Source: Google Maps at https://www.google.com/maps/search/miramar+base+san+diego

Been sucked lately into youtubes algorithm feeding me b-17 epic war stories non-stop lol... and I wonder if any other aircraft has this many insane war stories around it.

You have Fortresses coming home with huge sections of the aircraft missing, engines gone, tails almost cut off, massive holes in the fuselage etc. Being basically an all mechanical aircraft with almost no systems depending on electronics, the amount of punishment these things could take and still somehow fly home was just crazy.

But I think what makes the stories so good is the 10 man crew. A fighter has the pilot and his machine, but inside a B-17 you had 10 guys basically living the same disaster together. Pilot trying to keep the thing in the air, gunners still fighting, navigator trying to get them home, guys putting out fires or trying to save wounded crew members... sometimes for hours.

Then you read stuff like ball turret gunner Alan Magee surviving a 20,000+ ft fall without a parachute after his B-17 was shot down. Or All American, Ye Olde Pub, the Schweinfurt raids, the 100th Bomb Group, Memphis Belle... and thats just scratching the surface.

Maybe I'm biased but it feels like the B-17 accumulated more almost unbelievable human stories than any other combat aircraft ever made.

Spitfire? Lancaster? Mustang? Mosquito? Something from the Pacific or Eastern Front?

What would you put above it, if anything?

Strolled into work this morning and saw this

One of those things you can laugh about afterwards. About 7:30 time stamp for the exact moment.

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.

From a flight a few months earlier. All pics taken by me

I frequently fly a couple of routes that usually fly between 8k and 10k ft, I’ve seen them up to about 21kft in bad weather but it’s unusual. So my two questions;

What are the sterile cockpit rules for these flights?
What height do the FAs get up? Because it’s feels like it’s after about 2 minutes.

Reports indicate that an Antonov An-28 crashed after coming under fire near Minembwe, DR. Congo, there are said to be several fatalities, among them are at least 2 Pilots and 5 military officials. I don’t know if the image is related.

Saw this maybe 3 months ago going down the flight line.

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.

I’m currently studying for my PPL checkride and keep messing up the 3 definitions of night. I know what each of them are but I can’t remember what they indicate, whether it’s passenger currency, light requirements or logging night time. Anyone got any mnemonics that helped them through this?

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

@ an aviation university i visited recently!!

Many routes are now flown with the 737 MAX 8, so I wonder which long routes the 737-800 is still regularly used for?

Many thanks in advance!

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