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Little known / experimental aircraft
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I haven't tanked off an S-3 for about 14 years, but I thought I remembered the single and double cycle numbers being a bit more. Those are sub-Rhino numbers. Was there some sort of equipment they may have taken out in later years to raise the fuel on board? Also, I'm not confident enough about my memory of the numbers to call your poker bet!
I don't have 2 hours to watch an old YouTube video. Tell me how it ends.
This ain’t a pretty airplane. From Australia: the Transavia PL-12 AirTruk. It was featured in 1985’s “Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome”
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Transavia PL-12 Airtruk - Wikipedia
Another trick of the Wright Brothers’ Flyer was the ability to fly backwards, or at least according to the state of Ohio.
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It's an oversight North Carolina could not help but exploit.
“Y’all leave Ohio alone,” tweeted the Department of Transportation in North Carolina, where the Wrights first achieved powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. “They wouldn’t know. They weren’t there.”
Ohio fiddled with license plate design for 15 months but missed backwards plane
According to Associated Press, in the 15 months it took to design the new "Beautiful Ohio" license plate, no one spotted the backwards Wright Flyer.
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Ohio toiled 15 months on license plate, missed backwards plane
It's an oversight North Carolina could not help but exploit.
“Y’all leave Ohio alone,” tweeted the Department of Transportation in North Carolina, where the Wrights first achieved powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. “They wouldn’t know. They weren’t there.”
See the excellent commentary here…Another trick of the Wright Brothers’ Flyer was the ability to fly backwards, or at least according to the state of Ohio.
Ohio fiddled with license plate design for 15 months but missed backwards plane
According to Associated Press, in the 15 months it took to design the new "Beautiful Ohio" license plate, no one spotted the backwards Wright Flyer.
Ohio toiled 15 months on license plate, missed backwards plane
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It's an oversight North Carolina could not help but exploit.
“Y’all leave Ohio alone,” tweeted the Department of Transportation in North Carolina, where the Wrights first achieved powered flight at Kitty Hawk in 1903. “They wouldn’t know. They weren’t there.”
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As someone who drives past Huffman Prairie most days, I approve. Yes.... but now you'll have to drive backwards anytime you pass it.
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I missed this from a few months ago but the Navy purchased an RAF E-3D AWACS to be a bounce bird for the E-6 fleet. The RAF retired their E-3 fleet last year after neglecting it for a while, they were flying just 2 or 3 of the original 7 planes by the time were retired, and they are selling them off now and buying three E-7 Wedgetails to replace them. The purchase makes pretty good sense, the RAF E-3's and E-6's along with the French E-3F's were all part of the last batch of 707's off the production line in the late 80's and early 90's. I know VQ-7 had a pair of 737's as trainers but I think those were retired a while ago.
This isn't the first time the Navy has bought used Brit birds, the Blue Angels' new 'Fat Albert' is a former RAF C-130J and we bought the entire Harrier GR.7/9 fleet when they were retired.
This isn't the first time the Navy has bought used Brit birds, the Blue Angels' new 'Fat Albert' is a former RAF C-130J and we bought the entire Harrier GR.7/9 fleet when they were retired.
Seventy two Harriers?! Where do they keep them?
In pieces? They were bought for parts, don't know where they parked them.
Right. But they are not likely all in pieces. As I now have some experience with this. The best way to store usable parts on a donor aircraft is on the aircraft. You pull some number of parts for immediate inventory and leave the rest of the aircraft as is. Can't imagine investing time and money pulling off 72 engines, 288 landing gear, 14 flaps, etc and maintaining that inventory for years. On Ranger our Whale broke off it's refueling probe in the IO. They literally had to wait for one to be removed from a plane at Davis Monthan and shipped to the boat. They didn't even have a refueling probe cannibalized and sitting on the shelf somewhere.
edit: Just found the AMRAG inventory down in Tucson. Three GR.7 and 47 GR.9 parked at DM.
How much compatibility is there between a Harrier GR.7/9 and an AV-8B?
Mostly trim work.
They're the same basic airframe but with different equipment fits, how extensive the difference you'd have to ask a Harrier guy/gal.