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I snapped this picture at a wedding last weekend: Wedding hanger by camerazn, on Flickr For the life of me, I can't figure out what model airplane that is. Any ideas?
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Jul 25, 2012 13:54
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Makes sense: the wedding was in Paris, TX.
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Jul 25, 2012 15:39
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Whenever the President is in Chicago, a trio of V-22s shuttle Secret Service agents from the airport to Soldier Field. Their flight path takes them about three blocks from my office building, just about eye level. My god they make a fantastic of a noise!
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Jul 28, 2014 23:17
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hobbesmaster posted:Not all helicopters can take off vertically fully loaded or hot/high either. It makes sense that an Osprey would make more lift moving forward, but does a helicopter make more lift when it's moving vs hovering?
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Jul 29, 2014 15:50
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Huh. Neat. hobbesmaster posted:Significantly more. Also significantly reduced risk of VRS. If it wasn't $50, I'd be tempted.
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Jul 29, 2014 16:08
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What's so special about an A-10 in perfect flying condition?
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Aug 10, 2014 02:49
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bitcoin bastard posted:Jesus, I could see driving stick one handed with my right hand, but I'm trying to imagine it with the left and its not working. Considering that your right hand controls throttle and most of your braking, it's something special. Sure, you could move throttle to the left hand and link the front and rear brakes, but then the left hand is still doing gas and clutch at the same time.
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Aug 14, 2014 21:03
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holocaust bloopers posted:I'd really like to make it out to the Air & Water Show tomorrow. It's gonna be crowded as hell. My building has issued a limited number of tickets so people can get on the roof to watch. It's a shame about the forecast for tomorrow, though.
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Aug 16, 2014 01:54
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Here's my view of the Air and Water Show:
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Aug 17, 2014 20:19
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TheFluff posted:What's the 747 with the goofy fins on the elevator and weird pins all over for? It's the pickup truck of 747s.  e. I like how everyone dogpiled on this.
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Aug 20, 2014 18:14
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In case anyone doesn't read the Wikipedia article, I got a kick out of this:
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Aug 20, 2014 18:23
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Fucknag posted:Ah yes, Moonraker, the movie that somehow managed to gently caress up "James Bond and a platoon of Marines fly to the big bad's space station in a shuttle cargo bay, where they engage the big bad's army in spacesuit combat with lasers". I can't imagine how nerve racking this must have been for the carrier pilots, having to get out from under the shuttle (which has all the aerodynamic qualities of a brick) while dealing with a massive shift in center of gravity.
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Aug 20, 2014 18:50
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Sagebrush posted:This was super common back in the day, though. If you look through old (1950s ish) magazines you'll frequently come across handy household tips like "spilled grease on your tablecloth? Just soak it in gasoline, then hang it up to dry!" And those were the days when gasoline had lead in it.
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Aug 25, 2014 00:43
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You mean the real thing doesn't look like a Airwolf minivan with wings tacked on top?
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Aug 25, 2014 04:29
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To be perfectly fair, those planes will take off by accident in a stiff breeze.
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Aug 29, 2014 19:19
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:I typically order tonic water and almost always get the whole can without asking. Specifically illegal? How so?
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Sep 15, 2014 02:55
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Answering my own question here. http://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/121.575 posted:§ 121.575 Alcoholic beverages.
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Sep 15, 2014 03:01
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hobbesmaster posted:This seems like a very bad day to be flying in the midwest. Because of what, Chicago Center? What's the latest news on that front?
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Sep 29, 2014 17:33
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I'm getting married this weekend, so I'm issuing travel advisories to my out of town guests. Hopefully no one's pooch will be screwed.
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Sep 29, 2014 19:18
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Is there a radar dead zone over Lake Michigan? It looks like a lot of planes disappear over Michigan and reappear close to Chicago.
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Oct 1, 2014 18:37
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Hawker 800 belly landing in Palm Springs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yo2w_WkcqM
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Dec 8, 2015 05:38
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Nebakenezzer posted:BAE 146 Which, by the way, is the most adorable little thing. It wants to be a C-17 so bad!
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Dec 10, 2015 06:03
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McDeth posted:Edit: FAA Drone rules are unenforceable. They WAYYYYY overstepped their bounds on this one. I don't want to be the defendant in the test case here, though.
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Dec 15, 2015 15:46
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Perhaps one of you can help me navigate the FAA's bureaucracy (I emailed the FAA about this too). My hackerspace is exploring registering one or more sUAs for private, recreational use. How do I fill out Form AC 8050-1 - AIRCRAFT REGISTRATION APPLICATION? Do I just show up at the field office near O'Hare, or can I get them to mail one to me? Will they assign an N-Number when I give them the 8050-1? Is there a cost involved in getting a randomly assigned N-Number? They're really not clear on this.
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Jan 8, 2016 16:18
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CommieGIR posted:The way the FAA license works is its per USER, not per device unless your UAV/sUA is over a certain weight limit and intends to fly in normal traffic zones. Not for sUAs owned by corporations, it doesn't.
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Jan 8, 2016 16:31
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david_a posted:but but mobile lounges! wikipedia posted:The mobile lounge is a system for boarding and disembarkation from aircraft, using a bus-carriage type "vehicle." I love the scare quotes around "vehicle."
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Jan 14, 2016 16:26
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Nerobro posted:When I signed up for my HAM license, to check the database and get information out, you had to write a letter. That's an amazingly tall barrier to entry. That's not the case anymore. When did you sign up? I was a Ham in elementary school in the mid-late 90s, and the ARRL website made callsign -> name super easy. You can't be that much older than me.
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Jan 14, 2016 18:45
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Mr. Despair posted:You'd have to find a b-1a to even have a chance, the b-1b only has a top speed of mach 1.25. The thing that puts a damper on my supervillain dreams of owning a personal B-1 is I can't take advantage of mid-air refueling for really long haul flights. It might be neat to haul rear end into Europe at Mach 2, but then you'd have to land to refuel. It's not like you can call up Ramstein AFB and order up a KC-135.
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Jan 19, 2016 18:54
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Linedance posted:you could probably strategically stage some tankers around the world under the guise of a cargo operation, one of your many subsidiaries (not that they could ever link ownership back to you through the layers of obfuscating shell companies based in countries with loose banking and accounting rules). I guess.
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Jan 19, 2016 19:04
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What is that greenish yellow paint?
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Jan 25, 2016 06:45
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I know they had the 300-series Shuttle missions standing by after Columbia, but NASA was researching Shuttle to Shuttle rescue missions before then. It's not unthinkable they would have sent up a Proton or other rocket packed with food and oxygen for the months it would take to get a Shuttle turned around.
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Jan 30, 2016 03:06
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chitoryu12 posted:I've only ever been in a helicopter once, not including one or two airline flights when I was a baby that I barely have fleeting memories of. Your brain isn't really fully developed for memory makin' as a two-year-old, is why.
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Feb 1, 2016 22:46
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It would have to be at a pretty shallow angle of incidence, otherwise you'd get two different debris fields. e. also, it's little mystery what brought down an airliner when the crash is caused by a 737strike to the left wing.
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Feb 2, 2016 15:29
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Fortunately, it looks like they will both make a complete recovery.
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Mar 12, 2016 23:22
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The space shuttle computers were in charge of almost the entire process. There's one step, and for the life of me I can't remember which, that NASA made manual on the insistence of people who didn't want a computer flying the orbiter.
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Mar 15, 2016 02:55
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chitoryu12 posted:Which is true: I can't fly sim helicopters worth a drat. That same convention had a V-22 Osprey sim and I flew it perfectly professionally until I had to switch to helicopter mode for the landing, at which point I flipped over and crashed. In other words, you flew it as well as a lot of Osprey pilots.
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Mar 15, 2016 22:56
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Pop the old engines off and pop the new ones on. Easy as pie. More pics: https://www.facebook.com/ironmaiden/photos/pcb.10153369617407051/10153369613297051/?type=3&theater quote:ED FORCE ONE ONWARDS AND UPWARDS AGAIN
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Mar 22, 2016 15:27
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Mazz posted:Yeah I got lucky a couple times as I used to drive up and down LSD for a work route and I got to catch them at the right time, but if you're going southbound there's a bit of shoulder you can sit on if you had some time right across from that lot if you cared to. Probably could walk pretty close too but they might have all the walkways to cross LSD pretty locked down so I'm not sure. Back when I worked in the
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Apr 8, 2016 04:25
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Look to the left. Looks like the aircraft was travelling from left to right.
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Today's the anniversary of American Airlines 191, the DC-10 whose engine fell off during takeoff from ORD, causing the deadliest aviation accident in the United States. Someone on Facebook requested a copy of the CVR transcript from the NTSB and posted it here.
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