The fatal crash of youtube airplane flipping channel "Rebuild Rescue" was caused by water in the fuel from a missing seal on gas cap (and the pilot skipping fuel inspection during his hasty preflight): https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/351359
the first episode of the project:
Flipping airplanes apparently isn’t like flipping houses.
Go figure.
Working diligently to enlarge my group size.
China's starting to make sales of its commercial jets: https://aviationweek.com/shownews/si...gapore-signing
They are making some interesting designs in the military realm, like their new strategic lifters and combat helicopters.
Cloud Yeller of the Boomer Age
While my initial and gut reaction would be to shun any Chinese commercial aircraft - that reaction is tempered with the fact that some of the very best airliners coming off the assembly lines today are engineered and manufactured in Brazil. That combined with Boeing’s reckless and corrupt behavior makes me think the ChiComs have a chance at producing a world class aircraft.Originally Posted by Glenn E. Meyer
In the end, even with a good aircraft, tech support (as in people to support the needs of the airlines) is going to be their biggest challenge IMHO.
https://www.flyingmag.com/air-force-...still-unknown/
Meanwhile, two Ospreys, one a Presidential bird, continue to sit grounded at our local airport.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
Big wind event in Anchorage.
Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.
Are my eyes deceiving me, or are the wings not parallel on those 2 fixed wings?Big wind event in Anchorage.
I mean....start 1:30 in.
...and the COD continues to fill the role for the USN.
https://www.thedefensepost.com/2024/...hounds-osprey/
-Rainman
As high as I’m allowed to go. Sips fuel up high, though.
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master"
A big driver for the switch to the Osprey for COD was that the C2 didn't have the space to transport an F-35C engine without removing it from it's shipping container. That has implications not just for flying it to the ship, but for moving it around once landed and storing it.
https://news.usni.org/2021/04/29/fir...r-strike-group
"Going into F-35C acquisition and fielding, a key concern was the fact that the Joint Strike Fighter is a single-engine plane. The engine has proven quite reliable – in fact, during testing aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), an F-35C engine ingested debris from the basket of the Super Hornet that was refueling it mid-air, and the F-35C made it back to Lincoln’s deck safely. Still, the single engine is large – too large to be transported via a C-2A, which is why the V-22 was chosen to replace is for the COD mission – and many worried whether the Navy would be able to sustain the jets at sea if moving the engine around was so difficult."
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