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Platystemon posted:“Mom, may we have Icon A5?” Disregarding the showboating right above a bunch of people, is this legal?
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Cactus Ghost posted:cal fire straight up tells their trainees to not report injuries recieved in training because it's a huge headache and a bunch of paperwork. i mean, they dont say this in writing obviously, but that's the organizational culture of safety that exists there. that probably isn't unique among fire services either
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Cojawfee posted:Disregarding the showboating right above a bunch of people, is this legal? If the boat plus hang glider is light enough, maybe, but you’ll just run into the Larry Walters problem. quote:We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, some type of charge will be filed. If he had a pilot’s license, we’d suspend that. But he doesn’t. What they eventually got Walters for was not communicating with ATC. The airworthiness of his craft was above reproach. So if you fly this thing in some place where you don’t need to communicate with ATC (NOT in the flight path of LAX) and don’t showboat, you might get away with it. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Cojawfee posted:Disregarding the showboating right above a bunch of people, is this legal? http://www.seair.com/flyingboat.htm
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Riding in an airport shuttle to Dulles this morning I heard the saddest thing. A first officer in the shuttle mentioned he had gone to the Air & Space museum in DC and was bumper it wasn't fully open yet, but when I asked him in a quiet lull if he'd also gone to the Udvar-Hazy Annex, he asked "what's that?" ...he'd been staying at the Dulles Hilton. You could practically walk/jog to it from the hotel. 
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Cactus Ghost posted:wasn't it a dc-7 that participated in that weird one-off endurance air race? or was it a jet airliner That stirs a long-forgotten memory of something I read about. A circuit endurance race over some desert bit of California (?) My mind has an image of a Constellation done up in racing livery, but if there was a Constellation there's really no reason why there wouldn't be a DC-7! I'd wager that hurling a DC-7 around pylons at low level for 1000 miles counts as a very specific sort of endurance.
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It was Super Snoopy at the Mojave 1000. Here’s an article written by Clay Lacy himself: http://www.airclassicsnow.com/issue-spreads/dec-2017/ACdec17SuperSnoopy.pdf Edit: Just realized the article cuts short a bit, darn it. Here’s a synopsis that also mentions their Connie competitor at the next 1000-mile race: http://vintageairphotos.blogspot.com/2011/11/super-snoopy.html?m=1 Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 18:28
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BalloonFish posted:That stirs a long-forgotten memory of something I read about. A circuit endurance race over some desert bit of California (?) A Connie would win any MOST ENDURINGLY BEAUTIFUL AIRPLANE contest. Those fat, ugly V-bomber sisters would be over in the corner sobbing about how Connie-rella got the prince. Maybe if a Nimrod had too many beers he'd take one of them home.
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Oct 12, 2023 19:32
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 Airplanes are giant sky penises and therefore inherently male coded hth
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Oct 12, 2023 20:47
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Doesn't some Cessna have the flight endurance record?
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Yeah, Cessna 172 “Hacienda” has the absolute record at 64 days; Rutan Voyager has the unrefueled record at 9 days For uncrewed it’s prob some secret squirrel poo poo nobody knows about but the airbus zephyr solar drone matched Hacienda’s 64 days
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Oct 12, 2023 21:54
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I believe the International Space Station currently holds the manned flight endurance record. 
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Yeah, Cessna 172 “Hacienda” has the absolute record at 64 days; Rutan Voyager has the unrefueled record at 9 days Cool truck in that photo, 1957 GMC with Buick - Cadillac - Olds dealership markings.
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I expect the record set in Hacienda to stand for a long while yet, not because it’s technically out of reach, but because no one wishes to subject themselves to that torture.
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photos of the hacienda flight always crack me up because they throw into such sharp relief how loving old the cessna design is
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That truck features an impossibly advanced monobloc engine.
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HookedOnChthonics posted:Yeah, Cessna 172 “Hacienda” has the absolute record at 64 days; Rutan Voyager has the unrefueled record at 9 days My favorite part of this is that aviation records bodies looked at this and said “ok, this record category was a mistake. nobody ever do this again please”
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one of the pilots said afterwards "if i ever get the idea to do anything like that again, i'll just lock myself in my closet with the vacuum cleaner running until i get my head set straight."
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My favorite crazy thing about that record is the in flight oil filter changes.
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As someone working on experience requirements for IFR, I’m amused that these endurance flights take off and land at the same airfield so don’t qualify as cross country time. This is especially hilarious with Voyager which circumnavigated the globe, but never landed at a field 50miles from point of origin.
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Referring to the video about the start of the gulf war that I think was posted in this thread earlier. If I understand this correctly, the B-52s that took off from Louisiana, flew to Iraq, dropped their payload, and then flew back to Louisiana over the course of 35 hours technically didn't get any cross country time?
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The thing that gets me about the 64 day flight is, jesus christ they must have gone deaf doing that. No way anyone's wearing earpro for 64 days straight
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There are different types of XC time, for private/instrument/commercial they require a landing but for ATP and military the landing is not required for that reason.
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i mean, i guess on a bombing mission part of the aircraft does touch down somewhere else
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Infinotize posted:There are different types of XC time, for private/instrument/commercial they require a landing but for ATP and military the landing is not required for that reason. The military would have been dealing with pilots who flew across continents and oceans and then landed back at their starting point since at least the 40's so it makes perfect sense that they would have the ability to recognize that.
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Not sure how the Air Force does it, but for the Navy there's no such thing as "cross country" flight hours that get broken out as a separate thing. The only thing I can think of, at least in the E-2, is that you need a few cross country flights as part of your qualification syllabus. But those are just defined as "land and shut down at an airfield other than home base", so you could technically take off out of Naval Station Norfolk and fly five minutes to NAS Oceana and it would be a cross country. I remember looking into the feasibility of doing that during COVID, because it was a very silly time, but we just ended up waiving that part of the syllabus.
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Some Air Force communities handle it by having “off station operations” as a currency item. The idea is to maintain proficiency on approaches & ground ops at places other than your home field.
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Let me in the hangar. Now let me back out. Now let me back in.
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I'm the smiley the artist snuck in
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It's like a bad taxidermy.
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Mr Lanternfly posted:It's like a bad taxidermy.  Supposedly this is a specimen of a Fuegian dog.
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 We get it, you vape.
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PhotoKirk posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0GMyfGu6s&t=31s Kamov-26 says hold my beer
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what is all that from? oil settling past the rings into the cylinders?
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PhotoKirk posted:
Awesome pic.
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ImplicitAssembler posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy0GMyfGu6s&t=31s 
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Cactus Ghost posted:what is all that from? oil settling past the rings into the cylinders? Yeah, so when they park it for the winter, they fill it full of oil. It uses Vedeneyev M14P engines, similar to the Yak52, etc.
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Even if it’s not pickled, they’re radial engines. The crankcase is above some of the cylinders, so oil leaks down into the lower cylinders. Part of pre-flighting a radial is walking the prop through a couple revolutions to ensure there isn’t enough oil in the bottom cylinder to hydrolock the engine when you engage the starter. Even after that, there is significantly more oil in the bottom cylinders than is strictly necessary for lubrication, which burns off as the engine warms up, turning into a cloud of delicious AeroShell/100LL cancer fun times.
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