Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Spuds

The same B25 visited the airport at my college along with a P51. I didn't get to go in it, but a few of my friends did.

Pretty sure the P-51 was with it when it was here as well. I never saw it but could hear it.

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Spuds

You watch the rest of the Marvel series yet?

No. I usually don't like comic book stuff, but punisher wasn't very comic booky. (No one flying or anything).

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

No. I usually don't like comic book stuff, but punisher wasn't very comic booky. (No one flying or anything).

The flash is excellent. Yes people fly and of course run very fast but they at least explain how that came to be in a rational (if impossible) manner.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Spuds

So... Did you also get oxygen in that little plane along with 4 dudes and survey equipment? Because isn't 10,000ft kinda pushing it for oxygen levels? And the 172 isn't exactly a high performance aircraft so I wouldn't have expected it to do 10kft at max capacity. Very strange.

You calling my story "strange"? You calling ME strange?



Actually, the oxygen level is quite adequate for breathing at that altitude. I have hiked around and my naturally aspirated miata has ran fine (just a bit slower) at above 14,000 feet (on Pikes Peak).

The 172 has an operating ceiling of 14,000 feet. It was also more powerful than that 152 that we used to fly over there -


humfrz

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Spuds

Is that with max load?

As far as I know, yes, it's calculated at max load, or max load doesn't calculate into it. Also, I should have said it's density altitude not MSL. So, depending on the ambient temperature at real altitude above sea level to the service ceiling would vary.

Basically, service ceiling is the point where the plane can no longer climb at a rate above a specific amount (usually 50 to 100ft per minute). Beyond that is the"absolute ceiling" where the craft can only maintain level flight because lift generated equalizes with the weight.

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Pretty sure the P-51 was with it when it was here as well. I never saw it but could hear it.

Are you sure the "big" man wasn't covertly invading your peaceful country??

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by JD001

Are you sure the "big" man wasn't covertly invading your peaceful country??

Our air force is ready for them.


Bob says "bring em' on!"

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

That is ironic!

There was B-25 at the show I was at and you could buy a ride in it. I was tempted but it was almost $500 per seat! Too rich for my blood.

Probably same crew that was just here at the Warhawk air museum in Nampa a few weeks ago.


You could get a ride in a P-51 for about $1200.

[Sapphireho]

Just cooked a ball tip top sirloin roast for more lunch meat. My probe thermometer quit on me, so I have no idea if it is under/over cooked. I hope I didn't ruin 4.5 lbs of beef.

[korhun]

I have a very boring airplane story
When I was in London in ~1997 I stayed in the house of a woman with 2 children. We rent one of her rooms. The house was near Richmond, which is not far from Heathrow airport. And I was in love with the airplanes of all kind. Sill love them. Anyway I saw a few Concorde flying, and my mind went crazy. There was a bicycle in the house, I asked her if I could drive it for a few minutes just for fun. She said "well, take it when ever you want, and use it how much you like." She was cool. I went to the airport a few times and spent many hours just watching planes landing and taking off. I couldn't see a Concorde, but it was very enjoyable for me. One day, while returning back to the house, the bicycle broke down. A man help me to fix it. I could drive a few miles, then it broke down again. I was very afraid that she would get mad at me. Perhaps throw me away from her house.. I didn't have the money to fix, and I thought my ultimate weight caused it to broke down. Well I showed her the bike. She smiled and said, "that's OK, I'll get it fixed"

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by korhun

I have a very boring airplane story
When I was in London in ~1997 I stayed in the house of a woman with 2 children. We rent one of her rooms. The house was near Richmond, which is not far from Heathrow airport. And I was in love with the airplanes of all kind. Sill love them. Anyway I saw a few Concorde flying, and my mind went crazy. There was a bicycle in the house, I asked her if I could drive it for a few minutes just for fun. She said "well, take it when ever you want, and use it how much you like." She was cool. I went to the airport a few times and spent many hours just watching planes landing and taking off. I couldn't see a Concorde, but it was very enjoyable for me. One day, while returning back to the house, the bicycle broke down. A man help me to fix it. I could drive a few miles, then it broke down again. I was very afraid that she would get mad at me. Perhaps throw me away from her house.. I didn't have the money to fix, and I thought my ultimate weight caused it to broke down. Well I showed her the bike. She smiled and said, "that's OK, I'll get it fixed"

Probably not a good idea to hang around for hours watching planes at major airports these days. It may not end well.

[NoHaveMSG]

Company president decided we need to come up with trouble shooting videos because it will save me time on the phone. Yet he does not realize that people call in without having even looked at the machine to see what is doing.

A regular response when asked, "what does it do when signaled on?"

"I don't know, let me cycle it and check."

[Stephen W.]

My father was a private pilot who built and flew his own plane back in the 30's. He reluctantly acquiesced to my mother's wishes to never again take the controls of an aircraft after his two closest friends died in a crash in 1953. However, he never lost his love of flying.
We use to make regular visits to the Oshawa Airport to visit his old friends. He was also a Ham radio operator (VE3AZV) and worked the fly-in breakfasts and air shows throughout the 60's.
Oshawa had been a training field during WWII and old war birds seemed to roost there. An aerial survey company who owned a converted B-17 kept it in one of the hangers. There was always a Harvard or two and at least two different Lancaster's (not flight worthy though) rested there as well.
For a short time in the 60's a P-51 made its home there as well. It had been converted to a two seater. You could get a ride in it for $1.00 per minute, (the approximate operational cost). So, for $30 you got a thirty minute ride. Considering warm up, roll out and taxy time the pilot said it worked out to about twenty minutes actual flight time. My father so wanted to take that flight but never did. He was afraid his heart wouldn’t take it.
Now here’s the story. One sunny Sunday while we were watching planes come and go my father spotted the P-51 coming into the pattern. Oshawa didn’t have a full time tower back then and all flights had to circle the field keeping a good distance from the one in front and then land in order. Because the Mustang was a bigger, heavier aircraft than most of the little puddle jumpers he needed more room to land. To help this he’d go further out before turning for final approach. Time after time as he got near the field some little plane would pop up in front of him to land not seeing or realizing the big P-51 was coming. On the third attempt he almost hit a tiny tail dragger. Only by the grace of God and the pilot’s skill was he able to pull up and avoid disaster. My dad knew the pilot was pissed and said so to others standing nearby. The P-51 disappeared behind the trees to the north of the field. We all waited to see smoke rising into the sky. But… instead we heard the mighty sound of that Supercharged V-12 Merlin at full song. Then we could see a glint in the sky just above those trees. He came out of the north, across the field at full throttle at tree top level. Then, just as he reached the apron he pulled up in a long slow victory roll. He brought the Mustang very close to a small aircraft that was making its approach. He wasn’t letting another one sneak in. He muscled his way in front and then dropped that P-51 down like he’d turned off a light switch. I swore I heard those tires squeal when they hit the tarmac above the sound of the engine. He taxied up between the two main hangers with the canopy rolled back his head swinging from side to side. He was looking for that little tail dragger and its pilot. We understand that he found him. Hopefully they only exchanged words. It wasn’t long after that incident that the tower was manned on weekends.

This photo of the P-51 at Oshawa is from mustangsmustangs dot com's P-51 who?
http://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/who/case/67

My father and I were probably there the day this photo was taken. Might even be us behind the plane.

[IceFyre13th]

here right next to work


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my tooth still hurts....dammit