Wildlife encounters

Camping in mammoth last week.

 

That bear looks stumped!

 

Great light on that shot.

 

Thanks, my brother is a photographer for a living, so that helps

 

My brother is a pilot for a living, but that don't mean I can fly!

 

It does when he took the pic haha

 

We've all seen the results of some of your landings. You fly almost as badly as I do

 

That's his dinner table.

 

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.

 

In a plane again today, and will be again Thursday. Flying is just like a public transit bus with wings, and a slightly better class of peeps.

Disclaimer;
This is not meant as a slight to public ground transportation. ( Uh, yeah it is. )

As a note, people watching in airports is pretty interesting.

Rant; why do "window" seats seldom have windows that line up with the seat! This is my pet peeve about airlines.

 

THIS is your pet peeve about airlines? Thousands of canceled and delayed flights, horrible seatmates, angry drunk passengers, surly employees, lost luggage and fees for everything, but your pet peeve is the misaligned window?

 

Of course my brother turned 65 in February, so suddenly, he's no longer fit to fly or make decisions of consequence.

 

Actually, I think I've only crashed once on a jump. On Freight Train at Whistler. Bruised my ribs badly and my ego worse. Very timid on jumps after that.

 

Why yes, yes it is. You are free to disagree with me.

 

I used to design aircraft. The windows are driven by the hoops and stringers. 12 inches on center. (DNA on carbon aircraft like the 787's, then it is just window pitch) The seats are livery and are driven by the company purchasing the craft. The seats are on seat rails, (the only pieces of metal that run stem to stern) the seat pitch can be adjusted by the airline and then even after purchase (American uses this as a selling point). I learned a lot as an aircraft designer example "we make 1,000,000 miss wires a year" "the entertainment electronics were failing". The wires were under the seat, The electronics were encrusted in compounds that created short circuits. "We analysed the compound, urine". So do not lay down on the seats.
Happy Contrails to you.

 

I spent some time at Boeing at the assembly lines in Everet and Renton watching my parts being installed.
I did make the window frames for multiple platforms.

 

Was in a southwest plane that had a hard landing at John Wayne airport a couple months ago. When it hit, the inside window next to my "window" seat popped out. Inside so no issue, but not confidence inspiring.

 

So you were the culprit....

I used to build aircraft from the blueprints provided by the designer. I still don't like flying.

 

Beat and shim to fit, paint to match.

 

Could that have been the one where the flight attendant broke her back?

 

At least it wasn't the Hawaiian Air 737-CONVERTIBLE

 

Must have been Airbus. . .

 

My brother in law was just in a standoff with a Mt Lion in Bonelli park, he backed away and avoided becoming lunch. Be careful out the @DangerDirtyD !

Didn't know they were in Bonelli, but now I know different.

 

I read about that, but don't think so.
Reported the window and their like whaaatttt.....

 

I ran into this beast.......scariest thing I have ever seen

 

The skin holds the beast together. The thickest pieces we use for doublers and more. They are thinner than that blue print paper. These are not aircraft they are revenue generators. Extra weight is lost revenue. The parts are cut out on the print, I asked. what are the tolerances? The thickness of my lines?

 

Dammit! Now one of you knuckleheads HAS TO JOIN ME AT MIDNIGHT!

Where was the encounter?

 

Sidebar to the pic, tarantulas are alarmingly fast. I found that out a couple seconds after this was snapped.

 

And, they can jump 8 feet easily. That ought give you the heebee geebees.

 

Nothing worse than a wasp sting ... so they tell me.

I was on Palomar Mountain in San Diego County a few years back and there were literally hundreds running across the road. Pretty wild. Freaked my girlfriend out for days.