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Sorry if repost but the CO of the Blue Angels has resigned after almost leading their diamond formation into the ground: http://www.milavia.net/news/2011/blue-angels-c.o.-relieved.html Video here, first showing the maneuver flown without incident, then same maneuver the next day coming in too low (at about 1:50 in): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlUWQlXQB20
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san_dingo posted:Nope, this was at Felts Field in Spokane, WA. They're taking people up in the B-17 tomorrow, but I didn't have $485.00 sitting around. I thought I recognized those hills - I used to work there. I once got a flight with the guy who owns that 40C. Super cool dude, just came down to the office after buying some fuel and was like "we're taking the Staggerwing up tonight, you want a ride?"
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Sexual Lorax posted:Wrong. Decidedly unshitty. Wallpaper worthy, if you'll provide the higher resolution. Sure, glad you like it- here's the url: http://imgur.com/GSOBE
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sigtrap posted:I thought I recognized those hills - I used to work there. I once got a flight with the guy who owns that 40C. Super cool dude, just came down to the office after buying some fuel and was like "we're taking the Staggerwing up tonight, you want a ride?" Whoa, that's cool- I didn't get a chance to talk with him, as he was getting ready to take it up when I was done shooting the B-17. It was a nice way to spend a couple of hours- the EAA folks seem to be a really friendly bunch.
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san_dingo posted:Nope, this was at Felts Field in Spokane, WA. They're taking people up in the B-17 tomorrow, but I didn't have $485.00 sitting around. I have almost those same pictures! I went to A&P school there at Felts. She came in and the crew asked our class to come check it out in exchange for washing it down. I cleaned the flaps and aft right fuselage. I met some of the guys who do the Stearman restorations, too. A classmate has a hanger on the East end he built a RV-8 I helped with so we got to know a few folks there at that field.
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ack! posted:
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum up in Reading just had their WWII airshow this weekend. I skipped it, since I went last year and drinking beer was just a higher priority this time around. But your Stearman comment reminded me of this:  They're in the process of restoring a P-61. It's a very long process, they started it back in the early 90s. But here's what the thing looked like when they went to haul it out of the New Guinea crash site:  They were fortunate in that it crashed onto a pile of rocks, and wasn't directly in contact with the jungle floor. When they went to assess it, it still had air in the tires and hydraulic fluid in the lines, and corrosion was actually inhibited by the vegetation growth. Now, a while ago, the US government basically signed away any interest to any wrecked aircraft, and said that anything lost during the war was a spoil of war, owned by the country on whose soil it rests. So this aircraft belonged to Indonesia, and Indonesia wanted to get paid. Payment in this case took the form of a fully restored, flying PT-13 Stearman. MAAM's been offered $6 million for the P-61, and that was a couple years ago before they even had the engine nacelles on. They (rightly) said no. Here's a cow orker in his PT-19:  And here's this thing: 
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Sterndotstern posted:
Gizmodo just posted the pilot's cam of that flyby. Ignore the music, heh. http://gizmodo.com/5809436/exclusive-cockpit-video-of-the-craziest-flyby-ever
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That fly-by is just crazy. Speaking of crazy.. saw a squadron of F-18s come in to land in front of me.. couldn't get out my camera until I got on the ground though.  
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I am SO loving excited for EAA just a month away. Anyone else going camping?
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anybody see this yet? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/110520-area-51-secret-hid-craft-base-declassified-a-12-plane/ and http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/05/pictures/110520-spy-plane-area-51-cover-up-crash-cia-conspiracy/   the CIA declassified a few pictures of the precursor to the SR-71 as well as its crash and subsequent cover-up. Good read, cool pictures!
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Preoptopus posted:I am SO loving excited for EAA just a month away. Anyone else going camping? I'll be there camping, but I work on the volunteer photo staff.
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Linedance posted:anybody see this yet? That's awesome... where did it crash though?
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Preoptopus posted:I am SO loving excited for EAA just a month away. Anyone else going camping? I grew up in WI and went to EAA a few times. I live in CO now, but I'm thinking of hitting up EAA again this year primarily because of Fifi. I heard a rumor that there may be a zeppelin as well. If I go, I'll probably be camping with some friends of mine that go every year.
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I'm still trying to decide. The last few times I've been able to get in with media credentials, or camp in the warbirds area with my weirdo re-enactor buddy, but with neither of those looking likely this year, I may just hang back and see other peoples pictures.
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blambert posted:That's awesome... where did it crash though? It says near Wendover. That's a small town (technically two small towns) on the border of Utah and Nevada on I-80. The Utah side is a shanty town, the Nevada side has casinos and hotels, and jobs for the people who live on the Utah side. It's very near the Bonneville Salt Flats.
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Preoptopus posted:I am SO loving excited for EAA just a month away. Anyone else going camping? Maybe not camping, but I might be down for the air show.
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Godholio posted:It says near Wendover. That's a small town (technically two small towns) on the border of Utah and Nevada on I-80. The Utah side is a shanty town, the Nevada side has casinos and hotels, and jobs for the people who live on the Utah side. It's very near the Bonneville Salt Flats. Oh hey I've been there, bit of a ghost town really:  Cool fact: they filmed part of Con Air out there, and it's the WWII airbase where nuke weapon test drops were conducted from the Enola Gay and Bockscar.
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It's popular with the folks in N. Utah, since the casinos aren't too bad and it's less than half as far as Las Vegas and a lot cheaper. Most of that stretch of I-80 and over the top of Wendover is USAF airspace. Lots of air-to-air training, and several air-to-ground ranges, including a strafing area, which is cool as poo poo to see. There's actually a control tower next to the strafing area, and the F-16s will literally buzz the tower ala Top Gun while they make their runs.
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oh hey, what's this?  wait! is that?  it is! it's a k1200!  Hey, uh, can I uh... take a picture of your cock...pit? cockpit. 
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It's a KMAX. Used out here in west texas for fighting fires. Really commonly used for foresting/logging.. Apparently it doesnt have a hydraulic stick and is terrible on the wrists,
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Butt Reactor posted:Oh hey I've been there, bit of a ghost town really: That means it's also the place where all the exterior hangar shots from Independence Day were filmed!
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Godholio posted:It's popular with the folks in N. Utah, since the casinos aren't too bad and it's less than half as far as Las Vegas and a lot cheaper. Ha yeah, the Mormon playground! One of the casinos actually charters a 737 occasionally to bring in old people (from Minnesota or something) to gamble. And speaking of jets, there's going to be an airshow at ENV later this month. I could be wrong, but isn't the wendover training range the largest restricted airspace in the US? It's amusing to be cruising above I-80 (the only place there's no restricted airspace) and overhear on clover control some poor bastard get intercepted by F-16s, because he strayed off-course and wandered into the boxes north or south of the interstate.
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Over land, I believe it is the largest. It's rare that the entire complex is active though. Over the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf there are larger military airspace complexes. You're probably hearing safety point-outs rather than intercepts. I've had to make about 200 of those drat calls. It's a real pain in the rear end when moron Farmer Joe in his 40 year old Cessna doesn't know how to read a loving chart and strays into the middle of a mission.
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Some Eurotrash brought their ugly little airplane to my local airfield: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK0JEP3A-CE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK0JEP3A-CE
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BonzoESC posted:Some Eurotrash brought their ugly little airplane to my local airfield: What's their reasoning for only having reversers on the inboard engines?
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xaarman posted:What's their reasoning for only having reversers on the inboard engines? To save weight (the A380 never did meet its empty weight guarantee, IIRC), and because the outboard engines actually hang beyond the width of many runways (creating a massive FOD hazard).
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MrChips posted:To save weight (the A380 never did meet its empty weight guarantee, IIRC), and because the outboard engines actually hang beyond the width of many runways (creating a massive FOD hazard). I'm assuming FOD stands for Field Of Destruction? if not it should
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FOD means foreign object damage, but it can also be used to describe any object that can cause foreign object damage. If you're too to handle that, Airliners.net will welcome you with open arms.
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MrChips posted:To save weight (the A380 never did meet its empty weight guarantee, IIRC), and because the outboard engines actually hang beyond the width of many runways (creating a massive FOD hazard). Here's what MIA has to do to support A380: http://www.miami-airport.com/pdfdoc/a380-presentation.pdf
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This may be a better question for GAMES, but when the hell is the PC gaming community going to get another flight sim? FSX came out five years ago.
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angryhampster posted:This may be a better question for GAMES, but when the hell is the PC gaming community going to get another flight sim? FSX came out five years ago. I dunno but I'm so loving sick and tired of FSX. Xplane just doesn't really work for the kind of stuff I want, so there's not really another alternative. MS is working on Flight but it's probably going to be delayed by years or suck. Or both.
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I'd settle for a new wireless joystick. Logitech stopped making the Freedom a few years ago and it looks like the backstock is finally gone. Mine died after 7 years of raining death from above. 
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Lots of awesome photos from an airshow at Edwards: http://home.comcast.net/~bzee1a/Edwards09/Edwards09.html
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angryhampster posted:This may be a better question for GAMES, but when the hell is the PC gaming community going to get another flight sim? FSX came out five years ago. Its in production. http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/ Complete rewrite of the engine with no backwards compatible support.
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BookaT posted:Its in production. http://www.microsoft.com/games/flight/ Time to start saving for a new computer...
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