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Anyone watching this hearing with the airline CEOs? Local news stations are getting into the airline hate now. Just saw a teaser for a segment tonight exploring STANDING ONLY FLIGHTS and PAID RESTROOMS! What else will the evil airlines do to oppress us?!!?
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Jealous Cow posted:Anyone watching this hearing with the airline CEOs? Local news stations are getting into the airline hate now. Just saw a teaser for a segment tonight exploring STANDING ONLY FLIGHTS and PAID RESTROOMS! What else will the evil airlines do to oppress us?!!? "Most unpopular senate in history senses opportunity to grandstand for a bit."
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May 2, 2017 19:28
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Nebakenezzer posted:Can I just say that if the gubbermint *really* wanted to cut down the surplus population they'd just engineer a fatal infection that had a really expensive cure Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the senator.
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May 2, 2017 19:40
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Ardeem posted:Still not the weirdest passenger conversion the British ever made.  Obviously they couldn't use it for everything they use a helicopter for, but they did use it for flying doctor service, sightseeing, etc, and then it makes total sense. Rugged, easy to fly and maintain airframe that can use short and undeveloped landing fields, and lets you carry around rich people who want to look down on everyone else and specialists to hard to reach locations. Makes a lot more sense than those bomber conversions, that's for sure!
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May 2, 2017 19:57
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CTV News Chopper 9! Much better than the Global chopper which is a stupid Robinson R44.
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May 2, 2017 20:07
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vessbot posted:... a last flight out of Vietnam type of scenario. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcWZ7j1iTg
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May 2, 2017 20:46
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Jealous Cow posted:Anyone watching this hearing with the airline CEOs? Local news stations are getting into the airline hate now. Just saw a teaser for a segment tonight exploring STANDING ONLY FLIGHTS and PAID RESTROOMS! What else will the evil airlines do to oppress us?!!? Yea they got grilled pretty good especially by that one woman who was saying her constituants were calling her from an aiplane stuck on the tarmac in some anecdotal story involving a snowstorm. Why couldn't you bring them a ladder?! She yelled like the ceos were supposed to know what the gently caress she was talking about or even how to begin to respond. One guy was pretty chill he was all. So we're done dragging people off of airplanes? Yea? OK good. Mistakes were made let's move on. The whole thing was painful to watch as people kept saying how little they knew everyone wanted to be there and how thankful they are to the ceos about enduring 5 min of bitching from everyone. In other news Alitalia is about to tank and that makes me sad because that was hands down the best traveling expirience of my life. I saw this on the BBC and thought you should see it: Alitalia slides into administration - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39780604
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May 2, 2017 21:04
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Preoptopus posted:In other news Alitalia is about to tank and that makes me sad because that was hands down the best traveling expirience of my life. You obviously never flew with them in the early 90s within Europe. Wide open cockpit doors (so close to Libya), stench of cigarettes and cigars wafting down the entire length of the cabin, literally *watching* a pilot holding a cigarette while his FO drank coffee during a crosswind landing... We flew Meridiana whenever it was possible.
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May 2, 2017 21:41
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BIG HEADLINE posted:You obviously never flew with them in the early 90s within Europe. Wide open cockpit doors (so close to Libya), stench of cigarettes and cigars wafting down the entire length of the cabin, literally *watching* a pilot holding a cigarette while his FO drank coffee during a crosswind landing... Sounds like the last deadhead I took on Republic a few days ago (minus being near Libya, and replace cigarettes with vaping)
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May 2, 2017 22:50
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hobbesmaster posted:Your appointment to FEMA should be finalized within the week. I've already discussed the matter with the senator. Nice
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May 2, 2017 23:48
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priznat posted:CTV News Chopper 9! Except CTVs old poo poo standard def FLIR camera needs to hit the dumpster.
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May 3, 2017 00:42
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D C posted:Except CTVs old poo poo standard def FLIR camera needs to hit the dumpster. I can't remember ever seeing that used in a broadcast, that'd be pretty sweet after upgrade. I work near SFU and see a Bell jetranger flying around here fairly often, it isn't chopper 9 though, curious as to what it does. The 2 bladed rotors are always easy to pick out, sound wise.
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May 3, 2017 01:46
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I flew Alitalia in the early 90s. My mom took me up to the 747 flight deck to visit. The pilot handed me a pair of plastic wings. Was cool; would fly Alitalia again as a child.
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May 3, 2017 02:05
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cowboy elvis posted:I flew Alitalia in the early 90s. My mom took me up to the 747 flight deck to visit. The pilot handed me a pair of plastic wings. Was cool; would fly Alitalia again as a child. "'Eyyyyyy, little bambino...'ere, ah'va some wings. Say, what'a kinda man is you'a papa? He make'a sure you'a momma happy? What'sa you address and when'a papa get home'a from work?"
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May 3, 2017 02:35
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Mr. Despair posted:http://webpages.sdsmt.edu/~adetwile/ has some updates, apparently it's moderately stalled out while it waits for NSF approval/direction to finish setting it up (although it's in a flyable state now) Never forget: https://web.archive.org/web/20060803203145/http://www.firehogs.com/
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May 3, 2017 09:12
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https://streamable.com/2627s There were no serious injuries
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May 3, 2017 11:32
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https://zippy.gfycat.com/DependableParallelBanteng.webm   
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May 3, 2017 12:23
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Jonny Nox posted:Apparently the chemtrails are being used to manipulate the weather now. Ok, so it is the chemtrails now how the weather is controlled. I work in a university on climate research. About five years ago I got a phone call from a local farmer claiming that the HAARP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program) installation was the reason of him loosing his potato crops that year. I do still don't know who I angered in the switchboard to get connected to that phone call. In the end he started to talk about the End Times (tm). I told that if he is into that kind of things, he should be happy about them as he should then be saved. He was happy in the end.
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May 3, 2017 15:11
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Oh god. Now I'm going to spend two hours trying to figure out what that was.
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May 3, 2017 15:23
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MrYenko posted:Oh god. Now I'm going to spend two hours trying to figure out what that was. "WF826 - Meteor T.7 (modified) - ex-Royal Air Force - Kemble / 5 Maintenance Unit - 08-Jun-75. Modified for use in snow clearing duties at Kemble in 1965."
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May 3, 2017 15:30
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May 3, 2017 15:35
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MrYenko posted:Oh god. Now I'm going to spend two hours trying to figure out what that was. Edit: missed Generation Internet's second post my bad.
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May 3, 2017 16:57
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"'Eyyyyyy, little bambino...'ere, ah'va some wings. Say, what'a kinda man is you'a papa? He make'a sure you'a momma happy? What'sa you address and when'a papa get home'a from work?" Wow p. racist against Wops there buddy.
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May 3, 2017 18:31
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monkeytennis posted:Wow p. racist against Wops there buddy. How can they fly the plane steady and level while waving their arms all over the place??
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May 3, 2017 18:46
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FOD on runway https://i.imgur.com/zE8qrg8.mp4
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May 3, 2017 18:52
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drunkill posted:FOD on runway Or FOD from runway, specifically the old non-jet certified flaky kind.
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May 3, 2017 19:03
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drunkill posted:FOD on runway Someone is in deep trouble...
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May 3, 2017 19:52
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monkeytennis posted:Wow p. racist against Wops there buddy. You've obviously never lived in Italy during your formative years. If you lived on the economy (off of the military base) and you had a reasonably attractive mother, they'd have tons of Italian men asking them where they lived and if they could "visit" come riposo. The truly "dedicated" would brave "stranger danger" to ask poo poo like that to kids.
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May 3, 2017 19:52
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Ola posted:Or FOD from runway, specifically the old non-jet certified flaky kind. I had no idea that 'jet certified' was even a thing for a runway. Now I see why it is. That was a pretty expensive take-off!
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May 3, 2017 20:44
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The Locator posted:I had no idea that 'jet certified' was even a thing for a runway. Now I see why it is. That was a pretty expensive take-off! Maybe it's not a specific certification procedure, but there's certainly yay/nay on various surface types and conditions. It's particularly dangerous on that Vampire, where a chunk might take out his horizontal stabilizer, which would end up loosening a whooole bunch of runway surface. Since he was flying so flat and holding it on, I suspect he knew.
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May 3, 2017 20:58
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monkeytennis posted:Wow p. racist against Wops there buddy. As someone of Italian descent I agree. It's offensive as gently caress that any of you think a hot-blooded Italian man would do anything other than go straight to directly flirting with the woman in question
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May 3, 2017 23:17
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MrChips posted:It's offensive as gently caress that any of you think a pilot would do anything other than go straight to directly flirting with the woman in question
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May 3, 2017 23:43
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Will the firefighting appliances from the airfield leave the airfield for any fire that is close to the airfield or only when there's a plane involved? I assume the airfield isn't closed due to this accident which happened nearby, so what happens if a plane crashes there now? I probably won't lay awake at night pondering these questions, just mildly curious.
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Buttcoin purse posted:Will the firefighting appliances from the airfield leave the airfield for any fire that is close to the airfield or only when there's a plane involved? I assume the airfield isn't closed due to this accident which happened nearby, so what happens if a plane crashes there now? Yeah, it's not uncommon if the fire needs special equipment to deal with it. Recall back to that fire that collapsed the interstate bridge in Atlanta a month or two ago, they sent trucks from the airport to help out. That said, in order for the airport to remain open they need to maintain a certain number (and size) of trucks ready to respond to comply with the rules.
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 It flew 240 km in this condition.  quote:This P-47 of the 65th Fighter Squadron, while on a mission near Milan, struck the ground during a strafing attack. The pilot successfully flew the vibrating aircraft 150 miles back to Grosseto airfield. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 08:41 on May 4, 2017 |
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May 4, 2017 08:36
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No, it's hosed up like that because it struck the ground during a *strafing attack*.
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May 4, 2017 09:58
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The target must have been killed by impact not munitions.
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May 4, 2017 10:35
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPbxIrprato It landed successfully at another airport.
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Hambilderberglar posted:Forget that. Let's all reflect that on the fact that the prop got that way not on takeoff, or landing, or from striking something in the air. The amazing thing isn’t that the plane could stay in the air with a propeller like that; it’s that it could stay in the air while carrying the pilot’s massive brass balls.
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