😎

“..you prise typhoon as if it was a great english product, that he isn’t…”

Then explain this :confused: :

the Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Center/ “Joint Typhoon Warning Center” (NPMOC/JTWC)

Man, the strong X-mas beers are out early this year!
:p

Ja!

Right on!

Too much “ares” around. 😀

Best regards
atc pal

Miles M 52

“With the Miles M52, the dream of supersonic flight and the glory of being the first to achieve it, was within the grasp of the small team at Woodley, when it was snatched away. And why? Even today, over fifty years later, the controversy is still unresolved and can cause heated discussions among aviation historians. Was it a cost-cutting government – that did indeed go on to decimate the British aviation industry?
Were they under pressure from other sources?
Did well-meaning but influential individuals completely fail to understand why a queue of test pilots wanted to fly it?
Or did so-called experts so completely misunderstand the aerodynamics of supersonic flight. Whatever really happened, the M52 painted here is just a dream.”

http://www.geoffbeckett.com/page9.html

The Sixth Sence with Bruce Willis gets my vote.

Very disturbing twist at the end. Less can be more. 😮

atc pal

Bell X-1

Was it Chalmers “Slick” Goodlin, a civilian Bell test pilot, that became very “expensive” in his salary demands? Yeager was flying for his normal captains salary.

When Bell’s company test pilot Jean “Skip” Ziegler flew the X-1A, Chuck flew as a chase pilot. But Ziegler got “spooked” by the aircrafts handling.

Shortly after while flying with the X-2 mated to the B-50 motherplane, Skip was in the cockpit when the LOX (liquid oxygen) tank suddenly blew up at 20,000 feet. Ziegler and the X-2 were torn from the B-50 and fell the 20,000 feet to the bottom of Lake Ontario. Poor Ziegler had no chance. As Yeager says in his autobiography “same old story, another civilian test-pilot in over his head”.

The MiG-19 was also supersonic in level flight. Was it just ahead of the F-100?

Best regards
atc pal

Otis B. Driftwood: It’s all right, tha-that’s in every contract. Tha-that’s what they call a sanity clause.
Fiorello: Ha ha ha ha ha ha … you can’t fool me. There ain’t no sanity clause.

Different tastes, of course.

Die Hard 1 was fine.

Arnie crawling around on the outside of a 727, why not? It was the stupidity in Die Hard 2, I didn’t like.

Arnie “Upper Arm” will be President of the US of A one day.
Mark my words. He’ll be back! :p

Best regards
atc pal

My “hate” movie is:

Die hard 2 with Bruce Willis.

Ridiculous aviation mistakes all over the film. From the C-??? with ejection seats to the crashing of airliners due to clever tampering with the ILS. Pilots are NOT that stupid.

A very nice nitpicking forum at

http://www.moviemistakes.com/film362

Best regards
atc pal