Just out of curiosity - Airplane Guys

[Kevin Werner]

I`ve probably posted this before but HH was one of my all time aviation hero`s. Check out the instrument panel. I think my Cherokee was more complicated than that.
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I met my wife while we worked at Hughes Aircraft. Years earlier she had met and chatted with him. She worked "Configuration Management". One of those obscure entities that gobble up defense $. As programs advance and designs mature someone has to keep track of the changes. A very obscure but important part of DoD readiness. A -1 Power Supply may work fine in a -7 radar set but a -7 processor may not work in a -1 radar set. When backward or forward interchangability stops there are rule about issuing new part numbers and new part number series.

 

[Downeaster]

Very Scary Air Rescue............

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxvoGKbh6Ky/

I actually saw that done live at a demo when I was stationed in the PI. I expect they keep a change of skivvies in the aircraft...

 

[Kevin Werner]

I actually saw that done live at a demo when I was stationed in the PI. I expect they keep a change of skivvies in the aircraft...

So some enterprising dude say "yeah, i can make make a buck on that idea and pushes a dude off of a high bridge..."

 

[gggGary]

 

[GLJ]

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That's all fine and dandy but I wanna to see you clean the windshields.

 

[Jim]

Good ol' Air force know how.... building one good F-35 from two wrecked ones.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-franken-bird-being-made-from-two-badly-damaged-jets

 

[Jan_P]

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Yes Sir and there is one piece of the Air Force Equipment That is working the Cap is still On --- Sign me Up.

 

[Jim]

First Dreamliner landing in Antarctica. I love their call sign... very fitting.

 

[Kevin Werner]

Good ol' Air force know how.... building one good F-35 from two wrecked ones.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-franken-bird-being-made-from-two-badly-damaged-jets


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Could be a nightmare... everything is tracked by serial number, imagine the headaches!!! S/N 134A16 and 127A21 both flew 40 hours last month. They used half the fuel of squadron mates, promote those pilots for fuel effienency...
Those two birds need less maintenance actions than any other bird in the Air Force, promote the ground crews. That squadron Commander really knows how to motivate his troops, promote him to General...

 

[Grimly]

Good ol' Air force know how.... building one good F-35 from two wrecked ones.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/f-35-franken-bird-being-made-from-two-badly-damaged-jets


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Huh, when I want to do a cut'n shut on a pair of Hondas, people get all uptight about it, but when it's the Govt, it's ok.

 

[gggGary]

 

[46th Georgia]

Huh, when I want to do a cut'n shut on a pair of Hondas, people get all uptight about it, but when it's the Govt, it's ok.

Rules for thee but not for me.

 

[halfmile]

The P-51 and the F-86 I`d say ol Edgar had his shit together.

 

[40north]

Is Osprey a flying restaurant...well a rice bowl for every contractor anyway, maybe buffet is a better term... Anyway our Japanese "allies" raising up more bloody bits... https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15097954

Nasty way to end a man's life.

 

[gggGary]

The wing of a 727 is indeed an amazing thing and here's one with all leading edge flaps and slats deployed and the trailing edge flaps fully extended to 40 degrees. The wing spoilers are also extended, which creates that square hole in the wing when the flaps are down - you can see a cabin window in the middle of it. This was a configuration that was prohibited in flight - the speed brakes were not to be used when the flaps were extended.

 

[40north]

Banging out new flying bits in a real navy...https://youtu.be/Oo4am5c8hUE

I like the lead pour!

 

[Kevin Werner]

 

[halfmile]

VFT Today.

 

[40north]

The 737 affair... https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/01/boeings-737-max-is-still-a-mess.html#more

(I have heard tell that the several sub-assemblies are sometimes fitted with the aid of alignment bars and hammers...as the holes don't line up...well, I have never worked on flying machines, but I have seen some really bad stuff on the ground!

I am recalling the Comet jets, which had serious problems of metal fatigue and cracks....though to be fair, Comet went on to a long and safe life-time.

bummer Dude!

 

[Raymond]

I am recalling the Comet jets, which had serious problems of metal fatigue and cracks....though to be fair, Comet went on to a long and safe life-time.

The Comet suffered from being first jet airliner. When losses occurred - planes breaking up in the air - the subsequent investigations led to the realisation that the corners of square windows were stress multipliers leading to metal fatigue and catastrophic failure. Solution was oval windows. And of course all later jet airliners from Boeing, M-D, et al have oval windows.