Aeronautical Insanity: switching to secondary tolerances

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evilbastard: Mar 6, 2003; Hair Elf

An interview with Rear Admiral Jim Flatley about landing the C-130 "Look Ma, No Hook" landing on the Forrestal in 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1frJ2V8LTEs

# ? Feb 5, 2022 15:29

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# ? May 25, 2024 20:07

PainterofCrap: Oct 17, 2002; hey bebe

AzureSkys posted:

https://i.imgur.com/PrIhWrf.mp4
from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/vtolvr/comments/sbxcly/yall_asked_for_recoil_here_it_is/

you'll rip yer pods off, kid

# ? Feb 5, 2022 16:34

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

PainterofCrap posted:

you'll rip yer pods off, kid

Awwwoooooo, Airwolves of London.

# ? Feb 5, 2022 17:27

madeintaipei: Jul 13, 2012

Phanatic posted:

Awwwoooooo, Airwolves of London.

Love it. Welp, time to listen to that song again.

Awoooooo!

# ? Feb 5, 2022 17:55

EvenWorseOpinions: Jun 10, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegkTKzDcg0
Trevor Jacob uncovered footage

# ? Feb 5, 2022 18:14

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

He seems to be missing gopros

# ? Feb 5, 2022 18:16

Platystemon: Feb 13, 2012; BREADS

I appreciate the commitment to the bit.

# ? Feb 5, 2022 18:33

tactlessbastard: Feb 4, 2001; Godspeed, post; Fun Shoe

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegkTKzDcg0
Trevor Jacob uncovered footage

Pro click

# ? Feb 5, 2022 18:52

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegkTKzDcg0
Trevor Jacob uncovered footage

excellent

# ? Feb 5, 2022 18:55

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Delta CEO wants crazy passengers put on a no-fly list

# ? Feb 6, 2022 00:16

Serjeant Buzfuz: Dec 5, 2009

Nebakenezzer posted:

Delta CEO wants crazy passengers put on a no-fly list

Hell yes please, if you can't maintain some decency for a short period of time I don't want to be in an airplane with you ever.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 00:29

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

The Federal no-fly list is a grotesque and Kafkaesque hellhole of civil liberties and due process. It should be deleted, not expanded.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 00:44

hobbesmaster: Jan 28, 2008

Phanatic posted:

The Federal no-fly list is a grotesque and Kafkaesque hellhole of civil liberties and due process. It should be deleted, not expanded.

quote:

Delta CEO: Put convicted unruly passengers on national 'no-fly' list

# ? Feb 6, 2022 00:47

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

He can start his own instead of trying to cower behind fedgov if he really wants that.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 02:09

Zero One: Dec 30, 2004; HAIL TO THE VICTORS!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/style/love-cloud-las-vegas-mile-high-club.html?referringSource=articleShare

quote:

For $995, Love Cloud will fly you and a partner in a private airplane for 45 minutes so that you can have sex.

Granted, you don�t have to have sex on the plane. You could pay $1,195 to get married on board. For $100 more, it can be booked for a romantic one-course meal; for $1,595, you�ll get three courses. With any package, an extra $300 will get you a bottle of bubbly and ride to the tarmac in a limousine.

But according to Andy Johnson, 40, a pilot and the founder of Love Cloud, its Mile High Club Flight, which comes with a commemorative membership card signed by the pilot, remains the business�s most popular offering.

He spoke with great passion and good humor about his business, which operates out of the North Las Vegas Airport, calling its two Cessna 414 planes �magic carpets� and gleefully recounting the kinks and quirks of some of its more memorable clients, including a couple that showed up dressed as a pilot and flight attendant. Love Cloud mostly books couples, but has accommodated groups of three or four, with an additional fee of $200 per person.

Those who buy the Mile High Club Flight will find a plane decked out with a twin mattress on the floor and several pillows, all ensconced in red satin. A curtain separates the passengers from the pilot, who wears noise-canceling headphones and remains in the cockpit for the duration of the flight. Yes, the plane and its bedding are cleaned after each trip.

quote:

Mr. Johnson, who also works as a commercial pilot for Mesa Airlines, has aviation in his blood. �I could fly before I could even drive,� he said. His father was a naval aviator and worked as a pilot. By 20, Mr. Johnson was teaching flight lessons and at 24 he was operating Tidewater, a flight school and plane rental business, in Virginia Beach, Va.

According to court records, Mr. Johnson�s pilot�s license was temporarily suspended in 2009 by the Federal Aviation Administration after improper aircraft certifications related to Tidewater in 2007 and 2008. His license was revoked in 2011 for flying during his suspension.

In 2012, after a minor plane accident that occurred during his revocation, Mr. Johnson pleaded guilty to a charge of reckless operation of an aircraft and served 20 days in federal prison. He ended up filing for bankruptcy and moving back in with his parents.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 02:19

rscott: Dec 10, 2009

Zero One posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/style/love-cloud-las-vegas-mile-high-club.html?referringSource=articleShare

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=FlfYCgvhkrM&feature=share

Comes to mind to me

# ? Feb 6, 2022 02:22

Loucks: May 21, 2007; It's incwedibwe easy to suck my own dick.

Midjack posted:

He can start his own instead of trying to cower behind fedgov if he really wants that.

Did you miss the part where that shitbag sent Walensky a letter complaining about the length of the recommended isolation period for the Covid positive because it was impacting revenue, and then mysteriously several days later they announced that five days was plenty even though we know many people are still contagious after five days? Why wouldn�t they demand more when it�s clear the government is perfectly happy to do whatever they want no matter the cost to the public?

# ? Feb 6, 2022 02:37

marumaru: May 20, 2013

Zero One posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/style/love-cloud-las-vegas-mile-high-club.html?referringSource=articleShare

Hey, that cabin is bigger than I expected. I wonder if a 414 is big enough that the pilot won't notice any... Oscillations

# ? Feb 6, 2022 02:51

Plastic_Gargoyle: Aug 3, 2007

Zero One posted:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/05/style/love-cloud-las-vegas-mile-high-club.html?referringSource=articleShare

Flamingo Air in Cincinnati has been doing this for years.

Though I imagine it's slightly more awkward trying to schtup in the back of a PA-32

# ? Feb 6, 2022 04:20

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

PainterofCrap posted:

you'll rip yer pods off, kid

Now thats Pod-Bracing!

# ? Feb 6, 2022 04:54

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

https://twitter.com/slickf16/status/1490100015972429824

# ? Feb 6, 2022 17:10

ThisIsJohnWayne: Feb 23, 2007; Ooo! Look at me! NO DON'T LOOK AT ME!

Cojawfee posted:

https://twitter.com/slickf16/status/1490100015972429824

Not a starfighter, not interested :colbert:

# ? Feb 6, 2022 17:17

Midjack: Dec 24, 2007

Cojawfee posted:

https://twitter.com/slickf16/status/1490100015972429824

More like John Slick Sleeve.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 17:54

Nebakenezzer: Sep 13, 2005; The Mote in God's Eye

Phanatic posted:

The Federal no-fly list is a grotesque and Kafkaesque hellhole of civil liberties and due process. It should be deleted, not expanded.

That is true. If they want to expand it then it definitely needs reform so that it is none of the bad things.

Midjack posted:

He can start his own instead of trying to cower behind fedgov if he really wants that.

I'm not sure of the legality, but casinos in Las Vegas collaborate on who's banned from casinos. Ultimately I think it turns on all the casinos being "private clubs" and thus have the...legal right to discriminate? I mean, if airlines are businesses, surely they can say "not you, take your business elsewhere."

# ? Feb 6, 2022 18:45

bull3964: Nov 18, 2000; DO YOU HEAR THAT? THAT'S THE SOUND OF ME PATTING MYSELF ON THE BACK.

Any private company can decline to do business with anyone they want to so long as it's not based on them being in a protected class.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 18:49

Phanatic: Mar 13, 2007; Please don't forget that I am an extremely racist idiot who also has terrible opinions about the Culture series.

Airlines are common carriers so the rules are different. They can not simply "decline to do business with anyone they want to so long as it's not based on them being in a protected class."

# ? Feb 6, 2022 19:38

Cojawfee: May 31, 2006; I think the US is dumb for not using Celsius

bull3964 posted:

Any private company can decline to do business with anyone they want to so long as it's not based on them being in a protected class.

Don't worry, Ron Desantis will make being a really annoying dipshit a protected class.

# ? Feb 6, 2022 19:38

e.pilot: Nov 20, 2011; sometimes maybe good
sometimes maybe shit

Cojawfee posted:

Don't worry, Ron Desantis will make being a really annoying dipshit a protected class.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 00:09

Flux Wildly: Dec 20, 2004; Welkum t� Zanydu!

Not sure what�s going on here with a gear up landing? Replies suggests this is the Carl Vinson

https://twitter.com/aerodork/status/1490510898909356033?s=21

# ? Feb 7, 2022 09:22

FrozenVent: May 1, 2009; The Boeing 737-200QC is the undisputed workhorse of the skies.

The gear is down, you can see it flying off after impact.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 14:00

Ola: Jul 19, 2004

You can see the gear down here. Maybe it's in transit up on impact?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgfnTli9b54

# ? Feb 7, 2022 14:18

PhotoKirk: Jul 2, 2007; insert witty text here

Frontier and Spirit are merging.

Let that sink in for a minute...

# ? Feb 7, 2022 21:17

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

If I wasn't already sure this timeline was rapidly descending into a hellscape from which there is no hope of salvation, I would express the idea that the Big Front Seat could roll out across the F9 fleet. But passengers don't get improvements anymore, so we're all doomed hail satan.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 21:25

azflyboy: Nov 9, 2005

Spirit Animal: Masks required, pants optional, and it'll be $50 if you want a seat belt and cabin pressurization

# ? Feb 7, 2022 21:33

INTJ Mastermind: Dec 30, 2004; It's a radial!

azflyboy posted:

Spirit Animal: Masks required, pants optional, and it'll be $50 if you want a seat belt and cabin pressurization

I�ll just pass out thank you very much.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 21:37

PhotoKirk: Jul 2, 2007; insert witty text here

azflyboy posted:

Spirit Animal: Masks required, pants optional, and it'll be $50 if you want a seat belt and cabin pressurization

$50 gets you the seat belt, $75 more gets you the bolts. Wrench must be purchased prior to the flight.

I was thinking Night(m)Air would be a good name.

# ? Feb 7, 2022 21:43