Ian Scott

@BuzzPatterson It’s not in the middle of the Sahara - it’s on the fucking Atlantic coast! It’s a major port for exporting iron ore.

BUZZ FLYING NOTE: ANYWHERE, ANYTIME, ANYTHING! Let me introduce you to Nouadhibou, Mauritania. Truly a 4th World hellhole. In the US military airlift world, we will literally go anywhere and do anything, at anytime. When I was a fairly junior C-141 aircraft commander, I was tasked (fragged) with flying a mission from Charleston, SC through Bermuda to Nouadhibou, Mauritania. We were delivering a generator. A single generator. I don’t know how we found this place. I really don’t. It was a slab of concrete in the middle of the Sahara Desert with no navigation aids. We hit a VOR and tracked inbound using maps. We found it and landed. We were met by a couple of dudes in turbans in pickup trucks. It was a scene out of a movie. They offloaded the generator and put some “gas” in the jet. Our outbound leg was Mauritania to Dakar, Senegal, for crew rest. As soon as we took off, we immediately had fuel filter bypass lights on all of our fuel tanks flashing. We had been loaded with contaminated fuel. We ran our checklists and made it into Dakar. We gave the jet to maintenance at Dakar, it was going to be a few days. That night, we went to a local disco next to our hotel and partied with an Air France crew. Another day in airlift.

@Dussyme 2

N0 one can give me the right answer How many feet are on his form?

@MC_Tweed @beauti_animals Indeed!

@beauti_animals One Canada Square (Canary Wharf) is a bit of a giveaway

Are you a genius?, Then guess this place without googling. a) Switzerland 🇨🇭 b) Chile 🇨🇱 c) Uk 🇬🇧 d) Australia 🇦🇺

@Mikeyconnor94 @nkhanh08 Says it all….

@nkhanh08 Yeah when I stop over in Doha going to Phuket

This bollocks annoys me. There is no way your flying from Mexico City to London on an a319/a320 or a321 - so bog off, your not catching us aviation enthusiasts out

@aviationarchive Doesn’t make sense - it looks normal

@IanScottDH I think you are wrong. that's the original footage from the news.

On Nov 27th, 1951 Ft. Worth held its breath while this B-36 circled the city's murky skies for some six hours with a defective landing gear. The pilot ordered 16 crew members to parachute to safety and then he and two others prepared for the job of landing the crippled giant.

@Janet_sm145 Who is she?

HER JOURNEY WON'T END WELL 👩🏻‍🦰🤳🏻😬

@akafaceUS No restaurants were involved or harmed in the making of this video!

@MCCCANM Yes, saw it a while ago and very unimpressed. The ground below you doesn’t count as the required visual references (hence he was so far off centreline). The golf glove mega control yoke work out is also laughable - the doors of input then reverse of input is nuts!

This keeps surfacing as an example of good flying & it’s not. Unless they could see more than the camera, they went below minimum altitude (“minimums”) without being able to see, an instant fail on a checkride. They also land well right of centerline. Very dangerous.

@Hania16836 More AI shit graphic on this stupid topic.

@TaraBull Ageing baby’

This is peak celebrity nonsense: Jennifer Lopez literally waiting for the crowd to clear before doing a 20 foot walk to her car, just to stage her paparazzi exit. I'm so over celebrity culture

@ValkStrategy @Selenaqawfh Pretty much!

@Selenaqawfh clue?

@ghosy01 @turkhafiza2 They were in Niger not Nigeria

@turkhafiza2 One of the few times Americans got what they deserved wtf are they doing in Nigeria ?

Tongo Tongo ambush yani Tongo Tongo Pususu; İşıd'ın Nijer kolunun Ekim 2017'de Nijer ve Amerikan Özel Kuvvetlerini pusuya düşürerek 4 Nijer +4 Amerikan askeri olmak üzere 8 askeri öldürdüğü, açık kaynaklara düşen bu video sonrası Amerikan kamuoyunun sarsıldığı pusu.

@Rasscasse06 @OnDisasters Yep

@OnDisasters Is that Jackie Stewart commentating ?

“While rushing to the car, I noticed small splotches of a peculiar gray substance marking a trail on the asphalt leading up to the driver. When I reached the car, I was shocked to see that Smiley's helmet was gone, along with the top of his skull. He had essentially been scalped by the debris fence. The material on the race track was most of his brain. His helmet, due to massive centrifugal force, was literally pulled from his head on impact ... I rode to the care center with the body. On the way in I performed a cursory examination and realized that nearly every bone in his body was shattered. He had a gaping wound in his side that looked as if he had been attacked by a large shark. I had never seen such trauma.” Description of CART medical director Steve Olvey on the accident that killed Gordon Smiley, that happened on this day in 1982. During qualifying, on the second warm-up lap, his March 81C Cosworth began to oversteer on turn 3, causing the car to slightly slide. When Smiley steered right to correct this, the front wheels gained grip suddenly, sending his car directly across the track and into the wall nose-first at nearly 200 mph (320 km/h). He was killed instantly. According to team mate Desiree Wilson, (…) “the biggest piece was a little ball of engine. There was nothing else except shattered bits, a bit of gearbox, a bit of a wheel, not even a seat. It was very ugly.”(…) This was Smiley´s third run at Indy after competing mostly on the US domestic series, but the driver obtained a record overseas that remains to this day. In 1979, Smiley raced in the British Formula One Championship (sometimes called the "Aurora Formula One Championship") that used mostly obsolete F1 cars. Smiley won a race, and to this day, this is the last F1 win by an American driver in a FIA-sanctioned event. (I will drop more details on Smiley´s career in a video in the comments)

@OnDisasters If his brain was in the track, it was a lot more than “scalped”!

@peteharrar @Turbinetraveler The designers are not the test pilots either. Everything you say makes no sense, even to a layman, let alone someone who has been in aviation for 41 years!

@peteharrar @Turbinetraveler How do you feather a turbofan? Why would you need a wooden pole to reach a control? In what test regime do passengers sit in the jump seat to watch during critical phases? Testing was 63 years ago, so are you in your eighties? Or simply seventies because you were a ten year old?

MD-11 stall test footage with the horizontal stabilizers hanging on for dear life, set to that classic 1980s corporate synthesizer soundtrack… absolute perfection.

@peteharrar @Turbinetraveler Total BS. The 111 is twin engined and there’s no way they would add asymmetric thrust during testing. The 111 also had dangerous stall characteristics due to the T-tail. Besides which, test pilots test the aircraft, not each other!!!

My dad was a Navy fighter pilot and later a test pilot. He became chief pilot and head of flight operations for a mid level regional carrier, and was one of the designers of the BAC 111. He used to have the pilots put it in stall, and then to test their mettle he would feather one of the engines. Good stuff, RIP pops.

@RemziKo515193 @TOPRAK_2_ How do you torture a dead person?

@TOPRAK_2_ O ingiliz subayı gerçek centilmen ve üzerine giydiği üniformaya layık ama bizde öldürdüğü kadınların elbiselerini çıkartıp cesede işkence eden sözde üniformalarılar var aradaki fark düşmana bile saygıyı gösterir. Ingiliz şövalyesi ile ortadoğulu zihniyeti..

Bu fotoğraf, 1972 yılında İrlanda’da çekilmiş. İngiliz ordusuna karşı verilen direnişte, nişanlısı vurulduğunda onun silahını alıp ateş eden genç bir kadını gösteriyor. Yaralı nişanlısı, bir araba ile güvenli bir yere götürüldü ve hayatta kaldı. Ancak bu cesur kadın, sevgilisini koruyup topraklarını savunmak için İngiliz askerlerine karşı tek başına savaşmaya devam etti — ta ki öldürülene kadar. Kadının cansız bedeninin başında duran İngiliz tabur komutanı, sonunda düşmanlarının bir kadın olduğunu anlayınca askerlerine şu emri verdi: > “Bedenine dokunmayın. Bırakın onu İrlanda halkı gömsün.” Ve ardından, tarihe geçen şu sözleri söyledi: > “Biz, sayılarımıza ve silahlarımıza önem vermeyen bir prensesle savaşıyorduk O, nişanlısı ve ülkesi için savaştı… İrlanda için.” Yıllar sonra, bu fotoğraf Dünya Kadınlar Günü’nün simgelerinden biri haline geldi. Üzerine, Che Guevara'nın ölümsüz sözü yazıldı: > “Güçlü bir kadının yanında olmaktan asla korkmayın. Bir gün, o sizin tek ordunuz olabilir.”

@GM01694657 @TOPRAK_2_ Exactly right!

@TOPRAK_2_ What utter dog shit this is. It's a propaganda picture for thick Americans in Boston to give money to a cause they didn't understand. PIRA, murderous back shooting vermin.