Aviation BS and Photo Thread

Yep, those are often used for heavy lifting as you say. Seen them used for removing lumber while lumber jacks are doing forestry clean up in Telluride.

 

St Joe ANG carrying the Navy Leap Frogs this evening.

 

Epilogue to the passenger landing the plan story:
https://twitter.com/ap/status/1527643073869668353?s=21&t=O0mlkdHAUy-AOZ2-qKz1Ow

That’s one lucky pilot. Kudos to the dude who grabbed the controls.

 

Cool aviation pic of the morning:
https://twitter.com/lockheedmartin/status/1527650367672139776?s=21&t=O0mlkdHAUy-AOZ2-qKz1Ow

 

That’s a super strange mix, F-35, F-16, F/A-18E, C-12, E-2 and P-8

 

Yeah, but you can sure get a lot done with that mix.

 

Not really if you consider the fact that the Navy flies all of those aircraft. Not sure if that’s what they were going for in the pic though. I’m also under the assumption that the Navy adversary squadrons still have F-16s.
Edit…Just noticed a US. Navy watermark on the photo

And to be even more annoying the F-18 appears to be a EA-18G Growler not an e model.

 

You are right that the F-18 is a Growler, can see that now looking on a computer instead of my phone. The Navy flies a very small amount of F-16s and is adding more in the near future but they are all in Fallon.

I think the most curious part is that Lockheed’s twitter account is send that out but they only make the F-16 and F-35. Boeing makes the P-8 and Growler, Northrop makes the E-2 and Textron makes the C-12. Some googles show the person who took the picture takes several at Misawa, which led me to https://www.misawa.af.mil/News/Arti...3/wild-weasels-ace-exercise-at-misawa-yokota/

 

Crazy how the deep the rabbit hole is from a single picture. Lol.

 

Really old videos I remember seeing on Jet Careers many years ago...still fun...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBgeG8vNoPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60r-PZpcFZ4

 

I was born way too soon. I was chasing a flying career in the mid 80s and into the 90s. You couldn't BUY a flying job then. I hauled skydivers on weekends and towed banners. There were times after a really long day of hauling jumpers, I didn't even want to LOOK at an airplane. The fever finally broke when I saw a good buddy of mine who was flying Lear 25s, Citations, and Falcons throw the towel in, and he said "F*CK THIS!" We both went into medicine, and we are both still working, having more work than we want these days. I still hang out at the airport on occasion, and this year will be my 17th or 18th trip to Oshkosh. The career didn't happen, but I had a lot of fun while I chased it and I would do it all again. I guess the itch never goes away...

 

Sorry to hear you never continued pursuing. It is a very demanding but yet rewarding career.

glad you are still able to enjoy it through other means, still have to pinch my self occasionally when I am up there.

 

That's how it was in the early 2000s when I was in college and training to eventually be an airline pilot. I threw in the towel after seeing all kinds of people throwing in the towel and doing something else. I ended up staying in the industry, just not flying, for 20yrs, finally am away from it and loving life. Still an airplane geek, but working on the ground in both general aviation and a corporate role at an airline is definitely bizzarro world compared to where I'm at now, safety in retail supply chain. A lot less "passionately intense" people here.

 

Right?

Not very often you get USAF and USN planes together for a photo like this and then even crazier when you realize that some of them are JASDF as well. Still can't find the Chinook they claim is there though

 

Japan has CH-47s. Prob the bird the photographer took the shot from.

 

Seems like the most likely answer

 

One of the nurses I work with has a kid that has been afflicted with SJS (shiny jet syndrome). We have been trying to talk some sense into the kid. Their neighbor who flies for a major carrier and myself have had some success, and he has changed his major from aviation into engineering. Told him to go into a field that he likes, pays well, and is relatively secure that doesn't require him to live out of a suitcase. He can fly on the side when HE wants to fly. We're taking him to Oshkosh this year, and that will REALLY screw his head up! Bet he plunks down a deposit on a RV kit...

 

LOL!!! I had a laid off Midway Airlines pilot giving me that exact talk after I fueled their King air at the FBO I was working at as they were heading out on a charter flight around 2002. Telling me to change careers asap and fly for fun not for food. I had friends flying CRJs in 2005 after college and I was making significantly more than them pumping jet-a and dumping shitters at the FBO than they were flying!! Definitely a different time than now for sure, it's a viable career again, but when I was looking to get in, it was pretty bleak. I will say I managed to work in the aviation business for 20yrs and never got laid off, which is a feat in and of itself it seems!

 

https://twitter.com/engineers_feed/status/1529805140944777216?s=21&t=K8g9_lSP7oUFnjt1yDv08A

 

I had this great book as a kid - The Great International Paper Airplane Book.

I found one on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1854221325...1291&msclkid=3f11be9b5ddb1d45a05adc14d9898dc1

instead of tearing out the pages and making planes, I traced the pages to make my planes. I wonder if I still have that book somewhere...

I made a lot of planes - spent many hours flying paper. Ah, the good times....