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.

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.

Spread over the course of a month, 212 hours were spent in creating this beautiful aircraft. The Hawaii (II As the first was destroyed) Mars was and still is the most awe worthy piece of engineering. I wanted to convey this in my own ways as well as giving my original Martin mars being the Philippine Mars a sister.

The Martin JRM Mars was a massive, four-engined cargo transport and firefighting flying boat built by the Glenn L. Martin Company during World War II. Only seven units were ever completed, making it one of the largest and rarest Allied flying boats ever operated.

In 1959, the surviving aircraft were slated for demolition, but a consortium of British Columbia timber companies called Forest Industries Flying Tankers (FIFT) bought them.

Forest industries was later bought by Coulson aviation and the Hawaii was refitted with cutting edge avionics flying until 2016 and once more in 2024.

This plane is personally my greatest ever creation and hits home as well having seen it once in action on the field.

So enough of that here’s some stats if anyone is crazy enough to make a 3.5 foot wide plane.

Wood used for the main aircraft: pine so shaping would be easy.

Wing: oak

Tail was cedar and MDF

Floats are oak

Stand is black walnut.

The cost was about 250$ total (not bad!)

And the time spent was summed up by around 100 hours of shaping and sanding and 60 putting it together. The rest was on finishing which took several all nighters.

I hope looking at her brings the same weird feeling of looking at a hunk of wood in the shape of one of the most gorgeous flying boats ever built.

Cheers guys.

It’s time to wrap up before my retirement from making planes.

Your flying boat maker

I fly for Frontier in Atlanta and saw this plane on its back on the taxiway in front of the FBO at KPNS on my commute to Atlanta this afternoon. Took it on takeoff roll so it’s not the best of photos but does anyone have any info on this? My guess is that it was parked at the FBO when Hurricane Isaias came through and that’s where it ended up.

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

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!

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?

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

- 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.

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.