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Many great thanks to Peter & Jason of Worldmark Productions for putting together this Sled Driver teaser!
Brian was a fighter pilot whose aircraft was shot down near the end of the Vietnam conflict and nearly burned to death in the crash. During his first two months in the burn ward intensive care he wanted to die, he wanted to gave up.
But he changed his attitude. And isn’t it amazing what a change of attitude can do to change the course of your life. He didn’t get better or feel better, he changed his attitude.
He survived and was told he’d never fly again but after a year in the hospital and many surgeries, he passed a flight physical and eventually became a Top Gun flight instructor at Fighter Lead In school at Holloman AFB, New Mexico. After flying as a demonstration pilot in the A-10, Brian set his sights on the SR-71, the highest and fastest flying aircraft in the world that was developed in the early sixties and as we’re sitting here today in 2024, still holds all altitude and speed records. To do so required him to pass an astronaut physical of which he passed with one of the highest scores.
Upon his retirement from the Air Force and after traversing the earth at break-neck speeds at 90,000 feet, Brian found solace in walking natures trails and his nature photography, focusing especially on birds. You see, man doesn’t fly, he builds machines and sits in them to fly, birds are natures true fliers.
Brian unexpectedly passed away on May 20, 2023. We take comfort in knowing he was living his dream and pursuing his passion.
This film would be an incredible tribute to a legendary and inspirational man. Let’s hope it comes to fruition.
Rest in peace brother
Brian Shul
Feb. 8, 1948 - May 20, 2023
At the Commemorative Air Force Museum.
Boeing 747 owned by Kingdom Holding Company spotted at Riyadh RUH. The owner of this company is the richest person in Saudi Arabia (according to Wikipedia). This type of plane doesn’t fly commercially from RUH. I am so curious as to what they use this for! That’s a lot of space for a company jet.
Can anyone tell me if this flight occurred last night?
Thanks!
Hopefully this doesn’t violate low quality rules but this is a retro tomcat edit. Full credit to @wxeixzlily3
Just wondering
I was watching aircraft refueling overhead last night. When the receiving aircraft disconnected, it looked like a large quantity of fuel was spilled, leaving a long contrail in the sky.
Is that normal?
So I alsways wanted one but i don’t know how. I’ve customized a lot of planes online for fun but is there Alpha way I can get Alpha mininature plane from Alpha livery i made? I mean the scale doesn’t matter I have 1:500 and 1:200 and 1:525 probably one or two 1:400 but please tell me is there any way i can purchase A mininature plane with an own made livery?
Odd experience, So flying back from Denver a couple months ago we were in final approach to MSP over Waconia and my head started to hurt real bad like a massive headache and my right eye was hurting alot. Felt like my head was going to explode. We landed and after about 2-3 hours it was relieved. Any ideas why this might be? Looking for ways to avoid it as I'm traveling this weekend.
Hi, I recently visited Abilene Regional (KABI) and saw two what I believe are ERJ fuselages with no identifying marks other than their cheat lines. I’m aware that two ex-American Express ERJs were recently scrapped at KABI, but I don’t believe these are those planes.
I managed to grab a poor shot as we drove past and I wonder if anyone can help identify these?
By the way, the morning of the day we visited (10th April) saw the arrival of six waterbombers for the summer season - 2 x BAe 146s, 2 x Avro RJ85s and 2 x Canadair CL215Ts. Nice!
Any help with these two will be greatly appreciated.
I just took a transatlantic flight on a B787-9. I’ve experienced many times to have some ice crystals forming on the window, or around the tiny hole on one of the window layers. However this is the first time I’ve seen that much ice, forming a solid block, and looking around, it seems that a lot of windows on the plane had this too, so I found it interesting.
Why can't we make giant fighter jets?
Imgine a mix of the weaponry of an AC-130 and a fighter jet, enter fast, rain down artillery and get out fast 🤔, and if made it fly really high and satellite controlled it would be even safer, without any human pilots, it would be like artillery falling from the sky.
Also without human pilots it wouldn't need any life support, just an autoloader to load the artillery rounds and a spy camera with really good zoom that can calculate ballistically so shells fall where you point.
Like mixing a "Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird" and a "Lockheed AC-130". basically how to turn an AC-130 into a high altitude unmanned drone.
Final iteration of the brainstorming: a way to put a high power laser on a high altitude drone, to be able to melt targets from the sky.
Hello,
My dog ate the microphone on my David Clark H10-13.4 headset. I saw that there are replacement microphones available, but I can't figure out how to disassemble the microphone to replace it...
Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you very much!
Probably the best view I've ever had while using a restroom.