Hey Bud, look what I found!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-19/us-military-f-35-fighter-jet-debris-found/102872216
I grew up in and spent all of my childhood in aviation. My dad got his pilots license in high school and has been flying ever since. Both my mom and I also have our pilots license’s. They have pictures of me as a young child building lego airplanes on the hangar floor right next to my dad who was restoring a 1942 Stinson Voyager from the frame up.
At the end of 2019 I was halfway through my A&P program but 2020 hit and put a quick end to that. Schools shut down and transitioned to online. The FAA wouldn’t allow our program to transition online to prevent cheating… and with it being so lab heavy, the program was shut down as a whole (dependent on each states local government and Covid levels). Being in Los Angeles, my school/program closed for over a year. Now living in NorCal, the closest school to me that offers the program is reopening this fall and aren’t accepting any new students/transfers until the end of next year. I was set to be graduated with my license March of this year… but on to new goals.
Anyways, I recently helped my dad, along with an A&P and IA friend perform an engine swap on his Cessna 180. Here are a couple of pics- I’m behind the camera, but there is my dad
Pardon this image quality. I took this a while ago and had to scavenge my parents social media for it.
A Duxford day today and grabbed a couple of shots.... Not everyday you see this rare pair together (under slow restoration)......
Able to get in there now Tom Cruise has departed (allegedly ;0)
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What a collection. Even a Short Sunderland flying boat. And a Concorde?! Looks very crowded in that hangar though.
What a collection. Even a Short Sunderland flying boat. And a Concorde?! Looks very crowded in that hangar though.
80 years ago... manned V1 flights
In August & September 1943 German pilots volunteered to fly a manned version of the Doodle Bug V1 flying bomb, Fieseler Fi 103 Reichenberg.
Two German female pilots flew this human pilot guided V1 contraption: Hanna Reitsch and Erika Fisher.
The German wanted to create a pulse-jet powered fighter aircraft Me 328 but it only reached "glider" status and never became operational.
I first learned about these Reichenberg "manned missiles" in the early 1980s while watching the 1964 movie "Operation Crossbow". Of course the manned V1 "aircraft" never launched from a ground based ramp but were dropped from a twin-engined Heinkel He 111 bomber. Once operational, an Arado would carry these V1s but it never became operational.
(Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
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So I have been taken up for a full Battle of Britain aerobatic experience in a T6. One of the pilots is also a display pilot on a Chipmunk team. On a recent visit to the RAF museum London, Hendon @SpeedyPhill only had eyes for the Chipmunk … well and the lightning.
People might worry about flying in an old aircraft…. While try surviving this (oldest chipmunk flying) in a modern aircraft.
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So I have been taken up for a full Battle of Britain aerobatic experience in a T6. One of the pilots is also a display pilot on a Chipmunk team. On a recent visit to the RAF museum London, Hendon @SpeedyPhill only had eyes for the Chipmunk … well and the lightning.
People might worry about flying in an old aircraft…. While try surviving this (oldest chipmunk flying) in a modern aircraft.
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First time in Utah. As a flatlander from the Midwest, it was strange hearing from the controller: "I can give you discretion to one three thousand, three hundred; that's as low as I can get you."
