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Well, the good news is that they're finally letting the general public back in to visit the Museum at Pensacola, but apparently only through one gate.
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MrYenko posted:None of them do. Not to say they’re bad, just that the Museum of Flight is loving awesome. The only one in Florida that does IMO is the Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola. That is Smithsonian-grade, in my opinion. The real trick for the Naval Aviation Museum is talking to the docents. Almost all of them are retired Navy, and skew toward badass. If some old geezer is standing around, ask him about the thing he is standing near, he'll have a good story, and a nonzero chance that he flew that airframe or something similarly awesome.
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Nov 12, 2023 00:24
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Last time I passed through there was for my brother getting his wings or christening or whatever nonsense navy pilots call it. Doubly fun is he took us around the corner to where the do their simulator stuff and let me have a crack at the fully “analogue” one they have (read: still uses computers and so on, but no screens or moving around) for a minute or two. Iirc I decided to try a loop and pulled too many Gs and either killer myself or destroyed the “plane”.
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Nov 12, 2023 03:07
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Warbird posted:Last time I passed through there was for my brother getting his wings or christening or whatever nonsense navy pilots call it. Doubly fun is he took us around the corner to where the do their simulator stuff and let me have a crack at the fully “analogue” one they have (read: still uses computers and so on, but no screens or moving around) for a minute or two. Iirc I decided to try a loop and pulled too many Gs and either killer myself or destroyed the “plane”. And next to it was a G-Loc arcade lol
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Nov 12, 2023 05:02
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Regarding helium if we ever start to run short (we won't) then prices will go up and that will divert uses to more productive purposes than party balloons, while also making new methods of extraction profitable; in the meantime, don't worry about it.
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Nov 12, 2023 06:32
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Mortabis posted:Regarding helium if we ever start to run short (we won't) then prices will go up and that will divert uses to more productive purposes than party balloons, while also making new methods of extraction profitable; in the meantime, don't worry about it. We have helium tanks at work for party balloons. The invoices don't list the price per tank, which makes me wonder how much we get per sale from the helium vs. the balloon. The cheapest is $5 for a small single behind the counter, the most is $20 for a bag of five small balloons out on the floor (which confuses the gently caress out of people, despite a very large "helium included" graphic on the package). One of my dumber co-workers got fired for taking a hit directly from the tank. Don't do that. It can't be good for you. Like, it's a part of the employee manual, written in all caps. Also, it's reinforced in every monthly online safety meeting. Bah! Like anyone reads that poo poo anyways. "You're fired!" "Really?! Oh, poo poo."
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Nov 12, 2023 07:05
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Mortabis posted:Regarding helium if we ever start to run short (we won't) then prices will go up and that will divert uses to more productive purposes than party balloons, while also making new methods of extraction profitable; in the meantime, don't worry about it. good, because modern medical imaging would be markedly shittier without it
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Nov 12, 2023 07:45
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We can always just start filling party balloons with hydrogen. It'll add a little extra punch to gender reveal parties.
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Nov 12, 2023 14:20
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Slo-Tek posted:The real trick for the Naval Aviation Museum is talking to the docents. Almost all of them are retired Navy, and skew toward badass. If some old geezer is standing around, ask him about the thing he is standing near, he'll have a good story, and a nonzero chance that he flew that airframe or something similarly awesome. 1000% this. Spoke to one man once who was standing next to the F11F and it turns out he was a mechanic and then crew chief on Panthers, Cougars, Tigers, and Phantoms, both Korea and Vietnam.
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Nov 12, 2023 14:56
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Straddling the line between "party decoration" and "airship", one of the best Halloween decorations I ever did was a bunch of dark gray helium balloons on a fishing line, at several times treetop height. At night, the balloons themselves were impossible to see, but about three-fourths of the way up the line was a glowstick with some strips of gauzy fabric around it. So there was a fuzzy, ghostly light hovering in the sky, gently bobbing and weaving. It was subtle, but strangely disconcerting, since it didn't look or move like anything else in the sky. Had a few people come by who'd seen it from over a mile away and were trying to figure out what the hell it was. And I'm even pretty sure it wasn't high enough to run afoul of any FAA regs. 
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Nov 12, 2023 16:38
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I have a few of these paper hot-air balloon/bags (from Five Below?) that are lifted with a tiny cube of Sterno. I live under C airspace (PHL) so it is not advisable to let them free (they can also set poo poo on fire), so I have launched them on New Year's Eve on a string tether, with satisfactory results.
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Nov 12, 2023 18:14
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My mother has new neighbours and they have a family member who owns a light aircraft. Cessna 172 or something similar. He’s been doing flyovers over their property and it’s some pretty breathtaking stuff. I’m no pilot but it looks like he’s going to drill a hole in a field with it some time soon. I can hear the wind whistling off his wingtips when he banks and dives it. I lost sight of him in the corn before he pulled out of his dive once.
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Nov 13, 2023 02:25
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To be clear, “something like a Cessna 172” is not a crop duster, correct?
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Nov 13, 2023 02:32
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That reminds me of a question I meant to ask. I live on a lake and my neighbors a few doors own that I've never met because they literally walled their property off and fly crazy republican flags sometimes have 1-2 planes land on the lake and taxi to their property. The thing is these planes both display no N numbers. Is that legal? Serious question. EDIT: If it matters the planes are both high (wing) mounted pusher props with pontoons hanging from the wings. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 03:28 on Nov 13, 2023 |
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Nov 13, 2023 03:15
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hobbesmaster posted:To be clear, “something like a Cessna 172” is not a crop duster, correct? No, definitely not. Also crop dusters don’t maneuver like they think they are Dick Best putting a bomb into the Akagi.
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Nov 13, 2023 03:17
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CarForumPoster posted:That reminds me of a question I meant to ask. I live on a lake and my neighbors a few doors own that I've never met because they literally walled their property off and fly crazy republican flags sometimes have 1-2 planes land on the lake and taxi to their property. The thing is these planes both display no N numbers. Is that legal? Serious question. The N numbers can be surprisingly small and non obvious but it must be on there somewhere.
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Nov 13, 2023 03:20
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hobbesmaster posted:The N numbers can be surprisingly small and non obvious but it must be on there somewhere. I can mostly only see them from the passenger side, can they be on just one side? EDIT: To be clear not complaining or anything, I think its pretty cool I occasionally get a tandem water landing private air show every now and then. I have vid if thread is interested in seeing two small GA pushers land on a lake. Just gotta figure out where to upload anonymouslyish CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Nov 13, 2023 |
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Nov 13, 2023 03:28
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Fornax Disaster posted:No, definitely not. Also crop dusters don’t maneuver like they think they are Dick Best putting a bomb into the Akagi. 
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Nov 13, 2023 06:05
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Fornax Disaster posted:No, definitely not. Also crop dusters don’t maneuver like they think they are Dick Best putting a bomb into the Akagi. Uhmmmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vbPtaaBJ4&t=545s
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CarForumPoster posted:That reminds me of a question I meant to ask. I live on a lake and my neighbors a few doors own that I've never met because they literally walled their property off and fly crazy republican flags sometimes have 1-2 planes land on the lake and taxi to their property. The thing is these planes both display no N numbers. Is that legal? Serious question. All civilian planes in the USA (except Part 103 ultralights) have to display an N number. However, they changed the size requirements from 2 inches tall to 12 inches tall in the early 1980s, and if you haven't had the plane repainted since then, the small lettering is grandfathered in. I think it is still required on both sides of the plane, but maybe not? e.g.: 
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Nov 13, 2023 06:41
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CarForumPoster posted:EDIT: If it matters the planes are both high (wing) mounted pusher props with pontoons hanging from the wings. that sounds like the Icon A5. do light sports have the same requirement for 12" letters?
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I stand corrected. Seriously though, from the ground what I have been seeing looks more aggressive than that, and without any level flight, he goes from steep dive back into a climb. And steep banking turns without much altitude.
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Nov 13, 2023 07:23
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Experimentals can have 3 inch tail numbers. And older planes, you could keep the 2 inch numbers on a repaint. The FAR is of course written dumb as poo poo, but the intent was that planes displaying small tail numbers before a date were OK, planes built in a grace period would change in a repaint. You can also use 2 inch tail numbers on antique aircraft, which is anything 30 years or older. Amateur-built replicas count too, so if you wanted to emulate James Bond flying to Scaramanga's Island in a Republic Seabee built in your garage, 2 inch letters are legal but not accurate.
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Fornax Disaster posted:I stand corrected. Seriously though, from the ground what I have been seeing looks more aggressive than that, and without any level flight, he goes from steep dive back into a climb. And steep banking turns without much altitude. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PufF8MFjVIA
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CarForumPoster posted:That reminds me of a question I meant to ask. I live on a lake and my neighbors a few doors own that I've never met because they literally walled their property off and fly crazy republican flags sometimes have 1-2 planes land on the lake and taxi to their property. The thing is these planes both display no N numbers. Is that legal? Serious question. SeaReys?
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Nov 13, 2023 14:36
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MrYenko posted:SeaReys? Its very likely a pair of seareys.
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  Whoops. You can actually see the plane smash through the aiprot fence and into the car here. Seems like everyone was ok. https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzhHe42ukDa/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading
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Nov 13, 2023 20:48
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An A321 was damaged by excessively bright filming lights then allowed to take off when nobody noticed. https://petapixel.com/2023/11/13/airplane-forced-to-land-after-windows-were-melted-by-video-lighting/
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Nov 13, 2023 22:59
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Here's an old film about making a training film about F-4 flight characteristics that's somewhat unique and everything you'd ever want to know about F-4 AOA units. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZiduQboyow
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Scott Manley did a video on NASA's WB-57F (and the Canberra it's based off of - Hi Scott): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFUc0GAg9iE
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Nov 16, 2023 02:52
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Pablo Bluth posted:An A321 was damaged by excessively bright filming lights then allowed to take off when nobody noticed. Love working in film industry where they insist on using lighting technology that is monstrously, catastrophically, absurdly fire prone.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Scott Manley did a video on NASA's WB-57F: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFUc0GAg9iE Technically I did a video on the Canberra Bombers which were parked at an untowered field I regularly visit, and wanted to link in the WB-57 because most of my audience is space fans.
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illectro posted:Technically I did a video on the Canberra Bombers which were parked at an untowered field I regularly visit, and wanted to link in the WB-57 because most of my audience is space fans. Makes sense. Imagine the flex of having a TR-1 or WB-57 type rating.
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Pablo Bluth posted:An A321 was damaged by excessively bright filming lights then allowed to take off when nobody noticed. Thats a big yikes
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Scam Likely posted:Love working in film industry where they insist on using lighting technology that is monstrously, catastrophically, absurdly fire prone. When I was doing film work in active underground mines we needed to have intrinsically safe equipment. So, completely sealed everything. No devices that could have batteries removed etc. Lighting was a big problem. I can't remember the specifics about why, but we couldn't find our industry standard stuff the day before shooting so ended up at a diving shop and bought a bunch of underwater photography lights. These have a requirement the goober didn't think about...they are passively watercooled. Fast forward to the next day - go underground and they completely melted.
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illectro posted:Technically I did a video on the Canberra Bombers which were parked at an untowered field I regularly visit, and wanted to link in the WB-57 because most of my audience is space fans. I got a show-and-tell from a WB-57 crew when they were out in Point Mugu one time, supporting some testing at the range there. Really cool plane - a regular B-57 has very large wings to begin with, and the upgraded WB wings are ludicrously large. The pilot said landing it is tricky because it really, really wants to fly. They have a bunch of different sensor packages that they swap out depending on whatever mission they're conducting, a few in the belly and one in the nose. So it could be a camera plane one week, and then the next week they're flying some kind of radar.
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A Kaman heavy lift helicopter is dismantling a radio tower down the way from me. God they are weird looking. https://i.imgur.com/iNJMj1H.mp4
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AzureSkys posted:Here's an old film about making a training film about F-4 flight characteristics that's somewhat unique and everything you'd ever want to know about F-4 AOA units. ... That video popped up in my suggestions as well. I'm guessing you saw the announcement recently that Heatblur was making an F4 for DCS?
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Pablo Bluth posted:An A321 was damaged by excessively bright filming lights then allowed to take off when nobody noticed. I don't even want to know how complicated that insurance claim is going to be
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