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- Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:52 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
- Replies: 36
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Re: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
. . . today's technology can be terribly flawed Well, you can get flaws everywhere... Even on DC-3...look at the meat grinder door... https://i.stack.imgur.com/0fVL8.jpg https://i.stack.imgur.com/wempY.jpg Actually, as the caption indicates, it allowed access to the flight deck when the cabin was pa...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:53 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4645
Re: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
http://www.pilotspost.com/articles/160501-Beechcraft%20Model%2018-%20Record%20Breaker%20and%20Air%20Racer/11.jpg I'm sure the plane flies really nice, but that doesn't make it economically viable. Well, any piston 3 or 46 would carry 6,000 or 12,000 pounds easy...your dear twotter, barely above a t...
- Sun Apr 14, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4645
Re: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
Basler? When I flew in South France, taxiing by some French Navy base(I forgot which)hear was 50 DC-3 parked there...so I stopped the plane by and went to look...(that was 1980 or so)They told me those have been drove from the Douglas factory in the US in 1945 ..ALL BEAUTIFUL BRAND NEW!the whole lot...
- Sat Apr 13, 2019 10:05 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Anyone want a cute jet for cheap?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2105
Re: Anyone want a cute jet for cheap?
Honda? Well, much worse is BMW...(As everybody is dreaming on BMW)the engines on the Tante Ju (JU 52), as ugly as Junker may be in Canada, before WW II, they tossed these three original BMW engines IN THE LAKE to be replaced with a single engine that worked, a Rolls Royce Buzzard... http://silverhaw...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Anyone want a cute jet for cheap?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2105
Re: Anyone want a cute jet for cheap?
Avenatti represented Ho Stormy Daniels and one of Justice Kavanaugh’s accusers, fake leftist Julie Swetnick. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/30/c3/ff/30c3ff5b663d289684a2e4c8c136703d.jpg Creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti arrested for domestic violence. https://scontent.fymy1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 1:05 pm
- Forum: General Comments
- Topic: Anyone want a cute jet for cheap?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2105
Anyone want a cute jet for cheap?
Feds seize Michael Avenatti's $4.5million private jet Avenatti victim destitute after theft https://apnews.com/11c356e206ed45d6b932fd2888254a20 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6909461/Feds-seize-Michael-Avenattis-4-5million-private-jet-amid-tax-scandal.html https://www.ainonline.com/sites/...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 8:05 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Twin otter on the ice
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10399
Re: Twin otter on the ice
http://www.avcanada.ca/forums2/images/avatars/gallery/signs/combustable.gif that white, gold and grey with red wings Norseman is MkVI CF-EPZ sitting on the ice in front of Calm Air's water base on Eldon Lake, Lynn Lake Man. January 1971. How do I know? That is me in the red skidoo suit pre-flightin...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:11 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4645
Re: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
I seen the "dare devil" diesel three have a radar for them...maybe they may survive... I flew car parts in the USA with out radar in the DC-3 and I can tell you you will shit in storm with both engines to quit at time, the windshield pour water inside like in a shower and flying in lightning sparks ...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 9:26 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Twin otter on the ice
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10399
Re: Twin otter on the ice
( The military can accept some risks that a civilian operators wouldn’t be allowed ) Of course, as an Otter or Norseman has only one pilot when the An-2 also had a co-pilot, a flight engineer, a navigator and a loader, plus at least 5 crews waiting at very stops...Dont forget(SERIOUS!)the moskals ca...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:58 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4645
Re: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
https://thecitypaperbogota.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dc3.jpg (I used to fly to Colombia every weeks, so I was following the old diesel three...but those in the north in old days) The Douglas DC-3 twin-prop aircraft is the “workhorse of the Colombian Amazon” connecting remote communities with d...
- Thu Apr 11, 2019 5:41 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
- Replies: 36
- Views: 4645
Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived
Colombian authorities have disclosed that none of the 14 occupants of a Douglas DC-3 have survived after the aircraft crashed during a domestic service to Villavicencio. The aircraft, which departed San Jose del Guaviare on 9 March, declared an emergency at around 10:40, states the Colombian aviatio...
- Wed Apr 10, 2019 11:30 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Twin otter on the ice
- Replies: 60
- Views: 10399
Re: Twin otter on the ice
Man...De Hav...seem like going forward mean getting worse... ABOUT GOING BACKWARD AND GETTING BETTER? You'd hit a four feet snow bank, get your ass kicked but it did not bothered the Norseman at all! Twotter, single Otter, Beaver, Cessna Caravan...always crash! NOT NORSEMAN...would just drive away!...
- Tue Apr 09, 2019 9:40 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Ethiopian Airlines: 'No survivors' on crashed Boeing 737 max
- Replies: 494
- Views: 67205
Re: Ethiopian Airlines: 'No survivors' on crashed Boeing 737 max
Boeing, as much today as it was when I flew it in the seventies in gravel pits...IT WAS GARBAGE!
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- Fri Apr 05, 2019 8:01 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6690
Re: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
One must say that the Epic look far better than the TBM(Two Blind Mices) https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCx1aZ1UIAAFi60.jpg The TBM already built 900 of them, but it look like it's have been built by a lumber jack with an axe! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5a/French_Air_Force%2C_F-RA...
- Fri Apr 05, 2019 1:08 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6690
Re: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
ScreenHunter_1430 Apr. 05 16.17.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Epic_Victory.jpg More Epic "Interesting" stuff, as would a Chinaman say... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Aircraft Other sworn statements by Clark and General Manager David Hice alleged that the company was ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:49 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6690
Re: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
Well, Teterboro or Natania, the same problem seem that rich bitches seem to forget about AIRSPEED! The PT-6 have that problem too...folks find it so quiet, they got TOO QUIET (slide in with coarse pitch, not fine with power, get in trouble!) I remember, in fine, you buzz the camp so they pick me up ...
- Wed Apr 03, 2019 1:01 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: The moments before a Learjet crashed outside Teterboro Airport last May.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3399
Re: The moments before a Learjet crashed outside Teterboro Airport last May.
99 per cent of airplane crashes, nobody really have an idea what actually happened...however there you got the two spectacular pictures ever! And all he had is two or three seconds of power to get that light aircraft to shoot up like a rocket...and HE just froze... 15:29:38.1 HOT-2 (CO-PILOT) add ai...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:28 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6690
Re: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
Oh!...as for N669WR...worse, his propeller was...powered but FEATHERED!...WHY?(Fine, it would have scratched the other way) https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dy-ZIHRzGQ0/XExpRB663lI/AAAAAAACYZ8/ozT-nt2W7O8P-1EQtd-OaOcWjiPLJpCbQCLcBGAs/s1600/N669WR%2B1.jpg https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oKzsUqFTWkk/XExpVV8KiUI/...
- Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:13 pm
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6690
Re: Russia's 4th Richest Woman Killed In Freak Private Jet Crash
You feel sorry for the victims of these cars' crash(on they way to the plane crash)...as for them in the plane... https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/6ZVL2b7daGQjxJjoUmbsRynQdG4=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/RWSB2LCT4EI6TKUDKBHQQ27V2Y.jpg THE PROP NOT MEND ...
- Mon Apr 01, 2019 11:47 am
- Forum: Accidents, Incidents & Overdue Aircraft
- Topic: The moments before a Learjet crashed outside Teterboro Airport last May.
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3399