Aviation BS and Photo Thread

For some reason I am not getting alerts for new replies in this thread....I keep missing cool updates!

 

Finally taking a vacation!
Will be able to go to National Naval Aviation Museum | Official Website several days in June. Been there several times and it never gets old. Not much of a beach person, but I never regret spending a week in Pensacola. The wife sleeps in and I go to the museum almost every morning. Takes several days for me to take it all in.

 

Nice, I went to Destin today. The water looked so nice! It was neat approaching over the water and landing over top of the buildings. Had to be on speed and slope for the 5000’ runway!

 

Never heard of this one...
https://youtu.be/hHw2UT5uNTo

 

A game of who hits empty first?

 

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...^^^... I remember that movie ... it was pretty good for its' time ... lol

IIRC ... David Jensen (actor) was a former military pilot was in that chase.

IIRC .. It was the "Bullitt Car Chase" in helicopters.

 

Look closely at the Zero in there. There's a bullet hole in the fuselage from when the Allied troops would approach the Zeros, if the Japanese pilot survived the crash, they'd shoot at the Allied troops while hiding in the lower cockpit. Once this strategy was discovered, it became SOP to shoot that area of the plane as you walked up to ensure the pilot didn't shoot you first.

 

I just saw something I've never seen before. I live in northwest Arkansas. Tonight around 945pm, I saw 47 airplanes flying in a tight single file coming from the southwest to to the northeast. It was night and I only saw a single light for each plane and could just barely hear anything. They must have been pretty high to barely hear 47 planes. Moving fairly quickly. And I think I heard something, but not sure if it was my mind playing tricks thinking I was.

Any ideas? Does the military move planes like that in single file? Satellites? Aliens?

 

Starlink satellites.



They're slowly spreading out and should be pretty invisible once they're at altitude.

 

Most definitely aliens. I’m a pilot so I can speak from authority on this matter.

 

I've heard astronomers are concerned about visibility due to starlink.

 

Ahhh, that explains it. My view was much more overhead and not on the horizon like that. They were coming over the house one at a time. Was pretty cool to see.

 

Not gonna lie. I saw the same last night in south Louisiana and it totally freaked me out. But then I remembered I had literally watched the Falcon 9 launch live on Youtube and did a facepalm. I am not a smart man.

 

You can apparently find a time to see them* in your local area.

https://findstarlink.com/








*them = aliens

 

My friend in South Dakota saw them last night also. I still haven’t been able to see them myself yet

 

cool beans, thanks!

 

Out camping last weekend and hear something coming in loud and hot, it was not the local fire choppers working the huge fire down the hill, I'm used to those, then these babies buzzed the treeline. Could tell they were not ours so I suspected foreign training, or maybe Blackwater as they have training centers here too.

Not often (ever) do I get to see RAF Puma's blasting overhead at tree level, could hear them sticking around for a while over the next hill having a good old time for about 15min

 

We saw starlink last night on the way from EWR-LAS. Thats a pretty impressive engineering feat seeing them in those “trains”. Even the guard police gave a pass to calls pointing them out, and those guys are not easily impressed...

 

This is the TBM Avenger that crashed in the ocean a few weeks back at the Cocoa Beach Air show. Doesn't sound like it will ever fly again.