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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Jul 25, 2011 - 02:42am PT
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2011 - 03:32am PT
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Awesome shots and stories everyone!
And Trundle, I used to work with your boss I believe. Looks like you're working with Simon Wade, by the email address. I used to pack his tandem rig for a while, I used to work at Skydive Las Vegas when Michael still owned it. Good times!
And yes, the flying wing is the one at the grand Canyon base of the Chino museum. They also have part of a B29 hidden in the back yard.
I will get some more pics up in the morning. Keep em coming, all!
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Tfish
Trad climber
La Crescenta, CA
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Jul 25, 2011 - 11:56am PT
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Skydive #28 or 29. My friend flipped me on my back so I flipped him off.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 25, 2011 - 05:29pm PT
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Reilly, your mystery plane gave me fits, but I finally found it - it's a Fairey Firefly, I believe.
As an added bonus, I found my mystery plane #1 - turns out that it's a de Havilland Vampire, just post WW2.
Great shots Hank and all!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 12:05am PT
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Vegas,
You da man! I knew I recognized those twin shark fins of the Vampire.
I just couldn't bring it out of the subconscious. :-)
Trundle,
I have been to Reno but these shots are from this year's Chino show - way
better than Reno IMHO.
The 22 ship grand finale was beyond awesome - a combined 60,000 HP!
OK, here's some trivia shots.
The only commercial airliner with counter-rotating turbo-props.
A Tupelov 114 which used to sit at the entrance to Dushanbe International.
Donini didn't answer me whether it is still there. Grrrr.
The most highly produced commercial aircraft in history, period - Antonov-2.
They should use the Buddy Lee jeans slogan - Can't bust 'em!
I got some hours in those things and they are the shiz! One takeoff was so
epic - overloaded, density altitude of a good 10K, etc. Weight and balance?
Fuggetabout it! I was sitting in the middle front pax seat holding the cockpit
door open with my foot (the latch was busted) so I could keep an eye on those
clowns. The clowns were good and it was an E-ticket ride. As they horsed
it off the dirt strip the stall horn was blaring like a brass band. The #2
casually sticks his head back into the cabin and says, "Pass as much baggage
forward as possible!" HaHaHaHa! Alacrity was the byword! It took a good
4 or 5 minutes before that damn horn quit.
Akbar - my homie the ramp agent proudly showing the USSA "I Ski" bumper sticker I gave him
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 12:22am PT
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You're close Chief but Vegas was right, :-) Not a Hawker, trust me.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 26, 2011 - 01:00am PT
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Reilly,
I posted on the AN-2 shot before on another thread. I know them pretty well, Aviation Classics owned 3 of them when I was there. Great planes.
Wind up starters.....such fun.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Jul 26, 2011 - 12:19pm PT
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My father was the ship photographer on a carrier during WWII in the Pacific. I know he had a whole trunk full of photos, but these are a few he digitized and put on carriers website before he passed away.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jul 26, 2011 - 02:10pm PT
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Do you know what ship he served on? Just curious. Great shots.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 02:46pm PT
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Nice Tolman! I didn't know they flew Bird Dogs off of carriers. Was it an
Army or Navy rig?
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Jul 26, 2011 - 03:17pm PT
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I don't know anything about the recon rig, all I know is my dad developed the recon photos. I did recall seeing some before and after bombing photos of a small island.
There are a whole lot of questions I shoulda woulda coulda but didn't ask my dad before he passed away. I really should have asked him some details about his climbing in Yosemite in the 50's. It would have at least been nice to have known what routes he'd climbed, and to go and climb them myself. But from the time I found out he had cancer to the last time I visited him was a little over 2 months, and there were a host of emotions running through me that kinda blocked out putting down a thorough list of questions. Such is life.
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jstan
climber
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Jul 26, 2011 - 04:13pm PT
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My father crashed his cub doing touch and go on our air strip. Really sad. I wasn't in the plane at the time. I miissed my only opportunity to have an interesting experience.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Jul 26, 2011 - 04:31pm PT
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I did six jumps at a DZ just over the Alabama line from Pensacola back in '72 (only the last one where I pulled). It was a run by some of the Navy team and I mostly remember a) being stunned by how fast the plane disappeared, and b) that I no idea what was what during the first couple of jumps.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jul 26, 2011 - 04:46pm PT
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Just got this from my bro-in-law (a J3 is a Piper Cub). And 121.5 is the
universal guard/emergency frequency.
Yesterday I departed Minneapolis and was flying home to Toronto while monitoring 121.5 like I always do.
We heard an excited mayday call about an aircraft ditching in the water but did not answer because, as I expected, there were soon many joining in as well as the loud ELT signal. The original caller had given a call sign and described the aircraft as a J3 and his location but it seemed like he was somehow observing the ditching so I was a bit confused. We could see Lake Winnebago clearly as it was just to the right of our route but we were too high to spot anything on the southern end.
When we arrived in Toronto my F/O googled it on his cell phone and we were surprised to see it was already on the internet. Some divers had pulled two bodies from the plane. It was very sad to contemplate that others had gotten up in the morning with the rest of us and had gone flying on a beautiful day as we had but ended up drowning in 6 feet of water.
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Vegasclimber
Trad climber
Las Vegas, NV.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 28, 2011 - 03:05am PT
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Awesome shots Paul! Thanks for sharing! Beautiful shot of that Bearcat.
Shame to hear about the Cub going in. Sad deal for all involved.
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Jul 28, 2011 - 12:22pm PT
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Here's a couple more
I know not an aviation photo, but this one is really touching. Imagine coming back after the cesation of the war and seeing this. The carrier transported troops back in addition to its crew.
I also marvel at the changes in the Bay Area my father saw in his 80 years, born in Berkley in the late 20's and lived in the East Bay his whole life.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jul 28, 2011 - 04:05pm PT
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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Jul 28, 2011 - 04:26pm PT
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