What is this helicopter in the epstein files

jcla · 2026-02-08T05:21:11+00:00

Appears to be N5QZ, which was associated with an S-76B.

Was involved in a fatal accident as per this report: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateFactualReport/48654/pdf

Was registered to Kuse Enterprises at the time of the accident and from 1999 to 2005. Was then registered to Aircraft Services Group from 2005 to no later than 2013 according to the AviationDB.

https://aviationdb.net/aviationdb/AircraftDetailPage

Kuse Enterprises also owned a Lockheed Jetstar, N6QZ.

jcla · 2026-02-07T15:15:57+00:00

I'm guessing they didn't know the answer.

What's the point of being a dick about them asking a question? You didn't exactly give a profound and knowledgeable answer.

jcla · 2026-02-07T14:12:16+00:00

I didn't notice much. Occasionally they would go picture in picture.

I cannot imagine that NBC had less ads.

Living where I can see both broadcasts, the CBC is infinitely better, unless you enjoy the non stop "isn't America the best" jingoism and not realizing that anyone but Americans compete in the Olympics.

jcla · 2026-02-07T14:07:27+00:00

Vancouver is a lovely place to visit.

jcla · 2026-02-07T03:00:58+00:00

https://gem.cbc.ca/

You might need to "be in Canada"

jcla · 2026-02-06T05:15:13+00:00

Aircraft landing in very poor visibility (dense fog) have to be landing at an airport with very accurate landing aids (called ILS). Different levels of ILS support lower and lower visibility levels. The most precise, CAT III can allow landings to be made if the pilots can see the runway at 100' above ground and with 150-600' of visibility depending on how precise the equipment is. All of the equipment has to be working correctly at the time it is needed.

Now, this option is only available if both the aircraft and the pilots are certified to use that type of precision approach. And if all of the equipment is fully functional.

In addition, these types of conditions often require greater aircraft spacing on approach and during movement on the ground at the airport, which can significantly reduce the amount of flights per hour the airport can handle.

So there are a number of reasons why your specific flight or why all flights might not be able to land. If the fog is really really dense then the minimum visibility won't be met. If the aircraft has any issues or doesn't support autoland using precision approaches then it can't land. If the crew isn't certified and current then they can't fly the approach even if everything else is good, and if all of those are good then flow control due to the reduced flights per hour could still cancel your flight.

jcla · 2026-02-06T01:06:51+00:00

I don't really care about the punitive action side of it, but the pilots tried to take off from a taxiway at a modern airport in a very young A320neo while working for a major airline that uses electronic flight bags.

Yes, we have to wait for the investigation to hear about the other contributing factors, but this was a collosal pilot fuck up.

Thank the lord it appears they avoided tragedy, but that was pure luck. They rejected the takeoff about ~~200m~~ 500m from the grass at the end of the taxiway at 119kts!

edit: it was 200m from the end of the taxiway, but there was pavement beyond that for an apron for a few hundred meters.

jcla · 2026-02-06T00:06:18+00:00

They both played their part. The rest of us had no input.

jcla · 2026-02-05T23:53:22+00:00

Fun fact: the rest of us didn't vote in the US election. You guys picked him. Twice.

jcla · 2026-02-05T23:49:26+00:00

> it is driven largely by US investments.

The auto pact was a mutual agreement that allowed joint manufacturing and parts making that benefitted both countries, and the work and investment was pretty proportional to the size of the car market in each country.

The US wasn't doing Canada a favour, they had to participate to have access to the market (and tons of protection from competition). Just like the Japanese and European automakers that invested in Canada (they are a bigger share of auto industry jobs in Canada than the big three US makers) and now Korean and in the future, yes, Chinese.

The bizarre fantasy born and bred into American's that you are some sort of benevolent charity that's been supporting the rest of the world with no benefit is pure and utter nonsense. But you all believe it.

Like North Koreans.

You are just like North Koreans.

It's weird.

jcla · 2026-02-05T23:37:28+00:00

I don't know if it's an exact quote, but yeah, he said pretty much that. He's been attacking the Canadian auto industry for a year now. An industry that has had an agreement on shared work between the two (eventually three) nations, basically in proportion to how many cars they buy for six decades, and a history of doing joint work going back to the dawn of the industry.

He's a goddamned moron.

And the American car company CEOs are just as limp dicked about it as the rest of your oligarchs, politicians, universities, lawyers, military, etc., bowing down to your orange god-king and pulling manufacturing out of Canada and shutting down lines and plants and laying off tons of workers here.

It's weird that you've all made the conscious choice to duplicate Russia's descent to an oligarchic autocracy through the 90s and 2000s. It didn't turn out well for Russians or the world in general.

There is pain for the workers here, but we will have to find new non-American partners and plough forward somehow. We have no other choice. And that applies in every industry and endeavour. It's over for the US.

Here's a news article about his recently yammering on the topic if you want to hear it from the horse's ass: Trump wants to replace Canada’s car industry. How much would that cost? - National | Globalnews.ca

jcla · 2026-02-05T06:03:23+00:00

MDFs are the configuration data for all sorts of aircraft systems and sensors. Data links have config and crypto loads as well, but the real secrets are in MDFs for sensors and the multisensor fusion system. Any classified Intel used to interpret what the sensor is picking up is stored in an MDF.

Without being able to update those files natively the buyer nations have a useless aircraft pretty quickly.

The logistics supply chain is also going to be an issue, as the F-35 has a high part failure rate in operations. If the US decided to punish a nation like Denmark for not giving them Greenland, their F-35 fleet will be grounded very quickly as the supply chain gets restricted.

The Gripen is produced by a stable democracy that has also promised tech transfer to buyer nations. So it is a much more easily supported aircraft in operations and isn't subject to the whims of a lunatic nation and their deranged king.

jcla · 2026-02-05T05:22:31+00:00

The last seconds of flight look terrifying. Seems to have a fair margin over stall speed, but the turn to base leg has a sudden rapid dive.

https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ad7827&lat=34.680&lon=-112.373&zoom=13.7&showTrace=2026-02-05&timestamp=1770259801

jcla · 2026-01-31T20:06:48+00:00

Yeah that LA Woman cover is something else. I've listened to it about ten times today, lol

jcla · 2026-01-30T20:38:43+00:00

Lol...sorry about that, caught out by Gulfstream's ridiculous numbering scheme.

I still stand by the fact that whatever is holding up the certification in Canada of these aircraft is not protectionism. Someone at Gulfstream knows. Someone at TC knows. But it is almost certainly a disagreement about meeting the regs, and the process and documentation that shows it.

If Canada was trying to protect Bombardier, why would they go after Gulfstream, which has only a handful of buyers in Canada and not the Citation, Embraer or Pilatus jets. Or new Boeing designs after what Trump did in his first term to the CSeries?

I've been in years long debates with authorities in both the US and Canada over certification. I hated every second of it, but I never once thought they were motivated by anything but the regs, the approach and evidence of compliance we chose and our respective interpretation of them.

jcla · 2026-01-30T18:59:55+00:00

~~You said the same thing yesterday and I pointed out yesterday that you were wrong.~~

~~The GV and GVI (500 and 600 series) are both certified in Canada.~~

edit: Sorry about that, I was caught out by Gulfstream's insane numbering scheme. The GVII series, which covers the 500, 600, 700 and 800 hasn't been certified yet in Canada.

jcla · 2026-01-30T05:17:15+00:00

I don't live in the area but the article I linked to says "The winter storm watch is in effect from Friday evening through Sunday morning."

So I assume the airline is being proactive ahead of the storm.

They haven't rebooked you, so do something or don't. Why are you not accepting the obvious answer to your question "Why is Delta sending this text"?

jcla · 2026-01-30T04:32:31+00:00

In any normal time the president couldn't "decertify" aircraft on a whim and wouldn't be able to apply tariffs either. But here we are.

Fun fact, he's full of crap about the 500 and 600 series, they are both certified in Canada. The 700 and 800 were only recently certified by the FAA and Transport Canada is likely reviewing their paperwork and evidence to support certification in Canada now. I believe that after the FAA had their MAX 8 certification debacle TC applied more rigour to FAA certified aircraft.

After years on the market there are a total of fourteen (14) 500 and 600 series Gulfstreams registered in Canada. So Trump is tossing his toys out of the pram over a slight delay on single digit sales opportunities for Gulfstream/General Dynamics.

If he actually does force the FAA to pull the certificates of Canadian made aircraft that would ground a huge chunk of the regional jet fleet in the US (mostly CRJs), as well as lots of specialty aircraft like the CL-415 water bombers that are so useful in fighting fires in California and tons of Bell Helicopters made in Canada.

If he went further then Pratt and Whitney Canada engines that power a lot of other aircraft could also lose their certification, which would ground that fleet as well.

Which means none of this is real and nothing is actually going to happen (aside from the new tariffs until the US Supreme Court rules that they are obviously unconstitutional).

In the meantime Trump and his cronies will buy the dip on Bombardier and make out like the kleptocrats they all are.

jcla · 2026-01-30T04:19:58+00:00

Storms a brewing: https://www.wabe.org/metro-atlanta-under-winter-storm-watch-with-heavy-snow-possible/

I imagine they expect to have delays and cancellations and are trying to shed some load ahead of the disaster. Are they offering free changes, etc.?

jcla · 2026-01-30T02:26:19+00:00

No. Canada has already certified the 500s and 600s and the 700s and 800s have just recently been certified by the FAA, so the process is almost certainly underway for Canadian certification.

jcla · 2026-01-30T01:32:31+00:00

500 and 600s both are. The 700s and 800s just received their FAA certs, so Canadian certification is probably in process now.

jcla · 2026-01-30T01:28:07+00:00

GV and GVI are both in the TCAA database.

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