chart=127&zoom=3 Looks like the SFO class B starts at around 3000 feet there and the OAK class C is at 1500? hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jun 11, 2019 |
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Jealous Cow posted:How the gently caress did they not scramble jets to intercept him. Because then there'd be even more aircraft too drat close to the bridge.
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hobbesmaster posted:https://skyvector.com/?ll=37.80693090272591,-122.23104776036931&chart=127&zoom=3 I really thought there was only a narrow VFR corridor through there. I can’t believe flying a few hundred feet over golden gate park is legal.
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