Virgin Galactic joined a commercial airliner over SF for some formation flying
Sep 28, 2014 11:05:11 #
Sep 29, 2014 13:19:12 #
346pak wrote:
Beautiful. :thumbup: :thumbup: I can see some FAA paper pusher having a heart attack though. :lol:
Sep 29, 2014 18:36:12 #
pounder35 wrote:
Beautiful. :thumbup: :thumbup: I can see some FAA paper pusher having a heart attack though. :lol:
Yes, the Feds typically have no sense of humor....
Sep 29, 2014 18:39:48 #
346pak wrote:
Yes, the Feds typically have no sense of humor....
The damn IRS certainly doesn't. I can vouch for that. :shock: :lol: :thumbup:
Sep 29, 2014 18:58:18 #
346pak wrote:
I was in Oshkosh for the Annual Event the year that the aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to fly around the world without refueling, landed there. The PA Announcer came on and told the crowd to look upward, and you could just make out a speck at about 20+ Thousand feet. They meandered around, slow flying, until they came in to land. The massive wing span was really some thing to see. I believe it was called the Voyager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
Sep 29, 2014 19:10:22 #
imntrt1 wrote:
I was in Oshkosh for the Annual Event the year that the aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to fly around the world without refueling, landed there. The PA Announcer came on and told the crowd to look upward, and you could just make out a speck at about 20+ Thousand feet. They meandered around, slow flying, until they came in to land. The massive wing span was really some thing to see. I believe it was called the Voyager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager
Didn't they come out with a similar aircraft that incorporated solar panels into the wings for a type of hybrid? Maybe I saw that in Popular Science as a theoretical design.
Sep 29, 2014 19:17:43 #
346pak wrote:
The FAA has volumes of regs that were broken here. I wonder what, if any, sanctions have beeen taken on the pilot of the commercial bird
Sep 29, 2014 19:52:27 #
boberic wrote:
The FAA has volumes of regs that were broken here. I wonder what, if any, sanctions have beeen taken on the pilot of the commercial bird
Scroll back to my earlier post on that topic. Definitely might be a problem there as far as the FAA. :roll:
Sep 29, 2014 22:32:05 #
pounder35 wrote:
Didn't they come out with a similar aircraft that incorporated solar panels into the wings for a type of hybrid? Maybe I saw that in Popular Science as a theoretical design.
You are correct...I believe it made its way across the US last year. It had an overnight stay at Lambert St. Louis International.
Sep 29, 2014 22:33:10 #
boberic wrote:
The FAA has volumes of regs that were broken here. I wonder what, if any, sanctions have beeen taken on the pilot of the commercial bird
But....they can apply for waivers for formation flying.
Sep 30, 2014 08:44:27 #
346pak wrote:
You are right! That is not something one sees everyday, but it certainly is cool. Thanks for sharing. Would have liked to seen that personally.
Sep 30, 2014 09:09:24 #
imntrt1 wrote:
But....they can apply for waivers for formation flying.
Just curious but with terrorist worries would the FAA even grant permission to fly that close to any commercial carrier?
Sep 30, 2014 12:42:44 #
boberic wrote:
Just curious but with terrorist worries would the FAA even grant permission to fly that close to any commercial carrier?
I am sure Sir Richard Branson can get away with almost anything....
Sep 30, 2014 13:05:40 #
346pak wrote:
I am sure Sir Richard Branson can get away with almost anything....
I had the same thought. :thumbup:
Sep 30, 2014 13:56:11 #
346pak wrote:
Wonder if they had a welcoming committee when they landed.
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