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PainterofCrap posted:Is it me or are there -0- flaps dialled in? But it's a Cessna. 
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In a plane like that you can land perfectly safely with no flaps; you'll just touch down a little faster. You're still gonna have problems if you don't arrest your descent at all and just fly straight into the ground/water
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Mar 24, 2020 03:45
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Yeah, I've been on enough airline flights where a few times the landing pilot fucks up the flare.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:I'm somewhat of an aviation fan, and since I was a kid I've always loved fighter planes and jets. One of my all time favorites is the F4U Corsair. Just browsing youtube I found this great little video about the history of the Corsair so I thought I'd post it here. I learned a lot about the plane and have even more respect for it now, such an awesome aircraft. Best American fighter of WWII.  P-38 is a close second.
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hobbesmaster posted:They only had a huge pile of cash because they mortgaged absolutely everything they had just before poo poo hit the fan. They also didn't take any TARP money; they took other loans because the banks weren't offering anything.
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Minto Took posted:Yeah, I've been on enough airline flights where a few times the landing pilot fucks up the flare. Two weeks back landing at LAX the Alaska 738 I was on hit the runway so hard and vacated the runway so fast I almost wondered if he *drifted* the loving thing onto the taxiway.
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Minto Took posted:Yeah, I've been on enough airline flights where a few times the landing pilot fucks up the flare. On the E-3 there are five seats in the cockpit. If you don't have enough flight crew, one of the mission crew will get Seat 5 for takeoff, landing, and refueling, to have an extra set of eyes/let you have a look outside the airplane for once. One brilliant controller thought she knew what was going on better than the pilot during landing, and felt like the descent was not going well and yelled "FLARE!" That triggered a go-around and she never sat Seat 5 again. Godholio fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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Godholio posted:On the E-3 there are five seats in the cockpit. If you don't have enough flight crew, one of the mission crew will get Seat 5, to have an extra set of eyes/let you have a look outside the airplane for once. One brilliant controller thought she knew what was going on better than the pilot, and felt like the descent was not going well and yelled "FLARE!" What a moron lol
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Mar 24, 2020 05:15
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Oh yeah. Even in the weapons flight people were like "What the gently caress."
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Mar 24, 2020 06:29
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BIG HEADLINE posted:But it does lock them down. Buybacks increase the earnings per share by lowering the denominator. Having a separate friendly entity own shares doesn't do that.
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Godholio posted:On the E-3 there are five seats in the cockpit. If you don't have enough flight crew, one of the mission crew will get Seat 5 for takeoff, landing, and refueling, to have an extra set of eyes/let you have a look outside the airplane for once. One brilliant controller thought she knew what was going on better than the pilot during landing, and felt like the descent was not going well and yelled "FLARE!" I wonder what her nickname was after that?
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Mar 24, 2020 14:16
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The front fell off. Naval Aviator spotted.
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Mar 24, 2020 15:47
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MrYenko posted:Naval Aviator spotted. Haha, yeah, first thing I thought. (Just to explain the joke and ruin comedy: You don't flare carrier landings)
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Mar 24, 2020 17:05
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Well, right, but you don't point the nose into the deck either.
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Mar 24, 2020 17:20
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The front fell off. A classic. I believe last time I saw this, the story also came out that there was a modification to the engine, and someone had specifically warned that the front would fall off but the owner ignored that advice.
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PT6A posted:A classic. I believe last time I saw this, the story also came out that there was a modification to the engine, and someone had specifically warned that the front would fall off but the owner ignored that advice. Does Jerry have a brother?
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slidebite posted:Hey, maybe she had a concern? I don't think she got a callsign out of that, but I'm not entire sure at this point.
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PT6A posted:A classic. I believe last time I saw this, the story also came out that there was a modification to the engine, and someone had specifically warned that the front would fall off but the owner ignored that advice.
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slidebite posted:Maybe the modification was a quick release firewall? its like a cabover, easy access for maintenance
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Mar 24, 2020 22:05
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Bold move, Boeing. Let's see how it pays off.
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Huh, then I guess they don't need it that badly.
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Midjack posted:Bold move, Boeing. Let's see how it pays off. DO IT
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Let's take the money and establish a fund for displaced aerospace workers for 18-24 months instead complete with healthcare. That way Boeing can exercise their options with complete freedom. Everyone wins!
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Want some Aeronautical Insanity? Howabout an 8 hour flight in a Dash 8 mainly over open water? https://simpleflying.com/air-greenland-8-hour-dash-8/ quote:The flights are presumed to be a means of repatriating travelers from either country stranded in the other. They operate by way of Reykjavik in Iceland, although it’s not clear whether they pick up passengers here or simply stop to refuel. What’s more, the seven-hour plus journey is operated by one of the industry’s smaller aircraft – a Dash 8-200 turboprop.
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Drop in automatic aircraft observations of atmospheric conditions could have impact on weather forecasts: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/about/media-centre/news/2020/drop-aircraft-observations-could-have-impact-weather-forecasts
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Two weeks back landing at LAX the Alaska 738 I was on hit the runway so hard and vacated the runway so fast I almost wondered if he *drifted* the loving thing onto the taxiway. Sometimes it's the go home leg and you have a tight connection and want to make the fastest taxiway, especially somewhere that taxiing is a shitshow like LAX. e: it never ceases to make me laugh when you have a real stinker of a landing flying freight and you hear all the aluminum containers in the back rumble e.pilot fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Mar 24, 2020 |
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e.pilot posted:Sometimes it's the go home leg and you have a tight connection and want to make the fastest taxiway, especially somewhere that taxiing is a shitshow like LAX. Motherfuckers are always trying to hit the reverse high speed off 24R and I HATE IT
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The Ferret King posted:Well, right, but you don't point the nose into the deck either. You also don't aim for the water. Just watching that made my back twinge.
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And now Boeing is planning on restarting MAX production in May? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...eedName=topNews That seems...optimistic for quite a few reasons.
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bull3964 posted:And now Boeing is planning on restarting MAX production in May? We were allowed to start shipping 737 MAX parts the again the last week of February but the rate is 18 planes a month or so Like I get some of the reason why they're doing this, if they don't their entire supply chain is going to die, but they should have thought of that over the last 5 years they spent squeezing the gently caress out of us so they could give more money to shareholders
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e.pilot posted:Sometimes it's the go home leg and you have a tight connection and want to make the fastest taxiway, especially somewhere that taxiing is a shitshow like LAX. Yeah, the funnier thing was that we got there 40 minutes early and spent the majority of it parked practically in the El Segundo Costco parking lot until the gate was ready. Good time to be 'stuck' in First. >.>
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Midjack posted:Bold move, Boeing. Let's see how it pays off. Boeing's debt got downgraded two notches. They don't have a ton of options left. Does anyone know if there is a financial analysis of Boeing that includes the effective debt from suppliers that are effectively critical? (I'm looking at Spirit Aerosystems..)
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Yeah, the funnier thing was that we got there 40 minutes early and spent the majority of it parked practically in the El Segundo Costco parking lot until the gate was ready. Good time to be 'stuck' in First. >.> Classic.
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Want some Aeronautical Insanity? Howabout an 8 hour flight in a Dash 8 mainly over open water? How long can you be over open water before you need to worry about ETOPS?
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NightGyr posted:How long can you be over open water before you need to worry about ETOPS? They probably just have a rusty old tugboat with a big tank o fuel that steams underneath as the dash 8 lowers a hose to it  It can land on the rear deck in an emergency
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NightGyr posted:How long can you be over open water before you need to worry about ETOPS? 60 minutes
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Megillah Gorilla posted:The front fell off. Rebel without a cowl.
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I saw a very good plane today while having lunch next to an airport
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From this article about American dealing with things: quote:Around the country, American is parking its fleet as fast as it can — there will be 100 planes in Tulsa, Okla.; 100 planes in Roswell, N.M; 50 planes in Pittsburgh; more in Mobile, Ala., and Greensboro, N.C. I’ve driven through Roswell, I was surprised to see it on the list but I guess it used to have an Air Force base. (Also surprised it actually has American flights from DFW and PHX, that would have saved us a lot of driving when we went to Carlsbad Caverns.)
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Roswell is also a huge graveyard for old aircraft, sort of like Victorville in California. If you peep a satellite photo of the joint you’ll see a very decrepit jetstar in the center of the airport that belonged to Elvis Presley 
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