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Haahaahaa I caught the Avro circling around Sunday on adsbexchange. Felt lucky when that happened.
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I'd just like to deny I had anything to do with this, even though Deborah and Mike refused my advice to build an airship. I'd also like to deny that I was in Sussex NB last night, and that I plugged one of their propane tubes in a fit of impotent jealousy https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-transatlantic-balloon-down-over-newfoundland-1.6913506 e: I'd also like to deny that I've begun harassing the reporter who wrote this for writing "[the balloon] was powered by helium" Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 22:01 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Jul 21, 2023 21:53
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Nebakenezzer posted:I'd just like to deny I had anything to do with this, even though Deborah and Mike refused my advice to build an airship. I'd also like to deny that I was in Sussex NB last night, and that I plugged one of their propane tubes in a fit of impotent jealousy I guess since I left the island it craved a new balloon pilot. I think I was the only one there. Edit: did they land at the airport? I always thought about flying there but I think I'd only want to do it in the winter so I could land on a lake or pond or something. There's so few suitable landing spots in and around Gander (or on the entire island, for that matter) St_Ides fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Jul 22, 2023 |
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Jul 22, 2023 00:09
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What is it with people trying to do dumb stuff in homemade vehicles and Newfoundland these days?
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FrozenVent posted:What is it with people trying to do dumb stuff in homemade vehicles and Newfoundland these days? I mean, have you been to Newfoundland?
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FrozenVent posted:What is it with people trying to do dumb stuff in homemade vehicles and Newfoundland these days? Couple things: 1. These people are british 2. they took off from New Brunswick 3. Newfoundland is on the great circle route to europe
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It took her 19 hours to go from New Brunswick to Newfoundland?
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Cojawfee posted:It took her 19 hours to go from New Brunswick to Newfoundland? Well, it is a balloon after all. St_Ides posted:I guess since I left the island it craved a new balloon pilot. I think I was the only one there. They actually landed near the south coast. I'm thinking these people are rich, because if they can't fly out of there it's gonna be as'spensive to get their balloon back to civilization
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Ah, I just found a news article that said they landed somewhere forested and remote (so pretty much anywhere on the island). Then got helicoptered in to Gander. Even just filling a balloon like that with helium is about $1.50usd per cubic foot, and that balloon is an R-77, so a Roziere with 77,000 cubic feet of volume. It’s not like the helium can be used twice. I googled the people and it says one I used to own something called Hairworks, which doesn’t appear to be more than a salon. The other was a military and commercial pilot. Neither of which implies self made millionaires, so unless there’s generational wealth involved it’s possible they just saved a lot for a one-shot. I don’t know how much it’d cost to have a helicopter sling out a basket and envelope, but the MTOM of an R-77 is 2270kg, and a large proportion of that weight would be fuel. Once the fuel is vented something like a Huey could lift and carry it out. All it’d need to do is get it to the nearest road, then trailer it out. It wouldn’t be cheap, but still probably way less than just the cost of the helium. The envelope is probably screwed, at least the hot air part. Probably the gas envelope too, depending on how treed the area was. If it was just swamp and rock there’s a chance it could have not been damaged beyond repair.
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St_Ides posted:I don’t know how much it’d cost to have a helicopter sling out a basket and envelope, but the MTOM of an R-77 is 2270kg, and a large proportion of that weight would be fuel. Once the fuel is vented something like a Huey could lift and carry it out. All it’d need to do is get it to the nearest road, then trailer it out. It wouldn’t be cheap, but still probably way less than just the cost of the helium. Get it below ~3300lbs and an Astar can lift it out.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:what is an aquaplane I assume it’d be like a single wide waterski. I’d love to see a new Pantobase airplane, you could call that an aquaplane, rather than something like a flying boat.
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Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Gimli glider. A Redditor posted their display of their family’s ticket stubs. https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/c...nt=1&utm_term=1  You may wonder why they didn’t say blank out their name or seat number for doxxing reasons… well, this may make that clearer https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6915162
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It's that magical time of year when you can experience the world's greatest aviation party and take pictures of the Goodyear Blimp between an engine and outboard fuel tank of an AC-130 Gunship AirVenture is the best
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'e's a witch! BURN HER
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Pretty impressive given how much water is still draining out of flooded compartments 10 seconds after takeoff
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hobbesmaster posted:Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the Gimli glider. A Redditor posted their display of their family’s ticket stubs.
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At what age are the airlines no longer required to seat my child next to me. I think at 2 I am safe but I'm guessing the bean counters have the age set as low as possible, something like age 5 or 8
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Hadlock posted:At what age are the airlines no longer required to seat my child next to me. I think at 2 I am safe but I'm guessing the bean counters have the age set as low as possible, something like age 5 or 8 It’s 13
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Hadlock posted:At what age are the airlines no longer required to seat my child next to me. I think at 2 I am safe but I'm guessing the bean counters have the age set as low as possible, something like age 5 or 8 From what I understand there’s not actually a legal requirement so if a seat is booked for a child of any age they can be separated by reservations. “Unaccompanied” means there isn’t an adult on the flight, not that they’re not sitting together. The cabin crews at least have the power to force people to change seats at boarding time. The various airline subreddits for the legacy carriers that Reddit keeps recommending me have had a lot of conversations about these issues with the large number of seat switching requests and other issues that have only gotten worse since the pandemic. I’m most familiar with delta, but I believe most of these issues apply to all airlines at some level now that so much stuff is hosed post pandemic, load factors are very high and everything is being nickel and dimed: 1. Inexperienced travelers booking through search engines get basic economy which does not include seat assignments. This makes it appear that it’s a southwest style system 2. If seat selection is available, without status/Amex you likely cannot reliably book 3 seats together because aisle/window in a large part of the cabin is preferred 3. Even if you pay for seat assignments/preferred they can be changed by the airline at any time and you’re out the money 4. With such high load factors irrops cause more severe issues and increase the chance of seats on the rebooked flights being scattered To make things worse, with delays and cancellations even a family of 3 may not be able to be booked on a flight where they can travel together for days.
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“Hey they booked me and the kid/wife/travel partner away from each other. Would you be willing to swap with me so we can sit together?” “Yeah sure”
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Warbird posted:“Hey they booked me and the kid/wife/travel partner away from each other. Would you be willing to swap with me so we can sit together?” Then the same thing happens in the next seat. And then the person that actually had a ticket for the 3rd seat you’re in shows up and the entire mess has to be untangled and now the FA is mad at you. A lot of the very frequent travelers had stories like that for why they will never ever trade seats again. edit: without crew involvement
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Hadlock posted:Pretty sure that's the bow Japanese planes usually bow before taking off.
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is there some distance compression effect from a long lens going on or did that big fucker take off in about a hundred yards of water
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the milk machine posted:is there some distance compression effect from a long lens going on or did that big fucker take off in about a hundred yards of water https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shin_Meiwa_US-1A quote:The converted flying boat featured numerous adaptations, including a novel boundary layer control system to provide enhanced Short Takeoff/Landing (STOL) performance, ...
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Warbird posted:“Hey they booked me and the kid/wife/travel partner away from each other. Would you be willing to swap with me so we can sit together?” Counterpoint: "no thank you, I paid to select this seat, and I shall have it."
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I think it's actually a US-2, which halves the takeoff distance of a US-1a to 280m/920', about the same as a 172. Boundary layer systems are pretty neat.
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Yeah in general we've usually lucked out and found a seating arrangement via good will. So far. Eventually the luck will run outhobbesmaster posted:To make things worse, with delays and cancellations even a family of 3 may not be able to be booked on a flight where they can travel together for days. No joke this was a major bullet point for why we moved away from north carolina. Maybe it's just the pandemic but always needing to transfer through CLT was 
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the milk machine posted:is there some distance compression effect from a long lens going on or did that big fucker take off in about a hundred yards of water Hehehe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kDbUj5MB3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4iRXMOMm9M Air boat is special.
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Hadlock posted:No joke this was a major bullet point for why we moved away from north carolina. Maybe it's just the pandemic but always needing to transfer through CLT was Many men have trouble navigating around that one.
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Hadlock posted:At what age are the airlines no longer required to seat my child next to me. I think at 2 I am safe but I'm guessing the bean counters have the age set as low as possible, something like age 5 or 8 An airline I’ll decide to leave unnamed recently attempted it at 3 1/2. It took a considerable amount of pushback and (borderline get-off-the-plane) arguing with the guy in the adjacent seat to prevent it. I was bullshit.
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Scramble posted:Return of the Catalina? https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/return-of-the-catalina?fbclid=IwAR26ijwGcZ9n37SrWAEtq43-jRnzz0zPB2JouWkLXnJWIfFLMATF4xhdNoU Right after those guys who are definitely gonna build new Grumman Albatrosses, presumably
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Plastic_Gargoyle posted:https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/return-of-the-catalina?fbclid=IwAR26ijwGcZ9n37SrWAEtq43-jRnzz0zPB2JouWkLXnJWIfFLMATF4xhdNoU  https://catalinaaircrafttrust.com/ngaa-special-use-variant Ok, cool render bro. What engines are you using? What avionics package? How does having a boat-only version without gear not change the TC? I want this to succeed so badly, because civilian new-build Catalinas are a dream of mine, but this whole venture is very light on details.
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