#Air-Shuttle

[ursprunglicht]

Die Url: Fluch & Segen

Videovortrag “Die Url: Fluch & Segen” vom zweijährigen Beobachtungszeitraum entlang der Url in der Gegend rund um Aschbach Bei der Veranstaltung vom Umweltausschuss Aschbach-Markt, wird ein Multimedia-Vortrag mit anschließender Diskussionsrunde stattfinden. Im Video sind unter anderem viel von der in dem Gebiet entlang der Url vorhandenen Fauna & Flora zu sehen.Danach werden Herr Ing. Oliver…

[lonestarflight]

The cockpit of Space Shuttle Enterprise after her components, instruments and flight computer were transferred to Challenger.

Date: February 24, 1983

NASA ID: EC83-22701, EC83-22700, EC83-22702

[usafphantom2]

@AcePilotAV via X

[humanoidhistory]

Fire-rescue personnel train with a space shuttle mock-up at Edwards Air Force Base, April 16, 2005.

(Internet Archive)

[thatsrightice]

Everett Blakely sitting on ammo box in Algeria (from the collection of Edmund Forkner)

[enriquemzn262]

The pinnacle of civil aviation, when it seemed not even the sky was the limit, in a single picture: An Air France Concorde, the world’s first and only successful supersonic passenger aircraft, takes off while the Space Shuttle Enterprise, the first reusable space craft, sits atop a Boeing 747, the world’s first wide body airliner and for years the largest passenger aircraft in the world.

[spockvarietyhour]

Stargate Universe "Air Pt. 2"

[rubenesque-as-fuck]

Anyway I got notified that I'll be getting a nice $$ bonus from work today and I wish that I could celebrate with someone in a way that didn't just feel like obnoxious bragging. Like beyond the financial aspect, it's just nice to be recognized for good work and I actually feel... good?? about this job??

But it feels so silly to say I want to celebrate when I just got back from what felt like my first real vacation in a very long time and am doing cool comic con stuff this weekend and am scheduled for a new tattoo next weekend. I am already doing lots of things to try to make myself feel good! It feels selfish to want more!

But I guess even with all of that, there's just still a hunger for external validation from trusted sources. Will I ever grow out of wanting someone to be proud of me?

[johnathan-armanithan]

Saw some stuff today, Lads. I needed to share.

No need for introductions here.

Nazi planes. (And a missle)

This is the capsule that the dude jumped out of from space for the highest free fall in history. HE BROKE THE SOUND BARRIER. Took 4 and a half minutes to reach the ground.

A P-51 Mustang stunt plane.

You know.

This is Flak Bait. It is being restored for display. It holds the record for most bombing runs in WW2. Look at those marks! (200 runs!)

The mothafukin DISCOVERY! I have seen 2 Shuttles in the last 8 months. Saw the Atlantis in December of '22.

And last but not least, the Mig-15bis

Aka, Fagot B.

Nothing like having your 14 year old cackle and say very loudly,

"OH MY GOD THEY CALLED IT A FAGOT!"

I died right there.

[pretty-little-fools]

[ursprunglicht]

(via Die Url: Fluch & Segen - Das Resümee...)

[lonestarflight]

Space Shuttle Enterprise on SLC-6 launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.

Photographed by George R. Fry

Date: February 20, 1985

UCLA Library Digital Collections: uclalat_1429_b3279_301653

[usafphantom2]

Buran touching down after the orbital test flight.

@11K25_energia via X

[nikproxima]

A ship like no other, coming home. -Myself, August 26 2023.

[thatsrightice]

Aug 16, 1943 - Most of the day filled with alarms and excursions regarding the mission projected for tomorrow - general impression is both Zebra and Sunflower will be attacked tomorrow. Base on full alert, late in the day. Crew warned to prepare canteens, extra rations, arms, shelter halves, iron rations and other ominous articles. Afraid it is real.

Aug 17, 1943 (Regensburg) - Hunch was correct. The Group took off, maximum strength at 0730 hours on the long awaited shuttle trip to North Africa. Twenty-one (21) aircraft took off - Major Kidd leading, Major Egan second in command, Major Cleven and Major Veal led their Squadrons. A good many eggs in one basket. The Bombardier and Navigator had been studying the target for week, but did not know its name or location until the briefing. Objective was characterized in the annex to the Field Order as "The most important ever bombed anywhere." Entire station is sweating this one out - Doris Flesson back on the field with Walter Logan of UP to interview the crews when they return - expected in three days.

Aug 18, 1943 - No new directly from our Combat Crews. Bomber Command has word from Colonel Curtis LeMay, who led mission, that the target was destroyed - we know that the boys got to the target and LeMay's plane at least reached North Africa. Rumor that about 115 Fortresses were safely on the ground, seven in the Mediterranean Sea and two on Switzerland. Today our seven remaining crews took off to raid Dutch airports. Interrogation was interrupted to show crews photos, just received, of what the boys did at Regensburg - it was blasted to Hell and Gone. ME assembly plant in shambles - about a square mile of ruins. Photos show the Red Cross Hospital on the edge of the target area untouched - testifying to the accuracy of our bombing. The 100th MPI (Mean Point of Impact) obliterated. If our crews return safely it will have been a great mission for us any case will go down as one of the great air exploits of the war.

Aug 20, 1943 - Still sweating out our Combat Crews - no hint as to when they will return. Operations hasn't heard a word, although higher headquarters may have. Not a hint as to individual Group losses.

Aug 21, 1943 - Terrific rainstorm during the night - a regular Texas dew. Still overcast and raining this morning, so boys will probably won't get home today. Note: Officers mess profited indirectly by this mission. Combat Crew mess was unable to refrigerate their consignment of eggs - lowly Paddlefeet at eggs like gentlemen.

Aug 22, 1943 - Today is black, though memorable day for the 100th. Colonel Harding flew to Prestwick, where Major Egan and crew of Scott’s and Wolff’s planes were flown by ATC from North Africa. The 100th Bomb Group lost nine (9) planes in what may turn out to be the greatest aerial battle of the war. We lost Hollenbeck, Claytor, Hummel, Braley all of the 350th: Van Noy and Shotland of the 349th, Oakes of the 351st and Knox and Biddick of the 418th. Fighting lasted from Antwerp to the target – 2 hours and 10 minutes – with every type of fighter the Jerries could get up…

— entry’s from the diary of Marvin “Red” Bowman, Group Intelligence Officer of the 100th BG

[compacflt]

I know you said that you aren't the pinnacle of military knowledge that people think you are but know a damsite more than I do about the US military than I do, so I have a question. Do you have any idea how long the Darkstar project would've been going on for in canon? It can't have been a few months but I also don't know if it would be years and years? I know Mav has an award for being a test pilot that I think is dated 2007 (I may have imagined that) but that doesn't mean the Darkstar project was going on for over ten years? I think the F-18A took 8 years from testing to being approved, so it can't be far off. Just wanted your opinion. Thanks :-)

awright here’s my opinion (not an expert)

the darkstar is canonically a Lockheed Martin “skunk works” (super duper secret) surveillance and reconnaissance (SR) spyplane, as evidenced by the skunk works logo on the vertical stabilizer (left is darkstar, right is me with the SW logo on the SR-71 blackbird at the udvar-hazy museum this summer).

we can look to see how long other SW projects have taken to develop in the past. the SR-71, for instance, was first suggested as an “undetectable spyplane” idea in 1957. the lockheed A-12 oxcart, which would provide the framework for the SR-71, had its first flight in 1962, five years later. the finished SR-71 was introduced into USAF and CIA service in 1966. so a 9-year development for the fastest-ever air-breathing jet, with 4-ish of those years being flight testing (ish because the A-12 had to be heavily adapted into the SR-71 which had its first flight in 1964).

Lockheed’s been teasing its blackbird successor, the unmanned aerial vehicle the SR-72 “son of blackbird,” on its socials recently. i saw someone say: “soft-launching its new death machine like an instagram influencer with a new boyfriend”

leading many to believe this is what happened

note however that the SR-72 son of blackbird is an UNMANNED aerial vehicle (UAV) which is why in my fic I specifically said this

note also that most of aircraft development is just that—development. Flight testing (i.e. where mav would get hands-on involved) doesn’t come until very very late in the development process. For the plot of my fic’s sake I had mav go out to NAWS china lake in 2003, but in TGM during the Hard Deck scene Penny says something to the effect of “you got sent out to the desert three years ago for pissing off that other admiral” and mav goes “that was three years ago? 😀” (cute!) so that’s the longest mav could’ve canonically been involved with the darkstar project. (For my own purposes i made it like a year, for those two sections of the story to neatly flow into each other—from 2015ish to 2016. I know TGM takes place in 2020 [i know but idfc] Maybe LockMart has had this tech [probably not high hypersonic like in the movie] for that long anyway and it’s just been so heavily classified that we didn’t know about it till very recently. Definitely possible.)