Hangar Chat

This is the trailer for Greenland. It's Morena Baccarin. Who wouldn't want to save her?

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-climbs-jet-wing-at-las-vegas-airport

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130632_toyota-ev-with-solid-state-batteries-10-minute-full-charge-prototype-reportedly-due-in-2021 Recharged in TEN MINUTES. Double the range of Lithium Ion. If true, will be a Tesla beating game changer.

Since I've gotten Active Sky into P3Dv5.1, every time I report to Luton it's foggy, or raining, or both. I'm beginning to think AS is buggy, or abandoning my plans to retire to sunny England.

Is this genuine? https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a34030586/air-force-secret-new-fighter-jet/ Dos the US really have a 6th gen prototype already in the air? If so, they are many years ahead of the rest of the world. It's been speculated that it's hypersonic. https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2020/09/usaf-jet/168479/

Bad, bad, bad. Just outright criminal negligence. This is really sad to see. I think you can more or less put a fork in the Collings Foundation as it currently stands. And I have a feeling that this will be a shot heard through the warbird passenger industry in more ways than one. Operating costs are already extreme and insurance is already hard enough to obtain. At the end of the day the operator is always ultimately responsible for the aircraft and all aboard, but the FAA's hands are not clean either due to their complete lack of oversight. And it should be a lesson on cockpit culture. The PIC was the highest time B-17 pilot in the world, he was als…

Love Kermit and his videos. The video he re-released today is an old video, but it was awesome seeing Kermit not only take each of those AVG pilots up in a TP-40, but make them fly a pass or two. I love seeing guys like them get a chance to relive their youth. Reminds me of when he rebuilt Lee Archer's P-51. Lee had a young man's pep in his step the closer he got to his Mustang. These guys are treasure.

Our yard guy and handy man's family always exchange Christmas gifts with us. They come in the house, we exchange gifts, and we sit and visit over a cup of coffee. Last night she called us and told us her daughter had tested positive for the virus and was under quarantine. She said she would just leave the Christmas gift outside the door this year. We put their gift outside the door for her to pick up. That got me to thinking abut the postman. We pick up the mail he delivers very day. What if he tests positive? Can we catch the virus from the mail he delivers? Ditto the UPS/FedEx guys? And the checkers and baggers at the supermarket? Th…

The year is 1957. An RAF pilot is heading home from Germany for Christmas. Fog sets in and all radio communication is lost. This story has been broadcast almost every Christmas since 1979 in Canada and across the world. My dad and I used to listen to it religiously. 'Hope you'll enjoy! https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-the-shepherd-edition-2017-1.4455219/fireside-al-maitland-reads-frederick-forsyth-s-the-shepherd-1.4458378

Hi fans, its me again with a new form of space propulsion for us to argue about. 😁 This is a good one. Usual scenario, miniscule thrust but sustained over a long time frame resulting in very impressive velocities. Solar panels or a mini nuke provide electrical power, then a stack of piezo electric crystals, just like in your electronic watch, vibrate tens of thousands of time per second. When the oscillations sync up the drive generates forward propulsion. Relies on some controversial physics, but who knows, maybe it has promise? https://www.wired.com/story/mach-effect-thrusters-interstellar-travel/

This morning I made my first flight in Africa since installing Orbx Open Land Class Africa. I flew from Nairobi to Mombasa at 9500 feet in my Quest Kodiak. It was not what I expected. I expected a lot of bush and jungle I guess. I was not prepared for all the desert like scrub and all of the farmland. Almost like what we have here in southeast New Mexico. Now not having ever been in Africa I don't know how accurate the Orbx land class is, but I was duly impressed. I'm going to have to try a flight in South America tomorrow since I have not yet seen Orbx Open Land Class South America. Noel

Have you checked out their site lately. All broken links/no updates. That used to be part of my morning ritual... cuppa Joe... check out the news sections of my favorite sites. But this one has totally tanked. Anyone know what the scoop is?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-built-an-ion-drive-propulsion-system-that-actually-works/ar-BB1bPtpm?li=BBnbfcL Maybe for my next car?? 😯

UPDATE 1122 CST: Well, guess not, unless they fix whatever the snag is and go late this afternoon local. Sorry. But we have a three-day window and the links will be just as good tomorrow, and tomorrow will be today then, after all. ________ 0954 update: Venting! Pad Clear! SpaceX Feed just change to "Teams Working Through Additional Test Prep. Liftoff Time TBD." However, that does sound like they intend to go today. ________ Been sitting on this over three hours, watching the activity at the launch site, but with SpaceX still showing 23 min to (already two hour delayed) live feed start plus seeing cars start to drive away from the site, might as well l…

I put True Earth Washington on my P3Dv4 installation and I liked it pretty well. Ditto Oregon. But True Earth California was a major disappointment. I was born and raised in San Francisco and grew up there. I did my senior year of high school in Mill Valley in Marin County. When I got out of the Marine Corps I lived with my folks for a while and then got my own apartment in Sausalito. I learned to fly off Richardson Bay. I am intimately familiar with the Bay Area and also of Lake Tahoe where my cousin had a summer home. To say I was disappointed in True Earth California is an understatement. Look at the pictures. The True Earth Golden Gate Bridge is…

Cd1 in the drive

Well I wonder what that guy in the fishing boat experienced with an F14 doing mach 1.2 50 feet above his head? 😆 This is a great interview with an F14 pilot.

For me it was one of those events that clearly signaled; it's the summer. Next show will be in 2023 at a date to be announced. This is not good for the aerospace industry. https://www.siae.fr/Data/ElFinder/s4/SIAE-2021/PRESSE/Press-release-Paris-Air-Show.pdf?_t=1607336224

Having finished Jack Broughton's Red Rupert 2, his biography, for second time I'm am done with airplanes and fighter pilots for now. James Michener has always been a favorite author of mine, if not THE favorite, although James Clavell (King Rat, Shogun, Gaijin, Tai Pan, Noble House, and Whirlwind) runs a close second. Since first reading The Fires of Spring and Caravans, short novels compared to his later tomes, I have been a fan. Centennial (Colorado), Chesapeake (Maryland), Hawaii, The Covenant (South Africa), The Source (Israel), among others, I don't know how I missed this one: Alaska. This afternoon I started it. It will extend my lunch hour from two to t…

One really wonders why to spend so much on fancy telescopes in space when a beer can will do !

An incredible milestone for Pratt & Whitney! https://www.wingsmagazine.com/pratt-whitney-canada-pt6-milestone/

Hello all, as the title indicates, is there a website that lists all the landing fees of a given airport? Mostly looking for GA airports.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9021073/Chinese-scientists-claim-achieved-quantum-supremacy-new-computer.html Chinese scientists 'build quantum computer able to perform nearly 100 trillion times faster than the world's most advanced supercomputer'

We don't marvel anymore at using a mouse to trigger a hyperlink in a windows open in our PC ? What about video conferencing, collaborative editing ? Do we ? We take all that for granted. A tweet from DARPA that I found on my timeline, reminds us that the story started on a 9th of December. In 1968, on this date, an engineer at Stanford, Douglas Engelbart, presented a visionary demonstration of a computer system integrating all the elements that we can find in a personal computer today. That was the symbolic start, in a way, of what has become a major remodelling of our societies. As important as Gutenberg's printing press in the 15th century. Who heard of th…

सगरमाथा, ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ; 珠穆朗玛 also known as Mount Everest is 8,848.86 m / 29,032 ft high now. But some say that it's actually shorter than previously thought. Go figure... https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/12/new-height-of-mount-everest-announced-by-china-and-nepal/