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2ndclasscitizen posted:Is that the V 777-ER that had to turn back out of LAX? Unless the pictures are flipped, that's the wrong engine. Flight VA02 (which is what I assume you are referring to) had problems with the left engine, and they are still trying to determine what caused it. On the other hand, I think reason for the problem with the pictured aircraft is somewhat self evident.
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# ¿ May 1, 2011 04:11 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 22:11 |
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Even with the pitot tubes all frozen, wouldn't the artificial horizon still work, and tell them that their nose was pointed at the sky? Doesn't the plane have a radar altimeter, which would have shown a horrific descent rate?
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# ¿ May 28, 2011 06:04 |
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slidebite posted:Crosspost from TFR The emergency response time is impressive. He impacts the ground at 0:18. At 2:18 there is water coming into the frame from one of the fire trucks.
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2011 05:09 |
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rcman50166 posted:Is it just me or did that Mustang still look flyable? I don't question the pilot's choice to eject but still, it would be a shame if it could have been landed. It didn't appear to have lost any flight surfaces (the only piece that fell out of the sky appeared to be the Skyraider wing), but a couple angles show a fair amount of damage to the bottom of the fuselage just ahead of the tail, so it's possible he lost his control linkages to the tail/rudder. It's a bummer to lose the plane, but it was sure nice to see the pilot got out safely, and to see the Skyraider land after the crash. Tough airplane.
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# ¿ Jul 17, 2011 18:55 |
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ursa_minor posted:He pops the canopy almost immediately, you can see it fluttering behind the Mustang - and then yeah, old cat had to physically stand up and jump out of a rapidly falling airplane, only a few hundred feet off the ground. The more I really try to put myself into that position, the more it gets. In one of the interviews with him after the crash, he also states that most of his injuries came when he hit the tail after leaving the cockpit. Looking at it again, given how quick he had the canopy off, if he had stayed in the plane to see if it was flyable for even a couple of seconds, he wouldn't have made it out if it wasn't flyable. Glad he got out.
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# ¿ Jul 19, 2011 15:24 |
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From Popular Mechanics - http://www.popularmechanics.com/tec...click=pm_latestquote:A week after the catastrophic crash at the Reno Air Races that killed 11 people and injured dozens more, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today released its preliminary report on the incident. While the report revealed little new information of note, it confirmed the most salient details and laid the groundwork for a longer report that will take approximately a year to complete. Only when that final report is issued will the NTSB make recommendations that may affect future running of the Reno races—or, possibly, cause them to be shut down.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2011 07:01 |
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Phanatic posted:I find it difficult to believe that the airframe could take 22 Gs without coming apart. The ultimate load factor for the F-15 is 11 Gs The article doesn't really state that it was under a sustained 22g load, just that it hit 22g's. The original airframe was designed for sustained high g-loads (7+?) in combat conditions with much more weight on the aircraft in fuel and weapons, both in the fuselage, and wings. The race place had been recently rebuilt, and had much shorter wings (I think they were clipped 5'). The combination of recent rebuild, clipped wings, and much less weight on the airframe could combine to allow for much higher g-loading survivability for a short period of time. I'm sure that under a continuous g-load of 22g's, that the airframe would have come apart fairly soon though.
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# ¿ Sep 24, 2011 18:32 |
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Epic Fail Guy posted:Too bad the DC-10 and MD-11 didn't follow the tradition. Maybe they'd still be around. Aren't a bunch of MD-11's still being flown by Fedex, and other cargo carriers? I know that Fedex fly's at least 2 widebody tri-jets into Phoenix every single day, and I thought those were MD-11's, but I'm not an airplane expert.
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# ¿ Oct 25, 2011 03:55 |
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Captain Postal posted:I hope that's a typo. Otherwise, poo poo. The QE2 has a fuel capacity of approx. 1,000,000 gallons. She has a claimed cruising range of 7500 miles, so rough math says 133.33 gallons burned per mile. She carries 1778 passengers, and 1016 crew (2794 total). So, fully loaded: Counting only passengers: 0.075 gallons per passenger mile. If my math is right, this is about 13.33 passenger miles per gallon. Counting crew + passengers: 0.0478 gallons per passenger mile. Again, math, approximately 20.96 passenger miles per gallon. Edit: If she got 57.5 gallons per passenger mile, she would (using *only* passengers in the calculation) use 102235 gallons of fuel per mile traveled, and have a maximum range of 9-3/4 miles. Hell of a short cruise.
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2011 03:38 |
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iyaayas01 posted:A primer for those who don't appreciate the significance of this. Strange, the local story around the 6 Starships on the ramp at Marana (we autocross around them every month) was that they were parts planes for a Starship owner. If they are actually owned by Raytheon to be chopped up, they sure are being slow about it, as those 6 planes have been there for years without any noticeable change.
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# ¿ Nov 2, 2011 05:20 |
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Speaking of BUFF's.. Bomb's Away! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dGLgZ8htLI4#t=144s
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# ¿ Nov 8, 2011 04:31 |
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iyaayas01 posted:here's a faux-real world one, with a bonus KC-135. Three bonus KC-135's. Three! I remember seeing a MITO by the National Guard KC-135's at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix many years ago, before they were re-engined. I was on top of the parking garage, and it was awesome as 6 of them rolled out, and completely disrupted the regular commercial flight ops at the airport. I remember thinking at the time that all the folks in Tempe were going to be wearing our their phones that night, as the KC's were all running full power water injected takeoffs to the east (at the time, Tempe people really liked to complain about the aircraft noise from Sky Harbor).
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# ¿ Nov 11, 2011 04:08 |
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A twin engine Rockwell AC69 crashed east of Phoenix tonight after taking off from Falcon field in Mesa. The crash was caught on tape by what appears to be a home security camera. The plane appears to just fly straight and level into the Superstition mountains. Video is from long distance, no gore or anything. http://ktar.com/?sid=1472963&nid=825 For those not from the area, the mountain(s) in question are pretty much vertical:
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# ¿ Nov 24, 2011 07:56 |
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:Much better video of that Auckland helicopter crash.. What the hell was that dude on the ground thinking when he jumped up and grabbed the cable pulling it straight into the rotor blades?
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# ¿ Nov 25, 2011 08:40 |
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Ridge_Runner_5 posted:Have a video of a flight of P-38s patrolling Central California... Holy poo poo that's awesome. I had no idea that there were 5 flying Lightnings left in the entire world, so seeing them all together like that is just amazing. Thanks!
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2011 02:51 |
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What is really amazing, is that all three pilots completely tuned out the stall warning. During the entire sequence, the airplane was loving telling them what was happening, and they completely ignored it. Also, the lack of feedback between the two sticks seems (now, in retrospect) to be a pretty dumb thing. If the left seater had been unable to push his stick forward without a lot of effort, he might have clued into the fact that Bonin was literally stalling them into the ocean the entire time.
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# ¿ Dec 10, 2011 04:01 |
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Tsuru posted:Do you know what happens to your indicated airspeed when you climb in a plane with blocked pitots? From the transcript: 02:10:35 (Bonin) D'accord. Okay. Thanks to the effects of the anti-icing system, one of the pitot tubes begins to work again. The cockpit displays once again show valid speed information. 02:10:36 (Robert) Redescends! Descend! ... 02:14:27 (Captain) 10 degrès d'assiette... Ten degrees of pitch... Exactly 1.4 seconds later, the cockpit voice recorder stops They had valid speed on the instruments for the vast majority of the time. At the time the pitot tube becomes ice-free and the speed readouts returned, they were still climbing above their cruise altitude.
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# ¿ Dec 11, 2011 17:21 |
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Throatwarbler posted:What the hell is going on here. Story?
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# ¿ Dec 15, 2011 07:57 |
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Needs better pictures. At 32' it wouldn't have had any problem going anywhere, given that a normal semi-trailer is 53' long. The story says that they had to remove signs because the load was too long to make a turn, but 32' isn't nearly long enough to pose that sort of problem. Edit: Better picture, still not great, doesn't really look that long, just wide. The Locator fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Dec 17, 2011 |
# ¿ Dec 17, 2011 07:36 |
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The most amazing R/C demo flight I've ever seen. Even though it's R/C, I figured everyone here might enjoy it. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=tzowQtqOM_I
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# ¿ Jan 1, 2012 20:05 |
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nummy posted:drat. That kid has skill. And a follow up. Similar flight, this time showing the controls so that you can see what his hands are doing during the flight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1u-TEb3RCpg
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# ¿ Jan 2, 2012 07:31 |
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Krime posted:That... Turns? Why yes, it does. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJibKdeqzGU
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# ¿ Jan 9, 2012 07:43 |
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Caption: Air Force dropping UFO's over the southern Arizona desert.
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# ¿ Jan 17, 2012 00:09 |
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Preoptopus posted:WINGSUIT MADNESS. Guys are just.... loving crazy.
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# ¿ Mar 7, 2012 06:34 |
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D C posted:I spy with my little eye, something that is stupid rare... I autocross on the same ramp with 6 of those.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2012 05:54 |
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D C posted:Maybe parts planes? Beechcraft bought most of them back, theres only a handfull still flying. Yes, they are parts planes for a rich guy who wants to keep his flying (or at least that's the story I was told). azflyboy posted:Would that be on the ramp at Marana, AZ? Those are the ones. There are six of them there, the engines have all been removed, but they are still pretty.
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2012 04:45 |
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The Electronaut posted:Don't mind if I do! Ok! Not bombers, but I got the war right!
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# ¿ May 2, 2012 04:10 |
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Mobius1B7R posted:They found the Superjet that went missing yesterday. Apparently, even Russian "Superjets" can't fly through mountains. I wonder if we'll ever find out if that was some sort of mechanical problem, or if the pilot was hotdogging for the potential buyers and hosed up.
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# ¿ May 10, 2012 08:05 |
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xaarman posted:PHX is the worst airport ever. Old, overpopulated, and no good restaurants. If you are only flying SouthWest or US Air it isn't bad, since you will be in Terminal 4. But if you get stuck in T2 or T3, or worse, need to transfer between terminals, ugh. The designers made no provision for transfer between terminals at all (not even a sidewalk for the intrepid that want to brave the heat), so you have to catch a shuttle bus. They are in the (slow) process of tying everything together with a train system now, but of course step 1 wasn't tying the terminals together, or even connecting to the rental car facility. Nope, step 1 was connecting Terminal 4 to the east parking garage and the light rail north of the airport. The mind boggles. The 'master plan' had both terminal 2 and 3 (and the old non-existent terminal 1) replaced with shiny new terminals nicer than terminal 4, but that plan has never materialized.
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# ¿ May 26, 2012 18:47 |
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Delivery McGee posted:Whatever, here's some pictures. New desktop image, thanks, that is a fantastic photo.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2012 05:20 |
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Luke AFB gets the F-35 training mission. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/arizonas-luke-air-force-base-35-mission-16907863#.UBn55qNytyE This is awesome. Now all those bastards that got the racetrack next to the base shut down get even noisier than F-16 jets. This makes me so happy.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2012 04:55 |
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Found this on a site that is mostly Russian dash cam videos of crashes. It gets aeronautical about 20 seconds in. The sound is out of sync with the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjrB7eoBosk
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2012 08:32 |
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Godholio posted:How about a link to the site? Nothing (other than that one video) that's particularly related to Aeronautical, so didn't occur to me. Here it is - http://ru-chp.livejournal.com/ I got it off of this forum, I think from the youtube thread, but might have been a different one, quite a while back.
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# ¿ Sep 2, 2012 19:36 |
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PhotoKirk posted:Ah, the cold war "crop-duster" that carried paratroopers. Scuttle-butt is that it was designed to spray chemical weapons on NATO troops. It could only carry 2 'technicians' as passengers. It was actually used in Russia, but (shock!) was not economical as a crop duster, and the order of 3000 was cancelled and only 175 were built. Given it's slow speed (slowest mass produced jet in the world), I doubt it would do very well in a combat environment trying to deliver chemical weapons.
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# ¿ Sep 10, 2012 05:17 |
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McDeth posted:This is pretty wtf (warning, possibly graphic and Jihadtards). Posted over at Jalaopnik earlier, I'm not sure how long it'll last on YouTube before somebody gets offended and pulls it. I thought poo poo like this only happened in Hollywood Syrian helicopter shot down by rebels is the story Google brings up on this - unconfirmed.
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# ¿ Oct 19, 2012 08:13 |
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Got linked this from a friend. Flickr album of the DC-7 that flew Lady Bird Johnson around. It's been sitting on the tarmac at the Goodyear airport since 1976 waiting for restoration (guessing it's never happening given the 36 years it's been waiting now). Some great photos, both exterior and interior. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pyrat_wesly/sets/72157632003404478/
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2012 08:14 |
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MrYenko posted:Given the location and length of time it's been there, there's honestly not much restoration to be done, other than stripping and repainting the exterior. She's been well taken-care of. The Arizona Desert does a fair job of aircraft preservation! The pictures were taken by a guy who simply asked the owner if he could look at the aircraft. I'm not sure how he got in touch with the owner, but those photos apparently were taken yesterday morning. The owner and an airport supervisor met them, and escorted them out to the plane. If you look at Goodyear Airport on Google Maps, you can see that it's sitting way out in middle of an empty ramp, far away from any buildings.
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# ¿ Nov 14, 2012 16:04 |
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So, dumb aviation related question, figured this thread was the best place for it. I drive by Sky Harbor Airport on my way to/from work each day, and the Fed Ex/UPS ramp is right next to I-10. On any given 'typical' day, UPS will have 1 or 2 767's and another 757 on the ramp, and Fed Ex will have a pair of MD-11's. Varies slightly, but that's the norm. In the last few days, thanks to 'Black Friday'/'Cyber Monday', Fed Ex had 4 MD-11's and 2 smaller tri-jets and a medium sized twin I couldn't really see well (behind one of the MD-11's). UPS had as many as 4 MD-11's, as well as a pair of 767's on the ramp at one time. My dumb question is - since all of these birds were in full livery - where do the 'extra' aircraft and crews come from during this season? I assume that other locations are also busier at this time of year, so how can they ramp up to have 2-3x the carrying capacity with aircraft and crews? Or alternatively, what the heck do these aircraft do during the rest of the year?
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2012 03:30 |
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D C posted:Probably has to do with the massive Amazon warehouse in PHX right? Three distribution centers here actually, and I'm sure that's a huge part of the reason why they have the numbers here normally. Thanks everyone for the info, it generally seemed odd to me that they would maintain enough excess capacity to handle such a large upsurge without somehow reducing capacity somewhere else.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2012 07:49 |
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 22:11 |
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Thought this might be a good thread for this. Want to go fishing in a remote spot in Alaska? Just hire a batshit crazy person with an airplane and go! http://www.vid4fun.com/video_player/index.php?vid=103
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# ¿ Dec 3, 2012 17:34 |