are those two small sticks on either side of the pilots seats the flight controls? much smaller than I anticipated. Very, very cool to look at none the less.
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awesome man, and congrats!I gotta disagree: here's me in the cockpit of a USNTPS (U.S.Nava Test Pilot School) T-38. speaking of which, I gotta get my whites ready for tomorrow: a class I'm in was invited to the Society of Experimental Test Pilots symposium. Some friends of mine are presenting some of the work we've done (the guy who runs the class also runs the symposium this year.) cool, cool shit.
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Just got back from the test pilot symposium: cool, cool shit. presentations from test pilots on topics ranging from flight testing Global Hawk, to fixing seat/human factors issue on the Marine Corps latest Huey to the latest A-10 program to the first flight of the latest AWACS aircraft iteration, the E2-D. (to FL318is: the latest A-10's "glass" cockpit only has 2 smaller screens. The two biggest instruments? the attitude indicator and Directional Gyro. It's the most simple, I'm-here-to-kick-your-ass airplane I think I've ever seen- so don't feel bad about steam gauges.) Oh, and lunch was cool too- talking to one of the test pilots for the Gemini program about getting a beer with an astronaut, and watching him get hit on the head by a waitress with her serving platter for hitting on her. And, at my table at lunch were 4 of the 10 test pilots for the Super Hornet and ADM Holloway, who fought in WWII as a surface guy... then in Korea as a pilot... then in Vietnam as a pilot... and is solely responsible for the F-18 and the Nimitz-class carriers... and persuaded Gerald Ford not to sell the Tomahawk to the Russians in the late '70's. Lots of cool stories, but I'll stop there.
Goddam, I need to get to flight school and start doing some cool shit already.
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Where's the button that looks like a guy guy eyeing you from across the bar?"We praise or find fault, depending on which of the two provides more opportunity for our powers of judgement to shine."Comment
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Hells YES! I can relate. Met a P51 pilot, had some beirs and talked shit. Sometimes I feel like being able to fly puts you in a whole different world. Met the #1 slot, Blue Angels pilot. 18 was parked on the ramp. Guess dad lives here. B-17 left seat time.
Need to see some pics of NATC Pax. Throttle up playa!
BTW, not endorsing this tactic in non-rated a/c. FOR THE RECORD, this is not me. Guy that used to fly for us!!!! A/C has since been removed from service. But, welcome to freight
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you'd think they could put a recardo seat in those cockpits... I mean shoot, even our NCSU buses have em :p
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here's a few videos of some stupid airplane tricks... enjoy
Here's my buddy flying formation with me in an old trainer... I loved flying that bird, even though it's not me in the pic
And finally, a pretty damn funny video from AZ (I don't endorse trying this...)
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It's all fun and games until Johnson spills his fuckin' coffee on the dash and kills everyone on board...Comment
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T-34, 172. Locally we count gators. Kinda like that AZ river bed. Of course, no pics. " I would like to go direct."here's a few videos of some stupid airplane tricks... enjoy
Here's my buddy flying formation with me in an old trainer... I loved flying that bird, even though it's not me in the pic
And finally, a pretty damn funny video from AZ (I don't endorse trying this...)
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Yeah, a good friend of mine's uncle owns a WWII aircraft restoration shop in Casa Grande, AZ. I was talking to her and she says "oh by the way, my uncle invited us to his hangar in Casa Grande, he thought you'd be interested. He does something with old airplanes". We get there, and he's got a P-51, a T-28 undergoing restoration, he's building 4 Japanese Oscars from templates made from real Oscars that have been sitting off the coast of Japan for 60 years, and he's rebuilding one of 3 flyable Focke-Wolf FW-190 short-nose fighters in the world. Paul Allen is bankrolling the project; it's so precise that everything is original, down to the hand-lettered radios and electrical connections written in German that correspond to the Focke-Wolfe original maintenance sheets.
Oh, and he has a 21 year old daughter that loves working on airplanes, is 5'2", long brunette hair, slender with big tits, and absolutely gorgeous. Her cousin, my friend (a bit more at the time) was a bit jealous. I miss AZ.
Here's a pic of an airplane (T-28) he works on (he's a mechanic that specializes in repair of these old warbirds too- oil changes, etc. Cool job, and he gets to fly some cool shit.) please excuse the M3.
A quick note about the plane- it's owned by a German who spends 6 months in the States, and 6 months in Germany, and was doing it before the exchange rates worked in his favor. His name is Beyrn, very nice guy with a smokin hot wife. I start talkig to him about his $400,000 airplane, and he wants to talk about the car. It kinda struck me as a bit odd...sigpic89 M3Comment
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