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Alaska Air has announced it's buying Hawaiian Airlines. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/03/business/alaska-airlines-to-acquire-tk/index.html I was going to make a joke about being in the same time zone but it turns out Alaska is an hour ahead. So... something something that freak snowstorm in Hawaii a few days ago?
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Oopsie doodles  Canadian Forces just announced they decided to write off a CC-150 that was damaged in a ground collision. I don’t remember hearing about it when it happened, it was this summer during an exercise in Guam. quote:“The aircraft was loaded with equipment and baggage in preparation for departure the following day,” the report read. Cool retro paint job on it, it’s a recreation of the livery they used on the old 707 transports in the 80s. https://nationalpost.com/news/rcaf-plane-collision-guam-scrapped This is the second one of these to roll away and collide with something, the Prime Minister’s VIP CC-150 got a smashed cowling and nose in 2019.
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Powered Descent posted:Alaska Air has announced it's buying Hawaiian Airlines. That's going to be interesting given Alaska is Oneworld and it also means they've got slots in Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, American Samoa and Tahiti. I don't know how they're going to keep to their plans to go all Boeing again given that I'm pretty sure Hawaiian uses A330s for long-haul flights (and, apparently 787-9 orders that I doubt Alaska has the money to cover). At this point they just need to rebrand to Alaska-Pacific Airways or something.
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Powered Descent posted:Alaska Air has announced it's buying Hawaiian Airlines. Now your airliner can feature catastrophic failure of both the horizontal stabilizer and the pressure hull at the same time. 
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shame on an IGA posted:sextant port but it's for the x-ray telescope that unlocks pulsar navigation We used ours for an Iridium antenna.
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Sagebrush posted:It's a made up character and the lady is a cosplayer or hired model. Ugh Yup. I was vaguely wondering if they pilot/gunner in the second chopper bleached their hair and how that played with Japanese uniform/hair regulation and then I saw this video's thumbnail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aaOZrNWqLU To be clear, I'm all for pilots to put the dumbest poo poo possible on their aircraft, but common now.
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Dec 4, 2023 15:47
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I’ve seen militaries putting worse things on their aircraft in the last 20 years…
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Nebakenezzer posted:Cobra is already rejecting the Be-200 illustrations, they've sent someone down to the archive to get the supersonic flying boats P6M has entered the chat
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Mortabis posted:I think if you're actually Japanese it doesn't count as being weeb poo poo, the etymology of which, if I recall, is a corruption of "wapanese." It's only marginally less cringe but not weeb. It's from weeaboo, which originated in this comic:  4chan started using it as slang due to a word filter that substituted it in place of "wapanese" just to be silly. Then the contraction "weeb" arose, and it was the contraction that escaped containment to the broader internet. It means the same thing, but isn't actually a corruption.
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Dec 4, 2023 20:46
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dickhead youtuber who intentionally crashed his plane was sentenced to 6 months in jail. sorry that the link is tmz, but... https://www.tmz.com/2023/12/04/youtuber-olympian-snow-boarder-sentenced-intentionally-crashing-plane/
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mlmp08 posted:I’ve seen militaries putting worse things on their aircraft in the last 20 years… Bud Holland, for one.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Bud Holland, for one.
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`Nemesis posted:dickhead youtuber who intentionally crashed his plane was sentenced to 6 months in jail. drat, i knew the FAA would be throwing the book at him but I wasn't expecting a multi-agency book-throwing. nice
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Cactus Ghost posted:drat, i knew the FAA would be throwing the book at him but I wasn't expecting a multi-agency book-throwing. nice If he'd cooperated and admitted everything he wouldn't be doing time. Instead he stonewalled investigators, lied about not knowing where the plane's carcass was, hired a helicopter to airlift it out, cut it up into chunks small enough to hide, and then hid them. Nothing he did prior to attempting a coverup would have landed him in jail, but the feds do not like people interfering with investigations and they can put you in jail for it. Feds don't always pursue every case, even when they know they could probably get a conviction, but when you mycrimes.txt all over social media like this guy did, they absolutely will want make an example of you.
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`Nemesis posted:dickhead youtuber who intentionally crashed his plane was sentenced to 6 months in jail.
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6 months is a slap on the wrist for destruction of evidence. Did he get charged with anything for the initial crash?
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I support a system where people are imprisoned for abject, willful stupidity without cause, and this is about as close as I've seen the system get to achieving that end, so I support it.
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hobbesmaster posted:I posted about that in the A/T thread: Sounds like he’s Dunn flying, in case nobody made that joke
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 quote:Wait, let me get this straight. The guy who intentionally crashed his plane for YouTube revenue gets his license back, but I take adderall so I don’t even get a chance to have a PPL?!
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Dec 7, 2023 12:51
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I thought he went to jail for 6 months?
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Man it's wild the different personalities in pilots you can have. Flyin' CLT to MSY and had the absolutely mildest turbulence ever for 10 minutes. Pilot comes on "oh man I'm so sorry about all this turbulence folks! We're gonna see if we can get down to 11,000 feet to find some smoother air.... ooooh actually it's nice here right around 17,000. Hope y'all have a great day!" (he was also clearly playing with his pilot voice "Will the flight attendents uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh please prepare for landing." And had folks cracking up. Flyin' MSY to CLT and hit the most severe turbulence I've ever been in. Huge lurches, drops , rolls and shutters. My wife was crying and gripping my arm across the aisle. Pilot doesn't say a *word*... (except for "flight attendants be seated.")
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Dec 7, 2023 15:40
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Lmao this is basically the situation I'm in ppl wise so I'm extra mad at this fucker Love that the FAA's only legal method of punishment is revoking a license and they can't even do that
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Dec 7, 2023 15:41
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It seems the FAA sent these at complete random so I suspect he does not actually have his license back https://www.reddit.com/r/flying/s/jJyNKZ0Qjf
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pretty sure reinstatement of a PPL requires more than a spam email addressed to PrivatePilot!7
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Cactus Ghost posted:pretty sure reinstatement of a PPL requires more than a spam email addressed to PrivatePilot!7 Somehow that’s a real email from the FAA Of course if I got that email at work I would be reaching for the phishing button…
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On Canada buying P-8s: This might be a time Canada did the right thing in procurement for the wrong reasons. Also the JSDF has a surprisingly large Orion fleet still, as apparently production of P-1s isn't gigantic. Has the P-3 in US service gone to secondary users like the Coast Guard and Customs, or does the USN still have a few?
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Nebakenezzer posted:On Canada buying P-8s: This might be a time Canada did the right thing in procurement for the wrong reasons. The P-1 is adorable though, look at the size of those windows: 
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Nebakenezzer posted:On Canada buying P-8s: This might be a time Canada did the right thing in procurement for the wrong reasons. Have there been any serious issues with the C-17s we bought? That’s one procurement that’s gone well as far as I know.
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Nebakenezzer posted:Has the P-3 in US service gone to secondary users like the Coast Guard and Customs, or does the USN still have a few? Active duty squadrons have all transitioned, looks like there are a couple of reserve squadrons flying them for a few more years. And the EP-3 is still flying until God only knows when.
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Fornax Disaster posted:Have there been any serious issues with the C-17s we bought? That’s one procurement that’s gone well as far as I know. No, not to my knowledge. It's damning in of itself that Canadian Procurement works best when you skip it entirely and buy off the rack.
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Nebakenezzer posted:No, not to my knowledge. It's damning in of itself that Canadian Procurement works best when you skip it entirely and buy off the rack. I don't think that's damning, if you let someone else work through the difficult design and teething issues, then buy the mature, proven product, that's just smart. Canada doesn't have the economic weight to throw money at a ton of military development products, so buying from allied countries who do is just good common sense.
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hobbesmaster posted:It seems the FAA sent these at complete random so I suspect he does not actually have his license back Lads and lasses, the saga deepens. https://lamag.com/crimeinla/olympian-trevor-jacob-plane-crash-new-charges posted:In the latest YouTube video, which he says was filmed a day before he faced a federal judge in a DTLA court Monday, Jacob climbs into a small plane with an unknown woman and says into the camera that he wanted to, "wind down before the sentencing." At one point a dog appears on the woman's lap as they flew, and she blurts, "I feel so safe flying with you," despite being in a plane piloted by a man the FAA says does not have a license. 
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Some things just aren't worth flying for. 
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LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!   If he didn't already come to an agreement, I'd have said he was laying the groundwork for some sort of obsessive/compulsive disorder that he can't get off social media.
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Dude seriously got what looked like a phishing email and assumed that meant his license was back.
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Elviscat posted:I don't think that's damning, if you let someone else work through the difficult design and teething issues, then buy the mature, proven product, that's just smart. Canada doesn't have the economic weight to throw money at a ton of military development products, so buying from allied countries who do is just good common sense. Oh, most definitely. This is me just trying to add additional shame on the procurement process, which is so squalidly dysfunctional that egregious failure is the norm.
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Wistful of Dollars posted:https://x.com/ghost_gator69/status/1732800472979812743?s=46&t=6HOSYVrXffESMo0NlyR0Lg
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Nebakenezzer posted:On Canada buying P-8s: This might be a time Canada did the right thing in procurement for the wrong reasons. As much as I am down on Boeing these days, buying P-8s was the right move in this case. It's a proven aircraft flown by a ton of militaries now, that is good in its role and very cost-effective. There is no credible reason to entertain Bombardier's assertion that their completely non-existent Global 6000-based ASW aircraft was the right choice instead; all that was, was just the grift industry kicking into high gear and riling up the press about the government making the "wrong" - read, not our product - decision.
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True, but which all the more makes it shocking the Canadian government didn't go with Bombardier.
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slidebite posted:True, but which all the more makes it shocking the Canadian government didn't go with Bombardier. The Canadian government isn’t truly interested in maintaining domestic capabilities and hasn’t been since… the 50s? They let their aviation and shipbuilding industries (almost) completely die. They kept tossing some money at bombardier for some time but never treated it as a true strategic need to maintain.
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