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We hit some clear air turbulence. The Boom was on his game too otherwise it might have ended up a brute force disconnect.

Another one down...any wagers on when I'll be back? I'm gonna say Feb '15...

I like everything going on in that pic...

Looks like it came out yesterday, good video!

For much much much less I would get: Yes they are both sold but still...only $6 million!!! Basically a steal... Source: http://www.prideaircraft.com/flanker.htm

Because John Williams is a bad ass...

"During the search for MH370, GeoResonance searched for chemical elements that make up a Boeing 777: aluminum, titanium, copper, steel alloys, jet fuel residue, and several other substances. The aim was to find a location where all those elements were present," said the company in the written statement. Scanning "multispectral images" taken from the air on March 10 -- two days after Flight 370 went missing -- GeoResonance says it found "an anomaly in one place in the Bay of Bengal" where many of those relevant materials were detected in significant amounts, and in a pattern which matched the approximate layout of a large aircraft." Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/malaysia-airli...airliner-found/

Haha thanks. I try, but it's averaging about 105* out here now...in a jet with no air conditioning on the ground. It's brutal. I go through about 3-4 bottles of water before takeoff. The boom has it even worse since the back of the jet is even hotter. The highest I have seen was 140* in the back. During preflight we have to constantly keep him checking because the booms have been known to get heat exhaustion and pass out doing their preflight checks. Crazy stuff.

I didn't bring my DSLR this deployment so the images won't be as perty as they are all taken with my cell. This time I am concentrating more on my GoPro to make a nice compilation at the end.

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Definitely not. I never did anything other than routine maintenance. Oil, brake fluid, and tires was it. And if your going to race it I highly suggest covering these areas: The back fender flares around the brake ducts are rock magnets, even when daily driving. That was definitely the roughest part of the car when it came time for me to sell it (lots of micro chips in the paint).

This. I'd stick to minimal mods. My former one had an intake and then the exhaust valve circuit breaker was pulled with them in the open position and that was it. Cheap as hell and was everything I could ask for. Car got 32mpg on the highway at ~70mph and was still easy to have a conversation. And it definitely held it's own on the track in both straight line and twisties. I do miss her from time to time. Enjoy!

To be fair, ELT's go off all the time and are rarely because of aircraft accidents. Hard landings, flipping the wrong switch, maintenance, etc are all reasons I have heard ELTs pinging away on Guard. Actually, it's really damn annoying.

Because the ELT isn't pinging from a floating pile of debris...it's going off on the bottom of the ocean.

No, the EFB isn't a pathway to the planes nav system. They are independent. And airplanes have had "wifi" for a while. ACARS, CPDLC, etc. You can't hack and take over a civilian airliner per say. In theory, you could send the airplane a different flight plan when/if it downloads it from their AOC (or whatever civilian's call it). But the pilots still manually check ALL the Lat/Longs when doing that against their paper flight plan.

Beautiful. Exactly what I would get.

777 can fly at FL450 all day without issue.

Just some food for thought...pilots are trained to handle emergencies in this order: aviate, navigate, communicate. It could also be that they had an emergency that the crew was troubleshooting for some time before as indicated by the news that they tracked the aircraft turning around on radar and still not calling anyone. Honestly, talking to people is the last thing I do in an emergency because those people can't help you and usually only distract you from the real problem.

Can you get a decent cheek weld with that setup? Seems like you get away with a slightly lower set of rings to help you out if it's an issue.

A tragedy. Sadly the odds of finding survivors is more and more bleak as time passes. Modern airliners are incredibly safe so I am really curious to find out the cause (which will take a while to figure out). It seems it had to have been a catastrophic failure since the crew didn't communicate their emergency with anyone. At 35k feet the jet would be able to glide hundreds of miles and stay aloft for damn near 30-40 minutes if there was a dual engine failure for some reason (fuel exhaustion, bad fuel, etc). I haven't heard anyone mention anything about weather either. Boeing vs Airbus automation arguments aside...Assuming a competent aircrew I can't imagine the autopilot causing an irreversible catastrophic input. As previously mentioned, most incidents occur during take off and landing, not cruise. The most recent comparable incident was the Air France flight 447 Airbus A330 that crashed. Which icing was the primary cause of the accident (or one could argue a poorly designed pitot tube by Thales), followed by pilot error, then human factors design issues.

WTF

Tacos!

Thanks UPS man: Group FDE shot: