dissss posted:

It only takes one person screaming to set a whole lot of others off.

I remember coming into Wellington, NZ on a particularly bad day (its an interesting airport at the best of times). It was pretty rough on the first approach but everyone seemed fairly calm but the pilot decided they needed to abort the landing and try again. As soon as the engines spooled up again some woman down the back of the plane started screaming, then one up the front, then a dude in the middle then all of a sudden ten or so people were absolutely freaking out and didn't calm down until they were off the plane.

This was on a little BAe 146 regional jet (the 146s are the smaller jets with four engines and a high wing in the clip) which did always seem to get blown around more than the 737s but no one was in any real danger. I can only imagine what would have happened in a real emergency situation.

Here is a clip with a few Wellington landings (might want to mute it) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_LaAkAyoz0 . I fly in and out of Wellington quite often and its surprising how often the cabin applauds once the plane reaches the gate.

InitialDave posted:

The Right Stuff for, well, everybody. It's still awesome.

iyaayas01 posted:

Rotor tip ramjets you say?

I give you the Hiller YH-32/HJ-1:

Cygni posted:

sup

Butt Reactor posted:

Cleaning out the pics folder on my phone I found these gems:

My office view (almost) every day


This ugly thing, made by the Brits and modified by Northrop Grumman



and from earlier this summer...





RIP Old Gal

MrChips posted:

For all that the Quadra-Puff is slow, unreliable and inefficient, there really isn't another aircraft out there that can do what it does. How many aircraft can carry 100 passengers off a 3600' runway?

iyaayas01 posted:

Yup. There's no way they'll fly F-35s just for a demo, not with the budget being what it is and the program being in such flux. Blues will probably fly T-45s, and the T-birds will probably fly the T-38 replacement that in theory should be in place by the time the last F-16s are retired. If not, I guess they'll fly T-38s...again.

Speaking of the A-4 years...

Tsuru posted:

Ah, the Bell Airacobra... famous for being the world's first and only mid-engined warbird.

Nebakenezzer posted:

Lobster God posted:

As in this clip in which a Vulcan has to climb sharply to avoid getting dirty when taking off after a B-52: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYOgsgnZ8dw

joat mon posted:

A very good writeup on the Airacuda.

and a bunch more articles on all sorts of common and uncommon aircraft, mostly from the 1940s

KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:

so many intakes

Nebakenezzer posted:

Rainbow exhaust stain

Is the flight deck a DC-3?

VikingSkull posted:

Reading the comments on some of the news sites is hilarious. People are still bitching that Houston didn't get one, and they are boggled that the Intrepid is getting one. One literally said "why would an aircraft carrier get NASA stuff".

Maybe if Houston would send some of the old rocket poo poo to the Intrepid to commemorate, you know, the Intrepid picking them out of the sea this wouldn't have happened. gently caress you, Houston!


There should be hydraulically operated struts under the shuttle so the pilot could adjust it like a supermodified wing.

Colonial Air Force posted:

Powercube posted:

Have a large field you need to spray? Piston engines too low tech? Have I got a plane for you!

1S006-01 by Powercube, on Flickr

Some assembly required.

joat mon posted:

The push/pull plane in the background is a the only surviving Dornier 335 Pfeil.
Pfeil in German means 'arrow.'

Nebakenezzer posted:

This Mosquito had four cannons and four machine guns?

quote:

Some Fat Bastard posted:
In 1940 I could at least fly as far as Glasgow in most of my aircraft, but not now! It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. I turn green and yellow with envy. The British, who can afford aluminium better than we can, knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft that every piano factory over there is building, and they give it a speed which they have now increased yet again. What do you make of that? There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. After the war is over I'm going to buy a British radio set - then at least I'll own something that has always worked.

quote:

On 31 January 1943, Hermann Goering, head of the Luftwaffe, was due to address a parade in Berlin in the morning and a Mosquito attack effectively disrupted it. Not content with this, a second squadron went to Berlin in the afternoon and gave the parade being addressed by Dr. Goebels the same treatment. This action very effectively discredited Goering's boast that no enemy aircraft would fly unscathed over Berlin.

Captain Apollo posted:

Hey - Why do P-51 mustangs whistle?

Advent Horizon posted:

Am I the only one who purposely schedules overnight flights? Alaska flies an overnight ANC-ORD that I try to get on whenever I go east of the Mississippi. It's over 500 miles out of my way to get on that plane but it avoids an overnight in SEA-TAC that I'd likely get stuck with anyway. I'd much rather conk out on a plane than during a layover.

Ardeem posted:

How do you leave the Fairey Swordfish out of a list of British aeronaughtical shenanigans?

Lobster God posted:

Yep, and I'm pretty sure my dad still has some of those stickers from when he was on Nimrods in the late 80s.

Talking of modifications made to Nimrods during the Falklands:



This is Nimrod MR.2 XV230, which broke up and crashed in Afghanistan in 2006, in part due to the bodged together nature of the air to air refueling system, installed in Nimrods during the Falklands. Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Air_Force_Nimrod_XV230

iyaayas01 posted:

Cross posting from TFR, since I suspect this thread will be interested in the topic...

Tom Hanks, Spielberg, and Graham Yost are in the process of putting together another WWII miniseries for HBO, this one is about the 8th AF. This is going to be Band of Brothers: B-17 edition.

It's going to loving own, calling it already. Like I don't think I can describe the chubby I already have for this show, and I just heard about it today and it's probably still at least a year+ out from airing.

ManifunkDestiny posted:

Iran unveiled it's totally legit, not a mock-up, domestically produced stealth fighter today:



Looks pretty...futuristic. What about the onboard electronics?



...oh. Well, how big is it?



oh

Gullous posted:

Battery 101:



Rumor has it the party at fault was charged with being too negative

grover posted:

Sorry, shuttle trainer. I saw the giant-rear end nose of a shuttle in a photo when I was looking for a good photo of Air Force 1, shot and got myself confused for a second. They'd built that building specifically to house a shuttle and were really pimping it up last time I was there. At least they got the shuttle trainer out of it, I guess. Still an awesome museum.

Not an actual shuttle:

Terrible Robot posted:

The Germans also built (or atleast designed) a twin fighter, the BF-109Z, but unless you live in an alternate dimension it wouldn't have been one of those either.

Cygni posted:

Here's somethin' pretty cool:

D C posted:

The northern airlines still use them, like First Air, Canadian North, and Air North, but holy poo poo they are loud, like cover your ears when they taxi by loud.

Mzuri posted:

In the book Chickenhawk, the author tells of military heli flight school in the early sixties. He makes it sound like the instructors cut power completely at least once every flight in the most inopportune moments imaginable, to practice autos. I don't know if it's still that way.

If you're in any way interested in helicopters, it's a good read.

StandardVC10 posted:

Also, no discussion of crop dusters is complete without the PZL-Mielec M-15 Belphegor. (Not my photo.)

Phy posted:

A team from University of Toronto have won the Igor Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter competition, which includes a $250,000 prize. How'd they do it? With a monstrous yet extremely lightweight quadrotor powered by a dude on the better part of a bicycle frame. How monstrous are we talking? The quadrotor takes up a great deal of an indor soccer park, and the blade speed seems to be on the order of about 10 rpm.

The team website. Great job, folks! Now let's see you flip it through a moving window frame like the GRASP lab manhacks!

IPCRESS posted:

Wait, we're talking about loud aircraft and the Vulcan hasn't been mentioned?

For shame, AI, for shame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzdtYU7i_jY

holocaust bloopers posted:

The ground crew may have sprayed anti-icing fluid on the wings which would have all of that poo poo slough off around 80 knots.


But I don't believe they did anything at all and are egregiously loving stupid for taking off in that condition.