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That’s true. We have 3 down for overtemps.
Our customer has the deepest pockets--courtesy of the US taxpayers. We're contracted to fly an aggressor role against Uncle Sam's pilots.
Our job is to teach the young buck military pilots that despite having vastly superior aircraft, they can still lose badly when they come up against an experienced adversary. Our corporate motto is опыт важен (Russian for Experience Matters)
(thanks for the congrats--this job is a dream come true for me. At 53, I'm getting to re-live my 20s.....I can still do the work, but I can't drink all night and work a 12 hr shift like I used to)
Yakolev Yak-18T. It was the only one in New Zealand at the time I went for a few rides in it about ten ten years ago.
A friend of a pilot friend of mine brought it and she taught him to fly it. I got used as ballast a few times.
At the time no-one in NZ had a rating to fly one, so my friend and another senior instructor took it for a flight and rated each other on it.
Because it was the only one in NZ and not then on the civil approved lists, it had to have the yellow sticker.
A friend of a pilot friend of mine brought it and she taught him to fly it. I got used as ballast a few times.
At the time no-one in NZ had a rating to fly one, so my friend and another senior instructor took it for a flight and rated each other on it.
Because it was the only one in NZ and not then on the civil approved lists, it had to have the yellow sticker.
Don't know if you are still jumping, but with the MC-6 ALWAYS land with toggles all the way up. Do not try to match wind speed EVER.
Hard won experience and has resulted in one broken leg and one permanently screwed up ankle for me and my friend. PM if you need more info.
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Watched a guy “run” with the wind using one, and smack into the front of an LMTV.
Haha. Self correcting.
Just short of the runway, Hurlburt Field, 1989. Tried to land in Florida thunderstorms. A couple months later, I'm returning from a deployment to Panama or Honduras (I forget) on a 141. Loadmaster says we're on final about 20 minutes out. Thirty minutes later I ask him, WTF. He said we were diverting to GA due to thunderstorms.
Still jumping when my body lets me, had a rash of injuries hit just prior to jump ops the last year. That pic was an SF-10A. Super responsive rig.
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I do my own photography. These are some of mine - I've taken a LOT of them:
Trump AF One threading the needle on approach with thunderstorms in the area:
P-51:
B777:
Trump AF One threading the needle on approach with thunderstorms in the area:
P-51:
B777:
Great job taking those! I’m still fiddling around with the settings on this Nikon of mine but I’m getting there.I do my own photography. These are some of mine - I've taken a LOT of them:
Trump AF One threading the needle on approach with thunderstorms in the area:
P-51:
B777:
As are we, but it's fun.
Somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle about 3 minutes ago
Love the F4F!
Can’t be many left.
Dudes they flew them got as much as they could out of those sturdy, stubby, steeds.
I was in line to get on it about a week before she crashed, I was on the phone with my dad and he kept saying “ I really wish you wouldn’t get on that old plane, that thing is old and anything could happen…”. Finally let him talk me out of it… bout a week later it crashed and killed all them folks… terrible.Here's a few pics of the Nine-O-Nine, the B-17 that crashed a few years ago.
Lexington?
Have posted previously, but pretty spectacular series of pics from my dad’s WWII photo recon squadron B&W picture albums.
Yeah the old Corsairs were my dream plane growing up as a child.
Nothing to see here.....just the USAF celebrating Pride Month 
Any history buffs in here? She’s going through a bit of a refresh, but she’s a good old girl.
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Mussayib?
P-39 she’s looking good and hopefully she be a flyer again???
Rusafa, Baghdad near the Old MOD. Jacked my hearing up and almost knocked out by a T55 with the main gun in that fight. It was a long day.
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