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A lot of modern planes are too perfect and well behaved for me. The ones from an older generation are more flawed, inadequate, and attractive.

My phone is racing toward fubar status, with a cracked screen, a dodgy battery and lens elements that jam making my award winning photos blurry. 🤨 Luckily for me the new S24 FE has been released, most of the features of the flagship phones but much cheaper. Big screen too. So I have one on the way. The reason I mention this is to alert my Avsim buddies to the fact that Samsung are giving away a free smart watch with the phone. So if you're in the market for a top-notch phone it might be worth considering. Phone offer only lasts till end of October though. https://www.samsung.com/uk/smartphones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s24-fe-blue-128gb-sm-s721blbdeub/

From Aviation Herald: " A Frontier Airlines Airbus A321-200, registration N701FR, flying flight F9-1326 from San Diego, CA to Las Vegas, NV (USA), landed on Las Vegas' runway 26L when large flames were seen on the right main gear. The plane stopped on the runway while emergency services responded and sprayed the right main gear with foam and water. There were no injuries. The airline said the crew smelled smoke and immediately declared Mayday, but it is unclear whether they were aware of the severity of the fire. The FAA later reported: "Frontier Airlines Flight 1326 made an emergency landing at Harry Reid Las Vegas International Airport after reports of sm…

Human beings are so easily fooled. Tell them it's a new version and they convince themselves it's much superior. 🙄 Good job we have such things as double blind placebo controlled trials.

We put out a... - Condor: The Complete Soaring Simulator | Facebook This is about the Best News I've had this year regarding flight simulation !!! At last imminent release !!!

Hi, there's an airport scene in the movie Blackhat with Chris Hemsworth, does anyone know the airport name?

Not supersonic yet. Mach 0.6 so far. We simmers are used to landing while looking at a screen so we should offer our services. Should be easy for us. 😀

Of course, I immediately imagine this sort of tech in a Flight Simulator.....

I’ve known the head man at FS Labs for many years. Lefteris Kalamaras has often described me as a friend helping me out with a few problems with Concorde over the years. Most of you will know the company play their cards close to their chests and only reveal info very close to a release of their software. A topic was started in March enquiring about when FSL’s products would be made available for MSFS. A reply from Andrew Wilson said “we’ll announce it in due course”. The topic drifted on for months with various people asking when something would be available for MSFS especially with a new version coming. No answers other than the standard reply by the beta…

https://www.axios.com/2024/10/02/spy-plane-bombardier-army-isr Noel

https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1133067-fish-people-meet-bajau-tribals-who-can-hold-breath-for-10-minutes-underwater-but-how#:~:text=Because of their enlarged spleens,situated adjacent to the stomach. Astonishing. This tribe have spent most of their days, for 1000 years, diving in the water. Due to this, they have enlarged spleens that enable them to dive for 10 minutes.

Is anyone subscribed to this channel? I may be late to the game here and you all may already know all about it, but they’re putting out best aviation content out there, I can’t stop watching it.

Keep an eye on this kid; someday he may become a Darwin Award winner

Just got published today: https://secure.simmarket.com/simbitworld-a-grand-tour.phtml Also available on Contrail. I haven't bought it yet, but I am tempted. If you did, please share your experience. Peter

Certain college grads can now be air traffic controllers immediately | CNN Business Isn't this being rushed?

Been playing since 2002. The new release will be revolutionary. My first pick to manage is Brighton. And the release date too is not poles apart from MSFS 2024 😄

For those of you playing 727s in XP or MSFS 🙂 FLIGHT REPORT | Total Cargo Boeing 727 - Last commercial flight in Brazil (youtube.com)

1942. Produced by Jacques Tourneur who was often a collaborator with Alfred Hitchcock. With Tourneur, the drama comes from mood music and weird surrealism instead of blood and gore. 2 discs in the DVD edition because it includes special features on #2. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H66WAUI/ ----------------------------------------- 1957. An excellent classic film Night of the Demon (U.K. 95 minute version, American version Curse of the Demon was cut to 82 minutes). Based on the famous story Casting the Runes by M.R. James OB FMA. Both book and movie were based on the life of a real Englishman. They changed his n…

New research suggests, possibly. Specifically, they postulated in a 1996 paper that consciousness may operate as a quantum wave passing through the brain’s microtubules. This is known as Orch OR theory, referring to the ability of microtubules to perform quantum computations through a mathematical process Penrose calls “objective reduction.” https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a62373322/quantum-theory-of-consciousness/

Good old Lou Ferigno. 😁💪

This is really interesting. Interview with the first lady to fly the Typhoon. She also flew Tornado.