Off Topic: Wheels, Gears, Turbines, Whatever...

Yep, totally agree with you on that one Kevin!

Umm what!!?!?

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/woman-in-ukraine-dies-having-sex-on-railway-tracks/story-fndir2ev-1226729565449

Check this out...

http://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506

More runways needed in England...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/435043/More-runways-are-likely-according-to-aviation-experts

Slovakian Flying car, Aeromobil, takes first flight.

http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/22/slovakian-aeromobil-flying-car-first-flight/#continued

A look at the new GE9X engine... guess this will be powering the 777X...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVVj2ddb-eQ

New Apple work Palace...

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/11/11/a-glimpse-into-apples-spaceship/?mod=e2tw

How is this even possible...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruldKnHNKRM

I figured it had to be a stunt.

Electric helicopter takes off for the first time. It's dubbed the 'Volocopter' VC200.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNulEa8LTHI

Raining mice? well apparently...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/02/21724382-two-thousand-mice-dropped-on-guam-by-parachute-to-kill-snakes?lite

Here is something causing a bit of a stir recently.

Accident investigators have been reviewing amateur video that shows a Piper Aerostar twin performing extreme low-level maneuvers over a Colorado neighborhood moments before crashing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkIXxZjwLjE

Pratt & Whitney said it shut down a test engine after a "minor anomaly" during flight testing near Montreal on Tuesday, but said media reports of a fire were inaccurate. "The engine was shut down as a precaution," the company said in a statement about the test flight from its Mirabel Aerospace Centre.

"Examination of the engine revealed that there was no apparent damage, and we expect to run it again in the next day or two. Minor anomalies such as this are common in flight test. Early reports in the media of a fire on the engine were inaccurate." The company said that for proprietary reasons it would not identify which engine was being tested.

Bombardier said the incident did not involve the PW1524 model of P&W's new geared turbofan motor that powers the CSeries jet. "That incident has no impact on our flight test programme," Bombardier Aerospace spokeswoman Marianella de la Barrera said. "It's our understanding that the incident relates to another variant of the main family of the engine."

Bombardier is "very pleased" with the performance of the PW1524 engine in CSeries testing, de la Barrera said. The engine, certified in February 2013, is in operation on three CSeries flight test aircraft. Last summer, Pratt & Whitney redesigned a component of its geared turbofan engine being developed for Airbus's A320neo aircraft after tests revealed "distress" in the PW1100G's hot core.

(Reuters)

How much are airlines really making?

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/03/travel/how-airlines-make-less-than-6/index.html?iid=article_sidebar

Frontier Airlines captain buys pizza for passengers stranded in Wyoming after diverted flight gets delayed.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...passengers-stranded-wyoming-article-1.1860052

The Hurricane Hunters send five planes to study 93L
A fleet of five hurricane hunter aircraft are headed to the Caribbean today to intercept 93L, according to the NOAA/HRD blog and the NHC recon Plan of the Day. Two Air Force C-130s are headed to the islands, and will begin flying alternating missions into 93L on Thursday afternoon. One NOAA P-3 aircraft (N42RF) will land today in St Croix, USVI, and will lay a pattern of ocean probes (AXBTs) on Thursday in the projected path of the storm. The other NOAA P-3 (N43RF) will land in Barbados Wednesday, and is scheduled to fly a sequence of Doppler Radar missions beginning Thursday night. The NOAA Gulfstream jet (N49RF) is also heading to Barbados today, and will begin flying Synoptic Surveillance missions (dropping a series of 20+ dropsondes surrounding the storm) beginning at 1:30 pm EDT Thursday, with another mission scheduled on Friday.