Oh they probably were, one way or another! The tiny bit of ironing here is that when I last visited Martha's Vineyard years ago I found out about that air tour outfit and almost rode in possibly that exact plane! But unfortunately our plans went in a different direction and I haven't been back since.

There are many like it... this one isn't mine but still pretty cool: https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... ng_sw_737/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHsuBxmfmw

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... e_on_mike/

https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/0 ... cape-pogue

Once upon a time, there was also was a 9-channel audio system and United airlines devoted one to the airplane’s communication radio, and you could listen to your crew. ... it has since been repurposed to allow pax to watch cat videos in surround sound. ...to distract them from the fact they've had ...

https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... adays_you/

Has anyone here ever seen anything like that? I certainly haven't!

(The other three-holer): https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... ristar_at/

Another not-a-jetphoto, but definitely something you don't see every day! https://www.reddit.com/r/aviation/comme ... irport_in/

"World's most experienced airline"... talk about a double entendre!

Sorry it's a trick question, no landings were involved. But a lot of cool flying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg2HHgMvzNo

So to summarize what we've learned so far: It appears both engines shut down at (about) exactly the same moment. The likelihood of both engines shutting down unintentionally at exactly the same moment is approximately zero. The likelihood of both engines being shut down intentionally at exactly the ...

Thought you folks might find this amusing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DZfJdavEvE

I can't remember which but one Internet pontificator thinks it's a single-engine failure (cause unknown but probably squids) and the pilots shut down the good engine. A "pro" of that theory: it's happened before, a bunch of times. To me the biggest con: it means one engine would have lost ...

Yeah, in general I agree.

I'm just thinking back to when we tried to "fix" Afghanistan and how that worked out. Oh, and when we tried to "fix" Iran, and how that worked out.

For some reason I thought 747s weren't used in passenger service any more, but maybe that's just US airlines?

If you want to have a red-blue flame war, did Eric’s people, who were formerly in the Oval Office do much to enable Iran? Well our next-to-last guy helped get a treaty in place to deal with such things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Comprehensive_Plan_of_Action ...and Krasnov withdrew from it...

And IMO the craziest thing... it appears the baskets still are usually made from wicker, which I think is pretty flammable?

Setting the good/bad discussion (on which I'm very much on the fence) aside for a moment... * Do we think the attack was successful? * 37 hours non-stop with only two crew ? People on other aviation fora seem to think this is fine because the B-2 is "highly automated". I dunno... a 787 is ...

AvieHeraldie : A SriLankan Airbus A320-200 (...) was enroute and climbing through FL340 (...) when the crew received indication of the F/O anti-ice systems having failed(...) F/O's are prone to icing? What about Captains? Did I miss a memo about this? I've actually accumulated ice a few times while...

LH-B744!
You can see it land here (not sure what timestamp will be as it's a livestream): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn6kHFy6geQ

Alfajor with fries?

Everything is better with fries!

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