The Aviation Thread [Contains Lots of Awesome Pictures]
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A quick browse of controller.com shows a couple of Albatrosses listed, both are about $1 million or so. I imagine the operating cost would be in the $2000-3000 range; in other words, a bit more than a comparable 19-seat land-based aircraft.
EDIT: $2000-3000 per flying hour, that is.
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If you have to ask you probably can't afford it. 
Speaking of airplanes and money you probably don't want to know how much a new pilot's seat for a C-130 is.
Speaking of airplanes and money you probably don't want to know how much a new pilot's seat for a C-130 is.
It's $37,000.
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On the bright side... at least it's not an ejection seat?
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I like the plane, but I'd much rather have it in this paint scheme:
https://pic.armedcats.net/b/bl/blind_io/2010/11/16/p40_sm.jpg
https://pic.armedcats.net/b/bl/blind_io/2010/11/16/p40_sm.jpg
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I agree.
Heathrow
Yes, as in the airport.
I agree too.
Help for anyone dropping in this thread who doesn?t recognise the Flying Tigers paint scheme. (Chinese Nationalist AF flown by volunteer Americans in WW II vs. IJAF)
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A look into the report on the Airbus A380 engine explosion: http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetal...natomy-of-the-airbus-a380-qf32-near-disaster/
That's in a museum an hour SW of me.
Yes, that's a SR-71 parked under it's wing. :lol:
That's in a museum an hour SW of me.
Yes, that's a SR-71 parked under it's wing. :lol:
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It makes the SR-71 look like a toy!
Correspondent75
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A little explanation of the pic , Blayde ?
SpitfireMK461
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It looks like exhaust from a power station with a very low cloud layer.
Heathrow
Yes, as in the airport.
It looks a bit like an old steam ship on the ocean and reminded me of an imaginative quote from WW2:
?SAW STEAMER,
STRAFFED SAME,
SANK SAME,
SOME SIGHT!
SIGNED SMITH?
Capt. Fred M. Smith, a USAAF P-38 pilot, sent this report after sinking a Japanese Destroyer-Minesweeper during the Aleutians campaign in April 1942.
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It looks to be the steam coming off of two nuclear reactor cooling towers with low cloud cover.
(basically what SpitfireMK461 said)
Not necessarily nuclear, could be some other power plant too.
Sorry offtopic, here have a MiG-105:
https://pic.armedcats.net/h/h-/h-p/2010/11/18/SpaceShip2.jpg
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