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Spaced God posted:Aircraft down in Accomack County, VA. They're saying all 4 people parachuted out. If it's military, the gently caress airplane has 4 seats you can chute out of? If it's not, how often do people actually chute out of civvie aircraft? Without looking it up, guessing it's a misreported BRS deployment of a Cirrus that did VFR into IMC.
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Spaced God posted:Aircraft down in Accomack County, VA. They're saying all 4 people parachuted out. If it's military, the gently caress airplane has 4 seats you can chute out of? If it's not, how often do people actually chute out of civvie aircraft? Parachute jump flights? I've heard of the pilots of same wearing their own chute.
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BobHoward posted:Parachute jump flights? I've heard of the pilots of same wearing their own chute. They're actually required to iirc?
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BobHoward posted:Parachute jump flights? I've heard of the pilots of same wearing their own chute. Or each of the three passengers were all planning to pull a DB Cooper (the pilot was going to fake his own death for insurance purposes) but weren't aware the other ones had the same idea, and then it got really awkward when everyone had a parachute.
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Ola posted:Without looking it up, guessing it's a misreported BRS deployment of a Cirrus that did VFR into IMC. No, I just listened to the scanner. Four people recovered throughout the neighborhood under parachute. All okay e BobHoward posted:Parachute jump flights? I've heard of the pilots of same wearing their own chute. God I have that loving gopro video of the two jump planes mid-airing and everyone getting out in my head and now I'm 
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https://twitter.com/RussellLConley3/status/1300536150956933120?s=19 Not confirmed but could be likely
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The navy confirmed it's a navy plane, according to local news. In which case with 4 people on board I guess it's probably an E-2 like the guy says. But some other stuff I'm reading describes the occupants as "pilot and three passengers" so IDK?
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Spaced God posted:Aircraft down in Accomack County, VA. They're saying all 4 people parachuted out. If it's military, the gently caress airplane has 4 seats you can chute out of? If it's not, how often do people actually chute out of civvie aircraft? Sounds like its navy and they are based no where near, but B-52s have 6 ejection seats, and can have 4+ more people manually jump out of hole the seats make when they leave. 4 crew wouldn't be crazy for a ferry flight though (other than missed opportunity for training hours).
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Photo from the crash site, these are the pilots. Yeah, it's a navy plane. http://www.wboc.com/story/42571380/plane-crash-under-investigation-in-accomack-county
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Spaced God posted:God I have that loving gopro video of the two jump planes mid-airing and everyone getting out in my head and now I'm That incident was exactly what was on my mind when I read your post. Amazing that the worst injuries in that one were some minor cuts suffered by the pilot who had to bail out, and he didn't get them during the midair accident sequence, only upon landing his parachute. https://wcfcourier.com/news/local/w...1a7c7ace17.html
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News is saying it was an E-2C from VAW-120, the E-2/C-2 training squadron. The E-2 carries two pilots and three "passengers" (NFO's), but it sounds like this was light-loaded in the back, which isn't uncommon for a training flight. https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/accomack-county/plane-crash-reported-in-accomack-county-monday/
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Xenoborg posted:Sounds like its navy and they are based no where near, but B-52s have 6 ejection seats, and can have 4+ more people manually jump out of hole the seats make when they leave. 4 crew wouldn't be crazy for a ferry flight though (other than missed opportunity for training hours). I would think a B-52 crashing in a civilian area would be a bit bigger news than “oh hey some people bailed out of a plane”
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david_a posted:I would think a B-52 crashing in a civilian area would be a bit bigger news than “oh hey some people bailed out of a plane” Unless there were bombs on, I would think it would be about the same level.
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Mine eyes have seen the glory: https://twitter.com/R_P_one/status/1300803482899881984?s=20
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CommieGIR posted:Mine eyes have seen the glory: I like the 'this was a real proposal' as though that makes it less insane. As someone who has written dumb proposals let me tell you that taking a slide from concept A and a slide from concept B and putting a + sign in between them is a time honored practice. Usually accompanied by a request for a budget for a preliminary evaluation so that I can tell you just how dumb my proposal really is.
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So I've noticed the VC-25As have been conspicuously absent these last few weeks.
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[British North Country Accent] "Now, if'ee had used it as e basket to er blimp, she'd fly th' Ireland."
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drat that must have been fun
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Good thing he landed in the water, my guess is those swim trunks needed a good soak.
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isn't that more of a cranked wing lifting body?
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It's a flying wing, or a blended wing-body. True lifting bodies don't have wings and that thing definitely does.
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Which one of you was flying a jetpack at LAX?
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Which one of you was flying a jetpack at LAX? Best/funniest theory I've heard was that it was Elon trying out an Iron Douche suit.
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Flying my jetpack to the In-N-Out Burger.
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That's cool and I wish the IRL Buran had a happier ending than being destroyed in a hangar collapse that also killed a bunch of people. 
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Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtIL_VjBUGo
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Charles posted:That's cool and I wish the IRL Buran had a happier ending than being destroyed in a hangar collapse that also killed a bunch of people. Wait what?
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Brian 1.01 (the flight article,) was destroyed in 2002 when the hangar it was stored in collapsed. Killed eight people.
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Is that the same place all those urbex people broke into?
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Arson Daily posted:Is that the same place all those urbex people broke into? Maybe? https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=urbex+buran
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Is Whidbey Air Station flying tons of jets lately? My friend lives nearby and says it's really loud. Nothing on adsb, so can't even satisfy our curiosity on what they are.
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Whidbey NAS was pretty active last time I was out there. If they're bugging people they're almost certainly flying Growlers. If you're really lucky, you can go snowboarding at Steven's pass, and see/hear Growlers do low altitude terrain following on the neighboring mountains all day. E: every Growler in the Navy is stationed out there. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Sep 2, 2020 |
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Arson Daily posted:Is that the same place all those urbex people broke into? Yes. https://www.wired.com/story/jonk-buran-photo-gallery/
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Charles posted:Is Whidbey Air Station flying tons of jets lately? My friend lives nearby and says it's really loud. Nothing on adsb, so can't even satisfy our curiosity on what they are. I've heard the noise all the way across the strait on the east side of Victoria (Oak Bay) at the south end of Vancouver Island is a LOT more noticeable now that they went from EA-6Bs to EA-18Gs. Sound really carries over water, especially when it is usually quite flat calm like that area is.
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