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  • Around the World Intermission #1/7: Morning light and mutant lobsters - 1978 Yellowknife



    In the early hours of January 24, 1978, an object hurtled through Earth's atmosphere and broke up, scattering radioactive debris across a swathe of the Canadian Shield. At first the Russians denied there was a problem. Then that everything would be completely safe as any unsafe bits would stay in orbit. Then that the unsafe bits had instead burnt up in the atmosphere. But searches proved otherwise.

    While the Singularity drive is being serviced, we've been loaned a prototype replacement called the Duplicity drive. With it we can go back in time to 1978. But it's risky. There could be side-effects*. And I mean more than just having to listen to Stayin' Alive again. Have your tin foil hats ready.

    Our mission: Recover radioactive debris from the crash site, together with a whole bunch of personnel who've been involved in its recovery. Over the next few weeks, we'll need to get everything back to the research labs in Boulder, Colorado, and then return the Duplicity drive to its rightful owner.

    Cruise: 225 kts indicated at 8,000 ft asl (i.e. lower and slower than Lazer's flights).

    Route: Week 1: CYZF > CYHY > CYOJ > CYXJ (Yellowknife > Hay River > High Level > Fort St. John)

    Flight plan (PLN file): https://tinyurl.com/storms-flight-plans

    Aircraft: Cargo props and propliners. NO JETS.
    Examples: C-130 and anything normally flown on Lazer's regular Thursday flights (cargo) just flown slower, Nord Noratlas (cargo), Lockheed Constellation (passenger), AVRO Shackleton (patrol), Kingair (default)... there are lots of possibilities. Just make sure ahead of time it's a prop and that you can fly the cruise requirements. Note: ILS equipped is recommended.

    Singularity: the quality of being singular, a distinction from others, a peculiarity, when AI surpasses human intelligence (computers), a region in spacetime such as a black hole in which tidal gravitational forces become infinite (astrophysics)...

    *Duplicity: the quality of being twofold or double, deliberate deceptiveness in speech or behavior, double dealing, misleading and fraudulent representation, fake news...

  • #2
    Duplicity = Fake News, lol.

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    • #3
      This will be our route over the next few Thursday evenings. Or will it?

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      • #4
        Join me at Yellowknife at 9pm eastern for the start of our 7 week journey back to Mansfield. Cargo props. Passenger propliners. 225 kts. 8,000 ft. Tin foil hats recommended. And many thanks to Novawing24 for adding the Cargo Bronco to the list of suitable planes to fly. :eagerness:

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        • #5
          Here are some pics of this great flight . Thank you Storm. http://imgbox.com/g/wyJnJCnOIm

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