I mean, I would like to see Mentor Pilot and 74Gear chat about aviation stuff, so maybe one day

@@TheExileFox They did some of that, discussing passenger vs cargo flights.

Have no fear I heard it that way at first 😂

😂

I’m sure he’d love to talk with KZfaq pilots like Petter Hornfeldt from Mentour Pilot or a guy like Ward Carroll. Maybe even a Denys Davidov🤷🏻

Glad I searched for this reply, in the video you can see that strips of sod flying in the air. I was thinking to myself I can understand wanting to lay fresh sod so it looks nice but you could run into FOD issues with that over seeding the area and letting it grow in. The other alternative would be to stake them down with long perhaps U shaped staples but that could pose a FOD issue as well. I lay the blame on this for the airport not taking into consideration the location of loose sod laying next to a runway.

@@buzzaard7036 You nailed this reply! That’s what we were all saying after we saw the sod rip itself out of the ground, “why would they put down that sod down THEN re-open the runway so soon??” It was just something we all laughed about 🙃

@@mx4menot4u How long have you worked at Sun Country? I used to live in Minnesota and was at MSP a lot, so I flew SunCountry a few times.

@@NortheasternP.T.S. I started in June so coming up to 7 months on the 20th, it’s been a great experience for someone who just got started in aviation. They are constantly looking for new AP’s as well.

@@mx4menot4u Oh that’s awesome. Hope you have a good time with them.

It was an honor to work at Area51 with the F-117A Stealth (85-89) and flying to work on the Janet birds. In 29yrs, I witnessed some exciting situations.

Bethany, my dad was a fighter pilot and that's why it definitely didn't surprise me that they have a wall of code brown shame😂 that sounds so typical of their pilot humour. And the stories are great I agree!

@@suegardner They have great stories! Some of them are even true! Lol. What did your dad fly?

A U2 pilot and a KZfaq pilot walked into a bar.

@@BethanyAitch mine was too. Flew 1948-1986. The first 20yrs were spitfire harvard helldiver acrobatics demo shows with the f84g, then commercial boeing airbus and the 747. Favourite airliner was 727. . Greek airforce europe.

There's a second one that was partly finished before going into storage. It's entirely possible there's enough spare parts around for a refit to make it airworthy. Or if things settle down, Antonov may be able to secure investment and partners to make a new super heavy. Can you imagine a plane the size of the An-225 with French-made fanprops?

That plane has been in Raleigh? That's pretty cool

That's really cool, she used to fly overhead my house when coming here to EMA and she was an unearthly sight, gave me the goosebumps. Terrible what happened to her. I know she was only a plane but still.

@@PhycoKrusk It was blown up, too. (The hanger where it was stored was bombed.)

It was standard practice to sweep the runway after every AN-225 departure. The outboard engines were often outside of the runway and likely to blow debris back onto the runway.

But that smile also seems as Kelsey was actually flying this! 😂

The scary part is that there are new twin engine models with the SAME thrust level - out of 2 engines. Give or take 5% AT MOST in some cases. Keep in mine that the 747 generally used CFM56 engines, that maxed out at MAYBE 60,000 pounds of thrust in ANY model, many of the models used on the 747 were more like 55,0000. Some twins using GE90 or GE9x engines have EACH ENGINE putting out around 100-115,000 pounds of thrust or so.

I was thinking the same thing. As Kelsey flys for atlas. But as atlas air employs over 2000 pilots and has 53 747s its unlikely he was flying that plane. But its possible.

We seem to get a C5 in and out of Grant Country International (near Moses Lake, Washington) about once a month. Mostly C17 and C130 traffic though, and some light stuff.

Aye, agreed.

Agreed

@@CalebBerman Whatever helps you sleep at night.

Same!

Agree!

Pilots are heroes.

How? Nowadays the cockpit door is locked before pax board.

I like to think of it similar to what a bomb technician says. Something along the lines of "I'll do it sure, the money is nice, and if somethings goes wrong, it's not my problem anymore".

@@johnnunn8688 greg wrote "when I de board..."

I think the fact that the pilot is also on board the same plane as you are influences his decision on whether to crash or not too.

@TheBushka58 Now you do a go-around and land that plane. Apologise to the gardener who planted that grass, then you copy a number and file a report. The FAA will contact you. 😂

@@CalebBerman Well 'God's' plan for me is sucking pretty badly...if 'God' truly loved me he would have spared me the misery. I don't want to go to heaven, I just want to die in peace and that is that. Decades on this planet are enough, I don't need eternity, that would truly be hell....

The last 74 delivery was the end of an era

You’ll still see them flying well into the future, their ability as a cargo aircraft is incomparable.

@@simpilotadamt1012 Hasn’t been delivered yet! We should be getting the last delivery in the upcoming months. Plus, AF1 has 2 upcoming deliveries, although they’ve been built for years…just not delivered.

Most beautiful aircraft ever IMHO.

Agreed.

@@CalebBerman Heaven is right in front of you, just look harder 🙂

Every cloud has a silver lining, this means fewer emissions heavy aircraft in the sky.

@@bigballz4usod off Greta

They may stop building them, but I imagine a lot of them will be in service for a long time, just like the B-52.

Fewer emissions? Really? The 747 payload capacity is being replaced by A-350 and 777 airplanes which approach the lower to upper 75% the capacities of the 747. Those are still very very big airplanes and they both have 2 engines almost as powerful as all 4 put together on the 747. The new airplanes have somewhat more fuel efficient and lower emission’s emitting engines, but at the end of the day, it’s not a whole lot less. The big driver of 747 retirement is 2 engines cost a lost less to buy and maintain than four engines. The other factor is the change in how airlines route airplanes. Those changes involve flying smaller capacity very long range airplanes flying passengers more direct to final destinations rather than using the hub and spoke system requiring passengers to make more plane changing stops. Back in the past, generally twin engine airplanes did not have the range for long flights or the certifications to fly the trans oceanic routes 3 and 4 engine airliners were allowed to do. Both Airbus A340 and A380 suffer the same 2 vs 4 engine operating economies penalties and left production before the 747. Some of the grounded A380’s are being reactivated because replacement high capacity and longer range A-350 and 777X airplanes are not yet available. Also, the same can be said for some 747’s. Their in service lives are being extended because of rapid increased capacity demands and lack of the newer replacement airplanes being delivered. The A-380 is a hugely expensive aircraft to fly and maintain. You have to fly it at full capacity to make money with it. And there are only a limited number of routes where the economics work out. The A-380 does carry more passengers and weight than a 747 and is quite a bit larger, but not as flexible use wise as a 747. A 747-400 can operate out of a whole lot more airports than any A-380. A 747-8 is bigger and heavier than a 747-400 and has a few more airport limitations, but it is a smaller and lighter but can fit into many more airports than an A-380.

@@bigballz4u Could just equip it with lower emission engines or use a carbon neutral synthetic fuel.

I got my ASEL at age 42. I wonder if I had gotten it earlier would I have gone into the aviation.

I've seen so much hate towards Swayne Martin and I don't understand why. His Switzerland video popped up on my recommended list yesterday and it was a really awesome video! Couldn't agree with you more on the other two!

Don’t do it. My advice 23k hours, 7 airlines, 12 type ratings.

Kinda like how Matin-Baker would (not sure if they still do) send a fighter pilot who survived ejecting in one of their seats a plaque that said "I survived ejection" and if possible make it out of part of the seat in question.

Keep the Blue side up and the Brown side down!!!

Yes, it is to do with camaraderie - everybody having their fuck-ups out in the open, and cheerfully owning them, works out less embarrassing in the end than always having to polite skirt certain issues. The same with callsigns: my favourite is callsign Banjo, for the guy that was once caught buck-ass naked jerking off.

I live very close to our main terminal and to see that other plane go over that 747 looks crazy. And…. Driving 494 with those big planes going over your car is crazy… But I Love watching them!! PS..I do ask myself why I live here in the winter 😂😂😂

That reminds me....what happened to Stella? She hasn't posted in a long time! I would watch Kelsey and Stella on Sunday morning! I hope she is well!

@@5boysandamom With a following like that, it wasn’t fair to go into hiding without alerting her followers.. Some people all they got is YT and influencers like Stella even when they’ve never met them. Peace and love to her✔️

I'm an old time plane spotter, and it always confuses me.

That’s awesome!

I won't ask why you were looking at the ground as the plane went over!! ;-))

@@stepheneyles2198 having decent muscle control of my eyes, I can look at one and then the other.

Ask for a window seat as near to the front as possible. That way your view won't be impeded by the wings. Enjoy!

What did you think Felix? Yesterday should have been your ✈️

There are dashcam videos of this happening on ordinary highways. I call them "road missiles", because the effect of one hitting your vehicle travelling in the opposite direction isn't too much different.

Real bad one happened at a race in the old days. Le Mans 24 hour, maybe? There's footage in B&W and it's not a fun watch.

I'd imagine it has a toilet on it for the crew given they fly over 30 hour sorties...

@@Penfold101 he showed the cockpit, and it definitely doesn't have a bathroom. I know the B2 has a step up from a bucket for the pilots to use though.

U2, not B2. Though that would be a brag too.

@@CptJistuce oh jeez I mistyped that. shitting in either would be a badge of honor

The B-2 has a toilet AND a bed in the cockpit.

The worst thing would also be their shape there would be no low wedge to lift or throw the person clear. Quite the opposite actually the front of that wheel would be above the centre of mass so it is going to throw you down ahead of it and at best crush them under it but at that speed it would probably more resemble rolling through the obstacle than over it. After all at that speed you are talking about it rolling the length of a person in 20 milliseconds, suffice to say accelerating it upwards fast enough to roll over the person would require significantly more force than any structure in the body could actually provide so it would probably just pulverise everything in it's path into something watery enough for it's treads to deal with getting rid of.

Well some pilots handle big packages, it is hard not to get impressed 😅

@@samuelkundael3503 😉😂

I have had similar experiences. I stop walking and look at the sky to watch and identify planes as they fly by. People look at me as if I was crazy. For us, who admire aviation, they are more than just planes; they seem to have a life by themselves, a life that is passed on to them by the pilots. I have never flown in a 747, and most of them have been retired as passenger planes. I have never seen the AN-225 fly by, and it was destroyed. What a shame! ❤️✈️

I live near a C5 airbase so get to see them frequently. Always amazes to know they are flying hundreds of mph because they look so darn slow.

@@indiamike8837 that's such a shame, it was unbelievable!

A midlife crises is something different than a depression... thankfully!;-))

@@mikevermey He said he wasn't having a midlife crisis. He was just struggling with balancing the channel, no longer being in lockdown and quarantine as much, and doing his hobbies etc. I don't know if he was or wasn't depressed - I don't assume someone's medical status unless they say it - but he also wasn't really having a midlife crisis, either.

​@@JustAnotherBuckyLover I agree with all that you're saying... just responding with an eyewink to the 'medical conclusion' from Anginlove and the title of that post from Kelsey, called 'Midlife crises'. Cheers

@@mikevermey You know, KZfaq does this thing, right? It sends you notification alerts that tell you what someone said in a comment, even if they later change or delete it. So yeah, I saw your original comment where told me "Maybe you should simply just read the title from Kelsey two posts ago" which mentioned a midlife crisis, - to which I would have responded "Maybe you should actually WATCH the video before commenting instead of acting like a know-it-all" but then you deleted that comment about 20 minutes later, so I guess maybe you *did* actually watch it and realised that you were incorrect Who knows... but everyone can also see that you edited your original comment - in this case, to add in a winking emoji that wasn't there before. But okay... if it makes you feel better. LOL🤦

​@@JustAnotherBuckyLover You're right, I deleted my first reaction because I thought it was somewhat unfriendly. Sorry to hear that's upsetting you;-). I know that it's common practise these days to dive into reactions, judge them right away etcetc. A bit like you do in my opinion, to reveal all that happened. It's okay... I change my mind sometimes and as well, I trade in my initial opinion for another one, just because I like to give myself space to learn and make mistakes. Another mindset, I guess; no hard feelings. Have a great day!

I'm not questioning that your idea would work, but these engines can blow a school bus over.

Sod staples are no match for a jet engine ROFLMAO. Sheesh.

might have specified NOT to use them near a runway...

Groundskeeper Willie going to be mad.

Why would you use put long sharp pins next to where airplanes operate?

Me too

Also the Dash 8 is a high wing aircraft with only 2 turboprop engines ant a T tail. It has a very unique look to it. While not a STOL aircraft I'd imagine that the runway length required for take off or landing is MUCH shorter than a 747 or Boeing 787. Then when you talk about a Dash 8 the Boeing 787 is shown on screen which also has 2 engines.

Heh yeah. I was thinking "Wow, they're a lot bigger than the ones at Newquay airport."

@@KravKernow trying to land a short hop 747 on Scilly from Newquay would be entertaining 😬

@@SabretoothBarnacle You could probably land a 747 *across* Newquay runway; but yeah Scilly would be something to see. Years back, at the time of the eclipse, we hired a little Cessna from Lands End airport. Just to do a bit of whale watching. There were a few of us so we took it in turns. Initially the Cessna rotated almost as soon as it started off. But then a couple of friends, both called 'big Kev' as it happens, had their go (the pilot said, just those two). We though he was going to drive into the hedge. Certainly got his money's worth using all of the 'runway' that day.