Emirates (EK702) to Dubai

OC - Shot on iPhone 18 Pro Max (happy with the 8x zoom 🤩)

Some more info about the plane crash near Wisconsin Dells that killed 6 people Tuesday night has been revealed.

According to the article:

The pilot in this week's crash told an air traffic controller about icing on the wings of the Piper PA-46 Malibu as it flew at 24,000 feet (7,315 meters) and requested permission to descend, according to the NTSB. That is a major aviation hazard because even a thin layer of ice can make it difficult for a plane to remain airborne.

Air traffic control approved the descent, and the plane began a right descending turn that increased sharply in rate until communications and data tracking were lost shortly before 10 p.m. Tuesday.

The Menomonie Airport Commission Chairman, Daniel Johnson, also said that the type of plane involved in the crash "has a reputation of not doing well in thunderstorms," which the aircraft was flying through at the time.

I am in Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport right now and noticed all the x-ray machines looked like jet engines. The side panels even popped up like an actual jet engine cowl. I have never seen anything like it anywhere else. Pretty cool IMO

EDIT - #TIL these are CT scanners not x-ray machines. Thanks folks.

Stumbled upon these obscure photos of a flying wing while digging into some Florida Everglades history.  I found them on the Facebook profile of Carol Lord, whose family operated Monroe Station nearby and who later worked as a security guard at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport - aka, the Everglades Jetport!

Anyways, this isn't a new discovery; it is known that a B2 mockup was built for Honda in 1988 for use in a CRX commercial.  Jalopnik wrote an article about it in 2013 and there's been a few posts about it on Reddit throughout the years.  Sadly it appears the museum that eventually owned it scrapped it some 20+ years ago.  Here's another link with a bit more about it from someone who was involved with the commercial: https://aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/south-dakota-air-space-museum/

I hadn't seen these pictures posted anywhere before so I figured they were worth sharing!

- video taken by me

Obviously cockpit layout, checklists and aerodynamic / flight characteristics are going to be the same. But curious if there are subtle but distinctive idiosyncrasies between the same model of aircraft that give them a slightly different feel in the day to day operating environment.

I could see age of plane, wear and tear, or models of computers all being noteable and detectable.

I've been flying a lot more than usual this year and it crossed my mind on approach the other day thinking about the different birds that have hauled me over the planet.

Thanks for entertaining my odd question.

Is the pressure against the airframe constant all along the line? Is that line better than others?

Is there any small change in pressure as air crosses one of the static ports?

This is the USAF nuke sniffer. It flies about taking samples from the upper atmosphere to check if anyone has been detonating nuclear weapons. It's one of only 3.

I was up at the Kadena AFB observation deck. This popped up on adsb-exchange then came into land. I wasn't expecting to see anything that rare during my visit.

I also saw a global hawk or Triton coming into land on my drive home. It was dark and I was driving so it was hard to tell which one and I couldn't get a picture.

Credits - ZRH Aircraft

I saw this, I don’t know anything about the likelihood of this actually being her, thought I’d post this here assuming nobody else has yet

I had a quick tour around the entire B747-BCF and didn’t expect it to be this MASSIVE. Went inside the cockpit as well and was quite shocked how the control system looks so outdated as well.

Captured at Liege Airport yesterday

So I recently bought this MIG-21 part off of eBay, and now I'm trying to figure out what it does. I know it sits on the back part of the "spine" so to say. It's not seen on every version of the 21, so far I narrowed it down to the F, the PF/PFM and Trainer versions. It is from a decommissioned and probably scrapped East German MiG, that's about everything I know.