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Rams
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So many colors to choose from yet so few stand out
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2016, 07:44:21 AM » |
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There are good days and less than good days. This definitely could have been a better day to fly. But, there will always be better and worse days in our future, the only way to avoid the bad ones is to not stick our heads in the sand and not risk moving forward. We learn or re-learn lessons every time we step up to the plate. Or in my case, pulled pitch.  |
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Learning the majority of life's lessons the hard way.
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2016, 09:05:35 AM » |
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On the whole, flying is safer on a passengers mile basis than almost anything else. Too bad the TSA has made it such a PITA anymore. I'm not flying again unless it is the only way to get there in the time allotted.
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baldo
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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2016, 10:05:29 AM » |
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On the whole, flying is safer on a passengers mile basis than almost anything else. Too bad the TSA has made it such a PITA anymore. I'm not flying again unless it is the only way to get there in the time allotted.
Agreed. The last time I flew was 2004. I went to Georgia to pick up that weird truck I posted about earlier, an eBay purchase. |
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2016, 10:55:11 AM » |
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There IS a damn good REASON truck tires NEED to be inflated in a cage. Had an old 3 piece wheel come discombobulated-tech term-in a cage. SWORE the cage expanded about 3 feet when it let go and came back to it's original size. AND it was only at about 80-85 P S I when it blew! I know we may be talking pressures in three figures P S I for aircraft tires. Had a aircraft local tire course I took as a new plane captain in the Navy. They really did NOT want me to die stupidly! Should have pursued staying an aviation mechanic after the Navy spent so cursed much money on me!  RIDE SAFE.. |
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Today is the tommorow you worried about yesterday. If at first you don't succeed screw it-save it for nite check. 1964 1968 U S Navy. Two cruises off Nam.
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John Schmidt
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a/k/a Stuffy. '99 I/S Valk Roadsmith Trike
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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2016, 12:54:48 PM » |
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Watched a guy blowing up a tire off a B-47. Suddenly the whole thing came apart and so did the cage. We were all watching from inside the building and the cage was within a concrete enclosure outside. Could have been really messy if he had been pumping it up like a bike tire.
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« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2016, 02:53:47 PM » |
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The second to last time I few, it was on company business in 1988, to Reagan in DC. Didn't have much screening then. The last time I flew was a pleasure. It was on the Honor Flight last April,, again to Reagan in DC. TSA amounted to only showing our placard hanging from our neck. no fuss, no bother. Landing at Reagan and taking off was ,evidently, top priority. No time waiting. We had a royal sendoff when we left Reagan to come back to ft. Wayne. Gals dressed up in the Forties, guys in Zoot Suits, and Glenn Miller playing, we could do no wrong. Here I am with one of the ladies, that's Mark behind me.  |
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baldo
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« Reply #8 on: October 29, 2016, 04:30:21 PM » |
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« Reply #9 on: October 29, 2016, 04:53:56 PM » |
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Heard a guy blew up a tire in a station an broke both arms. Not a tire but seen a sky raider come in once couldn't get his gear down so they foamed the runway. Pilot no sooner jumped from the plane and the ammo went off for most of the evening. Prop was bent all to hell but surprising the belly didn't look all that bad.
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« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2016, 06:20:56 PM » |
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30+ years flying Helicopters, 10 years of it Maintenance Test Pilot on Cobras, 20 years Petroleum Helicopters doing offshore and with 4+ years EMS, and only one serious problem in a Cobra on a Maintenance Test Flight that resulted in a forced landing. This included an extended tour in Vietnam doing some nasty crap, so guess I have been extremely lucky in all these thousands of rotor wing hours. Even got lots of weather time including tornados during the offshore parts. Funny, was a little kid during WW2 living in San Antonio and Austin and developed a love for aviation watching mock dog fights there. Always wanted to be a fighter pilot, but settled for rotor wing. It was a hoot. Funny, stuff back then was state of the art, but now most of it has been retired, sort of like me I guess.
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Rams
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So many colors to choose from yet so few stand out
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« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2016, 06:38:00 PM » |
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30+ years flying Helicopters, 10 years of it Maintenance Test Pilot on Cobras, 20 years Petroleum Helicopters doing offshore and with 4+ years EMS, and only one serious problem in a Cobra on a Maintenance Test Flight that resulted in a forced landing. This included an extended tour in Vietnam doing some nasty crap, so guess I have been extremely lucky in all these thousands of rotor wing hours. Even got lots of weather time including tornados during the offshore parts. Funny, was a little kid during WW2 living in San Antonio and Austin and developed a love for aviation watching mock dog fights there. Always wanted to be a fighter pilot, but settled for rotor wing. It was a hoot. Funny, stuff back then was state of the art, but now most of it has been retired, sort of like me I guess.
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Interesting, I'm sure you've got one hell of a lot more hours and sorties than I do. Flew OH 58s, A, C and Super A, AH-1s and UH-1s as both a mission pilot and then as a MTP. I've had eight engine failures but never bent a skid. As a kid, all I ever wanted to fly was helicopters, fixed wing never interested me. Different strokes I guess. |
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Learning the majority of life's lessons the hard way.
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« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2016, 07:15:58 PM » |
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Looks like American Airlines and the NTSB are saying it was an un contained engine failure, not a blown tire that caused the fire.
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« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2016, 10:20:28 AM » |
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On the whole, flying is safer on a passengers mile basis than almost anything else. Too bad the TSA has made it such a PITA anymore. I'm not flying again unless it is the only way to get there in the time allotted.
Agreed. The last time I flew was 2004. I went to Georgia to pick up that weird truck I posted about earlier, an eBay purchase. Yep. I quit flying in '99 and committed to it even stronger after 9-11 when they made it a bigger PITA. |
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