The Aviators Thread

Omegafanman · Mar 17, 2023

JimInOz
In the picture, he's banging out through the canopy from the STBD seat, this is the Bombardier/Navigator chair and has no flying controls.

I just wish Rolex could get their advertising right!

(Sorry, Captain Pedantic again).

The article read like a single seater which threw me as to the aircraft type / date for the incident.

JimInOz · Mar 17, 2023

Interesting.......

Twocats · Mar 17, 2023

Omegafanman
My father worked in the NATO E3-A in Germany for a while. Everyone kept while back for ground tests.
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The E3 were a sight to behold with the looking glass radar dome.

I flew the TCA (normal freighter) from the German base to Maastricht where she was to be disassembled in 2011.

All markings had to be blacked out but I devised a cunning plan with my buddy who was doing the chopping to save one piece for me.

The piece I saved (below 3 photos) was the flag of Luxembourg City (my home of 25 years) which was under the wing so from a distance looking at the aircraft all other markings were painted out except my underwing piece. I think I did it proud giving it a new life.

Omegafanman · Mar 17, 2023

Twocats
The E3 were a sight to behold with the looking glass radar dome.

I flew the TCA (normal freighter) from the German base to Maastricht where she was to be disassembled in 2011.

All markings had to be blacked out but I devised a cunning plan with my buddy who was doing the chopping to save one piece for me.

The piece I saved (below 3 photos) was the flag of Luxembourg City (my home of 25 years) which was under the wing so from a distance looking at the aircraft all other markings were painted out except my underwing piece. I think I did it proud giving it a new life.

Very well done / great to have saved and created that unique artifact. Also you have enjoyed some amazing places. Maastricht is a cracking City and an easy run to the airport.

Twocats · Mar 17, 2023

Omegafanman
Very well done / great to have saved and created that unique artifact. Also you have enjoyed some amazing places. Maastricht is a cracking City and and easy run to the airport.

I love Maastricht, it’s a fantastic place to visit and I would recommend it to anyone. In fact the Netherlands is an amazing country and the Dutch are my kind of people, no bullshit straight talkers.

SpeedyPhill · Mar 17, 2023

DoctorEvil
Thanks for sharing. I'm assuming that was part of an ad for Rolex watches. Which publication did you find it in?

The 1980s booklet " Every Rolex Tells A Story " ... printed by JWT-Rolex but hard to find these days ( & expensive)

SpeedyPhill · Mar 17, 2023

The cockpit of the Hughes H-4 Hercules "Spruce Goose" really needed that flight engineer... even for a single flight in November 1947
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JimInOz · Mar 17, 2023

My young fella just sent me this.

It reminded me of when we were hiking along a ridge in the Highlands when two jets came over at about 3 feet above us (felt like 3 feet!). We were just recovering and laughing and saying "didn't scare me" stuff when another bigger faster louder lower one blasted over the ridge. I've been around fast jets a big part of my life, but I nearly shat my pants, I think Annie may have

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DoctorEvil · Mar 17, 2023

If you like low passes, this one's a beauty. F-16 in Afghanistan..

DoctorEvil · Mar 18, 2023

Extreme STOL

64Wing · Mar 18, 2023

Omegafanman · Mar 19, 2023

If everybody had an ocean and a JRF
Then everybody'd be flying surfin'
Across the USA………

Saw some vintage navigation training on another thread, using JRF Goose Seaplanes.
Crazy beaching after a sea landing - flying, surfing and then some off-road driving. Very sturdy plane but the mechanics must have kittens.

video is just after the 11 min mark. Also some interesting insight into early navigation training.

https://omegaforums.net/threads/anyone-have-a-historical-watch.145564/page-18#post-2148811

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SpeedyPhill · Mar 19, 2023

Winston Churchill in a Boeing 314 Clipper (1942)
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Twocats · Mar 19, 2023

64Wing

Dude, you are missing a fastner (circled) and your access door is not sitting flush (white line).

Time to get @Scarecrow out for a visit 😀

Jones in LA · Mar 19, 2023

DoctorEvil
Extreme STOL

This stunt lit up my Instagram feed shortly after it happened...most often re-posted by the heli-folk I follow.

A question for propeller-folk: the handle that the pilot pulls at touchdown -- is that to reverse propeller pitch?

Twocats · Mar 19, 2023

Jones in LA
This stunt lit up my Instagram feed shortly after it happened...most often re-posted by the heli-folk I follow.

A question for propeller-folk: the handle that the pilot pulls at touchdown -- is that to reverse propeller pitch?

My guess it’s the flap lever, don’t thing this machine has reverse prop. I may be wrong but this is the way it is on my mates Storch.

Jones in LA · Mar 19, 2023

May as well give an update on my flight training....

The photo is of my first instructor (on left) and myself, last December. It was my instructor's last day on the job before moving on to Las Vegas to fly Eurocopter 130s on sightseeing tours into the Grand Canyon. I'm now on my fourth instructor and have accumulated about 50 total flight hours -- mostly in the Robinson R22 (the green aircraft) and 1.25 hours in the R44 (grey aircraft). I have yet to fly solo...I am without a doubt a slow learner...but I'm now flying all standard flight procedures with reasonable skill and confidence. And I certainly feel a lot less performance anxiety than I did 25 hours ago, which makes flying considerably more fun. For the first three months of 2023 my flight frequency has gone way down, due to holiday family commitments, and then unusually rainy weather, and frequent equipment breakdowns. The company I'm training with normally operates two R22s, but one of the two has been out for maintenance for months, which has put huge pressure on the remaining aircraft. At the end of my last flight, as I was pulling the fuel mixture handle to shut down the engine, the handle (and actuator cable) pulled right out of the console and the engine continued running (we then shut the main fuel valve and switched the magnetos off to kill the engine). I believe the fuel mixture control has since been repaired. My next scheduled flight is set for tomorrow, but the weather forecast is looking iffy...