All Things Aviation Related

[Seahawk]

^^^ I was a little surprised DARPA thought that was unique.

I directed and managed the first autonomous UAS helicopter land at sea in 2006.







Very successful program that helped spur better air frames and missions.

The Navy H-60 had a automated approach to hover, hover, and departure in the 1980's.

Weird.

[GH85Carrera]

The first French aircraft.

[Zeke]

[3rd_gear_Ted]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The first French aircraft.

The FLIR pod on the B-1 was a later modification.

The F-117 will be on static display @ the Palm Springs air museum soon.

Watching a B-1 doing terrain following in Star Wars Canyon, Death Valley is completely over the top.

[pavulon]

Sunday's line up:

[Racerbvd]

[DRONE]

Seahawk,
I worked on the first one at Teledyne Ryan in San Diego, took it to China Lake for first flights, you must have worked out of Webster with the later crews

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by DRONE

Seahawk,
I worked on the first one at Teledyne Ryan in San Diego, took it to China Lake for first flights, you must have worked out of Webster with the later crews

Absolutely! It was managed on the contractor side by NGC out of Webster Field.

The Navy moved away from the Schweizer/Sikorsky air frame to a Bell version. It is a much more capable helicopter. I was gone by then. I do have some neat stories - interesting time frame to be in UAS!

MQ-8C:

[DRONE]

Worked on the C model when we were calling it Fire-X, I set up the GCS out in Yuma, of course stayed long enough for the first couple of flights, there was always something else to get flying back then

[GH85Carrera]

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/air-traffic-controller-tells-the-story-of-when-he-asked-for-vertical-separation-to-an-sr-71-blackbird-crew-in-conflicting-route-with-a-concorde-supersonic-airliner/?fbclid=IwAR249Nop7HSXJ5uPnjCR1LyN_Blc-GTFd0FzA4upWIRhDh_1mEFs0OA3vfE

ATC got to talk to a SR71. The Concord was at 60,000 feet and the ATC wanted to be sure the SR71 was 4,000 feet above that.

[edgemar]

This guy is crowdfunding to get this thing back in the air. 115k of 150k in 3 days. I gave him a few bucks!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-free-abandoned-airplane-project-phoenix?utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B5806-thank-you-ask-share

[MarcoB]

Flying over Mt St Helens - 10 years ago

[Heel n Toe]

[svandamme]

Ace in a Day, with Jets?

I am sceptical. Suspect this is folklore, urban legend. and at least some of those shoot downs were by SAM's.. Especially since some of them supposedly happened in overcast weather.

Like this one supposedly was the Ghost of Kyiv?



People on the ground just hear jet noise, they can't tell who's jet it is.
And then they se parts falling.. can't even tell who's jet it is either.

Unlikely is the word here.

[greglepore]

Originally Posted by edgemar

This guy is crowdfunding to get this thing back in the air. 115k of 150k in 3 days. I gave him a few bucks!

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-the-free-abandoned-airplane-project-phoenix?utm_medium=email&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_email%2B5806-thank-you-ask-share

I've been watching the channel for a month or so now. Plane was parked due to a spar AWD, so it needs that and 2 engine rebuilds and there were birds living in the interior... .
I thought it was cool until now-he essentially wants the public to fund his aircraft?

[jbear]

Originally Posted by MarcoB

Flying over Mt St Helens - 10 years ago

Nice pic bro!

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by greglepore

I thought it was cool until now-he essentially wants the public to fund his aircraft?

on top of the youtube monitization..

[astrochex]

Happy BRRRRRRTday!



https://www.jasp-online.org/asjournal/spring-2022/2184-2/

[Scott Douglas]

[Missed Approach]

KCGX (Meigs)- 19 years ago this month, Mrs. Daley finally got her Park. I was lucky enough to stop by in August of '02. I had to drop off some documents with one of our clients. Unforgettable flight- logged an hour of actual (coming in from Toledo). Shot the GPS 36, and I distinctly remember breaking out just over the Museum. Glorious memory.






Cooking on a Porsche 911- The herb butter made the difference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvXBR50rH9E