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Random Griz Aviation Musings
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You're welcome. Their work is more nuanced than what I initially typed, but you get the idea from their site. My dad did a lot of work with them up until he sold his plane to me.
If I’m flying somewhere to camp, it’s gonna be Osh Kosh!
I haven't flown up and camped yet. But did go one year last minute. If you are a member, they guarantee you a camp spot. Flew to ORD and drove. Along the way we bought a cheap tent and styro cooler. Brought our own sleeping bags. It was great. Nap when you want. Then head back out. Plenty of eating options. When it rained we just hung out in the museum. When we left donated the tent and cooler to some other folks near by.
Flew into Oshkosh a couple times and camped under the wing during my college years. Later, I took A-4's in several times and camped with people I'd met and stayed in contact with through the years. One time in a TA-4, we commandeered the Navy Milwaukee Recruiting District Winnebago which was kept parked just outside the Warbird parking area and slept in it since the recruiters had motel rooms in town. The recruiters had it rigged up to show recruiting films using a projector inside and a rear projection screen built into the side. We had a lot of fun with that at night.
Always hated love bug season in Pensacola. The mating pairs get freaking everywhere, in your collar, under your visor, or should I say the mating pairs get freaky fricking everywhere.
The T-6 maintains slight nominal pressure until 8,000 feet and then it maintains 8,000 feet (for the most part). You'd be up doing your high work and there would be a couple of these things just laying there, stuck together as love bugs do, nestled in the canopy rail... like are they dead or what's going on?
After a while you'd descend to do your landings, the cabin altitude would come down accordingly, and you'd look over and see the little buggers going at it again as the hypoxia wore off.
Today's word is Plecia nearctica.
Pre-911, we convinced NAVAIR they should have a booth at Oshkosh and reservists should run it. They agreed.
We used a rental RV for both our transportation and berthing, which caused exploding heads up and down the JTR chain of command, but made total sense money-wise. Crazy good trip.
We were going back for a 3rd time, and had done the math and confirmed we could save a ton of money for the government by renting a house boat and living on that (plan was to personally rent jet skis for liberty launch duties, this was of course pre-ORM) but then 911 came. So close...
This time last year - sigh
and my short field 180 approach to the pink dot - ATC "keep it really tight for me.." (video taken by rear-seat pax). A tribute to the C182 - even with my mediocre hand-flying skills, it was straight forward landing/maneuvering.
New video by Chuck Mahon
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I'm no Plopter pilot - but everywhere I've seen a V-22 - either USMC or USAF, the nacelles were set this way for parking.
Wow, was the pilot of the jump plane texting?