Hand propping a Cub by yourself really isn't a good idea. Don't ask me how I know that.
Go on, don't be a tease.
Hand propping a Cub by yourself really isn't a good idea. Don't ask me how I know that.
Weren't near as dramatic. I (too) left the throttle a little high. The ramp it was on sloped uphill slightly so I figured it would stay put. Had the "oh sh*t" moment as soon as the motor caught. Ran around back and up to the cockpit and chopped the throttle. It moved maybe 10-15 ft before I caught it. Was a brash (read that...stupid) twenty something at the time. I'm older and wiser now.Go on, don't be a tease.
I'm older and wiser now.
Only plane in the Air Force that gets birdstrikes from the rear....Today on the VFT site. May have been posted before but if so it certainly deserves a repost.
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The VC-10 was still around when I was a kid.
Ahhh, the A-10. A fine weapon system. Noted for turning Tanks into Swiss Cheese. The last jet I worked on before retiring. Still seen in the air around Tucson AZ.Today on the VFT site. May have been posted before but if so it certainly deserves a repost.
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Hi Pete,
yeah, I was there, As an apprentice I helped dump water into turbo-prop engines to discover why they flamed out over Entebbe Uganda.
Delayed the Proteus Engine certification by two effin' years while we found the fix.
My own thought that we should just make money flying Britannias transatlantic like El-Al and not bother going to Entebbe Uganda was not shared by Bristol-Siddeley's management.
.My other thought, that the British aircraft industry's main sales office should be relocated to California to better serve BOAC's purchasing staff, was also disregarded.
That was maddening for me as a AMT traveling with the airplane. It was my job to put the airplane to bed. That often meant taxiing it to a remote parking spot. Most places in South America the Ground Control is all in Spanish. They speak English to me, but I can't otherwise tell what's going on because all of the other traffic is in Spanish. (Yes, ATC is all in English.)Further on the matter of BOAC (and I certainly acknowledge the anti-British purchasing policies of that outfit)....
Speedbird 78 to Frankfurt....
Some years ago in the mid-1960s, there was a period in which the air traffic controllers in Frankfurt Germany went through a "nationalistic" period in which they wanted incoming crews to speak German over the radio when speaking with the Tower and they were quite curt with pilots who wouldn't or couldn't do this. During that time, the following exchange was heard between a BOAC pilot (callsign "Speedbird 78") and Frankfurt Tower (callsign "FRA"):
Speedbird 78: This is Speedbird 78 requesting direction to my gate
FRA: Speedbird 78, your gate is 13D - please speak German
Speedbird 78: Sorry - this is Speedbird 78 requesting direction to Gate 13D
FRA: Speedbird 78 - make your request, you are in Germany now - make your request in German
Speedbird 78: Sorry sir - my request is for direction to Gate 13D
FRA: German - say it in German - haven't you been here before?
Speedbird 78: Well, yes, actually, I have been here several times before, but I came only to drop something off and wasn't able to stay long.
(Yes, ATC is all in English.)