What Do Your Usernames Mean? (4 Viewers)

[Tiger11]

Not me. I love the tuna tank and I have a spare.
My plan is to paint it up like the fish, and make a sculpture/weather vane with it.

 

[skyking1]

We moved the hangar queen out to a tiedown today for some hangar rewiring work. Objects in that right mirror may be closer than they look.

 

[Tiger11]

We moved the hangar queen out to a tiedown today for some hangar rewiring work. Objects in that right mirror may be closer than they look.
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Yeah, that would give you a jar if you saw that on the highway! I'm going to brew a pot of coffee (or 2) and pore through my 310 stuff to see what you might be interested in. As an aside, I'm glad to see your bird is still with us. I've owned five planes in my lifetime (so far!) and never put a scratch on any of them while I owned them. However, all but one have been totaled by successive owners. Only one fatality, thank goodness. But I'm glad I have the photos to line my Man Cave walls!

 

[skyking1]

Yeah, that would give you a jar if you saw that on the highway! I'm going to brew a pot of coffee (or 2) and pore through my 310 stuff to see what you might be interested in. As an aside, I'm glad to see your bird is still with us. I've owned five planes in my lifetime (so far!) and never put a scratch on any of them while I owned them. However, all but one have been totaled by successive owners. Only one fatality, thank goodness. But I'm glad I have the photos to line my Man Cave walls!

I looked up your old 310 N-number and it was now on an airliner. I was not going to ask.

 

[Tiger11]

I looked up your old 310 N-number and it was now on an airliner. I was not going to ask.

Very sensitive of you, as all pilots are. Aren't we?

 

[skyking1]

My partner has a scrap of his first plane, one that his partner wrapped around a 150' fir tree. He did not survive. Today we talked about a friend we lost in another accident. It is very unforgiving business.

 

[Tiger11]

My partner has a scrap of his first plane, one that his partner wrapped around a 150' fir tree. He did not survive. Today we talked about a friend we lost in another accident. It is very unforgiving business.

True. Non pilots think that pilots who always read accident reports are ghouls. Not so. We read them to learn from the other fellows mistakes and profit thereby. Preparedness is the only key to survival in the air. Didn't mean to lecture. I taught Aviation Science in a community college for years - hard to get off the podium!

 

[Tiger11]

True. Non pilots think that pilots who always read accident reports are ghouls. Not so. We read them to learn from the other fellows mistakes and profit thereby. Preparedness is the only key to survival in the air. Didn't mean to lecture. I taught Aviation Science in a community college for years - hard to get off the podium!

Have you read any articles by Harry Clements? He was a Cessna engineer involved in the development of the 310, 640 (the 4 engine 310), the T-37 trainer (Tweety Bird), and the still-born Fanjet 310. He wrote an excellent article, "Defining the 310", in one of the aviation journals. If you can't find it online I can copy it for you and send it via snail mail - it's about 13 pages long. It's length is because there are about 50 replies! And he replies to EVERY ONE of them! More info in his replies to the replies than in the body of the article! I'm searching for his other articles online, too. I'll keep you posted. I'm a research nut. If you're not, that's OK. I'll back off.

 

[MiTasol]

True. Non pilots think that pilots who always read accident reports are ghouls. Not so. We read them to learn from the other fellows mistakes and profit thereby. Preparedness is the only key to survival in the air. Didn't mean to lecture. I taught Aviation Science in a community college for years - hard to get off the podium!

The whole purpose of investigating air accidents and creating reports is to teach other pilots and maintenance staff do not to make the mistake(s) some other person(s) did. Only the wilfully ignorant ignore them.

Some investigations also lead to regulatory change and if you read the report you can often preempt the change.

For maintenance staff the Service Difficulty Reports are equally important. At one stage in the mid 60's when nose gear Cessna's were fairly new I was doing an annual on a 172 and that days mail included an SDR on tailplane spar cracking because pilots were sitting on the tailplane to manoeuvre the aircraft on the ground. Cessna had not foreseen this. I checked that aircraft and found cracking so that SDR possibly prevented a fatal flight.