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Discussion in 'Aviation Chat' started by alexm, May 1, 2017.

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  1. GrigioGuy

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  2. Wade

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    Lakenhearh is getting the first USAFE F-35 squadron.
     
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    I have taken a few T-29 flights. A really kewl experience on take off. It sounds like a WW II movie on full blast.
     
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  5. alexm

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    Well not a picture of a plane exactly.. but of an aviation oriented map.

    I've written some software to generate all the routes possible with a small seaplane with added fuel to see where you could reach from east coast Aussie..

    Can hop over as far east as Tahiti (6000 mi) and north to Guam and Iwo Jima.

    HI is a bit of a stretch and only possible if you grossly overload things and beyond the parameters I had set for this version of the map as shown.

    Routes are between airports with fuel and facilities and tons to explore in a distance around them.. as well as the many atolls and other sandy gems also such as Bikini Atoll are reachable and many historic WW2 sites.

    Many of the hops are typically 500-1000mi .. it's a big ocean when done in a slow plane..

    I've been in contact with a pilot who's gone much further in this plane type and know it's up to the task for the smaller ranges envisaged here but that doesn't mean they are trivial or taken for granted by any means..

    Pretty neat possibilities eh!
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    Having flown on the RAF Fast Jet Test Squadron, I can tell you that all our airplanes had motors. My colleagues rarely called an airplane motor an engine. I picked up the habit and never really lost it.
     
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    The Brits use different words... they call them motors.

    They even drive motorcars. With bonnets and boots and wings. Ha. They're all correct.
     
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  8. Bob Parks

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    My mother used to drive us to the old Washington airport in 1933 so that she could sit there and listen to the "MOTAHS". Her first flight was in a National Airlines Lockheed Lodestar in 1945 and she said that the best part of the flight was listening to and watching those wonderful "motahs". When the war started and the sky was full of warplanes she was always running outside to watch and listen. Almost 60 tears old, mother of six, and never lost her love of flights and sounds.
     
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    Bonnets, boots, and drop head coupes. Then there are lamps needed when driving at night and a torch to find small things and a " spanner" when you have to wrench something. Great stuff.
     
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    And a dynamo instead of a generator.
     
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    I forgot that one but I remembered sparking plugs and tyres. But over here in the south, you would be talkin' bout'a TAR. It goes on a wheel under yer CORE, if yer rich theys four of 'em down thar. Ya put AWL in yer MOOTER an' GISE in the GISETANK. Then you kin drive to ALANNA, JAWIDGA or CHAHSTON, SAHTHKILLANA. Then you kin here some pretty lil' gal play the HAWUP.
     
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    Yeah, Bob (or is it Bubba?). Yestidday ah made a trip to BUMMINHAM and back in mah FURRARI!

    (Honestly, I shouldn't be making fun of my neighbors. Only a small handful actually talk like that. And sometimes, they are hard to understand!)
     
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    Yes, I know. I grew up with it.
     
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    Ouch! No tiedowns on most? Or did they break? The top plane in the second pic suggests the latter.
     
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  19. alexm

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    Wow, what a mess.. were the strong winds forecast? or took everyone by surprise?
     
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    Isn't that close to "Never Exceed Speed" for the C 152? :)
     
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  21. NürScud

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    A really sad sight.
     
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    GrigioGuy, Jun 24, 2020
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  25. MarkPDX

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    That would be an RC model of a Herk based on the engines.... if real it would be moments before the crash.

    Here is one I took a couple weeks ago:
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