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Zero One posted:https://www.record-eagle.com/news/s...592d516d36.html No creature lives a more charmed life than a mediocre old white man. quote stolen from someone else.
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Zero One posted:https://www.record-eagle.com/news/s...592d516d36.html This article doesn't seem to be available to europeans, but this sounds like the same article and works for me. https://www.aviationpros.com/aircra...ashes-in-7-days
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Saukkis posted:This article doesn't seem to be available to europeans, but this sounds like the same article and works for me. Yes it appears to be the same article.
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The guys photo on kathrynsreport really sells the whole thing: 
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Wish I had $110k to just throw at an airplane and then dump it in a lake a few days later. And the article says it wasn't even insured.
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EasilyConfused posted:At least he learned his lesson.  This is the Monday morning "I'm never drinking again." The only way he doesn't get back in a plane is if he can't afford another one.
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Zero One posted:https://www.record-eagle.com/news/s...592d516d36.html He said he has his heart set on Tom Hanks playing him in the motion picture recreation of this, probably easier to just put some go-pros on Harrison Ford’s shoulder and record him for a week.
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There are certainly much funnier ways to commit suicide without potentially hurting others. =/
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TIL this is the bird equivalent of a forward slip: https://twitter.com/WGME/status/1421314676227514370 Imagine just casually doing an aileron roll to lose altitude in the pattern
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Geese always finding new ways to be an rear end in a top hat
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hobbesmaster posted:Imagine just casually doing an aileron roll to lose altitude in the pattern https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ApSDpnA2k0
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hobbesmaster posted:TIL this is the bird equivalent of a forward slip: I hope that bird gets a timeslot at Oshkosh 2022.
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hobbesmaster posted:TIL this is the bird equivalent of a forward slip: On my first aerobatics session in the Pitts, we were heading back to the field for an overhead join. Circuit height was 800', we're coming at 1300'. Instructor asks for the controls, tells me to hang on, flips it into a 1 1/4 turn inverted spin and rolls out heading downwind at 800'. I was just a little bit impressed.
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This is probably a long shot but does anyone know a vendor or processing house that has experience applying Conathane CE-1155 to PCBs? If they have aerospace experience it would be preferred but they just need to be ISO 9001 certified since this is not a controlled spec (kind of wish it was so there was an APL to go off of)
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ZEPPELIN FACTS! The first airship Count Zeppelin built was of course LZ 1 (Luftschiff 1, or 'Airship 1.' It looked like this:  That underslung thing is a ballasted weight. LZ 1 had control of a luxurious two of the three axies of flight as that weight would be shifted backwards and forwards to tilt the airship up and down. I might be reading this translation wrong, but I think all the ballast of sand and water could be raised and lowered to adjust trim, which is why there is that rack running the length of it? Flight instruments: a pendulim, two types of spirit levels, a barometer and a barograph. Communication between the two gondolas was done by engine telegraph, two bells, and a speaking trumpet. Also reading how Zeppelin got this far is a little confusing, since on the one hand you have this narrative of Zeppelin as a manager who got other people to do the work, and on the other a man who was really set in his ideas for the most part and resisted change, even when that was fudging up his ambitions. Like the military got real engineers figuring performance stats out, but Zeppelin was resistant to any changes, because 1) stubby symmetrical nose and tails were fine (they were not fine and generated all sorts of drag problems, hence the slightly surrealist control surfaces) 2) don't make me build bigger airships because I've got a building shed that is paid for, and 3) people NEED to be able to 'feel the air' to be a successful pilot. (They don't and the compromise solution of having windscreens that connected directly to the fuselage but not proper cabins was a contributing factor in the L 2 disaster.) He also has a fairly incredible bench of workers supporting him, and sometimes this translated German book I'm reading makes it sound like Zeppelin had all his collaborators living at his manor house. Two of these being Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach, which is very AI. Extra weirdness here is that the German government avoided offical support of Zeppelin, despite Kaiser Wilhelm II being a personal friend of Zeppelin? While Zeppelin resisted the Prussian aviation department (which was a thing) from taking over, once the military got involved they begin insisting that engineers be making the big decisions. Also an important engineer at Zeppelin, Heir Durr, started working with Zeppelin in a supervisory position when he was 21.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Also an important engineer at Zeppelin, Heir Durr, started working with Zeppelin in a supervisory position when he was 21. Seriously?
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vessbot posted:Seriously? Durr, yes
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Can tanker planes refuel other tankers in air? I just caught a KC-135 flying over my house with a KC-46 in close formation behind it. Looked like the boom on the KC-135 was out, but I couldn't totally tell from my point. Here they are on ADSB exchange (please don't doxx me)
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Deeters posted:Can tanker planes refuel other tankers in air? I just caught a KC-135 flying over my house with a KC-46 in close formation behind it. Looked like the boom on the KC-135 was out, but I couldn't totally tell from my point. Looks like it!
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Uhh that is actually how they make more air tankers 
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priznat posted:Uhh that is actually how they make more air tankers how is
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https://www.tiktok.com/embed/6992575482889915653 They initially suspended the flight crew for taping the guy up but there was backlash to that. fknlo fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Aug 4, 2021 |
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Deeters posted:Can tanker planes refuel other tankers in air? I just caught a KC-135 flying over my house with a KC-46 in close formation behind it. Looked like the boom on the KC-135 was out, but I couldn't totally tell from my point. Yes. Look up the logistics on the Falkland island bombings.
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KC-135s also move quite a bit of personnel and materiel around the world, so refueling capability is useful for that.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/pandemic-american-shoppers-nightmare/619650/quote:Less than six months into 2021, airlines had reported more unruly passengers to the agency than they had in any full year since it began collecting data, in 1995.
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FunOne posted:Yes. Look up the logistics on the Falkland island bombings. 
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`Nemesis posted:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/pandemic-american-shoppers-nightmare/619650/ I really want to know what the gently caress is up with this. Is it mostly people being shits about masks? Is it the mysterious Long Covid we're beginning to hear about? Is it just pandemic stress in general making everyone behave like children? There's absolutely something going on; back in the day you'd hear about flight attendants having to subdue a passenger about every six months and it'd be national news for a while. Now it seems to happen every week.
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stealie72 posted:This is always https://www.behance.net/gallery/91231763/Operation-Black-Buck-%28updated%29 Also in poster form
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Rad. I live near Pease and some of the refueling routes that ADSB Exchange has marked, so I see lots of tankers overhead, but this was the first time I saw them that close. I wish I had something other than a cell phone to try to take pictures of it with. stealie72 posted:This is always I knew the mission was ridiculous, but this is still wild.
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Sagebrush posted:Is it just pandemic stress in general making everyone behave like children? It's this. See also the explosion of abuse waiters and other service employees are getting, particularly in vacation spots.
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fknlo posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/6992575482889915653 They defended themselves against someone that claimed they were related to the rich, that is 100% unacceptable. Think of the billionaires.
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EasilyConfused posted:It's this. See also the explosion of abuse waiters and other service employees are getting, particularly in vacation spots. I also wonder if, for some of the more chudly fuckers, a sudden exposure to "the new normal" and seeing a bunch of people wearing masks (and being federally required to mask) risks popping their alternative reality field, which additionally adds stress.
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To me it feels just that it's the only place where the "find out" part of "gently caress around and find out" actually happens really truly happens when it comes to inappropriate behavior, so the idiots who have been getting away with pushing the line and being a prick in Target or Walmart try to do the same things in flight, and get a pleasant reminder that the cabin crew is for safety first, ginger ale and snack mix second.
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So uhh, no. https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/1420450197130338304?s=20
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/14/man-accidentally-ejects-himself-from-fighter-jet-during-surprise-flight
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fknlo posted:https://www.tiktok.com/embed/6992575482889915653
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Man if I had to tape some psycho up on a plane I would wrap em up like a mummy, each testicle wrapped up like a Hershey's kiss. Goodbye eyelashes and all hair when the tape comes off. Gonna look like that hairless North Korean dude in Die another day.
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