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[day_trippr]

Yup. "Selective Availability" meant an induced error of around a dozen meters, iirc. Reagan enabled civvy use of GPS with SA enabled, Clinton ended SA...

Cheers!

 

[bracconiere]

Yup. "Selective Availability" meant an induced error of around a dozen meters, iirc. Reagan enabled civvy use of GPS with SA enabled, Clinton ended SA...

Cheers!

and now we have google street view...

 

[Dland]

Semi random picture, but on topic anyway;

Earlier this fall, someone took out a power pole with their truck just down the street, fired up the a genset to keep going with brew. Power was out for 3 hours, and I'd just mashed in, so needed sparge water, and later of course to boil.

Was just about to move set over from powering brew control to powering house so I could get some water (am on well), when the grid power came back on.

That did inspire me to get the 2nd and 3rd tier gens operational(a couple of MEP-002 s), but that is another picture.

 

[Sailingeric]

Too this at Staniel Cay last month, where part of Thunderball was filmed.

 

[GrogNerd]

someone took out a power pole with their truck

Montgomery County, MD: hold my beer!

 

[balrog]

Montgomery County, MD: hold my beer!

That's gonna leave a mark

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[balrog]

I'm just trying to figure out WHY one might want to...

 

[doug293cz]

Montgomery County, MD: hold my beer!

Still trying to figure out how they ended up where they are without bending up the airplane much more severely. Luckily, both occupants survived, and have been rescued.

lt's a retractable gear Mooney, and the gear are down, so it looks like they might have been trying to land when they hit the wires/tower.

Brew on

 

[GrogNerd]

only a mile & 1/4 from a small airport (hard to see on the map, I highlighted the runway)

 

[kartracer2]

Still trying to figure out how they ended up where they are without bending up the airplane much more severely. Luckily, both occupants survived, and have been rescued.

lt's a retractable gear Mooney, and the gear are down, so it looks like they might have been trying to land when they hit the wires/tower.

Brew on

Yeah, even at stall speed of say 65mph I would think there would be more damage. I'm sure the air frame etc. is toast but to still be in basically "one piece" is amazing.
Cheers,
Joel B.

 

[GrogNerd]

a friend:

When I say we're in the neighborhood of the plane in the powerlines, I mean we're just under 1270 feet--less than a quarter mile.

says they didn't hear it, the lights flickered & they never lost power

meanwhile, my boss lives 3 miles farther down the road & lost power for a couple hours.

 

[El Whedo]

This is the ruins of the brothel at Elizabethtown, NM. At one time folks thought Elizabethtown would be the Capitol when New Mexico gained Statehood. It was the largest town in the Territory, and the first incorporated town. It is all private property today on a friends ranch up valley from my village, but visitors are allowed as long as they announce themselves.

 

[grampamark]

Still trying to figure out how they ended up where they are without bending up the airplane much more severely. Luckily, both occupants survived, and have been rescued.

lt's a retractable gear Mooney, and the gear are down, so it looks like they might have been trying to land when they hit the wires/tower.

Brew on

From the damage on the underside of the fuselage, just aft of the trailing edge of the wing, it looks like the plane clipped the top of the tower in the background first. That would have slowed it down enough that it basically fell into the tower where it stopped.

In 50+ years of messing about with small airplanes I’ve actually witnessed 2 accidents. One involved an attempt to turn while taxiing too fast, which ended with the airplane on its back, but the other was a power line strike. Those wires are remarkably elastic and, in the case of the crash I was present for, the airplane almost came to a stop and then fell the remaining 15-20 feet to the ground. Almost as if the pilot had time to wave bye-bye, like Wile E. Coyote when he runs off the edge of the cliff.

 

[Sailingeric]

Made a box for some IW Harper 15 yr I am giving as a Christmas/birthday gift for a friend.

 

[grampamark]

Very nice.

“Drinkin’ One Dubya Harper, playin’ Black Diamond strings”…

Bonus points for knowing the singer/songwriter

 

[CKuhns]

Guy Clark.

He did a duet with Emmylou Harris that was fun.

 

[GrogNerd]

I "witnessed" this crash

I was on duty, roving patrol on the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center Pacific (FLEASWTRACENPAC) at the end of the peninsula into San Diego Bay. from that vantage, you can see North Island NAS & the first part of runway 18.

when flights are departing that runway, you can see them at the flight line, watch them roll forward, THEN hear their engines powering up. they disappear out of view for a few seconds, then you can see them get airborne farther down the island.

that's what USUALLY happens. this time, the plane never got enough altitude for us to spot it in the air. next thing, there's a big cloud of black smoke coming from the crash site.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/57209

 

[balrog]

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I demand a facepalm option for the Like button.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

 

[balrog]

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Must go through lots of socks and sneakers with those things.

 

[doug293cz]

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Why is the pinkie toe so off-centered? My OCD is livid.

Brew on

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

Been hunting on my property for 10 years and finally got a mount worthy buck. I like the character this fella has.

 

[balrog]

Some of you are welders, I know. I think I know. I've seen welder type stuff here before. I'm sure of it. Maybe I had a beer first. Anyway, I laughed at this.

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Welcome December… but wtf?

 

[grampamark]

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Welcome December… but wtf?

He’s gonna need a bigger sleigh…

 

[bruce_the_loon]

I deny any and all involvement in the events leading up to that photo. Santa signed the NDA and nobody can prove nothing.

 

[pvtpublic]

He’s gonna need a bigger sleigh…

More like he has a bigger slay...

 

[balrog]