Aviation MegaThread!!!!

[I_FLY_LOW]

Originally Posted by Gernick

I'm looking forward to that one too, just cause...
But 2013?? hurry up, already!!!

Lower than a Snakes Belly in a Wagon Rut

Worth reading

[RxZ]

Originally Posted by Gernick

Spring of 2013? How am I supposed to wait that long?!? Looks like it has potential!

[chazbird]

I know a ex-co worker/boss who was in another countries AF and as part of his A4 check-out it was three 100nm triangular legs at 300 agl and 300 knots. Personally, I preferred breaking out on top of a stratus with some minor build-ups in the vicinity, leveling off right on top and motoring along at 280-320 knots. All the fun with none of the risks - you can put it on autopilot, sip your coffee, and enjoy.

[Daniii]

Bush pilots do it shortly.



http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=133255

[I_FLY_LOW]

Originally Posted by Daniii

Bush pilots do it shortly.



http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=133255

Man, that looks like fun!

[Heyload]

Originally Posted by Daniii

The plane was pretty ungainly, with a pig-like snout - Super-pig!

Like this?

[Daniii]

Originally Posted by Heyload

Like this?

That's the one. Can you imagine flying 500 ft above a road in Laos, at night, 37mm AA guns on both sides of the road, dropping cluster bombs as you travel over a truck?

[Heyload]

Originally Posted by Daniii

That's the one. Can you imagine flying 500 ft above a road in Laos, at night, 37mm AA guns on both sides of the road, dropping cluster bombs as you travel over a truck?

Probably still safer than my morning commute.

[chazbird]

There's a pretty good non-fiction book about just that, :" Flying Through Midnight" - an account of flying C-123's over the Ho Chi Minh trail.

[Heyload]

One of my co-workers flew with the 15th Special Ops...all black -123's in the 1st Flight Det.

[chazbird]

Being non-military, I did fly with a number of ex Vietnam era pilots in the 70's and 80's. UH1's, A6's, that Bronco thing, etc. I wouldn't call them overly wound-up, but rather interesting personalities. Myself, having been all over to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, & Thailand it must have just been a real contrast, incredibly beautiful geography, but then there's the job at hand...

[I_FLY_LOW]

[Beemer Bob]

Originally Posted by chazbird

There's a pretty good non-fiction book about just that, :" Flying Through Midnight" - an account of flying C-123's over the Ho Chi Minh trail.

What a great book. Hard to put down. Also "The Rescue of Streetcar 304", A7 driver shot down in Laos.

[Daniii]

Originally Posted by Heyload

One of my co-workers flew with the 15th Special Ops...all black -123's in the 1st Flight Det.

The 123's at Ubon were in the 16th SOS. I'd sure like to find that book. Two of my roomies at Ubon were 123-ers. The 4th, Juan Pena, finally succumbed to ALS a couple years ago. He earned 7 DFC's while there. He was in the 490 product development group, Pave somethingorother, and was quite a guy. His dad was a legal Mexican immigrant, and all his brothers and sisters entered the armed services. He retired a Lt Col, and the VA took pretty good care of him up till the end. His son graduated from the AF Academy and is flying C-130's, and his daughter married a C-130 pilot after 2 years at the Academy.