I had a similar experience with an Apache gunship. My wife and I were driving along the road that goes behind the local air base when we heard a helicopter going over us at a fairly low altitude, which is pretty well normal. My wife looked up and said "That's a weird looking helicopter."I knew there was an Apache there doing icing tests, so I suddenly got kind of excited and looked up- sure enough there it was. It passed over us, stopped and hovered above the airfield, rotated back towards us and tracked us along the road, rotating very slowly to keep us directly in line with the 30mm chain gun. I knew it was just playing, but even so you can't help but have a HUGE amount of respect for a machine like that!Def
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And the A-10 cockpit is titanium to help protect the pilot from ground fire and dogfight fire.
Personally I'm a huge fan of the C-130 and Ju-52/3m. There's something about a reliable work horse which just keeps on going.
I've seen a Ju-52 in flight at an airshow once. A true classic. We need to start an aviation thread....
I have a few bushplane museum photos I could re-post to get an aviation thread started properly?
Thems is great fer huntin' squirrels....Def
Still the coolest plane ever built...
Very nice. I hope that next time you'll be able to see his collection or part of it. I regret loosing the opportunity to meet Kirk13 and TaxiDad early in December. I had a tough program waking up early and visiting Leeds (Yorkshire) and Elmley (Kent) with trains from London. Next time I hope I'll be a tourist and have time to make up. Funny this Internet community. You easily forget the distance that divides people when you communicate instantly all around the world through the forum.
Quote from: kkokkolis on January 13, 2014, 04:36:05 PMVery nice. I hope that next time you'll be able to see his collection or part of it. I regret loosing the opportunity to meet Kirk13 and TaxiDad early in December. I had a tough program waking up early and visiting Leeds (Yorkshire) and Elmley (Kent) with trains from London. Next time I hope I'll be a tourist and have time to make up. Funny this Internet community. You easily forget the distance that divides people when you communicate instantly all around the world through the forum.So true.
Quote from: Aloha007 on January 13, 2014, 05:57:05 PMQuote from: kkokkolis on January 13, 2014, 04:36:05 PMVery nice. I hope that next time you'll be able to see his collection or part of it. I regret loosing the opportunity to meet Kirk13 and TaxiDad early in December. I had a tough program waking up early and visiting Leeds (Yorkshire) and Elmley (Kent) with trains from London. Next time I hope I'll be a tourist and have time to make up. Funny this Internet community. You easily forget the distance that divides people when you communicate instantly all around the world through the forum.So true.Indeed +1.
Quote from: Monrogue on January 13, 2014, 06:10:32 PMQuote from: Aloha007 on January 13, 2014, 05:57:05 PMQuote from: kkokkolis on January 13, 2014, 04:36:05 PMVery nice. I hope that next time you'll be able to see his collection or part of it. I regret loosing the opportunity to meet Kirk13 and TaxiDad early in December. I had a tough program waking up early and visiting Leeds (Yorkshire) and Elmley (Kent) with trains from London. Next time I hope I'll be a tourist and have time to make up. Funny this Internet community. You easily forget the distance that divides people when you communicate instantly all around the world through the forum.So true.Indeed +1.It really is wild when you think about it. We really do have people from all parts of the world here, yet one could almost believe we're all neighbours.