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I think the only stuff left fighting fires with pistons are a few CL-215s, and I think those are mostly only with Buffalo. Even the older turboprops/turboprop conversions are being retired. We have a contract with Conair for a Convair 580 and last year they started substituting a Dash 8. It’s a straight 1:1 replacement; the contract included a per-hour methanol allowance and I did a double-take seeing them bill that on the invoices.
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hobbesmaster posted:Engine wise didn’t it almost literally go from being a DC-10 with an extra engine from the 60s to a 747-400? They currently have CF6-80C2 engines, the DC-10 had CF6-6D and CF6-50Cs. The original C-5 TF39 was the first production high-bypass turbofan. The CF-6 was developed from it but that’s like saying the CFM56 on a 737 is the same as an F-101 in a Bone; technically true but there are a lot of differences.
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MrYenko posted:I’m pretty sure an F-104 would fit in the An-225… You can fit an awful lot of things into an open-top container.
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The wings can be removed from most single-engine Cessnas pretty easily. It’s actually not uncommon to swap Cessna wings between different models. I know someone with L-19 Bird Dog wings on their 172. I bet the real reason is price - one pilot is cheaper than getting a custom shipping container built and shipped, plus having the airframe reassembled by an A&P at the destination. It would probably even take longer than the months they waited for favorable winds.
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Tickets for the last Reno Air Races went on sale this morning. Everybody Taylor Swifted the ticket site and they got 22 tickets sold before the whole thing went down for all events. Took an hour and a half to get it working enough for sales to resume. Looks like plenty of tickets left if anyone wants to do a goon meet. https://airrace.org/reno-air-races-tickets/
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In the video you can briefly see water trailing the fuselage. That seems like a pretty reliable source. Edit with some napkin maths: An E-2 is about 18.5 feet tall, the flight deck of a Nimitz-class carrier is between 55 and 59’ above water (water line is painted at 55’ below the flight deck, and that’s the max load weight). The official report said the aircraft came ‘within 20 feet of strike of water’. That would mean a drop where the rotodome is at least 10-15 feet below the flight deck. The camera room in the island is about 4 stories above the deck so it’s looking down about 30 feet or so, which will mean a shallow downward angle over the end of the flight deck. That camera would be able to see below the flight deck, increasing in depth the further out the aircraft goes. The plane is out of view of the camera for a full 4 seconds. At the stall speed of 75 knots that’s a full 500 feet away from the carrier, plus two seconds of the initial drop before going out of sight is about 700-750 feet away before becoming visible again. So, basically, that aircraft must be only a couple feet off the water by the time it’s visible again, and at that point it’s already climbing. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Mar 24, 2023 |
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azflyboy posted:Earlier in the week, they let a C-17 do the same thing, and I presume they'd have allowed the F-18 demo pilot to do so as well, had they flown Sunday. I thought I remember the F18 on Friday or Saturday do a lap. I really didn’t pay much attention to the military demos because they’re almost all “this plane will fly really fast and then pull straight up! Loom how amazing that is!” The U-2 was neat because goddamn that’s a lot of wing in person. I saw Six Cat go in and then got to listen to the announcers keep saying “miracles happen”. That did not help with my general attitude of cynicism. Other than that I thought this years’ races were pretty good. Doc’s poo poo flying on Saturday was obvious to everyone - even the friends of mine who had just showed up and never seen a race heat before commented how close he got to us on one lap. Stevo’s flying around the course is like if a machine were making a demonstration no human could compare to. That man knows how to fly laps like no-one else. The team in the pits were saying Sunday’s goal was to set a lap record by sustaining 140”+ of manifold pressure the entire race. The joke was that Jr would be flying so fast he would even lap himself. I was really looking forward to that so I hope they put something like that together again for the next location.
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Air Classics magazine posted on FaceBook advertising their November issue with a note about it including pictures of all Reno winners through history. What they did *not* say/warn was that their post included a high-quality photo of the instant the Reno T-6 midair occurred. No guts but I’ll refrain from sharing it here unless everyone really wants to see.
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azflyboy posted:I heard that Doc was grounded for crossing the "foul line" on Saturday, but RARA agreed to let Miss America fly Sunday, if someone else was the pilot. I heard a few different things that all looked plausible from my viewpoint. Crossing the show line was one, another was that he may have cut, IIRC, Pylon 6 so badly he actually cut the sport class pylon. The turn he did around pylon 7 lends credence to the latter story because it seemed like a lot more of a turn than anyone else on the course made and would have also set him up to cross the show line at the speed he was flying. It was a real shame, too, because I was hoping somebody would give Bardahl a real challenge.
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A takeoff worthy of entry to STOVL’kor. Today is a good day to fly. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 07:15 on Sep 25, 2023 |
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It was Super Snoopy at the Mojave 1000. Here’s an article written by Clay Lacy himself: http://www.airclassicsnow.com/issue-spreads/dec-2017/ACdec17SuperSnoopy.pdf Edit: Just realized the article cuts short a bit, darn it. Here’s a synopsis that also mentions their Connie competitor at the next 1000-mile race: http://vintageairphotos.blogspot.com/2011/11/super-snoopy.html?m=1 Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 18:35 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Robin Olds didn’t grow the mustache until he was an F-4 pilot in Vietnam. Though to be fair he flew V12s in WWII combat and not radials. Advent Horizon fucked around with this message at 16:37 on Oct 15, 2023 |
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I once carried a cast iron bellhousing in the cabin to avoid overweight baggage fees. Last night on my flight there was another passenger who needed help from two others to lift her carry-on into the overhead bin because it was packed full of paperwork.
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I didn’t have anything to do with that overhead paperwork thing, I just heard & saw it happening a few rows back. I decided to check my bags yesterday, which of course means one is missing. The last time they could locate it was when it got scanned at the baggage drop.
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https://mynews4.com/news/local/six-cities-announced-as-potential-future-home-of-national-championship-ari-races-after-reno-depaturequote:The bidders include the follow cities: Wendover is the middle of nowhere and has very little of anything except a couple runways and some casinos with their front doors right against the Utah border. Casper and Roswell both have decent facilities and are large enough to handle an influx of people but shutting down the airports mean that everyone would have to drive hours to get to either one. That limits things to die-hard fans. Thermal is right near Palm Springs so infrastructure is great. The course would have to be over farms and that would require property owner involvement, plus with all the palm trees around the course would have to be above the current 50 feet AGL. Buckeye is right near Phoenix but only has one (short) runway. Might be able to rebuild one of the former runways. Some potential encroachment issues. Both Thermal and Buckeye would be hot AF most of the year. Scheduling might be able to deal with that issue. Pueblo really looks just about perfect.
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Losing money on each unit but making it up with volume - that worked so well for GM!
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Phanatic posted:That just raises further questions! They originally weren’t; that was the first iteration of hush kit. The idea was to increase the area of mixing between the fast exhaust gasses and outside air, as the more area the less noise it will make. Modern high-bypass turbofan engines have the core exhaust entirely enveloped by the bypass air, which helps a lot, but even the bypass air is moving a lot faster than the surrounding air. That’s why the 737 Max, 747-8, and 787 have that chevron pattern around the bypass output - it’s basically a built-in hush kit.
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https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/santa-barbara-airport-closes-runways-flood-18676166.php This doesn’t look good:  I’m supposed to be flying there on Saturday.
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Nebakenezzer posted:A dumb confession: it hurts my brain slightly they are called Grand Caravans, just like the Dodge Minivan Cessna probably named it that because their benchmark for the interior plastics was a Chrysler.
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Nebakenezzer posted:So speaking of sorrow, does anybody know what happened to that zero-hours 747 8i the Saudis bought then left in Austria for like a decade? Ferried to Arizona in 2022 and scrapped. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/boeing-747-vip-jet-scrapped/index.html
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When I was a kid we used to take the Anchorage-Minneapolis red eye when going back east on Northwest DC-10s. I hated that 2-5-2 center row since I have a squirrel bladder. It also sucked if you were a long way from the bulkheads where the movies were projected, but I have some fond memories of one trip, right against the bulkhead, watching Harry and the Hendersons and the in-flight meal was a McDonalds Happy Meal. Otherwise the one saving grace was that there was a space by one of the port-side exits in the back that became sort of an economy class lounge. It was enough room for a few people to stand and close to the galley for drinks & snacks. I spent hours there.
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shame on an IGA posted:Spirit Aerosystems' stock has doubled since september, this just going to cement every company that is a single supplier of something to adopt the "gently caress this up until our clients are forced to buy us out" business model The best part is all the companies who have moved to sole-source to cut the costs of dealing with multiple suppliers. AB Inbev did an ad featuring one of their two suppliers for the beechwood chips they dump i to barrels to add an illusion of flavor to Budweiser. A couple months later they cut that supplier out entirely because the other was a few pennies cheaper.
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Hadlock posted:Definitely not in the nautical insanity thread today; Honopu Beach is extremely limited access by law and native Hawaiian custom. Normally the only legal way to get there is by swimming. Having done part of that swim at Kalalau (the next beach up), the currently are swift, the surf perpetually high, and the water shallow. It’s a really poor area to get anything larger than a jet ski close to shore. Also, again as someone who has backpacked the Na Pali coast, gently caress them helicopters. From 1/2 hour after sunrise to 1/2 hour before sunset it was like being in Apocalypse Now.
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hobbesmaster posted:It’s an equivalent to the 717 and formerly DC-9-50 Both 717s were 5-abreast.
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