The Aviation Thread [Contains Lots of Awesome Pictures]

[93Flareside]

TIL this is a thing. http://sicksack.com/

 

[Blind_Io]

Apparently my company now owns this: https://intermountainhealthcare.org...-utahs-newest-medical-long-range-medical-jet/

Bombardier Challenger 604 to be used for lifesaving flight operations.

 

[RdKetchup]

Apparently my company now owns this: https://intermountainhealthcare.org...-utahs-newest-medical-long-range-medical-jet/

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Bombardier Challenger 604 to be used for lifesaving flight operations.

Borrow it to go to ringmeet 2022 (and stop in YUL to pick me up).

 

[RdKetchup]

 

[GRtak]

Passenger with "no idea how to fly" a plane lands Cessna at Florida airport after pilot suffers possible medical emergency

Dramatic audio between the passenger and air traffic controllers revealed the tense moments before the Cessna landed at Palm Beach International Airport.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[RdKetchup]

Not bad for a phone picture in the middle of the night over the Atlantic.

 

[jack_christie]

Italian Special Color Eurofighter Typhoon​

Up Close And Personal With The Italian Special Color Eurofighter Typhoon For NTM 2022

We take a closer look at the special livery prepared by the XII Gruppo of the Italian Air Force for The NATO Tiger Meet. As we reported a few days ago, on

theaviationist.com

 

[jack_christie]

American ekranoplan?

 

[calvinhobbes]

Flying a DC-3 is very much a hands-on job. A PNF*-hands-on-the-levers job, in fact. Those are the prop pitch levers, if I’m not mistaken.

*pilot not flying

 

[Blind_Io]

I'm a huge fan of the DC-3. I was able to go aboard the Delta DC-3 they restored when I took a civil aviation history class back in the early 2000s. Got some great shot of that plane.

 

[Blind_Io]

The Pilots in That Failed Red Bull Plane-Swap Stunt Just Had Their Licenses Revoked

Red Bull seems happy to let the pilots take the blame for the stunt that ended with one unoccupied plane crashing in the Arizona desert.

jalopnik.com

 

[GRtak]

How is Red Bull going to get off Scot free?

 

[RdKetchup]

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Flying a DC-3 is very much a hands-on job. A PNF*-hands-on-the-levers job, in fact. Those are the prop pitch levers, if I’m not mistaken.

*pilot not flying

Correct.

The levers should be:

Throttle (X2), pitch (X2), mixture (X2).

Is that your picture? Did you fly on the DC3?

 

[calvinhobbes]

Throttle (X2), pitch (X2), mixture (X2).

Pitch, throttle and mixture from left to right. PF was working the throttles, that part I recognised.

Is that your picture? Did you fly on the DC3?

Yep. Second time on PH-PBA yesterday. Route was from EBOS towards Ghent, then to Terneuzen, then Vlissingen and back to Ostend.

 

[RdKetchup]

Wow, jealous of you and @Blind_Io getting to fly on it.

I'm surprised that the pitch controls are on the left, but it appears you are right.

 

[Blind_Io]

Wow, jealous of you and @Blind_Io getting to fly on it.

I'm surprised that the pitch controls are on the left, but it appears you are right.

I wasn't able to fly on it, I got to walk around it at the Delta hangar and go aboard while it was on the ramp, but seats for flights were lottery based and limited to Delta employees.

 

[DaBoom]

Wow, jealous of you and @Blind_Io getting to fly on it.

I'm surprised that the pitch controls are on the left, but it appears you are right.

#VisitFinland. https://www.dc-ry.fi/jasenlennot/varaa/

There's actually a flight available this week..

 

[calvinhobbes]

So I was sitting in an airport terminal with my headphones on and their noise cancellation set to “high”. But I still heard the very noticeable hum of a turboprop aircraft. The most I was expecting was Cessna Caravans and ATRs, so this was unexpected. Turned out to be…

…a Ukrainian An-12! 😍

 

[RdKetchup]

Spotted a few planes while running near AMS last weekend.

Ryanair B738

EasyJet A320

Delta A359 (saw another one a few minutes earlier as well)

KLM E170

 

[calvinhobbes]

😍 It’s no Kai Tak, but still pretty good!