A TR at last

I'm so lucky. I have never had an engine failure....at least all at once. had an engine go away slowly and I caught on to what was happening and grounded myself. Sorry to hear about Penhall. I saw my instructor have engine failure on take off with a student. he always yelled at me to always go straight ahead put the nose down and stay in controll of the airplane. What did he do with the student? He put the nose down .....STRAIGHT down and did a spiral dive to 180 degrees from take off heading. Made a perfect three pointer then he hit the only stump left on the field. It was hidden in the tall grass. When we got to the wreck he was yelling at the student, " Don't you ever do what I just did, always go straight ahead ! At the time , he had been flying for 14 years and had 14 forced landings. Of course, this was when engines quit a lot.
Good luck and fun in Reno. By the way, is Bill Hickle associated with Rare Bear ? I thought I saw his picture on the tube last year.
B

 

Turn up the SOUND!

 

Steve, How did it go ? No news re air racing up here unless it involves salmon and Indians.
Bob

 

Nose art for good luck
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Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy. A number of good candidates for that one. A P47 comes to mind.

Third place! Wish I was there!

 

Sparky, in case you haven't heard, here's a B-25 resto project for you:
http://www.jouster.com/cgi-bin/guntalk/config.pl?read=22505

 

Take a tip from the guys in Greenland and their B-29 debacle: ALWAYS tie down the auziliary Coleman generator in the rear of the fuselage before you attempt take off.

And when you get that clunker air worthy, I know where an F9F is located in a boy scout camp. (or at least it was there 25 years ago and I think it's still there. Just toss in a flamethrower and pour on the coal. A quick weekend project.)

 

I just bought a 85 308 GTSiQV but I am already lusting after the TR. This is a real beauty man! Low Low miles too. Have Fun.

jemery

 

That looks like a sister to the P-3's that fly over my house.

 

That thing with four nacelles is not a B-25. It appears to be a DC-6 or-7 that has some sort of antenna on the right side of the fuselage. BOY would I like to sink my teeth into that P-40 that Steve showed pictures of ! My late brother-in-law flew B-25's and Martin B-26's in New Guinea during WW2. He said that the B-25 was an excellent and good airplane but more of a Sunday afternoon driver. The B-26 was his favorite. Fast, tough, and almost always got back when it was shot up.

 

Good guess. I thought the same thing but it looks to be a Lockheed P-3 Orion submarine hunter (hence the antennas). Based on a Lockheed L188 Electra airliner it went into service in 1962. It uses T-56 turboprops. I can hear them a long ways off. The last came off the production line in 1990. Howz that for a long production run?.

Below is the Canadian version, CP-140 Aurora and the second picture is one over Whidbey NAS with some A6's. The last is from the Netherlands
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Man that looks like fun. I have to make it down there someday

 

Thanks for the pictures Steve. I would be walking around with my head on constant swivel in that place.

I'll take that black plane with the bent wings..........I know, two engines, twice the headaches. How did it do?

 

I remember seeing a shirt that said, "Real engines are round" underlined with a large puddle of oil. Too funny. The noise of the F-7F must have been awesome.

I won't be going back to work for another week, a few loose ends to tie up.

Got the shirts today! They are fabulous! Thank you very much. My dad will flip! The jelly beans are tasty too I might add.

Have you had the mistress out for a run since you've been back?

DJ

 

It seems that the Castrol Super Clean Tire Gloss has been discontinued, at least in my neck of the woods. After going through every available type of gloss at three different parts stores, the only one that does not have petroleum distillates in it is the Michelin Tire Shine. Leaves the tires with a satin finish, not shiny. Pretty runny stuff so it has to be applied with a cloth, better control that way anyway.
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