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The crew actually died on the impact of the front section. Here are some picture of the impact area: One of my grandfather was still engaged in the French National Gendarmerie on this day, and was sent on the crash site (less than a year later he went to the forest of Ermenonville, where Turkish 981 went down). For both of the cases he nearly never told us anything about, as he simply didn't want to think about what he saw there. Anyway, for 77102 the peoples on the ground were "lucky" that it happen on a Sunday, as the Tu-144 rear section impacted a school (still killing 8 children, but it could have been worse on a week day). Here is an "artifact" of the aircraft, an ashtray from one of the first class passenger seat which can be seen just under the model. My grandpa found it on the site some days after the disaster.

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Today was an occasion for the engineers team to go back to Eve, three contract having been signed. One of them asked for a ComSat to be placed on a geostationary orbit, the second asked for a lander and the third for science transmission from the surface. Sole problem? Mortimer once again asked for more efforts and better efficiency! This finance guy will end up selling us all... Anyway, one solution was still possible: to place the Sat and the lander on the same flight! The mission receiving the name of Evera. Pretty cheap and with good performances, the light-medium Alliance 2-1b was chosen to be the carrier: Powerful kicking with a TWR of 1.9 at launch. The Kerman Kross that everybody knows. Following a common and easy launch, it was then time to start the transfer after only 14 minutes in orbit. Having 1.2 km/s of impulse still available the second stage took care of everything... Before being ejected perfectly. Then 213 long and boring day followed... Until our arrival in Eve sphere of influence. Immediately Evera's relay was separated to realize some maneuvers. A perfect geostationary orbit being reached after only two passes. First contract successful. But the most stressing had to be completed:

Thank you so much for these tips. I used to build all my SSTO drugged and overpowered by 4 or 6 RAPIER (for the light and medium category), with a lot of air intakes, until I discovered your topic. And the best? It works immediately! That craft reached an orbit of 85 km, met with a station at 250 km and deorbit with around 15 units of fuel remaining, and at the first flight!

I just love them. To me the BAe 146/ Avro RJs family was just another proof of how elegant the British aircraft manufacturers were. Which tactical bomber was more elegant and sexy than the TSR.2 in the 60's? Even if I enjoy the lines of the Mirage IV, they are not as smooth than the wonder from BAC. The same for the VC10, and the Trident which were graceful.

I am coming from a small coast city called Granville, in the French region of Normandy. But, I am currently living in Florida, after having moved about 24 times in 6 different countries of Europe and North America... Since I was 14 years old I never stayed at the same place more than 2 years. It pleased to me, but now I would like to stay somewhere at least for 5 to 7 years; it will soon be 11 years that my life can be resumed in two suitcases and a backpack.

The decision was taken to work on another small and fast exploration aircraft able to reach a pole and came back. Codename: Sarcina! Knew for her courage, Willey was selected for the test flights! And she seemed to enjoy and be proud of this honor! Take-off! Willey is, once again, demonstrating her bravery and confidence while flying this beautiful monster! Impressive reactivity from the craft, mixed with high speeds possibilities at very low level, AND an awesome maneuvera... ... OK. Anyway, it probably was the fault of Willey. The craft was too complexe and performant even for her! Let's go back with a reviewed model! In live report from Lt. Kerman are indicating her extreme confidence in this version! YEEEEEHAAAAAAAWWWWW!!! THIS IS INCREDIBLE, THIS IS AWESOME, THIS IS PERF', OH SHI.... OK, for the 2nd time... I will work on it later. Thank you Willey.

The incredible possibilities the randomely names generator offers to us... ................................................................ Even Barnie could not retain himself from laughing at her.

It is my first day in months I was able to play a bit, so I finally decided to complete a mini satellites constellation : 125 parts yeah... but only 5.3 tooooonnnnns... Toucan 18 is climbing with the Dwarf units on-board. Inclination aimed: 45 degrees. Time to separate after 1 min 30 s of flight only. The payload fairing was separated once 50 km has been reached. It definitively lacked force, and was ugly to look at. Ap placed at 350 km for now. The second stage past over the southern mountains at approx 80 km. Circularization and... Release of the first comsat successful. The rest is way too long to be show directly, so the best was to place them in a spoiler. Then followed... The end for the 2nd stage which was deorbitted with its fuel residue. End of the mission. Eight small relay in orbit for the modest amount of around 7300 funds.

One of the two KC-707-329 Re'em from the IDF at Brest. They were of their way to participate to Red Flag 2014 and made a stop at our airport. It was the fourth and last time for now I've seen 707s. And I will never forget them as during the same day sunset a friend and I were walking along the coast. When, suddenly, we heard some thunderous noise. By looking at the South it was possible for us to see four black smoke trails climbing to the sky. I guess their next step were the Açores. A French Air Force A310-300, still at Brest, but I can't remember why it was there that day... DA40NG F-HOOO. The airclub used to have a fleet of 10 aircraft at the time I leaved, 3 of them being Diamond Star. But of these three Oscar x 3 was the best (to me). Less failures, and, strangely, a better behavior than the others two in flight. F-HOAA rear view from F-HOOO. A good way to see the offset forward gear. Just like the beautiful HS 121 Trident. ---- This ex-BA livery got something exceptional to my taste. I found it was even more better on their 757s, going pretty well with their fine lines.

It's pretty hard to have a real favorite, I am thinking about Mardock Scramble, Perfect Blue or Wicked City (glorious!) are passing through my minds, without counting C.B and Planets already announced over. I, actually, got a friend of mine who is still at 24 totally seduced and crazy of Sailor Moon... but I should admit, I used to be crazy of Sailor Mercury as a kid (Mr. Freud would had enjoyed our cases).

Some I shared online years ago with JetPhotos.net, before it become some kind of an "artistic but boring" website for usual everyday aircraft: The BSL Airlines Il-78M landing at Juliana in 95, about a week after hurricane Luis struck the island. A Sun County 727-200Adv. An Air Outre-Mer DC-10-30; still at Juliana. It was in 98, but I still can remember clearly the stop-over destination: La Romana in Dominican Republic, before the final step to Paris Orly. Britair CRJ-1000ER landing at Brest Guipavas. My beloved Juliett-Charlie. This picture actually isn't mine... and for a good reason as I was in the cockpit that day.

I'm gonna look like an old timer but... The Aeronauts, originally Les Chevalier du Ciel: Following I would go for: Starsky & Huch (yes, that's old too) Pensacola Wings of Gold (less old, but still) Airwolf Wire in the Blood Midsomer Murders Wallander Knight Rider Drawn Together (just love the level of criticism)

Awesome! Thank you so much, this flag is my favorite since childhood (with Alaska and Mozambique). Also, I was thinking about flags your art remembered me, the first being Saint-Lucia as above. And I finally rememerbered the one I was thinking about, the Seychelles.

Peoples from Saint-Lucia would love your art: Could it be possible to you to realize the flag of Antigua and Barbuda?

Cuz' the gravity is an ILLUSION! All of you actually are prison3rs of the Zionist, who are under the rules of the ILLUMINATIS!!!!!!!! Poor peoples, most of you are actually sleepy in special cans and only us got the chance to choose the red pill! Wake up peoples! --- More seriously, if the ideas they are defending are based on non-scientific facts, it's then impossible to counter them with logic.

I'm just coming back from Jetty Park Pier, at approx 17 km/10 miles south from SLC-40. They are not really good, alas.

Iron Maiden nearly saved me from sleeping in my car with one of their most famous song. Without joking, I was driving for about 6 hours already and due to the rain and all the traditional traffic jams, I decided to stop a bit on the side, just to rest. But I started to fall asleep... until this : It really helped to wake up once again! I also loved the host making a ridiculous but fun comment like "We are in the room number 667, so I guest we could be called the Neighbors of the Beast".

I laugh while reading it. It seems so impossible indeed! But to be honest there was two other cars behind me. And you're totally right, it was on the upper Selmon Expressway. Despite having a SunPass I usually took the Adamo Drive, but yesterday it was so busy that the Expressway was the best choice to evade it.

I decided to leave a bit the small shuttles and to go back to the launcher. There is one I want to build since the beginning but I never found any force (and powerful enough computer) to make it... so I finally decided to realize a compact version of it. Let me introduce you... (drum roll) Mini Zenit-3SL Long and difficult to build! At a time I simply stop to have attention to some details... But it finally work. The whole vessel can be drove at 60 m/s without any problems while the maximum on the sea is more than 25 m/s. Its endurance gives it the possibility to reach a pole. As it was an inaugural flight I decided to maintain a heading of 45 for about a hour. A small fuel tank gives the possibility to start the engines and let them burn half a second before lift off. Climbing smoothly under the thrust of four Thud engines. Then the rest was extremely "trite" : First stage separation at 01 min 43 sec. The second stage then realized a perfect performance with its 3.3 km/s of impulsion available. And a lot of possibilities were still available after the circularization maneuver at 1000 km, the ComSat having more than 3.6 km/s for its part. Crazy but much more fun than what I expected.

Some closer views of the piece : The 76 mm round was able to reach an altitude of more than 30 000 feet, nearly 10 km, at its maximum elevation. Most of the pieces are present and you can even seat down here if you want! The Louisiana gas ship entering into the port while two tugboats were taking care of the maneuvers. It firstly surprise me not by the size of the ship in this part of the port but by the fact that the Louisiana was registered in Jacksonville (Florida) so in the U.S.A! Not in a tax haven like the Bahamas, Liberia or the Marshall Islands as usual. I simply could not retain myself from sitting down at the gun... Two close view of the bow anchor mechanism and its gears. We are now leaving the bow for the stern. Here we can see the vessel became a disco ship with purple lights. A panoramic view of the rear section with typical Floridian weather... which means sun and thunder clouds. OH YES!!! FOR SURVIVAL! Then after 20 seconds of break to cool down a bit we restart our walk to reach the stern with its particular smoking area. Next step? The stern cannons! Other views of a 3 inch/50 cal dual purpose canon. Waiting for enemy aircraft! This second piece actually was in a better state than the bow one. Much more pieces still being present, like this complete AA sight. And now let's go to the biggest artillery piece of the ship... The stern 127 mm/5 inch artillery gun. A small turn around of this really famous cannon. Target insight! Distance 200 yards! (Should make a great BOOM) Different instruments of aim. Generator for mechanical assistance in aiming. Of course realizing the aiming just by human force would have required huge efforts from multiple crew sailors. Artillery sights. The phone having a pitiful lens only a panoramic view was able to take a picture of the whole gun, alas. Hercules gave us some company. Strangely with everything deployed at such an altitude. Time to go downstairs once again! Next will be a visit of the inside and the different crew compartments.

Hi all, Today was my last in the Clearwater area before moving to Melbourne, FL, tomorrow. And to take advantage of this I decided to drive to Tampa : The reason? There is a museum here I wanted to visit since a long time... the S.S American Victory! Docked on the Ybor channel, the ship is a general cargo from the Victory class, heir of the much more famous Liberty ships. Built in California in 1945 the ship is the 792nd of its class which counted 875 units. The work started in March and she was launch in May, entering into service on the 20th June 1945. Arriving nearly at the end of the War she was however immediately deployed in the Philippines. Following the end of the conflict she was re-assigned to civil merchant shipping until 1950 when the Korean War started. She then served for three years before being devoted once again to the civil. She finally was deactivated in 1969 and place into reserve. Nearly thirty passed before an association saved her from disassembling at the last moment. They renovate her for more than two millions, transfer her to Tampa and she still is operational to this date, realizing about two trips every years with members of the association. Now, let's go aboard! A traditional and cracking foot bridge to welcome you. Some short stories and different ships models or ammunition are exposed in the welcoming area. Here a destroyer from the Clemson class. The entrance is costing $10. Which is not so much for such a historic piece. O.K let's start! The inboard temperature just is normal for such an old ship, which means terrible. Some fans are present to help the peoples but do not expect any A.C units in most of the ship. Mmmmh and this delicious smell of oil everywhere! You really feel like you still are aboard a living and operational ship! A good example of how "hybrid" the ship was at the date she was placed out of service. A mix of old and outdated stuff with more much modern ones. One deck lower is situated one of the loading area, inaccessible, alas. Let's go up to discover an impressive stock of life jacket, all of them being mark of 80... not so great to stay alive for hours. A bit of light in the darkness. And more important... some fresh air! A view of the ship's bridge. We will go inside later. For now let's walk to the bow. Where we can discover a 76 mm/3 inch dual purpose canon. My local time being 24:25 it's time for me to take a break but I will share the end of the visit tomorrow.

I finally came back home and had some free time to play a bit. Let me introduce you... The Doom Chaser! Able to carry five crazy kerbonauts and to change from an orbital orbit to a perfectly 90 degrees one with its more than 3 km/s of impulsion available. Kicked by a Mainsail and four Thud for a good enough maneuverability the main stage also benefits from the support of four Thumper combined in two. Having one of the most suicidal best control ever, the Doom Chaser only require some knowledge and courage... and some craziness too. The main stage separation occurred around 40 km and at a speed of 1400 m/s, all the controls being finally soft after having passed 10 km. Hopefully the second stage was here to help. And it even had the perfect amount of fuel to place the Ap at 1000 km before the Doom Chaser finalizes the polar circularization by itself. Powered by dual Terrier the craft got a trust-to-weight ration of about 0.77 at max weight but still is able to surprise. The next step was to place the orbiter on a perfect equatorial orbit which required 2.1 km/s of impulsion... not so much! Despite a not-so-bad TWR, the X-24A still needed around four minutes to realize the maneuver but... It made it perfectly, benefiting of 862 m/s still available. Enough to reduce the Pe to 300 km, circularize then deorbit. Starting to deorbit after nearly four hours of flight. It could have been realize sooner but I preferred to get the support of Kerbol for the best brightness during the landing. A maneuver which was not so "easy" as the fuel finally was nearly over with just 2 seconds of burn remaining (...). Here you can enjoy a beautiful plasma which is not able to cover the whole wing... Th reentry appeared to be a bit stressful for the Doom Chaser as it reached 6 g for about five seconds before going down. Then the problems started... despite the craft being empty it, of course, was a true flying brick. Loosing speed dangerously fast it also was extremely hard to fly as the controls were sensitive and way too much! The vertical surface also is way too short for such a small and compact craft. Whatever we kept on! Aaaaaarg, stressful seconds!!!.. but as usual Da Jeb' was enjoying it even if he was near to pass away... But he made it!.. once again... Well... the Doom Chaser really deserved its name as it is terrible to control in the atmosphere. The launch already being a bit hard, the landing for its part simply is rough. But the re-entry clearly was super easy, the craft keeping an excellent angle without any interventions.

All my pleasure I don't know if there is any models fan here but those are the last shot I took here before leaving : The frigate HMCS Halifax (FFH 330) which was the lead ship of her class. Commissioned in 92 she still is in service today. The RMS Empress of Ireland. Pretty sell knew in Canada for its sinking in the Saint Laurent with a Norwegian bulk cargo on the 29th May 1914. But most of the world did not gave so much attention to her disappearance and the investigation following as just a month later Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo... and everybody knows what quickly followed. My second favorite liner ever after the SS Normandie, the SS United States, which still has the Blue Riband of the fastest liner ever built. But as you can see the model, alas, was surrounded of glass. This make every profile pictures impossible without getting reflects or the vertical wood covering it. I'm not totally sure about the ship on the right, it could be the destroyer USS The Sullivans. The Scharnhorst battlecruiser from the Kriegsmarine. Probably one of the most precise of all in the collection with the HMCS Halifax. The precision gave to the 280 and 150 mm turrets were impressive ! Now, as the official war ensign of the Kriegsmarine with its swastika is present at the front of the ship I don't know if they had the right to be on the forum. If not, could one of the moderator erase them? Or I could do it immediately too.

Just awesome! To be honest this was one of the most beautiful day in my life and it gives me the need to look at others one as soon as possible. I would love to go for the launch of TDRS-M with the Atlas V/401 in two days but as she's always launched from Cape Canaveral the closest location I found for and which is not costing "too much" is still pretty far from the launch complex. After nearly two years in Florida I would say it's a nice destination fro any vacancies. You can find a lot of thing to visit and to do nearly everywhere, the only problem being... the food. Not that it is disgusting or badly prepared, not at all, but it is generally very rich and fat. The kind of food you could take just one time during the day and be full until the next day.