Hankster
Social climber
BASE!
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Aug 12, 2011 - 05:52pm PT
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the hot Wife and I took today off and did this, it was bitchin'.
edit-Go-Pros kick so much ass!
caylor
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 12, 2011 - 07:46pm PT
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i'm not a big airplane buff, but i always liked the A-10 Warthog, personally.
Yeah, it would be a gud jump platform, eh?
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Hankster
Social climber
BASE!
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Aug 12, 2011 - 07:50pm PT
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i saw a special on the History channel about the Warthog, they sound wicked. doubt they would make good jump aircraft, by conventional means anyways.
caylor
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Gary Carpenter
climber
SF Bay Area
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Aug 13, 2011 - 10:24am PT
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Tom,
Your picture of the A-4 brought back lots of old memories!
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Aug 15, 2011 - 12:23pm PT
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Gary, I wonder how many people on ST can imagine the experiences you had. The A-4 is a wonderful airplane. I just got a teaser taste of one; and wishing it wasn't created as a war machine.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 15, 2011 - 12:55pm PT
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Wormly81
Trad climber
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Aug 15, 2011 - 03:08pm PT
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 Missing photo ID#212995 |
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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Aug 16, 2011 - 01:03am PT
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Wormly81
Trad climber
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Aug 16, 2011 - 08:19am PT
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
In the mountains... somewhere...
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Aug 16, 2011 - 10:12am PT
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Hank, if that is the Yampa, how long does it take to walk out of there?
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Gilwad
climber
Frozen In Somewhere
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Aug 16, 2011 - 10:23am PT
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Recent trip by the Bugaboos.
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jrrasmussen
Sport climber
San Francisco, CA
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Aug 16, 2011 - 10:48am PT
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radair
Social climber
North Conway, NH
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Aug 18, 2011 - 11:20am PT
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At the risk of being called a touron, here's a vimeo link to a tandem skydive I took my son on for his 19th birthday. Going out the door of that plane was an excellent adrenaline rush. The action doesn't start until about 3 minutes in if you want to skip the fluff. The freefall was from ~14k to about 4k ft. Ass kicking and highly recommended.
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GLee
Social climber
MT
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Aug 18, 2011 - 12:44pm PT
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I have fond memories of HP doing great work for the Bureau of Land Management out of Fairbanks with this & their other PB4Y-2's dropping retardant low and close to the fire line in the tundra of Interior Alaska. You could see the pilots smiling & having a great time 'AT WORK'!
The PB4Y-2 is the Navy sub chasing version of the Army Air Corps' B-24 bomber.
HP PB4Y-2s were the best. I love radials. Then a wing came off HP C-130 Tanker 130, a wing came off HP PB4Y-2 Tanker 123, and that was the end of Hawkens & Powers (plus a few other retardent operators).
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 20, 2011 - 02:15am PT
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Thanks for all the great additions while I was away!
I used to have some great PB4-Y shots that I took while working fires in Northern Nevada for the 02 season, but they got lost. *sadface* I used to love it when the old radials came coughing down the line. No one else in my crew was an airplane geek though so they didn't get it.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 20, 2011 - 03:49pm PT
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Here's the ultimate radial firefighter - the Martin Mars seaplane. Our nice
neighbors in BC sent it down to help fight the SoCal Station fire, for a price,
as it well should be. This crappy pic (heavily cropped to boot) through
the thick smoke shows it 5000' above lining up its run on the Mt Wilson
area which as far as I heard was the only area of the fire it worked. It
was rather limited in this fire as the nearest body of water with a long
enough straight run to scoop was Lake Elsinore about 70 miles away so that
meant it could make only one drop per hour.
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