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Author Topic: Upload your random pictures Mike Williams Master Film Handler Posts: 255 From: Knoxville, TN Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-28-2005 05:29 AM                     quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That cockpit picture scares the shit out of me. The plane is fixing to hit the runway and there's no one flying the plane!!! Or worse... instead of landing the plane, the pilot is busy taking pictures!  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-28-2005 05:35 AM                  Paul, that pic reminds me when I was a 16mm cameraman for ABC-TV News and my boss and I went to Texas(I think Dallas) to American Airlines for a human interest story. Since I was a smart-ass young punk at that time with his Private Pilots License, I got a chance to fly their DC-10 simulator. I did pretty good on take off and flying, but had a "little" problem with the landing... I landed 40 feet BELOW the runway and killed everyone aboard... Ummm including myself! HA! (True story!)  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-28-2005 07:07 AM                        But at least the cargo hold door didn't blow out, no engines fell off and you managed to avoid flying it into a mountain...  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-28-2005 11:16 AM                        The DC-10 was never one of my favorites--Leo's list includes the highlights of its "greatest hits." Glad to hear you survived your trip in the simulator for one Phil. Even the DC-10 simulator has been known to hurt people. That night flightdeck shot was made with a Nikon D70 by Dario Crustafon, an observer riding in the jump seat directly behind the center pedestal. You can just make out the partial silhouette of Captain Javier on the left and the shirtsleeve of F/O Álvaro on the right. The shot was the end of a night ILS approach to runway 6 at Paris Orly on an Air Europa Boeing 737-800. Nice shot--tricky exposure and no motion blurring. Jump seat rides are a lot of fun. I really miss being able to use my airline IDs to do that. Bill, that A7 tombstone is awesome! I'm not going to be buried, but if I was, a AA-II marker would be just the thing.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-28-2005 11:40 AM                        Hmmm, something weird going on here. Partial double-post. Moderators please delete. [ 02-28-2005, 03:59 PM: Message edited by: Paul Mayer ]  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-28-2005 01:15 PM                        ...not to mention the special order DC-10 with optional plough attachment: quote: Paul Mayer was the last to post Glad to hear you survived your trip in the simulator for one Phil. Well I've now survived three trips in a real one (and all within the last 2 years, so they must be getting pretty ancient by now)! Six lives left, I guess.  |  IP: Logged Jarryd Beard Expert Film Handler Posts: 229 From: Hellertown, PA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 02-28-2005 01:42 PM                     I went to DC on 2/19. I enjoy how this picture turned out: Washington Memorial And this has to be the hottest hotsauce I've ever tasted. (Never tried the Atomic Wings at Quaker Steak and Lube.) This sauce was from California Tortilla. It's a very good burrito place we ate at in Chinatown. For those who know the DC area, the restaurant was right across from the Regal Gallery Place Stadium 14. In fact, the restaurant has a deal with Regal where you can take your burritos to the movies and receive a discount! I didn't read into the details of the deal. Rectum Ripper The information on the back of the bottle stated that this WAS NOT blood dripping off the chile. Wonder what it could be?  |  IP: Logged Christian Volpi Master Film Handler Posts: 349 From: Arlington, NE Registered: Apr 2004 posted 02-28-2005 01:51 PM                        quote: Jarryd Beard very good burrito place we ate at in Chinatown What kind of burrito places do they have in China Town?  |  IP: Logged Jarryd Beard Expert Film Handler Posts: 229 From: Hellertown, PA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 02-28-2005 02:06 PM                     I know, kinda ironic. I believe this California Tortilla place is part of a chain based in Maryland. The basic bottle of hot sauce for the restaurant said it was packaged for California Tortilla, Maryland, USA.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 02-28-2005 03:54 PM                        "Rectum Ripper"... I love it! Jarryd, you've gotta try some "Dave's Ultimate Insanity." It may define a new top end on your hotness scale. 245,000 on the Scoville Heat Scale.  |  IP: Logged Jarryd Beard Expert Film Handler Posts: 229 From: Hellertown, PA Registered: Jul 2004 posted 02-28-2005 04:14 PM                     Obviously, those have a synthetic "hot" added to them. The atomic wings I mentioned above are found at Quaker Steak and Lube. I've never tried them, but you have to sign a waiver. See the chart below to see where the hottest natural flavor (Suicide) is, then look at the huge distance to Atomic (150,000 on the scale). Still, nowhere near the 245,000. The Lube has great wings. My favorite are the Arizona Ranch. Hot, yet no need to dip! Below is a Scoville heat chart of their wing sauce offerings.  |  IP: Logged Jason Burroughs Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 654 From: Allen, TX Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-28-2005 05:20 PM                     I too have survived a flight in a Death Chamber 10 (DC-10) rattle trap... Nothing like seeing the ground crew frantically motioning the pilot to stop during departure, only to disappear under the fuselage with a roll of speed tape (aviation equivilant to duct tape). Re-appear in a few mintues and sends us on our merry way. Sun Country was such a fantabulous airline. And those GE engines sounded like buzz saws.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-28-2005 05:59 PM                        I'm not sure what everyone has against the DC-10. American Airlines and United Air Lines used to fly them between Boston and Chicago, and I took a number of those flights as a kid. Occasionally, I'd get to chat with the flight engineer in the cockpit, which was always a thrill. At least one American aircraft had a small camera in the cockpit and they showed the pilot's view of the approach and landing on the movie screen, which was cool. The L-1011s that TWA was flying at the time looked better, though. I once flew a DC-9 simulator (about ten years ago) at the Northwest Airlines training facility in Minneapolis. With a "real" pilot beside me, I was able to complete a takeoff and landing, but had trouble with "straight and level" without the autopilot.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-01-2005 01:54 AM                        I guess it's an issue of public perception: doors blowing out, engines falling off the wing, a big airliner flying smack into the side of a mountain and another one ploughing a field a 300mph all make for dramatic images. Furthermore two of the disasters were both caught on camera as they happened, further adding to the negative publicity. By the same token the fact that the Hindenburg made over 20 transatlantic flights and Concordes operated for 20 years without any incident before the ones which ended their careers hasn't stopped both aircraft from becoming synonymous with, err, 'aviation safety issues'. Again, both the Hindenburg and Concorde disasters were photographed as they happened. I suppose the fact that DC-10s are still in revenue earning service after three decades show that the design was fundamentally good and that the problems have been ironed out. They just don't inspire confidence, that's all. When I flew from Amsterdam to Minneapolis last November we arrived at the gate to find an empty stand with a sleek new Delta 777 on one side and a shiny KLM Airbus on the other. Eventually the DC-10 was pulled to our stand by a tractor. The paint was badly faded, there was soot all over the engine housings, and the thing just basically looked unloved. Compared to the two aircraft either side it looked like something out of Austin Powers, and as Jason points out they sound and feel like something out of Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines: so much so that someone in the queue in front of me asked her partner: 'Are we supposed to be getting on that thing? Is it capable of flying?'. I'm sure it was excellently maintained and all the DC-10 flights I've taken passed without any problem, but in an industry where safety is such a big issue the appearance of it just didn't inspire confidence.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-01-2005 02:32 AM                  I agree with Scott about the DC-10. I flew (flied? flued? fluid?) many thousands of miles on the DC-10 and had no problems and liked the plane a lot. However, that shitty L-1011 scared the crap outta me! What a POS plane!  |  IP: Logged

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