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MrLonghair posted:Plane ID required. Some two-engine that Hideo Kojima took to E3 and back home, the chromed engine casing (?) caught my interest. Looks like a saab 340 e: nope, not a 340, tail is wrong.... EMB120 perhaps SybilVimes fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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SybilVimes posted:EMB120 perhaps That seems to be it, thanks! On http://forums.nicoclub.com/airplane-thread-t558329.html in United livery, makes for great photos from inside over those engines
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Sep 3, 2014 21:07
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Sep 3, 2014 21:09
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Booblord Zagats posted:I know a guy who used to design intakes and flight surfaces for Grumman in the 60s-80s. He met Kelly a good many times and once told a Navy Admiral in front of Kelly "The problem is Kelly's a genius, and the Navy has no idea how to handle that. You guys only know how to deal with idiot-savants." Would love to have been in the room for that exchange.
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MrLonghair posted:Plane ID required. Some two-engine that Hideo Kojima took to E3 and back home, the chromed engine casing (?) caught my interest. Beech King Air
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Bob A Feet posted:Beech King Air Too many side windows and the windshield is all wrong. Didn't the Navy ever let you look at the aircraft in between your trips to Victoria? 
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The Ferret King posted:Too many side windows and the windshield is all wrong. Didn't the Navy ever let you look at the aircraft in between your trips to Victoria? The long, droopy nose is also a "not a King Air" sign.
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Bob A Feet posted:Beech King Air I think you'll find it is in fact a Pontiac Fiero.
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hobbesmaster posted:I think you'll find it is in fact a Pontiac Fiero. And if you put the right bodykit on it it looks like a 787
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All planes should be a king air is what I'm saying. Also I'm on a cellphone.
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I think what you have there is a Common T-tail Lockheed.
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Crossposted from the F-35 thread in GBS for those of you not following that: "[...]that fan-blade system just cracked too much, the whole circular part of that engine — through centrifugal force — stretched out and became a spear; that spear went up through the left aft fuselage of the fuel tank and it was the fuel tank that caused the fire."
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drunkill posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flypast#Flypasts_associated_with_World_War_II Got to love the section right below that also: quote:Panic and disaster 
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hobbesmaster posted:I think you'll find it is in fact a Pontiac Fiero. No problem getting that bad boy airborne!
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Flikken posted:There are some truly impressive feats out there. I like the gimle glider. Captain is a recreational glider pilot so ends up slipping a 767 like a glider. Gimli Glider. And he slipped the 767 onto an abandoned military airfield that had been turned into a drag-strip where they were dragging cars ON THAT DAY and landed the thing with no nose-gear. Air Transat Flight 236 is an amazing one as well. Flying from Toronto to Lisbon on an A330, main fuel line ruptures and all fuel is exhausted 65 miles from their emergency airfield in the Azores. Lands the plane, everyone gets off alive. It was the longest glide of a commercial aircraft in history. The Pilot, Robert Piche, gets all sorts of piloting accolades...until it's found out that he used to fly weed from Jamaica to the US. Dude still flies for Transat today.
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MA-Horus posted:Gimli Glider. A true hero   
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Tubesock posted:This popped up on the internet. Hashtags say it's from Singapore. Infinotize posted:Got to love the section right below that also: The RAAF always did like dump and burns to show off the F111.
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Spaced God posted:It's not just a town, it's host to the largest Fly-in and airshow in the world (citation needed) I thought the show was sponsored by the company  I'm goin to stop talking about it now.
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Aeronautical hilarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AubU5FeUIs A-4 formation barrel roll where one guy is buddy tanked to the one in front
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Gorilla Salad posted:I thought the show was sponsored by the company AirVenture (what people colloquially refer to as "Oshkosh" when referencing the aviation event) is sponsored by the Experimental Aircraft Association. During the event, the tower at OSH is the busiest in the world. FAA Controllers volunteer to staff the tower, ground operations, a VFR "approach control" at the town of Fisk, and Fond Du Lac airport. It's such an insanely unique air traffic operation. The tower at OSH instructs aircraft to land simultaneously on a given runway, by telling each one to land on a different colored dot on the surface. Departures are pushed out between arrivals by controllers on the ground with flags. The tower controllers have spotters and coordinators constantly feeding them information on what to say and who to talk to. The tower and Fisk approach controllers also rarely unkey their microphone. There is no time for pilots to read back instructions. Pilots acknowledge instructions by rocking their wings. Controllers identify pilots by type/color of aircraft instead of callsigns, since nobody calls in with their tail number. Never been, but one of these years I'll make it out there. Here's the 2014 Notice to Airmen covering the special procedures. Here's some audio of the approach control at Fisk: http://youtu.be/CyWfKmmIYAI http://youtu.be/oweE6gZCMZA Here's where the Fisk controllers work:  Here's some audio of the Oshkosh tower: http://youtu.be/lrJ_Azr8o14?t=6m19s Actually had a hard time finding good audio of the tower. But you get the idea.
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vessbot posted:Aeronautical hilarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AubU5FeUIs Bah, I'll be impressed when the USAF does it with a real tanker. Shouldn't be that much harder than lining up to the tanker in the first place, and we know the KC-135 can do a barrel roll...
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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DoubleAughtMeowMix posted:I think what you have there is a Common T-tail Lockheed. Have you considered a Twin Beech?
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The Ferret King posted:FAA Controllers volunteer to staff the tower, ground operations, a VFR "approach control" at the town of Fisk, and Fond Du Lac airport. I think those people are probably nuts too. I guess it would be pretty fun to work though.
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fknlo posted:I think those people are probably nuts too. I guess it would be pretty fun to work though. They might volunteer so they can get into the show easier/free as well.
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Gorilla Salad posted:I knew Oshkosh made trucks, never knew it was an actual town I thought it would be awesome to take one of Oskosh's Strikers, get an empty shell make it into an awesome RV. 
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Didn't see this posted yet, but it looks like a Mig-21 lawn darted in Tobruk the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZgRls8UWY
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Lightbulb Out posted:They might volunteer so they can get into the show easier/free as well. They also get some travel pay compensation. It's a good deal if you can handle the workload.
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slidebite posted:Didn't see this posted yet, but it looks like a Mig-21 lawn darted in Tobruk the other day The ironic thing about about this is the pilot was performing a memorial flypast for another pilot who died in an accident last month.
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MrChips posted:The ironic thing about about this is the pilot was performing a memorial flypast for another pilot who died in an accident last month. 
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The Ferret King posted:They also get some travel pay compensation. It's a good deal if you can handle the workload. Courtesy of my EAA dues (rather than my paying avgas excise taxes); the FAA suddenly decided to start charging EAA last year for ATC services (around $450,000) with 2 months notice before the airshow. http://generalaviationnews.com/2013/06/16/eaa-signs-deal-with-faa-to-cover-controller-expenses-at-oshkosh/
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I think the FAA Administrator abstained from attending that year, as well. For good reason.
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MrChips posted:The ironic thing about about this is the pilot was performing a memorial flypast for another pilot who died in an accident last month. What the heck happened? It the first video it looks like it just fell out of the sky. e: Tindjin posted:I thought it would be awesome to take one of Oskosh's Strikers, get an empty shell make it into an awesome RV. I've wanted to do this, too! Thanks mainly to this Car and Driver article from a decade ago. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 22:33 on Sep 4, 2014 |
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In the other angles it looks like it just pitches down and arcs into the ground. 
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To me it looks like he was in the inverted part of a roll when it hit.
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slidebite posted:Didn't see this posted yet, but it looks like a Mig-21 lawn darted in Tobruk the other day From the related videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDvAJTBII28    Read the comments if you dare.
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dubzee posted:From the related videos: I like how he goes on to conspiracy theories. It's a mig 21, that's all he needed to say.
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Oh god everything he says is just loving stupid. YES, you dumb gently caress, you can easily tell that it wasn't shot down because it wasn't on fire, smoking, and there wasn't a goddamn missile which you would easily be able to see.
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vessbot posted:Aeronautical hilarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AubU5FeUIs Alternatively, the USMC's newest scheme for extending the range of the -B.
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Looking at those MiGs in the museums, I started wondering about western aircraft in eastern-bloc displays. I can think of a few, but I can't imagine they're quite as common, or in nearly as good shape as the ones that came west with defectors - the ones that went east would be more likely to have been shot down. Just off the top of my head, I can think of the four B-29s that ended up in Russia and were dismantled for reverse-engineering, the Francis Gary Powers U-2, the Balkan war F-117, and I think I recall a B-52 on display in Vietnam. Are there any that I'm missing? Any that aren't in a pretty wrecked state?
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hogmartin posted:Looking at those MiGs in the museums, I started wondering about western aircraft in eastern-bloc displays. I can think of a few, but I can't imagine they're quite as common, or in nearly as good shape as the ones that came west with defectors - the ones that went east would be more likely to have been shot down. Just off the top of my head, I can think of the four B-29s that ended up in Russia and were dismantled for reverse-engineering, the Francis Gary Powers U-2, the Balkan war F-117, and I think I recall a B-52 on display in Vietnam. Are there any that I'm missing? Any that aren't in a pretty wrecked state? I think there's a Vertol helicopter in the Russian aviation museum at Monino that was a gift from President Eisenhower. Plus a B-25 from the Lend-Lease days.
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