Official Aviation Thread...

[mtechnik]

The good ole days of jet flight. When little kids could visit the cockpit and get pinned little wings on our shirts by the pilots.

Indeed :( .

No longer done on most jetliners. Just your smaller turbo prop planes during regional flight and you can't even get a tour in such a small cockpit :)

I love Airliners.net ; bringing is shots like the 747 transporting the 5th engine

[whowhatwhere]

[Maluco]

[Maluco]

[mtechnik]

Saw this and thought instantly on sharing this with Maluco.

Hope you haven't seen this one yet:

[Maluco]

^ why thanks...














FOR NOTHING! ;)

[aaron325ix]

rv-7 progress

went to ATL to visit the folks for x-mas and got to check out the progress my dad is making on his homebuilt.

We also got the wings on for a test fitting. Kind of a big mile stone for those of you who are familiar with this process.

The intended powerplant as of yet is the 13b you see that he just rebuilt.
This thing will be a blast to fly when done. I cant wait to do some yankin and bankin. Got to get my tail dragger cert first though

Sorry I couldnt resize the pics so they could bee seen easier, I need to figure out how to do that.

[geoffp]

my contribution:

















Navy SEALS getting the astronauts out:



old Coast Guard HC-131A Good Samaritan

[george graves]

My new wallpaper. Awesome.

[george graves]

[Maluco]

Hudson river current water temp: 32 degrees Fahrenheit

US Airways Flight 1549
AWE1549
US Airways "Cactus" (Tempe, AZ)
Aircraft Airbus A320 (twin-jet) (A320/Q)
Origin La Guardia (KLGA)
Destination Charlotte/Douglas Intl (KCLT)
Route BIGGY J75 GVE LYH SUDSY3 (Decode)
Date Thursday, Jan 15, 2009
Duration 1 hours 44 minutes
Progress
1 hour 20 minutes left
23 minutes


Status En Route (No recent position)
Scheduled Actual/Estimated
Departure 03:04PM EST 03:26PM EST
Arrival 04:38PM EST 05:10PM EST
Speed 455 kts 153 kts
Altitude 36000 feet descending 300 feet

US Airways Flt 1549, Type A320.
Fuselage intact.
All passengers + crew accounted for.
Double bird strike, both engines out. News people speculate canadian geese
Total flight time was around 3 mins.
Plane ditched into saltwater Hudson River, movement controlled by patrol boats.
A/C departed LGA runway 4. Ground stop initially, now all normal ops.
Primary hospitals include Roosevelt, St. Vincents
Around 25-50 pax sent to Roosevelt for treatment to exposure.

[Maluco]

[Arkangel]

^Yeah, just saw that in the news. Didn't they say it was a bird that caused it?

[Maluco]

[Maluco]

Passengers report scare on earlier US Airways Flight 1549

- Three say US Airways Flight 1549 nearly made emergency landing earlier last week
- Two days before last week's crash-landing, passengers report loud bang on flight
- One passenger says he sent a text message to his wife: "I love you"

Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River, passengers on the same route and same aircraft say they heard a series of loud bangs and the flight crew told them they could have to make an emergency landing, CNN has learned.
Steve Jeffrey of Charlotte, North Carolina, told CNN he was flying in first class Tuesday when, about 20 minutes into the flight, "it sounded like the wing was just snapping off."
"The red lights started going on. A little pandemonium was going on," Jeffrey recalled.
He said the incident occurred over Newark, New Jersey, soon after the plane -- also flying as Flight 1549 -- had taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York.
"It seemed so loud, like luggage was hitting the side but times a thousand. It startled everyone on the plane," Jeffrey said. "We started looking at each other. The stewardesses started running around. They made an announcement that 'everyone heard the noise, we're going to turn around and head back to LaGuardia and check out what happened.'
"I fly about 50 to 60 times per year, and I've never heard a noise so loud," he said. "It wasn't turbulence, it wasn't luggage bouncing around. It was just completely like the engine was thrown against the side of the plane. It just -- it didn't shake the plane but it shook you out of the seat when you're drifting off, it really woke you up. And when it happened again, everyone just started looking at each other and there was a quiet murmuring around the plane, and you could feel the tension rising just in looking.
"I remember turning to my [business] partner and saying, 'I hope you got everything in order back home, life insurance and everything, because that didn't sound good.' "
Jeffrey said he sent a text message to his wife about a "scary, scary noise on the plane. Doesn't sound right. They're flying back to LaGuardia to check it out. I'll call you when we land. I love you."
He added, "About 10 minutes later when we never made the turn, we kept going, that's when the pilot came on and explained -- I wish I could remember the words -- I remember him using air, compression and lock -- I'm not sure the right order, but he made it sound like the air didn't get to the engine and it stalled the engine out, which he said doesn't happen all the time but it's not abnormal."
Expert Aviation Consulting, an Indianapolis, Indiana, private consulting firm that includes commercial airline pilots on its staff, said the plane that landed in the Hudson was the same one as Flight 1549 from LaGuardia two days earlier. See images from the rescue in last week's crash »
"EAC confirms that US Airways ship number N106US flew on January 13, 2009, and January 15, 2009, with the same flight number of AWE 1549 from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte Douglas [International] Airport in North Carolina," Expert Aviation said in a statement to CNN.
The company said it checked with contacts in the aviation industry to confirm that it was the same plane.
The National Transportation Safety Board released the tail number of the downed Airbus A-320, which is N106US.
NTSB spokesman Peter Knudsen said as part of its investigation into the Hudson River crash, it will be looking at all maintenance activities, but has no indications of any anomalies or any malfunctions in the aircraft, so far in the investigation.
The Federal Aviation Administration referred CNN to US Airways.
US Airways would not confirm that the Flight 1549 that took off January 13 was the same plane that splashed into the Hudson two days later.
Valerie Wunder, a US Airways spokeswoman, said: "US Air is working with the National Transportation Safety Board in this investigation." She would not comment on any other details, including Tuesday's flight, though she did confirm US Airways is looking into it.
Jeffrey told CNN that US Airways earlier Monday confirmed to him that the Tuesday incident occurred aboard the plane that crashed.
John Hodock, another passenger on the Tuesday flight, said in an e-mail to CNN: "About 20 minutes after take-off, the plane had a series of compressor stalls on the right engine. There were several very loud bangs and fire coming out of the engine. The pilot at first told us that we were going to make an emergency landing, but after about five minutes, continued the flight to Charlotte."
In an interview, Hodock said the pilot "got on the intercom and said they were going to have to make an emergency landing at the nearest airport. But then, only five to 10 minutes later, the pilot came back on and said it was a stalled compressor and they were going to continue to Charlotte."
A third passenger, who did not want her named used, also said she heard a "loud banging sound" on the right side of the plane. She said she heard the pilot say the "compressor for the engine was stalled" and they needed "to turn around and go back." However, she said, the problem was fixed and the flight continued without incident.
Pilots and aviation officials said that a compressor stall results from insufficient air getting into the engine and that multiple stalls could result in engine damage. However, the officials said, a momentary compressor stall may be less serious and could be corrected in flight by simply restarting the engine.
A bird strike could lead to a compressor stall, the officials said.