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Re: Top Gun: Maverick

https://youtu.be/6nSTLYBCW0E

Quite impressive to have the skunk works involved in the production!

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Re: Norway to cancel NH90 contract with NH Industries (NHI)

One of my friends has been piloting both the NH-90 and the AW-139. His point of view on these helicopters is that the NH-90 is way more complex (systems and avionics) than the simpler-but-reliable AW-139. A level of complexity that probably has a direct reflection on the effort required to ensure it...

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Re: KC-10 number 1 to AMC Museum at Dover

Just for curiosity, how old is the oldest operational KC-135?

A few days ago I spotted one of them on FR24 circling above Romania which was 62 years old!

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Re: Question regarding the Mach Loop

The nickname of widow maker was quite popular in Italy as well, where the total losses and fatalities from the '60s till the '00s were significant. This German website contains a list of all the accidents we had on the type, including the tragic loss of 4 F-104s on Sep 25th, 1975 when they hit a mou...

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Re: Updated ITA/Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

The first A350 (EI-IFA) just landed in FCO flying as AZ8020.

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

their G550 CAEW in the skies above Romania and Poland for electronic surveillance missions. So was that what I saw on FR24 over Romania the day the rumor about the frigate being hit? :scratchchin: bt Who knows, it wasn't the only one flying in the area that day. There are days where on FR24 you can...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/which-nato-countries-are-deploying-aircraft-to-eastern-europe/ Pretty interesting NATO graphics showing where the fighters are deployed. Oddly the infographic in that says the UK has got A300 aloft. Also Italy 2 aircraft carriers and the US one in the Med/Adriatic. W...

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Re: Favorite Military Blogs

I would add this two: https://theaviationist.com/ -- They became quite famous when they posted a realistc reconstruction of what the special Ops UH-60 used in the raid that killed Bin Laden could have looked like. https://theaviationgeekclub.com/ -- a lot of interesting stories from the past narrate...

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Re: Condor launch new livery

Associated with a change in the brand as well - Condom instead of Condor - it may actually work pretty well!

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Re: Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

At the same time and place, the MIM-104 Patriot was presented. It was difficult to get a launcher and a radar unit given the Russian "special military operation" right now. Switzerland plans to acquire four units (each consisting of a command module, a power generator unit, a radar unit, ...

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Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220325/84445a501ba40f1f983687848f062866.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220325/aae5318c5c4e214c7309a687bcf1509e.jpg https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220325/a4f15de762b53a6cfd389a1bb01fa31d.jpg Two F-35s from ItAF just visited Emmen AFB and stayed there fo...

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Re: China Eastern 737 "Missing Contact"

Now if there are only a couple of data points and the curve is interpolated, then it's a false impression. Yes, that's the case here. The next data point after the start of the descent was over 2 minutes later. FR24 only publishes very coarse data by default. Sometimes they will manually download t...

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Re: China Eastern 737 "Missing Contact"

If you want to consider the accidents involving an aircraft being put deliberately at 90 degree descent, let's not forget about Air Maroc 630....

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Re: China Eastern 737 "Missing Contact"

https://twitter.com/Liuzxjack/status/15 ... FC9CbgEuKg

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T-346 crashed in Italy during a pre-delivery flight

Today we got the sad news that a T-346 performing a pre delivery flight operated by Leonardo’s pilots crashed in a mountain region not far away from the lake of Como. Both pilots managed to eject from the plane but suddenly one of the two was found dead by the rescue team. The aircraft was supposed ...

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Re: Germany Tornado Replacement News and Discussion Thread

TheSonntag wrote:
Germany will buy F35 several sources say.

Makes a lot of sense in terms of longevity, capabilities, interoperability with allies, etc.

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Re: RCAF CH-149 Crash in Gander

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220311/70092841fb2f1bc781baab47bdd1bf56.jpg A better picture that shows further details about the level of damages. Glad that everyone is safe! I don't know the details of the crash, but that frame looks like they built a lot of "surviavability" into it....

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Re: RCAF CH-149 Crash in Gander

A better picture that shows further details about the level of damages.

Glad that everyone is safe!

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related Discussion Thread

I guess you either don't remember, or know very little about how airlines operated before computerised reservation systems. Your guess is wrong: I have directly worked on 4 PSS implementations over the last 10 years and I can tell you that coming back to manual procedures on the above mentioned cor...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related Discussion Thread

They are not going to stop their Domestic Flights just because they are locked out of a reservation system. No doubt it will cause all kinds of chaos for a while but ultimately they will use some other system and the flights will continue. Unless they start using paper and pen to make reservations,...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related Discussion Thread

Aeroflot's been kicked off Sabre. They are done. If Sabre kicks them off the PSS, this will cause the immediate stop of all operations for SU. Really hope this is the next step. They are not going to stop their Domestic Flights just because they are locked out of a reservation system. No doubt it w...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Civil Aviation Related Discussion Thread

Aeroflot's been kicked off Sabre. They are done. https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/03/airline-software-giant-sabre-ends-service-with-russias-aeroflot-crippling-carriers-ability-to-sell-seats.html Apparently they have been kicked off by Sabre from the GDS distribution, which is different than unplugging ...

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Re: Russian Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation News and Discussion Thread

Italy is about to double the number of Typhoon deployed in Romania, from 4 to 8. Well, that'll make a big difference...not. What do you ACTUALLY want those aircraft to do? They will do exactly what their are meant to do: make sure the Romanian airspace is safe and not invaded by any Russian aircraf...

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Invasion of Ukraine - Military Aviation

Germany has now 6 Eurofighters in Romania, several A400 flying missions, is sending several ships in the baltic sea, is preparing to send patriot batteries to Lithuania and has sent several PZH 2000 and a batallion into Lithuania. There needs to be a huge buildup in Germany, and a complete re-evalu...

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Re: Downfall: The case against Boeing.

I just watched the show on Netflix and while I found it really informative and easy to understand (as not everyone is an aviation geeks like we are), I was surprised to see that the FAA ended up not being on the firing line at all while IMHO they should have. It's really hard to imagine that they ha...

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Re: F35 Carrier Crash in South China Sea

Amazing how much stuff gets leaked these days. Also, very lucky outcome for all personnel involved, especially the pilot. Yes, and someone will be at Captain’s Mast. Or the CO will be in front of a CM for not shutting off the Internet. So there are two videos now. It really ought to be easy to find...

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F35 Carrier Crash in South China Sea

https://theaviationist.com/2022/02/06/f ... ed-online/

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Re: Incident at Abu Dhabi

ABpositive wrote:
I can't find in the article where was the drone launched from, Yemen or somewhere more local?

I guess we will never know…

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Re: Incident at Abu Dhabi

https://www.janes.com/amp/video-confirm ... Fp1cVMwPQ2

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Re: Lockheed Martin F-35 News, Production and Delivery Thread - 2022

Flyglobal wrote:
According some German news the F35 is now in the run for the Tornado replacement.

This would make complete sense considering the amount of allies already using the same type and the great commonality that may came out of it (training, ops, maintenance, deployment, etc).

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Re: Police pull pilot from plane moments before train crash

One day I will die, but not today!

Amazing!

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Re: Finland selects F-35A for F-18 replacement

https://www.hs.fi/politiikka/art-2000008464967.html

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Re: Updated ITA/Alitalia News and Discussion Thread

The A320 EI-DTE just flew to OSR to receive the brand new ITA Airways livery.

Expected timing to get the paint job done is Dec 20th.

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Re: RAF F-35 crash

https://theaviationist.com/2021/11/29/b ... PDR4nJo5H8

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Re: PIlatus PC-12 crashes near Milan Linate after take off - no survivors

https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cron ... 1f2d.shtml

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Re: PIlatus PC-12 crashes near Milan Linate after take off - no survivors

According to this newspaper (in Italian), the Romanian billionaire Dan Petrescu was flying his own aircraft. His wife and son were onboard together with some friends. https://milano.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/21_ottobre_03/aereo-caduto-san-donato-miliardario-romeno-dan-petrescu-figlio-bimbo-chi-son...

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Re: PIlatus PC-12 crashes near Milan Linate after take off - no survivors

That doesn't look good but it could have been worse. Crashed into an empty office building that was being renovated, a fire appears to have broken out in the building. Luckily there was nobody in the building but that doesn't make it any better for the people on board. Definitely! The area surround...

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PIlatus PC-12 crashes near Milan Linate after take off - no survivors

Just read this on the main Italian newspaper… looks like an horrific crash with no survivors. The aircraft (YR-PDV) supposed to fly LIN-OLB crashed shortly after take off on an under-construction building. All onboard (2 pilots + 6 pax including a child) are reported dead. FR24 captured the flight p...

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Re: First C-130J-30 for Germany painted

These will almost certainly operate past the 100 year anniversary of the 1st C-130 flight in 1954. Pretty incredible. Agreed! The longevity of this aircraft and her adaptability to a complete refresh (from H to J) is really remarkable. I would add to the list of very successful airframes the G-222 ...

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Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

I understand that Europeans and Americans have a very different point of view on how to handle situations like this, but if this would have happened to any European Air Force, it would have created an humongous scandal with huge and long term repercussions. That begs the question---where were the E...

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Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

What could they have done about it? They were in a no-win situation. There is indeed: considering the extraordinary situation during the taxi you just perform a visual check before taking off so that you are sure no one is hung outside. How do you propose doing that? Wait for the TSA? No, obviously...

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Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

What could they have done about it? They were in a no-win situation. There is indeed: considering the extraordinary situation during the taxi you just perform a visual check before taking off so that you are sure no one is hung outside. How do you propose doing that? Wait for the TSA? No, obviously...

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C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

johns624 wrote:
What could they have done about it? They were in a no-win situation.

There is indeed: considering the extraordinary situation during the taxi you just perform a visual check before taking off so that you are sure no one is hung outside.

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Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

Honestly, how is this possible? How can you take off without performing a visual check, knowing that the aircraft was literally surrounded by people during the taxi? Because the people where literally climbing on the plane while it was taxiing on the departure runway! Kabul airport is not the safe ...

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Re: C-17 departs Kabul with 800 passengers!

SAS A340 wrote:
People reported falling from the sky while departing . Media report people was hanging outside the C-17 on takeoff. Oh my god.

Honestly, how is this possible? How can you take off without performing a visual check, knowing that the aircraft was literally surrounded by people during the taxi?

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Re: Euros 2020 thread

Sport champions live in a glorified world but this doesn’t come for free. In exchange they are expected not only to play amazingly but also to act as a role model for the younger generations. What I don’t really get here is the message that a large portion of the England soccer team sent out loud ye...

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Re: Press conference in front of a QRA hangar? Not a good idea!

I wonder if it was staged? Maybe to show "someone" that they were prepared at a moment's notice. Quite difficult to imagine, especially if you consider how intense the air patrolling has been in the area (i.e. the Italian F-35s were pretty busy chasing various Russian planes over the last...

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Press conference in front of a QRA hangar? Not a good idea!

https://youtu.be/Mip0AZZKtx0

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Re: Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-439.pdf Seems like the GAO isn’t quite as optimistic about promised future cost reductions for the F-35 program as the Swiss government. But for comparison's sake let's take an interdiction mission similar to where Israel attacked the Iraq nuclear reaction which wa...

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Re: Updated: Switzerland deciding to buy F-35A fighter jets

I'm just a little upset that European are unable to work together on this subject as well as many others. Than maybe the European corporations should get together and build a stealth fighter. Until then, if you want one, you have to buy American. What do you mean by “buy American”? There are eight ...

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