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The Locator posted:Deck crew from the cable snapping? Nothing on the video itself or in the comments that I saw indicating injuries. Navy: 8 sailors aboard USS Eisenhower injured when cable breaks during E-2C Hawkeye landing And the investigation: Navy: Human error to blame for March cable break aboard USS Eisenhower flight deck
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Here's a bit of local aeronautical insanity - an idiot flying a Po-2 overflew a stadium in Split while football game was on. Unauthorised, of course. 
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Jul 9, 2016 06:04
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Lucky for him there are no wires to keep birds off the field or for an aerial camera system.
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Jul 9, 2016 12:58
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When'd this happen and was his license confiscated when he landed or did they wait until the next day?
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Jul 9, 2016 13:18
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That reminds me of the rear end in a top hat who, weeks after 9/11, thought it'd be a great idea to circle a high school multi-field rugby tournament and keep diving and directing his energy directly at the players and spectators.
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Jul 9, 2016 13:45
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EvilJoven posted:When'd this happen and was his license confiscated when he landed or did they wait until the next day? Happened three days ago, and "investigation is still ongoing". Pilot is a former brigadier general and one of the founders of Croatian Air Force (also a confirmed nutcase that tangled with jet fighters in An-2 Colt), so I guess authorities are trying to deal with this without causing a shitstorm.
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Speaking of B-29s, the first flight of the restored "Doc" is now tentatively scheduled for Sunday July 17th. Best of luck to them.
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Gervasius posted:Happened three days ago, and "investigation is still ongoing". Pilot is a former brigadier general and one of the founders of Croatian Air Force (also a confirmed nutcase that tangled with jet fighters in An-2 Colt) haha what?
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Gervasius posted:Happened three days ago, and "investigation is still ongoing". Pilot is a former brigadier general and one of the founders of Croatian Air Force (also a confirmed nutcase that tangled with jet fighters in An-2 Colt), so I guess authorities are trying to deal with this without causing a shitstorm.  I want to drink with this man.
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Jul 9, 2016 16:19
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MrYenko posted:
Me too, even though we'd end up comatose and he'd jump in the cockpit and fly home after
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Jul 9, 2016 16:31
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Yeah, I mixed up two crazies, sorry. It wasn't the Po-2 pilot that tangled with jets, it was one other CAF pilot that got jumped by two J-21s in his UTVA-75, evaded them for while but got his wing damaged by a rocket, landed his damaged plane in a wooded area, and fled on foot while J-21s were chased off by local air defence. That happened somewhere in late 1991. That pilot died in january 1992 in An-2 crash. That Po-2 pilot is a different kind of nutcase who flew ground attack missions in 1991 with UTVA-75 jury-rigged with RPG launchers, he survived and now he's doing crazy poo poo in his Po-2. MrYenko posted:
You can. Also you can fly with him if you feel suicidal, I think he gives rides to tourists in that Po-2.
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Jul 9, 2016 17:15
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Gervasius posted:That Po-2 pilot is a different kind of nutcase who flew ground attack missions in 1991 with UTVA-75 jury-rigged with RPG launchers 
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Jul 9, 2016 17:54
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A Delta flight landed in an Air Force base by mistake. http://www.airforcetimes.com/story/military/2016/07/08/delta-airlines-flight-lands-ellsworth-air-force-base-mistake/86867262/
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Gervasius posted:That Po-2 pilot is a different kind of nutcase who flew ground attack missions in 1991 with UTVA-75 jury-rigged with RPG launchers, he survived and now he's doing crazy poo poo in his Po-2. A man following in history's footsteps: http://falkeeins.blogspot.com/2012/08/buckers-with-bazookas-bu-181-bestmann.html Though I suppose modern RPGs might be slightly better at this than Panzerfausts, if only just.
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Jul 9, 2016 21:20
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 There was also one camouflaged Cessna 172 used to drop barrel bombs on enemy positions. Plus one or two An-2s, and one of them had an unfortunate meeting with a Kub (SA-6). Also a torpedo-armed Hind. Balkan unpleasantries in the nineties were loving amazing if you love dumb suicidal home built military hardware. Not really aeronautical insanity, but still insanity:  Four K-13 (AA-2) rocket engines strapped to a FAB-250 bomb. Mounted on a truck. Gervasius fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Jul 9, 2016 |
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Jul 9, 2016 21:33
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That's awesome, but pretty tame compared to the insanity going on in Syria for the past few years.
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Kerbal Space Program: Reality Edition.
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Godholio posted:That's awesome, but pretty tame compared to the insanity going on in Syria for the past few years. I believe Balkans engineering has one significant advantage over Syrian insanity - everyone in the Balkans, on all sides, was constantly drunk. 
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Gervasius posted:everyone in the Balkans, on all sides, was constantly drunk. Not the Bosniaks!
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Cat Mattress posted:Not the Bosniaks! And if I remember right, things turned out the worst for them, so take that as you will
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Cat Mattress posted:Not the Bosniaks! I heard the Bosnian (and some other Eastern European and Central Asian) muslims are less observant about the alcohol prohibition compared to Arab muslims, on the basis that the Prophet was talking about wine, not vodka.
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In my experience even Arab Muslims aren't generally all that observant of the restriction on alcohol.
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Jul 11, 2016 15:14
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Portuguese C-130 crashed at a base near Lisbon. http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/lockheed-c-130-hercules-plane-8397599 quote:A Lockheed C-130 Hercules plane has crashed at a Portugal military base killing three people.
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Gervasius posted:
Have any links for more sources about this? Improvised airpower is something I've been thinking of doing more research into.
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Is anyone going to the Employee/Retiree only Boeing 100th Anniversary celebration event at the Museum of Flight this weekend? I just got invited by my father-in-law (35 year retiree) to go to the 5:30 presentation on Saturday. Looks like they are blocking off East Marginal and shuttle busing everyone in. There is no parking onsite as they filled up the parking lots with more planes and stuff. Not sure if the museum is only open for employees or not.
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slidebite posted:Holy loving bravo I heard that the E2 is constant-speed prop, so they just have to adjust blade angle to get instant max power only if they realise the wire has actually snapped.
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meltie posted:I heard that the E2 is constant-speed prop, so they just have to adjust blade angle to get instant max power only if they realise the wire has actually snapped. yeah thats all prop planes and helicopters more or less. you have to increase the throttle to increase that blade angle and the corresponding engine torque demand. the pilot sets the prop speed. wingnut ningja corrected himself in the navy thread and said that E-2C's don't go full throttle upon landing.
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meltie posted:I heard that the E2 is constant-speed prop, so they just have to adjust blade angle to get instant max power only if they realise the wire has actually snapped. This is correct. Jet engines have to go to full power just in case because it takes some time to spool up, but with a turboprop you can get a much faster power response. So in the video they're probably just pushing up the power levers as the plane is nosing over the end of the deck. I initially said that they do go to full power, just later than jets, but according to the pilots I talked with today that's not true. Standard procedure is to stay at idle unless you don't trap; going to full power after catching a wire can actually cause control issues due to the torque and aerodynamic weirdness that props induce. Several dozen traps in the back end, and I'm still learning new things!
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911/912 own. I got to see them flying 200ft over my head last summer doing that. I should post my slurry vids.
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Jul 12, 2016 04:09
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Yes, you should.
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Jesus. Did they have to repaint the underside after it got scratched up by bushes?
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SeaborneClink posted:911/912 own. I got to see them flying 200ft over my head last summer doing that. I should post my slurry vids. As someone who originally hails from the land of burning trees with a "decent" airport in the middle of all of it, it's pretty rad watching them fly those big fuckers in for reloading/refueling/scraping out the deer and bunnies from the undercarriage when I head back down there yearly during fire season. Never got to see poo poo like what Yenk posted, though.  I don't even think they had those fitted as waterbombers back when I was a news cameraman hiking out to fires back in the day.
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Wingnut Ninja posted:Jesus. Did they have to repaint the underside after it got scratched up by bushes? Optical illusion, I'm sure they had tens of feet of clearance.
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I think you can safely call any maneuver that puts a drat mountain less than a wingspan below you a close call.
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Can't wait to see this lady's first night at the dance: 
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meltie posted:I heard that the E2 is constant-speed prop, so they just have to adjust blade angle to get instant max power only if they realise the wire has actually snapped. Most (if not all) turboprops land with the propellers in whatever the high RPM setting is for that airplane, so a go-around is mostly a case of shoving the power levers forward and waiting for the engines to spool up to full power, which doesn't take very long. Turboprops also have a distinct advantage over jets in that situation because the propeller wash over the wings generates a significant amount of lift in a low speed/high power scenario, which may have been what kept that airplane out of the water.
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