New ETA for C-5M 2050h
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New ETA for C-5M 2050h
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Reflections. #avgeek
A Lockheed C-5M Galaxy is due into RNZAF Base Auckland (Whenuapai) this Wednesday (20th Aug) at approx. 1645hrs (4:45pm)
#AvGeek https://rnzaf.proboards.com/post/329328/thread
Nice capture! French C-130H at Christchurch NZ.
#AvGeek https://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2025/08/french-air-force-hercules-61-pg-into.html
Hey Drama Fans - quick survey/poll/whatever you want to call it…
What is something that you didn’t know, or is surprising to you about the world of commerical aviation, that you’ve discovered since you started to follow ACARS Drama?
Delivery day for the oxygen cylinders!
I got help loading them in the truck when I picked them up at the delivery point in Alamogordo.
Back home, I'm alone and the unloading was slower and deliberate. Fortunately, I only had to lower the cylinders off the bed. Raising them would have required a ramp or other equipment.
I got them into the garage before the next monsoon rainstorm.
I need to make a wall rack to hold them upright, safely, securely. I think I need to get a 20-foot stick of 1-inch square steel tubing from the world famous Basin Pipe and Metal.
Can I make an air liquefaction plant?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction_of_gases
My #PlaneSpotting ID skills are mediocre at best, but I'm fairly confident that picture does not show a TBM-7
On This Day 18th August 2024.
W3644, Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vb (Replica), in Royal Air Force markings, mounted on a pole at the Fylde Spitfire Memorial, Fairhaven Lake, Lytham St Annes.
This is one of many Spitfires scattered around the Blackpool area, including Spitfire Island, and the Spitfire Visitor Centre at Blackpool Airport.
#LythamStAnnes #FairhavenLake #FyldeSpitfireMemorial #Supermarine #Spitfire #Replica #RAF #RoyalAirForce
#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography
Spitfire Mk XIV NH799 ZK-XIV goes full circle at Classic Fighter Omaka 2019.
#AvGeek #AviationPhotography #Aviation
Per chatter on @acarsdrama - it sounds like there may be some sort of fire or at least fire alarm in the #DCA control tower.
lot’s of diverts and holding..
While writing a book on Airport Architecture, I am currently working on GEG and I can't express enough how much I love the Spokane Airport from 1958.
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#Spokane #Airports #Postcards #Aviation #Avgeek #Airplanes #Architecture
Super Size Sunday Antonov AN-124 UR-82008 on final for Moffett Field., Sunnyvale, California #antonov #AN124 #KNUQ #moffett #NAFO #aviation #aviationphotography #planespotting #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #photography #Nikon #aircraft #nikonphotgraphy #Z9
I flew into Poplar Grove's (C77) fly in today and it was a neat event. My flight was uneventful IFR until I was on the RNAV-A approach into the airport. I was just entering a broken layer at 2500' and an aircraft departed 12 and flew strait at my path. Rockford approach broke me off and I got to do the approach again. I'm not convinced that aircraft was legal, on the second approach I was circling at minimums and a lot of VFR traffic was also scud running in at 500' to the field.
Now, I have a lot of opinions on that and none of them are good but they would have been in class G airspace so as far as I know it's legal. I'd argue it's dumb as hell but also they're using 12 instead of 30 so I have to join the pattern. Now here is where I mess up. I sidestep left to join the downwind, "I'm making left traffic because I just went left" my brain said. I'm frazzled from the unexpected VFR traffic that has surprised me twice now. So I flew right traffic while making incorrect calls and I notice after I land and I'm taxing. This frazzles me further, but I taxi to park where the marshals put me. The final Marshall let's me know it's left traffic, he was polite about it. I apologized, it was my fault completely. I was letting things get to me while scraping clouds at minimums. Going missed was a real possibility but who knows where those sky cowboys were at.
I get out, start walking around. I find a restroom and when I'm washing my hands I remember I just landed at an untowered airport IFR. I didn't close my flight plan! Apparently the national clearance delivery hotline isn't a thing anymore so I eventually find a number for Chicago approach and get my plan closed. Then I sat down for a while to just let my brain settle.
My departure was a different kind of misadventure I'll elaborate on but the event it self was well run and fun. I'd recommend going if you're nearby but I wouldn't recommend coming in VFR at 500' AGL just scraping the clouds. They did eventually lift to 1500' AGL or so and then a lot more aircraft came in.
NZ trans-Tasman Air traffic control outage caused by software glitch, Airways says | RNZ News
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/570270/air-traffic-control-outage-caused-by-software-glitch-airways-says
Successful test of the right wing tip light assembly.
The electrical power was provided from the wing root, 25 ft away.
The first comments to this post will include some photos.
Because glider wings and winglets are removable, I had to make the wiring connections work despite repeated disassembly. I am using automotive door jamb connectors that are spring-loaded knobs or bullets of brass.
All Nippon Airways Tristar Postcard
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JA8502 - Later with Air Lanka as 4R-ULD - 03.05.86 at Colombo blown up by bomb on ground
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So I've been checking out hotels in Stuttgart, in preparation for going to Hahnweide fly-in (incl Me.262 display!) next month.
https://wolf-hirth.de/OTT25_123456/index_en.html
The hotel I will probably choose gives a link to the nearby bar/restaurant Graf Zeppelin. As an #AvGeek, should I go there for my one night that I won't be at or recovering from looking at planes?
Past and Present. USN F-18F of VFA-122 "Flying Eagles" and Grumman F8F Bearcat in the break at the Capital City Airshow #VFA122 #F18 #F18F #USN #lemoorenas #afterburner #airshow #capitalairshow #aviation #AvGeek #spotter #aviationdaily #photography #Nikon #nikon