Heard a slightly unusual-sounding plane flying over just now, checked Flight Radar 24, it was an Antonov An-12 flying from Miami to Toledo. Belongs to something called the Ukraine Air Alliance. Suprised me.
Dang, they cut the part I was talking about. The 2nd B1-B Spread it’s wings as it passed the stadium. They then showed a cockpit view of the pilots doing a fist bump.
One of the best flyover performances I’ve seen from the National Anthem to the timing. It was perfect.
I thought you must have been seeing things, but nope, you’re right. The second Bone moved its wings out after the flyover while still in afterburner.
Thanks for finding that. I only caught it because it was something I wanted to see and was looking for it at the time. It makes sense they did it for climb because the afterburners would have accelerated it into the formation.
This was cleared for 1,000 ft above the ground and between 300 and 350 mph. The speed limit is normally 250 knots and 2,500 ft above the ground.
I wish the announcers were cued into this ahead of time so people knew what they were looking at and could better appreciate the plane.
ELP (El Paso) Airport and airspace under 18,000 feet shut down for 10 days due to security reasons.
Live Updates: F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days
- No flights are allowed to or from the airport until Feb. 20 under a flight restriction order that cited unspecified “special security reasons.”
WTH???
And now the FAA News Xwitter is saying never mind
The general area near El Paso and the White Sands Missile Range (“WSMR”) to the west & northwest are very common areas for GPS “interference” AKA deliberate US government jamming. Which has gone on for decades now; this isn’t some new thing.
Presumably they’re testing their jammers and the ability of munitions tested at WMSR to operate in a GPS-jammed environment.
That’s the only ongoing thing affecting aviation safety in that general area that I’m aware of. And it certainly never required the closure of the El Paso airport.
Color me utterly mystified.
And in any case even if it were so, not a blanket ban for 10 days rather than just while the test is happening.
Unseriousness from top to bottom.
BTW: Thread of its own:
Epstein, Epstein, Squirrel, Kegsbreath. We live in interesting times.
I’ve seen a B-1 on the ground, but never in flight, I think. I’ve always thought they’re remarkably beautiful aircraft.
Plane crash in Camarillo. A Cessna 210 Centurion wound up inverted in a ditch. The two occupants were seriously injured.
I don’t know what year the aircraft is, but it has wing struts; so it would have to be pre-1967.
I heard about this from a FB post. ‘I Love WWII Planes’ is notorious for posting nonsensical things; like, for this instance, ‘Officials described the airplane as a small aircraft similar to a Cessna.’ Who would have thought a Cessna would be similar to a Cessna? 
I’d recast that as a poor turn of phrase. MO they meant something like:
We don’t know for certain what type it is specifically. And we don’t want to say something factually incorrect. (“Dammit Jim; I’m a policeman, not a lightplane historian!”) But we know it’s generally similar in configuration to typical Cessnas.
There are a lot more shootings than plane crashes, so it’s a good thing there’s a handy-dandy Journalist’s Guide to Firearms for them to identify all of the various types of guns.
Maybe. I’ll admit that I can’t tell the difference between some Boeings and some Airbuses. But an airplane-fan FB group should know that ‘Cessna’ does not mean ‘any small, single-engine airplane’ any more than ‘Pipercub’ (usually pronounced as one word) was. As for KTLA, they’ve been around long enough that they could report the make and model accurately.
Continuing with the plane crash theme this morning, I took this Saturday morning during a road trip - it’s Tower of Voices. I was practically shaking with excitement at how well the sunrise photos magically turned out (the main focus of the trip), with the clouds magically parting at just the right moment & then I drove right past had to stop at the Flight 93 memorial. (I knew I was in the area but wasn’t planning on going as I’ve been there before.) It’s amazing how quickly that high went away. This memorial is much more personal than NYC, I’m guessing that is because it was only 40 people instead of a couple thousand so you really get to know the individuals more.
If you get the opportunity, go.
Floatplane dead sticks into airport. No drama, just the facts. Guy sounds like he’s done this before.
Wow. I get more excited over my breakfast cereal. Very impressive chillness.
Some bodycam video of the UPS crash a while back:
It’s a 40-minute video. Is there a specific segment you’re referencing?
No, I just thought a few here might be interested in how a disaster like this is handled on the ground by the first responders.