Girls and Aircraft - Volume II
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The fact that I love my wife is why I have not bought a plane yet.
The fact my wife loves me is why I've got shares in a couple of aircraft....
(Yes, I'm skiting!)
Oh my wife would let me buy one, I just know it would ruin my marriage. I'd never leave the plane...
No you don't. Tell your agent to only book the lucrative venues with a relaxed schedule, and buy a Pratt 1830 powered DC-3 with a custom interior and a king size bed and a gourmet galley, and travel in STYLE and arrive well rested.(theme song: Bob Seger's "Turn the Page") Stay away from Wright 1820s, they'll keep you awake; 1830s will lull you to sleep....and I'm the Jazz musician that those royalites pay for....c'mon, daddy needs a new lear jet!
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The fact that I taught my wife to fly is why I'm single now. She's never forgiven me for setting her on that path. She's retired from an airline career and won't go near an airplane.The fact that I love my wife is why I have not bought a plane yet.
Cheers,
Wes
Natural beauties like this are, to me,are always light years ahead of those women who have more cosmetic surgeries than they can count. When you have more plastic and silicon in you than flesh you're not a woman anymore, you're a Barbie doll . Looking at you Kim K.!
We have a few of those PT-6 powered DC-3's (actually they are 1944 C-47's according to the regs) here at the airfield. The same company has some radial powered ones as well. Personally I prefer the radials. Sound much better...
My wife wants to start flying. My bank account says please no...
Mine just wants to be chauffeured around...
Putting turboprops on a three is a betrayal of the very essence of the bird. It's like yanking the motor out of a Harley and putting In a two stroke three cylinder Suzuki; replacing a relaxing low key rumble with a pulse pounding, vibrating screamer. You want to see a real travesty? At Oshkosh I once saw a Three with a pair of RR Darts.
Cheers,
Wes
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at6
1st Sergeant
That certainly gets my motor running.
MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
In regards to the girl with the 450 Stearman, I assume the next picture in the sequence shows her propping it?
My high school physics teacher, a Naval Aviator from before WWII, told me just after I graduated from college,
"Flying is the world's greatest sport and the world's worst profession." While deeply involved in aircraft and space launch for my entire life since then, that's how I have approached my own personal flying.
One morning soon after sunup I was about to turn final at my local field and heard a Beech King Air pilot of a charter service announce he was taxiing to the active runway. Then I said I was turning final.
He came back, "What's that, an Ercoupe?"
I replied, "Yep, an Ercoupe."
He said, "How much fun is that!"
I responded, "You betcha!"
Poor guy, flying his office equipment.
My high school physics teacher, a Naval Aviator from before WWII, told me just after I graduated from college,
"Flying is the world's greatest sport and the world's worst profession." While deeply involved in aircraft and space launch for my entire life since then, that's how I have approached my own personal flying.
One morning soon after sunup I was about to turn final at my local field and heard a Beech King Air pilot of a charter service announce he was taxiing to the active runway. Then I said I was turning final.
He came back, "What's that, an Ercoupe?"
I replied, "Yep, an Ercoupe."
He said, "How much fun is that!"
I responded, "You betcha!"
Poor guy, flying his office equipment.
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
...and jet's only emit the gentle whoosh of a hot airstream...behind me. Smoother and even quieter...but I think I'll swap that Lear Jet for a HondaJet.
I take comfort in something built with Bushido.
Elvis
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
Radials do sing an unique and appealing song. I ALWAYS know when one flies over the house.
My preference is the "pop-pop-pop" of a 5-cylinder. Granted, a Kinner K-5 makes a P&W R1820 seem like a Mazda Rotary, but I love hearing that engine run (its Russian counterpart, the Shvetsov M-11, has just as lovely a song, too).
Probably why I like the Meyers biplane and the PO-2 so much.
Elvis
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MIflyer
1st Lieutenant
Back in the late 70's to late 80's I used to drive by Camarillo Airport (former Oxnard AFB) every so often. They had a DC-3 there that had THREE turbines installed, one on the nose.
It caught fire while sitting there one day and the nose burned off..
It caught fire while sitting there one day and the nose burned off..
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
Decided to look this one up, since she's so popular here and I found out....she took it all the way and is now a commercial airline pilot.
...so next time you fly to Hawaii, make sure that's on Mokulele Airlines...
...Mahalo.
Elvis
Elvis
Chief Master Sergeant
...ah, the good ol' days....
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