#Commercial aviation

[nocternalrandomness]

DHC-6 operated by Maldevian Aero at the Vakkaru Maldives Resort

[chronicsheepdevelopment]

So what’s your guys opinion on a game starring different makes of Aircraft?

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All African American crew

[aviationgeek2024]

[deceptigoons-attack]

04:30 😔😔

[crazycatsiren]

[wachinyeya]

Virgin Atlantic Flight from London Makes History as First Transatlantic Jet Using 100% Sustainable Fuel https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/virgin-atlantic-flight-from-london-makes-history-as-first-transatlantic-jet-using-100-sustainable-fuel/

[b777-36n]

i figured you guys might appreciate this

[image ID: a photo of a UPS 757 flying with gear down. The image has been edited with a pink filter and pink hearts around the edges. Neon cursive pink text around the plane says “Babygirl!!” “Slay” and “go queen” end ID]

[bonerdonorxxx44]

[nocternalrandomness]

"MD-10"

[davidaugust]

Come on, would a massive defense contractor really have any hand in the death between testimonies of a whistleblower when individuals at that company could personally face financial and criminal consequences for things the person testifying was going to say?

I mean to even suggest such a thing is ludicrous. Boeing would never have any part in killing a whistleblower. It is literally the last thing they would do. They don’t even make movies about that sort of thing, that’s how crazy that pure fantasy is.

From the article:

“At the time of his death, Mr Barnett had been in Charleston for legal interviews linked to that case.”

“Last week, he gave a formal deposition in which he was questioned by Boeing's lawyers, before being cross-examined by his own counsel.”

“He had been due to undergo further questioning on Saturday. When he did not appear, enquiries were made at his hotel.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68534703

[chronicsheepdrawing]

Here are some simple little mockup posters(?) for my 2001 A Space Odyssey AUs!

A rundown of each is under the Readmore.

The Messenger AU- As Discovery One makes it’s way to the Jovian system, Dave starts receiving visions that grow more frequent and vivid as they approach; Sights of distant galaxies and worlds take over his mind and he slowly becomes fixated on them ( possibly also an influence from the Monolith ), gradually changing his perception that these are just random thoughts into a firm belief that he’s being communicated with. He keeps this from Frank and Hal the best he can, though he noticeably loses focus in what the other’s are saying and will often draw what he remembers seeing as time goes on.

Once they are close enough to TMA-2 for an EVA Pod to make it there, Dave ‘goes rogue’ while Frank is asleep, shutting Hal off to keep him from interfering. Frank wakes up shortly after, just in time to find Dave, only in his flight suit, behind the locked interior door to the Pod Bay and about to take off. He shouts at him to stop and open the door, but it’s too late.

The next time Dave returns he has become a Star Child and has some explaining to do.

Imposter AU- ( Get all your Among Us jokes out now ) The trip to Jupiter goes without incident; Hunter, Whitehead and Kaminski are awoken from hibernation to begin studying the Monolith in orbit, however, Dave and Frank are kept awake for a short while to assist in their observations.

Dave is eventually sent out to inspect the Monolith, and to everyone’s surprise he is suddenly sucked through it; panic ensues as the crew try to contact Bowman and discern what happened, but he returns soon after unharmed. He’s of course given a quick physical once he’s back in the ship; everything appears to be normal so he’s then questioned about what he saw, to which he gives vague answers and claims he can’t quite remember.

A few weeks pass, and Frank and Dave are finishing up what they need to do and preparing for hibernation when something else exits the Monolith. It’s an EVA Pod- except it appears severely charred and worn. Then a voice comes over the communications system screaming to let him in, it’s Dave’s. Once one of them moves a pod out of the way and the mysterious extra one enters, Dave exits from it’s hatch. He’s disheveled, sporting some facial scruff and unkempt hair, he’s completely naked, and most worrying of all is that he’s covered in decently fresh surgical scars. As soon as Dave exits the pod he blacks out, hitting the deck’s floor.

The Dave that’s been with them seems just as shocked, but he’s ushered into a spare room or closet which is now very abruptly going to be used as a makeshift interrogation and holding cell- Hal is told not to let him out without explicit permission. Meanwhile the Dave that’s just returned is brought to the medical bay for examination and rest, when he awakes once more it seems he’s too shocked by his ordeal to properly communicate what happened.

It turns out the ‘Dave Bowman’ that had been sent back the first time was a fake made to keep the crew happy and to make observations/carry out tasks on the Monolith Beings behalf. He looks normal on the surface but the more you examine him the more ‘off’ and uncanny he seems. His wrinkles seem molded in rather than naturally formed, his teeth are too perfect, he has no scars, his fingerprints are far too uniform, his blood type is simply a mix of the most common blood types with no regard for how they’d work, and if you were to open him up you’d find that many of his organs appear to have no function than just filling space or have dead ends.

Imposter Dave hadn’t even known he was fake or that some of his actions were being influenced by The Monolith, after all he was given all the memories and experiences of the Real Dave Bowman, but of course no one believes him when he says he honestly doesn’t know what’s going on- but now he has to come to terms with the fact his memories are false and that he’s technically not even human. Meanwhile the Real Dave is having to recover from being used as an extraterrestrial science experiment and doubts if he even really escaped or if this is just a simulation to placate him, after all, the Monolith Beings tried to replicate a human hospital to their best ability while he was in there- but several small errors and inconsistencies in how the place functioned and Bowman’s memories of the Discovery gradually returning made it obvious that something was wrong.

2001 A Sky Odyssey- Instead of the Discovery One being a Spaceship, it is a fictionally advanced version of a Boeing 777, with Hal as it’s autopilot. Dave Bowman is the flight’s Captain while Frank Poole is his First Officer, and they’re tasked with flying the aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean to a specific destination. Only three passengers are aboard, the scientists Hunter, Whitehead and Kaminski, and they’re actually out to study a strange artifact floating over the open sea, the Monolith.

Like in the main timelines of the book and movie, as Dave and Frank approach their destination- Hal becomes stressed about the fact that they may find out the true purpose of their mission, and so somehow incapacitates Frank, locks Dave out of the cockpit, and attempts to murder all those aboard in order to ensure the success of the mission.

Hal fails though, as Dave is able to reenter the cockpit and shut him off before substantial damage is done. It’s unknown what happens when they reach the Monolith.

[aviationgeek2024]

The City of New York has lost one of its Finest, Police Officer Jonathan Diller.

Our hearts are broken as we mourn the loss of our brother in blue. Our prayers are with his wife, young child, parents, & the NYPD. We vow to always honor his sacrifice & memory.

#FidelisAdMortem

[deceptigoons-attack]

✨🌸 Not helping send out the plane means plane photo opportunity. ✈️

[crazycatsiren]

*flirting* so you wanna come over and watch airplane documentaries with me?

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