(More) IA image creation shenanigans

[Gabriel]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CCYgU ... tid=wwXIfr

What is genuinely important, disturbing and disgusting...

"The UPS aircraft that crashed was a 1991 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 that had been converted to an MD-11 freighter in 2006"

WHAT. THE RECONTRA. f***.

The DC-10 ended production in 1989, so there is no such thing as a 1991 DC-10
And you cannot convert a DC-10 to an MD-11!!!! (unless you saw the fuselage ahead and behind the wing to add new sections of the fuselage and shrink the horizontal stabilizer and change the wings and add winglets and replace the engines and remove the flight engineer seat, instrument panels and controls and, and, and...)

[Not_Karl]

And you cannot convert a DC-10 to an MD-11!!!! (unless...)

So you actually can!

And the empty space left by the flight engineer seat is a great spot for the cockpit toilet .

[flyboy2548m]

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1CCYgU ... tid=wwXIfr

What is genuinely important, disturbing and disgusting...

"The UPS aircraft that crashed was a 1991 McDonnel Douglas DC-10 that had been converted to an MD-11 freighter in 2006"

WHAT. THE RECONTRA. f***.

The DC-10 ended production in 1989, so there is no such thing as a 1991 DC-10
And you cannot convert a DC-10 to an MD-11!!!! (unless you saw the fuselage ahead and behind the wing to add new sections of the fuselage and shrink the horizontal stabilizer and change the wings and add winglets and replace the engines and remove the flight engineer seat, instrument panels and controls and, and, and...)

All you need to know is that he used to fly F-15Es.

[3WE]

All you need to know is that he used to fly F-15Es.

I went back to review the 10 vs. 11 stuff that had Gabriel worked up, but after a few minutes of watching him listen to himself talk, I punted...but not before hearing that he used to fly F-15Es.

[3WE]

Sorry, not_aeroplanies.

I am fascinated that many things are “correct” in this video.

Conversely, many things are not_correct.

…and, based on the of few real train TAD videos that exist, there’s a number of differences that makes this FEEL wrong.

https://youtube.com/shorts/ghfgOqKxw3c? ... Z0cXDsYy_l

[J]

Yep. The lead locomotive has two sets of headlights (above the cab and on the nose- besides the two auxiliary lights on the front platform) which is not correct. It is also not common to have two rail cars between the first and second unit and the car behind the yellow locomotive has 3-axle locomotive trucks. Finally, considering the locomotive weigh in about 200 tons each, things stopped a lot faster than they would in real life.

[3WE]

***things stopped a lot faster than they would in real life.***

Concur, but I was impressed at how they dubbed in a very typical emergency brake sound for 0 PSI being sent to the controller.

[Not_Karl]

...the yellow locomotive...

It also didn't exist before the TOTAL RAIL DISASTER!!!!

There has been a total r(AI)l disaster!!!!.JPG (55.89 KiB) Viewed 100 times

[3WE]

I want to believe that Bobby is a BASICALLY just a curmudgeon, and I guess Gabiee did PLAY aeroplanie with him on the fancy MSFS…

…and I hope I’m wrong…

…but this picture looks fake:

IMG_4715.jpeg (30.69 KiB) Viewed 51 times

The morning sun, just breaking around a Cb, but the right door is illuminated and a shred of reflection off the window post, WHICH ARE AT THE WRONG ANGLE TO CATCH THE SUN..

The ground is adequately illuminated, unlikely based on the limited sun.

Whether it’s a house or semi truck on the ground, a couple thousand feet away, or the altimeter which isn’t even 1000 millimeters away…the same soft blurr.

No scratches or faded much of anything on the ole Cub.

I have no credentials to analyze things, but it looks too Polly Anna…

And, how cowboy to be dicking with a camera when single pilot CRM calls for strong attention to flying the no-autopilot aeroplanie…

Thoughts?

[Not_Karl]

[flyboy2548m]

I want to believe that Bobby is a BASICALLY just a curmudgeon, and I guess Gabiee did PLAY aeroplanie with him on the fancy MSFS…

…and I hope I’m wrong…

…but this picture looks fake:



IMG_4715.jpeg


The morning sun, just breaking around a Cb, but the right door is illuminated and a shred of reflection off the window post, WHICH ARE AT THE WRONG ANGLE TO CATCH THE SUN..

The ground is adequately illuminated, unlikely based on the limited sun.

Whether it’s a house or semi truck on the ground, a couple thousand feet away, or the altimeter which isn’t even 1000 millimeters away…the same soft blurr.

No scratches or faded much of anything on the ole Cub.

I have no credentials to analyze things, but it looks too Polly Anna…

And, how cowboy to be dicking with a camera when single pilot CRM calls for strong attention to flying the no-autopilot aeroplanie…

Thoughts?

I don't know if the photo is fake, but it's either not from South Florida or not from the morning of January 4th of 2026. I say that, because if one looks at the photo carefully, one can see what should be the Atlantic off in the distance, which means the aircraft is heading to the Northeast. The line of CBs appears to be pretty close to the shoreline, at any rate well under 100nm from shore. The things is, yours truly operated a flight from ORD to SJU that morning and the entire Eastern Seaboard was clear. The only weather system was to the Northwest of the Turks and Caicos which caused us a very slight left deviation. One can verify this by checking Flightradar24 to see the path of a certain aircraft that landed at SJU at 12:26 on 1/4.

I'm not sure what his deal is. I am also not entirely sure how a guy with that much of a head start (son of a pilot, glider solo at 14, CPL at 18, none of which he likely paid for himself) ended up with an entire career flying for 2nd- and 3rd-tier carriers. A guy with that much "experience" should have retired as a widebody captain at a legacy airline, but alas. Actually, back then legacies required a 4-year degree, which it sounds like he does not have. Then there is the C-46 from Maine to Mexico City tidbit "hand-flying the whole way." That's 700 more miles than the Commando's max range, so either he made stops or that's another "747 to Katmandu with just a flight plan" story. Somewhat more to the point, it's not entirely clear why anyone would send a C-46 from Maine to Mexico City in the first place, but I digress.

Lastly, I sure hope that should I have the misfortune of ever being as old as Bobby, I would have held dementia off long enough to still be able to tell when I am very obviously being trolled and provoked. He seems to have all the situational awareness of a dead snail.