The Aviators Thread

DoctorEvil · Mar 30, 2023

Seiji
The German Aces were incredible. I know often the US websites put a caveat that US Aces were pulled out of the war zones early hence few scored higher than in the twenties suggesting that if the pilots flew more they would have scored as much as the Germans and the Japanese. It seems it is likely that the American politics had less confidence to leave the US aces in the war zone for fear of loosing them in battle and tarnishing the reputations.

I think the facts remain, the German pilots had the most wins.

From what I understand, the Americans also had a system of rotating experienced pilots out once in a while to train new pilots. The US had a much bigger pipeline of new pilots compared to the Germans or Japanese, so the more experienced Axis pilots were forced to stay in the war zone and fight.

pbook4g5 · Mar 30, 2023

Flew a bit in college (100 hours or so) but never got my license due to being R/G colorblind (although apparently I can get a waiver for that now).
Just wanted to share this great bit of ATC comms about a student pilot who lost her nose wheel and had to land with the assistance of a FI in a plane in the air next to her. Pretty awesome.

64Wing · Mar 30, 2023

Gents, I've achieved a step toward a pipedream today. I bought a 5 acre parcel on a private grass airstrip. In the coming months I'll finalize an iconic home design with my architect brother. No idea yet when I could break ground, but at least the beginnings are in order!

MRC · Mar 30, 2023

64Wing
Gents, I've achieved a step toward a pipedream today. I bought a 5 acre parcel on a private grass airstrip. In the coming months I'll finalize an iconic home design with my architect brother. No idea yet when I could break ground, but at least the beginnings are in order!

Good work! A friend of mine had his own strip that he used to graze sheep when he wasn't flying. To sweep the sheep into their pen at one end someone needed to walk down the strip with a packet of biscuits (cookies), or even just the packet, and rustle the wrapper. The sheep would follow right into the pen because they liked biscuits 😁

64Wing · Mar 30, 2023

MRC
Good work! A friend of mine had his own strip that he used to graze sheep when he wasn't flying. To sweep the sheep into their pen at one end someone needed to walk down the strip with a packet of biscuits (cookies), or even just the packet, and rustle the wrapper. The sheep would follow right into the pen because they liked biscuits 😁

😜 that's silly and I love it!

MRC · Mar 30, 2023

64Wing
😜 that's silly and I love it!

They were an ancient breed of sheep (Soay) and very good eating. Small and rather cute too. Not big enough for commercial sheep farming.

He flew his Flight Design CTSW out of there, nice to fly and pretty fast for 100hp. Being accustomed to glider approaches the power lines on the way in on a propellor approach always worried me.

Ticker5 · Mar 30, 2023

Thanks for this thread.
All of my B52 hours were logged with the times shown on my Bulova Accutron Astronaut. If I remember correctly, I wore it also in the FB-111. The B52 still flies; the F111/FB111 do not. My Accutron, however, still keeps excellent time. I also have a 50th anniversary Seamaster
GMT, with sword hands that are wonderfully visible as I age, and superb lume. Travel for me includes a GMT watch.

pbook4g5 · Mar 30, 2023

T Ticker5
Thanks for this thread.
All of my B52 hours were logged with the times shown on my Bulova Accutron Astronaut. If I remember correctly, I wore it also in the FB-111. The B52 still flies; the F111/FB111 do not. My Accutron, however, still keeps excellent time. I also have a 50th anniversary Seamaster
GMT, with sword hands that are wonderfully visible as I age, and superb lume. Travel for me includes a GMT watch.

Thank you for your service! Where did you fly out of if you don't mind me asking?

Scarecrow Boat · Mar 30, 2023

Going down an aviation YouTube rabbit hole and came across a separation testing video… wild 😲

DoctorEvil · Mar 30, 2023

pbook4g5
Flew a bit in college (100 hours or so) but never got my license due to being R/G colorblind (although apparently I can get a waiver for that now).
Just wanted to share this great bit of ATC comms about a student pilot who lost her nose wheel and had to land with the assistance of a FI in a plane in the air next to her. Pretty awesome.

Thanks for sharing. Was impressed by how calm the student pilot was throughout the whole thing.
Go get that waiver for your condition if you can. Then let us know when you've got your licence. We're a community of enablers here on OF you know 😉

DoctorEvil · Mar 30, 2023

T Ticker5
Thanks for this thread.
All of my B52 hours were logged with the times shown on my Bulova Accutron Astronaut. If I remember correctly, I wore it also in the FB-111. The B52 still flies; the F111/FB111 do not. My Accutron, however, still keeps excellent time. I also have a 50th anniversary Seamaster
GMT, with sword hands that are wonderfully visible as I age, and superb lume. Travel for me includes a GMT watch.

G'day from an Aussie. The RAAF flew the F-111 as well. They were affectionately called "Pigs".
Do you mind showing us a pic of your watches too? Thanks 😁

DoctorEvil · Mar 31, 2023

Scarecrow Boat
Going down an aviation YouTube rabbit hole and came across a separation testing video… wild 😲

Wow. If I was the pilot flying some of those aircraft I'd probably sh*t myself!

DoctorEvil · Apr 1, 2023

I was fortunate to be invited by a medical colleague who owns a Cessna 310 to join him and a couple of others on a flight to the town of Temora, in central New South Wales. The town is best known for its aviation museum and for an airshow, Warbirds Downunder, held there biennially. Today was one of several during the year where the museum's airworthy aircraft put on a flying display for the public. Temora was a 3 hour round trip for us, cruising at a TAS of 180 knots.

During WW2, Temora was host to a large RAAF training aerodrome with Tiger Moth aircraft. Today, it is a mecca for aviation enthusiasts. The airport is unique in that there are numerous houses bordering it that have hangars at the rear, which open out on to an active taxiway:

Omegafanman · Apr 1, 2023

DoctorEvil
I was fortunate to be invited by a medical colleague who owns a Cessna 310 to join him and a couple of others on a flight to the town of Temora, in central New South Wales. The town is best known for its aviation museum and for an airshow, Warbirds Downunder, held there biennially. Today was one of several during the year where the museum's airworthy aircraft put on a flying display for the public. Temora was a 3 hour round trip for us, cruising at a TAS of 180 knots.

During WW2, Temora was host to a large RAAF training aerodrome with Tiger Moth aircraft. Today, it is a mecca for aviation enthusiasts. The airport is unique in that there are numerous houses bordering it that have hangars at the rear, which open out on to an active taxiway:

What an awesome collection. The Canberra broke a few records in its day / impressive aircraft

DoctorEvil · Apr 1, 2023

Omegafanman
What an awesome collection. The Canberra broke a few records in its day / impressive aircraft

All those aircraft that were on the flight line flew. Including the Canberra 😀

SpeedyPhill · Apr 1, 2023

Remember the ejection seat for the navigator in the Canberra photo-reconnaissance version 😒
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Scarecrow Boat · Apr 1, 2023

Landing: Air Force vs Navy
Air Force: "I paid for the whole runway, I'm gonna use the whole runway."
Navy: “I paid for upgraded suspension package, I’m going to use upgraded suspension package.”

64Wing · Apr 1, 2023

DoctorEvil
I was fortunate to be invited by a medical colleague who owns a Cessna 310 to join him and a couple of others on a flight to the town of Temora, in central New South Wales. The town is best known for its aviation museum and for an airshow, Warbirds Downunder, held there biennially. Today was one of several during the year where the museum's airworthy aircraft put on a flying display for the public. Temora was a 3 hour round trip for us, cruising at a TAS of 180 knots.

During WW2, Temora was host to a large RAAF training aerodrome with Tiger Moth aircraft. Today, it is a mecca for aviation enthusiasts. The airport is unique in that there are numerous houses bordering it that have hangars at the rear, which open out on to an active taxiway:

It'll true at 190 if he's willing to go up to 12,000 😁

DoctorEvil · Apr 2, 2023

64Wing
It'll true at 190 if he's willing to go up to 12,000 😁

Haha. Sadly, we don't have any supplemental oxygen on board.

JimInOz · Apr 2, 2023

DoctorEvil

Good to see old 83 again. I was on the ejection system/weapons component of the "E" Service team at 75SQN Butterworth when it was bought back to life after obtaining it from the RMAF.

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