[ATTACH] I’d love to have one of these out buildings they made out of fuselage halves.
Image Unavailable, Please Login I’d love to have one of these out buildings they made out of fuselage halves.
If anyone was in NYC on December 20th you may have seen or heard us coming through. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Used to divert into Fuk U Okay now and then from Kunsan...LOL. Nice pics of the other Hawai’ian Islands...
On the way back from Aspen today (with another guy flying for once lol. ) Nice to sit in back with the wife now and then! Image Unavailable, Please Login
You are very lucky. There are no mountains near where I live and we have had no snow this winter at home. Not one flake (unless any fell during the night that I did not see). I hope I never fail to be impressed by such a rugged yet beautiful landscape.
Image Unavailable, Please Login Flying east to PHNL. Unfortunately this is the last time I will do this flight as the airline I work for is rapidly abandoning its pacific route structure.
A little jaunt last week...sun in my eyes...tipping my head down to get the visor cover brim over the sun... Image Unavailable, Please Login
Same plane before we painted the prop at our last YCI. Image Unavailable, Please Login Red line is 2700 RPM and 52.5 in but in the pic I have 2400 set for formation work and am likely throttling between 32-36". Not sure the prop diameter but this one is a Tracker prop reprofiled (cut down) for the Trojan but is still slightly larger (like an inch or two) than the standard T-28B prop so it has a slower max RPM. The lead ship has a standard B prop. And as you likely know, the T-28C had a 3" shortened prop to clear carrier deck stuff. I assure you this prop was turning!
I believe that the entire T-28B/C engine installation, including the prop and cowling (and that distinctive staccato sound!) was substantially the same as on the Tracker. That may also be true of the Albatross.
I have heard the Tracker and the Albatross and they don't seem to have the straight and split exhaust stacks that the T-28 has. The five on one side and the four on the other produces a distinctive and delightful sound.
I don’t know about the Tracker, but I agree, the big engine T-28s sound really great. It’s quite an honor and a total hoot to fly.
It's remarkable how different the R-1820 sounds in aircraft like the T-28 and S2F when compared to the B-17. Must be the exhaust stacks and the lack of turbocharging.
Even with the turbo charged exhaust I could detect a B-17 vs. the B-24 at night without seeing them. The R1820 still produced a more staccato sound than the R1830. I won a lot of five dollar bets that way when I proved my identification by the sound. Some people just hear noise. Thinking about the engines of WW2 ,I feel that the R670, R680, R985, R1830, R1820, R2000, and R2800 were American engines instrumental in winning the war.
