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TheFluff posted:The Swedish Air Force doesn't normally make press releases about intercepts but sometimes they boom at high altitude because they want to catch some Backfire or something and people tend to notice that and they have to explain themselves. Happened twice last year, I think. I guess that kinda backfires, then.
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Midjack posted:The original video is better, though I like GUNSHIP’s music: Wow, I'd only ever seen the GUNSHIP video and had no idea the animation was sourced from somewhere else. Thanks for clearing that up!
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Loucks posted:wrt ADS-B out, do private owners not ever just form a trust to own the aircraft? It seems like a minor hurdle to avoid randos from looking you up. Routinely. Delaware-registered LLCs also.
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hobbesmaster posted:Yes, in fact they’ve been surprisingly reasonable. Significantly lower tax rate. TAX CHANGES FOR 2020. Fuel Type Tax Rate Gasoline $0.279 per gallon Diesel $0.313 per gallon Aviation Gasoline $0.010 per gallon LPG $0.279 per gallon Source: https://www.tasgroupllc.com/tax-changes-for-2020/
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luminalflux posted:"Aviation Gasoline" or Avgas or 100LL (100 octane low-lead) isn't the same as diesel or jet fuel. However it is taxed less than road diesel in most jurisdictions. Sweden, for example, doesn't tax jet fuel at all but has heavy taxes on road diesel. I am not a moron. However, the table did not give a separate rate for jet fuel in the first place, so I mistakenly believed that the IRS classified them the same. So I did more research (while you were painting me as an ignoramus). This time I found a much better source, the NBAA's Federal Excise Taxes guide: quote:The FET on fuel rate is different for aviation gasoline (avgas) and jet fuel. For 2020, the FET rate on avgas is 19.4 cents per gallon, and the FET rate on jet fuel is 21.9 cents per gal-lon, when used in non-commercial operations. The FET rate on avgas or jet fuel used in commercial operations is 4.4 cents per gallon. Jet fuel delivered to an airport by truck will be taxed at 24.4 cents per gallon as diesel fuel. https://nbaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/fet-guide-2020.pdf This document goes on to explain that commercial operators can apply for a tax credit to get the 4.4 cent/gal rate if they refueled from trucks. Note the vastly higher tax rate for noncommercial operations. Also note the fact that both jet and general aviation fuel for oil, gas and mineral exploration, and related expenses, are untaxed. Who owns this loving country again Note, btw, that I was correct in my original post: For commercial operations, both jet and non-jet fuels are taxed at the same rate by the IRS for commercial purposes, so listing them separately would be redundant. If you want to complain about misapplied terminology, kindly reach out to the good folks at Tax Advisory Services Group who made the table I pasted here. Kesper North fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Mar 15, 2021 |
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Making sure that excise tax never gets raised significantly is part of why airlines never seem to turn a visible profit that anyone can find, in case that isn't obvious.
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charliemonster42 posted:Some serious Type 2 fun happening in that cockpit Is it just me or do the displays glitch during the flash?! I can't tell if that's a near miss or a strike. Looks like a near miss.
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wolrah posted:Saw this one on Imgur, figured it belongs here: You gotta keep 'em separated
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Fun fact; the lead singer of the Offspring is a molbio Ph.D. and HIV researcher. Murgos posted:That's up there with Brian May of Queen being an astrophysicist who contributed to the New Horizons mission. goatsestretchgoals posted:Adding in Greg Graffin from Bad Religion, definitely did a double take when I saw the name at the top of a handout I got in a philosophy class. PT6A posted:And Bruce Dickinson flying his own goddamn 747 (well, leased) for the last Iron Maiden tour. In addition to having been an airline captain and forming an aviation consultancy in his off time. And James Cassidy of Information Society, who is also a professor of soil science at University of Oregon! Even if you don't quit your day job, you can still make your day job awesome. Or in James Cassidy's case... dirty.
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Sir that is considered pornography in Australia
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ApathyGifted posted:We tried anodizing with a gold color but it didn't look gold enough, so it ended up being gold-leaf plated aluminum with some sort of clear protective coating, which apparently looked gold enough for people who literally own piles of gold bars. What this teaches me is that gold-pressed latinum was invented by Ferengi who wanted to keep their passengers from stealing the fittings.
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e.pilot posted:lol I literally just flew on this flight today, nothing exciting happened except reseated because some shitbag parent refused to control their kid sitting next to me and I was tired of being constantly touched on my arm/leg by a stranger’s child, the chick behind me at my new seat was face timing over the speaker for a solid hour wait what inflight wifi is good enough for facetime calls now???
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I've actually played Hearthstone on Alaska's inflight wifi. And that was the pre-2Ku connection. I had no idea they were rolling the good stuff out. My dad was GoGo's 737 test pilot for a while, he told me they were having trouble finding buyers and he got laid off in 2019ish.
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Sagebrush posted:Like...a fired bullet? Literally just a lump of a few grams of lead? You'd also have the same problem trying to take it into say Canada.
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slidebite posted:This guy got charged with unsafe operation of an aircraft. That means he'll lose his license right?
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babyeatingpsychopath posted:They give E-1s and E-2s rifles and say "anything living crossing this line gets shot" and that's pretty much what happens. There was a local AF base that had to tell the guys roving in the trucks to only shoot the coyotes once, since they'd get three or four teams all watching on the binoculars and making a pool for where the poor animal would cross, then mag-dumping into it. I can't imagine it would go too much different for someone speeding in a car across the big red line. Nobody got shot the time QAnon decided to raid Area 51 though
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Cojawfee posted:No one actually raided area 51. A bunch of dorks went to the edge and did some naruto runs and went home. "Crime?" "Stampedin' cattle." "That doesn't seem all that villainous..." "Through Area 51." "KINKYYYYYYYYYYYY"
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hobbesmaster posted:The 70s Russian stuff is probably easier to repair. Can't wait for our weapons systems to be useless to the enemy because they don't have Microsoft E5 licensing
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ImplicitAssembler posted:At 14.000'? No, that's not your average nice multirotor drone. Multirotors are horrendously inefficient and the climb alone would probably drain the battery on most. The drone's course covered a wide area, too - wide enough to take it beyond the range of a hobbyist ground station. Comedy option: They spotted it over an AF base, what are the odds that it's a relatively sophisticated drone that belongs to the base
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Honestly part of me was thinking that, but directly over a base is probably the one place they wouldn't be flying it. They'd be out in a test range of some kind. Do we know that small drones are not used for site surveys on bases, as they are in many civilian applications? Drones are sometimes used to inspect tank farms...
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hobbesmaster posted:Let’s look at tenant units for that base: Now that makes a ton of sense. lol if the helicopters were blowing the balloon around/behind them with their own rotor wash
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CarForumPoster posted:Stolen from OSHA thread: my dad would lose his god damned mind with joy if he had one of these
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Sagebrush posted:oh yeah and apparently the bouncy castle worked just fine for landing the planes. they never went through with it because they figured you still needed landing gear anyway in case you had to divert to a land base, and the planes not being able to taxi themselves around the deck was a logistical nightmare. judging by the amount of water on the bouncy flight deck, i believe this may technically be classified as a Slip'n'Slide
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Nebakenezzer posted:OK, first: I would like to officially deny that I am a scion of the Bombardier family. Why are the words "Charles Bombardier Charles Bombardier" repeated in that sequence multiple times in the article? Is this like Louis Vuitton t-shirts but in advertisment/op-ed form?
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FunOne posted:I bet because it was copy and pasted from an article and those are the sources for the photos that are not included here. No, it's weirder than that. Note lack of source images:  I turned off ad block and the repetitions of "Charles Bombardier" are still present, unconnected to anything. Charles Bombardier Charles Bombardier doing this improves your posting year over year Charles Bombardier Charles Bombardier would never drop a bomb on your house my dear Charles Bombardier Charles Bombardier would never use hydrogen in this balloon it'd sear
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The Starveling Cat! The Starveling Cat! He'd write ad copy just like that!
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Every time you post the old timey airship photos, I feel like we missed out on a really cool steampunk alternative reality. You don't want to go there, it's an OSHA nightmare.
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Ardeem posted:Wait, an F-14 with internal stores? What's next, turning into a giant robot? just think of it with a rocket booster pack
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Sped-up recap of a PBY's trip across the Atlantic and then the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPMwk8SrHxc God those things are beautiful. One of my favorite planes.
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Jesus christ. I feel like someone oughtta look into that. And is his storage unit, does it have proper signage for all those gasses, which I hope very much are not related to welding????
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Mr. Wiggles posted:Fun story, I grew up in China Lake. In Boy Scouts, our meeting place was an old warehouse building on base, and one day we needed to move into a new room for our quartermaster to store ropes and canoe paddles. The scoutmaster broke the padlock off the door to the unused room, and inside was a bunch of Sidewinders on the old school wooden pallets. So the ordnance guys came and taught us Scouts all about explosives safety! And that's how Scout Troop 420 became a nuclear power! It's a Christmas miracle!
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Zorak of Michigan posted:His Dad was a US Senator, which means there's a solid chance he had family money. They were also an oil family or something iirc, like Beverly Hillbillies gone City Slicker after a few generations
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Midjack posted:Just about anything that calls itself a "patrol" and isn't real rear end military is going to be full of shitheads. And I'm including the Boy Scouts and Snow Patrol in that. Smart Patrol is maybe the only exception to that. There were a couple of Civil Air Patrol guys in my War Thunder guild. They were both Wehraboo chuds whose favorite plane is the Stuka, and they got kicked for chud-related offenses (casual racism).
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