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PT6A posted:Frankly we should feel lucky they're flying jets at all.
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I want an aerobatics team with Starfighters Specifically the G variant
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Lord Stimperor posted:I want an aerobatics team with Starfighters Calm down, Herr Adenauer.
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Spaced God posted:They also have a mig 15 which is just adorable next to either of them It’s amazing to me how small MiG 15s and F86s are.
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Lord Stimperor posted:I want an aerobatics team with Starfighters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQasfk3LcTw
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slidebite posted:How much longer do they realistically have? Will they get to a point when decades of aerobatics makes them a "write off" for lack of a better word? At least a decade or longer. We've got the spares and spare aircraft to keep them going until at least 2030. Lord Stimperor posted:I want an aerobatics team with Starfighters There definitely was such a thing in the Canadian Forces in the 1970s. 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:He also led the transition to the Hornet for the Blues as well: https://youtu.be/oWQUtFHvELw That was a great video, thanks for posting it.
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lilbeefer posted:I remember seeing an F-111 when I was a kid and I was blown away at the size MrChips posted:At least a decade or longer. We've got the spares and spare aircraft to keep them going until at least 2030.  style, they won't do anything about it before then and probably pay Bombardier some ungodly amount of money to make some new 70 year old airframes.Crosspost from space thread https://twitter.com/SciGuySpace/status/1549824740487008257?s=20&t=IVqMQnLeIfO9S_kqN_4MiQ slidebite fucked around with this message at 16:31 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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slidebite posted:Me too, but as an adult. Probably the most surprising to me was how big the F14 was in person. I don't know why, I knew it wasn't "small" but it just seemed so much larger than I expected. build the Sea Dragon you cowards
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FuturePastNow posted:build the Sea Dragon you cowards 
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Where is the space thread? I know this thread used to have a lot of space/rocket posts before that sort of thing moved elsewhere.
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3580990 Her it is its in the Science, Academics, and Languages forum.
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slidebite posted:Me too, but as an adult. Probably the most surprising to me was how big the F14 was in person. I don't know why, I knew it wasn't "small" but it just seemed so much larger than I expected. that's some kerbal space program lookin rear end poo poo
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`Nemesis posted:that's some kerbal space program lookin rear end poo poo  says KSP is their design software.
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slidebite posted:Crosspost from space thread [Thunderf00t has entered the chat]
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Full Collapse posted:
What if we built the N-1, but moreso? Like, way, way, more complected? So statistically speaking, it is hot where you are right now. Why not come with me down to the abandoned spirograph factory? It's cool in the abandoned warehouse. We can listen to an hour 50 minute lecture on the engineering and construction of the R100! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj_of7hDt0A
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Lord Stimperor posted:I want an aerobatics team with Starfighters There's actually an airshow act using F-104's in the US (Starfighters Inc), but they've cut way back on airshow appearances the last few years in favor of government contract work. On the subject of F-104 airshow appearances, there was a Dutch F-104 demo pilot who was the only person able to reliably perform a "touch roll touch", where he'd touch down on the runway, lift off to about 50ft, do a complete aileron roll, and then land again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBDEG9dg-Q
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So I finally found an answer on how the RoKAF Black Eagles made it to RIAT and Farnborough: https://www.globalair.com/articles/republic-of-korea-air-force-black-eagles-steal-the-show-at-riat?id=4812 Ahead of arriving in the UK, 9 T-50Bs were taken apart and shipped across in three C-130 transport aircraft, reported Yonhap News Agency back in May. I'm guessing versatility like this is why the Poles just bought 48 of them.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:So I finally found an answer on how the RoKAF Black Eagles made it to RIAT and Farnborough: https://www.globalair.com/articles/republic-of-korea-air-force-black-eagles-steal-the-show-at-riat?id=4812 Huh. Neat.
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`Nemesis posted:
If your a plane nerd at all this is mecca. Im so lucky to have gone a bunch of times. Even tho i snuck into it a few of them. Shhhhh.
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My chapter sent me to the teen camp back in high school for the first week of airventure. Still one of the most overwhelming experiences of my life. You could walk for miles and not run out of planes to look at
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Are there any Catalinas still fighting fires?
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Not that I'm aware of. After various WW2 airplanes crashed while firefighting due to the wings falling off, those airplanes largely got banned from doing firefighting, and I think the Catalinas would have been retired even earlier than that, since they weren't exactly overpowered to begin with.
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At least one Catalina was still fighting fires several years after the federal ban: https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2008/jun/13/pby-ready-owner-says/ Unfortunately that particular aircraft was later involved in an incident where it had to be beached and the airframe was basically destroyed: https://aviationinthewest.wordpress.com/2016/05/27/the-rise-and-fall-of-tanker-85/ Realistically the Canadair CL-215/215T/415/515 can probably do more work with less headaches, both regulatory and maintenance.
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I helped do an oil and spark plug change on that once while in A&P school! A teacher was friends with the pilot and did maintenance work on it out of Deer Park, WA. He invited a couple of us to help out. They had a van with a platform on top that was parked under the wing to access everything. Pulling the spark plugs took a very long time... The main pilot originally did crop spraying work then got contracted by a US government agency to go to Central America and spray a specific kind of crop down there. He had super interesting stories. I didn't know its fate. That's quite sad. I'll see if I still have some pics somewhere when home, though they were with a mid-2000s camera phone.   
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Advent Horizon posted:Realistically the Canadair CL-215/215T/415/515 can probably do more work with less headaches, both regulatory and maintenance. Yeah, I figured. I just got curious thinking about DC-3s still actually haulin' stuff.
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Are all the A26 water bomber conversions retired?
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I think the only stuff left fighting fires with pistons are a few CL-215s, and I think those are mostly only with Buffalo. Even the older turboprops/turboprop conversions are being retired. We have a contract with Conair for a Convair 580 and last year they started substituting a Dash 8. It’s a straight 1:1 replacement; the contract included a per-hour methanol allowance and I did a double-take seeing them bill that on the invoices.
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I know I've seen Electras tooling around northern Canada doing spraying and firefighting operations. Such as this one https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CGHZI, which has a fairly interesting history; https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/240919
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Nebakenezzer posted:Yeah, I figured. I just got curious thinking about DC-3s still actually haulin' stuff. It’s not firefighting, but there are still C-47s in revenue service out of Opa Locka (KOPF) to the Carribean.
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https://twitter.com/rossfeinstein/status/1551392368032710658?s=21&t=mCYeSPzLo5F8tfAdV3gJbw https://twitter.com/rossfeinstein/status/1551395953550172161?s=21&t=mCYeSPzLo5F8tfAdV3gJbw TLDR: Captain had no idea how to fly in a minor crosswind.
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https://twitter.com/thetimkelleher/status/1552089234449715201?s=20&t=aGF_D9OJ7Qh7Q7nwAhp3yA https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N45517 Cessna 150, seaplane model
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Avweb's opinion is that ditching near the shore like that has roughly equal survivability as a forced landing on a beach. I don't think there are any good open fields or wide, straight roads in the area near Alki Beach. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LwGYBBhTss
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Zero One posted:https://twitter.com/rossfeinstein/status/1551392368032710658?s=21&t=mCYeSPzLo5F8tfAdV3gJbw It’s impressive to complain about an airbus mishandling a full rudder deflection when the 737 exists.
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Interestingly, the advice for ditching a glider plane I have heard is to do it with the main wheel down. The single center wheel will hit the water first and "suck" the plane few meters underwater, then it will surface and remain upright. Without the wheel it would probably hydroplane forever, until one wing hits the water and interesting things happen.
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Did any official statement come out of that Chinese place crash from a few months ago? I know they were leaning towards it being deliberate.
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Psion posted:https://twitter.com/thetimkelleher/status/1552089234449715201?s=20&t=aGF_D9OJ7Qh7Q7nwAhp3yA No injuries either! I wonder if the flying club that owned that airplane will tighten up their maintenance standards they go through about a plane per year for various reasons
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