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@OnDisasters I was entrusted with the Teague Industries Deutsche Post design on a CD and sworn to secrecy while we painted the first 727 - the red and yellow had different enamel primers underneath in order to replicate a sunburst in bright light. It was a cool project.

Most airline livery designers - "Let´s paint the jet white, with some of the company´s logos, to be within the usual pattern" DHL - "GONNA PAINT YELLOW AND RED SO EVERYONE CAN RECOGNIZE IT FROM AFAR"

@prouddevonian Yep - I was probably 15...

Who remembers reading this... 🐀

@johnecto @BLackgold_5 The redundancy was TLAR Nav: you'd suck your index finger and put it out the direct vision window while squinting and then announce "That Looks About Right!"

@BLackgold_5 Avionics/Electronics geeks are going to love this. youtu.be/NSX7EyRG3k8?si…

Can you identify this aircraft? And what is this thing on top?

@DachshundColin I hope that isn't the launch code...

"..and her husband's codename is Won Ping?"

@MCCCANM I grew up near @MB_EjectEject in Denham - they are a treasure.

A reminder that if you have to use a Martin-Baker ejection seat & survive, you enroll in the “Tie Club”. Martin-Baker sends you a certificate, membership card, Tie & Pin, along with a patch for your flight suit. You also have the option to buy an exclusive Bremont watch.

@dezgo ME!

AI will let you become anyone. The only question is, who do you want to be?

@Combat_learjet @Vincent5327827 It's black in the middle - some kinda aphorism maybe...

@Vincent5327827 Party pooper 🤣

I’m sure this photo is legit!

@dpark1987 @OnDisasters @aero_in Good observation - it would appear so.

@OnDisasters @aero_in Did the flange bolts all fail and depart the engine in flight?

Delta A330 incident in Guarulhos - Brazilian Site @aero_in released MORE and clearer pictures of the damage on the engine. According to the site, there was a likely a catastrophic failure of the Low-Pressure Turbine (LPT). Also visible in the new picture is damage on the fan blades (This is from a batch of five pictures, as Twitter only allows four pictures on each post, I´ll add the last one in the 1st comment)

@airmainengineer Foaming at the mouth❔🙃

Delta flight 104 Engine post emergency landing.

Note for ALTP's: AI is not coming for your or any of Engineering's jobs anytime soon - I'm getting little better than a 50% accuracy rate with it, correction after correction.

@MCCCANM Not often you see a 717 in Brasil. 🙄

The airplanes are not less safe. This is the “Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon”. It’s a “frequency illusion”…you noticed something, it becomes prominent in your mind, then you start noticing similar things where you hadn’t before. The *actual* frequency of these events has not changed at all, but you begin to think it’s suddenly happening a lot more. “Trend Reporting” by the media exacerbates this…like jumping on a bandwagon. These events do happen around the world. Not often – flying is very safe – but you normally don’t hear about them because only very specialized media covers them & you likely don’t even know that media exists. Social media is kind of a wildcard in that now you can notice things from all over the world, and actually search them out. It’s a bottomless rabbit hole. We go through this nearly every time there is some mishap in aviation that gets the public’s attention. One iteration of this phenomenon is that it can be airline specific; something happens at Delta, say, and now every incident at Delta is reported, while similar incidents are happening at American & Southwest, but you don’t hear about those. As some of us say, “every airline gets their turn in the spotlight”. Eventually the public either loses interest, we go a long period with nothing to report or the reports start focusing on trivial things & the public realizes the illusion. Some people know all this & use it for revenue anyway. It’s not healthy to stoke unreasonable concern in the public, but it can be profitable, and you can always say “I’m just asking questions”.

@SPFCCMT @Platypuss_10 I'm assuming it was primitive SATCOM.

@Platypuss_10 Why is there a big rectangular box the top in front of the vertical stabilizer? Seems like an afterthought to fit something in.

Classic Soviet-era engineering on display — note the landing lights and thrust reversers during deployment. What else stands out?

@Platypuss_10 World's largest crown skin antenna❔

@n194at @Airport_FRA

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@realMaalouf A simple solution would be to banish Britons from the countryside - thus removing the canines food supply.

“One of the main problems in the countryside is dogs. Muslims don’t like dogs.” Liberal commentator complains the British countryside is racist and Muslims avoid going there because too many people walk their dogs, which are haram in Islam. These people are really insane.

@Turbinetraveler Considering wing bending relief & yaw control, neither would be practical - somewhere between the two maybe❕❔

Imagine if Airbus decided to give the A340-600 a twin-engine makeover—but here’s the catch: would they go for the two outer engines or the two inner ones?

@Rothmus It's the depleted Uranium counterbalance weights that do the real damage, trust me. 😜

@Turbinetraveler Traditionally, we have been more accustomed to the pax being discalceated...

No way they allow that!😄

@marycatedelvey I semi-invented parasail jousting (towed by Land Rovers) on the Makgadikgadi Salt Pans, if that counts...❔

NOT ENOUGH OF YOU ARE HEARING ME: Jet Ski Jousting

@BearJFK If they were replaced by two AH120's and a lightly armed MRSV it'd be a step forward for the fleet in general.

Just what needs to happen