Nice! Where is that? Is that Boston off your nose at 1 o’clock?
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Random Griz Aviation Musings
- Thread starter Griz882
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I feel like he is just north of Plymouth MA but it might be New Mexico for all I know!
South Shore MA…Tampa FL…what’s the diff?
You and Chuck need to get with the times, namely the privacy-is-dead times. It's all in the metadata (unless you turn off geo-tagging).
Got an IFC and IATT/ATO for that iPhone 12 mini? 😂
Spent the week on-boarding our latest batch of Reservists. UPS and Delta new hires are well represented. All recently left active duty. I really enjoy connecting with these guys - as I would with all of you. As someone about to turn 60, it's refreshing to see these 30 somethings as they transition to their new careers. I am ridiculously lucky to be at the final phase of my career as a GS that gets to fly. @mad dog yes, I am wearing my "PI Special" belt buckle!
I was never good at seat-of-the-pants, probably why my HACs were always yelling "BALL!".
That mustache is nothing short of majestic.
C model….more like Daddy-O.
Impressive. I wonder if a heavy slip might have given more visibility until the end, maybe even clearing some oil from the windscreen? Still, any one you can walk away from. Of course there are several variables I have no idea about so my pontificating is just some chair-flying.
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There's pictures in both of the Grumman FB groups. It looks like someone poured Coke all over the front of the airplane. Since he had a working engine all the way down, I'm assuming it still had oil, so I wonder if a slip would have solved it if he kept getting oil splashed back. But the slip is an interesting idea.
Those AA-1s are very squirrely and absolutely demand the pilot to be on-speed for touchdown. I'm not sure how well versed a 35 hour in model pilot would be in slipping one of those, as slipping in general seems to be a really hit and miss training technique.
Sounds like he made a nice landing, made even more impressive by standing up while doing it.
Those AA-1s are very squirrely and absolutely demand the pilot to be on-speed for touchdown. I'm not sure how well versed a 35 hour in model pilot would be in slipping one of those, as slipping in general seems to be a really hit and miss training technique.
Sounds like he made a nice landing, made even more impressive by standing up while doing it.