Administrators Eric Posted April 26, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted April 26, 2019 10 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Don’t know where this is but Nashville TN has such a configuration. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Dallas does too. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Administrators Eric Posted April 26, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted April 26, 2019 This is cool. This tunnel appears to go under a taxiway and active runway, at LAX. I’ve never flown out of there. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Dallas does too.Been a LONG time but I think I remember the one at Dallas now that you remind me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted April 27, 2019 Share Posted April 27, 2019 Now that I think about it, Nashville has two similar situations. One has the actual runway crossing over the highway. The other has a taxiway Crossing a local street. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Just when did the airlines know that they had to pay extra for a key warning system on the Boeing 737 Max? The Wall Street Journal reported last night that it wasn’t at the point of sale. Until a crash in Ethiopia last October, Southwest Airlines thought the system came standard with the platform — so much so that their operating manuals included them Somehow, the news that the safety feature was an upgrade didn’t get mentioned Boeing Co. didn’t tell Southwest Airlines Co. and other carriers when they began flying its 737 MAX jets that a safety feature found on earlier models that warns pilots about malfunctioning sensors had been deactivated, according to government and industry officials. Federal Aviation Administration safety inspectors and supervisors responsible for monitoring Southwest, the largest 737 MAX customer, also were unaware of the change, the officials said. … Southwest’s management and cockpit crews didn’t know about the lack of the warning system for more than a year after the planes went into service in 2017, industry and government officials said. They and most other airlines operating the MAX learned about it only after the Lion Air crash in October led to scrutiny of the plane’s revised design. “Southwest’s own manuals were wrong” about the availability of the alerts, said the Southwest pilots union president, Jon Weaks. Since Boeing hadn’t communicated the modification to the carrier, the manuals reflected incorrect information, he said. . 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I'm guessing Boeing stock will be easy on the wallet for some time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) On 4/26/2019 at 7:46 PM, Eric said: Dallas does too. I remember when DFW was under construction, I read about it having underpasses like it was a new concept. Just read DFW opened 1/13/73, I first solo'd in 69, and now I am feeling terribly old. Time for a nap! Edited April 29, 2019 by Paul53 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Tous will like this 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 F-15C-Eagle 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Another fine McDonnell Douglas product. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 21 minutes ago, tous said: Another fine McDonnell Douglas product. Everything that flies eventually has six degrees of separation from Donald Douglas. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Went to a nice Air Force museum in Utah which had a B-52 on display outside and an SR-71 on display inside. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tadbart Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 On 4/15/2019 at 9:18 AM, SC Tiger said: Is that a ground-up designed airborne firefighting plane? Clever. I suspect we have the people, but we don't have the near-unlimited funding. We don't have the threat of the Russians. We do, but few see it. Damn thing still looks like it might snap in half - especially with a heavy load on the center wing area. I don't think it will but it sure looks like it would. Yup. I sure do wish they woulda attached those elevators to each other. I'd feel a whole lot better about that contraption then. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 A BUFF supersonic in level flight? Must be photo shopped. I can't imagine one staying together going downhill anywhere close to mach 1. Or am about to get a lesson here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 Top speed, at altitude, of a B-52 was around 560 knots. Mach 1 is around 660 knots. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 54 minutes ago, tous said: Top speed, at altitude, of a B-52 was around 560 knots. Mach 1 is around 660 knots. Thanks old friend. I was thinking closer to 700 knots because altitude in a Cherokee is a bit lower, but point taken. I recall someone had a Luscombe photo shopped just like the BUFF. Waiting for someone to ps a Corvair or Studebaker into a pic. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 No way, in high humidity and low level with a tailwind.......still no way . 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 So, which is better - a Mustang or a ME-109? 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tous Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 9 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: So, which is better - a Mustang or a ME-109? The man flying it. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dric902 Posted May 18, 2019 Share Posted May 18, 2019 18 minutes ago, gwalchmai said: So, which is better - a Mustang or a ME-109? The ME 109 didn’t change much from the beginning of the war. Great plane in 1939 but the R and D was with us in performance and design. Catching up and surpassing the standards set by the ‘109 and the FW-190 plus we never ran out of fuel or pilots . 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
railfancwb Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 The museum I mentioned in an earlier post is the Hill Aerospace Museum in Utah Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 On 8/19/2018 at 3:07 PM, willie-pete said: Awe, come on now! That's just wrong on so many levels! In aircraft terms, that's obscene! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C_Hallbert Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 Awe, come on now! That's just wrong on so many levels! In aircraft terms, that's obscene!The work of an Aeronautical Design Engineer with a fanciful and artistic bent.....Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul53 Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 1 minute ago, C_Hallbert said: The work of an Aeronautical Design Engineer with a fanciful and artistic bent..... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I admire the ingenuity and imagination, not to mention his humor. I'm sure it falls into the ultra light rules because I can't imagine anybody official signing off on the construction. But I think Gomez Adams says it better than I can in this cartoon. If you know the builders name, maybe I need to look through the EAA roles, I'd like to know his name. I bet he can fill a book with the jokes and comments he's got. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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