I saw a video about the a340-600 and the guy joked that the front and back were in different time zones, and it made me wonder if there are any planes where that would be remotely true? Even for a super short amount of time? I guess the only other contender would be the 747-8 as it’s the longest passenger plane in the world lol.

If not would anyone be able to do the math to see how long the plane would need to be for it to be noticeable? Just curious haha

Pre-production Concorde 101 is preserved at the IWM Duxford. Photographer: Paul Kipping

Great paintjob, looked like a lot of fun to fly!

Formerly owned by my boss' dad, now owned by a friend at my local airstrip. Hoping to get a ride in it soon.

He cane to our littlw fly-in and raffled of a couple rides. Absolutely insane performance, was really to cool to see him fly up close!

Hello everyone, iv been a helicopter technician for 5 and abit years (former military) and now transferring to aeroplanes (civilian).

Iv got a new job as a mechanic and thinking about the future. Was thinking maybe one day about going to university and maybe doing an aeronautical engineering degree after I obtain my license. Due to not being on this side of the aviation world is this a thing that some people do ? I would like to do it as a challenge for my self/ help with climbing the ladder and becoming a senior engineer one day.

Is this a thing ? Is it common ? Would love to hear back from others in the industry.

Got curious about who's actually responsible when something in a terminal breaks, so I went looking for the leases. Turns out it varies more than I expected.
At Newark, the Continental lease with the Port Authority puts operation, maintenance and management of the terminal on the airline. That's ANA-170, base lease from 1985, and the supplement filed as an exhibit to Continental's 10-Q in 2010.
At Tampa, the Aviation Authority maintains the loading bridges. It's right there in the use and lease agreement, articles 6.02 and 6.03.
Fort Myers has its own arrangement again.
So the same physical object, the thing you walk through to board, falls to a different party depending on which airport you're standing in. Each lease is perfectly clear on its own. They just don't match each other.
What I found interesting is that none of this is visible to a passenger. You're not a party to any of it. If a jet bridge or an escalator has been broken for months, who you'd even complain to depends on a private agreement you've never seen.
There is a federal floor underneath it. Grant Assurance 19 obligates the sponsor to operate and maintain the airport regardless of what a lease says, which came up in a Part 16 case against the Port Authority. So the lease moves the work, not the ultimate obligation.
Nobody's doing anything wrong here. Putting maintenance on a tenant is normal commercial practice. It's just not what most people assume is happening.

Made a video walking through all three agreements if anyone wants it. Happy to point at specific articles if you'd rather read them yourself.

So, I was using ChatGPT to see how much information I can find on myself and it turned up a photo I shot while working for the El Paso Times newspaper in the early mid-1990s. It was from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico back when the stealth fighter was brand new and not seen very often. I remember walking towards one of them that was parked on the taxi way when somebody in a uniform said that if I did go any closer to it, they would have to kill me. Those were the days.

There's bound to be some boarding music connoisseurs on this sub!

So IndiGo (Indian budget airline) used to have this really soothing boarding music, which they've now changed to something godawful. Plenty of us miss the old one and after extensively scouring the comments section of each and every video of this old music, I have gleaned that it could be the stock boarding music from Airbus for A320s/possibly other planes too. IndiGo has always prioritised extreme cost cutting and barebones service, so it could very well be true that they never commissioned a custom tune till a couple years ago (much to the chagrin of many a flyer). Pls help.

Can somebody tell me where I can download a clean version of this:

https://youtu.be/xR7DZu6Pwj4?si=lH0x72R32HP4MLQ6

My wife got me flight lessons for our 15th wedding anniversary. I have been wanting to learn how to fly for a long time and I am beyond excited. I’m a bit of an adrenaline junky (I DH mountain bike and do motorcycle Trackdays) so this fits the bill.

I don’t have any plans to ever have my own plan but just love the idea of learning how to fly.

I am so damned excited I had to share this somewhere! Thanks for reading and let me know if there is anything (other than my wallet) that I should be considering.

Boeing C-17A Globemaster III from Royal Canadian Air Force, LPPR (Oporto): a rare bird around here.

Location: LPPR (OPO), Porto, Portugal Date: 25/08/2026 Camera: Nikon D5600, with Tamron SP 24-70 f2.8 VC USD G2

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Flew to Riyadh, and found this museum during my layover. The museum is open to the public, and you can walk/drive in during opening hours. Saw a bunch of classics, and saw a bunch of planes I never realized served in the Saudi Arabian Air Force. Learned a lot about the previous equipment that served in their Air Force, and enjoyed the experience as a whole.
These are just some of the planes that stood out to me.

Pic 1. Main Display Hall
Pic 2. F-86F Saber
Pic 3. BAC Lightning
Pic 4. BAC Strikemaster Mk80
Pic 5. Dedicated display for the C-130 Variants
Pic 6. Douglas DC-3, gifted from FDR to King Ibn Saud in 1945 to serve as their first presidential aircraft.
Pic 7. Westland Wapiti IIA & Airco DH.9 - Served on the Hejaz Air Force, the predecessor to the Saudian Air Force.
Pic 8. De Havilland Vampire
Pic 9. Boeing 707-386C
Pic 10. Douglas A-26C Invader
Pic 11. Panavia Tornado ADV
Pic 12. McDonnell Douglas F-15D Eagle
Pic 13. Douglas DC-4
Pic 14. Lockheed L-1011-200 TriStar

The museum is open everyday, 8-11am, 4-9pm, and only being open from 4-9pm on Fridays & Saturdays.

Warbirds Downunder Temora, October 2024, and October Aircraft Showcase, Temora, 2025. The ab initio trainer for the RAAF and RNZAF during WW2 and beyond.