BobHoward posted:

Just in case you didn't get the reference...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7rueLOU6Fs&t=320s

Rest in peace, Al Haynes and Denny Fitch. You saved a lot of people that day.

Arson Daily posted:

*kills self*

vessbot posted:

A fed from his FSDO (or at least, someone claiming that) posted on reddit, essentially saying we've got it handled. Maybe they're getting their ducks lined up in a row for a full frontal that should overcome any possible legal defense that might be a risk to a half-baked case. Or maybe they're sitting on their thumbs and fobbing it off.

Godholio posted:

Expected a negative post count. Kinda surprised.

Nebakenezzer posted:

So I know Skybus was a thing, but I think I found another contender for worst airline name: CARGOJET

Valt posted:

loving lol of course someone made a tracker for him. This must have been done after he deleted his youtube videos.

Plastic_Gargoyle posted:

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/72316

And this is not the only time this has happened to a Super Cub, either. A Marineflieger example was "attacked" by a cow back in the 1960s.

Midjack posted:

Glad to hear you’re doing okay and sorry to hear about the harassment.

rscott posted:

I just copy and pasted the relevant paragraph from the spec and the guy was like, "oh thanks I never dove into that spec before"

Which is like the first thing you do when you have a question that isn't answered by the engineering dataset or parts list.

eggyolk posted:

Hell yeah, that's a good post

Nebakenezzer posted:

Slo-Tek posted:

Not too late to put up a web page, and get Popular Mechanics to signal boost your F7U NG proposal.

According to experts, the Gutless Cutlass could be made a pretty good flying machine if they cut the nose gear in half, doubled the thrust, gave it a conventional tail and control scheme, and got somebody else to fly it.

Zorak of Michigan posted:

The B-52 has eight engines. The B-47 had six.

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

ok whats the weirdest thing a passenger has tried to steal from a plane you were on?

EvenWorseOpinions posted:

I will not

Lord Stimperor posted:

It's also that if you look at something in the sky you have zero cues for distance. So seeing a plane feels much closer than it is, because you only tend to get an unobstructed view of something if you're really close

standard.deviant posted:

DCA - Defensive Counter Air
OCA - Offensive Counter Air
SEAD/DEAD - Suppression/Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses

They’re the basic roles in air superiority. OCA and SEAD/DEAD tend to involve being in enemy airspace and benefit more from stealth. DCA is protecting friendly assets like tankers and AWACS from enemy aircraft.

Right now the US uses F-15Cs for DCA, but they are falling apart and need to be replaced. With the F-22 buy cut, the intent is to use F-22 for OCA and F-15EX for DCA. F-35 will probably have a piece of OCA and obviously heavy involvement in SEAD/DEAD and conducting strikes against high-value targets before air defenses are fully dealt with.

Sagebrush posted:

a kayak with a bunch of propellers on it.

quote:

And the experience was so traumatic, he doesn't see himself piloting an airplane again.

Sagebrush posted:

Is it just pandemic stress in general making everyone behave like children?

Ardeem posted:

I like the perfectly straight road its wing vortices cut in the fog bank.

HookedOnChthonics posted:

Platystemon posted:

Hundreds of Planes Are Stranded in Russia. They May Never Be Recovered.

Western companies that own the planes face little prospect of getting them back, meaning billions of dollars in losses.

quote:

While a few planes may have been recovered abroad before international flights were halted, they are of little use to their owners without the meticulous maintenance records that accompany every aircraft and are often stored by airlines themselves, experts said. And the longer a plane is stuck in Russia, the greater the concern that work on the jet’s body, engines and flight systems may not be logged, causing its value to plummet.

“Unless you have those records, the aircraft is virtually worthless,” said Quentin Brasie, the founder and chief executive of ACI Aviation Consulting. “They’re literally more important than the asset itself.”

kalleth posted:

I remember watching something on YouTube where they were doing a cargo conversion on an ex-passenger aircraft, and when it arrives for the conversion it has the required paperwork with it which "must be handed over with the plane".

It was an entire pallet, maybe two, of file boxes. Insane. 15min10sec in this video: https://youtu.be/pMILhFItbSM

[edit: look at the volume of boxes inside the aircraft not the weedy pallet pulling 4 of those 30 off in the later shot...]

Loucks posted:

If you don't read the whole post it stands to reason that you won't understand what it means. The bolded part of your post is exactly the sort of thing I was referring to. Really don't want to derail the thread though because objecting to that narrative seems to trigger meltdowns. Again, it's a dire situation and I feel bad for all the poor civilians who are being murdered by both sides in this stupid, stupid conflict.

Loucks posted:

The problem is people have a child’s understanding of events. I absolutely do not treat the aggressor and victim as equivalent. Russia and Ukraine are not monolithic entities. The victims are the civilians who are being killed and displaced. The invasion was unequivocally bad. That doesn’t make Good Guys out of the Ukrainian ethnonationalist units that use Nazi imagery and idolize Bandera, who worked with Nazis to kill tens of thousands in pursuit of a Ukrainian ethnostate. I find it difficult to believe that all of the “Russian saboteurs” executed by Ukrainian forces are actually that. I find it awful that men of fighting age are being prevented from fleeing with their families and that the Ukrainian government is arming untrained civilians and throwing them at Russian forces to die. Western liberals cheering schoolteachers and salespeople being fed into the meat grinder like this atrocity is some sort of sporting event is everywhere on social media and intensely disgusting. These are real people being turned into piles of bloody meat. That the Russians are doing Bad Things does not mean that every Ukrainian person and organization can only do Good Things, and it pains me that it’s necessary to articulate this so explicitly to (presumably) adults.

Hell, it can even be stated simply: Invading countries is wrong, and so is arming and siding with Nazis. Doubt even that will land though, because the usual response is “Why are you calling all Ukrainians Nazis! You must be on Putin’s payroll!”

vessbot posted:

Cockpits!

Nebakenezzer posted:

Cat Hatter posted:

Is there a term for whatever the opposite of bystander syndrome is? Back when I worked retail a guy came in yelling "THERE'S A CAR ON FIRE!", rips the fire extinguisher bracket off the wall instead of flipping the clasp open, and dramatically kicks the sliding door off the track to run out into the parking lot. This guy had been waiting his whole life for this moment.

Funny thing is that it helped though. Not the fire extinguisher: it was a tiny alternator fire but it's hard to put out an electrical fire still being fed with power, but his commotion attracted the attention of the car's owner who popped the hood and pulled the battery cable off.

JingleBells posted:

Someone flew from California to Hawaii in a Cessna 172, 18hrs non-stop
https://twitter.com/bshyong/status/1561469187003924480

BIG HEADLINE posted:

The main page of this website looks terrible but it's one of the most complete listings of aviation museums I've ever seen and they even give the registrations of the planes kept at each location, if known: https://www.aviationmuseum.eu/

Here's just the North America page, where you can access everywhere else without the GeoCities effect: https://www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/north-america-2/

ausgezeichnet posted:

Won't hear me refer to it as anything but National, either.

Phanatic posted:

https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-force-discovered-the-flaw-of-averages.html

PT6A posted:

The prop spinner is my favourite example of "required for airworthiness" equipment on a 172.

Nebakenezzer posted:

Guys! Guys!! OMG, you guys! It's wonderful! THERE IS AN AIRSHIP GAP

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/airship-spotted-outside-giant-secretive-hangar-in-china

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41462/gigantic-hangar-near-secretive-chinese-test-facilities-points-to-exotic-airship-development

PS: Their airship hanger could store the USS Nimitz inside