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This is cool, but https://twitter.com/AntonovCompany/status/1242851804402122754 as badly as Ukranian stuff has been hacked the past decade, I wouldn't send anything valuable with that plane for the next year or two.
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I'm somewhat surprised the Ukraine even has the ability to do that right now considering they're basically in a war.
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Mar 25, 2020 20:10
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slidebite posted:I'm somewhat surprised the Ukraine even has the ability to do that right now considering they're basically in a war. Just that they'd bother doing this, or that Ukraine has the capacity? The An-225 is a symbol of national pride, so it definitely makes sense from that angle.
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Mar 25, 2020 20:18
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smackfu posted:From this article about American dealing with things: GSO is chock full of ramp space and there's a huge useless parallel 10k foot bondoggle of a runway that i am sure they are parking planes on
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Mar 25, 2020 20:39
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PT6A posted:A classic. I believe last time I saw this, the story also came out that there was a modification to the engine, and someone had specifically warned that the front would fall off but the owner ignored that advice. According to the description in this video, a larger engine was installed against the manufacturer's recommendation, and with no additional reinforcement. The owner has very wisely decided to retain the non-recommended engine but with additional reinforcement so he can keep on Jerrying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC5yscm9dsI
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Mar 25, 2020 22:28
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Nebakenezzer posted:The An-225 is a symbol of national pride, so it definitely makes sense from that angle. All the more reason it's shocking it hasn't been sabotaged yet. I mean, Russia has used CBW *twice* in the UK now and there haven't been any meaningful repercussions.
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Mar 25, 2020 23:22
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BIG HEADLINE posted:All the more reason it's shocking it hasn't been sabotaged yet. Shot down a 777, too. No one really believes that was an accident, do they?
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Mar 25, 2020 23:52
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FuturePastNow posted:Shot down a 777, too. No one really believes that was an accident, do they? The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that they thought they were shooting down a military transport. Massively incompetent but not mustache twirling evil.
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Mar 25, 2020 23:56
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goatsestretchgoals posted:The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that they thought they were shooting down a military transport. Massively incompetent but not mustache twirling evil. Denying it/blaming others is
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Mar 26, 2020 01:24
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goatsestretchgoals posted:The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that they thought they were shooting down a military transport. Massively incompetent but not mustache twirling evil. The people pulling the trigger made a mistake. The mustache-twirling evil came immediately after when the Russians were all "welp, that's OK, I think we can use this" Compare it to the shootdown of that Korean 747 in the 1980s where the whole thing was a tragic mistake. The Russians gave half trained people SAMs, knowing this could happen and didn't give a poo poo when it did. BIG HEADLINE posted:All the more reason it's shocking it hasn't been sabotaged yet. Well what's Britain gonna do, make Bojo act stern in front of a camera? Ukraine, on the other hand, would blow up the trans-Siberian pipeline or something
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Mar 26, 2020 01:40
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Didn't they drive the SAM over the border into Ukraine specifically to try to false flag it, then scurry back?
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Mar 26, 2020 02:05
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NTSB report on Nine-O-Nine is out Collings hosed up so bad that they no longer are allowed to carry pax. This is frustrating and infuriating
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Mar 26, 2020 03:35
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Holy poo poo.
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Mar 26, 2020 03:46
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oooooof. ima just pull some key lines from the report herequote:the evidence indicates that Collings did not train the crew chief who was onboard the B-17G that was involved in the accident on October 2, 2019. ... In an interview with the FAA on March 2, 2020, the crew chief verified that he received no initial training and was unaware of basic information concerning operations under the exemption. Instead, he only received on-the-job training bunch of idiot cowboys
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Mar 26, 2020 03:57
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Spaced God posted:NTSB report on Nine-O-Nine is out Boomer The Cannon posted:Holy poo poo. Holy poo poo I flew on Nine-O-Nine about a year before the crash. I don't know how to even think about this now.
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Mar 26, 2020 03:59
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Now I’m glad I didn’t pony up for a ride when they were in town
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Mar 26, 2020 03:59
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drunkill posted:I saw a very good plane today while having lunch next to an airport Is there a separate license category for low-res aviation or is it just lumped in to Sport Pilot?
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Mar 26, 2020 04:04
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Spaced God posted:NTSB report on Nine-O-Nine is out Spicy. Everyone else who flies warbirds for anything is going to get microscoped for this.
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Mar 26, 2020 04:07
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I've done a lot of work with Collings at airshows and events growing up and reading that report made me so loving mad. I put my friends on those loving airplanes and they trusted me. Jesus loving christ.
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Mar 26, 2020 04:14
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Spaced God posted:NTSB report on Nine-O-Nine is out I think that "safety culture" would've been bad even for the correct era for the aircraft
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Mar 26, 2020 04:16
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simplefish posted:Didn't they drive the SAM over the border into Ukraine specifically to try to false flag it, then scurry back?
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slidebite posted:Don't forget photoshopping a Ukraine Sue shooting it down in a "satellite" image. and loving up all concepts of scale in the process
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Mar 26, 2020 05:19
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simplefish posted:Didn't they drive the SAM over the border into Ukraine specifically to try to false flag it, then scurry back? No, merely to support the invasion they claimed they weren't doing.
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Mar 26, 2020 05:21
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Spaced God posted:NTSB report on Nine-O-Nine is out That's infuriating. I've always thought flying museum guys did everything top notch, but thinking about it I don't know why I had that impression.
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Mar 26, 2020 06:54
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I would have too. It's an easy assumption to transfer someones passion and dedication to these old warbirds translates into being anal about safety and and everything else and not suffer from the amateur "Whelp, that should be good enough  " that so many have.
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Mar 26, 2020 14:18
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Spark plugs and magnetos. Jesus. I can't remember exactly but IIRC spark plugs were pulled very frequently as part of contemporary regular maintenance on these radials. They leak oil like a sieve, and every start drowns most of the cylinders in raw fuel until warm-up is complete.
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Mar 26, 2020 15:05
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slidebite posted:I would have too. It's an easy assumption to transfer someones passion and dedication to these old warbirds translates into being anal about safety and and everything else and not suffer from the amateur "Whelp, that should be good enough the people working on these machines are usually passionate about keeping the machine running
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Just passing this along in case some of y'all havn't seen it. I'd say something aviation related will come up every week.Pharohman777 posted:https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Free_eBooks_week_1/
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Nebakenezzer posted:Just passing this along in case some of y'all havn't seen it. I'd say something aviation related will come up every week. Nice, thanks
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Mar 26, 2020 18:12
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slidebite posted:I would have too. It's an easy assumption to transfer someones passion and dedication to these old warbirds translates into being anal about safety and and everything else and not suffer from the amateur "Whelp, that should be good enough One of our examiners is an extremely experienced aerobatic pilot and it pisses her off to no end that she can’t take someone for a paid flight in her home-built but the idiots with warbirds have an exemption carved out for them to do exactly that. Even within Transport Canada it’s a very contentious subject, the general wisdom is that people have a soft spot for warbirds so they get treated unjustifiably with kid gloves.
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PT6A posted:One of our examiners is an extremely experienced aerobatic pilot and it pisses her off to no end that she can’t take someone for a paid flight in her home-built but the idiots with warbirds have an exemption carved out for them to do exactly that. Even within Transport Canada it’s a very contentious subject, the general wisdom is that people have a soft spot for warbirds so they get treated unjustifiably with kid gloves. This is even worse - they couldn’t even follow the softball rules they were allowed to operate under! I always wanted to go for a ride on one, but now I’m kinda glad I didn’t. This is shocking. I’d be surprised if the FAA’s eye of sauron doesn’t turn to the CAF now.
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Call me ageist I guess because when I first heard about the crash, I thought for sure it would turn out that the 75 year old pilot had had a stroke while turning final or something. Instead it turned out that the 75 year old pilot had just jerry-rigged the engines and falsified the maintenance records. Boy do I feel sheepish
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Atlas V launch being streamed live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBkB1BbblN0 There was a launch hold to T-minus 4m, so you can still catch it. EDIT: And the launch window extends to just before 5pm Eastern, so it might be a long hold. BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Mar 26, 2020 |
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Somewhat related to this, is there a good way to browse livestreams on youtube? Just doing a general search seems to be very hit and miss.
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Mar 26, 2020 20:11
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Spark plugs have gotta be the easiest things to service on an engine, that's loving atrocious
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Spark plugs have gotta be the easiest things to service on an engine, that's loving atrocious [ASK] me about disassembling the entire intake system of an ITB V8 to get to the spark plugs (BMW S62) but yeah on a radial that should not be a difficult job.
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lilbeefer posted:Denying it/blaming others is Oh I’ll agree to that, I was talking only about the SAM operators which I should have made more clear.
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Spark plugs have gotta be the easiest things to service on an engine, that's loving atrocious The P&W Wasp Major had 56 spark plugs (and on a quad-engine machine like a Stratrocruiser that meant 224 plugs...) and if you slightly screwed up the starting procedure you could foul some, most or all of them in a matter of seconds. Or if you got to the runway and were doing your run-up tests and one engine dropped slightly too much during the mag test, it was back to the hangar for a disgruntled fitter to start pulling all 56 plugs to find the one(s) with a bit of soot on them. Or you could just run the engine up to takeoff power, coarsen the prop to put it under load and pull back the mixture a bit and hope you burnt off the offending deposit and that the engine wouldn't get a dead magneto three hours later over the Atlantic. There's a reason old piston-engined airliners had a flight engineer (or several) and why airlines so enthusiastically adopted jet engines.
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It's almost as if we shouldn't be allowing people to ride in such complex pieces of machinery maintained by hobbyists who allow nostalgia and love of the machine to cloud judgment around what the acceptable level of safety is.
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BalloonFish posted:back to the hangar for a disgruntled fitter to start pulling all 56 plugs to find the one(s) with a bit of soot on them. Or you could just run the engine up to takeoff power, coarsen the prop to put it under load and pull back the mixture a bit and hope you burnt off the offending deposit yeah uh once in a while i rent the plane and, because it's from a flight school, the plugs are fouled because the previous person left it rich their whole flight or whatever and so the engine stumbles on one mag or the other in the runup. setting the mixture on the edge of lean and burning it off as you suggest works great. the fact that the plugs were fouled in this case is probably because (1) a t least some of the magnetos weren't firing and (2) the gaps were all set wrong. if you're only getting sporadic ignition you will of course have problems with engine fouling. but it's a bigger deal than just cleaning the plugs
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