Show Yourselves!!
03-24-2009 | 10:37 AM
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RE: Show Yourselves!!
ORIGINAL: RCKen
Bruce,
Is that one of those stupid Turboprop planes that has the entry door in the back of the plane?? Officially they are the ATR-71, [link]http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/aboutUs/ourPlanes/ATR72.jsp[/link] , and I hate these planes. They fly those out of Lawton here to Dallas so I don't have much choice about getting on them as they are the only airline servicing Lawton.
Ken
Bruce,
Is that one of those stupid Turboprop planes that has the entry door in the back of the plane?? Officially they are the ATR-71, [link]http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/aboutUs/ourPlanes/ATR72.jsp[/link] , and I hate these planes. They fly those out of Lawton here to Dallas so I don't have much choice about getting on them as they are the only airline servicing Lawton.
Ken
03-24-2009 | 10:53 AM
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RE: Show Yourselves!!
ORIGINAL: RCKen
Bruce,
Is that one of those stupid Turboprop planes that has the entry door in the back of the plane?? Officially they are the ATR-71, [link]http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/aboutUs/ourPlanes/ATR72.jsp[/link] , and I hate these planes. They fly those out of Lawton here to Dallas so I don't have much choice about getting on them as they are the only airline servicing Lawton.
Ken
Bruce,
Is that one of those stupid Turboprop planes that has the entry door in the back of the plane?? Officially they are the ATR-71, [link]http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?p=/aboutUs/ourPlanes/ATR72.jsp[/link] , and I hate these planes. They fly those out of Lawton here to Dallas so I don't have much choice about getting on them as they are the only airline servicing Lawton.
Ken
03-24-2009 | 01:28 PM
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ORIGINAL: goirish
Bruce how can a perfectly good airplane be any fun to jump out of?
Bruce how can a perfectly good airplane be any fun to jump out of?
How could it NOT be fun?
03-24-2009 | 02:49 PM
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Woo Hoo, I am somebody....... LOL.... Personally I think you should still post some "war" stories. I'll bet that you had some strange/exciting/scared the @$%& out of you moments sitting behind those students in the T-38. I know and work with a bunch of F-16 IP's and almost to a man/woman they say that a student has much more fear generating potential than any old Fighter/AAA/missle.... And some of them have had lots of combat hours. Maybe that's it, the farther that stuff gets into the past, the less scary it seems. Oh well.....
P.S. Around here we call those kind of pictures "Hero Shots"
P.S. Around here we call those kind of pictures "Hero Shots"
ORIGINAL: Hossfly
You be thinking very very good. That seat pack 'chute should say a "LONG TIME AGO".
That was my "gung ho" photo just before graduating from USAF pilot tng. I wish it had been an F-4 or something like that.
My long story is I predicted an accident, it happened within 3 days, a number of higher rankers in the staff had poo-pooed my prediction, they got supervisory errors, the general was embarrased and removed me from being #2 for a fighter assignment for which I was continually sending "Volunteer for SEA' requests. I was stuck in a dead-end job with a great sounding name as punishment, however while checking out as T-38 instructor pilot, I looked in the paper, Jan 1966, and there was an ad for United pilots. History was made.
Someone asked if I flew heavier than the 727. Only as a first officer in my very favorite airliner the DC-8. I flew all versions from the short-8, freighter, stretch and super stretch plus the finest of all, the DC-8 62. Now that my friends was a flying machine. Trouble was that each was a protype with most switches in different places. Sme fun. [sm=spinnyeyes.gif]
When the airline finally started moving, I got a 727 Captain bid. very comfortable as I started in that machine as 2nd Officer, lots of FO time in two bids, and though I could have done the 767.757 for some 6 years, I let it pass on. I was living in Houston, commuting to Chicago, and I preferred good life to working and a few $$ more. Being on top of the seniority list does have good things for airline pilots. In the first 15 years, I bounced whereever the money was. I grew out of that with bass boat and RC airplanes to play with.
For exciting stories, ask those fighter guys like chad32u. They live the glamorus lifves with all the dollies clinging on to them.
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I am thinking T-33
I am thinking T-33
That seat pack 'chute should say a "LONG TIME AGO". That was my "gung ho" photo just before graduating from USAF pilot tng. I wish it had been an F-4 or something like that.
My long story is I predicted an accident, it happened within 3 days, a number of higher rankers in the staff had poo-pooed my prediction, they got supervisory errors, the general was embarrased and removed me from being #2 for a fighter assignment for which I was continually sending "Volunteer for SEA' requests. I was stuck in a dead-end job with a great sounding name as punishment, however while checking out as T-38 instructor pilot, I looked in the paper, Jan 1966, and there was an ad for United pilots. History was made.
Someone asked if I flew heavier than the 727. Only as a first officer in my very favorite airliner the DC-8. I flew all versions from the short-8, freighter, stretch and super stretch plus the finest of all, the DC-8 62. Now that my friends was a flying machine. Trouble was that each was a protype with most switches in different places. Sme fun. [sm=spinnyeyes.gif]
When the airline finally started moving, I got a 727 Captain bid. very comfortable as I started in that machine as 2nd Officer, lots of FO time in two bids, and though I could have done the 767.757 for some 6 years, I let it pass on. I was living in Houston, commuting to Chicago, and I preferred good life to working and a few $$ more. Being on top of the seniority list does have good things for airline pilots. In the first 15 years, I bounced whereever the money was. I grew out of that with bass boat and RC airplanes to play with.
For exciting stories, ask those fighter guys like chad32u. They live the glamorus lifves with all the dollies clinging on to them.
03-24-2009 | 03:42 PM
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I know I gave "great concern" to my initial civilian instructors. Later I had people I was training scare me too, even experienced pilots do dumb things ocasionally. Had one guy riding co-pilot (who had 500+hrs in the same plane) feather both engines on short final one day. Now that ticks you off. He was adjusting the props and went past the detent.[:@] He didn't get to fly with me again - EVER. Oh - I got the plane down safely.
03-25-2009 | 10:52 AM
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I'd be the one on the right, standing next to you!! 
Did I miss something? My comment was that instructing is sometimes scarier than combat. That from people who have done both.... I personally would like to hear any stories that he would be willing to tell. I know for a fact that I scared my PPL instructor on an approach or two..
Did I miss something? My comment was that instructing is sometimes scarier than combat. That from people who have done both.... I personally would like to hear any stories that he would be willing to tell. I know for a fact that I scared my PPL instructor on an approach or two..
03-29-2009 | 11:41 PM
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Hello All -
A few pics of myself and my girl with her Piper Pawnee last summer. When summer hits full force we're usually found at the flying field on weekends that are just the two of us spending time together. Right now we're working on her Predator and her P-38 Lightning for this summer while I'm plowing on a T-34 Mentor and my own personal project (twin engine).
Cheers All!
A few pics of myself and my girl with her Piper Pawnee last summer. When summer hits full force we're usually found at the flying field on weekends that are just the two of us spending time together. Right now we're working on her Predator and her P-38 Lightning for this summer while I'm plowing on a T-34 Mentor and my own personal project (twin engine).
Cheers All!
03-30-2009 | 08:49 AM
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Couple pics of me. One is of me with my little guy about a year ago and another is me with a Cessna 172 that I have logged some time in. Cool thread BTW. It is interesting to see who is behind the keyboards.
03-30-2009 | 09:05 AM
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ORIGINAL: bruce88123
I know I gave "great concern" to my initial civilian instructors. Later I had people I was training scare me too, even experienced pilots do dumb things ocasionally. Had one guy riding co-pilot (who had 500+hrs in the same plane) feather both engines on short final one day. Now that ticks you off. He was adjusting the props and went past the detent.[:@] He didn't get to fly with me again - EVER. Oh - I got the plane down safely.
I know I gave "great concern" to my initial civilian instructors. Later I had people I was training scare me too, even experienced pilots do dumb things ocasionally. Had one guy riding co-pilot (who had 500+hrs in the same plane) feather both engines on short final one day. Now that ticks you off. He was adjusting the props and went past the detent.[:@] He didn't get to fly with me again - EVER. Oh - I got the plane down safely.
03-30-2009 | 01:15 PM
#196
RE: Show Yourselves!!
ORIGINAL: Nathan King
What was he doing moving the props to a coarse pitch for approach and landing anyway?? [X(]
ORIGINAL: bruce88123
I know I gave "great concern" to my initial civilian instructors. Later I had people I was training scare me too, even experienced pilots do dumb things occasionally. Had one guy riding co-pilot (who had 500+hrs in the same plane) feather both engines on short final one day. Now that ticks you off. He was adjusting the props and went past the detent.[:@] He didn't get to fly with me again - EVER. Oh - I got the plane down safely.
I know I gave "great concern" to my initial civilian instructors. Later I had people I was training scare me too, even experienced pilots do dumb things occasionally. Had one guy riding co-pilot (who had 500+hrs in the same plane) feather both engines on short final one day. Now that ticks you off. He was adjusting the props and went past the detent.[:@] He didn't get to fly with me again - EVER. Oh - I got the plane down safely.
03-30-2009 | 03:13 PM
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ORIGINAL: alfredbmor
Other women may be jealous:
ORIGINAL: bonebreak
You could have lied and said it was your wife.
You could have lied and said it was your wife.
Other women may be jealous:
She reminds me of a 40 size plane with a 90 mounted up fron for some reason! (wink, wink)
