A little behind-the-scenes on formation flying/photo op of a 787.
I do a lot of aerial photo/video but it’s not quite the same (speed) from a balloon. I’d bet we’d each like to trade platforms for a flight; I know I would.
Very cool - thanks!
By FAR 10K is as high as you can go for an extended period without supplemental O2.
So all the folks who don’t own O2 supplement gear treat that as their *de facto *service ceiling even if their airplane will go higher. At the same time, given the O2 limits, there’s not much need for things like training airplanes C-150, Cherokee 140, and newer replacements to be designed with enough wing & engine to get much above 10K. The chicken drives the egg and vice versa. That keeps the great volume of lightplane ops below 10K.
At the same time there *are *a bunch of unpressurized light planes up in the low flight levels. C-210, Bonanza, Cirrus, etc.
The rule that I think I know is: O2 required for crew after 30 minutes above 12500 up to 14000 MSL, and at all times above 14000 (with additional requirements at higher flight levels). More lenient requirement for passengers, whose brains are considered non-essential equipment, I suppose.
Is the above-quoted rule current? Is there another rule somewhere requiring O2 above 10000? Or is that simply considered a good idea? (Of course, if we’re expecting to fly our gliders that high, we have the mask or cannula on and the O2 running before we leave the ground. It would be quite awkward to have to put all that in place and get it working after we’re already flying.)
I heard a strange sound as I got out of my car, coming back to the office with my lunch. I looked up to see a Piaggio Avanti flying over. 
As of today, this thread is 225 years in the making. Today is the anniversary of the first air voyage in America!
(Orville & Wilbur weren’t even a glint in their great-grandparent’s eyes.)
The story goes that Ben Franklin, when a skeptic said of the Montgolfier Brothers’ early ballooning, “What is it good for?”, replied, “What good is a newborn child?”
To celebrate the anniversary, this morning some local balloonists launched from the Balloon Museum parking lot here in Albuquerque and were hoping to fly over the crest of the Sandia mountains- wind and weather permitting.
I just called the museum and they said the balloonists did launch but they had not yet heard how the flight went.
Our local ABC affiliate KOAT TV said they would have an update tonight.
Looks like the balloonists made it over the crest and landed near Moriarty NM, as reported by KOB TV- but I can’t find a link to their report.
Here is a link to the report on KRQE TV, which doesn’t mention their landing.
Deptford, NJ, (the landing site) had a program tonight, including a glow.
Two neckties I’m sure the gentlemen in this thread will appreciate:
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I could dig a necktie (if I ever wore neckties, that is) with pictures of the Christen Eagle with its standard colorful paint job, as shown here.
The President strikes a deal with Boeing for two new Air Force One aircraft that will cost… pretty much what he said was too much just over a year ago: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/27/politics/boeing-air-force-one-donald-trump/index.html
Anyone use foreflight? Esp with a non GPS equipped tablet?
I built astratux ADS-B in box (including an external GPS) which will handle ADS-B In and GPS functions so I don’t need a GPS tablet (my current one has too little storage for maps)
Brian
Not at $50.
So much for the Sitter on The Golden Throne’s deal-making abilities.
It looks like the Give It To The Billionaires Plan to privatise the Air Traffic Control system has been put down for the moment.
Hi. I don’t get around to this site much anymore. Just as well, now I can spend all my time studying my Test Prep books.
I’m planning to get my official BAD ATTITUDE T-shirt that I found on-line a few days ago. If you’ve got BAD ATTITUDE, you can get one too!
I’m curious about the picture.
(1) Does an attitude indicator EVER actually look like that?
(2) What attitude do you think the is picture “trying” to show?
[spoiler]I think it’s supposed to show an airplane in a steep descending spiral dive. It took me a few days for it to occur to me that the airplane is also inverted. That leads me to my final question . . ./spoiler If an airplane is really in an inverted steep spiral dive, what would the attitude indicator really look like?
It’s showing the wings rotated to the right 140 from level flight with the nose pointed below the horizon.
If you hit a wind vortice from the plane in front of you that’s what it will look like. Best not to be near the ground when that happens.
Been there. Done that. At 10,000 feet.
Actually I think I have that backwards. It’s a rotation to the left.