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My girlfriends father works at Filton for Airbus and orchestrates the entire 'wing repair package' when something goes awry. (How, what, when, design repair, assemble team, logistics, 3 2 1 Go.. all in 8 hours) I was there when he got the phone call about that, sat over lunch on his day off. The incident last year where the blades punched a hole through with wing, again, he got sent photos to his phone whilst at lunch with us. (He went white as sheet and had to go outside). I think I might have trouble marrying his daughter. I must be bad luck. blambert fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Jun 22, 2011 |
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Pardon the 'fail' caption, but here's a good shot of that airbus mishap from when the wing was still embedded in the building: I know I'm a bad person for laughing at this, but I can't help but think of some poor bastard working away in his office when the wingtip of a massive aeroplane comes crashing through the wall.
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Boomerjinks posted:There's a unit stationed at Wright Pat (I think) that used to fly P-51s during the war, but has since transitioned to C-130 transports. Not to let this get them down, they repainted their engines to look like the noses of P-51s. It is 164th Airlift Squadron, 179th Airlift Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, out of Mansfield, Ohio.  Heritage2 by RReiheld, on Flickr They have since, or are currently transferring out of C-130's into C-27's. Nother Herc pic:  HercArch by RReiheld, on Flickr Here is some other heritage flight stuff  DSC_0367 by RReiheld, on Flickr Here is something a little unusual. A Topping model of McDonnel's entry for the VFX competition that resulted in the F-14 Tomcat.  McdonnelVFX by RReiheld, on Flickr And an F-100 picture I took some while back but may not have posted 10 times already  f-100 by RReiheld, on Flickr Slo-Tek fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Jun 24, 2011 |
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Jun 24, 2011 19:55
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Slo-Tek posted:And an F-100 picture I took some while back but may not have posted 10 times already Empty trunk. Seems a crime not to have someone else enjoying the ride.
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Jun 24, 2011 20:32
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Slo-Tek posted:It is 164th Airlift Squadron, 179th Airlift Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, out of Mansfield, Ohio. That is the exact picture I was looking for that shows exactly what is cool about that exact paint job. 
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Jun 24, 2011 21:56
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Slo-Tek posted:And an F-100 picture I took some while back but may not have posted 10 times already Fantastic shots, man! I love the F-100 photo, those aircraft are awesome.
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Jun 24, 2011 22:03
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Slo-Tek posted:
What are you taking these with? Jesus, that's great.
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Phanatic posted:What are you taking these with? Jesus, that's great. 8 year old Nikon D70 and a 20 year old 70-300 lens. Set it for Auto-focus-Continuous, shutter priority at 1/160 or so for props, and auto-everything for jets and push the button when it looks right. If you take 600 pictures in an afternoon, 3 or 4 are likely to turn out pretty cool. There is a hell of a lot more that people are serious about it do in post processing. Nothing I do stands up to acceptable for airliners.net or anything along those lines. Looks good enough to post at 800x600 on a forum though.
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Just got approved for the photo pit at the airshow in Tullahoma, TN on the 1st, hooray! Taken off FC, there's been a couple changes since then I'm sure but still a good reference for what will be there: quote:Performers Pretty decent list. Excited to see all the CoNA stuff. It's apparently going to be a backlit show which makes things tougher but I'm sure it'll be workable.
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A couple of shots taken last summer here in Calgary: The Heritage flight Lancaster (one of two flying in the world):  Time Moves On by BigtimeAa, on Flickr Note the CF-18 at the FBO:  Generations by BigtimeAa, on Flickr Crappy lighting on a flyby the next day:  Lancaster Flyby by BigtimeAa, on Flickr Vintage Wings of Canada CL-13 Sabre:  Golden Bird by BigtimeAa, on Flickr  Rolling out on 28 by BigtimeAa, on Flickr  Golden Hawk F-86 Sabre by BigtimeAa, on Flickr FG-1D Corsair "Gray Ghost" pulling up to the Westjet hangars:  Warbird Beauty by BigtimeAa, on Flickr  Gull Wing Glory by BigtimeAa, on Flickr The RAF boys stop by some summers to do training with their troops southeast of Calgary:  In position by BigtimeAa, on Flickr  drat. by BigtimeAa, on Flickr  Raw Power by BigtimeAa, on Flickr
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Bugsmasher posted:The RAF boys stop by some summers to do training with their troops southeast of Calgary: I am guessing the carbon marks on the tails are caused by the thrust reversers?
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Jun 25, 2011 09:21
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I believe so, they have the clam-shell type design.
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Jun 25, 2011 11:21
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I used to love flying on the Canadian Airlines or Westjet 737-200's and getting a seat right behind the engines to watch the clam-shell reversers on those birds. So awesome.
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When playing Digital Integration's Tornado I would often forget my landing gear, but when I remembered it I would always set both engines on fire due to leaving the reversers on for too long.
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Jun 25, 2011 13:55
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Slo-Tek posted:8 year old Nikon D70 and a 20 year old 70-300 lens. Set it for Auto-focus-Continuous, shutter priority at 1/160 or so for props, and auto-everything for jets and push the button when it looks right. If you take 600 pictures in an afternoon, 3 or 4 are likely to turn out pretty cool. Seriously, they're great, I'm not sure how you get that sharpness out of that lens, but nice job. Same camera, same lens:  Just Pretending by Phanatic, on Flickr  B-17 by Phanatic, on Flickr
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Bugsmasher posted:A couple of shots taken last summer here in Calgary: I saw this in Saskatoon one day about a week ago or so, was wondering what it was. Looked cool, but it was quite a long ways away. Would it be in transit to an airshow maybe?
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Timmy Cruise posted:I saw this in Saskatoon one day about a week ago or so, was wondering what it was. Looked cool, but it was quite a long ways away. Would it be in transit to an airshow maybe? Most likely, it has been making the airshow circuit in Canada and the US the last couple of years.
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Phanatic posted:
What jumped out to me is that you're shooting with an aperture of f/22, which actually can reduce image quality quite a bit by introducing diffraction. It's a bit tough to deal with in aviation photography since sometimes to get rotor/prop blur you have to close the aperture to avoid overexposing everything while using the lowest shutter speed. If possible on really sunny days, make sure your ISO is on the lowest (base) setting it'll go on and you won't have to close the aperture so much. I shoot with a Nikon 80-200 f/2.8 and it reaches peak sharpness at f/5.6 which still lets in a LOT of light. It holds its sharpness until around f/9 and then diffraction starts to kick in from there. This looks like a couple of things, higher ISO robs details very fast. I'm not too familiar with the D70, as I came into Nikonland with their D80 but I'd rarely ever go over ISO 400 with that if I could manage, as the shadow detail would deteriorate very fast above that. You might also have managed to take a shot as the lens was still hunting for a lock, I swear sometimes my lens knows when I'm about to press the shutter button and will jump around making the plane slightly blurry at just the wrong time. Ugh.  Still good shots though, I love that HH-53 one. Great composition. PREYING MANTITS fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Jun 25, 2011 |
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Gentlemen, exciting news if you like Airship type-things: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12110386
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The weather and the children weren't very cooperative for photography today, but the marines did an amphibious landing at the Gateway Arch today, and it was pretty cool seaknight by RReiheld, on Flickr  Osprey by RReiheld, on Flickr Second year in a row I've been in the wrong place at the wrong time, and wasn't able to take a picture of a Harrier hovering above the Mississippi boiling the river with jetwash. Next year though...
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Crosspost from TFR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aydbBl6_W0 Scratch 1 harrier
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slidebite posted:Crosspost from TFR The emergency response time is impressive. He impacts the ground at 0:18. At 2:18 there is water coming into the frame from one of the fire trucks.
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Spent an hour at MIA this afternoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyclJnpGjQg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyclJnpGjQg A380 poo poo starts two minutes in.
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slidebite posted:Crosspost from TFR Holy poo poo. That jet hit HARD. I wonder what he was dealing with. Somebody get that man a tie.
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slidebite posted:Crosspost from TFR Cross post reply from TFR... IIRC the aircraft suffered a loss of engine power on final (not complete engine failure, because you can hear the engine spin up as he tries to compensate), and being hot, high, and heavy, compounded by the fact that Hawker Siddeley/BAE forgot to include a wing when designing the Harrier, there wasn't much the pilot could do. Nice to see the explosive filler in those Paveways really is insensitive. For what happens when you're dealing with fire and non-insensitive munitions, see the Forrestal fire.  Less than 90 seconds from the initial flames to the first explosion; the first group of firefighters never had a chance. Sailors to the End is a very good book about the disaster and the efforts of the sailors on board to fight the fire. They came very very close to losing the vessel. This reminds me, awhile back I promised a post on explosive mishaps and explosives safety...maybe I'll work on that tonight. Zero-zero ejection seats are pretty awesome though. It seems pretty mundane I guess since we're used to it, but the fact that you can punch out of an aircraft scraping down the runway and suffer only minor injuries is pretty mind blowing when you consider where the technology was only 3-4 decades ago. Here's a story with an interview from the pilot... quote:The Harrier scraped along the runway at 80mph on collision course with the civilian plane, which had eight people on board. Pretty big ones on that guy.
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BonzoESC posted:Spent an hour at MIA this afternoon: Too bad the flying forehead landed when they changed runways. How did you get to that spot? I'm hoping to take a drive down Tuesday.
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Mobius1B7R posted:Too bad the flying forehead landed when they changed runways. How did you get to that spot? I'm hoping to take a drive down Tuesday. It's a pretty rad spot, there were about thirty people there. http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&cp=n8...t%2C%20FL&q=mia Let me know if you're in the area on Tuesday.
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  And no, that's not two sides of the same plane- those are two different Pokemon 747s. grover fucked around with this message at 09:50 on Jun 26, 2011 |
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I can't bring any hate to bear on a Pokemon painted plane because I think all planes need to be painted up. White is just so boring (also - why does Firefox have "Pokemon" in its dictionary?)
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slidebite posted:Crosspost from TFR I'm impressed with how long he stuck with it before ejecting. drat, that had to be a wild ride.
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Visited a small, local airshow here in Norway last weekend. The big thrill for me was getting to take a ride in a old DC-3 from 1943. It actually was a part of the invasion of Normandie and dropped english paratroopers over France. It later became a civilian airline-plane and was in regular routes until 1980s. It was then sold to a private organization that now owns it. Sitting in that airplane and imagining the fear and excitement the soldiers must have felt was awesome.    That polished look must be hard to keep looking good..
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Wow, well done getting a ride in that! Must do it myself some day.Znyp posted:
I asked one of the members about it at an airshow on Flesland a few years back. He said it was a massive amount of work and they couldn't easily use electric polishers due to the rivets not being flush.
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Very airshowy around here at the moment. Check this out http://celebratestlouis.org/fair-saint-louis/air-show/ Corsair/F-18 Heritage flight, B-2 flyover, V-22 Osprey, Civilian Owned Harrier hovering over the river, all kinds of good stuff. Gateway Park really is a pretty cool venue to watch an airshow from. Anybody want to come out and say hey?
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Znyp posted:That polished look must be hard to keep looking good.. I hope they use power tools on that. The two years I spent repainting small planes taught me two things. The first is that the satisfaction you get after hand polishing something is hard to beat when you step back and it's all finished. The second is that hand polishing aircraft parts loving SUCKS.
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Znyp posted:
It's probably hard to make it look good, but I suspect it's not too expensive to make it look presentable: http://www.airliners.net/search/pho...ine_version=6.0
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Tullahoma show is over, didn't get a chance to shoot as many statics as I would have liked since I got caught in some horrific traffic due to an accident on the way down there and arrived shortly before the actual show began so the crowds were already camped around the statics. Here's some of the performance shots though:     edit: Bonus compressor stall: 
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If anyone wants a nice heaping helping of hatred for humanity just read the comments on this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kHa3WNerjU
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I want to just strangle them while screaming it was not unmanned, and was in pilot control arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggh! Why do they call it fully automated instead of Fly-by-wire? That bugs me more than the retarded comments. It was flown by pilots, and was possibly flown into the ground by them(disputed by findings on malfunctioning avionics). Surprisingly few fatalities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_296 Bondematt fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jul 3, 2011 |
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Slo-Tek posted:Civilian Owned Harrier what the fuuuuuuuuuuuck 
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