Sticky

Uh oh #vizsla

“The painting! It moves!”

Nice! Mines in the post! 🤞

No dog these aren’t your puppies and no you can’t keep them… 😑 #vizsla #kittens

This is a thing a beauty. Is it just on t-shirts or do you do prints? This needs to be in an album frame on my wall 🙌🏻

Best way to start the day
#dog #vizsla

It’s a relatively cheap and easy structure to maintain so meets a niche in the market 🤷🏼‍♂️ Compare the basic structure of a semi-rigid head that of a fully articulated head and you’ll see why it’s preferred as an “entry-level” system. Requires the pilot to be aware of the limits of the head tho 🫠

This is a 206 rotor head. Basically the red marked areas can strike the green marked mast, causing it to break. It requires aggressive mishandling to achieve this (or excessive turbulence inducing -ve G)

Mast-bumping on a semi-rigid head causes failure of the actual mast itself rather than blade separation. This allows the entire head assembly (incl blades) to come away from the mast in one piece.

The Bell 206 has a semi-rigid teetering head and is prone to mast bumping if mishandled anyway.
I suspect boom failure was subsequent to/coincident with head separation 🤷🏼‍♂️

Nothing to do with Trump, DEI, Tariffs, aliens or Biden.
This looks like a mast-bumping accident - the entire rotor head (and tail) separated.
The Bell 206 has a semi-rigid teetering head; this can suffer from excessive flap/mast-bump if exposed to low/-ve G or abrupt handling.

In keeping with the theme of just turning everything upside down making disaster inevitable, I note that Trump Force One has its horizontal stabilisers on upside down.
#aviation

“The Heathrow ATC Tower is famous not just in Europe, but in the whole world. It’s famous for its 87-metre spire.”

Back in 1976, as a 7-yr old, I flew to Australia on a 747. I visited the flight deck and was given this postcard.
Just under 40 years later I was flying the thing myself.

737 overwing exit requires evacuation down the flaps. Usually arrows painted on the surface to direct you. 737 has no overwing slides as the lowered flaps provide a suitable route to the ground. Hence item 1 of the QRH Ground Evacuation checklist…

A tatty old C130. I think this pic was taken about 25 years ago 👴🏻

Dog pilots are highly underrated…

Sitting on the strip at Fort Hunter, not far from Kabul

Unmarked helo over Kabul

A C130 belonging to the special people who lived next door to us at Kabul

Ukrainian registered IL76 at Kunduz

The nonsensically large Mi-26 at Kandahar in Oct 2006. 2 months later this aircraft crashed in mountainous terrain with the loss of 8 lives

Parked up somewhere, waiting for trade…

NASA’s WB-57 parked up at Kandahar. I think they were doing geological surveys at the time 🤷🏼‍♂️

Aforementioned old Russian tank…

Plinking old Russian tanks from the back of an Mi-17

Medevac CH-47, Kandahr

Apache, Kandahar, 2007