^ We have a NOAA P3 in the hanger at work.
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The Great, Constantly Changing Picture Gallery, Troisième partie: la vengeance!
- Thread starter SynixMan
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I remember having to safety wire our APP handle while doing a static display, and pulling various circuit breakers....bc of teenage video game nerds who were adept at how to start our bird. Usually giving cockpit tours, you'd see one of those fuckers get in the other seat...and immediately start eyeing up the APP handle, and asking weird questions. Totally a miniscule subset, but it did exist.
I'd always unplug the battery at any static display, and still do that for work PRs. At airshows, there would usually be one or two kids, somewhere around the 8-11 y/o age that you could tell was a little more inquisitive about the switches. I'd tell them (and their parent standing there) that there was ONE switch that started everything up, but you have to find it. It was always amusing to watch the reaction....which was always followed by the parent asking, "that's not really true, is it?" or stating, "Uh oh, he/she will find it if that's true."
Twelve P-2E Neptunes were passed to the Army by the Navy for use in Vietnam with the first aircraft delivered to the Army Security Agency in 1966. The aircraft were extensively modified in the interior to house the necessary electronic equipment with the only external clues to their role being extended wingtip tanks to house sensors, some extra antennas, and a solid nose in place of the usual transparent observer's compartment. The white over gray colors was kept with only "ARMY" titles aft of the national insignia. The aircraft were designated AP-2E. As far as I know the only one not returned to the navy is on display at the Army Aviation Museum.
She does have quite the list.
George Halas, founder of the Chicago Bears, narrowly avoided disaster as a youngster in 1915 with the SS Eastland disaster. I'm not a ship expert, but yeah the CG limits were screwed.
SS Eastland - Wikipedia
Yeah, the list is impressive, but that part can be managed by counter weight on the starboard side. But that's a 15 ton boat, and they're easily putting another 5 tons onboard.
It's an impressive testament to the physics of buoyancy. It's also a pretty cool picture.
It's an impressive testament to the physics of buoyancy. It's also a pretty cool picture.
The first 757 ever built, N757A, now known as the FTB (Flying Testbed), got a new paintjob and returned to its original colors from ~40 years ago when it served as the prototype for the 757 program. After serving as the 757 program prototype, it was repurposed as a flying avionics lab in support of the F-22 program and is still in that role today. Maybe not as pretty as it was before it got its facial reconstruction, its still a unique aircraft with an interesting life.
The original paint:
The original paint:
Yeah…the team probably went to the academic side of the academy and asked the Department of Boat Crap to offer some suggestions.
List isn’t too different from heel during close hauled with a decent breeze. Boat displaces 28.5k, and a lot of that weight is in the keel which counters the delta between the front row and the back row (on the other side of centerline).