Not sure how many here are planning on attending the Seafair Festavil this weekend for the airshow headlined by the Blue Angels but I was just looking at the map and saw a sort of funny goof on it. The aircraft silhouette they decided to use on the festival map (upper right corner) appear to be a SU...
Jump to postI decided to see if I could find any record of NOTAMs for this and thing I found something. I can't claim any great experience with NOTAMs but by doing a quick search of current NOTAMs in a 10nm radius around where the balloon was launched (found at the below link that was in the youtube video comme...
Jump to postDiamondFlyer wrote:What's Oshgosh? Surely you mean Oshkosh
My buddy and I were out at the seaplane base at Oshkosh yesterday and overheard the captain of the Hawaii Mars telling the Commanding Officer of the Snowbirds that they took some damage on Friday. Apparently they took a bird to one of the props during their water drop at the air show and then hit a ...
Jump to postI myself am just old enough to remember it some though interestingly I can only remember one time where it was an issue and sticks out to this day. I had been jumping on a trampoline with some friends and a collision resulted in me getting a scratch on my eye. My eye was already painful and watering...
Jump to postI believe they are still there because of the issues with the US EXIM Bank. The EXIM bank has been reauthorized but congress has not confirmed an appointment to the EXIM Bank board so they can't execute on any of the financing deals they have worked out which include the TAAG Angola deal.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/kraz911" class="quote" target="_blank">kraz911</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>My guess would be the zaps going over many p...
Jump to postSo when do we start the pool on guessing when the protest will come?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/sw733" class="quote" target="_blank">sw733</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>It seems a good 95% of any maintenance delays I ...
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Jump to postNice article title CNBC:
"Plane narrowly avoids crash in terrifying landing"
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/07/27/plane...s-crash-in-terrifying-landing.html
April Fools is tomorrow...well...I guess that depends on what time zone you are in.
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BlueSky1976" class="quote" target="_blank">BlueSky1976</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>For some reason, it appears to look ...
Jump to postSearching and the list of potential duplicate topics when posting a new topic seem to be leaving out results that would have kept me from posting duplicate topics. This ends up being kind of embarrassing as it looks like I didn't at least try to find a duplicate first. I posted this topic after find...
Jump to postI am no expert but I would suspect that it is a speed brake.
Jump to postI was curious about the MLP concept so I did some googling and came across this artist concept of it ballasted down to off load LCACs. <a href="http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/attachments/naval-warfare/35393d1391452653-usns-john-glenn-mlp-afsb.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/a...
Jump to postUpdate on the KOMO 4 helicopter crash in Seattle. Apparently they found security cameras that captured views from three different angles. Fair Use Excerpt: "The report says the helicopter began rotating counterclockwise during its takeoff sequence, making a full 360-degree revolution as it rose slig...
Jump to postDid this B-36 not have the additional four podded jet engines? I only ask because I didn't see any instruments or throttles, at least that were obvious, for those.
Jump to postIf you think about it from the customers point of view there many more airlines that have service to <acronym title="Miami - International (Wilcox Field / 36th Street / Pan American Field) (MIA / KMIA), USA - Florida">MIA</acronym> and <acronym title="Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International (FLL /...
Jump to postBased on another story I saw on this it landed about a mile south east of where I live around <acronym title="Air Namibia">SW</acronym> 231st Way and 127th Pl <acronym title="DAS Air Limited (Kenya)">SE</acronym> in Kent. <a href="http://www.nwcn.com/home/?fId=168939466&fPath=/news/local&fDo...
Jump to postSaw this in the local news. A piece of a aircraft landed in the streets somewhere near my house this morning. Appears to be a landing gear door. <a href="http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Refrigerator-sized-aircraft-part-crashes-in-Kent-neighborhood-168944466.html?tab=gallery" target="_blank">http:...
Jump to postI can't find the thread now but there was a discussion about a hard landing that damaged a plane (767 I think) and part of it was about how the main gear articulates. The gist of the discussion was that the main gear angles forward on the 767 and A380 and backwards on other aircraft and people thoug...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/tommy767" class="quote" target="_blank">tommy767</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i>That's a long one. Over 1 hour and 40 mi...
Jump to postWell I learned something new today. That formation is called a farvel. Anyone know why? Anyhow here is a picture of the single farvel: <a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/slideshow/Seafair-Sunday-47103.php#photo-3289245" target="_blank">http://www.seattlepi.com/local/slide...air-Sunday-47103.php...
Jump to postJust got back from taking my family to the shores of Lake Washington here in Seattle to watch the Blue Angels perform at Seafair. My three year old has been wanting to see them after I showed him the classic IMAX film "The Magic of Flight". He was a bit leery of the noise at first but seemed to enjo...
Jump to postHad a flight out of <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (LAX / KLAX), USA - California">LAX</acronym> delayed because of this same reason. The <acronym title="American Airlines (USA)">AA</acronym> "Super 80" that I was going to be taking me from <acronym title="Los Angeles - International (L...
Jump to postNope. It is scheduled for two trips to Seattle to deliver parts of the Shuttle Trainer to the Museum of Flight. Once on the 26th of July and then again on August 9th. <a href="http://www.museumofflight.org/event/2012/jul/26/super-guppy-arrival-part-2" target="_blank">http://www.museumofflight.org/ev...
Jump to postThe blog posting I saw related to this topic has a very interesting typo in it. Check out the second to last paragraph. Apparently the "The 717s have 10.296 seats.". haha. A decimal point versus a comma really changes the meaning. <a href="http://aviationblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2012/05/southwes...
Jump to postWhen I flew QX to Sun Valley (KSUN) a few years ago we couldn't get into the airport because ceilings were too low so they flew us to (KBOI) and charted a bus for us to Sun Valley. It was better than not getting there at all.
Jump to postHere is what you were looking for. Nothing about F-22 not performing at any T-Birds shows but F-22 is limited to 20 shows so that would say it wouldn't perform at every one of the T-Birds 33 locations. <a href="http://www.acc.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-111201-048.pdf" target="_blank">http://ww...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Loran" class="quote" target="_blank">Loran</a> (<a href="#14" class="quote">Reply 14</a>):<br/><i>Can someone elaborate how many airframes will ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/ZANL188" class="quote" target="_blank">ZANL188</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>I understand JATO bottles are no longer bein...
Jump to postI live directly south on the flight path out of KBFI and I saw a C-130 depart today. I could swear that it looked likes the Blues Angels Fat Albert. Was I crazy or was it in Seattle today? I know last weekend it was down on Sunday and didn't fly. Was it down all week in Seattle?
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/eksath" class="quote" target="_blank">eksath</a> (<a href="#1" class="quote">Reply 1</a>):<br/><i>at <acronym title="San Diego - Miramar MCAS (N...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/readytotaxi" class="quote" target="_blank">readytotaxi</a> (<a href="#3" class="quote">Reply 3</a>):<br/><i>BBC News website report. <a href="ht...
Jump to postThey had UAVs flying at Aviation Nation 2007 at Nellis AFB. It was kind of cool because during breaks in flying they were showing video of the crowd on the screen that was taken by a Reaper at altitude. I couldn't spot it. They then brought the Predator down for a fly by: <a href="http://pictures.la...
Jump to postI have a number or similar pictures at home that my grandfather took from a B-17 over Germany. Pretty incredible the amount of destruction they show.
Jump to postThis picture confuses me <br><center><font color="#EEEEEE" size="1" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva"><a href="/photo/United-Arab-Emirates/Lockheed-Martin-F-16E/1601779/L/" target="_blank">View Large</a> <a href="/photo/United-Arab-Emirates/Lockheed-Martin-F-16E/1601779/M/" target="_blank">View Medium...
Jump to postWas once at Dyess visiting my friend who is a B-1 WSO and was chatting with a young female pilot. I remember asking her what made her be interested in the B-1. She replied, "I wanted the A-10 at first but then I realized I could still get low with the B-1 and have four afterburners to get my ass out...
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Jump to postAccording to this article the cutter was the Acushnet which sounds familar from what I remember of the Deadliest Catch episode. <a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008314994_missingvessel27m.html" target=_blank>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...s/2008314994_missingvessel27...
Jump to postHere is Boeing's new release with a few more pictures including one of the CFT Weapons Bay open: <a href="http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2009/q1/090317a_nr.html" target=_blank>http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2009/q1/090317a_nr.html</a> Looks like a platypus to me with the nose of the F-18, ...
Jump to postWas this Mig Fury Fighter's FJ-4B? If so it is the only flying example of one so I sure hope that it repaired and flying again.
http://www.migfuryfighters.com/aircraft_fury.php
I will have to take a look at that when I get a chance.
I was there last year and it was a fantastic show. However the lineup of last years show sort of makes this years lineup pale in comparison.
Watched them depart this afternoon. It was amazing. Both kept it on the deck until the end of the runway and then pretty much vertical. Nice an loud. A whole bunch of car alarms went off in the parking lot at the Museum of Flight.
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Jump to postSo I did see the Kfirs on Wednesday 6/25 (the date of those photos). However yesterday the aircraft I saw didn't have canard so perhaps the Drakens were in town. Thanks for this info. Saw a pair of F-18's this morning flying in. More common of course. Does seem like there has been more military airc...
Jump to postWhile I was riding my bike home from work I saw a pair of what I believe to be Mirages flying into <acronym title="Seattle - Boeing Field / King County International (BFI / KBFI), USA - Washington">BFI</acronym>. They flew by and a pair and then each came back as singles to land I assume. Anybody ha...
Jump to postThank you for that.
Pretty bad when you don't see the answer to a question in a thread you started. Doh!