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Posts Tagged ‘plane’
Know Your Northern California Spy Plane Nose Art: Beale AFB U2 “Dragon Lady” = Santa’s Sleigh
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012Mythbusters! Adam Savage Needs to Borrow a Large Aircraft in the Bay Area for a Few Days – Won’t You Help Him?
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012Adam Savage would like to borrow your airplane for a few days:
“ATTENTION! Anyone have a 200+ seat plane we can use (no flying) for 2-3 days in the Bay Area? We won’t blow it up. WRITE mb@beyond.com.au”
See? They won’t blow it up.
Now, I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, “What about the Getty Jet?”
But I think that old gas-guzzling Boeing 727* is too small.
But what about the big Google Jets? Either the 757 or wide-body 767 should work.
Now, what are the Mythbusters up to?
*There’s nothing wrong with The Jetty per se, it’s just that it’s old school so your chances of dying on it are one or two orders of magnitude greater that what they’d be on the JetBlue or something. And it’s not possible to upgrade all its low-bypass engines to a more modern design. Therefore it’s expensive to operate compared to jets that weren’t designed half a century ago.
SFO Departures on Those Rare Days with Midwestern Skies: Hang a Left at the Moon and Your Next Stop is LAX
Friday, November 19th, 2010When we get those crazy days with Midwestern skies and offshore breezes, SFO traffic control makes your pilot take off to the northeast over the bay instead of to the northwest over “South” San Francisco. That means that airspace over San Francisco proper temporarily sees a lot more traffic.
Like yesterday.
As seen from Civic Center:
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Know Your Aircraft in San Francisco Airspace: Grumman HU-16 Albratross Flying Boat
Monday, July 5th, 2010Straight out of Santa Rosa, this large flying boat could be seen above San Francisco on the Third of July. Here’s the view from the cockpit.
Can you see this very plane in Raiders of the Lost Ark? I don’t think so, but anything’s possible, right?
It even goes up to Canada, eh?
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1956 never looked so good.
This Giant C5 Galaxy is the Plane that Just Delivered Obama’s Limo to SFO
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010I was headed on down to SiliValley on bidness yesterday and what did I see but this huge C5 Galaxyheading north out of San Francisco International. At first I thought it was an old C141 Starlifter, but no, upon further review, it appears to be a C5 of some sort. Now, I’ve seen military aircraft at Honolulu International HNL (in Hawaii of course, where you can’t drive to the Costco without getting intermixed with active duty military humvees), but never at SFO.
Anyway, you can’t have an Air Force One without a cargo plane or two to come with, right?
Here’s the outside of the flying presidential garage, just after takeoff. It’s a living:
The T-tail is your clue that this isn’t a regular old Boeing or Airbus jumbo. Click to expand
And this is what it looks like from the inside.
Look for photos of Obama’s visit on SFist.com – they’ll be sure to have some shots and reports posted in a timely fashion.
Attention Bay Area Pilots: Don’t Get Too Creative with Your Airplane’s “N” Number
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Here’s what you can’t do with your aircraft’s tail number. What you can’t do is get all creative to the point where people can’t read it.
‘Cause when you go flat-hatting over San Francisco’s Ferry Building in your aging Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II, you need to have your license plate legible for tout le monde to see. That’s how the system works.
What you can’t do is take away the middle part of the ID numbers leaving all the 0′s, 3′s, 6′s, and 8′s looking alike. That don’t fly.
The turbocharged Piper Seneca II, for the times when your Saratoga can’t get you there fast enough:
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Anyway, people need to know who pilots are for the times they land on the wrong end of the runway ‘n stuff.
D’accord? Oui, d’accord.
Now, Go Forth And Sin No More.
Never an unkind word need be said/
about your life overhead
A Russian World War II Fighter Plane Buzzes About the San Franscisco Bay Area
Saturday, December 20th, 2008Or at least That’s What They Say. The tail looks a little Yak-ish but the landing gear struts certainly don’t.
It could be just an acrobatic aircraft.
As seen over San Francisco:
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