OJTheAviator

That's awesome! When I visited, most of the X-planes were away from the main museum, on the base. It was pretty cool to be able to see all those weird planes up close! Is that black plane near the center (below the "U.S. AIR FORCE" on the XB-70) the supersonic drone tested on the SR-71? I forget the name, but I remember hearing about it.

From the Dayton Airforce Museum. Lots of historic "X" planes.

This looks so wrong lol
First a Lufthansa A321 flying over San Francisco but also the fact it's flying with no engines lol

Damn missed a texture lol

the VC-25A was introduced in 1990 so it's wholly possible the C-32 could see that long.
I think the 787 could easily be shrunken and width taken out to become an NMA, that can't be a whole lot of work.
Give it even better engines than the GEnx unless GE doesn't make anything better lol
Although maybe on a mid-sizer that might be a bit too much, I'd like to see a more powerful PW1000G be used for the NMA but more likely I think it could be something like a CFM Leap since Boeing seems to like GE/CFM a little more than Pratt and Whitney lol

Here was 29000 doing touch and goes at Wright Patterson a few years ago.  I was out there for the Memphis Bell exhibit opening at the Airforce museum.

It's small and dainty. But we do get HELLA 767's from FedEx and Prime Air. If there isn't a storm coming in (wind shifts) the landing and departing runway is in line with my house, them 767's are LOUD when they're low. Sometimes it's just one after another after another after the other. I don't mind it much though.

I bet he gets a little bit of nostalgia when he flies on the government's 757 from when he traveled on his own 757 lol
I wonder what the US government will eventually replace the 757 with. I could see maybe the 737max10 get modified once it's re-certified or if Boeing does actually ever complete the NMA but seeing as the C-32A in use by the government for presidential/vice president transport was built in 1998 it's probably got another 10-15 years

KABE is a cool airport. A little busy for my tastes though. Probably the busiest I've flown at. I agree that as for tastes in planes, the president is doing pretty well. I don't know that his tastes in liveries agree with mine so much though. The classic blue Air Force One is very nice, I think better than the new design. Reminds me of the classiness of the '60s airline designs: United, Delta, TWA, Pan Am. All had beautiful liveries, and I think the current Air Force One livery is still classically beautiful in the same way.

KABE is a cool airport. A little busy for my tastes though. Probably the busiest I've flown at. I agree that as for tastes in planes, the president is doing pretty well. I don't know that his tastes in liveries agree with mine so much though. The classic blue Air Force One is very nice, I think better than the new design. Reminds me of the classiness of the '60s airline designs: United, Delta, TWA, Pan Am. All had beautiful liveries, and I think the current Air Force One livery is still classically beautiful in the same way.

Daddy Trump visited my town today. Love or hate him, he has great taste in aircraft. He owns a 757 and used the "Air Force One" 757 today. Our airport can support a 747, in fact Barack Obama made a visit here during his first term. He used the 747.
 
 
Just thought I'd share.

the Zibo 737 for Xplane 11 is great but because of trying to learn the FMS/MCDU on the A320 family I've forgotten what I'd learned on how to program the FMS in the 737 on at least XPlane.
 
I can't wait for XP11 to get a good 717 and A220.
 

I enjoy flying the B737, just because I've learned how to use the autopilot and FMS and can fly between large airports easily. I also like zooming about in a F22 or smashing bugs in the C172. Haven't got any really good 3rd party planes.

I've been looking for an excuse to buy these blowie bois for years, and I finally got one: I need to blow the output from a portable AC into another room (because I don't have windows in that room to run the exhaust line).  I was using a leaf blower (yes....) but it was just obscenely loud.
 
Blowie matron does 90L/s of air at 11000 rpm?  Hahahaha...that's pussy shit.  4 of these fans with their stock 3000rpm blow 300L/s of air.  Overclocked to 19V and ~4500rpm, that's 475L/s of air.  Or for Americans, 1000 cfm.  
 

(It doesn't quite scale linearly.  More voltage and fan speed doesn't directly translate to more RPM and more air flow, but it's close).
 
And here's what it sounds like ramping up, I've heard datacenters that are quieter and these are 140mm fans.  You expect 80mm fans to be this loud in a 1U chassis.
 
 
You get 19V from a laptop charger easily + solder on some molex adapter.  I've killed normal A14 fans with 24V but 19V seems electronically safe...who knows what happens to the bearing lifespan though.
 
EDIT: Gotta bump this up to say: don't shove more than ~16.5V into these fans.  17V killed one of them within a few hours (my guess is that it doesn't like having 0V->17V jump), but it may be OK if you slowly ramp the voltage up.  16.5V though is totally fine so far.

any of you guys play Xplane 11? What's your favorite type to fly in that? (Doesn't have to be XP11)
I love ToLISS's A321.

There’s a couple great air museums in Oregon that I love, out in Eugene there’s the “evergreen air and space museum” it’s home to the spruce goose,  or the Hughes h-4 Hercules. 
 
Theres another in hood river, called WAAAM or western air and aviation museum, 100% worth looking at the images, there’s a hanger full of antique planes, a hanger full of wwi, wwii and Vietnam military vehicles and weapons (there’s spitfires and p51s too) and 2 hangers full of antique cars, stacked as close as possible.
 
every vehicle there is perfectly functioning and running, except for the mock up planes and prototypes, there is also a hollowed out torpedo in the kids play area that was made to like a submarine.
 
the staff there are all super cool and now what they’re talking about as they are the ones who actually restored the planes and cars.
 
fun fact I learned at waaam, the cub model of plane was built by another company before who we know today, and then cub tried to completely destroy all traces of the company, but they have one made by the earlier company.

P61 is one of my favorite planes by far, and the second I saw that nose cone I knew exactly what it was 😂

If the C130 and C17 seem massive, which they are, just imagine witnessing a C5 in person! I was able to walk through the cargo section at Oshkosh 2018, unfortunately no pictures from that close. Still impressive from afar though. T-6s in front for scale.

If the C130 and C17 seem massive, which they are, just imagine witnessing a C5 in person! I was able to walk through the cargo section at Oshkosh 2018, unfortunately no pictures from that close. Still impressive from afar though. T-6s in front for scale.

You don’t realize quite how massive these are until you’ve seen one in person, no image can actually capture just how large the horizontal and vertical control surfaces are.

When you hear your passengers screaming in the back because the approach into Innsbruck is apparently a challenge because of terrain

 

It's not worth killing hundreds of thousands of people just to help the economy recover sooner.  Economies can bounce back; you can't resurrect someone's family.  There's no perfectly happy ending here, but it's downright inhuman to value money more than life.

oh yeah I bet it'd be easier to have an A330neo for cross training and moving pilots around because well it's more like the A320 than the 787 than anything, and even the CSeries/A220 family has its own similarities (despite not being designed by Airbus) but it's still an entirely different type but I think an A320 pilot would be able to speed through getting type rated on an A330 because of familiarity.
 
Also yup one family does make things a lot easier but that's why I think the A220 makes it a little easier to have two families because if you have some A320s with the same type of engine that the A220 has you can maybe cut down costs a little bit to make up in having to pay for maintaining and training for two different aircraft types.
 
I'd wager Airbus would give a better deal on an A330neo than Boeing would a 787 because the neo hasn't gotten a whole bunch of orders and if the airline was already an Airbus customer, well even better.

Boeing's only interest in making a competitive deal might be the Fly US Support US Manufacturing jobs. Which I wished Airbus had us production of more than just the A320 family and A220 family lol but there just isn't enough demand I don't think to support that.

I like it lot, but I think having just one Boeing model in with three Airbus models would be a pain. Probably a lot of maintenance overlap on the Airbus side, while entirely different plane and design on the Boeing. I believe flying a Boeing vs an Airbus is very different as well. Pilot training would probably be easier if it's all one company.

Even more cost effective to have one family of aircraft in the fleet. One group of pilots can fly anything in the fleet, and one group of maintenance can fix any airplane. That's why Southwest, Ryanair, and Norwegian Air only use the 737 family, while Frontier, Allegiant, Spirit, EasyJet, and Eurowings only use the A320 family.
 
But, one type or even one manufacturer is boring. So I like the idea.

Take a look at Gibraltar's Airport 😉

Potentially Hawaiian could snatch them up, or maybe Qantas.
 
 
On another note, I've been very intrigued by Long Beach and the old DC jets plant, I wonder how they got the planes from the factory to the runway because there's kind of a road in the way and that road looks like it was there when the factory was in use