Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:06 pm
Is it just me or does it look like that all the REAL airplanes in Roger's photo have their flaps partly done just so that "other plane" can keep up and look cool. In fact it looks like the Corsair has full flaps just so those puny inlines can keep with it in formation. 
I am sorry but I just had to add to it. Now as I take off for the fall out shelter.
I am sorry but I just had to add to it. Now as I take off for the fall out shelter.
Mon Oct 27, 2008 1:17 pm
OK! Some of you historical or is it histerical dudes will refute me as my memory ain't what it used to be, but I beleive the first Mig shoot down in Korea was by a P-80. Now you can go back to the girls!
Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:58 pm
This is from an email I just received today and thought that it was very fitting to post here:
> Between A Radial Engine And A Jet Engine
>
> Round engines are commonly known as Radial engines. The piston Jugs
> are placed in a circle. Hence "Round" engines. Turbine engines are
> known as Jet engines. We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're
> ruining aviation and our hearing.
>
> A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels
> through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of the pungent
> fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat. Anybody can start a turbine.
> You just need to move a switch from "OFF" to "START" and then remember
> to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start.
>
> Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. You have to
> seduce it into starting. It's like waking up a mistress On some
> planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it. Turbines start by
> whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a
little louder.
>
> Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more
> rattles, another BANG, a big macho FART or two, more clicks, a lot
> more smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It's
> a GUY thing.
>
> When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
> concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting turbine is like flicking on
a ceiling fan:
> Useful, but, hardly exciting.
>
> When you have started his round engine successfully your Crew Chief
> looks up at you like he'd let you kiss his girl, too! Turbines don't
> break or catch fire often enough, which leads to aircrew boredom,
> complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds
> like it's going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind.
>
> Turbines don't have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot's
> attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights.
> Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps. Round
> engines smell like God intended machines to smell.
> Between A Radial Engine And A Jet Engine
>
> Round engines are commonly known as Radial engines. The piston Jugs
> are placed in a circle. Hence "Round" engines. Turbine engines are
> known as Jet engines. We gotta get rid of those turbines, they're
> ruining aviation and our hearing.
>
> A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels
> through it in a straight line and doesn't pick up any of the pungent
> fragrance of engine oil or pilot sweat. Anybody can start a turbine.
> You just need to move a switch from "OFF" to "START" and then remember
> to move it back to "ON" after a while. My PC is harder to start.
>
> Cranking a round engine requires skill, finesse and style. You have to
> seduce it into starting. It's like waking up a mistress On some
> planes, the pilots aren't even allowed to do it. Turbines start by
> whining for a while, then give a lady-like poof and start whining a
little louder.
>
> Round engines give a satisfying rattle-rattle, click-click, BANG, more
> rattles, another BANG, a big macho FART or two, more clicks, a lot
> more smoke and finally a serious low pitched roar. We like that. It's
> a GUY thing.
>
> When you start a round engine, your mind is engaged and you can
> concentrate on the flight ahead. Starting turbine is like flicking on
a ceiling fan:
> Useful, but, hardly exciting.
>
> When you have started his round engine successfully your Crew Chief
> looks up at you like he'd let you kiss his girl, too! Turbines don't
> break or catch fire often enough, which leads to aircrew boredom,
> complacency and inattention. A round engine at speed looks and sounds
> like it's going to blow any minute. This helps concentrate the mind.
>
> Turbines don't have enough control levers or gauges to keep a pilot's
> attention. There's nothing to fiddle with during long flights.
> Turbines smell like a Boy Scout camp full of Coleman Lamps. Round
> engines smell like God intended machines to smell.