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How's this for aeronautical insanity: I rented a Forest Service cabin on top of a mountain last night and most of the people I work with went up for a party. One woman and her husband hiked up with the intention of going back down later because he had to catch a boat to work at 5 in the morning (he's an equipment operator doing some work at a mine for the next several months). After having a couple of drinks they decided they wanted to stay. I'm not sure what number he called, but at about 10pm he arranged for a helicopter. At 6am on the dot that thing landed next to the cabin, picked them up, and whisked them home. He actually had to charter it home to get his stuff and then on to the mine since the boat had long since left. Given the model whirlybird (MD 500) it was kind of like a real-life Magnum, PI with snow.
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Colonel K posted:I love STOL bush planes, I particularly like the little tricks some of them have, like a button to pneumatically retract the flaps to kill the lift so they can hit maximum braking.
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May 13, 2011 05:28
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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May 13, 2011 05:34
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Delivery McGee posted:I remember reading about some WWII German scout plane in the same size class that had so many wacky flap extensions and spoilers and smaller wings mounted on the leading edges and such that it could fly backward facing into a stiff breeze, but can't find it. Any ideas? You're thinking of the Fiesler Storch. Originally intended as a liason aircraft, the Storch ended up being used to rescue Benito Mussolini in 1943, and was capable of taking off in well under 300ft on a calm day, and could pretty much levitate on and off the ground if there was a decent wind. A Storch was also involved in the last dogfight on the western front of WW2, when a Storch ran into an American L-4 (basically a Piper Cub), and the crews started shooting at each other with pistols. Eventually, the Storch was forced to land, and the crew surrendered.
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May 13, 2011 05:56
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azflyboy posted:You're thinking of the Fiesler Storch.
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May 13, 2011 13:02
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grover posted:Dubious distinction of the only aircraft in WWII to have been shot down by pistol fire. So the last dog-fight on the Western front of WWII ended the way the first dogfight on the western front of WWI started; pilots shooting pistols at each other. That's irony for you. In that time of supersonic rockets and jet aircraft, just two dudes popping away at each other.
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May 13, 2011 13:06
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cloudstrife2993 posted:Those pilots are pretty ballsy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSFjhWw4DNo The ST part comes at 1:10, the 'getting on the brakes a little too hard' part comes at 1:25.
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May 13, 2011 17:55
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Holy mother of god gently caress this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC2XIGMI2kM
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May 13, 2011 19:06
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blambert posted:Holy mother of god gently caress this. gently caress that poo poo.
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May 13, 2011 19:27
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slidebite posted:gently caress that poo poo. Sometimes they drop a cable down and hook it to a winch. Drag the chopper out of the air onto the deck like reeling in an enormous barely-flying fish.
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May 13, 2011 20:54
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I've seen the cable setup before (never in action), and that really seems like the way to go. gently caress trying to land on that moving crash scene.
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May 13, 2011 22:10
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Delivery McGee posted:I remember reading about some WWII German scout plane in the same size class that had so many wacky flap extensions and spoilers and smaller wings mounted on the leading edges and such that it could fly backward facing into a stiff breeze, but can't find it. Any ideas? I've done the backwards flying thing in a Cessna 172 with some good upper winds (while in slow flight). If memory serves we had it doing about 10 knots backwards according to the GPS.
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May 14, 2011 16:15
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blambert posted:Holy mother of god gently caress this. Balls of steel. OF STEEL! I'd be tossing my cookies all over the place on the ship, let alone the chopper.
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May 14, 2011 19:27
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Bugsmasher posted:I've done the backwards flying thing in a Cessna 172 with some good upper winds (while in slow flight). If memory serves we had it doing about 10 knots backwards according to the GPS. Had a UAV in the Iraqs and such flying an oval track, or rather, trying to. The winds aloft were perfectly aligned with the desired racetrack, the upwind leg would crawl by. By the time the pilot turned into the downwind direction, he was already blown past the target and had to start turning upwind.
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May 14, 2011 20:25
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Sounds like the running track at Tinker AFB.
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May 14, 2011 20:40
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I was bored at work today and felt like testing out my new phone, so here's a video of an F-16 landing from my viewpoint at the locallizer shelter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfA5Aw8KQw
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May 17, 2011 02:51
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My buddy sent this pic of one of our planes doing something odd. My guess is they had a bird in the way. 
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May 17, 2011 05:30
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N183CS posted:My buddy sent this pic of one of our planes doing something odd. My guess is they had a bird in the way. What are you talking about. The spirals? Thats normal...
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May 17, 2011 05:34
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CommieGIR posted:What are you talking about. The spirals? Thats normal... No, cranking it over less than 50 feet above the ground right after takeoff.
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May 17, 2011 05:50
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N183CS posted:No, cranking it over less than 50 feet above the ground right after takeoff. Looks kind of like perspective...but we've had pilots do worse. Some pilots just like hot dogging their C-130s....trust me we keep have to replace turbines because they run the engines so close to the threshold that the turbine bearings wear out really quickly. As in every HSC and ISO we are having to replace at least 2 engines
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May 17, 2011 05:54
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CommieGIR posted:Looks kind of like perspective...but we've had pilots do worse. Some pilots just like hot dogging their C-130s....trust me we keep have to replace turbines because they run the engines so close to the threshold that the turbine bearings wear out really quickly. As in every HSC and ISO we are having to replace at least 2 engines You mean 1077 is bad to use all the time?? 
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May 17, 2011 05:58
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blambert posted:Holy mother of god gently caress this. The next time I have to hit a tiny LZ at max gwt at high altitude with no power margin and obstacles blocking the escape path I'm going to think about this and feel better.
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May 17, 2011 06:01
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N183CS posted:You mean 1077 is bad to use all the time?? Bad enough that reading through the flight computer logs is like a sad journey through a ricer kids Honda....much abuse and flogging for no purpose. Engine shop cries itself to sleep
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May 17, 2011 06:06
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invision posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjD67VZuYNU Thank you! I've been looking for this video. This one was popular on training days.
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May 17, 2011 12:48
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N183CS posted:My buddy sent this pic of one of our planes doing something odd. My guess is they had a bird in the way. I believe that this was arranged for the photographer, if I am not mistaken it was taken by this guy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vector1771/ He is based out of Portland and takes some great shots of all the military movements in and around PDX. Be warned though, you could spend a lot of time looking through all his photos (there are almost 9000 on that Flickr link).
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CommieGIR posted:Looks kind of like perspective...but we've had pilots do worse. Some pilots just like hot dogging their C-130s....trust me we keep have to replace turbines because they run the engines so close to the threshold that the turbine bearings wear out really quickly. As in every HSC and ISO we are having to replace at least 2 engines Yeah, I always dreaded the inspections of my helicopters because I knew everytime they'd find something one of my pilots did to gently caress it up and yell at me for 'letting it happen' despite the fact that I was a Lance Corporal flying in the XO's bird. Even my older brother was one of those pilots who would break poo poo. He once bent the hell out of a T-45A's wing when he was at the bombing range and forgot to check if the ~200 lb training bombs had released and proceeded to do a max G egress. Pilots man, fuckin pilots.
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May 17, 2011 15:28
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Speaking of T45s, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves. How the hell do single engine props catch T45s on final? This should not be. Also, it takes military trainers waaaay too long to exit the runway. You guys could take a tip from Southwest and burn rubber on the turns!
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May 17, 2011 15:31
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The Ferret King posted:Also, it takes military trainers waaaay too long to exit the runway. You guys could take a tip from Southwest and burn rubber on the turns! Southwest just likes doing stuff quickly; half the time I fly out of FLL (thankfully not often, Ft. Lauderdale is too far North) they've already started throttling up for takeoff while they're still turning on to the runway.
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May 17, 2011 15:42
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To continue with the theme of pilots not giving a poo poo: The Pilot song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__s4OMTVyhI
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May 17, 2011 18:35
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DiscoDickTease posted:To continue with the theme of pilots not giving a poo poo: The Pilot song ffffffff, so perfect <3 oh well, pilots and baggage handlers keep us mech's in business.
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May 18, 2011 05:27
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BonzoESC posted:Southwest just likes doing stuff quickly; half the time I fly out of FLL (thankfully not often, Ft. Lauderdale is too far North) they've already started throttling up for takeoff while they're still turning on to the runway. They do that on the taxiway before they even begin to make the turn.  They also push fast too, one of them in FLL pushed into a CO bird a couple years ago (they pushed at the same time.)
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Typical Pubbie posted:Thank you! I've been looking for this video. This one was popular on training days. The JASDF is coming to play in a few months...thanks for reminding me I need to make sure this gets around to the rest of the Exercise Support guys. DiscoDickTease posted:To continue with the theme of pilots not giving a poo poo: The Pilot song Dos Gringos are great..."Goin' in for Guns" is pretty good, as is "I wish I had a gun just like the A-10". There's some other ones that are hilarious, but they're not really aviation related so I'll let you find them on your own. I'm sure some of you have already seen it, but I started up a Cold War/Airpower thread over in TFR that has been going for a while...a lot of really good information on a variety of subjects related to those topics. Figured there would be some interest in that over here. Here's a post on SAGE/early US Cold War air defenses, here's one on the Skyraider, here's one about the LABS, and here's a pretty picture post of all the US/NATO aircraft that have intercepted the Bear. Finally, check out this video of a couple of F-106s doing a night takeoff at Otis ANGB. It sounds like a bomb went off when the afterburner ignites. That's one thing that sucks about the Raptor...they normally only use dry thrust to takeoff, so nighttime departures are much less interesting to watch.
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May 22, 2011 01:16
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I love 106s. Pretty much popped a boner when that candle lit.
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No idea if this is a repeat, but I love watching this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HEe3xfWfkG8&vq=hd720
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May 22, 2011 04:45
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That makes my skin tingle.
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May 22, 2011 05:00
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Scabrous Teat posted:I'm fairly sure that inferior Soviet rockets were taking stuff up to the space station every time a space shuttle crashed due to extreme conditions such as a small dog farting during launch. Oh come on, the soyuz vehicles are great, but I think they were specifically talking about something along the lines of the N1, which failed spectacularly 100% of the time.
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xaarman posted:No idea if this is a repeat, but I love watching this video. holy wow
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May 22, 2011 06:00
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Linked from that video you posted. Ace Combat 11, with less drama and more planes! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=HEe3xfWfkG8&vq=hd720 
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May 22, 2011 06:27
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That may well be the best flying video I've seen. What's it with the french and getting amazing shots of their aircraft.
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It's the promo for this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0421974/
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