Someday soon, Fifi, the only flying B-29 in the world will have a partner.
It would be the ultimate gas to see them flying together!!
http://www.b-29doc.com/
Aw Shucks, guess I'll make this the flying thread.........
P51D lost power at 2013 Reno Races.......at 400mph......and did all the right moves. Interesting comments.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2A5ywM8TNk
sparks
The Rooskies at a Paris air show. Can't tell for sure, but I think the single tail aircraft is the SU25
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7ulDQ5h8Y
sparks
C-17 Countermeasure Flares At Night
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular_new/44546/Video_C_17_Formation_Night_Countermeasure_Flares
Click on the Youtube link
Here's Bob doing crazy stuff.......in a production aircraft..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhkmY3rELeY
I got to see Hoover do his routine at Oshkosh a few years back -- he is an amazing pilot
I first saw Bob Hoover circa 1970 at Rockford,Il when the EAA show was still held there....seen him many times since.
Wouldn't surprise me if he didn't try this once..........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZbbfUYvjxg
P51D 'Precious Metal' firing up a Rolls Griffon at night.......pushing 40 inches of boost.
Use headphones........makes it more ......well.........well.........you'll see (hear).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cf3EA-JQY0
Hope this link works. Virtual tour of a B-36 cockpit.
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/062/B-36J%20Engineer.html
Use the arrows to move around
Quote from: sparks on November 21, 2014, 10:12:43 AM
Hope this link works. Virtual tour of a B-36 cockpit.
http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/062/B-36J%20Engineer.html
Use the arrows to move around
Worked very well!!
Testing Jet Engines
First, a flood of water; then an ice ball cannon; followed up by a dead chicken insertion.
Didn't see anything reguarding the rotor blade failure.
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/how-ge-tests-jet-engines/
And why is GE testing PW engines?
Or did I miss something............
Whoops..........got misled by the opening picture caption
I posted this about three years ago.......
For those that missed it.........the decomissioning of the Space Shuttle Discovery.......
http://360vr.com/2011/06/22-discovery-flight-deck-opf_6236/index.html
hope this link works,
Hhhmmmm.....looks OK
This is just plain old aircraft abuse,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dplkwrW8Dqs
You ever done crap like this Glenn?
A short video about the SR71 and one of her former pilots
http://www.chonday.com/Videos/sr71jetplane1
The Blackbird was a truly amazing aircraft.......designed with slide rules
Back in the seventies and eighties I read everything I could about that aircraft.
I was working for the railroad. I can not remember the year but the pacific northwest was being used for a massive air force war games for the week. We seen so many airplanes, some Air Force, some Navy and even as I heard even the Marines even a couple foreign countries it was reported. One night on a Nampa yard job we were either in at 'beans' or coffee or something. But we were in the shanty where our lockers and lunch table was. We got popped that night with the strangest sonic boom and roar afterword. The door to the shany blew open several inches - dust fell from the ceiling and furnace air return. We ran outside thinking a tank car had blown up or something. Then when I started collecting my thoughts I guessed we had gotten an SR 71 fly over. I told everyone that had to been an SR-71. Few people understood what I said most did not know or care SR-71 from a P-51.
The Air Force released a statement to the media - a SR-71 had refueled actually over the desert. Disengaged the tanker went back to mach flight. It was not intended to occur over a populated area but did. It went on to explain when they disengaged the tanker and go to afterburners it is designed to even dump more fuel into the afterburners clearing out the piping and extra fuel in the system waste gating it out past the afterburner. This also was part of the boom that we heard and felt. But I do not know that to be true or just more armed forces - media BS. All I know is the little experience just that told me that SR-71 was all the plane I heard and read it was.
originally code named the "Ox Cart"
the SR71 was designed in the late 50's. it was financed off budget by the CIA less than a decade after the CIA was formed
When the Airforce found out they had to have it too
I once saw one during the ramp up to the Iraq invasion parked among the Minnesota Air National Guard planes at MSP --Didn't have my camera
A friend from NM was flying IFR near Albuquerque when he heard
"Center, Military Flight 479 Request clearance to flight level 700"
479, Clear to level 700, there is no other traffic above FL350"
"Thank you center, 479 descending to level 700"
"479 say aircraft type"
" unable, 479"
For the gals........
http://www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls
It was such a long time ago.........
Yet, so much is owed to so few by so many..........
The comment section is old, but worth having a peek at
Looks like "Doc" might be airworthy soon.......
and show up at the 2015 EAA fest in Oshkosh, Wi
With FiFi..........
I'll sell my offspring ........just to be there
http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/there-are-about-to-be-two-airworthy-b-29s-1677827090/1678713547
OK.......I won't sell my offspring
I'll find someone else's to sell
Heh,heh,heh
I've flown on a couple of 747's, but I don't believe it was this one...........
http://mobile-app.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/from-rust-bucket-to-showpiece-volunteers-are-rescuing-the-first-boeing-747/
sparks
Wow....Really quiet around here lately.....
Here's some noise........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWGLAAYdbbc
Be careful with the volume.....l
More noise.......
The Lockheed Constellation.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynlAVeQd_MY
Well, it has taken some time........
But here's FiFi's new friend......
DOC !!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlsny7UBv2g
And here's FiFi.........a bit long of a video......
I just love the sound of the P&W's firing up!!
OK...I'll shut up.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STljSO6ZTt4&feature=related
Aaaahhh.......now I'll shut up....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmzdA3PE04
Jeez......you guys are gonna start calling me bucket mouth..
The Donald's Aircraft.
I'm not a really big fan of the man............but he has a beautiful plane.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZq3iCn2y74
In my travels I've seen this aircraft several times.... the last time at Moline,Il........looked like it just had a full hull washing!
The Last C17 Off The Assembly At Long Beach, California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBaNNJ2Oct0
Beautiful aircraft..........and I salute you...... [cool]
S
A bit of Concorde history......
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35233500
The video of its maiden flight in 1969 is in this link......
Quote from: sparks on November 29, 2015, 11:49:23 PM
The Last C17 Off The Assembly At Long Beach, California
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBaNNJ2Oct0
Beautiful aircraft..........and I salute you...... [cool]
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My good this things an absolute beauty isn't it!!
Well......I said this is the flying or aircraft thread some time ago....
I learned how to fly an airplane back in the late 1960's.....before I even had a drivers license......
A Piper140, Cessna175,and Beech V35......but had never landed any of them.....
My first attempt at a landing was with the 140, and it was damn near disaster.......severe crosswind and my instructor balled me out big time......that was April of 1970....I never went back................
All that was a bit over 45 years ago.....I stopped by the local airport today.....and the dude I spoke with said its never too late.........I'd really love to do a solo......gonna take him up on doing lessons again........
Yeah, its never to late.......just hope that old damn 140 is retired................. ;D
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The last 727 that FedEx used....
Flew a couple of years ago....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QIeyLjNJ6U
The first 727 ever built will be making its last voyage shortly.......
I'll try to stay on top of that......
I flew on many 727's.......
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It appears that the original 727 will make its last flight on March 1st
http://mashable.com/2016/02/26/boeing-727-last-flight/#vLug_pEFSmqw
I wish I could be there......
A truly remarkable aircraft......
Wiki's version of it......
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_727
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The Final Landing......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM2KZ8a-Kvg
[cool]
S
Thanks for the share!
Here's one for the gals....
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/royal-brunei-airlines-first-all-female-flight-deck-crew-lands-plane-in-saudi-arabia-where-women-are-a6931726.html
I think it means a bit more than just flying one of the most advanced commercial aircraft ever produced
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[cool] and good to see
Just watching "Better Call Saul". One scene has FiFi in it... made me think of this thread. :)
A list of 2016 Air Shows......
If you're near to one, hope you can attend.....
https://www.milavia.net/airshows/calendar/showdates-2016-north_america.html
Looking forward to the Quad Cities show myself.....and then maybe a jaunt to the Dayton Museum......
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The last Boeing 247.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaOh_t_gs3A
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The B-29 Doc is on the move.....taxi testing
Link is from Flight Aware comments section.....
Video is in header at u tube.....
http://flightaware.com/squawks/view/1/7_days/popular_new/55394/B_29_Doc_Taxis_Under_its_Own_Power
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The restored B29 'Doc', is scheduled to fly on Sunday, July 17..... at 830 am
Link here with a web video feed.....
http://www.b-29doc.com/2016/07/15/b-29-doc-remains-go-for-first-flight-public-watch-area-and-times-released/
FIFI's new friend will finally arrive.......
I'd sure like to be there.........
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The link didn't work very well. I used the URL that was sort of hidden from utube....
Here's the short version.......
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsiP5KZ04X4
A salute and congratulations to the folks that made 'Doc' happen.
The flight crew was comprised of those that fly FIFI (and some Doc people)
Maybe someday they'll have their time in the sky together
Its been a fun thread folks........ [cool]
Thanks
S
Famed aviator 'Bob' Hoover, who escaped Nazis by stealing a plane, dies at 94 (http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/25/news/bob-hoover-obit/)
That prompted me to look up a gentleman I worked for in my teens, he took a flight a few years ago;
http://ourvalley.org/world-war-ii-bomber-pilot-russell-robinson-flies-again/
I googled the aircraft and its name and up popped Mr Robinson. I remember the story of him and the copilot having to pound on each other to keep from freezing.
Another interesting story... thanks.