Hangar Chat

The last time I saw the sun was exactly a week ago. Since last Monday this area and much of England has been covered with a blanket of cloud. The cause? A large area of high pressure situated over and to the east of the country. The sun isn’t strong enough at this time of year to burn it off. At least it isn’t cold during day or night. But it is thoroughly miserable. There’s a possibility of it appearing on Tuesday. Does this ever happen where you live?

Some of you may know about my interest in Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon. For those of you who share this interest, I suggest you jump to 11 mins in...

I really enjoy looking at other simmers' cockpits, and I know others do too. I'm looking at maybe redesigning my current setup, which I tend to do every 2 or 3 years. It's always nice to see what others are doing, as I get ideas. So please guys, post some pics of your cockpits so we can all see!

What a fascinating time we live in.

Some of you may have seen the short video I produced where I talk about an extraordinary UFO encounter I had back in the mid seventies. I have only ever had one other encounter, and that was a few years ago on the island of Madeira. We were driving across the top of the island and I stopped to take a shot of the long road, which I thought was worthy of a pic. I didn't see anything at the time, but on closer look once we were home. I saw a cigar shaped object in the sky. I thought this may prove interesting to some. While I believe what I saw that night in the mid seventies, literally couldn't be explained away with one of the usual excuses, I guess this photograph may hav…

$50 but in "like new" condition. 10" x12" format, weighs 6 pounds, 600 pages, 2,000 cartoons from 1841 to 2002. Two original cartoon artists were John Tenniel who would later illustrate Alice in Wonderland and Richard Doyle who later illustrated Charles Dicken's books (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's uncle).

...while having our fingers on the remote, in case they jump at the screen. Feline body language should be monitored closely.

For those interested and with the next flight only a month away, these are the objectives and changes. 1. Second booster catch attempt. 2. Relight Raptor while in space. 3. Evaluate new thermal protection materials with some tiles intentionally missing. 4. Starship will descend at a high angle of attack to test flaps under extreme conditions. 5. More backup systems added to propulsion system. 6. Booster structural reinforcements. 7. Faster propelent off-loading. 8. Updated booster landing software. 9. Shifted launch window to capture more daylight data.

I was thinking the other day at the monthly and annual cost of flight simming as Im a hardcore simmer who uses the sim as a way to keep the rust off of my real life flying. I recreational fly and decided that while I could buy a plane, the annual cost and cost per hour to use it really wouldnt be to my advantage so instead I spent around 20K on my sim and the trailer (referred to as the hangar) I keep it in. Some items like Garmin Pilot which I use in both real flying and the sim could be replaced by Navigraph and their app as I am a monthly subscriber to that as well but after using both in the sim, find Garmin Pilot is the better option for ease of use. So Garmin P…

I could have learned a lot of lessons on giving (and receiving) performance evaluations from the senator in another life. Since info on the Internet could live forever, I wonder what the CEO's friends and associates will think of him now? Will the wife and kids even give thoughts to changing their names?

Il-96 Stored for 10 years, didn't takeoff on the 1st try, and takeoff without retracting the gear

Someone came at my counter and asked nose landing gear pin for locking purposes . Seriously , 30++ of years im working as Tool Cribber Tech , I have no experience of this pin? We gointhru with long discussion about this pin, after that one senior tech guy came and try to find same thing. how bout you all ?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/woman-dies-after-backing-into-plane-propeller-while-taking-picture-at-kansas-airfield/ar-AA1t4XAB?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=03bd31f90a2743dabf822eb2dfac09cf&ei=38 Make sure you smile for the camera!🤕

Little things mean a lot. Changing the tray. Taking for a walk.

Never thought about this ie. aka 'the impossible turn'. Is it really that difficult to do...

The HP Advent calendar. Look at all that stuff on the shelves!

Best YouTube video on Boeing. What's wrong with aviation and capitalism. And Intel and Amazon (yes, Intel and Amazon too). Nice line: Sir Richard Branson, billionaire founder of the airline Virgin Atlantic was asked, what's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Answer: Be a billionaire and invest in an airline.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24693940.ryanair-opens-new-5-million-training-academy-prestwick/

Good grief, the evolution of this robot is astonishing.

I was watching documentaries in Youtube about companies who used to rule the world but are now gone. 1. Kodak 2. Sun Microsystems 3. Lotus Software 4. Ashton-Tate 5. WordPerfect 6. Novell 7. Pan Am Now I'm wondering if Boeing will be included in the list. Brings this quote to mind: "Deal with reality before reality deals with you."

Much more fun than using dumbells.

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