Hangar Chat

A few videos show the type and age and it got me thinking, for these old warbirds do ya'll think they will ever retire them and leave them as static museum pieces? I love seeing the old warbirds flying but don't want to tempt fate losing a piece of history in a crash.

"Lets play global, thermonuclear war". BOOM! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2168680/Nuclear_Option/

Between Neofly and my personal goal of a trip around the world in the Beechcraft G36, I really wanted to up my sim controls. I spent a bit to get the Logitech Switches and Radio panel. I really like them. I also finally learned that patience is needed when landing. Been trying to put the plane down instead of letting it expend its energy and touch down smoothly. Really started to feel it.

I've been watching video and monitoring traffic on EAA.org. The constant amount of aircraft incoming is insane. ATC guys and gals are earning every penny.

A link is sometimes worth a thousand words 🙂 How to LAND your PLANE if BOTH PILOTS PASS OUT | Real Airline Pilot - YouTube

Length adjustment method is at 4:30. Online testers found out that putting this watch under a common LED desktop lamp overnight, charges the battery for about 7 months. Or wear it outside for a couple hours. Radio waves sets the time each day for you. The band and case are both titanium and so it weighs half of the stainless steel model. About $190 on Amazon USA. Stopwatch modes and world zone times and all usual Casio stuff.

WWII. Burma. The Flying Tigers. Robert Stanford Tuck sitting in a Hurricane. 1940. ------------------- But now, around the internet I see this, apparently a squirrel, not a rabbit. I don't get it. It's on football fan sites. Game console fans sites. Different places. I don't understand.

From this morning’s San Francisco Chronicle: Man arrested after allegedly parking stolen car at East Bay courthouse “A man was arrested Tuesday after allegedly driving a stolen vehicle to an East Bay courthouse for an appearance tied to an unrelated separate alleged crime, authorities said. William Fletcher, 54, was booked at Santa Rita Jail on suspicion for possession of a stolen vehicle, said Lt. Jared Hattaway with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office. Around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, Dublin police were alerted by one of the city’s license plate readers of a possible stolen car entering the city, Hattaway said. Officers went looking for the vehicle …

There should be a way for the stewardess to count how how many drinks each passenger is given. 11 drinks led to unfortunate conflagration on flight. https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/drunk-delta-airlines-passenger-downs-11-drinks-sexually-assaults-minor-mom-9-hour-flight-lawsuit

I've always wondered why the only two cities that were chosen for nuclear bombs were not turned into nuclear wastelands. Today, both are beautiful cities, and they never were irradiated totally. Both bombs were air bursts, so they didn't raise up megatons of soil and debris, which is what irradiates the ground. I watched a video that explains details on the one dropped on Hiroshima and was totally astounded to learn that although it carried 64 kilograms of uranium, only less than a gram (0.001 kg) actually achieved fission. That is what I find most terrifying, as I can only imagine what might have happened had the full 64 kg actually achieved fission! Frankly speakin…

So far this year UPS, FEDEX, and the USAF all announced retiring their DC10s this year (UPS only had a couple flying to Hawaii). Thus ends all operations with major carriers. USAF: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a42738169/air-force-retiring-kc-10-extender-big-sexy-plane/ FEDEX: https://simpleflying.com/fedex-md-10-10f-retirement/ UPS and FEDEX to also retire MD11: https://airwaysmag.com/fedex-ups-to-retire-md-11-freighters/

Really in great shape thanks to being in a hangar. Jimmy got it running again!

FLIGHT UNLIMITED (1)... I bought the first version ( floppy disks ) for MS-DOS in 1995 and then it's CD version during a trip to Berlin to attend Java's kick off in late 1997 - all in German 🥴 It's been a long time since I last played FU, but I still retain the experience as UNIQUE and probably one of the very Best I ever had in a desktop flight simulator. FU2 and FU3 were great flightsims too, but not as special flight dynamics wise as FU (1). Interesting to read about the creator of FU 1 - Seamus Blackley : Seamus Blackley - Wikipedia It was the first time I got aware of the reason why he left the project and also Looking Glass Technologies - …

I don't get over here much any more for personal reasons and to those who have PMd me concerned about my absence I thank you. I am alive and well and still installing scenery and aircraft on my new computer here in the old folks home. This morning I installed an old favorite. One I wrote a story about it once. I know I have published it here before but some of you might not have read it. So here it is again. My First Love I was in about the 7th grade. It was after school and I was going to a friend’s house along Van Ness Avenue, the street that all the automobile dealerships were on. I was almost to the corner of Sacramento stree…

I suspect this is very niche in here, but you never know! Am I the only one in here getting this today? Man, I've been waiting since forever for this to happen.

"Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs, allowing the theft of protected information from the CPU, such as encryption keys and user logins. The attack does not require physical access to the computer or server and can even be executed via javascript on a webpage." Tom's Hardware. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/zenbleed-bug-allows-data-theft-from-amds-zen-2-processors-patches-released

For anyone into it, the v1.5 beta update came out several hours ago that drastically improves many aspects of the game.

Anyone heard from him? Nothing since he posted the sad news of his son. I understand he was moving to...I forget where.

Wow, I had no idea the the humble Sky Tractor has taken on a new role as an armed military aircraft! I also did not know that it was capable of a payload equal to its gross weight! It has been used for several years as a drug enforcement aircraft by Homeland Security, and several dozen in the Army as ground support units.

Glad is safe!

That's a very impresive, powerful but light weight motor. And they intend to swap out the batteries for better ones as they become available.

Hi All, A few weeks ago when I build my new PC and had to reinstall MSFS and all its addons, I became acquainted with the new Contrail App (yep - I'm slow to the party here). One of the things that has always frustrated me about the third party addon market is that whilst I try and buy from a single store to keep my purchases in the one place, this is often not possible and over the years my purchases have become spread accross multiple online stores. So I was intersted to learn that Contrail allows me to link accounts at various stores to this single app. Unfortunately, of the stores Contrail has direct links with I only have a FlightBeam acccount and most of…