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yeah twin boom is the way to go for maximum stubbiness. lil flyin beans 
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May 17, 2023 19:43
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What is this delightful Travel Egg?
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May 17, 2023 19:43
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desire to know more intensifies …….
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May 17, 2023 19:44
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the milk machine posted:desire to know more intensifies ……. googling FAH-317 ecuador: (because I don't know flags, apparently) https://www.jetphotos.com/registration/FAH-317 https://www.jetphotos.com/aircraft/IAI%20Arava%20201 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAI_Arava
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May 17, 2023 19:57
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:Why not an autogyro? All the safety of a helicopter with all the landing selection capability of a light plane! Note the end bit: landed safely after 8 hours, mostly in very thick fog, with one and a half hours flying with no engine, and another five hours on one engine, because the other engine had not been attached to its mounting plate, as they discovered mid-flight.  
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May 17, 2023 19:57
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Beastie posted:Can't park there, mate "We're not parking it, we're abandoning it!"
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May 17, 2023 20:11
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PhotoKirk posted:"We're not parking it, we're abandoning it!" Now I want to see that reporter from Detroit driving up to military bases with a pilot hat on saying "Is this your plane? We found your plane in a ditch." As an O-5 is trying his best to ignore her.
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May 17, 2023 20:14
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There is a Nord 2501 still flying around my hometown on the regular, it's the last one of these flying and apparently they still drop paras out of it on special occasions
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May 17, 2023 20:20
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PhotoKirk posted:"We're not parking it, we're abandoning it!" WILLING TO LEARN
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May 17, 2023 20:21
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slidebite posted:P&W Canada still has and flies a couple. I think they are both based out of Montreal. I'll be in Montreal late next month, maybe I can find where they're parked on the ramp.
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May 17, 2023 21:06
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the twin boom boob being canadian just makes it all the cuter eh?
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May 17, 2023 21:17
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Timmy Age 6 posted:What is this delightful Travel Egg? Miles Aerovan. As the name implies, it was a flying van.
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May 17, 2023 21:25
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Son of bitch! There's a flying C-47 in town and I only find out now, right as they booked up the last tours of it's stay. $10 ground tours, $249 for a twenty minute ride and photo op with the crew. Oh, well. There's poo poo to see here year 'round, but it would have been cool to fly in an old warbird for that amount of money.
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May 17, 2023 23:36
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madeintaipei posted:Son of bitch! There's a flying C-47 in town and I only find out now, right as they booked up the last tours of it's stay. $10 ground tours, $249 for a twenty minute ride and photo op with the crew. C-47s aren’t that great. Used to be most of their passengers would jump out halfway through the flight, so it’s probably safe to assume they are very uncomfortable.
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May 17, 2023 23:49
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Jonny Nox posted:C-47s aren’t that great. Used to be most of their passengers would jump out halfway through the flight, so it’s probably safe to assume they are very uncomfortable. Lol. It just flew over my house. They're just mocking me now!
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May 18, 2023 00:04
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madeintaipei posted:Son of bitch! There's a flying C-47 in town and I only find out now, right as they booked up the last tours of it's stay. $10 ground tours, $249 for a twenty minute ride and photo op with the crew. If you're anywhere near Reading PA, from 6/2-6/4 there's going to be a ton of rides available on way more planes at the WW2 Weekend. https://www.maam.org/wwii/ww2_acft.htm
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May 18, 2023 00:06
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BIG HEADLINE posted:If you're anywhere near Reading PA, from 6/2-6/4 there's going to be a ton of rides available on way more planes at the WW2 Weekend. That's so cool! Way too far away for me, but really neat! I didn't realize there was a flying Stratofreighter! A Blackwidow, either!
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May 18, 2023 00:18
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hobbesmaster posted:Does this mean that the BAE-146 is the best plane? Yes! Four-engined chubby boi can't be beat.
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May 18, 2023 00:29
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PT6A posted:Yes! Four-engined chubby boi can't be beat.  
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May 18, 2023 00:38
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Here comes a very special boy
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May 18, 2023 01:01
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https://youtu.be/rVTD-LtpW0M
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May 18, 2023 01:12
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madeintaipei posted:That's so cool! Way too far away for me, but really neat! I’m glad to see the Berlin Airlift Foundation back flying both their planes again. They had a real bad couple of years, the Stratofreighter blew an engine, covid shut them down and the C54 was wrecked by a tornado.
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May 18, 2023 01:16
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Yo!!! I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a small child. My dad, in his very German way, was particularly dismissive about cartoons. "Ugh. American trash to sell toys and sugary cereal." Then we watched Tailspin at Grandma's place while visiting the US. Instant bonding over a shared love of amphibious aircraft. From that point on, you couldn't keep us from visiting every car, train, or plane museum. poo poo, we were hardcore machine junkies. Steam exhibitions, tractor and farm implement swap meets, even stopping at construction sites to chat with the operators. My mom hated it.
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May 18, 2023 01:52
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madeintaipei posted:That's so cool! Way too far away for me, but really neat! The P-63 isn't flying yet. Last I saw it was 2019, pre-COVID, and I'm curious to see how much progress has been made on it. They are trying to make it the world's only airworthy Black Widow, though.
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May 18, 2023 03:16
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madeintaipei posted:Then we watched Tailspin at Grandma's place while visiting the US. Instant bonding over a shared love of amphibious aircraft. I wonder what the grew up to be a furry vs aircraft lover ratio is with that show.
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May 18, 2023 03:43
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hobbesmaster posted:I wonder what the grew up to be a furry vs aircraft lover ratio is with that show. Buddy, they don't even let me... j/k. Planes are loving awesome. Don't care who you are.
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May 18, 2023 04:01
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So we're just gonna ignore this website's design that might as well be as old as the advertised planes? 
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May 18, 2023 04:09
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Switzerland posted:So we're just gonna ignore this website's design that might as well be as old as the advertised planes? They desperately need to hire a web designer, yes, but also realize that they're catering to nostalgia freaks.
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May 18, 2023 08:08
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Children found alive in amazonas jungle 2 weeks after plane crash; https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-65630020 The children, 13, 9, 4 years and 11 months old respectively, have survived for 16 days after the May 1st Cessna 206 plane crash that claimed the lives of their mother, the pilot and one other adult.
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May 18, 2023 15:03
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I was gonna go with  But I like yours better 
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May 18, 2023 15:28
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Children found alive in amazonas jungle 2 weeks after plane crash; The news has been updated, there is no confirmation that they have been found.
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May 18, 2023 18:21
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The update is basically this; "However, Ms Cáceres said that her agency had not yet been able to see the children and until such moment, the search effort would not be called off. The child welfare agency was not alone in saying that it had received information that the four children had been rescued." Reported found, but not verified yet. There's rains storms in the area and the remote community they were reported to be at would sit tight rn instead of taking them down river yet
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May 18, 2023 18:51
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BIG HEADLINE posted:They desperately need to hire a web designer, yes, but also realize that they're catering to nostalgia freaks. code:It certainly feels about right. But hey, it loaded fast! There's something to be said for not forcing three megabytes of javascript on every visitor to render some basic HTML.
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May 18, 2023 20:28
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BIG HEADLINE posted:They desperately need to hire a web designer, yes, but also realize that they're catering to nostalgia freaks. Any dime they put into their web page is a dime they don't have to put into their P-61 restoration.
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May 18, 2023 21:05
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animated gifs for the cause
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May 19, 2023 00:15
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Phanatic posted:Any dime they put into their web page is a dime they don't have to put into their P-61 restoration.
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May 19, 2023 03:29
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Speaking of full-on autos: MD500's have about the worst glide ratio of any helicopters and probably worse than most bricks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3AXPlIbO6g&t=238s Astar B3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMzcuINf-9o&t=14s Mediums do it too (Bell 212) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1t3XNCdAg
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May 19, 2023 06:34
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https://i.imgur.com/HINW6qa.mp4 Seven engines is enough to return safely, right 
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the poof of bird dust out the back 
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