NOTE: Although I am a government-certified flight instructor, nothing I say on this blog constitutes flight instruction.
THIS BLOG IS FOR WRITING ADVICE AND BASIC EXPLANATIONS ONLY - I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOU DO WITH THE INFORMATION I GIVE YOU!
YOU WILL DIE IF YOU TRY TO FLY A PLANE WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING
Hello!
My name is Azuko, and outside of tumblr, I'm a flight instructor!
What motivated me to create this blog was seeing rampant misconceptions and inaccuracies about aviation and air travel in various fics and pieces of media.
So, given that I get paid to teach people to fly, I figured it could be fun to make a tumblr blog where I ramble about flying and provide advice for writing accurate situations involving airplanes.
My area of expertise is fixed-wing light aircraft, but being a flight instructor, it is my job to know how to find appropriate sources for information about any aircraft or topic related to flight safety.
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North American F-82Es Twin Mustang With External Tanks, 1948. ➤➤ LEARN MORE: https://youtu.be/8Qzp65KF7Fs
➤➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/F82
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Elsie Mackay, British actress, jockey, interior decorator, and pioneering aviator who died attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean with Walter G. R. Hinchliffe in a single engined Stinson Detroiter.
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Russo-Ukrainian War, March 28, Russian Su-35 fighter jet gets accidentally shot down by Crimean Air Defenses.
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The first guy to entrust his life to a parachute was Louis-Sébastien Lenormand, who was interested in parachutes as a way to escape from buildings that had caught fire. He first leapt out of a tree with a couple of umbrellas to see if that would work. It worked well enough, I guess, because then he tried jumping from the Montpellier Observatory. A nineteenth-century postcard artist envisioned it looking very Mary Poppinsy:
{Buy me a coffee} {WHF} {Medium} {Looking Through the Past}
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so apparently they put a lot of thought into putting together the members of a bomber crew and actually had a couple quirks like:
personalities must match or compliment well, specifically seeking to avoid personality clashes
one member of the crew must have type-O blood, the universal blood donor
no more than two people from the same state on one crew
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A formation of U.S. Marine Corps Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless dive bombers from Marine Scouting Squadron 3 (VMS-3) "Devilbirds" in flight near the Virgin Islands. 1943.
➤➤HD IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/SBD5
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