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I want to believe too, but I don't, unless that was before the era of cell phones with video cameras.
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Feb 10, 2022 21:30
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I... at least almost believe it. For example I have a reliable story of someone getting fired for purposefully jet blasting a ramper because they were mad at them for something.
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Feb 10, 2022 21:34
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I could see something like that happening and no one being in position to video it.
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Feb 10, 2022 22:14
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I'd think one of the passengers would film out the window at least.
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Feb 10, 2022 22:20
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Yeah, that's what I mean. There's probably already at least one person filming the landing through the window on every flight. When the plane starts spinning in circles on the taxi back, everyone's camera is going to come out, and half of those videos will go directly to twitter.
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Feb 10, 2022 22:23
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Hey now, they don't say when it happened. Maybe it was 1960.
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Feb 10, 2022 23:38
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NightGyr posted:Some true aeronautical insanity, as seen on Instagram. I want this to be true but in my heart I know it's fake.
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Feb 11, 2022 01:16
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EasilyConfused posted:Hey now, they don't say when it happened. Maybe it was 1960. It has the feel of the 50s-70s if it actually happened.
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Feb 11, 2022 01:35
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Surely someone would have whipped out their 16mm camera to film it, get it developed, and then, uh, mail it to the news?
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Feb 11, 2022 03:11
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this would have made headlines when the passengers landed
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Feb 11, 2022 03:15
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The pilot musn't have been able to reach his phone with all the fire extinguishers he was carrying.
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Feb 11, 2022 07:12
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Feb 11, 2022 16:36
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That's only supposed to work in cartoons!
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Feb 11, 2022 16:57
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How old is that stock photo?
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Feb 11, 2022 17:30
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`Nemesis posted:How old is that stock photo? Last DAL 747 flight was apparently Jan 3, 2018. I didn’t know they had even lasted that long to be honest.
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Feb 11, 2022 17:44
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Is it weird I know exactly where that picture was taken? Also lol that the guy was allowed to remain free for two years while he pursued appeals. White collar crime just isn't really crime is it?
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Feb 11, 2022 18:01
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 Strong independent helicopter don't need no pilot.
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FuturePastNow posted:
Jesus take the cyclic & collective
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Feb 11, 2022 19:01
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Ugh the aircraft is supposed to be invisible not the crew Idiots
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Full Collapse posted:Ugh the aircraft is supposed to be invisible not the crew "Nah, gently caress it. That was another one of their robots." *knock knock* "Oh. Uh-oh."
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Feb 11, 2022 19:27
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I used to do Sikorsky drawing updates and can remember like 8 years ago getting a panel change come down the pipeline. Pilot select switch that was 1 or 2 now had a setting for 0.
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Feb 11, 2022 19:36
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_Loser_ posted:I used to do Sikorsky drawing updates and can remember like 8 years ago getting a panel change come down the pipeline. Pilot select switch that was 1 or 2 now had a setting for 0. quote:The retrofitted whirlybird was controlled by a Sikorsky-made autonomy system. As part of that system, the helicopter has a switch on board that allows the aviators to indicate whether two pilots, one pilot, or zero pilots will be operating the chopper. This was the first time that a Black Hawk was sent into the air with the no-pilots option, so that the computer system was handling all the controls. https://www.popsci.com/aviation/black-hawk-helicopter-first-autonomous-flight/
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Feb 11, 2022 20:23
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Glad to know my memory isn't shot lol. Something about a whole-rear end blackhawk being used as a drone is terrifying though.
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Feb 11, 2022 22:05
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MrYenko posted:Last DAL 747 flight was apparently Jan 3, 2018. They weren’t used on very many flights toward the end. I flew on one from Taipei to NRT in like 2016 because my flight on a 767 was cancelled due to engine trouble. The next day the regularly scheduled flight was a 747 which I guess is a clever way to cover 2 767s worth of passengers? That 747 really looked tired on the outside. Arson Daily posted:Is it weird I know exactly where that picture was taken? Not at all? Delta flew them from basically only what 2 gates at ATL and DTW?
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Detroit has a bunch of gates that can accommodate the 747 because Northwest used them a lot when their terminal was built. But I believe that the photo is A40. A 747 parked at A40 was always a cool sight when coming down from security and entering the gate area.    When I was there over Christmas they had a 737 in that gate. 
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Feb 11, 2022 22:58
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The last time I was in DTW there was an A350 at that gate which was interesting at least even if it’s not as striking as a 747.
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_Loser_ posted:Glad to know my memory isn't shot lol. Something about a whole-rear end blackhawk being used as a drone is terrifying though. a whole-rear end blackhawk drone dodging around Manhattan skyscrapers at high speed
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hobbesmaster posted:The last time I was in DTW there was an A350 at that gate which was interesting at least even if it’s not as striking as a 747. A350 is frequently parked there but they'll use it for other international stuff as well. 757 or A330 are the next most common then probably the 737.
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 But they had an A350 next door. 
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hobbesmaster posted:They weren’t used on very many flights toward the end. I flew on one from Taipei to NRT in like 2016 because my flight on a 767 was cancelled due to engine trouble. The next day the regularly scheduled flight was a 747 which I guess is a clever way to cover 2 767s worth of passengers? How does that work? Did they have a strategic 747 reserve with senior pilots who only have to fly to maintain currency or when they’re unlucky?
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Platystemon posted:How does that work? Did they have a strategic 747 reserve with senior pilots who only have to fly to maintain currency or when they’re unlucky? After you fly DTW/ATL-NRT you can’t turn around the aircraft in the same day due to the way time zones work. As I recall the way NW/Delta had NRT setup was: 1. Intra Asian flights arrive 2. Transpacific flights depart 3. Transpacific flights arrive 4. Intra Asian flights depart So a 747 that arrived at step 3 could dead head to where a problem was and still be in position to run a transpacific flight the next day.
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Waaaaaaaay back in like 2006 I had an interview with Republic wherein I would have to fly from Denver to Chicago to Indianapolis the day before. Somehow, and I'm not sure why but most of United's flights from Denver to Chicago canceled that day. Their solution was to gather up all of the passengers from the various canceled flights and to put them on a 747. Genius idea actually because it solved their problem in one fell swoop. I was thrilled because this was the first time I had ever been on a wide body airplane; for all of an hour and a half lol. The only thing that really sucked was that I was crammed into a middle seat between two fat gentlemen. I'm over 6 feet tall and 200 plus pounds so it was an uncomfortable hour and a half. Long story short that flight was the absolute highlight of interviewing with a regional airline in the mid oughts. Edit: I remember seeing a United 747 in Hong Kong next to a Dreamliner and the difference was stark. The 74 looked so tired next to the gleaming 787. You could almost see the baton being passed.
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I don’t know what it was about them but the United and Delta 744s just looked so tired circa the mid 2010s despite having coats of paint from mergers that were like 5 years old. The upper deck exterior especially seemed to just get filthy fast.
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hobbesmaster posted:coats of pain from mergers that were like 5 years old. Got that poo poo right
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Siri knows too much sometimes
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_Loser_ posted:I used to do Sikorsky drawing updates and can remember like 8 years ago getting a panel change come down the pipeline. Pilot select switch that was 1 or 2 now had a setting for 0. It's when they add a -1 setting that you really start getting worried.
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Arson Daily posted:Waaaaaaaay back in like 2006 I had an interview with Republic wherein I would have to fly from Denver to Chicago to Indianapolis the day before. Somehow, and I'm not sure why but most of United's flights from Denver to Chicago canceled that day. If it was 2007 there was a ripper of a storm that shut down everything east of the Mississippi River over the summer for a day. I got stuck in Chicago overnight because of it.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:It's when they add a -1 setting that you really start getting worried. Heh helicopters have been trying to kill their pilots since they crawled out of the ocean.
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FrozenVent posted:Heh helicopters have been trying to kill their pilots since they crawled out of the ocean. the helis or the pilots? 
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