Monthly Archive: January 2012

OPShots Photographer Spotlight – Chris Jacobs (chrisjake)

What can I say? Chris Jacobs has been the longest member of OPShots, and has been with us since day one.  In fact, you might even consider him a co-founder of the site! His were the first photos other than mine to appear in the database, and he is still actively uploading whenever he gets …

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Contrail Simulations and how the winds aloft affect what you see – Contrail Science

One often gets satellite images of contrails and it’s hard to visualize what’s going on, especially with racetrack contrails drifting in the wind. So I wrote a little simulator applet to demonstrate the formation of a contrail under various conditions. I have just updated this applet to display contrail grids by default. There are just …

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PC-12 Passes 1,100 Mark, With Follow-On Coming | AVIATION WEEK

There was nothing like it: A pressurized, single-pilot, single-engine turboprop with 1,500-nm range, capable of taking off and landing on short, grass strips, featuring a flat-floor, 6-9-passenger cabin as capacious as those in some medium jets, and with a fully enclosed, flushing lavatory. And in addition to its people door, it had a barn-sized one …

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Southwest reducing fleet while adding seats – AVIATION WEEK

Southwest Airlines’ new cabin refurbishment program, which adds another row of seats to each of the carrier’s Boeing 737-700s, will give the airline additional revenue capabilities on each frequency as it reduces the number of aircraft in its fleet. The retrofit project, dubbed Evolve, introduces a redesigned, lighter-weight, lower-profile seat, using existing frames, to Southwest’s …

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