Airplane Porn (and the occasional helicopter)

[MikeRL411]

On 9/12/2022 at 7:32 PM, J-Luis said:

AH-64E Apache helicopters elephant walk at Joint Base Lewis-McChord.

 

 

All aligned and waiting for a strafing run,  Doesn't anyone learn from history?

[Jesse C.]

[KELMO]

[flyerdan]

PC-12 with gear issue?

[KELMO]

Not sure, he came through and did a couple touch and goes. These pics are from the departure end of the runway so he could have been retracting the gear already. He made about 4 passes, and this was the last go around.

[J-Luis]

Boeing 737-800, Pegasus Airlines, Trabzon Airport, Turkey just feet from the Black Sea, 01-14-18. 

One article reports the starboard engine went to full power thrusting the plane off the runway. 

After landing. No injuries. 

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by J-Luis

[J-Luis]

[Cardinal Grammeter]

 

Cool huh? (!)

 

The only plane that makes the GeeBee Racer look like an SR-71 (!)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stipa-Caproni

Edited November 2, 2022 by Cardinal Grammeter

[J-Luis]

Hughes XH-17 Flying Crane

[J-Luis]

747-406M - photo by Juan Carlos Guerra

Edited November 6, 2022 by J-Luis

[Cardinal Grammeter]

I was at the Reno Air Races when the SR-71 did a flyby.  I have a few good pics of it.  In the desert sun, it was so black, it was hard to see any details. 

 

Edited November 6, 2022 by Cardinal Grammeter

[Cardinal Grammeter]

[Cardinal Grammeter]

[Jesse C.]

[Cardinal Grammeter]

"I thought they said TURN LEFT!"

 

[Cardinal Grammeter]

Airplanes => Howard Hughes =>The Cottontail Ranch => I was there!

[J-Luis]

F-111A Aardvark drops Mark 82 high drag practice bombs during a training exercise over Nomans Land Range.

 

[Cardinal Grammeter]

On 5/12/2022 at 12:59 PM, VFR800 said:

REDDY KILOWATT:   "We Gonna LIGHT YOU UP!"  

[Jesse C.]

 

[flyerdan]

It looks like it just barely clipped the tip, but ground photos after showed a wing root separation and wrinkling in the fuselage skin between the spars.

[Jesse C.]

RIP to the Crew and single seat pilot of the CAF B-17 Texas Raider and their P-63 Fighter 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cardinal Grammeter]

1 hour ago, Jesse C. said:

RIP to the Crew and single seat pilot of the CAF B-17 Texas Raider and their P-63 Fighter 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Severe trauma for all that experienced it.  Nasty business. 

I've attended many Reno Air Races including the only in which Miss Ashley crashed - the one that went straight into the VIP seating was particularly hard to deal with - I believe that one was the failure of a trim tab on the P51, a known issue.  There've been so many crashes and so many failures they're hard to keep straight.  

That video:

1) The shot were the collision is behind the McDonald's sign:  Hard to make out, but looks like two "clusters" of black debris came out of the P63 as it passed by camera, then near the B17, seems an onset of decreasing G's and perhaps going negative.
2) The last vid shot perpendicular to the B17 path was quite perplexing because it was not possible to see the P63 - the only thing I could see were small local "perturbations" in the cloud background surrounding the B17.  The P36 gray appears to have been "perfect camo" for that shot.

The official press conference later that day was very frustrating because there was a total gag order on anything related. 

[Jesse C.]

2 hours ago, Cardinal Grammeter said:

 

Severe trauma for all that experienced it.  Nasty business. 

I've attended many Reno Air Races including the only in which Miss Ashley crashed - the one that went straight into the VIP seating was particularly hard to deal with - I believe that one was the failure of a trim tab on the P51, a known issue.  There've been so many crashes and so many failures they're hard to keep straight.  

That video:

1) The shot were the collision is behind the McDonald's sign:  Hard to make out, but looks like two "clusters" of black debris came out of the P63 as it passed by camera, then near the B17, seems an onset of decreasing G's and perhaps going negative.
2) The last vid shot perpendicular to the B17 path was quite perplexing because it was not possible to see the P63 - the only thing I could see were small local "perturbations" in the cloud background surrounding the B17.  The P36 gray appears to have been "perfect camo" for that shot.

The official press conference later that day was very frustrating because there was a total gag order on anything related. 

 

Nothing came off the P-63, and it is way too early to speculate what happened. I'll wait until the NTSB announces their findings. 

 

 

[Cardinal Grammeter]

I'm not speculating.  I'm just stating what I saw in the videos. 

Did you see the two clusters of "black specs" in the "McDonalds" video? 

[MikeRL411]

On 11/7/2022 at 6:41 AM, Jesse C. said:

 

Gotta be a Caproni!