Except that redline is 750 Knots; not 7.5 Mach. Your statement got me to think, Pratt X3. First NEVER trust the CIA. I have another photo clearly showing the Mach meter in the window you mentioned and would have to guess that the outside dial is a sub-sonic speed indicator. From what I could find t...

If you want a read about the real days of frontier flying in the Red Lake area, try "Harold Farrington Pioneer Bush Pilot" by DF Parrott. The man was a quiet legend. His name appears all over the place in material related to NWO.

Here is a picture of the cockpit of a SR-71 at the museum in Seattle. An ex CIA friend of mine pointe out the Mach redline speed. (You can see the pointer between the 7 & 8 on the Mach meter)

Sure glad you asked about that, Blakey, because normally I wouldn't want to display my ignorance of what’s being talked about.

Fate is the Hunter by Earnest K. Gann. Absolute must read.

Anyone who thinks they are masters of their own destiny will fine that the Grim Reaper picks and chooses at his bidding.

When I was a young kid, my second cousin had a bait shop in Kenora and I used to work for him. Wasn't flying. We used to drive into the hinterland then hike in to these piss pot little lakes and empty the minnows into five gallon pails which we packed on a neck yoke back to the truck. When he bought...

Go back a few years and you’ll find a smattering of external load mishaps, some more serious than others. During the summer of '54, Severn Enterprises’ Norseman OBI had completed a flight from Sioux Lookout to a fishing lake near Savant Lake. All was well until Ron MacDonald, Severn’s chief pilot, r...

Yeah- what you saw was the Museum of Flight’s L1049G Super Constellation CF-TGE/CF-RNR It crossed the Canadian-US border on June 7th at 2:00pm EDT. Over the next few months the aircraft will be reassembled and a damage/condition assessment will be conducted. Based on the assessment the aircraft will...

Technological marvel that it was, the TU 144 was never a serious contender in the commercial aviation field. The Russian government handed Andrei Tupolev a blank cheque and told him the prestige of the motherland was at stake. Poor way to launch a revolutionary aircraft. The Russians never were able...

Right- 1350 hp my mistake. Heard one mechanic say they were a "maintenace nightmare". Not sure why. Also TC only alllowed each engine 800 hours on the PBY. Their wisdom and reasoning- they got more abuse on the water. And they didn't on a 3 ? Someone's flying a desk with the chair facing the wall.

How about young pilots- I had a young lad fly my wife and I over the English River in NWO in C-FCNL a couple years back. He graciously landed at Ball Lake for us and flew over some other territory I wanted to see. (hour and a half sightseeing trip for him) During this time my wife noticed the words ...

The 1200 hp 1830-92 was the most commonly used engine on these two planes, but keep in mind Pratt & Whitney also made the 1830-94 which had a two stage blower and larger cooling fins, enabling it to produce 1360 hp. Not bad for an engine originally designed for 750 horses. The 94 was used on DC-3's....

A course I took once mentioned that 10% of workers are negative, 80% will do the work asked of them, and the remaining 10% are willing to step in and do things better. From my experiance, I'd like to add this: When negative talk starts, the 80% become negative very quickly; when the conversation is ...

That should read "so the hieght would be lower."

A one-inch layer of water or ice weighs approximately five pounds per square foot. Meteorologists often estimate that about 12 inches of snow is equivalent to one inch of water. Therefore 400 square feet of snow 12 inches deep equals 2000 pounds. Wet snow weighs more so the high would be lower. It's...

Widow, in this industry it appears to me that disaster attracts attention only if it gets the headlines. Look at the logging industry in B.C. Lost what 42 people in 05. Great halabbaloo about it in the media. Now people are aware of the dangers. At least until complacency sets in again. The public h...

I think JAL Will end up using a few of them on short hauls within the country. They already fill 747's, so it would make sense to configure them for 800 people and cut down on the number of commuter flights.

Age makes a difference. I've enough years behind me and so few left that I tell the people I work for what I will and will not do. Yet all around me I see young people who have mortages to pay, kids to feed, cars to pay for, etc., doing things I once did but won't now. I have none of the above and a...

Unions take more than they give. Trust me, I know

Over the years one thing impresses me about issues like this, it takes courage and determination to maintain the fight. The foe is formidable. trying to change TCCA is like trying to turn a supertanker loaded with oil, it is forever slow. Government bureaucracy is loaded with money and its inertia r...

My second cousin's J-3. Held a death grip on the stick while sitting in the back seat. Couldn't shake the feeling that if I moved it the plane would lay over on its side and fall out of the sky.

Writers think up these ideas, Cat. Genric terms don't create much excitement with J Q public. When they see a tanker drop they are more impressed if it is on a Wild Fire rather than just some trees in the forest hidden by smoke.

I think Hank Parsons who in his book describes some of the things he admits he should never have done, put it this way: "In our business those who consistently tempted fate and took needless chances ussually ended up dead or in a very unairworthy condition. At the other extreme was the nervous type ...

Just watched the video. So much may have changed but the old addage still holds true; no matter how sophisticated the air power, without troops on the ground, the war cannot be won. My hats off to the people you pilots support- the firefighter on the ground