The Aviators Thread

DoctorEvil · Feb 8, 2025

@Duracuir1
No worries, and thank you for keeping people safe.
For some reason, your reply reminds me of an old Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon in which there was a Mountie who couldn't arrest someone because it was a woman. When asked why, he said "We always get our man!" ::rimshot::

spacemission · Feb 9, 2025

DoctorEvil · Feb 9, 2025

spacemission

I'm guessing you're building this right now? Post some pics when you're done 🙂

DDMcGrew · Feb 9, 2025

Good way to get to work in the morning. Better than Uber.

DoctorEvil · Feb 10, 2025

DDMcGrew

Good way to get to work in the morning. Better than Uber.

May I ask what this object is?

SpeedyPhill · Feb 10, 2025

Must be a lightweight waterbag for fire-fighting !

spacemission · Feb 10, 2025

DoctorEvil
I'm guessing you're building this right now? Post some pics when you're done 🙂

First it must be purchased 🛒

DDMcGrew · Feb 10, 2025

SpeedyPhill
Must be a lightweight waterbag for fire-fighting !

DoctorEvil
May I ask what this object is?

Correct. It's a Bambi bucket, connected to a long line. Used in wildland fire suppression to cool down the flanks of a target so handcrews can safely access and extinguish.

Duracuir1 · Feb 10, 2025

A couple of adverts. Look to be the size of the old LIFE magazines.

DoctorEvil · Feb 10, 2025

Duracuir1
A couple of adverts. Look to be the size of the old LIFE magazines.

Love it.
Was reading the basic requirements for Naval Aviator recruits. I'd fall short on a couple of them. I'm of dubious reputation 🤣
Interesting that the Navy can specify that you have to be unmarried. Don't know if that would still be legal in today's Navy. I dare say that there would be a lot of potential recruits in their early to mid 20s that would be married (especially during that era), so the Navy would be missing out on a big talent pool.

DoctorEvil · Feb 10, 2025

Image courtesy of Avgeekery.com via Facebook

Mad Dog · Feb 10, 2025

Duracuir1
A couple of adverts. Look to be the size of the old LIFE magazines.

Yeppers, Steve…I have the first one that you posted…

Mad Dog · Feb 10, 2025

DoctorEvil
@Mad Dog
There ya go. You can keep your G-1. But only if you separated from the Service under "honorable conditions". This document is dated 2018 but I dare say that the rules would have been the same back in 1992 when you ceased active duty. Cheers!

https://www.secnav.navy.mil/doni/Directives/10000 General Material and Equipment Support/10-100 Personnel Material Support/10126.4E.pdf

I dunno. In 1992, the USN wanted it back…and I left active duty with an honorable discharge…BUT…I left active duty two years early and had my commitment extended to 1998 where I served in a non-flying capacity in either the IRR or as a SELRES…maybe that’s why they wanted it back.

Emeister · Feb 10, 2025

DoctorEvil
The news story of the CFB commander was a bit disturbing. Just think, one of my former COs could have been an axe wielding serial killer 🤔

Duracuir1:
Thanks for the info. 33 year career between RCMP and OPP (Ontario Provincial Police, and met the OPP colleagues who investigated Col Williams).

I watched his police interviews on YouTube, a month or so ago. (Top one).
They already knew it was him.
There's another that's 2 hours +!

DDMcGrew · Feb 11, 2025

Pair of Chinooks on layover to Alaska. Nice machines to look at, less fun to fly in.

Mad Dog · Feb 11, 2025

DDMcGrew
Pair of Chinooks on layover to Alaska. Nice machines to look at, less fun to fly in.

We USN rotorheads call them “shithooks”. USN doesn’t fly them but USA does…so it was a way for us USN rotorheads to make fun of those USA “shithook” rotorheads. All in fun! Also, USN and USMC used to fly something similar to the “shithook” which was the CH-46 Sea Knight.

Mad Dog · Feb 11, 2025

DDMcGrew
…less fun to fly in.

Let me give it the old college try. Hydraulic fluid all over the deck inside the helo???

JimInOz · Feb 11, 2025

Or sitting on the deck with two burnin'n'turnin waiting for the duty crew to turn up with a fire hose to attend to the droop stops that aren't stopping the droops.

DDMcGrew · Feb 11, 2025

Mad Dog
Let me give it the old college try. Hydraulic fluid all over the deck inside the helo???

Aha, thankfully those weren't my ride today. But if there wasn't i'd probably be more concerned. Somehow I got stuck in the back of a 206 today. Not sure of that's a blessing or a curse.

SpeedyPhill · Feb 13, 2025

They're called "aviators" because pilots are captains of a tug boat pulling or guiding a larger ship into a harbor...
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