The Aviation Thread [Contains Lots of Awesome Pictures]

[calvinhobbes]

fireship watercannons can easily take up airport firetrucks in a fight...

Well, yes, and by the time those eventually arrive at the scene, you would hope for a decent amount of power!

 

[narf]

Well, yes, and by the time those eventually arrive at the scene, you would hope for a decent amount of power!

Well depends on your geography our fire ships aren't far from the canal locks, the power station, the navy, the shipyard, the cruise terminals, the central train station, the airport, ... though to be fair they can't reach the actual runway from the water, only the disused navy helicopter base.

All the water

As for power... the red one has more than 500kW in pumps, for over 1000m³ per hour of wet. I like how airport firetrucks specify in "per minute" because they run out of tank too quickly to think about hours that tugboat will only do 700m³ an hour

If you pay attention on boats you'll notice lots of boats actually have watercannons, I've seen them on every Norwegian fjord ferry for example. SAR ships too, coast guard, etc... the next watercannon is closer than you might think, if you're near a large body of water.

 

[calvinhobbes]

Can I just say that I love reading you riffing on water cannons out of the blue?

 

[narf]

I just like the power to either extinguish or exterminate boats, depending on where you point and what you set the dial to

 

[Blind_Io]

I just like the power to either extinguish or exterminate boats, depending on where you point and what you set the dial to

"Mildly Damp" <-------------------------------->"Fuck everything in that general direction"

 

[RdKetchup]

Took some potato shots of a C-serie landing this morning.

I still haven't flown on one.

 

[93Flareside]

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Took some potato shots of a C-serie landing this morning.

I still haven't flown on one.

What's special about these? How are they different from the CRJ's of similar style?

 

[RdKetchup]

Completely new aircraft, nothing in common with the CRJ.

Good enough that Boeing felt so threatened by it they basically forced Bombardier out of business, and good enough that Airbus swooped in and took it over.

 

[marcos_eirik]

Completely new aircraft, nothing in common with the CRJ.

Good enough that Boeing felt so threatened by it they basically forced Bombardier out of business, and good enough that Airbus swooped in and took it over.

Yes, basically that. So happy that tactic blew up in Boeing's face.

Since the making of that video the 300 % tariff was dropped, happened in January 2018.

 

[Matt2000]

A local village had a flyover of a Dakota yesterday in memorial of five RAF servicemen who died in two crashes in 1944. Information about the crashes is available here. I wasn't sure of the exact route the plane would take but I was lucky enough to get some photos as it circled twice.

Spoiler

Nah I'm just messing with you.

Beautiful machine. Something something shutter speed and propellers... I'm out of practice so was taking no risks.

Oh yeah and my house is apparently a regular waypoint for the Red Arrows at the moment as they attend shows again, often seeing the 9 of them going directly overhead. No photos or video, sadly. Maybe next time.

 

[93Flareside]

A local village had a flyover of a Dakota yesterday in memorial of five RAF servicemen who died in two crashes in 1944. Information about the crashes is available here. I wasn't sure of the exact route the plane would take but I was lucky enough to get some photos as it circled twice.

Spoiler

Nah I'm just messing with you.

Beautiful machine. Something something shutter speed and propellers... I'm out of practice so was taking no risks.

Oh yeah and my house is apparently a regular waypoint for the Red Arrows at the moment as they attend shows again, often seeing the 9 of them going directly overhead. No photos or video, sadly. Maybe next time.

This is like a big foot sighting or lochness monster.

 

[marcos_eirik]

This is like a big foot sighting or lochness monster.

Me trying to take photos of a plane...

Meanwhile, autofocus:

 

[GRtak]

Michigan looks like this!

Part of Michigan Air National Guard training.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1423272981783003137

 

[Eye-Q]

Yup, it's called highway strip, those were created mostly during the cold war to temporarily replace degraded or destroyed air bases. Nowadays at least in Germany many of them are being removed when the highways are redone to improve safety for the main function since fortunately the probability of ever needing them is pretty low.

 

[GRtak]

 

[Blind_Io]

It Looks Like A C-130 Seaplane Is Finally Happening

Air Force Special Operations Command says it needs an MC-130J on floats and it looks like it has a plan to get it.

www.thedrive.com

 

[GRtak]

Sadly, I think this is a wet dream.

 

[GRtak]

This looks like it came from the 1930s.

Rolls-Royce's electric airplane completes its maiden flight in the UK

Rolls-Royce's fully electric aircraft the Spirit of Innovation completed its 15-minute maiden flight in Wiltshire, England.

electrek.co

 

[narf]

The last LH A380 is on its way to Teruel, awesome footage from landing gear testing

Ignore the German-ness, the pictures alone are cool.

 

[Blind_Io]

I didn't know they were discontinuing the 380.