Non Political Current Events Thread

YouTube · Postby **mikey** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 12:58 pm

Someone is going to print out "have you seen this plane?" pages and staple them to power lines and miscellaneous walls around town(s), right?

Postby **Ad@m** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 3:55 pm

@shafnutz05

https://wjactv.com/news/local/house-exp ... nnsylvania#

Crews are currently on scene for a reported house explosion in West Donegal Township.

Mount Joy Fire Department confirms that the possible explosion took place on Bossler Rd. on Monday.

There are a large number of crews on scene handling the situation.

There is no other available information at this time but CBS 21 News does have a crew on scene and is working to gather more information.

Postby **dodint** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:16 pm

Wooo, WTAE can stop milking the Plum explosion now.

Oh, nvm. *West Donegal. Not Donegal.

Postby **tifosi77** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 4:30 pm

Someone is going to print out "have you seen this plane?" pages and staple them to power lines and miscellaneous walls around town(s), right?

1. Open the Settings app.
2. Tap your name, then tap Find My.
3. If you want your chain of command to know where you are, turn on Share My Location.
4. Tap Find My F-35B, then turn on Find My F-35B.
5. To see your F-35B even when it's flying itself into a swamp, turn on Find My network.
6. To have the location of your F-35B sent to your squadron HQ when the fuel is low, turn on Send Last Location.

Postby **shafnutz05** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 5:39 pm

shafnutz05

https://wjactv.com/news/local/house-exp ... nnsylvania#

Crews are currently on scene for a reported house explosion in West Donegal Township.

Mount Joy Fire Department confirms that the possible explosion took place on Bossler Rd. on Monday.

There are a large number of crews on scene handling the situation.

There is no other available information at this time but CBS 21 News does have a crew on scene and is working to gather more information.

That's pretty much Elizabethtown, despite the Mount Joy address. Crazy

Postby **Ad@m** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 6:54 pm

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Mon Sep 18, 2023 7:34 pm

Postby **dodint** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:29 pm

Postby **MalkinIsMyHomeboy** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:32 pm

the comedy is compounded because of the fact that they have a “this is our happy place” knickknack

Postby **eddy** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:34 pm

That and the shiplap, I thought I was at my parents house for a minute

Postby **eddy** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 3:40 pm

Reminds me of this great interview

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 4:03 pm

C'mon man.....

Postby **Sam's Drunk Dog** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 4:42 pm

Direct link to the F-35 story and video

https://www.wbtw.com/news/state-regiona ... -crashing/

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:05 pm

That's my local news lol

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:39 pm

DG you might be able to shed some light on this then.

"According to officials, a pilot was found on South Kenwood Drive in North Charleston after safely ejecting from the passing plane." This appears to be just north of CHS (Joint Bast Charleston is co-located at the airport).

The crash site is apparently in a place called Indiantown.

I'm no Vasco da Gama, but it seems that's like......... 70+ miles away.

Postby **tifosi77** » Wed Sep 20, 2023 6:45 pm

Also, for no one in particular...... VMFAT-501 is the Marine Corps FRS/RAG for the -35B. They're based at MCAS Beaufort, so I don't know if this section was doing practice approaches to CHS or what. The two airports local to me (BUR and VNY) get military traffic a few times a year, training sorties navigating different airspace classes under civilian control.

Postby **DigitalGypsy66** » Thu Sep 21, 2023 8:59 am

DG you might be able to shed some light on this then.

"According to officials, a pilot was found on South Kenwood Drive in North Charleston after safely ejecting from the passing plane." This appears to be just north of CHS (Joint Bast Charleston is co-located at the airport).

The crash site is apparently in a place called Indiantown.

I'm no Vasco da Gama, but it seems that's like......... 70+ miles away.

Yeah, you are correct. Indiantown (which I was not familiar with), is next door to Hemingway, SC, home to Rodney Scott's BBQ.

How did the plane make it all the way out there? Did it glide? Can a F-35 glide at all? So many questions that I bet we'll never get answers to.

I lived in the flightpath of CHS for several years, and a variety of military planes used it for training and short layovers. One of the feeder roads backed along the outside tarmac/hardstand area where these planes would be parked. It was common to see F-18s, A-10s, Ospreys, lots of E-2 Hawkeye/C-2A Greyhounds, over the years. The SC ANG has F-16s at CHS, as well as lots of C-17s and C-130s. I kind of miss the C-17s flying overhead. They would do all kinds of maneuvers, low level drills, tight paratrooper (I assume) formations, etc.

As for the guy they interviewed, that's pretty standard rural SC folk.

Postby **Dickie Dunn** » Thu Sep 21, 2023 9:40 am

The dude ejected himself to JBC? A+ for accuracy.

Postby **tifosi77** » Thu Sep 21, 2023 11:15 am

There are a lot of variables at play, altitude airspeed, aircraft configuration, lift and drag coefficients, wind speed and direction, etc. A general loose guideline would be you can go horizontally 7x - 10x your height. So all things considered, I think the only way a fighter jet would have any hope of straight up 'gliding' that distance would be if it was starting at like 30k - 40k feet.

This actually does seem like the jet flew itself under control for most of that distance until it puttered out of gas. Which is sort of odd...... if the jet is smart enough to yeet its own pilot, or at least know that the pilot has been yeeted then it should know that autopiloting itself in a "Crew, -1" condition is..... superfluous. Unless it knew to fly itself into the swamp, cos that would funny.