Jet On Fire at LAS

Joshwa said:
On the suit, that was clearly the only public pic the media could find. He's pictured with the Rugby World Cup at the club Harlequins, and those are the club's colours he's wearing.

In the UK, traditions of brightly coloured sports club colours are strong. He'd wear that on a Saturday afternoon at the rugby, but no other time.
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Wait. So you're implying that Austin Powers wasn't a documentary?
 
fholbert said:
My guess is if you had a rear view mirror you'd be a little quicker on the throttle. There was a reason ATC was leaning on you.

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Probably.

But having the preceding aircraft abort, thus forcing us to abort, presuming that our accelerate-stop distance is less than the runway remaining between us and the preceding aircraft is volunteering us for risk that I'm not "cool" enough to disregard.

I just woke up. I'm not sure if that made any sense and I'm too lazy to proofread.
 
Derg said:
Probably.

But having the preceding aircraft abort, thus forcing us to abort, presuming that our accelerate-stop distance is less than the runway remaining between us and the preceding aircraft is volunteering us for risk that I'm not "cool" enough to disregard.

I just woke up. I'm not sure if that made any sense and I'm too lazy to proofread.
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Morning bowel movement satisfactory?
 
Cptnchia said:
I was prior service. Never heard that. Must've been some of that Chair Farce games.
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"Knock it off" has been part of the Joint-Service brevity comm at least since 1998. It may have been before that, but that's the first time I became aware of it officially.

Just as an aside, if you look at the original script for Top Gun from the early 1980s, "KIO" is in there, too.

A little snippet of that remains in the actual movie comm, although perverted from its original context, when Viper says something to the effect of, "Knock it off gentlemen....." during the dogfight in which Maverick floor-kills himself.
 
Hacker15e said:
"Knock it off" has been part of the Joint-Service brevity comm at least since 1998. It may have been before that, but that's the first time I became aware of it officially.

Just as an aside, if you look at the original script for Top Gun from the early 1980s, "KIO" is in there, too.

A little snippet of that remains in the actual movie comm, although perverted from its original context, when Viper says something to the effect of, "Knock it off gentlemen....." during the dogfight in which Maverick floor-kills himself.
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I flew an M-16/A-2. I had a real job. 0302
 
MikeD said:
Ironically, there have been accidents on mandatory retirement flights for guys turning age 60. Last flight being an accident flight.
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Out of curiosity, do you know of any off hand? I know I've heard of a few myself but only the Continental DC-10 that caught fire on a nasty LAX abort comes to mind specifically in the airline world. The Fairchild B-52 crash was supposed to be the last flight of the guy acting as F/O. Very sad story on that one with how much the PIC got away with and that the F/O thought the PIC was so dangerous he insisted on flying with him to ensure the safety of the other pilots given the PICs reputation. Interesting story behind all of that, but terrible ending to it.
 
ChasenSFO said:
Out of curiosity, do you know of any off hand? I know I've heard of a few myself but only the Continental DC-10 that caught fire on a nasty LAX abort comes to mind specifically in the airline world. The Fairchild B-52 crash was supposed to be the last flight of the guy acting as F/O. Very sad story on that one with how much the PIC got away with and that the F/O thought the PIC was so dangerous he insisted on flying with him to ensure the safety of the other pilots given the PICs reputation. Interesting story behind all of that, but terrible ending to it.
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Those are the two I know of, plus I believe UAL 811 also.

I had thought with the B-52, that one of the Navigators (O-6 Colonel) was last flight.
 
MikeD said:
Those are the two I know of, plus I believe UAL 811 also.

I had thought with the B-52, that one of the Navigators (O-6 Colonel) was last flight.
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Didn't know about UA 811. Could have been the Navigator, I read an in-depth piece written in the 90s about the incident(I think TIME magazine maybe) years ago which stated the F/O was due to retire and his family was watching the final flight and resulting crash. But you know, Media+Aviation...
 
MikeD said:
Those are the two I know of, plus I believe UAL 811 also.
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POSTED: 12:37 p.m. HST, Oct 6, 2010

David Cronin, the hero pilot who successfully landed a crippled United Airlines Boeing 747 in Honolulu 21 years ago, died Monday at his home in Minden, Nev. He was 81.

Cronin, who joined United Airlines as a pilot in 1954, was 59 and on his second-to-last flight before mandatory retirement when he captained Flight 811.

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“Twenty-five years ago, we were a step below astronauts,” says one veteran pilot. “Now we’re a step above bus drivers. And the bus drivers have a better pension.”
 
ChasenSFO said:
Out of curiosity, do you know of any off hand? I know I've heard of a few myself but only the Continental DC-10 that caught fire on a nasty LAX abort comes to mind specifically in the airline world. The Fairchild B-52 crash was supposed to be the last flight of the guy acting as F/O. Very sad story on that one with how much the PIC got away with and that the F/O thought the PIC was so dangerous he insisted on flying with him to ensure the safety of the other pilots given the PICs reputation. Interesting story behind all of that, but terrible ending to it.
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It wasn't last flight before retirement, but last flight at the job before moving on:

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20070110-0
 
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