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Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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skywalker1
Trad climber
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Just had my first flight today paragliding!!!!!! about a 10 minute flight. Just a picture of the morning.
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I'm a noob but holy moly running off that drop for the first time was pretty freaking ....well words won't work.
I practiced and practiced and had perfect conditions and WOW! Descent landing, a little high when I flared but it worked. :-) Lots of help from radio.
Many more to go....
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ms55401
Trad climber
minneapolis, mn
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approximately what is the buy-in to get fully kitted for skydiving ... $3K?
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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^^^ 3-5K, then add the jumps/coaching in the first year ~10K total...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Where the hell does a seaplane land at Whistler?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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BITD he wouldn't have relished flying into the sun* but it's all good today.
*Cause that's where Jerry woulda been.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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No, I would not have liked that job, for a number of reasons in addition to the claustrophobia!
This one is less claustrophobic, but more naked to the world...
Those guys didn’t have a great life expectancy seeing as how that was where Jerry usually came from.
And if their ride went south it wasn’t like they had an ejection seat.
Hotrod:
When Herman Goering walked out of some building in Berlin in early 1944 (IIRC) he looked
up and saw P-51 Mustangs accompanying B-17’s. He is reputed to have said:
“The war is lost.”
So ban me...
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Jun 12, 2018 - 07:13am PT
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love the art on all these planes. below is my view of friends playing in the sky
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Rick A
climber
Boulder, Colorado
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Jun 19, 2018 - 02:50pm PT
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I enjoyed that Steve. I have a brother and a nephew in the airforce (yank AF that is:) ).
A couple of weeks ago, I fulfilled a childhood ambition of flying in a warbird. The local airport had a visit from a World War II B-25, and I couldn’t resist it.
Thirty Seconds Over Boulder!
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domngo
climber
Canada
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Jun 19, 2018 - 03:30pm PT
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Reilly - they land at Green lake. Just north of the village.
Here's a look at the Bella Coola airport
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Jun 29, 2018 - 10:17am PT
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I went to D.C. last week for work and squeezed in a visit to the Air & Space Museum Udvar-hazy Center next to Dulles. This location is a companion to the museum on the Mall.
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snakefoot
climber
Nor Cal
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Jun 29, 2018 - 11:04am PT
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that museum rocks, when i was there in 2005, they had a flying club inside and all the members had radio controlled airborne toys of all sorts. did you see this also?
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plund
Social climber
OD, MN
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Jun 29, 2018 - 12:26pm PT
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No photos (technically inept) but saw the thread & had to add...
My buddy just picked up a 1968 Bellanca Super Viking, fresh annual, 300-HP fuel-injected Continental...took me up last Sunday. What a great plane!!! Fast, maneuverable & strong as all hell. You sure can cover some ground cruising at 160 knots!
Saw an anecdote wherein Bellanca submitted one to the FAA for aerobatic certification (ie. structural testing to destruction to determine ultimate failure values). After the (wooden!) wing had deflected up four FEET, the testing apparatus broke! So of course the FAA denied the aerobatic cert, because they couldn't assign a number value to the wing strength! At which point Bellanca just said, fine, never mind, keep your cert.
Hadn't been up in a small plane for too long, almost forgot how much fun it is! Smooth air & smoother landings, all....
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
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Jun 29, 2018 - 02:38pm PT
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Yes the museum is super cool, though I didn't see the radio control area.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jul 31, 2018 - 07:23am PT
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dude, mod your wilga!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
google Mike Patey Wilga for north of a dozen high production value videos of the whole build
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 31, 2018 - 07:49am PT
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WOW! Mungo want! 160’ rollout and 120’ TO? Yowza! Dude’s a genius!
He could take off from the wing of an A-380! 🤪
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Ney Grant
Trad climber
Pollock Pines
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Jul 31, 2018 - 02:55pm PT
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Domngo,
I just saw that photo of the Bella Coola airport and the nice looking granite behind. Is there a good guidebook or source of info for that area - it looks good. It looks like you can land/camp there and walk to the climbs except then I looked on google earth and the river looks big and wide...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 31, 2018 - 05:22pm PT
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Aeromexico crash today - many pax reported hearing a ‘bang!’ and then down they went.
Classic case of overloaded for the high and hot TO, low climb rate so rotate some more
and BANG! - a compressor stall with no altitude to recover.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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^^ Whoa, my wife and son just flew AeroMexico this Spring.
I hope everybody is ok.
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