Something you probably didn’t see in a long time✈️ (recorded yesterday)

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Fine_Store7959@reddit (OP)

Standing still at the airport for 5 years

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Corpsguy04@reddit

I knew the Mighty Herc was old, but didn’t know it was prone to male pattern baldness.

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Fine_Store7959@reddit (OP)

Nope it’s going to fly as a firefighting aircraft probably in Australia it’s currently in Germany

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FZ_Milkshake@reddit

That makes me happy, didn't know that someone still wants to keep them flying, I thought their days in the air were over.

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ScottOld@reddit

Australia have a couple flying still I think

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For the childish ... one has the rego VH-TIT ... tee hee. But yes, final fit out and certification is underway for fire bombing activities. They had two operating out of Toowoomba Wellcamp over the last week doing test drops over a local farm paddock (with permission).

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Waste-Internal-1443@reddit

See YT Transall Australia.....

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MidlandsSpotter@reddit

Is this Zweibrucken?

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Fine_Store7959@reddit (OP)

👍

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Thurak0@reddit

Ouch. What's the ferry range of one? Wiki doesn't have it... 2500km or something? Sounds like a lot of stops on the way

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SquirrelMoney8389@reddit

I really enjoy flying this plane in the simulator. There was one purchased for Australia, and I recreated the real ferry flight from Europe to AU.

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ecco311@reddit

Oh, firs time I'm reading that. That's really cool actually.

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mencival@reddit

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AdriftSpaceman@reddit

Hahahahahahahaha! You almost made me spit my coffee!

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NoProfessor6700@reddit

Same! Laughing and choking at the same time 😂

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Ok_Needleworker2438@reddit

Sure ya did pal. Sure ya did...

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AdriftSpaceman@reddit

Yeah, I did. Was reading this with a mug of coffee and a chocolate biscuit after my lunch. Sadly I didn't record it for internet strangers.

This joke got me real hard for two reasons, first was I found the livery detail very weird it caught my eye. Second one, I'm a Brazilian, it's a former German plane and at first I didn't understand the joke. Then it hit me it was the haircut and the weird paint job.

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guessimcooking@reddit

The fact that you had to explain so much makes your comment and absolute lie.

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AdriftSpaceman@reddit

That's called a conversation. Not my fault if you guys don't know how to have one. Some pilots really live up to the stereotype, it seems.

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Ok_Needleworker2438@reddit

Wow so glad you are okay!!!

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YU_AKI@reddit

Don't be a wazzock

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Vau8@reddit

Lucky you. Exhaled mine through my nose.

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AdriftSpaceman@reddit

Watch out for the fun police!

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immunotransplant@reddit

Why are they standing so close?

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Jessie_C_2646@reddit

The camera focal length makes it look like they're closer than they are.

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triggerfish1@reddit

I hate to nitpick, but would like this "myth" to go away. The optical effect only depends on the distance to the object, not on the focal length. Of course you typically will be further away with a tele lens, but you could just as well take a wide angle length and zoom in digitally, giving the same optical compression.

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MinuteBid8615@reddit

When starting any prop plane, we usually stand inline with the pilots or further back to maintain a visual incase comms fail. Dude makes me nervous.

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mav3r1ck92691@reddit

He is inline with the pilots, it’s just the camera angle that makes it look like it. The plane is not parked square to the line in front of it.

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shrunkenhead041@reddit

Pilots come off the brakes by accident, this guy is ground beef.

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estcst@reddit

I’d seen that in an Indiana jones film one time.

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Double_Time_@reddit

In case the props overspeed they can grab them in time

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Simon_Mendelssohn@reddit

I dunno but I was worried he was gonna reenact this

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No_Cartoonist5836@reddit

You can see when he walks away he walks directly across and passes in front of the nose of the plane. He’s not nearly as close as the video makes it seem.

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wingnutkj@reddit

Needed a beard trim.

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hawkeye18@reddit

HOW COME HE GOT A FIVE HEAD

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threemilesfinal@reddit

Long start on those engines but what a sound! Almost like the RR Darts found on the Hawker 748.

I remember seeing these flying through Goose Bay years ago.

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supernaut_707@reddit

The first time I've seen a plane with a receding hairline.

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BiggyShake@reddit

C-160 looks like someone put a C-130 in a 'Planes' movie and forgot to paint the face on it.

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timdav8@reddit

A little chonker 😋

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1320Fastback@reddit

When the props look like they are changing direction three times you know they are hauling ass!

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jawshoeaw@reddit

When they stop turning for a second, I bet the maintenance guy stick their arms in between

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jawshoeaw@reddit

You know at some point if you insist on making them bigger and bigger … you can put those spinny things on top of the aircraft . I forget what that’s called but it seems to work pretty well.

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jawshoeaw@reddit

You know at some point if you insist on making them bigger and bigger … you can put those spinny things on top of the aircraft . I forget what that’s called but it seems to work pretty well.

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Bigbang-Seeowhee@reddit

"Let's film this in portrait mode so the plane never fits the image"

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banana597@reddit

But the view of the sky and concrete is unparalleled

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Vau8@reddit

Equipped with propellers that had a diameter of 5.50 meters. At the time of their introduction and for a long time thereafter, these four-bladed propellers were considered the largest in the world (for this type of aircraft).

WHAT?

EQUIPPED...

Farewell, Brumsel.

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cryptolyme@reddit

horizontal helo

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MKUltraSonic@reddit

Fixed wing Osprey

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cryptolyme@reddit

people in here really can't take a joke

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MKUltraSonic@reddit

Haha, yep..

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SprayDizzy628@reddit

Did that just spool up in one direction then switch directions?? Or is that just an optical illusion?

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Caligulaonreddit@reddit

aliasing

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that_dutch_dude@reddit

its actually the 5G chips in your blood losing connection. this is what happens in real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr3ngmRuGUc

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TheBeestWithEase@reddit

Illusion

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Adjutant_Reflex_@reddit

Optical illusion: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-it-that-when-you-l/

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b17flyingfortresses@reddit

Awww I was hoping for a radial startup

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charlogatos@reddit

Still have nightmares with that sound..... wake up.... they need fuel.....

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Lost_Dingo9772@reddit

Wow

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Secret-Ad4232@reddit

Why is there a little kid in the cockpit

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Fine_Store7959@reddit (OP)

This aircraft isn’t military owned anymore is is a civilian aircraft it’s probably family of one of the mechanics

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ratpatty@reddit

du hast ein bischen Flugzeug in deiner SpeedTape

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Significant-Ad-341@reddit

Man I miss working ground ops for propeller planes. Most fun I've ever had on the job.

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saimen54@reddit

Aww, a Transall. 🥲

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