Kermit sure have some awesome toys…!
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Circle at ILS minimums. That technique I haven’t seen before…
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I have a good Kermit story for another time. Nice guy!
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This one is kind of neat…
A local man was electrocuted and fell from a high building while doing construction work. He survived but required an urgent medical evacuation to Santa Cruz for treatment. Local television put out a call for those with vehicles to line the runway so that the aircraft could safely land and takeoff.
Date of incident: 20th December 2019. Rurrenabaque is a tropical town in the Beni region of Bolivia with a recently paved runway that is solely survived by regional airline Amazonas.
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Awww that’s wonderful to see so many people show up!
Highly dangerous but I suppose you’ve gotta make do in situations like that.
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Recently Youtube started suggesting historic Farnborough videos randomly and I thought you all might like some of these. So really interesting prototypes and rare stuff flying.
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It must of been an algorithm thing as these were suggested to me as well.
They are fantastic
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I realize that this is just business as usual for the pilots who fly into this airport, and I’m sure it not quite as close as it looks, but holy hell!
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I think it’s exactly as close as it looks. 
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Yup! Wheels should be at or below spectator head height to not overrun the runway…
I’ll never forgive King Oscar the 2nd for selling St. Barths, BTW.
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Not a good way to start a flight!
http://newsinflight.com/2020/01/05/main-landing-gear-wheel-fell-off-from-an-air-canada-jazz-dash-8-100-as-it-departed-montreal/
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It’s something on an airline where the passengers so expect something to happen that often that they actually film the wheel falling off. 
I’ve flown Jazz quite a lot on short trips, and I think they branded that way to mean ‘Jazz’ in terms of crazy improvisation and irregular/surprise flight scheduling. 
I once got an 8 hour (!) delay to Maui from YVR with Air Canada Rouge. The thinking at the time was that all the passengers would be red faced, so the name fits. Never again. 
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Wow, that bearing looked hot!
Wonder if it had simply been tightened down a “tad” to much?
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Quote from the article:
Pretty good for an aircraft with a normal cabin config of 37 seats (39 w.o. galley)
I’m guessing a -300.
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After talking to some fellow aircraft technicians the options are either a over tightened axle nut or a bearing failure. Personally I hope for the latter and not the former, it’s not a part where you can forgo AMM procedures.
Watched this on youtube this morning, it’s quite interesting!
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It happens…
When I flew on the Fokker 50 one of our ships had a bearing fail in one of the nosewheels.
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It happens quite a bit! Tons of aviation bearings operate in a high stress environment, if something blocks them, or they get oil starved they easily jam up or cause tremendous damage. It’s also why they have the price of a luxury car, a piece.
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Yeah I am pretty sure that Air Canada does not fly the -100 anymore. Other articles mention it as a -300
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