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Only Wallace Beary talked like he thought pirates spoke. Real pirates speek like you and me. I should know since I am a registered pirate. Only in Key West is leagalised piracy still on the books. That probe on the sub's bow is a magnetic annomile detector boom. Fiberglass pole, same as on a P3 or S3 antisub aircraft.Comment
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Here's another Army SNAFU "flying soldiers" they spent a ton of money playing with
Then one old grunt said "A movin' foxhole attracts the eye" Pop up targets, like a shooting gallery. They dropped that idea like a Prom dress. When they let the test pilot fire a M-1 from the standing position the recoil kept the guys weight on his rear foot and the machine would drift all around. From what my Dad told me (Col.US Army ret. 1942-1972 Ranger) during the live fire tests in 57, a stray round ended up in the reviewing stand.
Project CNX Several years later Bell's Jet pac came along and the Army almost jumped on the flying soldier idea again but "Shot down", as it were. With only a few minutes fuel, limited range, hands on operation It would serve only as a observation tool. Army Submarines? Hmmmm! Somewhere there is at least one, that I know of. What is being done with it, I cant really say, but its a rather large one, that I know.Last edited by Kazzer; 04-17-2015, 04:37 AM.Comment
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Peter
P.S. Nice steed!Comment
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I have a few hours dual in a 206. Most of my rotor time, in my friends R22 flying the box and hover. Fun to fly the jet ranger. First cross country was from San Luis Obispo Ca to Las Vegas to LAX and back to SLO. My instructor was " Doc" Holliday. You an A&P? Maintainance must be a PIA, and or wallet. Dangerous? lots of people survive the crashComment
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Come and visit. Always a spare seat for an old fish head. She's an ex-Canadian CH-136 (a Kiowa by any other name) so her maintenance schedule is less onerous than a civil machine. Parts are a bit cheaper as well. Much easier to fly than an R-22 and the high inertia rotor makes for easy autos (and a MUCH easier recovery from tail rotor failure, stuck pedal etc). She is only dangerous in the sense that everything is manual. Overtemp the engine and you die, get the attitude screwed up - mast bump and you die, overpitch and you die, pull collective on a slope and you die, etc etc. I fly her when I can and when I can't I retreat into the bunker and fiddle with submarines. Not a bad life really!Comment
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Come and visit. Always a spare seat for an old fish head. She's an ex-Canadian CH-136 (a Kiowa by any other name) so her maintenance schedule is less onerous than a civil machine. Parts are a bit cheaper as well. Much easier to fly than an R-22 and the high inertia rotor makes for easy autos (and a MUCH easier recovery from tail rotor failure, stuck pedal etc). She is only dangerous in the sense that everything is manual. Overtemp the engine and you die, get the attitude screwed up - mast bump and you die, overpitch and you die, pull collective on a slope and you die, etc etc. I fly her when I can and when I can't I retreat into the bunker and fiddle with submarines. Not a bad life really!Comment
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I stumble upon this one….seems she has some damage to her sail. Don’t know her class…LA?
Grtz,
Bart
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience.
"Samuel Smiles"Comment
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Looks like a Improved Los Angelos, hence no sail planes. The damaged area is ,I believe, the sonar emitter designed to read ice. The first 688I was the San JuanIT TAKES GREAT INTELLIGENCE TO FAKE SUCH STUPIDITY!Comment
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