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Started by Taaroa, June 04, 2017, 09:15:23 AM



Hog

See the forward set of the rigt main gear move around on that IL-76 as it lands at 7:30 ish?

Nice paint jobs at least.   Poor North Korean people.

peace
Hog

WOTR

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on February 23, 2020, 06:33:53 AM
https://twitter.com/justindchapman/status/1231336002175717376

Wow. Thanks for the video. It's not often that you get to see something go so very wrong with those consequences (and the video get left up for any amount of time...)

Kind of looks as though the parachute tore off at launch.

Quote from: WOTR on February 24, 2020, 09:39:27 PM
Wow. Thanks for the video. It's not often that you get to see something go so very wrong with those consequences (and the video get left up for any amount of time...)

Kind of looks as though the parachute tore off at launch.


Sort of an Evel Knievel Snake Canyon deal, except the chute tore off.....................


Taaroa

Solari boards: The disappearing sound of airports
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-51470599



Quote from: Uncle Duke on February 24, 2020, 08:52:02 AM
NK airshow in 2016, although it could have been in the mid 70s with the majority of the a/c demonstrated.

That's a pretty good video - I wonder what happened to the pilot of the Mig21 after that tailstrike. At least everything looks well maintained.

In the case of this wheel of death - some how no one seemed to get immolated in the launch phase and the chute actually worked.

https://twitter.com/blue500000/status/1232972255455432704






Taaroa

Quote from: Taaroa on February 08, 2020, 08:08:51 AM
I wonder if these helicopters have any kind of cooling for their crew beyond those little fans.
Another low altitude Hind video, this time it looks like it's in Russia:

https://twitter.com/qretaxyeta/status/1235455833556815872

https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1235070328620978177

Hog

The mud moving version of the F-15, the E variant brings its crews home safe.(well more home than teh sandbox)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM1dKVWWOUw

peace
Hog


pate

So just south of downtown Kansas City is the old TWA headquarters.  On the south-west corner of the building is a rocket:



Saw this the other day in my meanderings about town, and wondered a bit about it.  Apparently, a Howard Hughes thing called the "Moonliner II" that has been reinstalled at the original location, thus my Mandelbrot Affect reaction upon seeing it.

My question as to whether or not it was an actual thing proto-typed and flown has been answered:  nope.  I figured it was an old V-2 rocket "acquired" somehow and repainted for promotional purposes.  Certainly made me do a double take when I spotted it the other day...

-p



Taaroa

https://twitter.com/SisKathleen/status/1238395121663643648

Had the RAAF's aerobatics team flying about last week in their brand new PC21s. Maybe I was just imagining things, but they seemed much louder than their old PC9s.

Taaroa

https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1241723041920532480

Have seen reports that Australian airlines are parking planes at Avalon and Brisbane airports for storage, and it's almost certainly happening in America too. Apparently a few airlines are experimenting with using empty passenger planes for cargo flights.

https://twitter.com/CyrilNdegeya/status/1241504471718547457

Uncle Duke

Quote from: Taaroa on March 22, 2020, 10:13:59 AM
https://twitter.com/flightradar24/status/1241723041920532480

Have seen reports that Australian airlines are parking planes at Avalon and Brisbane airports for storage, and it's almost certainly happening in America too. Apparently a few airlines are experimenting with using empty passenger planes for cargo flights.

https://twitter.com/CyrilNdegeya/status/1241504471718547457

Delta, United, and other airlines are sending their largest planes to the desert for storage as they drastically reduce operations due to coronavirus
https://news.yahoo.com/delta-united-other-airlines-sending-195832455.html

Also saw American Airlines flew its first cargo only flight in over 35 years on Friday, I think it was Dallas to Frankfurt.








Uncle Duke

Quote from: Taaroa on March 29, 2020, 09:57:14 AM
Fairey Fulmar: How ‘an absurd lumbering thing’ became Britain’s top-scoring naval fighter
https://hushkit.net/2020/03/24/fairey-fulmar-how-an-absurd-lumbering-thing-became-britains-top-scoring-naval-fighter/



It was better than the Skua.

When the Japanese encountered Fulmars off Ceylon, they reported them as Spitfires.  I met a former FAA TAG who flew Fulmars in the Med.  He said he would save the silver paper from chewing gum wrappers and throw them out the back if a German or Italian got on their tail, said it confused them.  Also fired Thompsons and flare guns out the back if attacked.


Uncle Duke

https://www.aerotime.aero/clement.charpentreau/24788-fighter-jet-crash-averted-by-defect-in-civil-ejection-incident

If this happened in the USAF, there would be some people court martialled and kicked out of the service, starting with  the wing commander.

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