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snakefoot
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Nor Cal
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Jun 18, 2016 - 10:04am PT
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great to hear Edge, i've seen your girl up there. let me know when you are ready, i fly there often and we have some excellent instructors.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jul 18, 2016 - 04:38pm PT
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DC-10 on the job. Reilly's got the good pics.
Dwight Kroll aka flydude pilots me over The Needles
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perswig
climber
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7G1rvmwfIk
Audio of a Phantom ejection and overwatch from the '70s. Beacon noise on guard notwithstanding, gripping listening. Dude looks tough, and his flight all did their jobs and got both pilot and RIO home.
Dale
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 29, 2016 - 04:55pm PT
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Bob was among the very best. He was surely a better 'stick' than Yaeger for whom he flew the wing on the first official supersonic flight. His Shrike maneuver was aerial ballet, without a tutu.
A few minutes ago...
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Karen
Trad climber
Prescott, AZ ~
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Nov 25, 2016 - 08:30pm PT
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Bob you'll be missed!
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Hoffbrow
Trad climber
California
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Nov 26, 2016 - 07:20am PT
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HG flight at Crestline CA...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 20, 2016 - 07:35am PT
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Black Goat Is Sacrificed On Tarmac Of Pakistani Airport
Sunday was a bad day for a certain goat in Pakistan.
Employees of Pakistan's national airline took a black goat to the tarmac, near an ATR-42 aircraft that was ready to depart on a domestic flight from the Islamabad airport, and sacrificed the animal.
"PIA lampooned for bizarre goat slaughter," read the headline in Pakistan's Express Tribune.
PIA is Pakistan International Airlines, which had grounded its fleet of ATR turboprop passenger planes after a Dec. 7 crash of an ATR killed all 47 people on board. The flight on Sunday was the first by an ATR since then.
It wasn't PIA's idea to bring a goat into the mix. Airline spokesperson Danyal Gillani issued what was no doubt the first airline statement about goat sacrifice in the history of aviation: "It was done by some local employees as a gesture of gratitude over the clearance of the first ATR [for flying]." Animal sacrifice is a part of Islamic tradition and can be found in other religions as well (see Leviticus 23:19).
In defense of the sacrifice, a Twitter user who goes by MisBis wrote: "There's nothing wrong in giving Sadqua [a charitable offering] ... Sadqa bari balao se bachata hai [it hedges against many troubles] ... stop making it a joke."
But the Pakistan International Airlines Pilots Association was not happy. "When you slaughter an animal in the middle of a major airport next to an aircraft, it is bound to attract attention," said a representative.
That it did, thanks to Twitter. And of course many people couldn't resist cracking wise.
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/19/506155932/black-goat-is-sacrificed-on-tarmac-of-pakistani-airport
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Yeah, that should straighten things out.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 21, 2016 - 07:08pm PT
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Did y'all hear about the near tragedy Friday? EVA departing LAX almost flew into Mt Wilson. "Who put mountain in our way?"
Those clowns defy belief. If they didn't have such good autopilots they would either get lost or crash every day.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Worked for Lockheed a few years back at Ed-weird AFB on the F-35 Lightning II. These photos were from the initial flight test and telemetry days.
Yours truly (crouched) downloading data from a high power engine run
Fellow avionics techs (Noelle from Lockheed) and Ano Dechbek (Dutch Air Force) observing the high power run.
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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Fun times aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, during a work up before a world cruise aboard the USS Nimitz in 1997. One of our pilots hit the round down while coming in for an arrested landing. Swells were reported to have been 20-plus, making for a really difficult recovery aboard the carrier. I was on the deck (in the 6-pack, for all you sailors out there). Watched the wreckage slide by. Our pilot ejected just prior to the jet plunging overboard. He survived....barely got a few swings in the chute before hitting the deck.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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He didn't even get his feet wet? Ho, man! That probably didn't make him feel much better.
Curious why he wasn't waved off, he musta been on the low side already.
edit: Guess I shoulda watched the vid first. Doh!
He had a real nice approach going, until he didn't. :-(
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mooch
Trad climber
Tribal Base Camp (Kernville Annex)
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I personally was a little mystified why were having CQ's (carrier quals) with huge pitching decks. I recall running to where he landed on the deck and there were already a half dozen folks helping him to his feet. Ended up with a compressed spine, due to the impact and being out of position for the ejection.
Then this happened to us during the 1997-1998 cruise on the Nimitz. Talk about chasing bad luck. All because of a corroded tie-down on the aircraft itself. The tie-down is spring loaded but since it was a corroded, its stayed extended (usually the 'green shirts' hang off of this before the aircraft goes into tension. The tie down caught on hydraulic lines when the pilot was on approach. Depleted all the hydraulics for the landing gear and the inflight refueling probe. With no chance to refuel, he was left with only the option to take the carrier's barricade.
First F-18 barricade (700 nautical miles from land and low fuel state). The same guy posting this to YouTube, was the Marine pilot who took the barricade (Capt Slater).
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Stew breaks out the phantom, getting to know his suit over portugal.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 14, 2017 - 08:41am PT
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As I reported a week or so ago now the EVA crankloons are under investigation:
Investigation underway into airplane that narrowly missed Mt. Wilson last month
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-flight-investigation-20170113-story.html
[The controller then turned her attention to getting the EVA pilot to turn south and repeatedly ordered him to do so until he finally complied, according to recorded radio transmissions. At one point, the controller said, “EVA 15 what are you doing? Turn southbound now!”]
It would be funny if it wasn't so sad. I just hate it when mountains jump in front of me.
It's like they don't even care!
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