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Turbine Legend home built aircraft in an RCAF livery photographed over Lake Pleasant, Arizona
#Turbine Legend#Kit plane#Home built aircraft#sport plane#general aviation#airplane#plane#flying#RCAF livery
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Its all worth it to hear your callsign followed by “cleared for takeoff.”
#takeoff is magic#aviation student#flight school#coffee and planes#plane#flying#takeoff#general aviation#airport#travel#private pilot#ppl#cpl#dark aesthetic#dark academia#study blog#studyinspo#studyspo#study motivation#studyblr#student life#ifr#fall vibes#fall#fall weather
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It was a little too hot today to work on the actual N3 Pup so the little plen gets arted instead. This was super fun to do! :3
#planeposting#plane furry#planes#aeromorph#aviation#avgeek#airplanes#general aviation#aviation art#mix media art#experimental aircraft#piper cub#< technically its a mini replica of a piper cub :3#my doodles
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Trent Palmer is a backcountry pilot from northern Nevada. While making an inspection pass he was reported for reckless behavior to the FAA by an unpleasant neighbor. The FAA found him in violation of FAR's and has threatened to pull his ticket. His original video on the incident can be found here along with a follow up here.
Inspection passes like the one Palmer was reported for are critical to allowing the pilot in command a clear understanding of the ground conditions and whether it's safe to land. Not being able to perform an inspection below 500' would require a pilot to land blind and risk destroying the airplane and putting the safety of everyone on board at risk. That's unacceptable.
Senator Ted Budd of NC has taken up the fight to require the FAA to add exceptions for inspection passes, as well as common training maneuvers including go arounds, practice approaches, and instrument approaches, to the list of maneuvers exempted from the minimum altitude regulation (14 C.F.R. § 91.119).
You can help by contacting your Senator and sharing this. Go to Senate.gov or call the main switchboard at (202)-224-3121. Ask your Senator to support the Backcountry Aviation Protection Act.
#trent palmer#general aviation#backcountry aviation#bush flying#backcountry aviation protection act#senator ted budd#Youtube
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Beautiful early morning at the airport
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A pretty Cessna 152 named BNKI
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Do you have any nonfiction that you would recommend if someone was interested in the US Navy/military?
im probably not the right person to ask this bc most of my military knowledge hyperfixation is centered on the ARMY in the American Revolutionary War & World War II. It’s only pretty recently that i got into modern warfare as a topic, so let me just give some indiscriminate recs
Can’t go wrong with David McCullough‘s 1776, which is a great overview of the first year of the revolutionary war + the extremely fraught politics of trying to start a new nation’s military—really illustrates where a bunch of lingering schools of thought in our military originated from.
Another David McCullough shout-out: his The Wright Brothers is an excellent book about the origins of flight, AND it was the book right next to the picture of Ice and Maverick shaking hands on Ice’s bookshelf in TGM. So we know ice has read that one. I think you can’t go wrong at all with any David McCullough. I own like 5-6 of his books and he hasn’t missed once. (His best is John Adams but that’s not mil related)
Ron chernows biography of Washington goes into his military background (7 years' war) a whole bunch, and kind of elucidates how truly fortunate we were to have our nation’s first leader be a military man who really kinda didn’t want to be there. Some really good takes on leadership. Just beware that chernow does have a reputation in the history community for just makin shit up sometimes. If it sounds too cute/quaint to be true, it really might be.
u may be tempted: DO NOT read Brian kilmeade's Thomas Jefferson & the Tripoli Pirates, one of the few navy NF books I've read. I read it b4 I even knew who kilmeade was--didn't matter. it fucking sucks. he uses like 7 sources in the whole book.
Stephen E. Ambrose's Citizen Soldiers is a great WWII NF book about that generation of infantrymen.
The one big Navy NF book I've read recently is (not to brag but my personally signed copy of) Craig symonds' new biography of admiral Chester Nimitz, who was COMPACFLT during WWII's war in the pacific. I got a SHIT ton of professional characterization for Ice from Nimitz' life and this book--Nimitz also worked 18 hour days, was also separated from the love of his life for long periods of time in Hawaii, was also probably acutely depressed, etc.
okay: THOMAS E. RICKS. The Generals is SUCH a good book. Army leadership from WWII up through Iraq and Afghanistan. Focusing on how the Army used to relieve (fire) commissioned officers who couldn't hack it, and that's a huge part of why we won WWII, but somewhere between WWII and Korea, being fired started being super shameful (macarthur's fault if I'm reading it correctly) so mediocre officers didn't get fired and that's why the army has suffered shit leadership in every war since WWII. It's a HUGE thesis that he backs up so well. Would so recommend. I'm also currently reading his FIASCO about the fuck-up of Iraq. Also incredible so far.
Michael O'Hanlon's Military History for the Modern Strategist-- a post Civil War survey of military strategy on the campaign/operational level. Might be a good introduction to US military history, just giving a pretty broad overview of post-CW warfare, so that way you don't pick up a random book about the Korean War and go "wait what was the Chosin campaign again?" Interestingly written and I got to meet him and he wrote "wishing you the best" in my book after I told him I wanted to steal his job at Brookings someday, so admittedly I'm biased.
Lawrence Wright's The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda to the Islamic State is not strictly military related, but it is one of the best-written and most illuminating nonfiction books I've ever read and I cannot recommend it enough.
For war fiction, my taste is v mainstream: Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato (imo better than the things they carried), Ahmed Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad, Kevin Powers' The Yellow Birds, Cannot Miss Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front if you haven't read it, Hassan Blasim's The Corpse Exhibition: And Other Stories of Iraq... For specifically Naval lit: Run Silent, Run Deep is a pretty good classic, and this summer I read the 600-page behemoth The Caine Mutiny, which is about specifically WWII-era naval law... it's a brick. But it won a pulitzer and it's...passable. Kind of interesting at least.
#really can't recommend Lawrence wright Thomas ricks or David McCullough enough. just really well written stuff#otherwise I just read mil/defense news and google everything I don't know#pat barker >>>> regeneration isn't like... gay... but it is definitely gay. I think 2/3 books of the trilogy start out with soldiers fuckin#not top gun#military history#general aviation#book rec#i have no real life marketable skills but i do read a lot 👍
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“The most beautiful dream that has haunted the heart of man since Icarus is today reality.“ — Louis Bleriot. Quoted by Louise Faure-Favrier in Les chevaliers de l’air, 1923.
Cessna Citation Longitude at John Glenn International Airport (KCMH), Columbus, Ohio. August 15, 2019.
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#Cessna#Cessna 182#Cessna 182 Skylane II#General aviation#Aircraft#Fujifilm#fujifilm xt30ii#classic chrome film simulation
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Old and busted: coffee shop AUs
The new hotness: General Aviation AUs 🤣
"General Aviation" is the term for private airplane pilots and flying in the U.S. I dated a pilot years ago, so I got a peek into this world and discovered that I have no desire to be a pilot. Being a passenger and helping with charts and listening to radio chatter is fun, though!
This short fic (on ao3, requires login) imagines 100% human Jack and Elsa in that world. Elsa is a pilot because of course she is, and Jack is a smitten kitten.
#fic rec#werewolf by night#werewolf by night fanfiction#general aviation#i'd totally hang out at Jack's FBO#even if it smelled like burned coffee like most of them did back in the day
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Sikorsky S-42. Pan American Clipper. Captain Edwin Musick getting a lot of assistance as he comes ashore at Pearl Harbor. April 1935.
#Sikorsky#S-42#Clipper#flying boat#passenger aircraft#commercial aircraft#civil aircraft#general aviation#airline#airlines#Pan American#Pearl Harbor
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Cessna 185 floatplane flying over the Alaska Range with Mt. McKinley in the background.
#Cessna#185#Skywagon#Floatplane#pontoon plane#flying#Alaska Range#Mt. McKinley#flightseeing#amphibious aircraft#general aviation#photography#airplane#plane
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Instrument conditions and churros :)
#study hard#aviation student#dark academia#planes#plane#coffee and planes#coffee shop#spanish#chocolate#cocoa#flying#travel#g6#lifestyle#preppy#fall vibes#general aviation#dark aesthetic#coffee#studyspo#goals#career success
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Been wanting to jump on the airplane furry/animal art trend with the lil plane I’m (slowly) restoring. They’re a lil Preceptor N-3 Ultra Pup, or the miniature ultralight Piper Cub from Wish with a little 1960s VW bug engine under the hood. I plan on painting a sorta retro PSA inspired Ace Pride livery on it. :3
This little friend loves nose spinner boops and AvGas treats. Just beware of the propeller when giving pets, their propeller spins when they’re happy, they would be very sad if their prop accidentally nipped a friendly hand ;o;
#planeposting#airplanes#aviation#aeromorph#plane furry#plane animal#plane art#aviation art#general aviation#my doodles
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N4037U 1965 Cessna 150E (c/n 15061437) by RedRipper24
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Potomac Antique Aero Squadron 51st Annual Antique Aircraft Fly-in Massey Aerodrome Massey, MD June 10, 2023
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