Weather vs. Combat

John?]
wrote:
Zoomies always were a bunch of sissies.


Not a whole lot of zoom in a Gooneybird....




--
Mortimer Schnerd, RN


http://www.mortimerschnerd.com

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote:

It's not too hard to be passed by cars when in slow flight. What was insulting
to me was flying some photographers around the old Charlotte Motor Speedway (now
Lowes) in a C-182 and being passed by the race cars... and I was running at 75%
power!

hah One day, I got very fascinated watching someone turning
practice laps at Road Atlanta. I don't know what he was driving -- I
was watching from 3500 AGL -- but he was going nearly twice as fast as
I was in the Citabria (7KCAB), and that was a remarkable thing to
consider.


Billy

http://www.two--four.net/weblog.php

Billy Beck wrote:
"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote:

It's not too hard to be passed by cars when in slow flight. What was insulting
to me was flying some photographers around the old Charlotte Motor Speedway (now
Lowes) in a C-182 and being passed by the race cars... and I was running at 75%
power!

hah One day, I got very fascinated watching someone turning
practice laps at Road Atlanta. I don't know what he was driving -- I
was watching from 3500 AGL -- but he was going nearly twice as fast as
I was in the Citabria (7KCAB), and that was a remarkable thing to
consider.

The way I look at it, as long as I'm in a 3-dimensional environment
it doesn't matter how fast they go down there.

-Mike (gravity sucks) Marron

Per the recent discussion crosswind landings...

From: "PosterBoy" brauck@bigfoo

You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.
There are a number of these 'weather' stories. In fact, the weather in the
area impacted on most of the true tales in this remarkable book.

The library had it. Read it at one sitting. *Great* read! Thanks for the
recommendation, and I will add my "second" to it.


Chris Mark

ost (Chris Mark) wrote:
From: "PosterBoy" brauck@bigfoo

You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.
There are a number of these 'weather' stories. In fact, the weather in the
area impacted on most of the true tales in this remarkable book.

The library had it. Read it at one sitting. *Great* read! Thanks for the
recommendation, and I will add my "second" to it.

An excerpt from one of my faves: "Stranger to the Ground" by Richard
Bach:

***

The storm is a wild horse of the desert that has suddenly discovered
a monster on its back. It is in a frenzy to rid itself of me, and it
strikes with shocks so fast they cannot be seen. I learn a new fact.
The ejection seat is not always an escape. Bailout into the storm will
be just as fatal as the meeting of earth and airplane, for in the
churning air my parachute would be a tangled nylon rag. My airplane
and I have been together for a long time, we will stay together now.
The decision bolts the ejection seat to the cockpit floor, the
Thunderstreak and I smash down through the jagged sky as a single
dying soul. My arm is heavy on the stick, and tired. It will be good
to rest. There is roaring in my ears, and I feel the hard ground
widening about me, falling up to me...

***

-Mike Marron

"PosterBoy" writes:


"Chris Mark" wrote in message

Chris...and others interested in the above anecdote...
You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.
There are a number of these 'weather' stories. In fact, the weather in the
area impacted on most of the true tales in this remarkable book. IMHBUAO.

If that is the book I recall reading a few decades ago, there was
a C-47 that took off backwards.

They were at the upwind end of the runway, but that was OK as they
had a 100Kt headwind. They pointed it into the wind, went to TO
power, and when the tail came up, released the brakes....

--
A host is a host from coast to
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

From: David Lesher

You would be interested in "The Thousand-Mile War" (World War Two in
Alaska and the Aleutians") by Brian Garfield.

If that is the book I recall reading a few decades ago, there was
a C-47 that took off backwards.

there are more "I'll be damned!" aviation stories in this book than you can
shake the proverbial stick at. Everybody interested in aviation should do
themselves a favor and read this book.


Chris Mark

Correction - the hand crank on the old tube ADFs (ARN6 or ARN7) was
the tuning control. The manual loop control was a right-left switch.
Manual (RDF) did work better in bad static than ADF but it was tough
on the ears.
Radio Range - the north quadrant (and thus the south quadrant) was an
N quadrant, logically.
Those antiquated time/distance checks were left over from long-lasting
flights (10-20 hours) in multi-engine prop planes like the Clipper
flying boats crossing the Atlantic. They had some value then (are we
going to have enough gas?) but for every day flying - bah. Still, if
you pick a VOR off at right angles to your track it has some value -
not much, but some. Might help you decide to divert if the winds are
double what the weather guesser told you.
Walt BJ