I have no photos, just a recommendation. I just finished reading "Fighter Pilot" by Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. What awesome era to be a fighter pilot . He flew P-38s, P-51s and ended up flying F-4s in Vietnam. It's a good book.
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I have no photos, just a recommendation. I just finished reading "Fighter Pilot" by Brig. Gen. Robin Olds. What awesome era to be a fighter pilot . He flew P-38s, P-51s and ended up flying F-4s in Vietnam. It's a good book.
An old picture. Somalia 1993. My second trip there.
http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/a.../Somalia93.jpg
I got to meet Brig. Gen. Olds a few years ago before he passed away. VERY nice guy and humble as hell. God speed sirQuote:
Originally Posted by crob1
Unrelated, but is that you buzzing around the Springs area for the last few days? I definitely could see the bright orange tail number, but I couldn't quite make out which number.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
Yeah, he was a fantastic guy. For some more fun "good old fighter pilot" reading, you should read Chuck Yeager's autobiography.Quote:
Originally Posted by firefighter238
Edit: I will say though, Robin Olds wasn't always that humble! [LOL]
Just for fun: Col Robin Olds returning from his 3rd and 4th MIG kills
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Might have been me. I have been flying nights this week.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoneyBadger
Not all of our planes have MAFFS numbers. Just a couple even though any C-130 can handle the MAFFS system.
When MAFFS is flying I try to hang out on MAFFS 2.
In the dirt. Not a Hurk...
http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DirtHurk.jpg
Yeah, several days in a row, usually in the afternoon, I saw 3 C-130s buzzing around town usually with one out front a few miles and then flight 3 was closely following flight 2... maybe 1/4 mile separation? Flight 2 definitely had the big orange MAFFS number on it while 1 and 3 did not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
Thats us. We fly 6-7 days a week. Morning, noon and night.
Sometimes we bring them back dirty. No way to play in the dirt without getting dirty. 99.9% of our maint guys get it.Quote:
Originally Posted by RMAC757
African dust here...
http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/IMG_0278.jpg
First, one "oldschool"...
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p...rd/cgramp2.jpg
And then, one from quite a bit later...
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p...eadvillesm.jpg
One more just for laughs...
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps4c4b3e88.jpg
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Originally Posted by Alpha2
is that at lxv?
Nice RV! Is that yours?Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha2
That is a sweet looking aircraft, it has fun written all over it.
It was mine, I built it and flew it for about 7 years, sold to a guy with a home strip in Calhan. That flight was up to Leadville with NFATrustGuy. He had a primo RV3 at the time. He's got a snazzy Mini-Mustang now and an RV8 under construction, sort of. Make him put pics up of the Mustang! He also drives a French Wench Airbus, but you all know what those look like!
Come to think of it, NFATrustGuy helped me seal the fuel tanks on the RV. That was a job.
I remember helping seal Alpha2's wing tanks. In fact, I think I'm still digging pro seal out from under my fingernails! That had to be more than 15 years ago!
I'm no longer building an RV-8. I sold the wing kit, unbuilt, and still have a tail kit that I should probably sell at some point. It's built so it's a little more cumbersome to ship. I was going to build an RV-3 and even purchased 3 out of the 4 kits about 19 months ago. I've since decided not to and so I've got $10K worth of unopened crates sitting out at the airport. Need to get that sold one of these days...
My Midget Mustang has been out of service for a long time. I found cracks in the landing gear. I have all the necessary parts to fix it, I just haven't taken time to get 'er done. Here's a pic of me in my Midget Mustang shortly after it first flew--after my 6 year restoration project!
http://www.woodardfamily.com/hosted/N881MM.jpg
WOW! That this IS mini!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy
Alpha, did you see the pictures I posted a few pages back of the RV-7a that I helped my dad build? EDIT: Here's a link:https://www.ar-15.co/threads/27743-A...l=1#post984849
Yep, saw the pics, that's what convinced me to show my pics of the -4. Don't let NFATrust guy fool, he'd makes the FrenchWench look small! I still owe him a "wing pro-sealing", but he keeps selling the wing kits.
Seriously, you should see that Mini-Mustang...That plane is not at all what he originally started with. He's a stickler for detail. Fiberglas work and panel are primo.
Hey, Hoser, regarding those pics of your Hurks, (which we called Balloons or Wind-Wagons in the Coast Guard and my brother in the Marines called herky-pigs) remind me that not long after I took the pics previously posted in this thread, our replacement Hurks had tanks between 1&2 and 3&4 like yours, I think they were "F" models. Been a REALLY long time I could be wrong. Either that or we had E or F's, and got "H" models, heck, it was the mid '70's! They didn't even whiz-quiz back then, I'm lucky I remember it was the Coast Guard.
Imagine what those aux tanks did for "time on station" on our SAR missions over the Pacific.
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Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy
Sits a little lower than what we fly at work. I'd flare 20 times trying to get that on the ground.
Thanks for posting! Love all the bird porn!
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Here's another… The big plane has been previously featured in this thread. Kinda gives an idea of the relative size.
http://www.woodardfamily.com/hosted/N881MMSeaFury.jpg
He could lower that wing and you'd still be safe!
Ha! That's hilarious!Quote:
Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy
Most of the Coastie Hurks were E and H models. I know some of them had aux tanks in the fuselage that held even more gas.Quote:
Originally Posted by Alpha2
After 10-12 hours at a sitting in them I am glad we are out of gas and have to stop. The noise and beating of the props just kills you.
Hard to believe they have been making them since 1956. And they are still rolling off the lines in Marietta Georgia.
wow! even the tire on the tail is bigger than the mains!Quote:
Originally Posted by NFATrustGuy
Spent today on the Drop Zone breaking in some new AMLOs and a couple friends. It is always funner to be flying than on the ground, but I did get some good videos of us playing on the dirt runway.
just noticed this thread.......This is my bro inlaw's plane that he restored. It's not completely finished but I know he is looking to sell it after putting a couple of years work on it....I think it's pretty cool. It's at Jefco airport. Some might have seen it on display last summer for airshow there.
http://www.cre8ivefotos.com/airplane/RJM_0577.jpg
I'm no birdman, but that seems like an awful lot of plane for such a small propellor.
It's a small 2 person plane called Alon Aircoupe....my bro inlaw's was just decked out to look like a Navy scout plane which is how he bought it......here's another photo I shot of it up at Jefferson County AirportQuote:
Originally Posted by theGinsue
http://www.cre8ivefotos.com/airplane/RJM_0592.jpg
Some vintage non-military aircraft look pretty lame when dressed up in military insignia. Not the case here, it fits right in. Nice airplane, Aircoupes are sweet!Quote:
Originally Posted by FLIPCO
I can't tell, does it have the castering main gear? Nice Aircoupe, BTW.
That is really cool! Man the pilot sure set the plane right down. I was expecting a soft gradual landing, but nope bite your lip and give it hell I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hoser
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Originally Posted by FLIPCO
http://generalaviationnews.com/2011/...ny-other-name/
hmmm cool,...I know my bro inlaw bought the plane from someone in Arizona 4 - 5 yrs ago,....tail numbers are the same, that link could be the previous ownerQuote:
Originally Posted by def90