There’s a fairly decent shot that I have been your dispatcher in that big slow bird!Not FredEx
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CI125 and 2.0 additional erry leg!
I can appreciate less engine noise. Not me in the cockpit but rather the guy who spearheaded the soaring club which resulted in my unexpectedly adding a -G to my CFI. Glider flying is cool as hell.
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Second experimental build
Eventually painted the lower engine cowling red.
Eventually painted the lower engine cowling red.
This has been one of my favorite threads over at the CMP forums.....
I get email notifications when people update and look forward to the pictures.
Glad to see something similar taking off here and that you airheads are entertaining me.
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I get email notifications when people update and look forward to the pictures.
Glad to see something similar taking off here and that you airheads are entertaining me.
Flying is flying.....if you can't get in, you can get under. My pole partner and I a few years back.
What is that?
Not mine, just fuelin around
My seat
The only one I ride in today, son-in-laws Piper Cherokee PA-28-235
My seat
The only one I ride in today, son-in-laws Piper Cherokee PA-28-235
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A Warner Sportster with a Rotec R2800 engine. It's actually a two-seater, the front seat has a removable panel over it.
A few more pics from early 80’s. Sorry about quality - pics of pics.
A Citabria with 115 HP Lycoming. This belonged to a student I was teaching.
A Cessna 303. I attended the first ever factory class for this thing.
A Citabria with 115 HP Lycoming. This belonged to a student I was teaching.
A Cessna 303. I attended the first ever factory class for this thing.
This was supposed to be attached to the Liberty bell post....
This one went down after a fuel leak/ temp repair gone bad if I'm not mistaken. My Cherokee 235, several posts up is pictured in front of its hanger in Lewistown Mt. Not sure if that was home base or maybe stationed there when it was a base in the past.
This one went down after a fuel leak/ temp repair gone bad if I'm not mistaken. My Cherokee 235, several posts up is pictured in front of its hanger in Lewistown Mt. Not sure if that was home base or maybe stationed there when it was a base in the past.
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I am enjoying this thread. I am not a pilot but my Son is. He flies Flight for Life fixed wing. King Airs and a Lear.
I have wondered why you blank out the N numbers? are they secret stuff or protecting your identity? I DGAF who sees my tag number on my car, maybe I should?
I have wondered why you blank out the N numbers? are they secret stuff or protecting your identity? I DGAF who sees my tag number on my car, maybe I should?
A majority of corporate aircraft are kept out of sight of stock holders because even in this day it is looked at as an extravagant waste, even though it is a proven fact that corporations that use aircraft make more money than those that don’t. But, all aircraft are easily looked up on the FAA.gov website, revealing plenty of information on the owners. Like you I have no fucks to give anymore so I reveal all registration numbers.
Picture of me rolling the old whip on in LAS circa 2012ish.
I personally took delivery of this aircraft new from Cessna in March 2009, signing the wire transfer and purchase documents at the tender age of 25. Sadly, this aircraft crashed on 30Nov18, killing three employees of my former company including my boss who was better to me than I ever deserved. NTSB Probable Cause: aftermarket Tamarack winglets (installed well after I left to fly boxes) deployed asymmetrically, initiated a left roll that overwhelmed the autopilot, and and put the aircraft into a low-altitude upset that the single pilot could not recover from.
"Fate is the Hunter"
Horizon Air (now an Alaska Air subsidiary) flew them years ago. Jeebuz, had to knee walk to/from my seat. Once Alaska bought them, Horizon started buying Dash 8's. Happy days.
Have they actually come out with a finding on that accident? The company I was with last year was planning to put those on all of it’s CJ’s. I was planning to walk when/if that happened.
Picture of me rolling the old whip on in LAS circa 2012ish.
I personally took delivery of this aircraft new from Cessna in March 2009, signing the wire transfer and purchase documents at the tender age of 25. Sadly, this aircraft crashed on 30Nov18, killing three employees of my former company including my boss who was better to me than I ever deserved. NTSB Probable Cause: aftermarket Tamarack winglets (installed well after I left to fly boxes) deployed asymmetrically, initiated a left roll that overwhelmed the autopilot, and and put the aircraft into a low-altitude upset that the single pilot could not recover from.
"Fate is the Hunter"
3000+ hours in the left seat pictured above.
Longest mission was 19.2-hrs during Desert Storm. Made for a very long day.
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I almost ended up at tinker flying the navy version. Thank god I didn’t.
You're thinking of the EC-135, I was on the RC-135 platform.
E6B actually. But same airframe. All based off the 707
Thanks for that. I had given up on it ever showing up.
Yeah, E6B (Navy) and EC-135 (USAF) same/similar mission.
Actually, the USAF KC/EC/RC platforms are different from the 707 platforms. The biggest noticable difference the 707 platform has one Nav position, and the 135 platforms have the room for two Nav positions.
The Air Force does have 707 platforms such as AWACS and JSTARS.
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Heres one ya won’t see everyday
1949 PA-19
1949 PA-19
That’s a shame. But I’m curious, how did a winglet “deploy” asymmetrically as they are typically fixed? Mounted incorrectly?
Picture of me rolling the old whip on in LAS circa 2012ish.
I personally took delivery of this aircraft new from Cessna in March 2009, signing the wire transfer and purchase documents at the tender age of 25. Sadly, this aircraft crashed on 30Nov18, killing three employees of my former company including my boss who was better to me than I ever deserved. NTSB Probable Cause: aftermarket Tamarack winglets (installed well after I left to fly boxes) deployed asymmetrically, initiated a left roll that overwhelmed the autopilot, and and put the aircraft into a low-altitude upset that the single pilot could not recover from.
"Fate is the Hunter"
IIRC these winglets actually have a moving control surface, sort of like an aileron but they call it like a load changing device or something.
Radial engines are what an airplane should sound like.
Specifically the -200 series. Last one I flew had a gravel kit on it.Fat
Little
Ugly
Fucker
Aka, 737
Another career guy here. Mostly AK flying, lots of 135 ops, with 121 cargo after 2014. Just finished my (hopefully!) last type on the A320, at (again hopefully!) my last airline, going to try this domestic pax stuff.
The extension of the wing tip that the winglet is attached to has little structure internally in order to save weight, therefore it can’t endure any load. The “ailerons” float in trail until a load is detected (aerodynamically) and then move to alleviate the load. The system is entirely self contained and not “controllable” by the pilot.
This pic was taken about 1975 and took me almost two days to set up, there is only one aircraft in the pic that I did not fly.
Royal Australian Air Force Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU)
Royal Australian Air Force Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU)
Imagine this big-ass control surface, outboard of the aileron (removed in picture), that is 100% automagically controlled by a computer that you can only deactivate by pulling a c/b, deciding on its own to fully deflect.
I love my flying death pencil, the 1900 is easy street. Metro will keep ya on your toes.
Doesn’t look/sound like a good idea to me. New and modern disappointments.
Polishing a turd. The whole thing is garbage and it is doubtful that it does as advertised (saving fuel).
A few pictures of a B52 repair at Loring AFB. The aircraft crashed on takeoff (nose gear collapsed). The AF cut the nose section off and stuffed it all in a hanger. We (Boeing crew) put it back in the air.
Picture of a picture. My cfi is flying the inverted t6. He was one of the founding members of the Condor Squadron. Also flew c47s during D-Day. He’s been dead 5 years now. Greatest generation for sure.
Maybe a little, but we all are
Had to respond to a crash of a T6.
It was one of those "Fly a real WWII Fighter" charters.
Guy in the back seat was given the ride for his birthday. He lived.
He now has two reasons to celebrate.
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A year's worth. There were smashed and charred parts all over the hanger floor.
The Duchess became the only twin that I would teach multi in. The Baron/Travelaire are notorious for their unforgiving single engine flat spin which has killed numerous people because the airplane is unrecoverable. I had a friend, another instructor, that I warned about these characteristics. Unfortunately my warnings were in vain. Beech used the NACA 23000 series airfoil on everything (Cessna used it on the 500/550 Citations and 441 Conquest). NASA wasted 4 Barons trying to figure it out. Beech pulled the plug, refusing to give them anymore. The test pilots had quick release doors and parachutes of course. The Bonanza has the same wing and will also flat spin. It is equally un-recoverable.
I spoke with an instructor at Fly Right in North Carolina during a tour of their facility. He advised me that “Beech really screwed up on the 350”. I asked what he meant. It seams that he and some of the other instructors had been playing with the 350 and 200 sims after hours and discovered the stall characteristics of the 350. I explained to him that the 350 is a level D simulator and the 200 is only a level A sim. The level D has actual aerodynamic data whereas the level A does not and doesn’t actually represent the airplane. I was amazed that he was teaching the 350 and was unaware of this.
The Musketeer/Duchess have a relatively unsophisticated airfoil.
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For those here that are or have been members of PRO PILOT WORLD forum, my user name on that forum when I was active there was KACFI. I taught King Air for both FlightSafety and Simcom.
I spoke with an instructor at Fly Right in North Carolina during a tour of their facility. He advised me that “Beech really screwed up on the 350”. I asked what he meant. It seams that he and some of the other instructors had been playing with the 350 and 200 sims after hours and discovered the stall characteristics of the 350. I explained to him that the 350 is a level D simulator and the 200 is only a level A sim. The level D has actual aerodynamic data whereas the level A does not and doesn’t actually represent the airplane. I was amazed that he was teaching the 350 and was unaware of this.
The Musketeer/Duchess have a relatively unsophisticated airfoil.
ELSWORTH v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION (1983) | FindLaw
Case opinion for CA Court of Appeal ELSWORTH v. BEECH AIRCRAFT CORPORATION. Read the Court's full decision on FindLaw.
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For those here that are or have been members of PRO PILOT WORLD forum, my user name on that forum when I was active there was KACFI. I taught King Air for both FlightSafety and Simcom.
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Couldn't stand seeing this buried 4 pages deep.
Not my picture but tells a helluva story.
I believe 2019 or 20 Oshkosh departure.
Not my picture but tells a helluva story.
I believe 2019 or 20 Oshkosh departure.
I believe you’re correct. I don’t recall the “outcome” though. Some things seem worse than they appear. Others, not so much.
