Just out of curiosity - Airplane Guys

Jim said:
I'll add to that those weekend events are a lot of fun. At least the ones I've been to.... either a breakfast or lunch buffet to boot. :geek:
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Pancake breakfast to earn a little money for the chapter
A few years ago they hosted the EAA's Ford Trimotor here and I got to take and older friend for a ride on it
Shit eating grins on both of us
 
Mikey said:
A few years ago they hosted the EAA's Ford Trimotor here and I got to take and older friend for a ride on it
Shit eating grins on both of us
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Me in the right seat of the EAA's Trimotor. Got about 20min's "stick" time in it. That was a blast. :laugh2:


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Adamc said:
Thats so ugly its marvellous!
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The Hudson was a real workhorse of Coastal Command throughout WWII. Has the distinction of being the first UK-based aircraft to bomb the Axis forces. One Hudson managed to force the surrender of a German U-boat!
 
Not sure if this has been up before. And I ain't huntin' back through 67 pages to see. :rolleyes:
Watched this years ago. Not sure why it just popped up on my Youtube page again. Anyway....
Have a little airplane porn. Dreamliner practicing for Farnborough in 2014 at Moses Lake.


 
Holy cripes, Jim! With that kinda rate of climb, degree of banking, and yaw, they'd have all the cake-eaters in economy yakking their brains out! (although, some of us might find it fun. After all, any landing you walk away from is a good one....)
 
59Tebo said:
Holy cripes, Jim! With that kinda rate of climb, degree of banking, and yaw, they'd have all the cake-eaters in economy yakking their brains out! (although, some of us might find it fun. After all, any landing you walk away from is a good one....)
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When I was working for a charter operator, I was on a lot of ferry flights, the only passenger on the airplane was me. A 767 or 757 climbs extremely steep when empty, just to keep it from overspeed. I can't say what deck angle I've experienced in the 757, but with the Rolls Royce engines on it I wouldn't be surprised if it went straight up. Anybody on here pilot one of those things? I rode them all over the planet, but never drove it.
 
jetmechmarty said:
When I was working for a charter operator, I was on a lot of ferry flights, the only passenger on the airplane was me. A 767 or 757 climbs extremely steep when empty, just to keep it from overspeed. I can't say what deck angle I've experienced in the 757, but with the Rolls Royce engines on it I wouldn't be surprised if it went straight up. Anybody on here pilot one of those things? I rode them all over the planet, but never drove it.
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When I worked at Tramco, we did what's called the Valsan Mod on 727's It involved removing the two outboard JT8D- 17's and replacing 'em with -217's. Gave a huge increase in rated thrust with a negligible increase in weight. Test flight after was the two pilots, me, another mechanic (avionics guy) and about 10,000lbs of fuel. Can you say rocket ship!!! :laugh2:
Soon as we broke ground we'd clean it up and the pilot would keep pulling back and back. Even then we'd sometimes bust the 250kt below 10k restriction.
Edit: Wasn't the Valsan Mod per se.... more like our version of it. Didn't do the winglet part, just the engine swap.
 
Jim said:
Not sure if this has been up before. And I ain't huntin' back through 67 pages to see. :rolleyes:
Watched this years ago. Not sure why it just popped up on my Youtube page again. Anyway....
Have a little airplane porn. Dreamliner practicing for Farnborough in 2014 at Moses Lake.


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Considering its size it a pretty agile piece of kit.
 

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