General aviation/airplane news and chat

[T & P]

I considered this for the Massive Helicopter thread, but it's just one helicopter out of three things and I think it has a wider audience than the niche thread.

Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T

The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon's inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.

www.twz.com

That's a US Marine King Stallion, doing mid-air refueling from a KC-130, while carrying an F-35C strapped to the bottom of it. Some impressive flying.

So that's how the vertical take-off on the F35 works...

 

[petee]

hmmmm

Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died

Joshua Dean, one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit AeroSystems execs had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died after a sudden illness.

www.seattletimes.com

"Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection.

Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was noted for having a healthy lifestyle."

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Isn’t that the second Boeing whistleblower to die in as many months?

 

[planetgeli]

Isn’t that the second Boeing whistleblower to die in as many months?

Boeing. Worse than Putin.

 

[T & P]

Boeing. Worse than Putin.

I'm starting to wonder if the miraculously empty seat next to the plug door that flew out of a MAX back in January was meant to be occupied by a Boeing whistleblower who got caught up in traffic and missed their flight...

 

[bcuster]

I considered this for the Massive Helicopter thread, but it's just one helicopter out of three things and I think it has a wider audience than the niche thread.

Check Out This Marine CH-53K Carrying An F-35C While Refueling From A KC-130T

The new CH-53K is the most powerful helicopter in the Pentagon's inventory and it provides a critical long-range, heavy-lift capability.

www.twz.com

That's a US Marine King Stallion, doing mid-air refueling from a KC-130, while carrying an F-35C strapped to the bottom of it. Some impressive flying.

I've never seen anything like that. Amazing

 

[petee]

Isn’t that the second Boeing whistleblower to die in as many months?

yes.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblower-john-barnett-dead

 

[petee]

 

[spitfire]

Amazing.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

It's "Cabin crew, doors to automatic." when you know those seats are yours, but 100% agree with the sentiment, whack the armrests up and a flat-bed awaits...

 

[Saul Goodman]

Amazing.

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Pixels

 

[spitfire]

Pixels

Oh ye of little faith.

 

[petee]

just miles away from tragedy, may 6 1937.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

 

[petee]

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The Wright brothers.

 

[T & P]

The Boss....

 

[skyscraper101]

This is so sad. Turbulence freaks me out big time. I know it's not something to be scared of 99.9 percent of time time but still, I feel totally helpless and it wrecks my nerves.

One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence

One dead as London-Singapore flight hit by turbulence

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[2hats]

Looks like it might have dropped several thousand feet from cruising altitude. With AGW, turbulence is only going to get worse. Passengers would be well advised to always secure themselves tightly with lap belts, but particularly so when when transiting the ITCZ.

 

[T & P]

Yeah, sadly serious injuries and deaths, rare as they are, happen from hitting the cabin's ceiling with massive force and probably snapping your neck or cracking your head.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Yeah, keep the belts done up all the time you are seated.

Last month flew Toronto to Barbados, was bumpy as fuck the whole 5.5 hours. Just after takeoff we all thought it would calm down once over the ocean, but no, proper banging all the way, the purser who was quite old said at the end it was the worst he'd ever had, I concur, was the worst for me too. Was so bad no hot drinks all flight, I just stuck to champagne and cocktails, which was a mighty bind...

 

[T & P]

A lot of folk on the Airliners forum are saying The Bay of Bengal is a really bad spot for turbulence, and a very frequent occurrence for good measure.

Apparently a second passenger has died in hospital

 

[Saul Goodman]

Yeah, keep the belts done up all the time you are seated.

Last month flew Toronto to Barbados, was bumpy as fuck the whole 5.5 hours. Just after takeoff we all thought it would calm down once over the ocean, but no, proper banging all the way, the purser who was quite old said at the end it was the worst he'd ever had, I concur, was the worst for me too. Was so bad no hot drinks all flight, I just stuck to champagne and cocktails, which was a mighty bind...

I was on a rough one coming back from Cyprus. It was like a rodeo, and so bad at the airport that the wing tips almost touched the runway a few times.
You know it was bad when the pilot gets a massive round of applause afterwards

 

[skyscraper101]

Worst I ever had was on the descent to Bilbao. I thought I was going to die. Proper freaks me out.

 

[T & P]

Rather unsettling images of the interior on Twitter, including bloody injuries and what might be a body covered with a blanket on the floor.

 

[kalmatthew]

A lot of folk on the Airliners forum are saying The Bay of Bengal is a really bad spot for turbulence, and a very frequent occurrence for good measure.

Apparently a second passenger has died in hospital

I used to live in Kuala Lumpur so was flying to and from Blighty 2-3 times a year. Every time I went over the bay of Bengal it was seat belt signs on, no hot drinks. On one unfortunate occasion I had soup for a starter with my meal. Not a mistake I ever made again.

 

[Chz]

My most terrifying was popping into Brisbane ahead of a storm. With added bonus that JetBlue had just had a crash the month before.
I was always a "woohoo" to turbulence before that flight (I had a blast flying over the Rockies in a Dash-8), and now I'm a nervous flier. That's how bad it was.

 

[skyscraper101]

Yeah as a kid I always thought it was fun. That changed for real as I got older.

 

[T & P]

Bloody hell. There’s video footage online of someone walking around the cabin after the plane landed and had been evacuated. Whereas relatively small in size (i.e. not indicative of life threatening injuries), there are blood splatters on the ceiling at multiple locations along the length of the cabin, as well as several blood stains on the floor at other locations

 

[Don Baumgarten]

A lot of folk on the Airliners forum are saying The Bay of Bengal is a really bad spot for turbulence, and a very frequent occurrence for good measure.

Apparently a second passenger has died in hospital

I used to live in Kuala Lumpur so was flying to and from Blighty 2-3 times a year. Every time I went over the bay of Bengal it was seat belt signs on, no hot drinks. On one unfortunate occasion I had soup for a starter with my meal. Not a mistake I ever made again.

Is it because of all that hot, humid air being pushed back by the Himalayas ?

I was in the foothills and around, north of the Bay of Bengal one time, it’s the wettest place on earth.

Skin was lovely and soft, mind