Official Aviation Thread...

[flyboyx]

Some great pictures above. I love the heat scorching on the polished alum. In some of the shots earlier it looks like you're actually above the planes - did you go up on a hill next to the race course?


So, what do you flyers out there think of this Icon A5 that just killed the baseball player? Serious plane, or too much of a toy flown by inexperienced pilots?

i had never heard of this airplane before the incident in question. i do have to say that it looks really sweet though.

apparently, witnesses say he was "showboating" or whatever that means.

[M-technik-3]

Roy Haloday flying into the gulf like a lunatic.

[LateFan]

Some great pictures above. I love the heat scorching on the polished alum. In some of the shots earlier it looks like you're actually above the planes - did you go up on a hill next to the race course?


So, what do you flyers out there think of this Icon A5 that just killed the baseball player? Serious plane, or too much of a toy flown by inexperienced pilots?

[BlackbirdM3]

Will

[BlackbirdM3]

A cool video clip of the Texas Flying Legends guys at Reno.

https://vimeo.com/239910696

Will

[superj]

One of the larger drones flew over the house today. It flew very low and i wish i had been ready because it had two pods under the right wing and nothing under the left, which is very odd. I used to see those a bunch but since we (where i work) dont work on them anymore, i dont see them up close.

[M-technik-3]

Easy to deduce from the amount that are airworthy that yeah this was the one.

[superj]

I get to see the south texas air shows every time they are in corpus, the whole week they are practicing and flying, because I work on nascc and live about .5 mile off base.

if you guys ever come to the air shows down here, I am almost always at them on one of the days but its easy to show up because the ones in corpus, I ride my bicycle to, and the ones in Kingsville are only 30ish minutes away.

[BlackbirdM3]

i saw a mitchel flying around the south east houston area last weekend. i wonder if it was that one?

It was in Houston Oct 20-22 for a show. Its quite possible. If you ever get a chance to see the Texas Flying Legends put on a show, its a good show.

Will

[flyboyx]

i saw a mitchel flying around the south east houston area last weekend. i wonder if it was that one?

[BlackbirdM3]

Some Texas Flying Legends action.









Will

[tttoon]

Yup, we had 100+ knots tail from pretty much North Florida to Newfoundland Sunday at FL390. Pretty bumpy, but it took an hour out of our flight time.

[FLYNAVY]

Nice.....winds aloft have been kicking around here as of late. Had about 250@70 knots at FL280-300 this afternoon offshore of VA beach.......guessing more up high

[tttoon]

Did my second trip in the 787 this past weekend to Cancun:



Opposite our stand were two of these old things. Amazing how much the 787 is in a different world to even the NG in terms of technology, let alone compared to a -200.



Somewhere close to Savannah, we followed the east coast all the way up to Gander where we took an oceanic track (albeit above the assigned levels) to Shannon, Ireland.



Myrtle Beach



Pretty good tailwind.

[flyboyx]

Yes I did and yes you did. I moved to Ohio in 2014 for work and have been shivering ever since. Still driving the 318iS on good weekends summer commutes, though I am in the middle of a timing re-build right now on the M42. My old house survived Harvey but we have a lot of old friends who lost everything, quite tragic. I hope you all did well, i was tracking those I knew in the area via this site. Are you still in Humble/Atascocita?

We are still there. No damage thankfully. One street over and about 10 feet lower in elevation, we had about 6 homes in our neighborhood flood. Only a few inches though. Really sorry to hear about your friends. The one story homes in the river’s flood path had it the worst. We have a thread here from a couple months ago where I posted some storm pics. I think it was titled “hurricane”.

I can’t believe it was 3+ years ago that I last crossed paths with you. Crazy how fast time passes. Good to hear from you. Glad you are doing well. Stay warm up there. Ohio state sux! Lol