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Cactus Ghost posted:what is all that from? oil settling past the rings into the cylinders? IIRC that particular Kamov-26 had been sitting in that field for several years If your radial is not leaking oil, then it's out of oil.  (shot looking up into the #3 nacelle of an operational B-17)
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In my mind all jet pilots are clean shaven, while all radial pilots have pushbroom mustaches.
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Robin Olds didn’t grow the mustache until he was an F-4 pilot in Vietnam. Though to be fair he flew V12s in WWII combat and not radials. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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Mr Lanternfly posted:In my mind all jet pilots are clean shaven, while all radial pilots have pushbroom mustaches.  Are you a wizard? This was the pilot.
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PhotoKirk posted:
Stan Lee's twin?
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Here’s a bit of a riddle: This 777-223 passed by at around 3700 feet not long ago. Any notions as to what is trailing there? Contrail seems most likely though none of the other birds on the approach were doing this.
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Warbird posted:Here’s a bit of a riddle: It's also not coming from the engines. I would guess sink drain.
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Warbird posted:Here’s a bit of a riddle: APU?
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Last week I had a United flight on a 757. When I got on the plane I noticed how warm it was onboard. The captain came on the intercom and said "Unfortunatly, our ground AC isn't working and we won't have air conditioning until we startup the engines." In this case, was "ground AC" code for "we don't have a functioning APU?"
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Warbird posted:Here’s a bit of a riddle:
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bull3964 posted:Last week I had a United flight on a 757. When I got on the plane I noticed how warm it was onboard. The captain came on the intercom and said "Unfortunatly, our ground AC isn't working and we won't have air conditioning until we startup the engines." No, there is support from regular A/C units attached to the jet bridge that supply air on the ground. My understanding is that a lot of older birds like the 757 can't effectively run both on board A/C packs on the APU alone and they benefit from the higher pressure air from the engines.
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I will say that the plane itself was completely dead outside of lights. No air circulation at all, not even fans. Right before we pushed back, all the lights except for emergency lights went out and stayed out until the engines started spooling.
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bull3964 posted:I will say that the plane itself was completely dead outside of lights. No air circulation at all, not even fans. That does sound like a dead APU. Did they use an external start cart and crank the engines at the gate?
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Truga posted:if it was landing it might have been too heavy and dumping fuel Would that be coming from the body like that? Additionally this is above a pretty heavily populated metro area and about 5 minutes from landing after a transatlantic flight.
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bull3964 posted:I will say that the plane itself was completely dead outside of lights. No air circulation at all, not even fans. ive had the exact same experience with 757's. Always between Atlanta and Jacksonville FL, sucked balls.
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Beef Of Ages posted:That does sound like a dead APU. Did they use an external start cart and crank the engines at the gate? Aisle seat in a row just behind the wing so I had no visibility, but the engines did start near the gate. At least in this case it was Chicago, so it was uncomfortable but not SUPER hot. On my trip to SF and back, I was on a 737-800, 757, 777-200, and Embraer 170. The E-Jet was, by a large margin, the most comfortable. I (6'3") could actually sit normally with my knees not touching the seat in front of me and I actually had enough shoulder room. bull3964 fucked around with this message at 01:02 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Warbird posted:Here’s a bit of a riddle: oh we all know what that is 
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Warbird posted:Here’s a bit of a riddle: Emergency toilet flush.
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I hear the reason they charge so much for checked luggage these days is so people will just use carry-ons which hold less so all the airliners can carry more chemtrail chemicals!  
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I once carried a cast iron bellhousing in the cabin to avoid overweight baggage fees. Last night on my flight there was another passenger who needed help from two others to lift her carry-on into the overhead bin because it was packed full of paperwork.
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Advent Horizon posted:I once carried a cast iron bellhousing in the cabin to avoid overweight baggage fees. A: That’s loving amazing B: I don’t blame you one loving iota. C: Overhead bins have weight limits that you almost certainly exceeded when combined with the other stuff up there. Make sure to put it above the people other side of the airplane. 
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I didn’t have anything to do with that overhead paperwork thing, I just heard & saw it happening a few rows back. I decided to check my bags yesterday, which of course means one is missing. The last time they could locate it was when it got scanned at the baggage drop.
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bull3964 posted:Last week I had a United flight on a 757. When I got on the plane I noticed how warm it was onboard. The captain came on the intercom and said "Unfortunatly, our ground AC isn't working and we won't have air conditioning until we startup the engines." almost definitely, was there a loud buzzing noise outside during the engine start? Beef Of Ages posted:No, there is support from regular A/C units attached to the jet bridge that supply air on the ground. My understanding is that a lot of older birds like the 757 can't effectively run both on board A/C packs on the APU alone and they benefit from the higher pressure air from the engines. 75 APU can absolutely run the packs to cool the cabin off unless you’re somewhere like phoenix in july
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e.pilot posted:almost definitely, was there a loud buzzing noise outside during the engine start? By that point I had my noise cancelling earbuds in and was just waiting for it to not be so stifling so I didn't notice.
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https://mynews4.com/news/local/six-cities-announced-as-potential-future-home-of-national-championship-ari-races-after-reno-depaturequote:The bidders include the follow cities: Wendover is the middle of nowhere and has very little of anything except a couple runways and some casinos with their front doors right against the Utah border. Casper and Roswell both have decent facilities and are large enough to handle an influx of people but shutting down the airports mean that everyone would have to drive hours to get to either one. That limits things to die-hard fans. Thermal is right near Palm Springs so infrastructure is great. The course would have to be over farms and that would require property owner involvement, plus with all the palm trees around the course would have to be above the current 50 feet AGL. Buckeye is right near Phoenix but only has one (short) runway. Might be able to rebuild one of the former runways. Some potential encroachment issues. Both Thermal and Buckeye would be hot AF most of the year. Scheduling might be able to deal with that issue. Pueblo really looks just about perfect.
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Pueblo has a whole poo poo ton of Air Force students buzzing around so I'm not sure if they would play ball by letting the air race own that air space for a week. Put it down in Roswell maybe the aliens will beam everybody up
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Are they still redoing it? Also, yes, it is a long drive from civilization to Roswell.
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mobby_6kl posted:Is that from fixed-wing Huey version? quote:Some folks are born made to wave the flag Wealthy politicians using this song for their campaigns has got to be the biggest middle-finger to their constituents and the concepts of fairness and equality in existence.
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mobby_6kl posted:Is that from fixed-wing Huey version?
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Murgos posted:Wealthy politicians using this song for their campaigns has got to be the biggest middle-finger to their constituents and the concepts of fairness and equality in existence. The chosen whites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddrFt1BHkUQ CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 17:02 on Oct 23, 2023 |
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Apparently an authorized person in the cockpit on an Alaskan Airlines (Horizon) flight tried to shut down the engines midflight. Some pilot catching a jumpseat ride I guess. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/23/us/alaska-airlines-passenger/index.html
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BonoMan posted:Apparently an authorized person in the cockpit on an Alaskan Airlines (Horizon) flight tried to shut down the engines midflight. Some pilot catching a jumpseat ride I guess. Never go half Calloway. You either go no Calloway or FULL Calloway. (for those who need a refresher - FedEx Flight 705)
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If the engine fire suppression system is activated on an engine, there’s no restarting it in flight, is there?
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Hermsgervørden posted:If the engine fire suppression system is activated on an engine, there’s no restarting it in flight, is there? In the Reddit thread some E175 pilots said that it works in the sim but I believe this is well into what computer folk would call “undefined behavior”
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