^^ Awesome picture ^^
Been at KOSH since Tuesday, camping under the wing at the show. Firing up the plane to fly back in the AM. I'll have lots of pics to throw up here in a couple days when I go thru them.
--J
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"Praise be to our prophet, John Moses Browning, who hath bestowed upon us the new testament of shooting. Delivered unto us, his disciples, on 29 March 1911 A.D."
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"When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." -Frederic Bastiat
"I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin."
― Russell Kirk, Author of The Conservative Mind
I'll get around to embedding all of them. But here is the first portion of my KOSH 2016 gallery. Will have more later, this is maybe 40% of them.
Quality isn't excellent, we didn't have enough useful load to bring along the DSLR and USM/IS/L lenses. All from the phone camera.
http://imgur.com/a/aQUYj
--J
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"Praise be to our prophet, John Moses Browning, who hath bestowed upon us the new testament of shooting. Delivered unto us, his disciples, on 29 March 1911 A.D."
My Beechcraft BE23-24.
Had a brief engine failure on return trip. Super slow leak from left tank sump, that wasn't seen parked in the grass (would puddle on pavement). When we got to altitude, the vacuum from airflow sucked the tank dry quick. Had full engine failure for nearly a minute. Engine died, pitched for best glide, located emergency landing spot, ran through emergency flows which got it restarted, and diverted to nearest airfield. Left tank bone dry. Working the sump got it sealed again, and after refueling and monitoring the sump for 30, and calming my nerves for 30 we got back on our way, but late enough to get stuck in Sterling for 4 hours waiting out the afternoon thunderstorms.
The saying "When the engine stops, your heart stops" is quite true. Thankfully I'd drilled this scenario hundreds of times, so even under the crazy stress and HUGE adrenaline rush, the training took over and solved the problem before it got any worse.
--J
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"Praise be to our prophet, John Moses Browning, who hath bestowed upon us the new testament of shooting. Delivered unto us, his disciples, on 29 March 1911 A.D."
What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
-- Ayn Rand, Anthem (Chapter 11)
Glad the training paid off.
"There are no finger prints under water."
Do helos count? To be fair there are a couple of planes in the background LOL. The Lakota is my older son's ride.
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