Crazy Lear 25 crew.

skyismine · Post by **skyismine** » Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:41 pm

Well it made my day,I had a lear 25 on a medivac pop in today.I have gotten to know the crew pretty well as they seem to hit YEG every week now.Anyway the guys told me to stand back during start up and watch the departure.Lets just say those old smokies both gave a wild light show (with flames and even ignited small puddles of fuel on the ground)I assume they dumped fuel into the engines for this?The take off was just wild.Off the deck at about 10ft hold it,then vertical to about 5-6,000ft.It was cool to watch,I knew the Lear 25 was a old rocket but never seen it in person...It was just the crew onboard,(obviously).

Rudder Bug · Post by **Rudder Bug** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:26 am

Would you fly with this crew?

2low · Post by **2low** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:47 am

Let me guess....CGAA

pilot to dispatch · Post by **pilot to dispatch** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 2:48 am

shut-up you pussy. pull that string out of your ass!

LostinRotation · Post by **LostinRotation** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:39 am

I know of a medi crew out of YYZ, flew into a T-storm leaving Kentucky...destroyed the nose and a good deal more last year. No chance in hell I'd fly with these clowns.

-=0=LiR=0=-

sky's the limit · Post by **sky's the limit** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:39 am

Rudder Bug wrote:Would you fly with this crew?

Sure, why not??? Oh right, somebody not having "fun" within the rules again...

STL

TFE731 · Post by **TFE731** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:44 am

2low wrote:Let me guess....CGAA

No, they don't have any Lear 25's

Shouldn't be hard to figure out though, there are only 2 or 3 of those registered here in Canada.

C-FABH · Post by **C-FABH** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:54 am

TFE731 wrote:Shouldn't be hard to figure out though, there are only 2 or 3 of those registered here in Canada.

So I guess that means it couldn't an American one?

TFE731 · Post by **TFE731** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:03 pm

Well, in his initial post he mentioned they pass through YEG weekly so I assumed it was a Canadian company. Of course I could be wrong.

Benwa · Post by **Benwa** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:17 pm

I place my bet on Kalitta Charters, an american bird.

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/KFS88/history

skyismine · Post by **skyismine** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:27 pm

Kallita it was...Very cool.Nice to see some guys having a little fun.

ettw · Post by **ettw** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:41 pm

I saw an old Lear leave YPQ years ago with 1 box of grills for some assembly line down in St. Louis. Man! I have never seen that sort of performance out of a civilian aircraft. I mean you had a very good look at the top of that aircraft as it climbed out! You generally see that sort of perfomance at an airshow with military hardware.

Very impressive indeed.

Cheers,

ETTW

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:15 pm

ettw wrote:I saw an old Lear leave YPQ years ago with 1 box of grills for some assembly line down in St. Louis. Man! I have never seen that sort of performance out of a civilian aircraft. I mean you had a very good look at the top of that aircraft as it climbed out! You generally see that sort of perfomance at an airshow with military hardware.

Very impressive indeed.

Cheers,

ETTW

Have seen the roofs of a couple twin otters doing such antics as well

Mind you.. not at the same kind of speeds

gr8gazu · Post by **gr8gazu** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:39 pm

Rowdy wrote:
Have seen the roofs of a couple twin otters doing such antics as well

Yeah but they were flying towards you on climb out!!

Just kidding all you DH drivers..

I used to fly out of YCG at night in Lears years ago and in winter temps you would see 8-9000 ft per minute. Lots of fun if you weren't shit scared of hitting something!

oldtimer · Post by **oldtimer** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 2:47 pm

Bill Lear was in Pensacola Fl. with the original Lear 23, which he flew single pilot (legal then). Asked for a preformance take-off, Bill did his thing. Tower remarked that was pretty good for a civvy, what do you do for an encore. Bill said "We start the other engine"

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Mon Jan 29, 2007 3:03 pm

Reminds me of my old man, who flew Sabres in Europe, and one weekend made the mistake of being the only sober (well, mostly) pilot in the mess one day.

He was tasked to fly to Geneva (?) to pick up some medicine, and he took the squadron's T-33, which was used for instrument practice, which everyone hated, and it was rather neglected - nose oleo was flat, etc.

So he lands, parks the t-bird in front of the terminal building, and sees a wavefront of enraged burgermeisters approaching him. Guess he wasn't supposed to park there. He escapes and evades them, gets the medicine, and climbs back into the t-bird.

Unfortunately he gets a long, windy clearance that involves a lot of headings, beacons, altitudes, etc. It goes on for an impressively long time, and it's really too bad he doesn't have a pencil or anything. At the end of it, they say, above 20,000 procede on course.

He latches onto that, and asks them to confirm that above 20,000 feet to procede on course.

So he takes off the t-bird, raises the gear and keeps it in ground effect. A t-bird isn't a real fast airplane (straight wing, ya know) but given some time, it will get a head of steam up.

At the end of the runway, he pulls vertical. As the t-bird runs out of steam (and remember, the t-bird doesn't have ANYWHERE near 20,000 feet of vertical penetration) he pulls level and calls through 20,000 feet