That’s how all the services handle investigations. It’s not Operational Security, it’s about finding and fixing safety deficiencies. The system was enacted by Congress to allow the services to quickly and without fear of legal action to investigate safety problems. The system means testimony by ind...
Jump to postIn 1981 it was impossible to know the future of Panam or Piedmont The former still had years to go before they went under and it was quite possible they could have been saved at that point Don’t know much about Piedmont, I think they ended up merging into USAIR ? I would have gone with PanAm if tho...
Jump to postNote what I posted, there are TWO boards—Safety Investigation Board (SIB, aka Mishap Board) and Accident Investigation Board (AIB). The SIB is privileged and NOT released, the AIB is released and may recommend disciplinary actions. The public will NOT see the SIB report. It’s not FOIA actionable. Th...
Jump to postThat’s over sovereign territory, not international waters. And the Qatari blockade was a product of UAE and Saudi politics, didn’t know Kushner was their Foreign Minister. Do provide a link.
Jump to postOverflight only means out to 12nm offshore, then the flight is in international airspace. Argentina might control traffic, but their sovereignty doesn’t extend across the FIR. The Chilean flight transits the Argentine FIR and always has.
Jump to post'81 was a bad recession year here in the U.S. -- not easy to get on with the Majors. Assumption would be that in 1981 an aspiring pilot would have an easier time finding employment with a start-up such as New York Air, Midway, or Peoples Express (1982 start-up IIRC). Personally, I would have tried ...
Jump to postWell, actually cost does enter into the process. For example, you’re a USN user, say deploying a helo detachment from North Island to Sigonella, Sicily. Now, you “pay” out of your transport budget for the C-5. If your delivery schedule is open enough, fine, pay $xx,xxx to TRANSCOM and delivered. If ...
Jump to postThat’s formatting altitude, which enters with in-flight gross weight, temp, altitude and gives maximum altitude with a small margin at max continuous thrust. Of course, work the graph backwards to get max gross weight for a given altitude. Engine loss on the noon and you’re falling off quickly. IIRC...
Jump to postSafety Investigations (Mishap Investigation Board) are privileged investigations and not released. The Accident Investigation Board report is releasable, but not easily found. Congress gave the DOD an exemption keeping safety investigations privileged so the outcomes don’t become public allowing for...
Jump to postThe F-35 would be better off going in dark keeping it's receiver turned on so it can locate the opposing sources of EMF. What would the F-15 bring other than a lot of noise? That’s exactly what an EX brings, noise for F-35s to hide behind while remaining silent and getting data linked messages abou...
Jump to postThe retirement of the KC10 is infuriating to me. I view the retirement in the context of the fiasco of the KC46 acquisition, where the corruption was so bad that people went to jail. To retire this asset on the basis of costs is mind boggling. "We're going to spend billions on acquisition of a...
Jump to postYeah, that’s pretty much it. Units do occasionally have Bosses’ Day flights for unit members to give a boss a ride as a Reserve ANG community appreciation deal. Still have to be a member. Local media, rarely when a headline event is going on. It’s gotten a lot harder over the years.
Jump to postWe had a normal Maximum Take-Off Weight and Maximum In-flight Weight. Obviously the only way to increase weight in-flight is with an air refueling. Our normal MTOW and In-Flight Weight was 769,000, Emergency War Weight was 840,000. The M model increased empty weight by about 16,000 pounds and EW bec...
Jump to postkalvado wrote:GalaxyFlyer wrote:Flutter is a harmonic, aerodynamic vibration isn’t.
Wut?
I don’t know about lapse, but GE did do a HT-90 mod on the TF-39s during scheduled maintenance in the early 2000s. Made a pretty difference in cruise and climb performance. With HT-90s in all four pylons, it’d go 2,000-3,000’ higher than the book. They didn’t do any testing, so we didn’t have new ch...
Jump to post840K was the war emergency weight, never used with rare exceptions approved by Lockheed. Take-off performance limited weights to about 800k with the TF-39s and that required SL, standard day. We sim trained a OEI case at ETAF, the only NATO airport where 800-ish was even likely and the return had to...
Jump to postIt’s probably like the C-5 during air refueling—the horizontal stab was in the engine wake efflux creating vibrations that eventually showed up in the tie box cracking. Flutter is a harmonic, aerodynamic vibration isn’t.
Jump to postWesternDC6B wrote:I believe National Airlines named their aircraft after stewardesses, as we were still allowed to call them back then. I believe a DC-10 was called Betty Lou.
Might be outdated, but I doubt UK’s ranking has changed much, heck, Alabama more likely moved further ahead. I saw somewhere in the news today, the UK GDP is shrinking slightly. The UK is a long way from Downton Abbey and Alabama is long way from Reconstruction poverty, but the up image hasn’t chang...
Jump to postThe C-5 with TF-39s were also dogs, but the wing was lighter loaded. I’ve seen 11,000’ plus all-engine take-off runs. Initial optimum on a warm Pacific out of Honolulu would be F240 or F250, the last couple thousand feet climbing at 500fpm.
Jump to postProbably winds, check out Windy.com. Not sure if they have historical wind data
Jump to postLast year over Northern Michigan I recall seeing a 757 at FL360 doing 280kts into a stiff west wind. Directly below them was a northeast bound Cape Air C402 inbound to MBL at 070 doing 260kts. I thought that was absolutely wild. Peace :box: You mean the C402 was at 7000. If it was flying 070, it wo...
Jump to postCoThG wrote:GalaxyFlyer wrote:What sonic boom, they’re still at M.82-ish, no where near M1.
The groundspeed on some of those flights were greater than Mach One.
What sonic boom, they’re still at M.82-ish, no where near M1.
Jump to postA friend of mine was a wrench on the IGS, landing at Templehof,nsaw the crowds cross the wall. He thought it was the most awesome sight ever. But in 1981M PA still had hundreds on furlough.
Jump to postCessna 195 on floats—I had the “bug” earlier, but a couple of flights at 11 sealed the deal. Solo’d before I had driver’s license on my 16th birthday.. Wish I could've soloed on my 16th, but COVID conveniently makes it so I only get to start training AFTER I turned 16. Oh well... Funny thing is, a ...
Jump to postTo some extent this is a normal approach from a new CEO. Make the situation on his first day look as bad as possible, then take the credit for improving it down the line. Exactly that. It's not the case that RR is nearing bankrupty. However they have troubles, especially in the large Civil aviation...
Jump to postSpeaking of brands and models, what was Ford thinking of with the Maverick pickup? It's not like the original Maverick brings back fond memories for anyone. It was a dog. Nor was it a pick up lol. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if the brought back the Pinto nameplate, probably slap it on a ...
Jump to postIt 1981, PA’s future already didn’t look great, on the other hand, no one knew where PI was going. PI looked like a little southern puddle jumper. They became a profitable, growing airline right until Allegheny bought them and poof! Several friends left EA when I was there, full of optimism of Piedm...
Jump to postThe Global 7500 and GLF650 have too wide a span, KASE has a plan to replace the runway a bit west to allow more wing clearances permitting larger planes.
Jump to postWell, at M.80, 450-460 TAS, so about 340 on the ground speed.
Jump to postThey still have engineers, the upgrade such as it was, was to avionics—primitive FMS, RVSM, 8.33 comms. IIRC, the upgrades got caught up in maintaining COTS while also military req’ts and budgets.
Jump to postIt’s about budgets, period. A friend who’s a senior officer asked about a budget proposal, “what war plan can be executed with out XXX?” Answer, “it’s about budgets, not war plans or capabilities”.
Jump to postJust remember a “derate” is like putting a different thrust engine rating on the plane, “Reduced” is the engine’s thrust rating reduced due to conditions, but full rated thrust is there.
Jump to postThe engines mounted above the wingbox helps hide the fan blades and reduce the IR heat signature from below. But it doesn’t seem like it would help avoid detection from airborne radars, i.e. an AWACS or Mig-31. The F-117 had the engines directly behind the intakes. Intake mesh angled correctly like...
Jump to postHeck, the Euros are still protecting Polanski Right, because we’re just one homogeneous entity, like the Borg. :sarcastic: He’s pretty much had free rein traveling around Europe despite being a wanted fugitive from justice. Protected by several courts, I’d say you’re the Borg, if the shoe fits.
Jump to postMy understanding is that it's driven by operational costs and mission demand. The demand for KC-10 missions is lower and the operational cost higher, than those for the KC-135. Also the KC-135 is in the groove where there is strong understanding of how to mitigate aging in terms of fatigue and corr...
Jump to postAnother NTT G7500 just beat that flying time record, KOAK-VHHH, 15.6 hours
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/EJA ... /KOAK/VHHH
Cessna 195 on floats—I had the “bug” earlier, but a couple of flights at 11 sealed the deal. Solo’d before I had driver’s license on my 16th birthday. The planes that taught me flying were the F-100 and Citation I & II. if you didn’t fly the Hun every moment, it could and would bite back. The Ci...
Jump to postI’d argue the Russian problem is a lot deeper than so-called “shock therapy”. There was zero Russian experience with market economics, democratic self-government to build on, so connected ex-communists stole everything. Yeltsin allowed or facilitated it because that’s all he and the government knew....
Jump to postThat, I don’t know, but I’ll see if I can find out for you.
Jump to postThose fixes are called path terminators in ARINC database coding. Think “path to a termination point. CF is a course to a fix, where the path ends.
https://www.icao.int/safety/pbn/Seminar ... 07/D.3.pdf
NATO should have been dissolved 30 years ago, it's pointless doing it now, but if it had gone when it's time was over, we would IMO be living in a much safer world today. Russia could easily have been a benign neighbour, many people believed this. Plenty of far more intelligent and knowledgeable pe...
Jump to postThere’s high probability as many, perhaps more, are lost in non-combat flight. The first years of Red Flag, TAC was losing one plane per exercise. I’ve lost 7 friends in non-combat training accidents.
Jump to postNow you're being an idiot, the end of the cold war was wasted, it was the perfect opportunity for the world to disarm, we screwed that up. There is absolutely no reason to suggest Russia would have tried to expand if NATO didn't exist. An EU on friendly terms with Russia would be a far better outco...
Jump to postLet's say he makes this go away. Wasn't he still great friends with Epstein, over many years, even after he was convicted ? Pretty much everyone except Melinda Gates was friends with Epstein. Is it really so hard to believe that trafficking young women is extremely common? I am not even totally sur...
Jump to postAnd, it’s not like TRANSCOM doesn’t charter for the USG. There’s a huge amount of charter everyday.
Jump to postExcept CRAF freighters don’t have roll-on, roll-off capability as the C-5 and C-17 do. Try driving a tank, a Mark V boat, or multiple helicopters on a 747. Try airdrop in the 747. Better yet, try ordering civilian pilots to fly into hostile environs or known threat areas. At that point you're reduc...
Jump to postYes, but the records are retained, so a career could be monitored. The flight, at one point prior to departure, might have been re-routed south to avoid high radiation levels. Cruise level was F410 to start, crossing the polar region at F450-470.
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