Awesome!
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Dang, that’s gorgeous!
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United ramp at O’Hare yesterday. We hopped on an A319 back to KCHS and the ride was good. Does anyone know what the hump is just forward of the vertical stabilizer?
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SATCOM for onboard WiFi?
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I think in many cases it is a satellite antenna for things like on-board WiFi.
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They probably use it for telemetry for predictive maintenance as well.
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That’s the ‘football’, a great big KU band antenna for satellite internet.
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My hometown Moers:
Moerser Schloss | Moers Castle
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I’ve got to think that somewhere there is an obsessive aircraft designer at Airbus losing his mind over that bulge on his/her beautiful fuselage.
Back when I was into building and racing drones, there was a Georgia Tech student who flew with us. One day it was just we two. He managed to get his drone stuck in the top of a big oak tree, and we spent most of an afternoon trying to come up with ways to get it down. TBH, it was stuck so well that I bet it’s still there. He mentioned that he was going for an Airbus interview the next day and finally gave up. I congratulated him, but he was rather reluctant. He really wanted to work in the UAV industry. This somewhat surprised me as one would think landing a job with Airbus would be a huge victory. Times were a-changing.
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I missed this in my first year in Shetland. I was on air ambulance standby and had to fly a patient to Aberdeen. On the return leg, as we passed Mousa the sky ahead of us lit up with a strange pink glow as the flares were all ignited. These were then used to light the ‘guizers’ torches. Cloudbase was high, at least a thousand feet, so The nurse and I got great views of the parade
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The Hidden Message on Quayside - Torquay Devon
The long and round lights are dots and dashes of Morse code which spell out two words which hold relevance to the site. It spells out ‘Vanishing Point’.
The point where thousands of soldiers embarked for the D-Day landing and never returned……
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If you walk about halfway up the odd number side of Ranby Road in Hillfields Coventry, you’ll start to see small drawings of bi-planes scratched into the brickwork of the houses.
As confirmed by my an elderly relative these were actually done by local children during WW1. I’m presuming that, having seen aircraft in the sky from places like Baginton airfield and the Daimler airfield, they decided to record them in their own unique way.
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