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[Bateleur1]

How do you get historical data like this ?

 

As LWB said. But I am a paid member (the entry level membership) so I have the historical data to my availability

Edited February 5, 2020 by Bateleur1

[Long Wheel Base]

Thanks, I have seen that but was wondering how he got this. 

 

Maybe he there is function to look at all flights for a certain time frame?

Ah ok. I think he has a membership and there is more info available like that if you pay them.

 

Edit: Bateleur already responded confirming.

Edited February 5, 2020 by Long Wheel Base

[Quagga]

As LWB said. But I am a paid member (the entry level membership) so I have the historical data to my availability

Ahh that makes sense 

Thanks for the reply

[Spokey]

When we get a bit ahead of ourselves...

JATO Landing

https://www.military.com/video/aircraft/military-aircraft/top-secret-c-130-with-rocket-boosters/912500478001

Ha ha, you beat me too it! I was just looking this up and feeling rather clever that I had managed to add the link to my reply when I thought to check my unread posts!

Thanks, fascinating stuff but must have been scary as hell with all that fire blasting past the flight deck.

[Quagga]

Who has seen the latest Scrappy build video?

[Bonus]

Regarding JATO, this old story that was circulating on emails back in the 90's was a fav of mine. Turned out to be an urban myth in the end, but at the time it made good reading .... 

 

 

The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. the wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. The lab finally figured out what it was and what had happened.

It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet Assisted Take Off – actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra 'push' for taking off from short airfields. He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO!

The facts, as best could be determined, are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles [4.8 kilometers] from the crash site. This was established by the prominent scorched and melted asphalt at that location. The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within five seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 MPH [560 km/h], continuing at full power for an additional 20–25 seconds. The driver, soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, basically causing him to become insignificant for the remainder of the event. However, the automobile remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles [4.0 km] (15–20 seconds) before the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface, then becoming airborne for an additional 1.4 miles [2.3 km] and impacting the cliff face at a height of 125 feet [38 m], leaving a blackened crater 3 feet [0.9 m] deep in the rock.

Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

[Long Wheel Base]

Regarding JATO, this old story that was circulating on emails back in the 90's was a fav of mine. Turned out to be an urban myth in the end, but at the time it made good reading .... 

 

 

The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. the wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. The lab finally figured out what it was and what had happened.

It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet Assisted Take Off – actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra 'push' for taking off from short airfields. He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO!

The facts, as best could be determined, are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles [4.8 kilometers] from the crash site. This was established by the prominent scorched and melted asphalt at that location. The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within five seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 MPH [560 km/h], continuing at full power for an additional 20–25 seconds. The driver, soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, basically causing him to become insignificant for the remainder of the event. However, the automobile remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles [4.0 km] (15–20 seconds) before the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface, then becoming airborne for an additional 1.4 miles [2.3 km] and impacting the cliff face at a height of 125 feet [38 m], leaving a blackened crater 3 feet [0.9 m] deep in the rock.

Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

HAHA that is actually believable for some of those petrol head moonshine Americans.

[Kranswurm]

Prob posted already,but saw a comment on FB..The Gods Must be Crazy

 

 

[Kranswurm]

Regarding JATO, this old story that was circulating on emails back in the 90's was a fav of mine. Turned out to be an urban myth in the end, but at the time it made good reading .... 

 

 

The Arizona Highway Patrol came upon a pile of smoldering metal embedded into the side of a cliff rising above the road at the apex of a curve. the wreckage resembled the site of an airplane crash, but it was a car. The type of car was unidentifiable at the scene. The lab finally figured out what it was and what had happened.

It seems that a guy had somehow gotten hold of a JATO unit (Jet Assisted Take Off – actually a solid fuel rocket) that is used to give heavy military transport planes an extra 'push' for taking off from short airfields. He had driven his Chevy Impala out into the desert and found a long, straight stretch of road. Then he attached the JATO unit to his car, jumped in, got up some speed and fired off the JATO!

The facts, as best could be determined, are that the operator of the 1967 Impala hit JATO ignition at a distance of approximately 3.0 miles [4.8 kilometers] from the crash site. This was established by the prominent scorched and melted asphalt at that location. The JATO, if operating properly, would have reached maximum thrust within five seconds, causing the Chevy to reach speeds well in excess of 350 MPH [560 km/h], continuing at full power for an additional 20–25 seconds. The driver, soon to be pilot, most likely would have experienced G-forces usually reserved for dog-fighting F-14 jocks under full afterburners, basically causing him to become insignificant for the remainder of the event. However, the automobile remained on the straight highway for about 2.5 miles [4.0 km] (15–20 seconds) before the driver applied and completely melted the brakes, blowing the tires and leaving thick rubber marks on the road surface, then becoming airborne for an additional 1.4 miles [2.3 km] and impacting the cliff face at a height of 125 feet [38 m], leaving a blackened crater 3 feet [0.9 m] deep in the rock.

Most of the driver's remains were not recoverable; however, small fragments of bone, teeth and hair were extracted from the crater, and fingernail and bone shards were removed from a piece of debris believed to be a portion of the steering wheel.

Thats flippen hilarious...still laughing

 

Many years ago a mate and myself were driving back from Hout bay to Claremont and not long after Constantia Nek there is a particularly sharp bend to the right with a vertical embankment on the left.A Glory Boy on his 500 thumper decided just before the bend to overtake us at high speedand then try the imposible to make the bend.The last we saw of him was climbing the Wall of Death at speed...we never saw him again..

[The Ouzo]

Don't see anything obvious. Does not look like speed and height was a big factor althoug there is about 500ft diff in height between the two appoaches. My guess would be that maybe a large flock of birds might have moved over the runway or some other obstacle that needed to clear quickly.

 

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I initially thought it was the a380, but it was a bit early in the morning for it, it usually lands pretty much bang on 7am, so that’s why I decided it wasn’t it.

 

I actually saw it come back in at around 7:15 as I passed the runway.

 

@LWB, don’t know the runway numbers, but the A380 landed on the right hand runway but pretty soon after another airline landed on the left hand runway.

[SwissVan]

As LWB said. But I am a paid member (the entry level membership) so I have the historical data to my availability

 

 

Aircraft owners / operators have the option to not allow their flights to be tracked, so when you try follow a certain tail # it comes up as "No Flights found"

Does this also happen when you have the paid membership? 

 

For example tail # HBVSA or HBHTC can you see their last flights

 

On the free version its "No Flights found"

[Lotus]

Who has seen the latest Scrappy build video?

It's great. His rate of build progress is awesome.

[Bateleur1]

Aircraft owners / operators have the option to not allow their flights to be tracked, so when you try follow a certain tail # it comes up as "No Flights found"

Does this also happen when you have the paid membership? 

 

For example tail # HBVSA or HBHTC can you see their last flights

 

On the free version its "No Flights found"

 

This one for example?  Seems like it. Flew right over my head by the looks of it.

 

[DJR]

I stumbled upon a little aviation related gem I never knew about, in my own backyard. From what I gather, the aeronautical research unit of the University of Cape Town has made quite a name for itself internationally, working with several aircraft manufacturers. Cool.

 

https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2018-11-28-impacting-airbus-aircraft-design

[Long Wheel Base]

Prob posted already,but saw a comment on FB..The Gods Must be Crazy

I am not sure what the comments there are saying but that is not the person that handed it in. A mango pilot saw the above person(or someone else) walking with the panel. They were driving at the time, knew about the incident so knew straight away what that panel was. They stopped, turned around and went to approach the person. Apparently the panel was not handed over easily. I am not sure of those details but you can just imagine the scenario playing out when the pilot was trying to negotiate with the person to get it back(maybe money changed hands there to make the situation easier but officially mango wasn't asked to pay for the panel in order to get it back).

[Long Wheel Base]

I initially thought it was the a380, but it was a bit early in the morning for it, it usually lands pretty much bang on 7am, so that’s why I decided it wasn’t it.

 

I actually saw it come back in at around 7:15 as I passed the runway.

 

@LWB, don’t know the runway numbers, but the A380 landed on the right hand runway but pretty soon after another airline landed on the left hand runway.

BA have 2 flights arriving here. The first one is scheduled to land at 07H15 and the second one 10H15.

 

So the runways coming in over Boksburg and taking off over Kempton are 03L and 03R. If they do the opposite, the runways are 21L and 21R. 

They are numbered according to the degrees, So 03 is 30deg(so pretty much facing North) and 21 is obviously 180deg as it is the same runway so 210deg(pretty much facing South). You just drop the zero at the end.

03L/21R is the runway closest to the terminal and is longer so the preferred runway for takeoff and 03R/21L is the shorter runway on the denel side and the preferred landing runway.

Many years ago when the terminal was a lot smaller and the airport was not as busy there was the cross runway 09 but it is no longer in use and gets used for parking aircraft.