markonline1

i went on a work trip a couple of days ago and the guy I went down with is a pilot. Flew for SkyWest and Southwest and now flies recreationally. We got talking about this. He says the big takeaway from this is the stability of the caravan. Any other plane and he doubts it would have got down in one piece.

scrubbedexpat142

So Elon Musk objects to someone tracking his private jet!

He obviously didn't realise that a 2 minute search on Google will reveal the type & registration and, armed with that, his aircraft can be tracked, in real time, on various apps.
Perhaps he doesn't understand this internet thingy! 🤣

civilservant

I don't think much of Elon Musk, but when some lunatic uses the internet to track his location and show up by jumping on his car, I kinda get it.

Especially when it wasn't him in the car but his son.

As to the plane, I do agree that he's already showing his anti-1A colors.

Pulaski

There's quite a lot of public information available on line, especially in the US, that I doubt a lot of people know is public. ..... For starters, land ownership records in the US are deemed public and commonly available free online, and this includes mortgage finance documents, and the price you paid is very easy to find.

The same sort of information is freely available for corporations (Inc, LLC, etc.) in many states, giving the "registered office" address, which may be a lawyer or accountants, but for a small office is probably the owners home address. In other states there is a fee, which may be small, such as $1 in Texas.

Then you can look on line very easily for ownership records for websites, again sometimes it might only trace to lawyers or other agents, but sometimes it can tell you quite a lot. .... If the web site is hosted on a server in Russia, have nothing to do with it!!

My employee developed a web app a few years ago with a plan to sell the service to other businesses to sell to their customers i.e. the customers would think they were dealing with the business that had there branding on the web site, but in fact it was a "bought in" service - imagine like running your own online business, but the warehousing, shipping and delivery is outsourced to Amazon. Anyway, during a high-level meeting to announce (internally, the planned launch of the service, I pointed out that the website could easily be traced to my employer's internet servers, which was rather embarrassing for the manager who didn't realize this.

Giantaxe

Given Twitter is a private company, it's not a 1A issues. However, it does illustrate just how hypocritical his claim to be a "free speech absolutist" is.

civilservant

This isn't the pace to expand this discussion, but I disagree. Twitter purports to be, and de facto is, the public square of the modern era.

excpomea

A pair of F18's buzzing around my town this weekend.
Damn those things are loud@

calman014

"Jet noise: The sound of Freedom"

Florida was once the home of many more squadrons from the US Navy. I was there working in the 70's at NAS Cecil Field, which is now closed.

That's where I first saw the newly introduced F14 take off and do an unrestricted (as in VERTICAL) climb... very impressive.

F18 also an impressive aircraft and a worthy successor.

ddsrph

I was a Navy Dental Officer at Cecil Field in early eighties. They still had some A7’s which was a clunky looking airplane. I liked that base for duty.

calman014

Fond memories of my visits there (I was with RN).
I was amazed with the rows of aircraft (all different types) on the ramp there..never seen so many in one place.
A7 clunky perhaps but an effective aircraft.


A7 of Va12 hits the deck of HMS Ark Royal in the 1970's

ddsrph

I knew a few A7 pilots and they liked the A7. One reason it was a solo platform. Have you been to the Naval aviation museum in Pensacola? My wife and I go down every winter for a few days and stay at the Navy Lodge across the street from museum. They have a bunch of old retired Navy pilots conducting the free tours. One thing I have noticed is almost all American TV and movies about military aviation are about Navy or marine. I guess aircraft carriers are more exciting than 12000 ft runways.

calman014

Not been to Florida for a long time but also not been to the museum.

This recently visited my neck of the woods in the UK. Quite impressive piece of hardware.



Carrier Gerald R.Ford visits UK.

ddsrph

After my active duty I became a very active Navy reserve Dentist going on any foreign duty I could get. Two of my trips involved going on ships. I spent 90 days in Mediterranean on the USS Forestall. The most stressful part was trying to not get lost on the ship. I got to fly onboard in the COD off coast of Alexandria but didn’t get to fly off with a cable launch. Left ship in Palma via Helo.

markonline1

You think they’re loud, get up close and personal to these things. I got up close to see them take off, didn’t think I needed any hearing protection and my bloody ear drums nearly exploded.

Pulaski

So the cash in Nepal last month, with the deaths of all 72 on board, was, according to the initial report, the result of one of the pilots accidentally put both propellers into the the "fully feathered" position (which would be done if an engine failed and the pilot needs to minimise drag on the aircraft from an unpowered prop), instead of moving the adjacent flap lever to 30º for landing. The result of this is high drag for the engine, and zero propulsion.