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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Elcap, actually, the A380 dwarfs the C-5 and is only 100,000 pounds lighter
than the Mriya. In addition, neither of those cargo planes has a nice bar.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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No bar, but a C-5 once did fly a few thousand cases of Coors to Florida in support of the SR-71 project
(don't ask me how I know that.)
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2014 - 01:57am PT
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Someone posted this in the plane crash thread, but I thought it would be great here. N500HP Howard 500 low pass. This aircraft sat at the shop I worked at on Reno-Stead airfield for many years without paint, everything else had been restored. The guy that bought it did an amazing job of finishing out a very beautiful, but unforgiving aircraft.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1807088025238&set=vb.152969558064942&type=2&theater
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Nov 27, 2014 - 09:54pm PT
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Dude did a low pass right over my house last year and I was able to get to
my camera in time! I just happened to be in the back yard when I heard him
coming. One glance and I knew what it was so I tore into the house. My
camera was sitting right by the front door so I grabbed it and ran out the
front door and fired a couple of shots.
Man, that thing sounded like The Business!
LICKY!!!!!!!!!
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Licky
Mountain climber
California
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Nov 27, 2014 - 10:00pm PT
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Yeah, Howard 500. The guy that owns that plane has three more. One flys and he is refurbishing the other two and will have them flying as well. Each engine is 2800 HP...only 19 planes ever made
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 27, 2014 - 10:19pm PT
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It is indeed the business. I got the task of doing one of the bi-annual run ups on that bird, which consists of a lot of work when a radial hasn't run in a while. They are hard enough to start when they run often haha.
Still, one of the prettiest planes built, planes had lines back then. Sometime soon I will be heading down to Arizona to photograph General MacArthur's personal transport aircraft, the Bataan which is a Super Connie - another one of my favorites. Will post pics up when I get done with the project.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 29, 2014 - 02:08am PT
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Thanks for sharing Hank! That's super badass.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Nov 29, 2014 - 03:42am PT
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Good choice of tunes, too
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Nov 29, 2014 - 06:43am PT
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Woupee that is cool stuff the stuff that is off the grid and over the line!!
Hankster always the prankster a holy designation in my book I am calling a high like!!!
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Nov 29, 2014 - 06:45am PT
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WHOAH! pretty damn creative .. they adding another letter to BASE? What does that count as? Rigging that must be something .. wonder what the loads are at the ends?
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perswig
climber
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Nov 29, 2014 - 03:58pm PT
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Come into my parlour, said the spider to the fly...ers.
Dale
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Some good news for the F-35B Strike Fighter. Excellent video. Notice the position of the stabilator just as the bird lifts off. Nearly full down as the engine nozzle rotates downward. In a conventional bird that would be stick forward.
This video link is fresh (for the public). It was made just six weeks ago in the Atlantic, just off Newport, Virginia. These are the latest sea trials of the F-35B on the USS Wasp. They were very successful, with 74 VLs and STOs in a 3-week period. The aircraft is also stealthy, and supersonic. The media and the program critics had predicted that we would burn holes in the deck and wash sailors overboard. Neither of which happened. You will notice a sailor standing on the bow of the ship as the jet rotates. That was an intentional part of the sea trials. No catapult...no hook.... It's a new world out there! The shape and scope of warfare worldwide just changed.
Makes me wonder about endurance and operating radius compared to other planes...sounds like a good research topic.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ki86x1WKPmE
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2014 - 03:27am PT
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Nice share TGT! Thanks for posting that up.
Tom, thanks but no thanks on that bird, looks even scarier then most of those flyin rocks y'all call whirlybirds. I kinda dig that whole being able to glide thing without having to have trust in autorotation. For that matter I wonder what you would do in that thing if it did lose power?
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