Anyone attending Oshkosh this year? I'm heading out on the 21, back on the 29th. I'm looking forward to shooting at least one more magazine cover shots.
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It’s not 100% clear to me what you are asking George. As far as getting crews into their domicile in order to start a trip, we are responsible for that on our own.
For example, I live in Houston, but the company I work for doesn’t have a crew base there. I can live any darn place in the world I please just as long as I can figure out how to get to work in order to start my trip each week. This is how it works for all passenger airlines in the USA. I’m completely on my own, but I have heard of an instance or two where a crew member was bumped off several flights, there were no reserves available, so the scheduling Dept actually ponied up and picked up the tab for a full fare seat in order to get the flight out on time. Once or twice, I have had to buy a flipping ticket in order to get to work. This is something that generally pilots are fundamentally opposed to doing.
Some cargo companies like Fedex and atlas buy tickets for their crew members on whichever appropriate airline to get the guys(ladies) to work. None of those companies fly the MAX though.Leave a comment:
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Southwest is feeling the pinch. I wonder how many flights they have cancelled? Its pretty tough to replace 50ish airplanes in your fleet when they disappear overnight.
I’ve been told that one of those overseas companies that lost an airplane had a reputation for extremely shoddy maintenance. It sounds like boeing is planning to use that as an excuse not to pay.Leave a comment:
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Miss Montana is home in Missoula. She flew to the Rivers & Radials airshow in Lewiston ID this weekend, with lots of warbirds, and is making various hops around the area. Here's a grass runway in the trees at Spotted Bear, which is on the edge of the Bob Marshal Wilderness, a vast area. She hasn't been to this runway for over 40 years, but she has many hundreds of landings at this place long ago.
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More 737 problems.....jheezuz....
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C-47s and gliders the day after D-Day. Imagine the volume of material that had to be moved in the days after.
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Lined up with the big boys
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"That's All Brother" led the first wave over Normandy in 1944.
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Over MT again...
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Meanwhile, our DC-3 Miss Montana has made it full circle back to Montana. 35 days on the road. Greenland, Scotland, England, Normandy, Berlin, and back.
Here's a post from the trip back through Greenland -
"The Miss Montana Crew is working hard to get home but just ran into a road block.
"They are now leaving Greenland after having to pay an unexpected fee to open the airport as today is a holiday there. Now they are headed to a place in Northern Canada because when they called Goose Bay yesterday to get fuel scheduled they said they wouldn’t have any for 2 days - this morning that changed to 8 DAYS!!!
"Crew is staying positive! We will be planning our new route stop by stop till we make it home. This new route is unfortunate for all the people in Goose Bay and Connecticut that were excited about seeing us stop to visit. Those locations will no longer be on our route. The extra flight miles and fuel cost are also unfortunate.
"Please keep following us and watching the crew on the tracker and send prayers for a safe trip and arrival back home."
D-Day +75 years
Fuel, where is the fuel...?
Greenland looks like such a wild place....
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According to this Rackstraw case, he never even had to deal with wilderness. He jumped NE of Vancouver WA where someone was waiting in a pickup. Only missed the jump target by 1300'. They went to a rural airfield and flew a small plane down the river drainages under radar to another small field on the Columbia. Witnesses on farms heard a low plane pass over at exactly that time. Changed clothes, swapped planes, flew to Portland International. He dumped 50k of the money and the explosives briefcase into a pond next to the river so they'd find it and assume he drowned. However, it sank into the mud and wasn't found until the 80s.
I'm sure this guy is selling a book and another History Channel doc, so we'll see if he's just making the evidence fit this guy.Leave a comment:
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The other theory that is was a bitter FBI agent that knew planes and how to hijack a plane without getting shot. That the FBI would meet demands while they track him. So it's a bit of egg on the FBI's face for not being able to solve it from a retired agent doing it.
And you can survive in the PNW in the winter with just a jacket. If you keep moving for a few days. It doesn't get that cold.
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The "Cooper Device!" I had no idea.
Since I haven't paid any attention for many years, I didn't know there was a guy named Robert Rackstraw in S California who has been a suspect since the late 70s. Vietnam Vet, parachute expert, explosives expert, pilot, con man, thief, scammer, lied about his medals, and maybe a murderer (of his stepfather). He won't come out and say it wasn't him, but maybe he's enjoyed the attention and is trolling everyone. Got kicked out of the army, hung out with coke traffickers, got away with a lot of stuff over the years.
Some crazy evidence and heavy coincidences here…
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After this fiasco, they added a little device to the rear door of Boeing 727’s that ensured you could not open the door in flight .
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