Another fun video

With passengers? m.youtube.com...

a reply to: ioweagle

It was a practice flight for an airshow demonstration. No passengers, very light fuel load.

reminds me of President Reagan's new Orient express, and i don't know how true it is but i have heard on a few documentaries that in his presidential diary he mentioned how excited he was and that we had the ability(already) to orbit 300 men.

originally posted by: RadioRobert
a reply to: ThePeaceMaker

Ever since being on this site and going back to air shows again and using a scanner to listen to the tower and aircraft, it has sparked my interest into the aviation world that I had as a kid. Over the last year or I've been looking up on layouts of airports and listening to vids on YouTube which are recordings from ATC from various airports and I get the idea of what things like 'hold short of runway XX or tax to Delta Lima' etc etc 

You should give a listen to Kennedy Steve. He has a rep.

I'm presuming Kennedy Steve is an air traffic controller at JFK? I think ive watched a few YouTube vids of the JFK tower comms, they were pretty good and in fact I think this is where I began enjoying listening to ATC even if I wasn't looking at the actual airport. Now and again I get a piece of paper and write down what's being said so I can sit back later and work out what it all means

a reply to: ThePeaceMaker

He's a former stock broker turned air traffic controller. He works ground and always has a comeback for a pilot. He's really funny.

a reply to: Zaphod58
Wow he certainly knows how to pick the most stressful jobs in the world haha.

a reply to: ThePeaceMaker

He said something once about Wall Street being boring.

a reply to: Zaphod58




i remember someone saying this wasn't possible in another area of ATS

a reply to: penroc3

At one time it wasn't. Parasites have always been extremely difficult and they had more accidents than it was worth to develop them. The DC-130 would launch Firebee drones and they'd be recovered by helicopters or ships.

What's with the 767 and exploding engines?

a reply to: C0bzz

Eh, it was only a couple that were really dramatic like that.

a reply to: C0bzz

There's been a few on airbuses as well when you think about the amount of flights each day/year it's bound to happen. Although 2017 was apparently the safest year recorded for airliner travel.

a reply to: Woody510

Airbus had a problem with improperly secured cowling before takeoff. Looks really bad, and scares he hell out of the passengers, but looks worse than it is usually.

a reply to: C0bzz

damn! that escalated quickly.

a reply to: penroc3



Wasn't nearly as bad as the American 767 in Chicago.

Like threading a needle...

Oops.