Put mine on CL and eBay this morning! eBay sucks though, as between PayPal and eBay you'll lose 7-10%. On a $600 or so iPad, that makes a difference. I'm hoping to get more nibbles on CL.
Put mine on CL and eBay this morning! eBay sucks though, as between PayPal and eBay you'll lose 7-10%. On a $600 or so iPad, that makes a difference. I'm hoping to get more nibbles on CL.
Where's the "Perfect to traveling!" bullet point?
Better than how Pakistan moves them around:
It's called a Tsonga, also known as Zulu "umqangala". Found searching with "tribal wood string bow instrument mouth".
Fly-by-wire means there's no physical linkage between the pilot's controls and the helicopter's aerodynamic control surfaces. It basically means the pilot makes inputs (via joystick/collective/pedals) into a computer, which figures out what the pilot wants, then commands the aircraft to do that. This is a huge step…
"A few more seats than usual" isn't the point... it seems a major advance in this helicopter is total fly-by-wire, a first in civilan production helicopters.
WTF site eating my image links.
Looks civilian to me:
Almost all current helicopters are adapted to military and civilian roles:
True, I remember they at one point were offering specials of $99 each way during the summertime. There are many other operators still such as Liberty Helicopters, but no current operators can clear you past security as they don't have a TSA Approved checkpoint at the helicopter facility.
Bigger civilian helicopters:
The Mi-26 is nuts, and it's also being updated for operation with a 2 person crew (most current Mi-26s need five). Also crazy is that in 2002, ONE Mi-26 was brought down with a surface-to-air missile, killing 127 troops and crew in the helicopter. The Chinook can hold at max 55, and the CH-53E a similar number.
Bigger still, carrying the puny Chinook:
It's more of a descendant from the Bell 214ST, Bell's previous largest helicopter at 17 person capacity.
"Chinook" commonly refers to the military aircraft, but BV-234 (Boeing Vertol) has been used for civilian purposes many times in history, including flying a helicopter owned by Donald Trump's air shuttle service, Trump Air.
That service went out of business a few years ago...it was called US Helicopter. On occasion there are Sikorsky S-92s that show up to the West 30th Heliport. This one regularly shows up, where it goes between Morristown NJ-NYC-The Hamptons and elsewhere.
With a fuel cost of just over $10k/hr (at $6/gal for Jet-A), their flight was about $200k in fuel alone. An expensive troll face!
Sorry for replying to my own comment, but forgot a cool one:
This is not the first time images have been drawn with flight tracks. Here's just a few examples from FlightAware:
They did indeed complete the dashed line. Here's a link to the actual (completed) track: