Long time reader and first time poster. My awesome 13 year old son has been using a backyard telescope for the last 3 years. He has quite the talent and hopes to have a career in aviation someday. For Christmas we bought him his first flight lesson. Today his phone was running out of storage. I paid for an upgrade with iCloud. It wouldnβt syncβ¦. Here is the bad part.
I logged out of his iTunes account thinking it would sync. I, in fact, fucked up. I lost all of his photos and videos. When you sign out of an Apple phone you lose all βOptimizedβ photos. We lost all the pictures from all the military sights, airports, space launches that he had. I have some on my phone and he has his favorites in his aviation Tik Tok, but I feel so bad.
He had created this amazing time lapse video of Jupiter crossing the night sky, gone.
TL;DR
I deleted my sons lifetime photo album
8th of March 2014 0:41
Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was preparing to take off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport, and headed towards Beijing Capital International airport. Unfortunately, they never arrived, and what happened to them became one of aviationβs greatest mysteries, unsolved to this day.
The aircraft is a Boeing 777-200ER, and was commanded by 53 year old captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and had been a type rating instructor and a type rating examiner since 2007. He had a total 18,365 hours of flight experience. The first officer was 27 year old Fariq Abdul Hamid. In November 2013, he began training as first officer of Boeing 777-200 aircraft. Flight 370 was his final training flight and he was scheduled to be examined on his next flight. Fariq had accumulated 2,763 hours of flying experience. The last contact made was at 1:19:30. The data indicated that there was about 43,800 kilograms of fuel remaining, and Captain Zaharie made a transition from Lumpur Radar to Ho Chi Minh ACC.
Lumpur Radar: "Malaysian three seven zero, contact Ho Chi Minh one two zero decimal nine. Good night."
Flight 370: "Good night. Malaysian three seven zero."
The news media reported several sightings of an aircraft fitting the description of the missing Boeing 777. For example, on 19 March 2014, CNN reported that witnesses including fishermen, an oil rig worker and people on the Kuda Huvadhoo atoll in the Maldives saw the missing airliner. A fisherman claimed to have seen an unusually low-flying aircraft off the coast of Kota Bharu; while an oil-rig worker 186 miles (299 km) southeast of Vung Tau claimed he saw a "burning object" in the sky that morning, a claim credible enough for the Vietnamese authorities to send a search-and-rescue mission; and Indonesian fishermen reported witnessing an aircraft crash near the Malacca Straits. Three months later, The Daily Telegraph reported that a British woman sailing in the Indian Ocean claimed to have seen an aircraft afire.
The Malaysian Airlines flight disappeared in 2014 carrying 239 people from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, in what has become one of the worldβs biggest aviation mysteries.The initial search, carried out by Malaysia, China, and Australia, was called off in January last year after failing to find any trace of the plane within a 710,000-plus square kilometer area of the Indian Ocean.The search is estimated to have cost some 200 million Australian dollars ($151 million), according to Australiaβs minister for
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I just learned that the older jetliners didn't have glass cockpits, which is just super amazing to me. Like, I don't know what they had instead, but either they just sat there, doing their job at 40k thousand feet in the open air, or they just like, had no windows at all, so they flew blind, and yet they could land and do everything, it's amazing.
I read that there are still planes out there without glass cockpits, but i've never seen one, the ones I've seen always have windows. Have you ever seen them? are there pictures of them? I tried googling but i'm only getting stupid images of the little dials from the cockpit, but i don't care about those.
Ok. Short story, this mission is bad from a mechanical, tactical, βcinematicβ and historical value.
Now the reasons. Iβm not going to explain how many aircraft are modeled wrong, have wrong markings or are using wrong munitions as that will take too much time. So letβs draw the general picture.
The Battle of Midway was a massive carrier engagement between the US carriers CV-6 Enterprise, CV-8 Hornet, CV-5 Yorktown and the IJN carriers Akagi, SΕryΕ«, Kaga, HiryΕ«. This battle eventually culminated in the entire destruction of the Japanese Carrier fleet for the loss of CV-5 Yorktown.
Now to the game. The Mission starts off with the briefing where they only mention two carriers. They also mention that this squadron we are following will attack two of them. The squadron commander does not specify which pilots will attack which carrier which is idiotic as radios tended to be unreliable at the time. Many pilots may not even have working radios as priority was given to flight leads.
We then go into the hanger where aircraft are being prepped. Your gunner stops the aircraft elevator to wait for you so you can ride it up. No, never, not for a mission like this. That elevator being lowered is making the flight line unusable. Once the elevator is going up it doesnβt stop as aircraft need to be lined up and prepped so the flight line can be cleared as quickly as possible. The stairs would have done the same narrative purpose. Also itβs unlikely pilots would walk through a busy hanger deck like that when less intrusive passageways exist.
Now the truly terrible! The stuff that has me going βwhat are you smoking CoD?β
We eventually take off and get introduced to some of the worst flight controls ever put to a game. Not only that but the narrative truly plummets and takes a shit. We are in the air formed up with our flight when we see several aircraft moving head on to us and no one recognizes the threat of Zeros until they fire. Then we are informed the fighter squadrons arenβt there making it so itβs up to you to short them down.
We have several problems here. 1st, these pilots obviously never participated in classes to identify enemy aircraft. 2nd, non of these aircraft must have tail gunners that are alive (both the Devastator and SBD have tail guns but non are shooting). And 3rd, Call of Duty forgets that CAP (Combat Air Patrol) fighters are always airborne and that the fighters are always the first to launch and last to land! This is contrived to say the best!
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On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370) took off from Kuala Lumpur International AirportΒ towards Beijing, China, carrying 227 passengers and 12 crewmembers.
The pilot, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, and co-pilot, Fariq Abdul Hamid, had years of flight experience with no history of trouble. So, once the flight took off in clear skies at 12:41 a.m. that morning, there was no reason to suspect anything would go wrong.
Less than an hour after takeoff, at 1:19 a.m., MH370 would end their final chat with air traffic controllers with one simple message: "All right, good night."
After that, the plane vanished from radar, and neither the machine nor any of the 239 people on board would be seen or heard from again -- though the final moments of the aircraft, and the course it took, continues to baffle investigators to this day.
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It was sometime after that 1 a.m. contact with air traffic controllers that both of the plane's transponders inexplicably stopped sending signals, which is why the aircraft had disappeared from conventional radar screens.
At first, searches were conducted near the South China sea, with the belief that 370 had simply crashed near the location of its last known contact with the outside world.
But as the Malaysian military would later disclose, their specialized radar systems (which does not rely on transponders) caught MH370 diverting dramatically off course shortly after that last chat with air traffic controllers, veering West and coming to within 200 miles of the island of Penang before making a slight right turn and flying out of the radarβs range, deep into the Northern Indian Ocean. This path is almost directly opposite the direction they were supposed to be heading.
Furthermore, it was discovered that the flightβs communications terminal (SATCOM) was severed for a large portion of the flight, and bizarrely re-connected mere minutes before the plane disappeared from military radar. It would stay online for another 6 hours before eventually going out again, presumably when 370 finally crashed.
In the hours after the link was re-established, several attempts were made to contact the pilots through the SATCOM terminal, all of which went unanswered.
Over the years, a total of 33 pieces of debris β confirmed and suspected from MH370 β would be found and recovered by 16 different people in six different countries.
This debris has all b
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