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Frankly I’m not sure I’d want to be close to an airplane that just crashed like that. I know nothing about it but I’d be concerned that it could ignite and I have know idea what kinda chemicals I’d then be breathing. (Composite body work and all)
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PhotoKirk posted:I'm about a month into A&P school and I'm having a blast. Being a 50-year-old in a classroom of 20-somethings is odd. A&P?
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Nebakenezzer posted:A&P? rear end and pussy? E: that would explain why it would be awkward with a class full of 20-year-olds mobby_6kl fucked around with this message at 17:54 on Jul 18, 2022 |
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AirPlane I get the picture it's pretty normal to have people going and getting their A&P a bit later in life. I wasn't quite that old, but I was older than most of my class and I think the learned patience to not look at my phone all the time in class and to read textbooks put me ahead of my classmates
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Aggravation & Paperwork 
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:AirPlane Its actually Air & Plane.
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mustard_tiger posted:Its actually Air & Plane. My dad used to get that magazine
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Cat Hatter posted:Is there a term for whatever the opposite of bystander syndrome is? Back when I worked retail a guy came in yelling "THERE'S A CAR ON FIRE!", rips the fire extinguisher bracket off the wall instead of flipping the clasp open, and dramatically kicks the sliding door off the track to run out into the parking lot. This guy had been waiting his whole life for this moment. In that context? Hilarious.
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Nebakenezzer posted:A&P? Grocery store, but I thought they went bankrupt a few years back. 
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Didn't see it yet, happened over the weekend. https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/planes-in-north-las-vegas-crash-were-approaching-parallel-runways-authorities-say-2609392/
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Cat Hatter posted:Is there a term for whatever the opposite of bystander syndrome is? Back when I worked retail a guy came in yelling "THERE'S A CAR ON FIRE!", rips the fire extinguisher bracket off the wall instead of flipping the clasp open, and dramatically kicks the sliding door off the track to run out into the parking lot. This guy had been waiting his whole life for this moment. My department has a term, but I can't say it because it'll doxx a former firefighter who the term is named after... So adrenaline junkie or the aforementioned hero complex would be my runner ups!
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Cat Hatter posted:Is there a term for whatever the opposite of bystander syndrome is? Back when I worked retail a guy came in yelling "THERE'S A CAR ON FIRE!", rips the fire extinguisher bracket off the wall instead of flipping the clasp open, and dramatically kicks the sliding door off the track to run out into the parking lot. This guy had been waiting his whole life for this moment. I propose "pulling a Caro".
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RIAT 2022 RoKAF Black Eagles performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4mU6weVHM
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Bob A Feet posted:I’d be no where near that thing flying around at eye level. Hope his paintball gear protected him. Pretty sure I have that same helmet. Its kind of crap.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Nah, the eyepatch just buys them the ability to draw the curtain and be still sighted after the first blast. "No, Phy," my editor tells me, "nobody's going to buy the detail about nuclear bomber crews wearing masks that look like skulls. This is a novel, not a comic book."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:RIAT 2022 RoKAF Black Eagles performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl4mU6weVHM Never seen this team before, some pretty cool maneuvers in there.
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There was a 50 something year old in my A&P school. He was building a kit plane in his basement and figured he should get his A&P to help. He then went on to make and sell a few more and I think ran a business teaching new kit builders the basics of riveting and what not.
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Previa_fun posted:Never seen this team before, some pretty cool maneuvers in there. They generally don't perform outside of Korea.
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Cat Hatter posted:Is there a term for whatever the opposite of bystander syndrome is? Back when I worked retail a guy came in yelling "THERE'S A CAR ON FIRE!", rips the fire extinguisher bracket off the wall instead of flipping the clasp open, and dramatically kicks the sliding door off the track to run out into the parking lot. This guy had been waiting his whole life for this moment. If my car ever catches on fire, I hope that guy sees it.
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Apparently one of my wife's coworkers was on the plane that went down outside of Boulder over the weekend. Just tragic. Not a lot of information about what happened yet. He was a pilot but no idea if he was behind the controls on this flight, just that if left from the same airport he hung out at as an occasional CFI. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a3b0be&lat=40.069&lon=-105.415&zoom=15.5&showTrace=2022-07-17&leg=1×tamp=1658072311 My armchair interpretation is that something was wrong early, since it wasn't going nearly as fast as you'd expect based on the previous time the plane has done a similar loop. Perhaps nobody noticed the lack of speed and it turned into a stall and a spin during that turn? Or some kind of catastrophic mechanical failure caused full loss of control? The ADSB data makes it look like it went down very quickly once it started going down. The airworthiness registration expired on 4/30, so if the owner wasn't on the flight then they're in for a world of poo poo.
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Previa_fun posted:Never seen this team before, some pretty cool maneuvers in there. How did they get to Britain? Over China and Russia? Or did they go the long way?
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FunOne posted:Apparently one of my wife's coworkers was on the plane that went down outside of Boulder over the weekend. Just tragic. Sustained low speed in a Skymaster makes me think single-engine operation. The relatively benign single-engine handling of a Skymaster can lead to people not taking engine failures as seriously as they ought to be taken, and it has led to accidents in the past. Not saying that’s what happened here, but it could be.
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More love from my aviation-themed YouTube algorithm - Blue Angel F-4s put to some 70s-as-gently caress music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvGesCDMqSU And a longer, much more detailed documentary in two parts: (1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8DRvkuKtE and (2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr-sMugCyeY FuturePastNow posted:How did they get to Britain? Over China and Russia? Or did they go the long way? I can't get accurate figures on the maximum ferry range of a T-50, but I'd imagine they put as many bags on them as possible and went from Wonju (their home base in Korea) to Japan to Guam and just island-hopped across the Pacific. It was probably a royal rear end-killer of a flight. They won the RIAT equivalent of "Best in Show." Here's hoping they fly in the US sometime - I'd probably go out of my way to see that, even if it was on the West Coast. https://www.donga.com/en/article/all/20220719/3519919/1 And here's a Red Arrows and Black Eagles flyover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWyzQO3nXps I've really got a chapped rear end that I couldn't make it over there this year. 
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BIG HEADLINE posted:More love from my aviation-themed YouTube algorithm - Blue Angel F-4s put to some 70s-as-gently caress music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvGesCDMqSU The Blues in the Phantom were awesome for sure. What's funny is everyone holds up the Phantom as the pinnacle of sheer size and power for the Blues, but the Super Hornets they fly now are bigger in almost every dimension (they're three feet shorter), heavier, and more powerful than the F-4 Phantoms. Fly by wire probably helps though.
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Breaking my lurking to post my favourite video which combines catchy 80's music and Blue Angels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5PqVeex4QU
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LoudPipesSaveLives posted:Breaking my lurking to post my favourite video which combines catchy 80's music and Blue Angels I actually met the lead of the Blues during the Skyhawk era, Gil Rud. My father knew him. But yeah, I knew what was waiting on the other side of the link before clicking it.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:I actually met the lead of the Blues during the Skyhawk era, Gil Rud. My father knew him. Man that's awesome! I like the Skyhawks, they were NZ's fighter aircraft until we phased out that part of our airforce.
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LoudPipesSaveLives posted:Man that's awesome! He also led the transition to the Hornet for the Blues as well: https://youtu.be/oWQUtFHvELw BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 12:27 on Jul 20, 2022 |
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Previa_fun posted:The Blues in the Phantom were awesome for sure. What's funny is everyone holds up the Phantom as the pinnacle of sheer size and power for the Blues, but the Super Hornets they fly now are bigger in almost every dimension (they're three feet shorter), heavier, and more powerful than the F-4 Phantoms. The air and space museum in San Diego has an -18 (I think an A model?) and a phantom and you're absolutely right how because it never really clicked to me how loving big those hornets are. They also have a mig 15 which is just adorable next to either of them 
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Spaced God posted:The air and space museum in San Diego has an -18 (I think an A model?) and a phantom and you're absolutely right how because it never really clicked to me how loving big those hornets are. The Supers are another 10% bigger in each dimension (some sources say 25% but I think that's referring to wing area with the huge LEXs of the Supers)  I haven't gotten a chance to get out to an airshow and watch the Blues in the Super Hornets but from videos I already miss the "legacy" Hornets. They had much better roll rate and instantaneous pitch rate. Too bad by the end they were held together by duct tape and prayers. 
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Previa_fun posted:The Supers are another 10% bigger in each dimension (some sources say 25% but I think that's referring to wing area with the huge LEXs of the Supers) Didn't stop Canada. Hell their demo team is still flying trainers from the '60s
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Jonny Nox posted:Didn't stop Canada. this is a normal CF procurement process
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Frankly we should feel lucky they're flying jets at all. Or even turbine-engined planes.
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Previa_fun posted:I haven't gotten a chance to get out to an airshow and watch the Blues in the Super Hornets but from videos I already miss the "legacy" Hornets. They had much better roll rate and instantaneous pitch rate. This is why the A-4 was maybe the best stunt plane the Blues ever flew even if it wasn't the sexiest airframe in the inventory. 720 deg/sec roll rate? 
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