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BobHoward posted:I think that one might have been at least partially pilot error. Going through in slo-mo or frame by frame, you can see that the sequence of events is (1) pilot hits the switch to begin dumping gender reveal fluid, (2) as he approaches the party, pilot yanks back on the stick to begin a climb, (3) airplane rotates to a very high AoA and begins a zoom climb, (4) climb is abruptly terminated by the wing folding under overload. I think the reason the pilot entered the climb was to clear the palm trees that you see after the camera pans. The dynamic changes to weight and balance as the tanks emptied might have influenced how everything turned out (e.g. by turning a slightly aggressive control input to a far too aggressive control input). Platystemon posted:I can’t believe that the gender fluid did this. 
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mobby_6kl posted:I've seen people say that these aircraft suffer from corrosion and fatigue so it's was possibly that, though I have no way of determining that obviously. See, the problem is that the pilot and mechanic also had no way of determining that without using a borescope or cutting a new inspection hole.
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I've seen cropdusters do that kind of thing all the time without crashing so I'm going to guess the pilot accidentally hit the "wings fall off" switch
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in my part of the world we say the plane "clapped" when that happens fits best with a high wing config but it's used for everything
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what a lovely situation https://twitter.com/thenewarea51/status/1698474366684590465?s=20
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Wouldn't the pilot have gotten in trouble for being less than 500 feet from people or structures anyway.
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FuturePastNow posted:I've seen cropdusters do that kind of thing all the time without crashing so I'm going to guess the pilot accidentally hit the "wings fall off" switch As someone who’s only background is working with another large propeller plane (think a P3) when I saw the angle that the guy was at after he tried to manoeuvre - he lost lift at at point and would have to desperately try to save himself before he went down Like at a certain angle you can’t generate lift anymore
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Cojawfee posted:Wouldn't the pilot have gotten in trouble for being less than 500 feet from people or structures anyway. i believe it was somewhere in Mexico so the surveillance is probably lower
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`Nemesis posted:what a lovely situation That could have been so much worse. A Japan-Copenhagen flight in 1975 infected about 200 people with Staphylococcus, one of the "both ends" infectious agents. Thank god it was a little under an hour before landing, but that's still "burn all the fittings and acid wash the bare metal" territory. Well There's Your Problem did a bonus episode on that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEO5Zgbhc1Q
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`Nemesis posted:what a lovely situation So this was one passenger making GBS threads their pants while walking to the bathroom and dripping it down the aisle? Awesome.
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that happened on a flight i was on but it was a dog that a lady let out of its carrier bag.
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Does anyone have a picture or video of an airplane lasing a target as seen through an infrared camera? I want to see the laser beam shooting out of the plane. Is that even possible?
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You do not see laser beams under normal circumstances, but IIRC there are some frequencies where you get more reflections than others. Again IIRC IR is better for this, but you’d think normal designator wouldn’t want to be drawing a beam to the plane under normal circumstances? IR pointers do exist and the spec sheets for targeting pods say they can do it, but search results all seem to be DCS because of course they are. At least here’s a real ground based IR pointer looking just like it does in DCS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgvuGFaT7Qw
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Which color crayon do you have to eat to think that this is a sensible runway layout? Check the ærial photographs. Diagram is as built.
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Looks absolutely insane, but it was always mainly a training facility, so maybe not having the runways cross allowed for more concurrent training ops. It’s military so 
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Platystemon posted:Which color crayon do you have to eat to think that this is a sensible runway layout? It's also home to almost all of the VSTOL training, so Harriers, Ospreys, big helicopters.... It makes more sense when everyone needs between 0 and 1000' of runway for normal ops. Not that it makes sense, mind, just MORE than zero.
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Platystemon posted:Which color crayon do you have to eat to think that this is a sensible runway layout? https://i.imgur.com/xGtmOtp.mp4
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Cherry Point's layout is atypical, but the stupidity was when they were thinking about closing Oceana about two decades ago because of NIMBYism and overdevelopment on the flight paths and moving all assets/squadrons to Cherry Point.
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mobby_6kl posted:... all of them, of course? Not aeronautics related but try the coconut https://i.imgur.com/PY4tjSd.mp4
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madeintaipei posted:They run out of complimentary lemon-scented face wipes? The probability is that civilization will one day arise again. There will be lemon soaked paper napkins. Return to your seats!
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Platystemon posted:Which color crayon do you have to eat to think that this is a sensible runway layout? It’s a WWII air field, I assume there was at some point a runway from 5R to 14L as well? The idea behind the “triangular” WWII runways was that you could always have one runway active without much of a crosswind component. I assume here the idea is you can have landings on one runway and takeoffs from the staggered one in the same direction. Or at least stage for take offs. Some other examples of WWII training air fields    I believe the weirdness with intersections and stuff was so they could always have one runway available even if all the others had to be closed for maintenance. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Sep 5, 2023 |
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As soon as you see it you go "yep, that's totally a ww2 design"
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hobbesmaster posted:It’s a WWII air field, I assume there was at some point a runway from 5R to 14L as well? I think less for mx and more for winds. Like “it’s fuckin WW2, we are NOT going to lose training hours for OOL crosswinds”
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https://i.imgur.com/bfKIUS0.mp4
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Get Ottered https://i.imgur.com/bfKIUS0.mp4 Edit: drat a second slow!
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Scrungus posted:I think less for mx and more for winds. Like “it’s fuckin WW2, we are NOT going to lose training hours for OOL crosswinds” Alternatively, you just build a giant concrete pad, and you can have any runway alignment you desire: http://www.airfields-freeman.com/in/Airfields_IN_N.htm#converse
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Winnair?
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slidebite posted:Winnair? Looks more like Loseair
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Cherry Point's layout is atypical, but the stupidity was when they were thinking about closing Oceana about two decades ago because of NIMBYism and overdevelopment on the flight paths and moving all assets/squadrons to Cherry Point. I remember when that was going on there was a lot of talk of building a new base, with one possible location being our county. There were a lot of local government meetings to oppose it where they'd show videos of suburbs during the day, completely empty, and Hornets screaming around. Everyone had the same reaction, "My God, the noise! No one would live here with that!" And I thought, "No one lives here now. That's why they are looking here." Not In My Desolate Wasteland Backwater Shithole
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The clothesline. Classic wrestling move.
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Another example of how dangerous helicopters are.
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I've heard of a propstrike but this is ridiculous!
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charliemonster42 posted:The probability is that civilization will one day arise again. There will be lemon soaked paper napkins. Return to your seats! This is AAA-tier referential comedy.
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MrYenko posted:This is AAA-tier referential comedy. Just weapons-grade autism, Mr. Zarniwoop.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxkA82wORtw
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charliemonster42 posted:Just weapons-grade autism, Mr. Zarniwoop. Belgium.
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mlmp08 posted:Another example of how dangerous helicopters are. This made me laugh really hard. Reminds me of when I walk into some stationary object clumsily, "Goddamn thing jumped right out in front of me."
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:Bel****. Ban this sick filth
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https://twitter.com/deltanewshub/status/1699420223407841751?s=46&t=TBi_iSImUmzjTxXAKsMEHw I assume another thread on this forum is running through the jokes because there a lot
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tactlessbastard posted:Ban this sick filth Permaban, straight to the lepers colony with him!
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