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Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14165500 09/30/19
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,499 Sierra Vista, AZ Hawk_Driver Campfire Tracker
Hawk_Driver Campfire Tracker Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,499 Sierra Vista, AZ	Originally Posted by DigitalDan A little surprised by the number of rotorheads here on the 'Fire. Yeah, there are some pretty cool folks on this site. There is no way to coexist no matter how many bumper stickers there are on Subaru bumpers!

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14165635 09/30/19
Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,605 North VA A AH64guy Campfire Tracker
AH64guy Campfire Tracker A Joined: May 2009 Posts: 4,605 North VA	Originally Posted by DigitalDan So, what was the first thing you ever flew? Come on, don't be bashful.... A UH-1 in Primary, probably one you flew in Vietnam...S-Mod Cobras on the first assignment. Primary flight training was 80% Vietnam veterans, it was not uncommon to have an instructor point out prior damage repair from his tours. UH-1 AH-1 ECAS/F Assigned: AH-1S / AH-1F AH-64A OH-58A/C AH-64D Last edited by AH64guy; 09/30/19.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14165637 09/30/19
Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 2,085 Likes: 1 Willamette Valley S SS336 Campfire Regular
SS336 Campfire Regular S Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 2,085 Likes: 1 Willamette Valley	not a pilot on anyway, shape or form, but they let me steer this around for a while. The noise and the smell where glorious.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! gophergunner #14165658 09/30/19
Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 12,192 Northern Colorado Tracks Campfire Outfitter
Tracks Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jan 2002 Posts: 12,192 Northern Colorado	Took a sailplane lesson with a retired Douglas test pilot for an instructor. Birds were jealous of that guy

Re: Calling all Flyboys! RockyRaab #14165688 09/30/19
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 In the Swamps DigitalDan OP Campfire Kahuna
OP DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 In the Swamps	Rocky, life isn't long enough to climb all the mountains. My short list of legends I would have loved to fly. P-38 P-51 F-86C I am..........disturbed. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain

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Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14165752 09/30/19
Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 322 Coconino Co, Arizona IntruderBN Campfire Member
IntruderBN Campfire Member Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 322 Coconino Co, Arizona	Lots of Pudknocker planes of the Cessna, Beech, and Piper varieties. DeHavilland Dash-8 was loads of fun. Over 1,000 hrs in the right seat of the A-6E intruder, where I really only "flew it" during the system bombing runs. Those were the best of times. Last edited by IntruderBN; 09/30/19.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! simonkenton7 #14165759 09/30/19
Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,072 B BluMtn Campfire Regular
BluMtn Campfire Regular B Joined: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,072	Originally Posted by simonkenton7 My Goldwing ultralight. It is a knock-off of the Vari-Eze. Foam and fiberglass construction. I built it and I flew it, it would go 80mph. One day I took along an altimeter and I got 5,000 feet above the hard red clay of Georgia. This was a delightful little airplane to fly. I helped a friend build one of those way back when. Put a rotax freeair snowmobile engine on it. I remember talking to the engineers about how to tune the engine and it was an interesting way to tune the engine. My friend flew it the first summer with direct drive then we put the gear reduction on it the next winter and he said it made a really nice little plane then. When he sold it I told him I wanted to buy it and he told me he was not going to sell it to anybody he knew. Writing from the gateway to the great BluMtns in southeastern Washington. Just remember, "You are the trailer park and I am the tornado". Beth Dutton, Yellowstone.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! Jim_Conrad #14165849 09/30/19
Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 588 Michigan F Fugawe Campfire Regular
Fugawe Campfire Regular F Joined: Oct 2017 Posts: 588 Michigan	Originally Posted by Jim_Conrad Originally Posted by Fugawe I have just under 1000 dead stick landings.......under parachute. Does that count? Holy crap! How did you get so many? Most I ever heard of was from a FS smoke jumper named Dale Longanecker. 1000 jumps is nothing. Don Kellner, who owns a DZ in Pa. has over 44,000 jumps. Bill Dause, who owns a DZ in Ca. has over 32,000. My only bragging point, if any, is that I never had a malfunction that I had to cut away and use my reserve. That said, I have several friends who have way more jumps than me without having a reserve ride.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14166221 09/30/19
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 14,272 Likes: 3 Marshall NC S simonkenton7 Campfire Outfitter
simonkenton7 Campfire Outfitter S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 14,272 Likes: 3 Marshall NC	I also have many hours in my Moyes hang glider. Here I am flying at Lookout Mountain Georgia. I made 104 flights off of Lookout. Also made 2 flights at Yonah Mountain. Yonah Mountain is about the same height as Lookout, it is 1,600 ft. high. But, up top where you launch is a 400 foot vertical face. You can skip the coffee your adrenaline will be pumping when you fly a hang glider off a 400 foot vertical face. Army Rangers practice mountain climbing there. I would be 1,000 feet above the top, looking at the Ranger boys and thinking "Look at those crazy guys that looks dangerous!"

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14166251 09/30/19
Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 6,271 Sierra Nevada foothills Scott_Thornley Campfire Tracker
Scott_Thornley Campfire Tracker Joined: Apr 2001 Posts: 6,271 Sierra Nevada foothills	First time in the left seat? C-172

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Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14166265 09/30/19
Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 669 Colorado Springs, CO S SuburbanHunter Campfire Regular
SuburbanHunter Campfire Regular S Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 669 Colorado Springs, CO	NOT a pilot but served as Crew Chief on several UH-1 Hueys and OH-58 Kiowas (Bell Jet Ranger). Got quite a bit of stick time while stationed at Ft. Lewis and Yakima Firing Center from 1974-1977. "Socialism produces bad music, bad art, social stagnation and really unhappy people", “I am a conservative, and you may not like that, but I am.” Frank Zappa 1986

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14167123 09/30/19
Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 3 C ChopperUH1 New Member
ChopperUH1 New Member C Joined: Sep 2019 Posts: 3	My dream career started out on the PA-18, Super Cub courtesy of the ROTC college flight program... Spent 4 years flying Army Helicopters.. After 32 years I retired from Northwest Airlines as a 747 Captain... Now at 80 years of age I am so grateful to God for the ability to fly my Aviat Husky like I did this afternoon.. Told my boys that they may someday feel like they have to take my car keys buy don't think you will ever get the airplane keys.. Ha.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14169472 10/01/19
Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 4,293 W WillARights Campfire Tracker
WillARights Campfire Tracker W Joined: Jul 2008 Posts: 4,293	Some of you sonsaguns have led quietly exciting lives. My hats off to you all. Trump HAD the World, ", Trump saw our children, " Trump saw a way to make a brighter day so he started giving There was a choice he was making, he was saving our own lives Its true he made a brighter day for you and me. --Trump WINS 2016

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14169918 10/01/19
Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,140 Likes: 2 Freedom Pugs Campfire Ranger
Pugs Campfire Ranger Joined: May 2005 Posts: 17,140 Likes: 2 Freedom	Was out getting a little time in today and the hanger on the other side of our "T" was open. Holy crap. Didn't get a chance to talk to the guy much about the Fokker but the hangar is packed full of stuff that is going to end up at a museum on the field once the new hangers are built in a year or so. If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated

Re: Calling all Flyboys! Pugs #14169991 10/01/19
Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 11,059 so cal pal Campfire Outfitter
pal Campfire Outfitter Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 11,059 so cal	P--WOW! "There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon "...most of us would be better off losing half a pound around the waist than half a pound on our rifle."--dhg

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14170007 10/01/19
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 In the Swamps DigitalDan OP Campfire Kahuna
OP DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 In the Swamps	Cool stuff that is. I know a Fokker has a tighter turn radius than, let's say an F18, question I have is whether or not modern target acquisition radar can see wood and canvas? I am..........disturbed. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14170015 10/01/19
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 14,488 North Texas RiverRider Campfire Outfitter
RiverRider Campfire Outfitter Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 14,488 North Texas	It's one stealthy fokker. Don't be the darkness. America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14172033 10/02/19
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 In the Swamps DigitalDan OP Campfire Kahuna
OP DigitalDan Campfire Kahuna Joined: May 2004 Posts: 56,174 Likes: 16 In the Swamps	Drove up to Gainesville, FL this morning and as I passed the Williston Airport a Stearman biplane flew over, decked out in what appeared to be a fresh coat of Army Air Corps paint. Had no idea my old F150 was a time machine! I am..........disturbed. Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14173052 10/02/19
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,970 Likes: 1 SC, USA O Offshoreman Campfire Regular
Offshoreman Campfire Regular O Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 1,970 Likes: 1 SC, USA	Like Hancock and Hondo, I started out in 1970 with the TH-55 at Ft. Wolters, TX - then basic instruments in the TH-13 at Ft. Rucker, AL followed with UH-I's there and VN (mostly C/M models) and back stateside until 1988 transitioning to the AH-64 - my last last three years as an official old fart flying OH-58 - last flight and hosing down the day before my 60th birthday. Wouldn't trade that part of my life for anything. AKA The P-Man If you cherish your memories with kids, be a good role model . . . . so the RIGHT memories of you mean something to them.

Re: Calling all Flyboys! DigitalDan #14173286 10/02/19
Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,304 Likes: 1 Chassohowitzka, FL M Muffin Campfire Outfitter
Muffin Campfire Outfitter M Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,304 Likes: 1 Chassohowitzka, FL	First - Cessna 150 152 172 175 182 185 AgWagon 185 on floats Piper Cub Super-Cub Tomahawk 140 Archer Warrior Dakota Arrow Lance 6 Geronimo Aztec Seminole Seneca Chieftan Rockwell Commander Beech Duchess Skipper Bonanza Baron Duke C-90 KingAir Aeronca Champ Citabria Great Lakes A Glider Hughes 300 Hiller Some Italian piece of crap that I can't remember the name of... Most mechanically fit , Some desperately in need of repair, one 172 missing one side of the elevator A Navajo with the gear down with pipe and hose-clamps holding it down, a prop governor cable that was froze-up, no alternator, a right turning fuel pump on the left turning engine(had to run the electric boost pumps to keep it running)..... tht engine shut down on final, after the battery gave out - did I mention that the alternators did not work..... being a maintenance ferry pilot is fun.... or not! Sometimes I thought it was safer than being an instructor..... AgWagon - amazing airplane with the hopper empty an 10 gallons a side... Great Lakes Bi-Plane - most fun you'll ever have with your clothes on Last edited by muffin; 10/02/19. "...A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box..." Frederick Douglass, 1867 ( . Y . )

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