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[gotbeer]

Terrifying footage of a helicopter lending on a ship in stormy seas

 

 

[arch stanton]

4 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Terrifying footage of a helicopter lending on a ship in stormy seas

 

 

I wrote several of the procedures in the maintenance manuals of that model. No particular significance to that landing but it kept me employed for a year between fighter gigs so i'll always have a soft spot for the Romeos.

[gotbeer]

Ok, this isn't aviation.  But it's a military sub.  So thought I would post it in here, since it's pretty incredible.

In 2005, a U.S. Navy Submarine Ran Into a Mountain

[Homebrewer]

Took a little private "Party" jaunt in this from SNA, out over Catalina, down the coast to Pendelton, up over Palm Springs and the desert, and back to SNA when Aircal introduced them into service back in the mid-80's.

It's a BAe 146...just like the one that went down with the Brazilian soccer team last week. 

[Tank]

39 minutes ago, Vladdylonglegs said:

Apparently its engines stop running when it runs out of fuel.

i hate when that happens.

[arch stanton]

Total design flaw

[Homebrewer]

8 hours ago, Vladdylonglegs said:

Apparently its engines stop running when it runs out of fuel.

And there seems to be an issue with electrical system failure when the APU stops running.

Hard to believe in this day and age that something like this can happen. 

[gotbeer]

10 hours ago, Homebrewer said:

Took a little private "Party" jaunt in this from SNA, out over Catalina, down the coast to Pendelton, up over Palm Springs and the desert, and back to SNA when Aircal introduced them into service back in the mid-80's.

It's a BAe 146...just like the one that went down with the Brazilian soccer team last week. 

It's probably the same one the Brazillian soccer team used last week.  The exact same one. 

[Homebrewer]

2 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

It's probably the same one the Brazillian soccer team used last week.  The exact same one. 

Could be...not sure if the tail numbers are changed when an aircraft moves to another continent.

[arch stanton]

When they change carriers they probably change tail numbers to correspond to that carriers set of numbers but obviously the serial number stays the same and that's what would be tracked by FAA type organizations. I'll repeat with every tragic accident like what happened in Colombia someone blatantly disregarded well-established procedures that would have prevented the accident. Human error is always the culprit.

[Homebrewer]

9 minutes ago, arch stanton said:

When they change carriers they probably change tail numbers to correspond to that carriers set of numbers but obviously the serial number stays the same and that's what would be tracked by FAA type organizations. I'll repeat with every tragic accident like what happened in Colombia someone blatantly disregarded well-established procedures that would have prevented the accident. Human error is always the culprit.

The cockpit alarms had to be deafening long before they completely ran out of fuel.

[Vegas Halo Fan]

Saw my first 787 yesterday. I was driving past the airport running an errand, and there it was. I didn't even realize that Hainan Airlines had begun service here.

Not my photo, but this is it.

[Tank]

no upward flaps on the wings? wonder why?

[RuledByNone]

Already built into the wing design. The winglets that you see on 737s or others are kind of a retrofit that aids in fuel consumption (some new aircraft have them too). Here's an article https://airlineworld.wordpress.com/tag/b787-dreamliner/ 

 

A couple of interesting satellite launches coming up this month. The first 10 (out of 70) Iridium sats get launched from Vandenburg on a Falcon 9. These are small, low bandwidth commsats but still nice to have some internet for sailing people.

The other launch is a hughesnet Jupiter 2/Echostar 19 for satellite broadband customers (me). It's a big,heavy satellite at a high orbit so it requires a large launch vehicle.

[arch stanton]

Congress calls for a war games 'flyoff' between 40 year old A-10 and new $400bn F-35 jets to see which really is the top gun

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3994968/Congress-calls-war-games-flyoff-40-year-old-10-new-400bn-F-35-jets-really-gun.html

[ten ocho recon scout]

13 hours ago, calscuf said:

I flew the Dreamliner a couple of times to Copenhagen.  It's a really nice plane.

Norwegian air....

And agreed. its a great ride. and if its one of rhe better companies, its really good (deoendinf on meals, movies, etc)

[ten ocho recon scout]

1 hour ago, arch stanton said:

Congress calls for a war games 'flyoff' between 40 year old A-10 and new $400bn F-35 jets to see which really is the top gun

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3994968/Congress-calls-war-games-flyoff-40-year-old-10-new-400bn-F-35-jets-really-gun.html

Hell yeah! no contest, but the JSF will "win"...

The A-10 detractors always say the same thing, it cant penetrate hostile air space....well no shit. neither can helicopters, but were not getting rid of those.

[gotbeer]

10 hours ago, arch stanton said:

Congress calls for a war games 'flyoff' between 40 year old A-10 and new $400bn F-35 jets to see which really is the top gun

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3994968/Congress-calls-war-games-flyoff-40-year-old-10-new-400bn-F-35-jets-really-gun.html

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The Warthog is covered in 1,200lbs of titanium armor, making it invulnerable to attack from anything but heavy weapons.

Even when hit it is designed to fly home on one engine, with no tailfin and half a wing missing.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3994968/Congress-calls-war-games-flyoff-40-year-old-10-new-400bn-F-35-jets-really-gun.html#ixzz4SdynwAZl
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now that's an attack plane.

[gotbeer]

Northrop's New Combat Drone Could Outclass Boeing F/A-18, Lockheed F-35

[arch stanton]

21 minutes ago, gotbeer said:

Northrop's New Combat Drone Could Outclass Boeing F/A-18, Lockheed F-35

It's definitely a cool drone but all the article does is compare apples to oranges in order to get people to invest in apples.

[gotbeer]

2 hours ago, arch stanton said:

It's definitely a cool drone but all the article does is compare apples to oranges in order to get people to invest in apples.

Oh I agree.  But it's cool where drone technology is going. 

[Vegas Halo Fan]

On 12/11/2016 at 11:41 PM, ten ocho recon scout said:

Norwegian air....

And agreed. its a great ride. and if its one of rhe better companies, its really good (deoendinf on meals, movies, etc)

Good to know. Norwegian flies from here to London-Gatwick. 

[RuledByNone]

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/12/19/jumbo-jets-low-turn-on-wrong-course-startles-neighborhood/

 

Dumb bitch air traffic controller at LAX doesn't know left from right.

[gotbeer]

11 hours ago, RuledByNone said:

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/12/19/jumbo-jets-low-turn-on-wrong-course-startles-neighborhood/

 

Dumb bitch air traffic controller at LAX doesn't know left from right.

What a cluster fuck.  here is the uncut audio.  Looked to me that two planes were on top of each other at one point.  Then she gives a turn around go south a number of times and doesn't say which way to turn.  Even after the pilot asks which way to turn.

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.com/2016/12/20/eva-air-lax-atc-audio/

[Blarg]

Took a flight to San Francisco and the ATC screwed up big time and we nearly had a collision. The jet to starboard was so close I could see the pilot looking our way just before he dove right. Luckily he had the attitude to make that move, our pilot never budged on his approach.