petee
no gods, no malarkey
she's been found 
former 9NEWS anchor Amelia Earhart is now an author
looking quite well after all
former 9NEWS anchor Amelia Earhart is now an author
looking quite well after all
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Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Model? Or is that one of the incredibly rare full sized replicas some people built?
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Walty McWaltface
Replica.
Article below fails to mention a lot of the work done building the factories was by slave labour. Probably in production as well.
www.eurasiantimes.com
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week.
The plane that stunned allied fighters with its powerful onboard cannon, rockets, and raw speed, often represents the pioneering military, scientific and technological advances of Nazi Germany.
The Me 262 flew alongside another iconic aircraft, Britain’s Supermarine Spitfire, ahead of the two-day air show that began on July 14. The Spitfire was the AB910 that flew during Operation Jubilee in August 1942, which saw one of the largest air battles in the war.
The Me 262 is a replica of the original aircraft built by the Airbus Messerschmitt Foundation, which produced five planes from scratch, perusing fragment drawings in a multiyear restoration process. Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, the wartime German aircraft manufacturer, was bought by Dutch Aerospace after the war, now part of Airbus.
With the first flight on April 18, 1941, and formal operational introduction in April 1944, the plane was too late and too small in numbers to affect any significant outcome in the war for Germany.
Particularly, the German industry of the time was hampered by shortages in materials like chromium and nickel owing to Allied raids on its factories, besides the complex metallurgical issues in its Junkers Jumo 004 jet engines.
Article below fails to mention a lot of the work done building the factories was by slave labour. Probably in production as well.
World's First Jet Fighter - Messerschmitt Me 262 - Debuts At The World’s Largest Air Show
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week. Rafale Fighters ‘Go Missing’ In Official...
www.eurasiantimes.com
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week.
The plane that stunned allied fighters with its powerful onboard cannon, rockets, and raw speed, often represents the pioneering military, scientific and technological advances of Nazi Germany.
The Me 262 flew alongside another iconic aircraft, Britain’s Supermarine Spitfire, ahead of the two-day air show that began on July 14. The Spitfire was the AB910 that flew during Operation Jubilee in August 1942, which saw one of the largest air battles in the war.
The Me 262 is a replica of the original aircraft built by the Airbus Messerschmitt Foundation, which produced five planes from scratch, perusing fragment drawings in a multiyear restoration process. Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, the wartime German aircraft manufacturer, was bought by Dutch Aerospace after the war, now part of Airbus.
With the first flight on April 18, 1941, and formal operational introduction in April 1944, the plane was too late and too small in numbers to affect any significant outcome in the war for Germany.
Particularly, the German industry of the time was hampered by shortages in materials like chromium and nickel owing to Allied raids on its factories, besides the complex metallurgical issues in its Junkers Jumo 004 jet engines.
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Walty McWaltface
One of the most remarkable advancements made by the German military in World War II was the production of turbine-jet aircraft. The most famous of these was the Messerschmitt Me 262, developed beginning in 1938 and fielded in 1944. A special production facility was started in 1944, for quicker assembly line manufacture. Due to the setup at the main Messerschmitt factories, fast assembly line production was not possible, and these sites were vulnerable to Allied bombing. Accordingly, a company called Flugzeugwerke Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring (REIMAHG for short) was formed as a subsidiary of the Gustloff Nazi industrial complex. REIMAHG eventually became concerned only with the Me 262, and its main production facility was located in an old sand mine for porcelain production in the Walpersberg Hill near Kahla (south of Jena) -- Codename "Lachs" ("Salmon").
The existing tunnels in the Walpersberg were enlarged and others were dug, and massive concrete bunkers were built outside these tunnels. Subparts were made and partially assembled in the tunnels, then moved outside to the concrete bunkers, where final assembly took place. The assembled jets were then moved to the top of the hill via a platform that moved along a railed ramp by a power winch. The top of the Walpersberg had been leveled off and concreted in a massive construction effort, to form a runway some 3300 feet long. This was not sufficient for an Me 262 to take off (even with the jet engines, take-off was actually fairly slow), so small rockets assisted take-off. The runway was also too short for the jets to land, so leaving the Walpersberg was an all-or-nothing proposition: there could be no emergency landings. The jets were flown from Kahla to a site some 130 kilometers away to be fitted with weapons and radios, and to undergo final testing.
REIMAHG only managed to produce some twenty-seven Me 262 jet fighters by the end of the war. The work was done mostly by foreign forced laborers, some 991 of whom died during their nine months at "Lachs." The U.S. Army took the site on 12 April 1945, and before turning Thüringen over to the Soviets in July, they removed enough parts to finish five Me 262s that were found on the production line. Surprisingly, the Kahla area had not been bombed. British Intelligence had photographed Me 262s at the site in March 1945, so the Allies were well aware of "Lachs." But Kahla was spared the fate of the V-2 works at Nordhausen, which suffered a devastating bombing attack only eight days before the American Army arrived. (In spite of this historical report, the REIMAHG-Kahla site today shows many depressions that look very much like bomb craters that can be seen at such sites as Normandy and the Obersalzberg, and many areas that appear to have undergone explosive upheaval, all in areas that were flat during the war. This situation is apparently the result of Soviet activity after the war.)
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Walty McWaltface
Replica.
Article below fails to mention a lot of the work done building the factories was by slave labour. Probably in production as well.
World's First Jet Fighter - Messerschmitt Me 262 - Debuts At The World’s Largest Air Show
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week. Rafale Fighters ‘Go Missing’ In Official...
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week.
The plane that stunned allied fighters with its powerful onboard cannon, rockets, and raw speed, often represents the pioneering military, scientific and technological advances of Nazi Germany.
The Me 262 flew alongside another iconic aircraft, Britain’s Supermarine Spitfire, ahead of the two-day air show that began on July 14. The Spitfire was the AB910 that flew during Operation Jubilee in August 1942, which saw one of the largest air battles in the war.
The Me 262 is a replica of the original aircraft built by the Airbus Messerschmitt Foundation, which produced five planes from scratch, perusing fragment drawings in a multiyear restoration process. Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, the wartime German aircraft manufacturer, was bought by Dutch Aerospace after the war, now part of Airbus.
With the first flight on April 18, 1941, and formal operational introduction in April 1944, the plane was too late and too small in numbers to affect any significant outcome in the war for Germany.
Particularly, the German industry of the time was hampered by shortages in materials like chromium and nickel owing to Allied raids on its factories, besides the complex metallurgical issues in its Junkers Jumo 004 jet engines.
Not for this one obvs.
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Replica.
Article below fails to mention a lot of the work done building the factories was by slave labour. Probably in production as well.
World's First Jet Fighter - Messerschmitt Me 262 - Debuts At The World’s Largest Air Show
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week. Rafale Fighters ‘Go Missing’ In Official...
The world’s first jet-powered fighter, Germany’s Messerschmitt Me 262, which ushered in the jet age in the concluding months of the Second World War, made its debut at the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) for the first time earlier this week.
The plane that stunned allied fighters with its powerful onboard cannon, rockets, and raw speed, often represents the pioneering military, scientific and technological advances of Nazi Germany.
The Me 262 flew alongside another iconic aircraft, Britain’s Supermarine Spitfire, ahead of the two-day air show that began on July 14. The Spitfire was the AB910 that flew during Operation Jubilee in August 1942, which saw one of the largest air battles in the war.
The Me 262 is a replica of the original aircraft built by the Airbus Messerschmitt Foundation, which produced five planes from scratch, perusing fragment drawings in a multiyear restoration process. Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm, the wartime German aircraft manufacturer, was bought by Dutch Aerospace after the war, now part of Airbus.
With the first flight on April 18, 1941, and formal operational introduction in April 1944, the plane was too late and too small in numbers to affect any significant outcome in the war for Germany.
Particularly, the German industry of the time was hampered by shortages in materials like chromium and nickel owing to Allied raids on its factories, besides the complex metallurgical issues in its Junkers Jumo 004 jet engines.
I mean, I don't love the slave labour part. But I love the fact that they built 5 of them from scratch eventually. I remember when they were trying to get the whole thing off the ground like 15 years back, but never kept up on where it went.
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Walty McWaltface
RIP Canadair pilots. As pointed out previously by actual pilots, it's a dangerous job. The pilot clipped a float and lost control, video is online.
Alt: Our thoughts & prayers for Squadron Leader Christos Moulas, 34, and Second Lieutenant Periklis Stefanidis, 27, who died when their CL-215 Canadair firefighting plane crashed while tackling a wildfire near Karystos on the island of Evia near Athens.
Alt: Our thoughts & prayers for Squadron Leader Christos Moulas, 34, and Second Lieutenant Periklis Stefanidis, 27, who died when their CL-215 Canadair firefighting plane crashed while tackling a wildfire near Karystos on the island of Evia near Athens.
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Pinocchio plane.
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I’d welcome any kind of new supersonic commercial aircraft with open arms, but Mach 1.42 is somewhat underwhelming, considering the shoes it’d be filling.
If it has proper range, it would certainly make a big difference to proper long haul routes over 8 hours. But London to NY (the route that was mentioned in the article I read today about this plane) in just under 4 hours instead of 6 is not that much of a game changer.
If it has proper range, it would certainly make a big difference to proper long haul routes over 8 hours. But London to NY (the route that was mentioned in the article I read today about this plane) in just under 4 hours instead of 6 is not that much of a game changer.
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‘I’ve flown to SFO twice and was eagerly looking out of the window hoping it. Tge second time there was another plane near parallel to us at the beginning of the final descent, but annoyingly they were ever so slightly faster and they ended up touching down about five or six seconds ahead of us. Still impressive though.
bcuster
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I was going to ask if any one here had ever seen something like this before... Thank you!
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
bcuster
Well-Known Member
Watch: Crop-duster nearly hits semi on U.S. 30
WSBT 22 has received video of what was almost a major accident between a crop-duster and a semi on U.S. 30.It happened near Hanna, in La Porte County, and was c
wsbt.com
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petee
no gods, no malarkey
i wondered how he could not have seen it, surely peripheral vision ...
but iit looks like it was coming from the back.
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Reason no. 5,594 why Ryanair (or at least its decision makers) are infrahuman parasitic scum, and the airline should be avoided at all costs if at all feasible
Couple 'horrified' at £110 Ryanair ticket print fee
The airline has defended its decision to charge an elderly couple to print their boarding passes at the airport.
www.bbc.co.uk
bcuster
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The captain of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner died mid-air after becoming unwell, reports say
The LATAM flight from Miami to Santiago, Chile made an unscheduled landing in Panama, where the pilot was confirmed to have died, the airline said.
www.businessinsider.com
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
Did you see this one A380?
Dunstable Downs: Glider pilot dies in crash during take-off
The London Gliding Club at Dunstable Downs says there is no indication of what caused the crash.
www.bbc.co.uk
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Sadly yes. I flew gliders at Cambridge not there, but I’ve taken a few flights there. Haven’t seen more details yet but probably going to be an accident off the winch.Did you see this one A380?
Dunstable Downs: Glider pilot dies in crash during take-off
The London Gliding Club at Dunstable Downs says there is no indication of what caused the crash.www.bbc.co.uk
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