These videos should bring back more memories for you then. I've got a mate who used to be a medic in the RAN and he had a short stint on HMAS Melbourne late in the ship's service life (early 1980s?). Enjoy

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The National Vietnam Veterans Museum at Phillip Island, VIC also has a Tracker on display. I've visited it myself but can't find my own photo of it.

 

Operational check flight. They wrote up a nose gear shimmy and we basically rebuilt the entire thing.

 

I saw this old picture today and it reminded me of your story. Must have been a mind blowing experience
considering what most aircraft looked like back then.
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Where is this? And in what aircraft type?

 

Just like when you get a new watch?

Image courtesy of Avgeekery.com via Facebook

 

It's a 421B. Location is a secret

 

IF the camera or phone is set to Zulu (UTC/GMT) time, which I and a couple of friends do, then the timestamp would be about right for sunset in Alaska.

 

But it could be sunrise somewhere else just saying.

 

Gassing up the little bird before this week's flight lesson.



This was instructional flight No.10 for me. Progress has been slow and steady, I seem to be about where most students training in an R22 would be at this point. I can hover reasonably well, even in moderately gusty winds, and am now working on taxiing and turns down at the tarmac level. I've also flown a couple of airport approaches down to about 50ft off the runway, and am a lot better at holding a steady altitude in level flight. It's been kind of surreal taking off and landing out of/into KBUR, which has been my preferred airport for commercial air travel since I moved to L.A. 23 years ago. It was quite a sight to see three airliners down below on the taxiway, waiting for ME in a tiny helicopter to complete my final approach and landing.


Adding some watch-related content here, I think I've settled on a preferred flight watch. It will probably be my most ding- and scratch-resistant watch for reaching deep into the engine compartment during pre-flight inspections, and I can use the chronograph to time a couple of the shutdown procedures.

 

Yebbut even a wild-assed guess like mine starts with a lot of assumptions. @64Wing does a lot of ferry flights, so perhaps this is one. For that sort of task would you prefer to set out at midnight to arrive at dawn, or take off in daylight and arrive just before sunset?

I could not find any real clues in the photo -- and its Exiv data had been removed which is always a good idea for photos with secrets in them. Did contemplate going through the list of single runway airfields in Alaska with one direction perhaps 22/23/24 but decided against. I may be bored but not that bored.

 

I thought about the runway numbers too. But then decided it was way too much bother.

 

Great Read.

 

If you have time on your hands and would like to read about how to work your way up in aviation can I suggest http://airplanepilot.blogspot.com/2005/01/what-is-this-blog-about.html and work your way towards today. The writer "Aviatrix" (no other identification that I know of) worked her way up from knocking on doors and, well, grovelling at low level, to now where I think she is Chief Pilot for whatever operation she is with. Name of outfit not given. That's a great read.

 

Will look in to this. Thanks

 

Interesting theory but I don't ferry airplanes. I do spend a lot of time traveling for work though...

That said, I'd be happy to ferry an airplane for worthy customers

 

“Oh Thank Heaven for 7-Eleven!” [coffee]…

 

You didn’t say anything about autorotations.

When are you going to say something about autorotations?

 

OMG ….. Did Dunkin run out??

 

The other kids have cooler toys today