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Epic Fail Guy posted:Low-bypass turbofans look so strange today.
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BSAKat posted:Also, I just found out from someone at the museum that it's pretty much impossible to get inside the fence for some personal time with those static display aircraft anymore. What's up with that? Or rather, what kind of museum is that?
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Slo-Tek posted:I do like how the US just litters their high-tech advantages away.
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If we can check the drone color using Google, so can Iran.
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Lightbulb Out posted:My family does some volunteer photography work, which has involved us interacting with him on a number of occasions, and in general he has always just been just kind of a dick to everyone. A bit of a misogynist.
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I kinda think that if the TSA or such bothers you that much, you probably should just mellow out a bit instead of raging. But maybe I've just moved on from getting angry at things you can't control and letting them ruin your trip.
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iTunes has a trailer up for an IMAX movie filmed at the Reno air race. That seems a bit awkward, big elephant in the room.
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Mar 9, 2012 18:14
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I'm pretty sure Intrepid has a space exhibit? Practically it's going to the Intrepid because it's the aerospace museum in NYC not because of the Intrepid.
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Apr 18, 2012 13:31
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:Didn't NASA require that whoever gets the shuttles stores them indoors at all times? How is the Intrepid going to deal with that? OTOH, it makes sense they would only need a plan at bid time, rather than a finished build.
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Apr 18, 2012 18:40
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Was the Enterprise decision made by NASA or the Smithsonian?
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Apr 19, 2012 01:43
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slidebite posted:CNN has video of that 727 crash from a mile or so away Google Translated: quote:this aircraft was dropped by remote control for study purposes in safety. PLACE ..... ........... km. Highway 86 Mexicali to San Felipe ... arriving at km. 86 went down the road .. / .. and we drive 5 km. farther west in the desert of the SALT / site where they made the "mock" real fall of an airplane with a capacity of 200 persons / Well, it was drill, a drill that is only a simulation, here the plane broke into several pieces, everything was royal scrivener. / the pilots piloting the plane left the airport to the site of a parachute landing threw the 4 drivers, and after tossing the plane was headed to the place by remote control .. . / .. Intentionally crashed the plane to get information on the incident and to see how to improve security measures ... clear it all paid for NAT GEO AND DISCOVERY first in coordination .. / ... this was on April 27, 2012 .. smackfu fucked around with this message at 20:09 on May 2, 2012 |
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InitialDave posted:They should have just sucked it up and accepted they made a bad decision. I genuinely view having the "lifetime ticket" fliers as being a positive PR thing for them, especially given that they "fixed" the pricing issue. The part I don't understand is that the contract says AA could have just terminated it and refunded the pro-rated purchase price based on a duration of 200 months (section 18C): https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/353874-vroom-aairpass-contract.html That seems like it would have been far cheaper way out of these things.
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May 7, 2012 18:29
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Amsterdam Schiphol is pretty annoying because a lot of the flights use the newest Polderbaan runway which is like 4 miles from the terminal. So if you connect through there it's like 40 minutes longer than through another airport.
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May 24, 2012 03:01
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Helado posted:Detroit is my current favorite when I have to connect. The layout aside from the somewhat nonsensical gate ordering in some places is pretty straight forward and getting from one terminal to another is efficient. I wouldn't necessarily want to be stuck there for a long layover, but it's good for getting you in and out. Is that the one with the internal monorail, that never seems like the fastest option?
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May 24, 2012 18:32
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EnergizerFellow posted:Which is why I'm mildly surprised somebody hasn't taken a crack at full-on reproductions of a Mustang/Bearcat/Spitfire. There's got to be enough rich guys and airshow circuits to make it viable.
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Jul 13, 2012 02:02
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Hard to believe that airlines like Pan Am and Eastern just died, instead of being taken over. Guess it was different times.
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Polymerized Cum posted:I need a list of Kerry, Gore and GWB's planes to prove this hypothesis correct. Kerry-Edwards had a 757-200: http://www.airliners.net/photo/TransMeridian-Airlines-Kerry-Edwards/Boeing-757-236/0694291/&sid=8b080db2657cb4ceccf958f636df7f97 Dole 96 had a 727-200: pic Gore-Lieberman was a DC-9 with Spirit logo for some reason: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Spirit-Airlines/McDonnell-Douglas-DC-9-31/1122485/M/
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Sep 26, 2012 19:11
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I think all of the US is more than a 12 hour flight from Dubai.
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Dec 30, 2012 02:22
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Honestly I would put most IFE issues on crappy software rather than the hardware. Is the software sourced by the carriers or do Boeing / Airbus do it to order?
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Dec 31, 2012 04:11
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Eh, that whole thing isn't very convincing either. I've seen plenty of business travelers asleep before take off. Not to mention all the people who take sleeping pills on long flights. Attendants just have to deal with that and it's way more out of it than someone on a laptop.
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Dec 31, 2012 14:00
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My god, how much do machinists make nowadays?
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Jan 9, 2013 00:19
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Are they covered in grease or some other kind of mothballing?
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Jan 9, 2013 16:34
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Classy, CNN: So, I guess not?
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Jan 10, 2013 20:58
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ctishman posted:As for the logotype, they COULD, but their ad agency would want a full face if not a family for use in ads, and rather than going to a foundry like they're Apple or something, I'll bet they just flipped through one of the zillion Helvetica ripoffs until they found one with precisely the features they wanted.
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Jan 18, 2013 01:18
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From before things needed to be wheelchair accessible.
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Jun 6, 2013 13:12
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drat, that's a pretty big temporary hangar.
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Jun 7, 2013 01:27
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iyaayas01 posted:Doubt it. Herks can take off from a carrier too, really not all that much to it:
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Jun 7, 2013 20:57
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OptimusMatrix posted:Here's that Dayton crash from two different vantages. Yeah, this is not abstract plane crash video, it's low and close. I would advise skipping it.
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Jun 23, 2013 15:23
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More info: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip
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Jun 26, 2013 13:03
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The story of the BA 777 pilot is confusing. Like he was suspended, then took a voluntary layoff, then wrote a book critical of BA, then... was rehired?
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holocaust bloopers posted:A lot of luck also helped out immensely here as well. That's not exactly reassuring? I mean, triumph of engineering or not, if the plane had rolled all the way over, there'd be a lot of dead people. I just wouldn't use this particular incident to argue how safe airline travel is. Except in the sense that "even if the crew is terrible, you are still probably ok." smackfu fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Jul 8, 2013 19:03
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Do they ever really close airports because of noise complaints? Closest I've seen is buying up people's houses instead.
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Illuminati by Nature posted:Apologies if a respost Wow, they have been fighting the jets since 1968 and the 737 at that airport: http://www.ocair.com/communityrelations/faq-noise.aspx
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Aug 7, 2013 20:42
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That plane that crashed in Connecticut was pretty big for a private plane. What's that seat, seven or so? I think the death toll so far is just that they know there were two in the house and at least one pilot.
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Aug 10, 2013 02:36
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I'm still amazed they could take these supersonic planes from design to a flying prototype with the tech of the day. Considering how hard it is to do the same thing nowadays. Computers: friend or foe?
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Nov 5, 2013 13:15
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Besides other reasons, do you really want to be the only guy on the plane NOT wearing a parachute?
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Nov 6, 2013 15:50
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Worst thing about 14 hour flights is that you get sick of watching movies, and the IFE usually don't have full seasons of TV shows. But not many ways to get to Australia from NYC without a long flight or two.
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Nov 10, 2013 04:18
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Aer Lingus also flies to a lot of places cheaply and isn't terrible. It's a pretty good hub if you aren't sure of where you'll end up going in Europe, since you can almost certainly fly back to Dublin. Of course, the key point there is that the flights to Dublin from NYC are already cheap,
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Nov 18, 2013 13:30
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New footage of Asiana crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNfDUTGOEj0 Even more amazing that it didn't kill a lot more people. Although after watching the video a lot, I guess it was almost like a flat spin on the ground, rather than the flip it originally looks like. 
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Wow, Singapore has an Air Force? It's a pretty small place.
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