Aviation BS and Photo Thread

https://youtu.be/YEJpP_tI9rs

 

Gotta love DCS for recreations like this. Just the work some dude did to get the ballon model into the game was cool

 

Had the opportunity to grab a few more photos of the F-16 testing here in SC this morning! (and the IAI Kfir too)

 

Looks like a Bahraini Block-60 bird...which is ironic because the Block-60 engineering and conformal fuel tanks were an Israeli idea.

 

Yep, this is the first one built as of now, Block 70. Look forward to seeing more of these roll out in the coming years!

 

70?!? Schmancy. When I retired the Block 60 birds were “the future.”

Probably has the larger countermeasures canisters and enhanced RWR. I mean, why dogfight when you can drop ‘em from 40 miles out?

 

...^^^... A neighbor flys for Atlas and he said Atlas bought one of the the last B-747s ??

 

Yes to Atlas:

 

Pretty sure they bought THE last 747. They've only been selling them as freighters for a while, I think (I spent 8 years at Boeing, but have been gone for a bit).

 

Last year they had 5 Kfirs at DMAFB , I went over and kinda communicated with them , they showed me the aircraft,, Love the design

 

https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/landing-767-overflies-departing-737-in-runway-incident-at-austin/

I’m sure y’all saw this, wildly close call. Controller’s mistake aside, hats off to the FedEx crew, and seems like the SW flight should maybe not have accepted their takeoff clearance knowing a heavy was only 3 miles out on a cat iii ILS.

Here’s the audio (edited, not real-time):
https://s.broadcastify.com/audio/KAUS-Twr-2023-02-04-1230z.mp3

 

Yes, this a crazy incident and the stuff of nightmares. Below is an animation that claims real-time audio. Use a grain of salt with all you hear until the final NTSB report.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjoDn8zQgb8

 

Atlas bought THE last 747, but they've also bought most of the last dozen or so 747-8s as I recall.

 

Yep, they even had John Travolta here to give a speech at the delivery ceremony. I peaked out to see the zoo of people before I left for the day, dog and pony shows aren't really my thing. There were enough people to fill half of one of the big assembly buildings here in the Everett factory, all in the space that they used to do all of the spar drilling and wing structures assembly.

 

I didn't know we had these. Then again I got out in 96.

 

I was working in a certain cyber role when they rolled out and we loved working with them. Those UC12s are a fantastic platform for what they do.

 

Yeah they're crazy cool to the see the first time. They have antennas sprouting out of everywhere. We parked next to a similar looking one in Palm Springs a couple of years ago.

Had a sim instructor that flew one as a contractor in Africa. They have added fuel tanks and routinely flew 10 hour missions!!

"Did they also upgrade the seats (and lav)? Nope. Hahaha, then I want no part of this."

 

Whiny little bitches. They can get up, walk around, take a piss, etc. The rest of us poor army pilots just get to sit in a small helicopter cockpit sim actual uncomfortable seats and not be able to move for our ten hour missions.