Hangar Chat

Well, Flight 5 testing is underway. FAA are delaying things though. So Starship 6 will be ready before 5 launches. 🙄 Flight 5 will be the catch attempt.

All due to a mouse found in a food https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2024/09/21/flight-has-emergency-landing-after-live-mouse-found-in-airplane-meal/

Maybe the aliens will resurrect us. https://www.popsci.com/technology/memory-crystal-dna/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1FjusLW-qAtEIGLGzlxqqhuvLxatbJDY2eQBd6GtItJ6c9H1bpxsx977k_aem_SADXP-syPkylbwE25_CUJw

G'day All, I see that there are a lot of career paths available - but the one I haven't seen is that of a Military career - would this omission be a part of Microsoft's dislike of a military stance in it's products - i.e. no weapons on the warbirds they sell from the market place. Would be fun to start in say a Beech mentor - through to a T-28 & then split your journey into helos, fast jets or trash hauling. Just my 2 cents worth

Currently inbound to the NW Caribbean: TEAL72 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron Flight Tracking and History - FlightAware

At last a cat is doing something useful around the house. And with such driving skill.

This could win the Eurovision Song Contest!

A comparison of image generators from only a year ago in comparison to now. Then imagine where it will be by next year. Bonus video the rock eating rocks.....

This morning Simbrief downloader has completely changed. There is nowhere to select formats to download and all my previous settings have vanished. Is the problem at their end, Network faliure? Anyone else have this problem?

In 2019 I ordered and received a very nice custom made 747 style throttle quad from a fellow in Oregon named Tony (last name fails me). He made custom to order throttle quads as a retirement hobbie,\side job. Called his site fsxthrottle. It has attachments to bind levers to make profile for twins as well as quads. It's true to scale with thrust reverse levers, notched flap and and spoiler levers, parking brake and gear levers as well as fuel control valve switches and a trim wheel. The throttles feel great in your hand and has functioned flawlessly. Amazing workmanship considering the entire quad is cut out of wood including the gears and bars inside. I still use my anc…

Cat actually doing something useful 👏

A collection of KML files for various airspace limits in the USA. Designed for real world use with ADS-B. Kept up to date. colorado-barrs.com/ADSB/CIFP/index.html

Not sure if this is of interest, but just putting it out there! (Need the original game) https://store.steampowered.com/app/355250/STAR_WARS_TIE_Fighter_Special_Edition/ And here is the mod-Site. https://sites.google.com/view/tie-fighter-total-conversion

I guess that's high? Beads of sweat on Martin's forehead. Very sticky.

I thought it was at first glance!

A Concorde Flight Engineer view: Flight engineer reveals what it was really like to operate supersonic jet Concorde | CNN

From The Aviation Herald : " A Voepass Linhas Aereas Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A, registration PS-VPB performing flight 2Z-2283 from Cascavel,PR to Sao Paulo Guarulhos,SP (Brazil) with 58 passengers and 4 crew, was in the initial approach at FL170, when the aircraft spun out of control and crashed into a residential area on approach to Sao Paulo coming down in Villa Santa Fe, SP (Brazil) about 7nm southeast of Viracopos Airport and about 40nm northwest of Guarulhos Airport at about 13:22L (16:22Z). The aircraft broke into several parts and burst into flames. The airline confirmed the aircraft carrying 58 passengers and 4 crew had an accident near Vinhedo…

I tried to add this to the existing old thread, but it's been archived..... Anyways, this is from their Discord. One wonders what they can do at this point that MSFS can't match or beat....

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