While I was a captain on the CRJ 2/7/9, during the early to mid 2010s, I flew into a east coast U.S. regional airport that had a ARFF trainer that consisted of a classic American yellow school bus with rudimentary wings, turbine engines, and a tail bolted onto it.
When I asked Ground Control what it was, without a pause he replied, "That's an Airbus." (He'd obviously been waiting for someone to ask.)
Does anybody remember what airport that would've been? Possibly Virginia or the Carolinas. I can't find anything like it on ForeFlight or Google Maps; it may no longer exist.
(bus photo: BBC)
I made these with Photoscape X.
Paranoia about the CIA is a common thread when you encounter Americans who suffer from schizophrenia. But the CIA didn't exist until the end of 1947, while schizophrenia has existed as long as there have been humans, presumably.
So what/who were people with schizophrenia back then paranoid about?
"At least try an' fool somebody!" —Sinbad
What AI software are all of you using to create these artworks? I'm new to generative AI and was under the impression that most platforms wouldn't produce images showing actual people (Shatner, Stewart, Kelley, etc.). I'm waaay out of the loop, apparently.
I'm still wrestling with the question of whether Joi would be good for someone's mental health, but there's a different question that's troubling me:
I'm beginning with the assumption that all of us agree that slavery is morally reprehensible. The moral problem with Replicants is that they are manufactured slaves...like, it's bad enough to own people who do labor for you, but dude, you made these people for the express purpose of laboring for you.
Doesn't that mean that Joi a slave too? Kinda? Does Joi have any rights? Does she deserve rights?
Note: I'm dumping this all here while it's fresh on my brain after re-watching both movies. My apologies if it's (1) a re-hash of old territory. (2) not very well organized.
Edited: grammar.
I took this while holding short of rwy 26L one afternoon several years ago. 2016ish. Came out better than I expected.
I can't be the only one who finds that super annoying, right? Or am I just turning into a grumpy old man?
These are actual books available for purchase with actual money on ■■■zon.
I hope this doesn't break the Rules because it's PART of a plane.
This turboprop is on display at the Museum of Aviation at Warner Robins AFB in Georgia. Almost everything there has a placard describing it, but not this.
My hunch is that it's an Allison T56 off of a C-130, but the three-bladed prop is throwing me.
This is 61-0327, on display at the Museum of Flight in Warner Robins, Georgia, U.S. It started life as a C-135A, was converted to a "Snoopy nose" EC-135N ARIA to support the space program, then became a CENTCOM airborne command post in the 80s.
We all know about the HF radio "spike" on the 707/KC-137 tail. Did the literally take a pair of 707 fin caps, antenna and all, and graft them onto the wing tips as-is? It sure looks like it.
I've been in, around, and flown airplanes for fifty years, and it happens that I've never noticed this before. What are those scallop-shaped attachments to the propeller blades of this Martin NBS-1 and this Fairchils C-119J, both on display at the National Museum of the USAF in Dayton, Ohio?