Official Aviation Thread...

[flyboyx]

You watch the video? The little cube drove right up and under it, while it was taxiing.

no. i did not watch the video

[LateFan]

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[BlackbirdM3]

An epic shot from last year. I wish I could have been in England to see the Vulcan and two Lancasters fly. One of the Lancasters flew over from Canada. I think it was the first time since the 50s that a Lancaster had made that flight.

I'm off to Reno for the air races. The next 3.5 days are going to be amazing with media credentials. I'm looking forward to really pushing the envelope as a photographer.

Will

[flyboyx]

godspeed.

[jpod999]

I got this video of a 787 taking off at SFO yesterday. Awesome plane.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BKZuRHQgh2N/?taken-by=jpod999

[ThatM20Guy]

Just found this thread. Starting the process of getting my pilots license right now :)

[flyboyx]

Great!! What do you intend to do with it?

[ThatM20Guy]

Well I am going to go to K-State Polytechnic next year for a double major in Unmanned aerial systems and commercial pilot. After that, not 100% sure. Might go into the air force but I'm 6'4" and there height limit for flying is 6'5" so that might not work out :D

[flyboyx]

why would that be a problem? you are under the limit. are you expecting to grow a couple more inches? usually the disqualifying factor is eyes. have you looked into air force rotc? i don't know much about military aviation. i put some effort into it but i was never accepted when i was that age. the clinton administration brought a lot of military down sizing. i do know a thing or two about commercial airlines though. if you need advice along those lines, drop me a pm.

[BlackbirdM3]

A couple quick pics from Reno...
P-51A "Miss Virginia"


Dusty Dowd fending off a P51A and D model in the Unlimited Silver heat. Dusty is flying a Yak 11 with an R2000.


Impressionist Speed... Unlimited class P51 Voodoo.


Will

[LateFan]

What kind of fuel do those things run?

[BlackbirdM3]

What kind of fuel do those things run?

I don't even want to know what that costs per gallon...


Will

[flyboyx]

in world war 2 the fuel was called 115/145.

160 octane is a special order from a refinery for this sort of event. normally high horsepower turbo/supercharged piston airplanes are simply detuned to run lower octane fuels. that just wouldn't be acceptable for an unlimited air race. needless to say, you cannot go to your local fixed base operator and find anything other than 100 low lead and jet fuel these days.

if i were to guess, i would suppose that fuel costs well north of 8.00/gallon.

[LateFan]

And I'll bet they go through it pretty fast! Thanks, just curious.