Super-Surprise
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pretty planes
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Porkwarrior
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Little too big dood. I know you like to swing it, but calm down sometimes.
(your pic makes my browser go nuts, and now that's not Emelia)
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Mine is fine.
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The Galloping Ghost, Reno air races 2011. The rudder trim tab departed the plane causing a sudden and fatal pitch up event, the plane rolled, and went into the ground on the ramp. Several people were killed including the pilot, many were injured. The NTSB report said the reason the rudder trim tab departed was due to a reused nylock nut. The nut came off, and so did the trim tab. On one side, it could be argued that it was poor maintenance and pre race testing, on the other, it has happened once before. The difference was, the first time it happened the plane shot straight up, pilot blacked out, the pilot came too well above 10k feet, pulled the power back, called a mayday and landed the plane.
This incident was the first time a spectator had been hurt, let alone killed at the races in 50 years.
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Colonel Hogan
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Wonder how long it will take future ticketed passengers to pay for that enormous waste of fuel?
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Debbie Downer?
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If they tracked a lost musher over that route my only prayer would be that the rescue party would find him in time.
Weird Harold
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About as long as it would take to pay off that 17 hour test flight if they had flown in circles over Seattle for 17 hours.
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If they tracked a lost musher over that route my only prayer would be that the rescue party would find him in time.
A proper musher shouldn't need any help.
He's got 16 dogs to eat.
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https://fearoflanding.com/files/2013/07/3642319571_ef074b039a_z.jpg
Even comes with it's own backstory...
Even comes with it's own backstory...
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Found a picture of freedom at the moment of biRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRth and thought I would share.
http://static.laodong.com.vn/Uploaded/phamthuhien/2015_04_20/v%20(Custom)_SKLU.png
http://static.laodong.com.vn/Uploaded/phamthuhien/2015_04_20/v%20(Custom)_SKLU.png
Super-Surprise
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I've never seen a more perfect illustration of the statement,
"He augured in."
https://storage.googleapis.com/afs-prod/media/media:3447b319693b4dbea5e569c11e73c735/800.jpeg
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That's not a plane. It's a SAM or a drone.
Weird Harold
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Looks more like a fanciful smudge pot keeping an orange grove from freezing.
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Looks more like a fanciful smudge pot keeping an orange grove from freezing.
Looks like Hollywood.
