Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Nose up so belly hits water first and drop off as much speed as possible. Bad bad things happen if you hit the water nose first and too fast.

"Fully stalled - Power stall if power is still available"

Page 106 Doesn't everybody have a copy of the Avenger Pilot Manual readily available?

That's just standard. A plane is a plane is a plane. Look just as he passes by the camera at fifteen seconds. He knew he had enough airspeed and hopped over that person in the water. That was no flare. Fully in control. I'm 100% sure he was thinking "Shit, I should've dropped in sooner."

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Capt Spaulding

Dude. The housing bubble in China is not news. It's been that way for at least a decade. You are very late to the party.

Party? What party? Where is the party? When?

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

It isn't lost. They will fix it. They have pulled them out of the ocean after 40+ years and got them flying again so an hour or so won't hurt it much.

Plus, it will give the old coots something to do besides sitting around telling back-in-the-day stories.

[ls1ac]

I thought he did a great job of getting it down. Prop had almost stopped.

Had a friend do that with a 210, got about twenty guys on the beach to get under the wings. all lifted and walked it out of the water up the beach to the road. Still got a ticket from the ranger in charge of the beach. Something like operating a motor vehicle in a restricted area.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spike021

So there's an S2000 at my new apartment complex, mostly sits in the same spot. It has a dent in the driver side corner of the rear bumper and it's pretty dusty/clearly pretty neglected.

I'm tempted to try and find the owner and make some kind of relatively cheap offer (pending a PPI by a shop).

Anybody have experience with this?

I suggest you not do it, unless you have a garage, a bunch of tools, a lot of spare time and money.

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by ls1ac

I thought he did a great job of getting it down. Prop had almost stopped.

Had a friend do that with a 210, got about twenty guys on the beach to get under the wings. all lifted and walked it out of the water up the beach to the road. Still got a ticket from the ranger in charge of the beach. Something like operating a motor vehicle in a restricted area.

That's the kind of pilot that practices dead-stick spot landings for fun. It's cool AF to ride ground effect.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by humfrz

I suggest you not do it, unless you have a garage, a bunch of tools, a lot of spare time and money.

Basically what I’d do is have a shop check it out. Assuming it’s just a bumper and maybe rear quarter needing replacement, do that. Would only get it if the shop confirms maintenance and working order of the power train and stuff.

I don’t have a garage but plenty of outdoor parking, and the paint already looks in rough shape so I wouldn’t mind it sitting in the sun.

But I dunno if I’ll actually do it.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Or crushed under 268 feet of ice like Glacier Girl.

so they found the one, but not the other 7 aircraft that were buried in similar conditions?

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

Heard a clunk coming from the front passenger's side tire well at low speed. Think I found it.

That don't look right.

[soundman98]

Originally Posted by spike021

So there's an S2000 at my new apartment complex, mostly sits in the same spot. It has a dent in the driver side corner of the rear bumper and it's pretty dusty/clearly pretty neglected.

I'm tempted to try and find the owner and make some kind of relatively cheap offer (pending a PPI by a shop).

Anybody have experience with this?

gotta play it like inception. send your buddy, get him to be really pushy, way lowball of an offer, of course the guy isn't going to sell. but put the bug in his ear. 6 months later, go up to him yourself all nice and chit chatty and ask about buying it for fair market value...

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by soundman98

so they found the one, but not the other 7 aircraft that were buried in similar conditions?

No, the located all of them, and are actually trying to recover (or at least were trying to recover) at least one of the others.

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

In April 2016, a team en route to the crash site in Greenland and under the guidance of veteran pilot and explorer, Ron Sheardown, was interviewed while at the airport in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec, Canada[5] regarding plans to recover a second P-38.

The team plans to extract another P-38 from the ice between May and August 2016. The glacier is drifting towards the sea, leaving most of the planes near or in a crevasse field too dangerous for a salvage mission.

Led by entrepreneurs Ken McBride and Jim Salazar, the group of a dozen Canadian and American explorers who have been working on the project since 2010 will attempt to extract the P-38 "Echo", piloted by Capt. Robert Wilson and the second plane of the squadron to attempt landing, and donate it to a museum. Wilson's P-38 was the first to land wheels up after the first P-38, piloted by Brad McManus, flipped over when the front gear penetrated the ice on roll out and collapsed. The rest of the squadron successfully landed wheels up.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by soundman98

so they found the one, but not the other 7 aircraft that were buried in similar conditions?

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

No, the located all of them, and are actually trying to recover (or at least were trying to recover) at least one of the others.

This is a great story on another arctic aircraft.
If they hadn't got sloppy they could have FLOWN the thing out 50 years after it crashed!
https://www.historynet.com/sad-saga-...9-kee-bird.htm

[ichitaka05]

Allergy season is here... I'm hating it. Older I get, worse the allergy season is...

Good news, Kershaw Leek with CF handle was on the sale, so I bought one (online).

Bad news, I still need to unpack garage stuff before I can restart blacksmithing... but I wanna start up again (before early summer).

[p1l0t]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

Allergy season is here... I'm hating it. Older I get, worse the allergy season is...

Good news, Kershaw Leek with CF handle was on the sale, so I bought one (online).

Bad news, I still need to unpack garage stuff before I can restart blacksmithing... but I wanna start up again (before early summer).

My Fiancée gets bad allergies I keep telling her she has the rona, lol. (She knows when it's her allergies but I just like busting her chops).

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