© 2025 DRIVEN LIFESTYLE. All rights reserved.
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, Skimlinks, and others.
Boeing does have a RAT. It sounds like a P-51 when it is driven.
A high school buddy was a turret gunner on a SB2C. We met on a furlough in our home town and based on some of the incidents that the airplane...
I thought it was somebody's socks that they threw in the air.
Agreed. Why was the tail down? this keeps the wing lifting. If the nose gear failed , he should have had the nose down and landing flaps full...
WISHING ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR . I'LL MAKE THROUGH THE NEXT ONE WITH YOU IF YOU WANT TO KEEP UP WITH OL' 98.
No shadow on the road under the wing when the plane touches down and nobody trying to stop.
How does that goe? " Elvis has left the room.' A waist of time and money.
I have not read that book. My late brother, an advanced radiologist, worked in that program during the early stages. The family never got many...
In 1942 Sarasota Air Base had two OTU squadrons based there 4 miles from our town. They were equipped with P-40's. The trainee pilots had been...
I have that number in a report somewhere. If I remember it was something like 45,000
Glad that you didn't have to do that!
One of my favorite jokes is about a student paratrooper who was told that when he jumped, the static line would open his main chute. If that...
Yeah, Those days are gone forever. It's hard to believe that it was 60 years ago. i don't think that I would be here now if I hadn't met my wife.
[ATTACH]
WE flew this thing many times in the air shows as you see it. A lot of people have tried to copy this act but nobody has come close.
Eat your heart out.[ATTACH]
After watching the video from inside one of the storm chasers i thought back to the times when the wings were disintegrating on the Lockheed...
Thank you. I have another that is about the same size that I might try. I had to describe our aviation "Mecca" at Thun Field where so much of our...
I don't know how this "test" thing happened but I am tired of people referring to the ramp or runway as the "tarmac". Tarmac is a contraction of...
test
