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Beastie posted:Caught what now? Gotta look close, it's very stealthy
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That's just swamp gas.
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Humphreys posted:My mate caught this here in Australia: A quarter of the B2 fleet may be stationed in Australia at any one time.
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A touch of an aside but we were talking about noise earlier. I’ve only seen one in flight at an air show at Wright-Patt but B-2s are surprisingly quiet for military aircraft. At least, underneath they are. During a deep bank when the engines were pointed right at the crowd followed by the top of the plane you could understand the trick - all that sound is directed up. It has 4 nonafterburning versions of the engine series that is used in the B-1, F-16 among others. If you are directly under a B-2 you’d think it was a modern airliner, not something that will set off car alarms like a bone.
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Under takeoff power they’re very loud. I’m about 2 miles off to the side of the runway at whiteman and a b2 taking off and flying runway heading is very audible until they get out a ways.
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Well yes, you’re level with the engines 
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NTSB released some findings about the CASA C-212 that lost a pilot on approach to RDU . https://twitter.com/SweeneyABC/status/1559653495183228928 According to them, the 2IC said he was going to be sick, got up, apologized, and left out the back door.
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Safety Dance posted:NTSB released some findings about the CASA C-212 that lost a pilot on approach to RDU . So he blamed himself for loving up the landing and then killed himself. drat.  The description makes it sound like a possible cause is a stall. I’m guessing theres no black box or CVR? SIC probably thought his career was over 
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the type certificate requires two pilots so they should be required to have CVR
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First thought was suicide... Second thought (after reading he may have puked out the cockpit window first) is that maybe he really did feel sick/anxious and just made a bad judgement call? Went to open the back door and forgot.to secure himself?
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Would screwing up a landing that badly necessarily be career-ending?
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If it was a stall due to airspeed the more experienced of the pilots was supposed to be looking at the instruments as well as the aircraft configuration (ie, say flaps weren’t deployed). As usual in aviation it’s probably a process failure.
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De Havilland Canada restarting water bomber production as EU orders new aircraft https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadair-water-bomber-wildfire-europe-1.6553592 Official press release: https://dehavilland.com/en/news/posts/de-havilland-aircraft-of-canada-limited-launches-dhc-515-firefighter
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slidebite posted:De Havilland Canada restarting water bomber production as EU orders new aircraft It's not a De Havilland unless it's made of wood 
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And it's better than a bloody B29 I tell you what
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:And it's better than a bloody B29 I tell you what I'd actually pay good money to see Doc or Fifi drop water. Not over an actual goddamned fire, mind, but at an air show or something.
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Drop a giant water balloon shaped like Fat Man.
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At least they didn’t hit the snooze button.
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Zero One posted:https://twitter.com/alexinair/status/1560386847750213636?s=21&t=8MMCLO3wEom0YQ_AQSSPkQ Is that better or worse than missing your destination because you were arguing about post merger scheduling?
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SlowBloke posted:It's not a De Havilland unless it's made of wood DeHavilland Canada. Different company to the mosquito guys. Big into STOL and small jet engines.
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More plane porn, courtesy of my well-trained algorithm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzpNlrNj8Do
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A crash near me yesterday https://twitter.com/anikahopetv/status/1560749319275290624?s=21&t=R7rC9bIRUwnCXiveyahVdw
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You can feel the desperation in that stall Pilot held that until it was impossibly to hold any longe. Poor fucker
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Someone flew from California to Hawaii in a Cessna 172, 18hrs non-stop  https://twitter.com/bshyong/status/1561469187003924480
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JingleBells posted:Someone flew from California to Hawaii in a Cessna 172, 18hrs non-stop "Pilot Tom Lopes did it again."
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JingleBells posted:Someone flew from California to Hawaii in a Cessna 172, 18hrs non-stop I believe the transpacific ferries to Australia have a longer segment after the stop in Hawaii? It is as risky as it sounds, the ferry tanks involved fill all available space with fuel and I believe they get permission to fly “overweight”. If you want to be really terrified they did those ferries before GPS. Just imagine having your ADF fail on such a flight before GPS. This is a wild story from the 1970s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cessna_188_Pacific_rescue quote:When Prochnow arrived at the region where he believed Norfolk Island was, he was unable to see the island. He informed Air Traffic Control (ATC), but at this point, there was no immediate danger. He continued searching; after locating more homing beacons from other islands, he realised his automatic direction finder had malfunctioned and he was now lost somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He alerted ATC and declared an emergency. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Aug 22, 2022 |
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There is a book called Air Vegabonds written by a guy who used to ferry new Piper airplanes for the factory back in the 70's. Lots of stories about flying small assed airplanes over very large bodies of water including a story about ferrying a Tomahawk (!) across the Atlantic (!!) in early winter (!!!). So many nopes in that book but somebody has to do it I guess.
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This is a good ferry story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt2TGjuwv_s
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I used to work for ARINC as an HF radio operator for the north atlantic. There were many times where a single engine anything would depart CYYT for the Azores and have to turn back after 4 or 5 hours due to winds aloft.
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Arson Daily posted:There is a book called Air Vegabonds written by a guy who used to ferry new Piper airplanes for the factory back in the 70's. Lots of stories about flying small assed airplanes over very large bodies of water including a story about ferrying a Tomahawk (!) across the Atlantic (!!) in early winter (!!!). So many nopes in that book but somebody has to do it I guess. Why couldn’t they just be shipped mostly assembled in boxes or wrapped in plastic and do final assembly at the destination?
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Murgos posted:Why couldn’t they just be shipped mostly assembled in boxes or wrapped in plastic and do final assembly at the destination? That's not nearly as fun now, is it?
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Now I'm wondering if any aircraft is small enough to be parked within a 747 freighter as is - just roll it in and strap it down and fly it to wherever it will spend the rest of its days.
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IOwnCalculus posted:Now I'm wondering if any aircraft is small enough to be parked within a 747 freighter as is - just roll it in and strap it down and fly it to wherever it will spend the rest of its days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HF7zPgow1g I can’t not post the piston engine original as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GflVGc6Yet4
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There are some, yes. 
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I’m pretty sure an F-104 would fit in the An-225…
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MrYenko posted:I’m pretty sure an F-104 would fit in the An-225… You can fit an awful lot of things into an open-top container.
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Murgos posted:Why couldn’t they just be shipped mostly assembled in boxes or wrapped in plastic and do final assembly at the destination?  I was wondering that too but I suspect that unless the manufacturer had a certified process for assembling knock down kits at the destination you'd have to register it as an experimental or homebuilt with their aviation regulator and that would likely limit commercial use. Plus you get it there faster if you fly. End user pays someone to risk their life so they can save money and/or make a buck faster.
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The wings can be removed from most single-engine Cessnas pretty easily. It’s actually not uncommon to swap Cessna wings between different models. I know someone with L-19 Bird Dog wings on their 172. I bet the real reason is price - one pilot is cheaper than getting a custom shipping container built and shipped, plus having the airframe reassembled by an A&P at the destination. It would probably even take longer than the months they waited for favorable winds.
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Advent Horizon posted:You can fit an awful lot of things into an open-top container. drat.
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