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LAX back to MEM. Pics are several months old. Haven't been to SAN in awhile. The city pic is just prior to descent into LA. Yes, we get a new 67 about once or twice a month. Great airplane.
Cool. Couldn't quite match the info to any recent flights, but SAN-MEM had a few points close to that heading/altitude. But it looked like the track on those was way south of KA27U. Oh well, was fun to practice my internet sleuthing. Thanks for posting!
Pics while taxiing for takeoff at ATL Sunday evening. Saw these two C-32 executive 757s in a Delta hanger and other AF jets outside it. Not sure where they were doing there.. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Assuming that the VC-32s are as well-equipped as the VC-25s, and they should be, POTUS would make a positive impression by using the smaller aircraft as Air Force One when flying domestically. After all, his airplane before he became President was a 757!
On our way north to from Mid-Way to Sheboygan. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
From what I remember they are big tubes with a smaller tube that goes inside the bigger one. Then a thing sticks out and the wheels go on 'em. Couldn't resist it, Terry.
Flying on a day like that is fun. It's when those little white things start growing VERY big in the afternoon that things get exciting. Some days they do, and others not so much.
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Yes. I remember watching those little white things form in the summer mornings around 1000 and by 1600 they were airplane-eating monsters. Sometimes if you were looking in the right places you could actually see the condensation happen when a blob of mist appeared and rapidly became a small "wad of cotton" that got together with its friends. Vertical development quickly produced some frightening storms that were 5 miles tall and full of lightning and winds that couldn't figure out where to go up or down but the heavy rains sure did.
Domestic airline in Japan and a cute flight attendant. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Today in Sheboygan...hot as snot. Not sure how people live up here...says the dude who lives in the desert. My son took the pics. So glad he got to fly in my pit for one of my formation training flights. Three formation flights today was truly a great day! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Our two planes have no oxygen so we can only get around 600-700 nm at 8500 or 9500 feet with occasional forays into the low teens for weather. We true about 200 kts burning about 40 gph at altitude.
We would get some Texas boomers into the 40-50K feet sometimes in the fall and they would form from clear air like you said. We’d take the Talons over them sometimes. They are fun to fly around until they develop an attitude in the afternoon.
Never could do that with our F-111s. Had to be going nearly Mach 2 to go that high. Having a radar helped avoid them, though.
Yeah. Those 1960s O2 systems aren’t worth the headaches. We fly them cross country not infrequently to get to shows and other events they aren’t cross country planes, or at least we haven’t set them up to be that way.
I was being conservative about the height at that time of the day. I know that some of the them reached 30,000 to 40,000 feet and had an ice collar around the tops. I don't know of anything that is more locally violent than mature thunderhead, cumulonimbus. I may have mentioned it before about an old airmail pilot that was caught in one at night and realized that he was inverted and rising at an incredible speed, I don't remember what his rate of climb was but he said that he thought about bailing out of his Pitcairn PA-7 but realized that he would be going up at the same rate as the airplane so he rode it out. He had iced up by the time that it spit him out over Georgia. He said that he had a terrible taste in his mouth of the ozone from the lightning that was flashing around him. He was flying for Eastern Airways at the time. I have talked with many of the old guys and they were like the old sailors of the tall ships, Iron Men and Wooden Airplanes. We would not be where we are now if it wasn't for men like them.
This morning before massive storms killed our formation clinic. I’m #4 with a pro photographer shooting from #3’s pit. Great flight... Image Unavailable, Please Login
