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Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?

What's your level of interest in aviation?!

  • Setting squawk 7500 when a flight simmer gets anywhere near the cockpit.

    Votes: 6 12.0%

  • Telling an Airbus from a Boeing? Easy. Shape of cockpit side windows!

    Votes: 21 42.0%

  • I AM GOING TO DIE ON THIS PLANE OMG!!!

    Votes: 9 18.0%

  • 737 Max? I'd like fries with it.

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • Sure, I like animals: mad dogs, warthogs, racoons, otters,...

    Votes: 2 4.0%

  • "Hi, is this the A340 crew? I've got a delivery for you. Four hair dryers?"

    Votes: 3 6.0%

  • I'm just here because I like voting in polls.

    Votes: 14 28.0%
  • Total voters
    50
A lovely video on metal model airplanes
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Hydrogen
techxplore.com

Hydrogen flight looks ready for take-off with new advances

The possibility of hydrogen-powered flight means greater opportunities for fossil-free travel, and the technological advances to make this happen are moving fast. New studies from Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, show that almost all air travel within a 750-mile radius (1,200 km)...
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Coming?
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Here is a model of the AN-225:
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Passenger chopper…I mean…
hackaday.com

A Look Back At The USSR’s Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

Most of us would equate commercial airline travel with fixed-wing aircraft, but civilian transport by helicopter, especially in large and sparsely populated regions, is common enough. It was once e…
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Flight, simplified:

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"Flying airplanes is too complicated, here's how Skyryse is changing that"

Just saw this, hmm ... interesting. (also interesting are the Robinson helos featured, for more about them, https://www.robinsonheli.com/) Jun 13, 2024 Technology has simplified so much in our lives, but helicopters and airplanes remain massively complicated to operate. This technology gap...
www.secretprojects.co.uk www.secretprojects.co.uk

What Moller imagined is near…

Airliner differences
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A mystery solved?
www.forbes.com

Scientist Claims To Solve MH370 Mystery, But Expert Urges Caution

Australian researcher Vincent Lyne says he knows why the Malaysia Airlines flight disappeared in 2014 and that his findings change the narrative of the doomed plane.
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deepSPACE
aerospace.illinois.edu

deepSPACE design tool takes a concept to a multitude of configurations

deepSPACE design tool takes a concept to a multitude of configurations
aerospace.illinois.edu aerospace.illinois.edu

From:

Spruce shuttle
www.space.com

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 134 — The Spruce Space Shuttle

Ben Dickow and the Columbia Memorial Space Center
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Holly Holly Oxenfree said:
Shitty situation all round

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Apparently the Ground Worker, she had Multiple Schlerosis, was intoxicated with THC at the time of the incident where she got sucked into the Jet Engine, and a history of negligence for safety protocols.

Also, the Ground Crew isn't subject to Drug Testing like the pilots by the NTSB.

NTSB needs to change that rule, and everybody should be drug tested, period.

Also if MS is affecting her mental functions, that could create severe mental impairment along with Cannabis that leads to her making a fatal mistake like getting in the danger zone of a Jet Engine intake.

Also, ground crew needs more Safety Training on the dangers of operating with Aircraft and to consistently be more vigilant.

We don't need another incident of a person being turned into "Chunky Salsa" via Jet Engine.
 
publiusr said:
Another tragedy
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Was that a Boeing Aircraft?
Update 1): Nevermind, it was a Boeing Aircraft, but it was also a BirdStrike incident.
www.bbc.com

Jeju Air: What we know about the South Korea plane crash

Officials are investigating the cause of the deadliest aircraft crash in South Korean history, which killed 179 people.
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The Aircraft Belly Flopped onto the Runway after getting hit by Birds.
 
I have never fully trusted twinjets…I get the economics…still.

Had this been a tri-jet at least—with a flight engineer to help with work load—this tragedy likely never happens.

The 727 that the Discovery Channel crashed *on purpose* had less damage…of course, what we saw here was essentially a repeat of the 9/11 Pentagon strike with nothing much left but confetti.

That was faster so even the tail vanished—something to point out to 9/11 “truthers.”

The loss of the Flying Fortress due to a collision shows how something that looks mighty and solid can instantly turn into what looks like wispy gold leaf…
 
Gingerbread Demon said:
www.abc.net.au

'It's upside down': Three people critical after Toronto plane crash

Multiple people have been injured after a commercial flight crashed at an airport in Toronto, Canada, with the plane eventually coming to rest upside down.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

Luckily no deaths
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don't know about the 3 with critical injuries as that's not being reported here and as be the news 2 mins ago only people remain in hospital.

Been pointed out the aircraft didn't flare and it was a hard landing which would explain the apparent collapse of the right hand main gear which would have dug the wing in causing the flip.
 
It has been a bad streak of such incidents...the Medjet crash, the Blackhawk collision...I am hearing scuttlebutt that radar altimeters have trouble with river waters---salt content or lack thereof.
 
publiusr said:
It has been a bad streak of such incidents...the Medjet crash, the Blackhawk collision...I am hearing scuttlebutt that radar altimeters have trouble with river waters---salt content or lack thereof.
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maybe you should try reading and researching yourself rather the listen to scuttlebutt.

radar altimeters have been used for decades and it there was issue it would be well and truly out there.
 
Sigh…

Washington DC air collision (January 2025)

I know it is now a popular assertion but I personally don't see much bank angle in all the video available to the public. Approach trajectory, as seen in the landing chart (see above), is a straight (hence flat) approach above the Potomac. This is why I have suggested the CRJ was below the...
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