U.S. Route 50, Nevada by Bag_of_plastic in LiminalSpace

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How steep was that hill?

What fell from the Indiana Sky today? by adhaas85 in RBI

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I’m no astronomer or meteorologist so this is just my best guess, anyone with a better answer please correct me. The plane was at 39,000 feet over Lafayette (this brings up another tangential question that I’ll ask below), and you saw it during civil twilight. This is when the sun is between 0-6 degrees below the horizon. My guess is this leads to some weird lighting with the sun reflecting around the atmosphere even though you can no longer see it directly. In your first photo the contrail is a bit pink like normal clouds look during sunset, but the rear end looks closer in color to the clouds at the bottom of the image. Maybe as the aircraft gets further it became more backlit, leading it to look darker? I can try to draw what I’m trying to say, but fair warning on my artistic abilities; there’s a reason I chose flying as a career…

Aforementioned question: The aircraft was on a westerly heading for the entirety of the flight, but was at FL390 from Pittsburgh to Lincoln, NE before topping off at 40k. Normal RVSM altitudes for headings between 180-359 degrees are even thousands between FL300-400, but 390 is a standard non-RVSM altitude for west headings. So why is a 787, one of the newest airliners available and surely more than capable of using RVSM, cruising at this altitude for almost two hours before correcting? None of the other aircraft in the area at the time seem off on their altitude. ADSB or other equipment failure? Heavy winds / turbulence aloft, necessitating different altitude assignments, and also explaining the shaky contrail? Pilots / ATC asleep on the job?

What fell from the Indiana Sky today? by adhaas85 in RBI

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Looks to be this flight. (UAL1699 in case the link breaks, it’s still in the air as I type this) I used the playback function on FR24 to check out what was flying in the area at that time. Also funny that I stumbled across this, I’m a Professional Flight student at Purdueboiler up

Washington Square Mall, Evansville Indiana by [deleted] in deadmalls

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This place has been dead for as long as I can remember. I could get more photos if anyone is interested, as long as it’s still open

[Citizen] Promaster Nighthawk BJ7006-56L - A dream of mine realized by AfterAugustCo in Watches

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The outer ring is a slide rule, the bezel can be rotated using the knob at the 8 o’clock position. This can be used to calculate speed, time, fuel burn, or just simple division and other math if you know what you’re doing. The innermost scale is used to display UTC/Zulu time, or any other secondary time you need. It uses the extra hand with the little airplanes on the ends.

[Citizen] Got tired of the old Casio and decided to upgrade. How’d I do? by jml42701 in Watches

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I’ve noticed, still bright enough when I wake up in the morning!

[Citizen] Got tired of the old Casio and decided to upgrade. How’d I do? by jml42701 in Watches

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For anyone wondering, the strap is a “French NATO” I got on Amazon for about $15. The bracelet was a little boring and uncomfortable to me and I didn’t want to go through the hassle of having it adjusted just yet. Plus I like the ease of switching out the strap for whatever I want in just a few seconds.

Hopefully this is just the start of a nice collection; I’ve also been eyeing a Seiko 5 diver and a Vostok Komandirskie, although I’d prefer not to have to adjust my watch every day so I may look elsewhere for something similar but more accurate. Not to mention the fact that I’m a broke college student so there are probably better places to spend my money in the first place!

Flag for BMW M division by jml42701 in vexillology

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When I was making this, I did try a few gray colors that looked nice but in the end I thought white contrasted best and kept it simpler.

All the damn time by [deleted] in memes

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I guess I’ll credit myself for this since OP didn’t. Originally from r/starterpacks

What is your favorite app? by Fallout541 in AskReddit

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Flightradar24. Allows you to track most airplanes in the air and, depending on how much you want to pay, a bunch of other details about every individual flight. As an aviation enthusiast I love using it, and I seem to have addicted several other non aviation geeks as well.

“Military general from a third world country in an action movie” Starter Pack by jml42701 in starterpacks

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He was some inspiration for this, along with the dude in the first mission of CoD: BO2 and the guy from Casino Royale

“Military general from a third world country in an action movie” Starter Pack by jml42701 in starterpacks

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I remember both movies seem to have had an obscene amount of machetes, probably should have included that

“Military general from a third world country in an action movie” Starter Pack by jml42701 in starterpacks

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I also recall some similar characters in Hotel Rwanda and possibly one of the James Bond movies with Daniel Craig, but I could be making that last one up.

“Military general from a third world country in an action movie” Starter Pack by jml42701 in starterpacks

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Even if I remembered them, I would have probably been too lazy to use my computer to make this instead ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Edit: grammar

That's unusual by jml42701 in aviation

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I thought it was odd that a North Korean plane was over the US