I’m trying to figure out why a helicopter is sharing airspace with an active runway.
Because DCA. Helos skirt every major airport but DCA has far more than most. All normal stuff that happens every 10 minutes all day long there. And has for decades without a mishap. And will almost certainly continue happening ever 10 minutes for the next couple of decades without mishap too.
Dedicated thread here:
A day late… and with a gratuitous attack on DEI:
“Gratuitous” is…one way to put it.
Already a pretty good thread for that little piece of crap.
Without stating anything about whether DEI played any role in current events, I’d advise people to look into BRIGIDA v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION before writing off any suggestion that ATC hiring might have been less than optimal due to DEI practices. There’s a fairly long article here that goes into some of the backstory:
But in short, diversity efforts pressured the FAA into adopting a “biographical” test as part of ATC candidate selection, because the cognitive test had excessive adverse impact. The details of this test seem inexcusable to me. From one of the court filings:
The class-action has been ongoing for basically a decade and is only now starting to move forward. The biographical assessment was ended in 2016, so it seems there was only a fairly short period in which it could have affected hiring. Still, it’s entirely possible that some of those people are still employed today.
It’s also the common name for the coveralls worn by US submariners when under way.
Small plane crashes in NE Philly; multiple fires reported of both cars & buildings, 2+ miles off the end of runway 6/24 at KPNE
I’ve heard that in relation to flying coveralls, but I don’t recall if it was WWII or ‘current’. Usually I hear about current flying coveralls being called ‘pickle suits’.
It was a medical flight returning a little girl back to Tijuana after completion of treatment. So there was a pilot, copilot, doctor, paramedic and the child’s mother. Not a good week for aviation.
I lived across the Venice Blvd from Culver City. I’ve parked in a structure by Third Street Promenade a lot. But I’m not claiming this guy as my homie.
Peter Tripp Akemann pleaded guiltiy to a misdemeanor charge of unsafe operation of an unmanned aircraft. He has agreed to pay more than $65,000 for repairs to the aircraft, and make full restitution to the government of Quebec. He also agreed to 150 hours of wildfire relief-related community service. He still faced up to one year in a federal prison, but he still needs to be sentenced. If he doesn’t get prison, I suspect there will be a fine.
In USAF slang, “poopy suit” was always the water survival drysuit; Never the day-to-day wear green Nomex coveralls. I cannot speak to USN or USMC slang.
I suspect cute nicknames for nearly everything in the USA, including people, is a trend that peaked back around the 1920s and has steadily declined since.
I’ve heard of the term “pickle suit”, but I don’t think I ever actually heard it in my 8 years of wearing one every workday. We always called them “flight suits” or occasionally “bags”. As in “I’m going to stop by my quarters to change out of my bag for civvies then I’ll met you at the club.”
Some folks used the term “goatskin”, referring to the hefty BO-centric smell after flying a hot mission in a badly airconditioned airplane.
As well, like any polyester-like synthetic clothing, eventually they take on a BO-based funk that does not wash out. Unlike a civilian shirt you can choose to trash and replace, the Supply department was not interested in giving you a new one until / unless the old one was real worn-out. Mere cooked-in funk was not a reason to replace in their minds.
So most of us smelled a bit goatlike even first thing in the morning even after a fresh shower.
Hey! Hey! Hey! I’m eating here while browsing. (okay, it’s early in Hawaii) 
According to Flight Radar, one of these is ZKWAR - a privately owned North American Harvard 3.
I heard them while having lunch and had enough time to check Flight Radar then dash outside to catch them almost directly overhead.
(Short 17s video):
Harvard 3 flyover
The American’s here would know them as a North American T-6 Texan. Commonwealth countries called them Harvards following the British system of naming training aircraft after educational facilities (with American themed names for American built aircraft).
I have done some flying in 1066 (ZK-ENE) and 1099 (ZK-ENK), both ex RNZAF Harvard IIIs.
This is me about to take my dad flying in “Harvard 66” way back in February 1999.
Americans from Naval families would call them SNJ-#s. 
That too.
Very cool, thanks.
I know of one in NJ that will take people up for rides in his, for a (not-small 
) fee. I have some great photos of it, mostly flying at sunset.
I was waiting for them to pass in the video to confirm. I had never heard of a Harvard 3 but I’ve heard many Texans go by and their props are seriously loud.