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Pilot, Engineering Major, Aviation Photographer 📸🛩️ | STEM Advocate

Chicago, IL
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@planechasin
Chibound
7 months
Luneburg lenses on the F-35. I've never noticed that, picked it up on this one.
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@planechasin
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This moment is why I chuckle when people say the F-35 is the loudest thing they've heard. I remember using my shoulder and free hand to cover my ears. Not out of precaution, out of genuine concern.
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3 months
Bone ☠️
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@planechasin
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2 months
In 1992, a Boeing 727 landed at Chicago's Meigs Field for its transfer to the Museum of Science and Industry. Boeing had a specified minimum landing distance for the 727 at 4,800'. Meigs field was only 3900'. Now for an aircraft that would never fly again, you go full Navy.
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@planechasin
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2 months
Also worth noting the 16kt crosswind off the lake, the windy city never made it easy. With 1000' less runway than "required" and a 16kt crosswind, I'd say these pilots did a marvelous job slamming this aircraft down and getting it stopped.
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@planechasin
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8 months
@visegrad24 Way too late. At this point, that reply is purely self-serving.
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@planechasin
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3 months
They know the exact moment that satellite passes, this is such a troll, lol.
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3 months
That’s quite the find lol
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@planechasin
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8 months
@SCMPNews Source: "Trust me bro"
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@planechasin
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7 months
This video was originally posted to TikTok in June of 2023, the second video this account posted was a clip from an attack on a Pakistani Air Force base in Mianwali on Nov 4th. FAKE post, feel free to block that account
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@planechasin
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2 months
@bafasbender Yes, there was a lot of work done to it to be able to hang it from the ceiling. One of the wings removed all the hydraulics pulled gear assemblies pulled and repainted
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@planechasin
Chibound
2 months
Can we use the "D" word yet? #ilwx
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@planechasin
Chibound
11 months
The 53rd weather reconnaissance squadrons flight into the eye of #HurricaneFranklin Talk about B.A.
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2 months
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@planechasin
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2 months
@Pro_Nuke From what I've read that's exactly the situation. Flew from O'Hare to Meigs under a 10-minute flight. WIth minimum fuel, 40 degrees of flaps, and a naval-esq landing it's impressive what the 27 can do.
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@planechasin
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3 months
Ghost Squadron flying a tight in-box formation at the Fort Lauderdale airshow this weekend, on May 12th. The #1 , #3 , and #4 jets made contact, with the wing of the #4 jet striking the horizontal stabilizer of #1 and possibly the nose of #3 striking the horizontal on #1 .
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@planechasin
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2 months
@DougCarlisle Oh for sure. I've seen videos of 27s landing under 4k ft, min fuel 40 degrees, and planting it. Piece of cake, the 727 was a unit.
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@planechasin
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11 months
@SR_Planespotter Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
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@planechasin
Chibound
6 months
She tried, she really did. Unfortunately, Mother Nature was a little shy this evening. Here's our tornado for the day. #ilwx
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@planechasin
Chibound
8 months
@aviationbrk Chicago canon event confirmed
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@planechasin
Chibound
4 months
Oshkosh 2017 with this massive supercell to the south of the field backdropping an F-22 in burner Hard to top, too bad I was only just getting started in photography then.
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@planechasin
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11 months
@thenewarea51 It's all smoke and mirrors. The real warhead passed through 6 hours ago in the trunk of a 1996 Toyota Avalon. You have to play chess when the enemy is playing checkers.
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@planechasin
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8 months
@AndrewParsonson Wait wait wait...Lost? Lost?! How do you lose something the size of a large bus? Twice!
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@planechasin
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1 year
@thenewarea51 Navy pilots.
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@planechasin
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18 days
Who cares about your political affiliations, a U.S. president, a human, a husband, and a father was just shot. Disgusting seeing people celebrating. Disgusting.
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@thenewarea51 I’m jealous
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@planechasin
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8 months
@Factschaser Most of the time when an airbag doesn't deploy in a crash it's not because it was supposed to, it's because it wasn't supposed to. Sometimes an airbag in the wrong place at the wrong time will do more damage to occupants then if they all deployed in any crash.
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@planechasin
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1 year
@OHWXisweird Lol dudes giving them instructions like they need him or something.
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@planechasin
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9 months
@kmreed @SpaceX I've said this before and I will say it again. The people peddling the "SpaceX failure, SpaceX exploded, launch failed" narrative are the same people who peddled the same stories 15 years ago. Saying Falcon would never work, a waste of time waste of money etc. Now those same
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@planechasin
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8 months
@DrChrisCombs Its wild people have convinced themselves of this, meanwhile, a $600+ billion USD industry is unfolding in front of them.
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@planechasin
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8 months
@Factschaser Source: "Trust me, bro, I'm a *facts chaser*" Read about why airbags for rear occupants are designed not to deploy in FEC crashes. Mr "Facts Chaser"...
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@planechasin
Chibound
9 months
Hot off the press. A NOTAM has been published by AFAC (Mexico FAA) for "Starship Rocket Space-X" From 7AM CST to 9:39AM CST November 13th-18th.
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@planechasin
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@thenewarea51 @RiggerBunny @Rocketman2141 @F111Driver This is a drogue and attached slug/chute bag. After ejecting a "drogue gun" fires a pyrotechnic which extracts the drogue chute which in turn extracts the main chute from the pilot's chute bag. The drogue and chute bag then cut their connection after the main chute deploys.
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@planechasin
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11 months
@BronaghTumulty Chicago Athletic Association Hotel. Pretty average price for a downtown Chicago restaurant and bar. They have an awesome retro arcade bar as well that you should check out.
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@planechasin
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8 months
@Space_Strategy Despite SLS being a ridiculous spiral of out-of-control spending and continually slipping deadlines I gotta give SLS this one. Superheavy is unproven, SLS is flight-proven and crew-rated. Until Superheavy is crew rated its the best we got.
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@planechasin
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2 months
Mach diamonds, within mach diamonds, within mach diamonds. @considercosmos blessing our eyes again. Someone do a CFD on that flow and send me a video when your computer melts.
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@planechasin
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9 months
@soit_goes No, we don't, you're the loud minority. Pick up a book.
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@planechasin
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6 months
@avgeekmason @wxrjm @thenewarea51 From a tower visit to KARR. You can probably give the tower at MKC a call on bad weather *weekday* and they'd be more than happy to flash some light guns. Training usually occurs on weekdays, and the new guys don't get much practice with them.
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@planechasin
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6 months
Air China 777-F if you were curious.
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@planechasin
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4 months
Wow. Just wow, 22 days after IFT3, 2 days after rollout and we have a Booster 11 static fire. April IFT4 is definitely a possibility at this rate.
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@planechasin
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10 months
Uhm Chuck Yeager, duh.
@SR_Planespotter
𝙎𝙍_𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙥𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧
10 months
"Who's your favorite guy in aviation SR?" "Probably Lockheed or Northrop." "Not the Company, a guy who really effected aviation, like Howard Hughes. "
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@planechasin
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@volcaholic1 Yea if I saw a bottomless hole in the ground, the last thing I'm doing is starting to stomp on the ground surrounding it. Darwin Award.
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@planechasin
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6 months
Staredown
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@planechasin
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6 months
Never seen such a blaze pink sunset over Chicago, featuring @FedExPilots
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@planechasin
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5 months
So about the 18Z HRRR
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@planechasin
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9 months
@alt_echo_ Firefly is real New Glenn 😳 Starship is real
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@planechasin
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6 months
States celebrating kc win Vs people who realize the NFL is scripted. gn
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@planechasin
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11 months
@TeamCharleston @MCASBeaufortSC My $800 phone has Find-My-Iphone. But there's no Find-My-F35, on a $80 million jet?
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@planechasin
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@Factschaser Oooo catch that ratio bozo
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@planechasin
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2 months
Very interesting to see SpaceX testing reentry on IFT4 *with* heat shield tiles missing. This is likely to test Starship's ability to reenter with missing tiles and push the limits of its operational envelope in a reentry profile. Definitely gonna get HOT in those spots.
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@planechasin
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11 months
Significant shift back West in the latest model guidance for #Idalia Still, a *very* fluid situation, and these shifts can continue to oscillate in either direction. From Pensacola to Tampa, be prepared for the worst.
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@planechasin
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4 months
One more for the F35 bros while I'm here 🤝
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@planechasin
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6 months
Turn n' burn
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@planechasin
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9 months
Anyone know what this is? (context clues)
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@planechasin
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3 months
Someone pinch me
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@planechasin
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2 months
What's the record for the smallest 5% tor? That's gotta be close, if not it.
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@planechasin
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6 months
@MCCCANM Get your medical before anything else. 1 in 10 men have a color deficiency (I was one), took nearly 2 years, dozens of letters and calls, and a lot of time to get a clean first class. More then happy to help anyone here who might need a SODA or OCVT cert
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@planechasin
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6 months
People really driving halfway across the country for the goofy ahh setup in Illinois tomorrow and I'm debating if it's worth the hour-long drive.
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@planechasin
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3 months
This was Oshkosh 2018 iirc. The videos from my old iPhone 5c are long gone :/ 📹: horsemoney/yt
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@planechasin
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6 months
Golden girl
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6 months
This way bro
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3 months
@DougCarlisle 250,000 lbs/hr with the cans lit has never looked so good.
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@planechasin
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7 months
I'm so done with the Chicago, I mean talk about a total flop on almost every CAM and global model. What happened? It's always a rain/snow line and we spend 3 days debating if it's gonna be 20 miles south or 20 miles north and it's always north.
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@planechasin
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9 months
@CSI_Starbase Yup, CRS-1. At T+ 79 seconds, the fuel dome above the #1 engine ruptured and caused a failure of the #1 engine fairing. Still made a nominal orbit insertion and the mission was successful, just a little longer burn for the other 8 engines.
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@planechasin
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11 months
@thenewarea51 Just gonna sit back and watch the comment section. Do your thing!
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@planechasin
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3 months
@wx_hawkins That's not a streamer it's a camera artifact, that's why it's an exact mirror of the leader.
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@planechasin
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Honestly, this was one of the hardest engineering courses I have taken in the last 4 years. It's the reason I missed so many great airshows and haven't been posting a lot of original content. This email almost brought me to tears. So worth it, and I learned so much.
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@planechasin
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10 months
@chan_lambda @SpoxSpace So while the thrust puck and Octaweb are mounted symmetrical, the engines are offset on the outside of each part of the Octaweb to allow enough clearance for the gas generator between each engine.
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@planechasin
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You may ask yourself. Is that a J3 Cub? Is that a J3 Cub on floats? Is that a J3 Cub on floats with a door-mounted AR? Yes. Yes, it is. Why? Because America.
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@planechasin
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6 months
Of course, Mother Nature didnt leave us without a show, Illinois delivers the goods. #ilwx
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@planechasin
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6 months
We are so back
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@planechasin
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2 months
Alright im gonna say it... "Derecho" #ilwx
@planechasin
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2 months
Can we use the "D" word yet? #ilwx
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@planechasin
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3 months
Both pilots declared an emergency out of caution and made a safe landing with no injuries reported. Excellent display of airmanship and hoping to see the Ghost Squadron getting back up there and continuing to improve.
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@planechasin
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6 months
Russia wants to put weapons in space? We got something for that.
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@thenewarea51 Farmers taking the Cicada invasion seriously
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@planechasin
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1 month
HAHAHAHA, the *bonk* sound from the frying pan. This is so satisfying!
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I just caught a fucking burgler in my house. Holy shit.:. Almost killed him,Hit him with a frying pan! Got him!!!
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@planechasin
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5 months
It's been real Canada
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@planechasin
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6 months
It’s trying just west of Magnolia #ilwx
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@planechasin
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9 months
Explosive charges are being loaded into Starship. You know what that means🫢
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@planechasin
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1 year
Was looking through some random photos from this evening. Had a “hol’ up there” moment.
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@planechasin
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6 months
Shoutout to all the people calling it Scud *Does EF-1 damage*
@NWSQuadCities
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6 months
Our 1st tornado of the year occurred yesterday near Henry IL. Our survey team found damage to trees and outbuildings. The tornado also overturned a semi on Hwy 18 east of Henry. For more info:
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@planechasin
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5 months
I did a thing
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@planechasin
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9 months
@Brodie_Friesen The X37 is gonna ϱ̸̥̩̰̰̳̈́̑̈́̋͠ȍ̴͇̻͈̦̃̐̒͜͠ ̵͉̱̦̠̍̎̎̊͒ͅɈ̸̼̱͙̦̰͗̂́̄̀o̶̢̥̯͇͙͋̒̀̉̽ ̴̙̙̥̥͕͒̈́̊͆͆Ɉ̴̨̢͓̰͇́̄͒͘͠ʜ̴̟̤̺͍͎̓̏̾̂̅ before its next mission. Then they plan on ƨ̷̗͉̹̠͖̂̎̊͘͘n̴̙̥̺̳̠͋̑̆̚͠ɒ̸̧̗̖̦̲͐͛͌̓̌ʞ̴̜͎̼͓͐̾̅͂͂͜ɘ̵̧̧̢̫̹̀͂̓̾͝ ̵̢̠̗̠͓̾̉̀̅͠ḑ̸̫̬͈̖̀̒̃̈́͊ɒ̸͔̣̦̟̀̋͌̍͑ͅ by the end of year.
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@planechasin
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3 months
Here's a random unedited picture of an Osprey.
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@planechasin
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3 months
@terryfizgerald Yea I'll tip my hat to that one, that had to have been awesome
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@planechasin
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27 days
Happy Fourth of July
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@planechasin
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6 months
Lowering on the soon to be tornado warned storm just West of Magnolia, ~4:15, 2/8 #ilwx
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@planechasin
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8 months
@culpable_mink Destin made a lot of good points but I think his perception of Artemis and Apollo is off. Artemis has radically different goals as compared to Apollo. Yea, hypergolics are easier, yes an NHRO orbit is new. But just like Apollo, Artemis will do things never done before.
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@planechasin
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7 months
Wow, in just 12 hours we went from little if any agreement between global models and CAMs to solid across-the-board agreement. Will be watching this like a hawk, but it looks increasingly likely we will be in for a real doozy! Get ready Chicago! #ilwx
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@planechasin
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6 months
Ok one more for the night, I can't not post this because it's from the same day and one of my favorites.
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@planechasin
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4 months
Bree (right) will be around the airport a few times training her successor, Nyxi (left)
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@planechasin
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Good morning
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@planechasin
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8 months
This might be the most beautiful thing I have laid eyes on. GYY, RNAV Z RWY 12: MSTRD-RELSH-PCKLE-TMATO-ONYIN + NOOOO-KCHUP
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@planechasin
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4 months
After 10 years our dedicated airport work dog Bree has retired. It was always so much fun to watch Bree and her handler zooming around the airport. As a dog I couldn’t imagine a better life than getting to chase birds, rabbits squirrels and what else…as a job! She’ll be missed
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@planechasin
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5 months
Nothing yet south of Kankakee. But a wicked sunset.
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@planechasin
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12 days
It gets better! The C-17 showed up with another goodie! An X-40!
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@planechasin
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4 months
I'm not too happy with how this turned out, I put way too many sequence shots. I'll have another version either tonight or tmrw but here's something for now.
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