Pappy

Career Naval Aviator/Airline Pilot, Aviation Safety Officer/Mishap Investigator. NPC Debris.

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Cool technical discussion of the Nepal catastrophic event.

https://t.co/AKu8os2vaN

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@InfantryPilot @TimRyan777 It won't.

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@BigBen555005 @BoeingB52BUFF I was thinking the same thing.

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@NMdatingapp @OwenGregorian Haven't been able to join a subscriber spaces in months 🥺

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@BuzzPatterson Huge!

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@scottsdalebarre @BuzzPatterson AND the Chargers🧐

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This one never ceases to amaze!

The worst and best of luck simultaneously.

[F15sRdaBest🇺🇸 @F15sRdaBest]

9 July 1991. A KA-6D Intruder “Lizard 515,” USS Abraham Lincoln, Indian Ocean. Lt. Mark Baden (pilot) and Lt. Keith Gallagher (BN) were on a tanker mission. It was Gallagher’s 26th birthday and would have been his 100th carrier trap. One of the drop tanks had a stuck float valve and wouldn’t transfer the remaining fuel. To free it, Baden pulled the nose up a few degrees, then pushed forward and applied about half a negative G. It was just enough to float them in their seats. That negative-G load was all it took. The top latch on Gallagher’s Martin-Baker seat had a fatigue crack. It failed, the seat slid up the rails, the right side of the canopy shattered, and Gallagher was blasted outside the cockpit. His parachute deployed and wrapped around the tail, and the only things still holding him to the airplane were the parachute risers. Baden looked over, saw his BN hanging in the windblast, and immediately called Mayday: “My BN has been partially ejected. I need an emergency pull-forward!” He stayed with the jet, slowed it down, and trapped it safely about six minutes later. Gallagher survived (serious shoulder and nerve injuries) and was back flying six months later. Baden received the Air Medal.🇺🇸🫡

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@MarioNawfal Thankfully, it's barely a Cat-1 and just clipping the southern portion of the Island of Hawaii.

Folks in that part of the the Big Island have had a rough year of storms and earthquake action.🙏

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@BuzzPatterson "Deployed" 😂

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@jedunne @walterkirn Terrapin

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@walterkirn Monkey and the Engineer 🐒

Just kidding..."Country Roads"

[Virginie Sigonney 🇫🇷 @GinieSigonney]

A very rare video of a pilot being born 😂
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@sjvsworldtour Unable to join this one either.

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@sjvsworldtour It's been about 6 weeks in a row that I can't join this space. Verified I'm subscribed. I don't get it. 🤔

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@BuzzPatterson Checkboard Hill!

As cool as it gets.

We once pulled up there and were parked next to a Concord in a P-3.

Felt like we were getting away with something...

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@_SamStClair_ @OwenGregorian Sell 'em in the parking lot at a Willie Nelson show. 😮‍💨

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@ABCWorldNews @GioBenitez Total absence of separation between hazardous military live-fire training and Honolulu air traffic is a daily occurrence.

The "Big Sky/Little Bullet" approach to mitigation eventually fails.

Politics over Safety---Always.