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Ambihelical Hexnut posted:Don't ever spend your career flying an aircraft without a lavatory. Your bathroom needs after age 40 will be different. Think ahead, dipshit. Can (depressingly) confirm.  "Is that just a fart or...you know what, I don't wanna risk it." Also, the reason so many *guys* want to go to Iceland is because the women there are more sexually-aggressive. Not so they can look at rocks and smell the fart water. I might go there in August 2026 simply because I missed out on being able to see the sun directly during totality in Buffalo last Monday. Fuckin' opaque cloud layer blew in after it'd teased us with occasional breaks and "peer-through" peeks. 
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mlmp08 posted:Driving on New Mexico highways: pretty, peaceful, oddly courteous and alert drivers. Same with Arizona and Texas, but the spawns are different. NM used to be incredibly dangerous until the 90s when the governor cracked down on drunk driving, impaired driving, etc. NM had some of the deadliest stretches of roads by absolute number of deaths, not just deaths per mile or per capita. Then NMSHP put up roadblocks and got a reputation for using 10gauge shotguns to perforate engine blocks and the major highways got a lot more courteous. Also the third strike DUI was confiscation of car. That used to be 10th strike. The fact that there was a 10th strike on the DUI chart says something. For aviation content, the "speed limits enforced by aircraft" is more effective when there are fighters and bombers at 200AGL over the highways.
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Hadlock posted:No the Grand canyon is glorious as someone who grew up where there are only trees as far as the eye can see I find desolate landscapes fascinating
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Far west texas gets interesting to me, it's a lot of nothing but you have weird towns like alpine and marfa, big bend, and out by el paso guadalupe mtn, carlsbad caverns, and white sands are all really neat. You just have to get used to everything being 2-3hrs apart.
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Infinotize posted:Far west texas gets interesting to me, it's a lot of nothing but you have weird towns like alpine and marfa, big bend, and out by el paso guadalupe mtn, carlsbad caverns, and white sands are all really neat. You just have to get used to everything being 2-3hrs apart. Yeah far west texas is great. Central, ehhhh..
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Luckily his pass through Mississippi hits the only real pretty part (Bay St Louis, Ocean Springs, etc). edit: wait actually the verrrry upper northeast has some nice landscapes and the Delta is interesting for *ultra* flat farmlands.
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I got to see the most extraordinary northern lights display in Iceland when I went there in November and it's certainly an experience I'll remember for the rest of my life.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Can (depressingly) confirm. At least you weren't on that delta eclipse flight that turned out of the path of totality.
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Arson Daily posted:I'll never fly an airplane without a lav or an APU again. Im far to bougie and old to deal without them If you're flying single pilot tho
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Scrungus posted:The road from Vegas to Reno is a loving wasteland dotted with depressing shithole towns with 25mph speed limits Still better than the Oklahoma panhandle.
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It's interesting to hear what kind of scenery everyone wants to see while driving. I've been roadtripping all over Finland and my perennial chagrin is that you can't see the forest from the trees. Most of the time the only thing you see are trees. We are supposed to be the Land of the Thousand Lakes but you might not believe it, so seldom do you see any water. You need to go way up north to Ukonjärvi to find a nice lakeside road, but nothing that compares to Pacific Coast Highway. Northern Finland also have some nice spots where you get to drive over some smaller fells and actually get to see some scenery. South of Arctic Circle all you see are trees. I can forgo the trees if I get to see some proper mountains and large water. Iceland and Norwegian coast are wonderful for that.
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Hadlock posted:No the Grand canyon is glorious Iceland has trees. See?  There's even a few outside of Reykjavik  Yeah I did scroll through years of photos of trips to iceland to find a dozen trees. The vikings took them all.
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Safety Dance posted:Iceland has trees. See? But how many sexually-aggressive women did you find???
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Fewer than you would expect, even in the penis museum.
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If there were trees, the view could be spoiled.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:as someone who grew up where there are only trees as far as the eye can see I find desolate landscapes fascinating As someone who grew up near Seattle and spent literally 180 days a year camping in the pnw as a child, I find desolate landscapes depressing and the end game described in Dr. Seuss classic The Lorax 
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So speaking of things in deserts, I saw the first episode of that Fallout series. First, that airship is atrocious, way, way too heavy to fly. Second, what kinda aircraft would you use in the fallout universe? I know the Brotherhood of Steel has those Osprey-things, but I was thinking STOL airplanes of various sorts would be what you want. Less maintenance, greater reliability. I mean, if the weather allowed them, I guess blimps would be pretty good, especially if engine reliability was back at a WW1 level---
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Hadlock posted:As someone who grew up near Seattle and spent literally 180 days a year camping in the pnw as a child, I find desolate landscapes depressing and the end game described in Dr. Seuss classic The Lorax I see what you mean, but Iceland is so green and full of life. It's like the Olympic Peninsula if the world was frozen in the Carboniferous period. I find it otherworldly, but far from desolate.
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Iceland just gives you what Weyerhaeuser is trying hard to create
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Nebakenezzer posted:So speaking of things in deserts, I saw the first episode of that Fallout series. First, that airship is atrocious, way, way too heavy to fly. Second, what kinda aircraft would you use in the fallout universe? I know the Brotherhood of Steel has those Osprey-things, but I was thinking STOL airplanes of various sorts would be what you want. Less maintenance, greater reliability. I mean, if the weather allowed them, I guess blimps would be pretty good, especially if engine reliability was back at a WW1 level--- Well what particular fallout universe? 1, 2, tactics, 3, new vegas, or 4? Only 1 and vegas had any semblance of even internal logic or correlation to eachother, and ever there it was stretched Also the answer should be something looking like an An-2 powered by the fusion power unit from a T-51b.
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in a well actually posted:Iceland just gives you what Weyerhaeuser is trying hard to create Weyerhaeuser cuts down a lot of trees, but they planted them as a crop 20-50 years ago, they're arguably the best example of perfect corporate stewardship 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Also the answer should be something looking like an An-2 powered by the fusion power unit from a T-51b. 
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Well what particular fallout universe? 1, 2, tactics, 3, new vegas, or 4? Only 1 and vegas had any semblance of even internal logic or correlation to eachother, and ever there it was stretched Oh, I think we can all agree gently caress internal logic. I guess with the Cybertruck being a thing sold partially (and very stupidly) as the thing for the postapoc wasteland, I was wondering what the aircraft for the same would be. I gotta agree with you on the An-2. Actually I think any aircraft with "agriculture" as its stated use would probably do alright 
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I mean the NB-36H did exist, and it's comically oversized nature is even perfect for Fallout. Could probably give it rotating wing engines for VTOL use if you really wanted to gimmick it up. Could have it just poo poo out a bunch of power armor guys too in a pinch, wouldn't be realistic, but it'd be very Fallout
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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PittTheElder posted:I mean the NB-36H did exist, and it's comically oversized nature is even perfect for Fallout. Could probably give it rotating wing engines for VTOL use if you really wanted to gimmick it up. Bethesda Fallout. Tim Cain would never
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Can (depressingly) confirm. We were completely socked in on the lake in Webster, so I shot time-lapse: https://i.imgur.com/7IEikfS.mp4 Was worth it to see family & friends
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Some Hellenic F-4 porn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0fOIXBI9K8 (with special guest appearances from Mirage 2000s, French Navy Rafales, Saudi Eurofighters, and Romanian F-16s) BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 04:59 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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I was in Cleveland and got to see the whole thing (second time, actually--I was in Nashville for the last one), but my brother's 4 year old hit her head on the door of the car trunk minutes before it happened so she was wailing the whole time and she now says she hates eclipses. Or did, then my sister in law gave her a banana and everything was right with the world.
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I'm headed to Hiller Aviation Museum tomorrow with Wife Mother in Law 5yo nephew 3.5yo daughter 2.25yo nephew (who only speaks one word: helicopter) Any suggestions? It's supposed to rain like hell tomorrow so indoor air museum seems like a good choice Also suggestions for aerospace geek
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Hadlock posted:I'm headed to Hiller Aviation Museum tomorrow with Figure out where the snack bar is and be ready to dump wife, MIL and kids there about 90 minutes in for an hour so you can actually view the exhibition. You can probably game the system a bit by keeping the five year old with you for an extra 30 minutes before dropping him off so that by the time he’s been snacked up and rested you’ll get a bit more time out of the visit.
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Murgos posted:Figure out where the snack bar is and be ready to dump wife, MIL and kids there about 90 minutes in for an hour so you can actually view the exhibition. Last time I was there the snack bar was still closed. Bring kids out to the 747 and try to go through some checklist games with them flipping switched and stuff going through some imaginary flight, once they get started they can spend way too much time doing that on their own. For me the coolest things are the NASA AD-1, the Boeing Condor and all the weird Hiller aviation designs most of which never entered production. And being a space nerd the Gemini era Astronaut Maneuvering Unit is extra special, it used Hydrogen peroxide, rather than compressed nitrogen so it offered 3x the delta V of the shuttle MMU’s. But the only test in space was called off after Gene Cernan found himself exhausted by just trying to get strapped in.
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illectro posted:all the weird Hiller aviation designs most of which never entered production. We’re talking about the one in San Carlos yea? I loved all the obviously bad ideas that got prototyped. A helicopter air dropped to down pilots. A big fan to move troops on. Dude must’ve been a combo of drunk and ADHD all the time he made out there poo poo.
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One of the great things about going there on a Sunday is that the back lot of the museum is right up against the KSQL tarmac, so you can watch the planes coming and going really close. On weekends it gets very busy with general aviation traffic. Whenever the airport is running 12 I make sure to wave at the kids pressed against the fence when I taxi by about 50 feet away. If it's pouring rain though you might be out of luck 
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Mentour Pilot just dropped a video on the Pakistan Airlines 8303 gear-up crash, which makes a good companion to the Admiral Cloudberg blog post from earlier. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOOKYR5ZJbQ Just some absolutely stupefying negligence and arrogance. One of the time critical ORM skills that I use and teach is "how would this sound in a mishap investigation transcript?" If you find yourself saying things like "what's the worst that could happen" or "I bet they're going to be surprised that we pulled this off", you need to really step back and think about what you're doing. This mishap is a great case study in allowing one relatively small and easily correctible error snowball into total catastrophe.
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CarForumPoster posted:A helicopter air dropped to down pilots. A big fan to move troops on. Us common folk just call that an Osprey
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Nebakenezzer posted:Oh, I think we can all agree gently caress internal logic. I guess with the Cybertruck being a thing sold partially (and very stupidly) as the thing for the postapoc wasteland, I was wondering what the aircraft for the same would be. 
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Flying home from work travel and someone ripped two juicy farts within 20 minutes of departure. I’m glad this flight is only an hour and a half. e: now three farts. Full Collapse fucked around with this message at 23:07 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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Full Collapse posted:Flying home from work travel and someone ripped two juicy farts within 20 minutes of departure. I’m glad this flight is only an hour and a half. https://youtu.be/WDykUP6Lv4E?si=IDiCFeStZqKSvK7X https://youtu.be/dA05Xo95n5Q?si=Lcbx-7NeFZz625rf hellotoothpaste fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Apr 13, 2024 |
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