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mdvalant 
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 Posted: March-23-2012 at 2:29pm |
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Never been in a little plane like these before. Always wanted to fly over dad's house and where we duck hunt/fish/camp a lot in the spring and fall (Green Island, IA). That'd be awesome Steve. I will definitely take you up on that next time you're...flying around
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GlassSeeker
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Posted: March-23-2012 at 5:06pm |
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Hot Doggin with a B-52 Bad Idea
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This is the life
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skutsch
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Posted: March-23-2012 at 5:12pm |
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Andy, funny thing with a wing, when it is perpendicular to gravity, it doesn't create a whole lot of lift. The results are, will, obvious...
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GlassSeeker
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Posted: March-23-2012 at 5:16pm |
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Crashed in 1942 airmen only recently found in California glacier (yes California has glaciers!)
Lost Airmen Found |
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GlassSeeker
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Posted: March-23-2012 at 5:42pm |
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This is the life
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connorssons
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Posted: March-23-2012 at 6:32pm |
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GlassSeeker
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Posted: March-24-2012 at 7:44am |
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Come on you guys knew I would have one to tie footin and flyin together
 or two 
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wingwrench
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Posted: March-24-2012 at 9:50am |
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Cypress Gardens several years ago.
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wingwrench
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Posted: March-24-2012 at 10:04am |
I was maintaining a large private collection of aircraft, the An-2 and T-6 were used as photo platforms for air to air stills and video. |
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wingwrench
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Posted: March-24-2012 at 10:09am |
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Cypress Gardens
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dochockey
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Posted: March-24-2012 at 1:19pm |
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Wow seeing all these photos is getting me interested again. It always amazes me how far one can see on a clear day, I'm on the west side of Mi and you could see downtown Chicago.
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1989 Teal Ski Nautique
1967 Mustang Harris Float Sunfish |
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8122pbrainard
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Joined: September-14-2006 Location: Three Lakes Wi. Status: Offline Points: 41045 |
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Posted: March-24-2012 at 1:40pm |
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This reminds me of my old lessons way back in the late 70's. It took me 17 hours to solo but the airport I was at had only one hard runway so all of the 17 hours were crosswind take off's and landings. At least it taught me how to "crab"!! My instructor was an old WWII pilot who I'm sure had some conditions coming out of the war. When nervous, he would stutter. My very first hour up, he told me to land the plane - during the approach, he started to tell me to "p,p,p,pull back". Well, he ended up taking the control of the plane! Even then, we did a hard landing - I was expecting to see the struts pop up through the wings of that low wing Piper!!
The third hour up on take off, he cut the power on me and I had to do a soft field landing on the only cross field strip. That was a tough situation as well since at that point, I was never told anything about soft field landings. Man, that guy was tough!! |
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skutsch
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Posted: March-25-2012 at 12:13am |
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Andy, great picture, love the one of the guy footin next to the Decathalon, very cool.
Pete - that sounds like fun, man I have had some bone jarring landings too. All part of the process, did you end up getting your license? |
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gun-driver
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Posted: March-25-2012 at 1:44am |
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Ahh planes are just plain!!
This is the real heavy iron.  Here's a pic from my office before I retired. The bad guys just before they had a really bad day.   Don't bother running you'll just die tired!!! 
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connorssons
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Posted: March-25-2012 at 2:14am |
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Ahhh! now i know why thay call you gun driver, thats bad ass!
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8122pbrainard
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Posted: March-25-2012 at 7:55am |
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Steve,
No, I never went thought with getting the licence. The time and the money involved got in the way of more important things back then. |
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76tique
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Posted: March-25-2012 at 10:23am |
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Paul, sweet gunship!! Love the Steelers logo...(I lived in Pgh for a couple of years).
Steve - I've actually been lucky enough to spend a fair amount of time up in small aircraft (Cessna 172 and Hughes 300), when I was a teenager several of my parent's friends had airplanes. When I was 17 my mom talked our neighbor into letting me fly his 172, even let me try a stall recovery. That was a blast! Absolutely loved it, thought about trying for an aviation career when I was 18 but then went a different direction. Have always regretted it. I still fly R/C occasionally. Would still love to get my private pilots license but it never seems to get any cheaper When I was 12, my best friend's dad had one of these:  He used to land it in my parent's backyard, pick me up and take my buddy and I around to buzz our friend's houses. I thought it was the coolest thing ever! Even let me take the cyclic and rudder pedals a few times. My parents stopped letting me go up with him after they found out he was flying down into abandoned quarries and doing autorotation practice with us... |
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skutsch
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Posted: March-26-2012 at 11:40am |
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Paul - Thanks for your service, I have the utmost respect for all of you folks who lay it on the line in defense of all that we have! Pretty cool pics, that belly shot is really a neat perspective. The target camera on those things must be pretty incredible, makes it look like your 200 feet away and I am sure it was a lot farther.
Paul - that little thing looks pretty cool. I have never spent any time in Helicopters, the whole concept seems kind of foreign too me, I mean I get how it works, I just can't believe it actually does... |
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Waterdog
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Posted: March-26-2012 at 6:08pm |
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Helicopters can't really fly they just beat the air into submission. |
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