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aviatrix-ash · 1 year
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Paul the 727 have a lovely set of vintage Pratt and Whitney JT8D-15A's. They do have the silencer kit installed, but it's still no match for these actual rockets.
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Closer look at engine #1. You can tell it's engine 1 because it is on the same side as where the captain would sit. (Also the manual told me) Engine number 2 would be the one in the middle. It uses an S shaped duct from the top of the fuselage there to guide intake air into the engine below. You can see the exhaust for it on the plane's booty. 😆 Engine 3 of course is on the right or co-pilot/Flight Engineer's side.
Gotta love the FedEx purple overspray that made it's way in here tho. It adds a hint of flare.
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I could have gotten an even closer peek tho as I was just on a lift basket poking around in this nacelle.. but I was having fun and forgot :'3
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runwayrunway · 9 months
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star of the whatsit???
Way back when aviation was still young and glamorous and basically just treated like a new type of luxury ocean liner airlines would all name their airplanes and they generally had themes. TWA would name their planes "Star of [Place]". I can't find any mention of when exactly this practice died out but the last explicit confirmation of them doing it that I could find was in 1983 with N610TW "Star of Geneva".
This wasn't uncommon. American Airlines had Flagships and United had Mainliners and these both died out too. Sure, they both have incomprehensibly huge fleets now, but that's no excuse in my opinion. Name your thousand large flying daughters. Name them. There were the Canadian Pacific Empresses and the Piedmont Pacemakers and of course there were the Pan Am Clippers.
There's still a few really great naming traditions out there, though. Like I mentioned before a lot of flag carriers do cities but I think the most stately is Air India's habit of naming theirs after emperors. I believe EgyptAir at least sometimes do pharaohs as well. A lot of airlines do influential philosophers and poets and such. And jetBlue of course does silly funny jokes. National and FedEx do regular human names (you know, if I were the owner of National I think if the plane I named after my wife were to crash in a horrible accident I would not rename another plane after her because it would be tempting fate, but that's just me). I find it inexplicably hilarious that the plane involved in FedEx flight 705 was named John Peter Jr.. What a hilarious name for a DC-10 that got barrel rolled and went back to service for another twenty years like nothing happened.
If any airlines are reading this, though, please come up with a cool standard prefix for your fleet. We need a Clipper equivalent for the modern day.
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"Jim Patterson was the most versatile performer on the air we ever had. He could do almost anything," said Charles Crutchfield, former president of WBTV's parent company. (Charlotte Observer, 7/30/1986)
Jim Patterson worked at three other radio stations before joining WBT in Charlotte, NC, as a staff announcer in 1949. He began hosting his own afternoon show, "By Jiminy," in 1950. From popular radio host and news announcer, Patterson went on to fill many roles on WBT television – as "Uncle Jim" on "Cartoon Carnival," as Bozo the Clown, as "Captain Jim," commercial spokesman for Piedmont Airlines, to host of "The Morning Report," an early-morning news and variety show, and weatherman on "Top O' the Day," broadcast at 11:30 a.m.
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racecargraveyard · 1 year
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1984 Terry Labonte #44 Piedmont Airlines Monte Carlo. Won 2 races (Riverside I & Bristol II), and the 1984 Winston Cup championship.
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itchytesticals · 10 months
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Atlanta, Georgia was where this Piedmont Airlines Boeing 727-95 was being readied for its next flight.
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beardedmrbean · 1 year
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An airline worker killed in a Dec. 31 incident at an Alabama airport was exposed to multiple warnings about the dangers of being near running jet engines, the National Transportation Safety Board said.
A preliminary report shared by the agency Monday did not explicitly assign fault in the incident at Montgomery Regional Airport. It noted examples of when workers were warned to stay clear of running jet engines when planes are stopped on the ground.
The employee, identified by the NTSB as a ramp agent for American Airlines commuter carrier American Eagle, was on the tarmac and had apparently set up a safety cone at the rear of the parked aircraft right before she was pulled into an engine and killed, the agency said. The worker was not named in the NTSB report.
The Communications Workers of America identified the employee as Courtney Edwards, 34, a mother of three from the area. The union and American Airlines said she worked for regional subsidiary Piedmont Airlines.
The report describes multiple points when the worker was directly warned or exposed to information about the dangers of being too close to the engines.
The report also noted instances when two ramp agents saw workers get too close to the plane and an engine, and tried to waive them off. In one, an agent saw a worker almost fall over from an engine’s exhaust, and tried to warn her to stay back, according to the NTSB report.
Before the plane arrived at its gate from Dallas-Fort Worth, there were two safety briefings for crew members, during which they were warned the engines would stay on until electricity from the ground could be connected, the NTSB said.
The crew members were told safety cones should not be set, and crew on the ground should not be near the aircraft, until the engines were turned off, turbines stopped spinning and a rotating beacon light was extinguished, the report states.
An excerpt from American Eagle’s ground operations manual that was included in the NTSB report echoed those points.
After placing the cone, which signifies the plane’s stationary status, the worker walked along the leading edge of its left wing, which put her directly in front one of the Embraer 170’s two engines, according to the NTSB report.
During that walk along the wing, the employee got too close to the running engine and was killed, the NTSB said.
The rotating beacon light appeared to be on during the whole the incident, according to the report.
American Airlines and Edwards' mother did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Richard Honeycutt, regional vice president of Communications Workers of America, said in a statement earlier this month, "She was away from her family working on New Year's Eve making sure passengers got to where they needed to be for the holidays. She represents the very best of our CWA airport members, who constantly make sacrifices to serve the flying public."
The union spearheaded a crowd-funding page has raised nearly $100,000 to support Edwards' children.
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I would like to be the person...
that writes the thoughtful, incisive piece about women's rights and legal precedent today but I am not that person. Or, at least, that is not the sort of thing I do now (which is, I guess, one of life's ironies since it is where I started out decades ago).
No, I am the person who might be able to offer up another thought on a development like this:
Although, tbh, I am not sure that what I will have to say today will have any value and I am certain it will (once again) end badly, no matter what.
Things go viral or become memes by means of an "invisible hand" operation (cf Otto Neurath) in which several disparate actors recognise a strong cultural message reduced to an easily accessible and communicable phrase or representation. These actors find the message engaging and compelling and they believe others will too. Often, they believe this because the message "speaks" to identity but in some cases it is because it speaks to the satisfaction of their immediate needs and desires. Among the actors who are likely to spread viral media are those who think that it will allow them to participate commercially in a community defined by illegal activity while remaining "off the record". That is to say, messages which contain a coded dogwhistle about drugs or weapons, say, will get a helping hand in the race to go viral. The 1992 song "Ebeneezer Goode" by The Shamen, is an example. It was known in the British club scene to be a song about using the party drug, Ecstasy, and that fact—plus the drug's own ability to increase tolerance to repetitive music—helped pave the way for an otherwise very unremarkable song to become a big hit in the UK. Today, it may well be that many viral memes which carry a subtextual message about drugs become popular in a way that is not wholly organic. That is to say it is perfectly possible to imagine that major players in the wholesale drugs industry use bots to spread whatever message they think will best serve their commercial purposes.
Returning to Roe v Wade, I don't know if this kind of subtextual "pump" is happening with the SC decision in a corner of the web somewhere but I have been prompted to consider whether it is.* In this regard, the only reliable observation I have is that "Roe" is, in another context, a word for fish eggs and Fish and Egg are both common slang words for Class-A drugs. That could make the case name attractive for the purposes of conveying messages about, well, Yoda and Yahoo. Case is slang for broadly the same thing.
What I can add to that is that "Samuel Alito" is an anagram of "Tile—Alamo, US",** where "tile" may mean "stone square" or "brick", ie a kilo of Fish or Egg. In addition or alternatively, "Opinion[s]" is an anagram of "Onion—IP/PI/is P" where Onion is slang for 1oz and the residual letters represent a variety of options, including Pacific International and Piedmont (formerly Henson) Airlines. Alternatively, "Wade" is an international airport in Bermuda (LF Wade Airport near Hamilton) and a small private airfield in Illinois. Finally, "Court" is a non-determinate anagram of "Our C: T" or "Our T: C" and/or S.C. is a US state.
That is all I have and I should add that, today, I do not find it particularly compelling.
*TBC, the decision relates to a question which is culturally and politically fundamental and that evidently means that most online comment will be genuine in the sense that it will be motivated by the fundamental issues transparently at stake.
** Or, more luridly, SA Mule to ALI (Single Adult; eg, Alice Airport, TX)
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brookstonalmanac · 5 months
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Events 10.30 (after 1950)
1953 – President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union. 1956 – Hungarian Revolution: The government of Imre Nagy recognizes newly established revolutionary workers' councils. Army officer Béla Király leads anti-Soviet militias in an attack on the headquarters of the Hungarian Working People's Party. 1959 – Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board. 1961 – The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. 1961 – Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker. 1968 – A squad of 120 North Korean Army commandos land in boats along a 25-mile long section of the eastern coast of South Korea in a failed attempt to overthrow the dictatorship of Park Chung Hee and bring about the reunification of Korea. 1973 – The Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time. 1975 – Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Gen. Francisco Franco. 1975 – Forty-five people are killed when Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 450 crashes into Suchdol, Prague, while on approach to Prague Ruzyně Airport (now Václav Havel Airport Prague) in Czechoslovakia (present-day Czech Republic). 1980 – El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice. 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina, after seven years of military rule, are held. 1983 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake in the Turkish provinces of Erzurum and Kars leaves approximately 1,340 people dead. 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission. 1991 – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The Madrid Conference commences in an effort to revive peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine. 1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty. 2005 – The rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche (destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II) is reconsecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding project. 2013 – Forty-five people are killed and seven injured after a bus catches fire in Mahabubnagar district, Andhra Pradesh (present-day Telangana), India. 2014 – Sweden becomes the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine. 2014 – Four people are killed when a Beechcraft Super King Air crashes at Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport in Wichita, Kansas. 2015 – A fire in a nightclub in the Romanian capital of Bucharest kills sixty-four people and leaves more than 147 injured. 2020 – A magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, triggering a tsunami. At least 119 people die mainly due to collapsed buildings. 2022 – A pedestrian suspension bridge collapses in the city of Morbi, Gujarat, leading to the deaths of at least 135 people.
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minipjs3 · 9 months
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dertaglichedan · 9 months
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The victim was 34-year-old Piedmont Airlines worker Courtney Edwards
Piedmont, a subsidiary of American Airlines, was fined a maximum $15,625
The OSHA fine is in conflict with an NTSB report that largely blamed Edwards
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dillie60 · 10 months
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American Airlines fined $15K after worker 'ingested' into engine
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aviatrix-ash · 1 year
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Today Paul the 727 is getting some much needed paint touchups c:
He wants to look nice for the airshow coming up, especially if that pretty old C-54 shows up again.
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kingjain · 1 year
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gazettereview · 1 year
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Alabama Airport Worker Sucked Into Plane Engine and Killed -Read more at https://gazettereview.com/alabama-airport-worker-sucked-into-plane-engine-and-killed/ - https://gazettereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/woman-sucked-into-jet-engine.jpg #US
Alabama Airport Worker Sucked Into Plane Engine and Killed
An Alabama woman, later identified as Courtney Edwards, was sucked into a jet engine and killed at Montgomery Regional Airport on New Year’s Eve. The mom of three, who worked as a ground handling agent for Piedmont Airlines, was pulled in so violently that the entire aircraft shook, according to federal investigators. A report from […]
https://gazettereview.com/alabama-airport-worker-sucked-into-plane-engine-and-killed/
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Courtney Edwards, 34, has been identified as the ground handling agent who was killed in the accident. The airline worker who was killed in an accident on New Year’s Eve after being sucked into an airplane engine at Alabama's Montgomery Regional Airport has been identified as a mother of three, according to reports. Courtney Edwards, 34, has been identified as the ground handling agent who was killed in the accident. She had been working for Piedmont Airlines, a subsidiary of American Airlines, according to a preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board released Monday, 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 #pluggednnye🔌 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn3aiY_Ow_e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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leontiucmarius · 1 year
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Accident teribil! Un muncitor de la aeroport moare „după ce a fost aspirat de motorul avionului”
Accident teribil! Un muncitor de la aeroport moare „după ce a fost aspirat de motorul avionului”
Un operator de bagaje a fost aspirat în motorul avionului în timp ce lucra la Aeroportul Regional Montgomery din Alabama, unde zborul a fost parcat înainte de program. Incidentul este investigat de Administrația Federală a Aviației și de Consiliul Național pentru Siguranța Transporturilor. O echipă de îngrijire a companiei Piedmont Airlines va oferi sprijin familiei, prietenilor și colegilor…
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