Just out of curiosity - Airplane Guys

I suspect the pucker factor required scientific notation...
Doolittle was the first one off the deck... back when leaders led by example. :rolleyes:
He was airborne before he reached the bow. Months of short field training down at Eglin Fla. paid off.... They were consistently getting off the ground in shorter than required distances. Add in the wind across the deck and there ya are...

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Good video. There's a Connie at the airport just south of me. Hasn't flown in about 10 yrs now, but it used to pass over my house regularly on it's way to and from airshows. Never got tired of running outside to watch it pass over.
 
Well speaking of Rolls Royce. Amazing Jaw dropping
And Twins Perhaps not youall have seen it
Ladies and Gentlemen please notice the hairy bare arms at the Exhaust ends
No gloves
No Hearing protection
Footwear ,,not certain if it has oil resistance or steel toe Caps
I do believe he has not killed himself yet .Which perhaps is the Biggest mystery how he can still be alive .


Idling good
Throttle response is excellent
Some backfiring at off
But this being a 30 -ies design might be as good as it gets at least not without different pipes

If he hires the Kiwi Rugby team coming after in a Bus so he can get help if it falls over
Going to Mc Donald's for a drive trough burger --- Now that would be prime time TV
Something to watch

Please give info of what and where that is --> from the great VFT site.
 
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YIKES - radial James - its a radial - not a rotary.
Read the second link Pete. Someones advocating putting one on a rotary. If you read his reasoning, it's sound. Fwiw... I've often thought so myself.
 
Remember them

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Ned Forney, Writer, Saluting America's Veterans
Poster based in South Korea
· April 13, 2019 ·
Shot down by a North Korean MiG fighter . . .
On April 15, 1969, a US Navy EC-121 four-engine, propeller-driven reconnaissance plane, with 31 Americans and nearly six tons of electronic equipment on board, was flying on a routine intelligence-gathering mission over the Sea of Japan when disaster struck.
The EC-121, on a flight plan similar to 200 other US Navy and Air Force reconnaissance planes over the previous three months, was six hours into its mission when two North Korean MiGs suddenly approached.
Flying at supersonic speed, the enemy fighters, armed with 23mm cannons and air-to-air missiles, “engaged” the unarmed and unescorted US Navy plane. Seconds later the EC-121, located at least sixty miles off the coast of North Korea and in international waters, disappeared from US radar.
The North Korean pilots, for no apparent reason and without warning, had shot down the American plane, killing the entire crew of 30 sailors and one Marine.
According to the North Korean government, the EC-121, with the call sign “Deep Sea 129,” had committed a "grave provocation of infiltrating deep into the territorial air space of the republic.” North Korea proclaimed that its Air Force had acted appropriately and had “scored a brilliant battle success of shooting it down with a single shot at a high altitude..."
Ships and search and rescue planes scoured the debris-strewn crash site for days, but only two bodies and “pieces of fuselage, cabin interior, seat parts and covers, cigarette packs, AirNav logs, and a white suitcase with name ‘John A. Miller CTSN’ on it” were recovered.
US President Richard Nixon responded by activating Task Force-71 (TF-71), a fleet of US Navy ships that included the aircraft carriers Enterprise, Ticonderoga, Ranger, and Hornet, the battleship New Jersey, and numerous cruisers and destroyers. TF-71 would play a key role in protecting the international waters and air space of future reconnaissance flights.
In the end, no direct action was taken in response to the downing of the EC-121 and loss of American lives. Nixon, consumed by the Vietnam War (the number of American military personnel in Vietnam peaked in April at 543,000), however, promised the American people, ”They’ll never get away with it again . . ."
Today we honor the 31 men of Deep Sea 129 who gave their lives serving their country during the Cold War. We will always remember you:
LCDR James H Overstreet
LT John N Dzema
LT Dennis B Gleason
LT Peter P Perrottey
LT John H Singer
LT Robert F Taylor
LTJG Joseph R Ribar
LTJG Robert J Sykora
LTJG Norman E. Wilkerson
Louis F Balderman, ADR2
Stephen C Chartier, AT1
Bernie J Colgin, AT1
Ballard F Connors, Jr, ADR1
Gary R DuCharme, CT3
Gene K Graham, ATN3
LaVerne A Greiner, AEC
Dennis J Horrigan, ATR2
Richard H Kincaid, ATN2
Marshall H McNamara, ADRC
Timothy H McNeil, ATR2
John A Miller, CT3
John H Potts, CT1
Richard T Prindle, AMS3
Richard E Smith, CTC
Philip D Sundby, CT3
Richard E Sweeney, AT1
Stephen J Tesmer, CT2
David M Willis, ATN3
Hugh M Lynch, SSGT, USMC
Frederick A. Randall, CTC
James Leroy Roach, AT1
 
I was a CT for 22 years. Between that incident, the Pueblo (NORK again) and the Liberty (Israel) the late 60's was not a great time to be in the offshore surveillance business.

I didn't join until '69 and I didn't attain my CT rating until very late in '69 but the memories were still fresh.
 
Well speaking of Rolls Royce. Amazing Jaw dropping
And Twins Perhaps not youall have seen it
Ladies and Gentlemen please notice the hairy bare arms at the Exhaust ends
No gloves
No Hearing protection
Footwear ,,not certain if it has oil resistance or steel toe Caps
I do believe he has not killed himself yet .Which perhaps is the Biggest mystery how he can still be alive .


Idling good
Throttle response is excellent
Some backfiring at off
But this being a 30 -ies design might be as good as it gets at least not without different pipes

If he hires the Kiwi Rugby team coming after in a Bus so he can get help if it falls over
Going to Mc Donald's for a drive trough burger --- Now that would be prime time TV
Something to watch

Please give info of what and where that is --> from the great VFT site.

Now let's see here...a RR Merlin was 1640 cu.in. or 27 litres so 1/6 of a Merlin is:
- 4.5 litres (4500 cc's)
- 273 cu.in.

Yup - should be pretty darned "torquey".....
 
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