Flying life

[Stoney]

my favorite jet to fly, the 747, least favorite, the DC-10. its all about the seat. my 3 best, SNJ, Kingair 200 and 747.

 

[MikeD718]

Cam rack inspection on the Merlin today

 

[SAM1965]

With such a low time airframe why would they part it out? The article mentions Boeing may buy it back but you'd think one of the freight companies would be jumping at this..?

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/royal-junk-brand-new-custom-300-million-boeing-747-8-arrives-at-scrapyard-187297.html

 

[C-ya]

With such a low time airframe why would they part it out? The article mentions Boeing may buy it back but you'd think one of the freight companies would be jumping at this..?

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/royal-junk-brand-new-custom-300-million-boeing-747-8-arrives-at-scrapyard-187297.html

Group buy?

 

[medicmike]

 

[Stoney]

good dog

 

[kroberts]

On our ramp today. Over 40k pounds of export grade Jack Daniels bound for Dubai. You gotta admire a group of guys who want a drink so badly they're
willing to have it shipped in by air.

 

[Cossack]

My friend, who was my flight instructor before flying Turbo-Porters in Papua and then flying cargo 747s, sent me this photo. He took it in Kazakhstan, where he parked his 747 next to this bird a few months before its destruction:

 

[SAM1965]

my son took these a little while ago here in Arizona. Doc is impressive

 

[moonbat60]

Doc is normally seen around here in Wichita KS.

 

[SAM1965]

Doc is normally seen around here in Wichita KS.

Thanks for letting us see!

 

[moonbat60]

Thanks for letting us see!

You are most welcome.

 

[kroberts]

Forgive the crappy phone pik. Happened at ORD yesterday. An unsecured (or undersecured) entry stand was sent on a trip across the ramp by a thunderstorm.
Its journey was interrupted by a parked MD11.

Looks like someone's insurance company is buying a flap and an aileron.

 

[cotter]

I hear radials overhead! Anyone going?

https://m.facebook.com/events/springfieldbeckley-municipal-airport/airpower-history-tour-coming-to-springfield-oh/707272770680465/

 

[NFADLR]

http://imgur.com/a/QODl52G

 

[Sh3008]

http://imgur.com/a/QODl52G

Such a badass plane. You ever watch the videos on YouTube where they strafe those Pos taliban goat f’rs?

 

[NFADLR]

http://imgur.com/a/LB5Lifm

 

[SAM1965]

I live under the Barry Goldwater AF range and see strafing and bombing runs almost daily. Also a lot of dog fighting up high. A few years ago watched a couple hours of Apaches do rocket runs at night. That was way cool. About 18 years ago the Royal Thai AF was doing some joint training and watched an F16 point it's nose down and go straight into the ground from thousands of feet up. Heard later the pilot was related to the royal family and had been having an affair and got caught. Took the AF weeks to clean up that crash site on the To'hono O'odam reservation.

 

[kroberts]

PBY...

WWII-era seaplane makes unexpected water landing at Willard Bay after mechanical issue

A World War II-era seaplane that took part in the Warriors over the Wasatch Air & Space Show at Hill Air Force Base over the weekend was in need of a tow Monday after coasting onto the glassy waters of Willard Bay following a mechanical problem.

www.ksl.com

 

[L Haney]

I like playing with tech stuff just to slow down the mind rot as I get older. We have a moderately active county airport here and I live almost directly under one of the IFR routes for east bound aircraft on their way to Atlanta. About three years ago lookin for something else to do with a Raspberry Pi (small, cheap single board computer) I found out it was pretty simple for them to process the ADS-B telemetry from aircraft.

The radio part is a cheap digital TV 'dongle'. All the hardware, except for the crappy cellular antenna, looks like this.



The Pi is loaded with the software from FlightAware, a flight tracking service/website I imagine most of you may already know about. This is connected by wi-fi to my home wireless router and then streams the aircraft data it hears to the FlightAware server.

If I connect to it locally on my network I get something like this on my laptop.



All the aircraft shown here on the map are the ones my shitty little setup is hearing directly.

Anyway, if you put something like this together Flight Aware gives you a free Enterprise account in exchange for you uploading data to them.

This local data is unfiltered. Some flights are redacted on their service after uploading.

 

[Story]

This local data is unfiltered. Some flights are redacted on their service after uploading.

 

[MikeD718]

flew the FW-190, P-40 and C-45 to Ypsilanti yesterday for Thunder Over Michigan

 

[NFADLR]

In the 1970's it was no biggy to go up in my at the time attorneys plane but now He is passed on and well im just having withdrawls, by the time I was in the mood again attorney was dead and dad had alzheimer's or dementia and all permissions were gone...


I say by the time I was in the mood again, my uncle (USMC VMF ??? ,Colonel ) on my fathers side was killed in a Cessna or small Beachcraft right after I was taught to fly by my attorney.

 

[Mbell]

Very jealous Mike that’s awesome

 

[MikeD718]

Here’s one from this morning. My P-40 with Dakota Territory Air Museum’s Hurricane.