Kristin van der Kloot

Pilot • Amateur adventurer • Avid coffee drinker
1953 Cessna 170B • Cirrus Aircraft 🛩️🛩️🛩️

[Kristin van der Kloot @kristin_pilot]

Just your typical 9-5 in aircraft sales ✈️

[Dr Ron @GbhvfRon]

Holiday Snaps (through the fence) at Dubbo Airport
Beech Skipper, Cessna Centurion, Piper Mojave and
Bell 412.
@c_mperman @PicklePair @IoanaLogafatu @clark_aviation @julieinthesky @AviationMarlene
@alan_shropshire @jjmmli @LindaMiller_Am @La76553581Lane @GO4857X

[Fahad Naim @Fahadnaimb]

A220 left engine stuck at high power in flight. A cam came loose inside the throttle quadrant and jammed the lever. Not FADEC.

Crew couldn’t retard the left throttle from a high N1 setting. Investigation showed the thrust reverser lockout cam had detached inside the quadrant because it wasn’t torqued properly in production. Physical jam. Pure mechanical.

Transport Canada put out CF-2026-49. Effective 22 Oct. Affected A220-100 and -300 quadrants must be replaced within 1,100 hours.

[Sıradışı Bilim @siradisi_bilim]

Dünyada sadece bir tane vardı: Gökyüzünün devi Antonov An-225!
Rusya-Ukrayna savaşında yok edildi!

[SMITTY @Smitty_904]

WTF is this shit in the sky this morning?

[Chris Bolton @CcibChris]

Scampton.2014. Beauties all.

[BILLIONAIRE COLLECTION ® @BillionMagazine]

Gulfstream G600

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Once, my Air Force crew flew into Dakar, Senegal. It was the 1980s. We’d just flown from Bermuda to Mauritania to Senegal.

They parked us next to a Soviet Ilyushin 76 (a C-141 knock off) on the ramp at Dakar’s airport.

We waited for a crew van but there was none. A pickup truck finally picked us up, we all tossed our helmet bags and B-4s in the bed, and headed to the terminal. This was toward the end of the Cold War.

As we were driving away, the Soviet crew all came out to watch us and I waved at them. They waved back at us like we were rock stars. It was cool. A little “detente” in Africa.

Got to the hotel, which was an all-inclusive gig, on the beach. Checked in, went down to the pool for a beer.

They had a band playing on the pier and a buffet thing. During their break, my copilot decided to get on the drums and started playing “"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” No shit! RIP Jim Phillips. And he tore it up! 🤣

We met some Air Canada flight attendants at the pool later and staggered over to a Senegalese “disco.” Dirt floors, the whole nine. It was spectacular. The Air Canada girls were flying east, we were flying west.

The next day, we flew home. And the rest is history.

[James Spann @spann]

Many of you are seeing this in the sky over Alabama this morning. No need to panic… it is the vapor trail from the Falcon 9 SpaceX launch this morning in Florida.

[Kristin van der Kloot @kristin_pilot]

Vermont is putting on quite a show this fall! 🍂✈️

The mountains are glowing with shades of red, orange, and gold. Who wants to come experience the fall foliage with me and take my 63C for a spin? 😉🍁

Would you be up for a little fall adventure?

[Chauhan @PlatypusX9]

Rate this Sharp lift off by the F-22!

[Kristin van der Kloot @kristin_pilot]

@SpaceX @Space_Station What a spectacular launch! Are you ready to capture the Falcon 9 launch with your camera?

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Falcon 9 is vertical at pad 40 in Florida ahead of tomorrow’s launch of Dragon’s 35th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the @Space_Station. Liftoff is targeted for 6:33 a.m. ET → https://t.co/tnMukzSxui

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

A couple of Russian tourists took a boat ride in Thailand.

They got a suprisignly close look at the anti aircraft / anti drone weapons systems on the US aircraft carrier George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)

[VERTEX @vasilyaarkhipov]

Su-57 produces a distinctive high-pitched whistle compared to other 5th-gen fighters.

This unusual acoustic signature is believed to be linked to airflow disturbances within its engine intakes, particularly around RBS, combined with the acoustic characteristics of its AL-41F-1

[Chris Bolton @CcibChris]

The most famous Vulcan Olympus test bed. A complete Olympus 593 engine and its associated intake and exhaust installation were carried beneath fuselage. Testing continued until June 1971, helping develop Concorde's afterburning engine. XA903 later tested Tornado's RB199 engine.

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

😍

Hundreds of tons gracefully setting down after spending 13.5 hours flying 40,000 feet in the air at nearly 90% the speed of sound.

[Chauhan @PlatypusX9]

F-22 x F-35 x A-10 x F-16 In Formation!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Known today as compression lift, the idea of the XB-70's folding wingtips, was to use the shock waves generated by its own supersonic flight to generate lift.

This clip shows what the Valkyrie could have been.

[NASA @NASA]

While observing the universe, @NASAHubble caught a galaxy cluster smiling for the camera. 😊

The smile lines are arcs caused by an effect known as gravitational lensing, where massive structures warp spacetime with their powerful gravitational forces and act as a cosmic lens.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

The B737 cockpit seats are covered in SHEEPSKIN. And there’s some clever engineering behind it.

Aircraft can sit out in the sun for hours, so the cockpit seats need to stay comfortable rather than heat up. Sheepskin helps regulate temperature, keeping pilots comfortable even in changing conditions (hot or cool).

Sheepskin is naturally fire-resistant and self-extinguishing

The lightweight cushions may even serve as flotation aids in a ditching situation.