All Things Aviation Related

[fanaudical]

A Youtube series I've been following lately:

[Brown747]

Sweet! Many hours in the Beaver and the King Beaver (Otter)

[Seahawk]

^^^

via GIPHY

[svandamme]

I can't say I've had many hours in a beaver. would be boasting, it was mostly minutes
Once spent over an hour Watching Jody Foster's beaver, but that's another story altogether.




It wasn't worse then Flight plan.. Not that that was hard to achieve.
but that makes this post aviation related, barely.

[edgemar]

[svandamme]

A puma? Odd to see a french helicopter in LA County.
They are big whirlybirds!!

[Jolly Amaranto]

Unfortunately, this Beaver was destroyed in a fatal mid-air on May 13, 2019.

[Brown747]

RIP my friend Randy J Sullivan. Gone way too soon but went out with his boots on doing what he loved. That career has taken many.

https://www.ketchikandailynews.com/obituaries/randy-jason-sullivan/article_4f4448ad-f211-549c-9561-ef5fb6caa2db.html

[RNajarian]

Lord guide and protect our men who fly,
Who draw great faces in the sky.
Be with them always in the air,
In darkening form or sunlight fair.
Oh hear us when we lift our prayer,
For those in peril in the air.

Amen

[KNS]

Originally Posted by Brown747

I got checked out in the AS350 AStar for the first time in Ketchikan in '93 and quickly noticed float planes were everywhere. Beavers and Otters are like taxi cabs down here, it's how people depend on their mail, groceries, etc. Folks in Alaska (and Canada) look at general aviation completely different up there. Was lucky enough to get a couple rides in Beaver float planes while there, never got to fly one though.

You friend was doing what he loved, it's a wonderful way of life - RIP.

BTW, the boots he's wearing in the photo are known in Alaska as "Ketchikan Sneakers".

[Racerbvd]

[Heel n Toe]

[svandamme]

that scene is just retarded on so many levels.
At such low level an speed the sam shooter wouldn't even have time to lock on...

[flipper35]

That scene is what happens when a 12 year old has access to modern cinematic tools and watches too much Clone Wars. Well, maybe not 12. My 12 year old understands how that stuff works as he flies virtua combat missions with me. Though when I say SAM launch, he drops chaff and flares until he figures out the RWR isn't yelling at him.

I have seen more realistic flight in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

[edgemar]

[svandamme]

Garrett Falcon 20

[flipper35]

That isn't a high bypass though.

[flipper35]

Air Force one has had to take evasive maneuvers in the past, even if mistakenly.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/when-air-force-one-evaded-mig-fighters-180970661/#PXHAXH12iGZJb2P5.99

As Air Force One entered Syrian airspace, four camouflaged MiG fighters joined up on the VC-137’s wings. White House officials awaiting the president’s arrival in Damascus told UPI reporters that they had been informed of the Syrian military’s plan to send honor escorts for Air Force One, but the officials didn’t bother to pass the information along to Air Force One pilot Colonel Ralph D. Albertazzie, who, fearing attack, banked violently right. For the next seven minutes, Albertazzie flew a series of evasive maneuvers, including a steep dive.

[edgemar]

why couldn't you have an afterburner on a high bypass engine theoretically?

[flipper35]

They use them on low bypass and theoretically you could do a high bypass, but it would be complex and I am not sure worth it.

Let me find an article.