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[Flying Toaster]

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[Rocketman]

Hi-Res pics of Shortbus (T-6B) on the flight line at Whiting

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There have been lots of names attached to this bird. My kid calls it Woodstock after Charlie Brown's little friend but I've also heard Yellow Peril, Chiquita, Tweety Bird etc.

I like Shortbus because I was told the maintainers came up with that....if the shoe fits.....

 

[srqwho]

All these pics of planes with new paint jobs...

In primary and now in advanced I always get a little excited when what I'm flying looks nice and clean... I even think for a sec "this must be a newer one"... and then I get inside and realize that I thought wrong.

Back on topic - The centennial paint looks nice on that hornet.

 

[revan1013]

In primary and now in advanced I always get a little excited when what I'm flying looks nice and clean... I even think for a sec "this must be a newer one"... and then I get inside and realize that I thought wrong.

I should get some pics of cleaned-up, freshly-painted Mentors to illustrate that for our T-6 flying friends in Whiting.

With a side-by-side of the inside...too bad you can't smell the cockpit from the picture. Then they'd get the authentic experience!

 

[Swanee]

I should get some pics of cleaned-up, freshly-painted Mentors to illustrate that for our T-6 flying friends in Whiting.

With a side-by-side of the inside...too bad you can't smell the cockpit from the picture. Then they'd get the authentic experience!

Yep they look pretty but they are still just lipstick on a pig. I had to sit for 20 minutes at the midfield while one of the painted up ones made a PEL into Whiting a couple weeks ago.

Edit: You're at Corpus so your airplanes are worse that ours. This was one of the Whiting birds that are painted up.

 

[srqwho]

I should get some pics of cleaned-up, freshly-painted Mentors to illustrate that for our T-6 flying friends in Whiting.

With a side-by-side of the inside...too bad you can't smell the cockpit from the picture. Then they'd get the authentic experience!

Yeah, that smell is awful for sure. Just sitting the cockpit would make me a nauseous. The 45 is niccceeee though... O2 mask and the the exhaust exits behind you, not in your face.

 

[Gatordev]

Yeah, that smell is awful for sure. Just sitting the cockpit would make me a nauseous. The 45 is niccceeee though... O2 mask and the the exhaust exits behind you, not in your face.

Do you exfoliate before bed or use Oil of Olay to keep your skin young and lithe? Come on, man. That's the smell of history. It's like complaining about sitting behind a T-28. There are literally two generations of people who have trained and flown in the T-34C. Embrace the history. Besides, there's few planes in the Navy that you can enjoy flying w/ no tactics or complicated systems and still have fun just flying.

 

[HueyHornet75]

Concur with Gatordev...
I feel fortunate to have flown the mighty air harley during my first tour before she rode off into the sunset and got replaced.

 

[srqwho]

Do you exfoliate before bed or use Oil of Olay to keep your skin young and lithe? Come on, man. That's the smell of history. It's like complaining about sitting behind a T-28. There are literally two generations of people who have trained and flown in the T-34C. Embrace the history. Besides, there's few planes in the Navy that you can enjoy flying w/ no tactics or complicated systems and still have fun just flying.

My favorite hiking boots (years old) smell worse than I can adequately describe, but they are awesome and I am in no hurry to replace them. I never said I didn't enjoy flying the 34... it is a pleasure to fly and I am SO glad I flew the mentor and not the texan. But, did I nestle down into the seat and think to myself that the aroma was pleasant?... No. Was I proud of the fact that I was flying a plane that some of the greatest men in naval aviation have flown?... Hell yes.

 

[scoolbubba]

Add the piss of 11 people sloshing around the floor and you're ready for some deep p-3 funk.

 

[HAL Pilot]

Add the piss of 11 people sloshing around the floor and you're ready for some deep p-3 funk.

You guys need to work on your aim.....

It's your dick so it's not gay to hold it and point it in the right direction.

 

[Catmando]

Want to see some great aviation art?

This summer, May through August, the American Society of Aviation Artists will put on display in the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, the best of their entries for a judged competition.


If you click this link (takes some time to load with so many great paintings), you can see a preview of some great and varied aviation art that are so far entered to be on display. Worth a view.

One example:

 

[Homer J]

F/A-18C, BuNo 165210 assigned to VX-31 at NAS China Lake. Aircraft represents test schemes used by aircraft at China Lake in the 1960s

 

[A4sForever]

A perfect day and a perfect airplane to "slip the surly bonds of earth" ... and ... "reach out and touch the face of God ... "

Been there, done that ... any Aviator who 'loves it' has at some time or other ...

Thanks for a good start on the day, Cat-Man.

 

[Gatordev]

My favorite hiking boots (years old) smell worse than I can adequately describe, but they are awesome and I am in no hurry to replace them. I never said I didn't enjoy flying the 34... it is a pleasure to fly and I am SO glad I flew the mentor and not the texan. But, did I nestle down into the seat and think to myself that the aroma was pleasant?... No. Was I proud of the fact that I was flying a plane that some of the greatest men in naval aviation have flown?... Hell yes.

You get "it." I stand behind the message of my post, but it wasn't meant to be negative towards you specifically.

Add the piss of 11 people sloshing around the floor and you're ready for some deep p-3 funk.

Don't worry, in the T-34, the pee isn't on the floor, it's on the seat your sitting in.