Recent content by XBe02Drvr

Wow, what a trip down memory lane! Our local airport hosted a Lockheed 12 for awhile back in the early '60s (like a Beech 18, but way cooler! Think A. Earhartt.), the commuter airline (Air Sunshine) at the civilian field near my permanent duty station dabbled in Herons (the Lycoming version) for...

My early childhood was in the hills above a railroad town, and I was all about trains. When I was 11 we moved to our state's capital town, which had an airport 4 miles away, and my fickle fancy fixed on flying. It stayed there until I retired from my second career, and now I'm playing with...

ATRs and icing are a bad combination. Hang on to your hats, folks, this tale's going to be a long one. The ATR was the first aircraft to be globally certificated under the Joint Arcraft Airworthiness Standards Agreement, whereby all ICAO nations agreed to accept the airworthiness certification...

"This system was originally developed in the 1960s (M163 VADS)" We were building these at GE when I worked there in 69-70. We received one returned from Vietnam with a stitch of .50 caliber holes right through it and out the other side. Trashed the ammo drum, engine, fuel tank, and gun laying...

With 1200 HP, an Ed Heineman (simplicate and add lightness) airframe, large high lift wings, Vne flaps, and with its bombload and half its fuel gone, the SBD was probably the single allied combat aircraft that could come closest to matching the Zero in a turning fight. It's only lack was the...

Sad time! My condolences for your loss. To fly west is a trip we all must take, be it soon or be it late.

Just look at the US House of Representatives, where a small minority of "kool-aid" addicts, living in an alternate reality, have managed to hog-tie the process of government until they get their way and can force their dingbat policies down the throats of the majority of Americans who oppose...

:pilotsalute: Bravo Zulu, Elinor!

Can't happen in Vermont. We don't have any roads that wide. Two lanes max each way.

Deep dive into the past: Valdez isComing. Burt Lancaster as a Hispanic sheriff in a white supremacist town. Some awesome shooting, both literally and cinematically.

The "stretched version" 350 (Beech 1900) we flew had them. Same engines, same props, same reasons.

IIRC, the L188 Electra herself had some issues with destructive harmonics. Catastrophic ones, as I recall?

My mother's family (missionaries) were forced to leave Japan in 1933 due to threats and harassment from the ultranationalists who were driving public opinion. The church (Universalist) pulled the plug and had them shipped stateside for their own safety. From a warm autumn in Shizuoka to a...

Do they get paid piece work?

"High and right at the start, below glide while correcting, on glide but slow, rapid sink in close, slow on power, RAMP STRIKE, no grade pass, a/c WRITE OFF.