For The Love of Old Airplanes

bekosh

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Re: For The Love of Old Airplanes

Last Sunday we anchored out on Lake Winnebago to watch the last day of the EAA. It was great! We were right under the flight path for planes leaving to the east and parallel to the main flight line.
Here is a sample of my pics. I have 4 more pages of pics on photobucket.
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v456/bekosh/Boats/EAA 08/
This B-17 was flying around before the airshow.
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BUFF made an impresive appearance.
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And exit.
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A Coast Guard Jayhawk.
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V-22 Osprey tilt rotor.
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bekosh

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Re: For The Love of Old Airplanes

Some more.
The EAA's Ford Tri-motor was out doing site seeing flights.
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A MH-60K Special Operations Blackhawk. (See! The Black Helocopters are out there!)
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One of my favorites. Goodyear F2G Super Corsair.
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Navy E-2 Hawkeye.
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And the Raptor!
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Heritage Flight. P-51 Mustang, P-38 Lightning & F-22 Raptor.
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Bass Man Bruce

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HOLEEE SMOKES!! All you guys have way more knowledge than me on historical flying machines, but I just LOVE all those incredible pics!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gawd, I wish I could fly!:D
 

jay_merrill

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heheh...

The one in the photo I posted is RC as well... But it's a bit bigger.

Yup, gotta love those remotely piloted F4s if you are a Hornet jock lookin to do a little real "shootin." Actually flaming a real airplane has got to be a lot more fun than fakin' it!
 

woosterken

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well my favorite plane would have to be the old stearman bi-planes. there slow. but sound sweet. and they look sweet as well.
woosterken
 

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Wow! A Dornier seaplane with three PT-6 turbines on it - that thing must be a climbin' fool!

Here is one in action that paid us a visit last year. I am sorry about the quality of the Photos, I forgot my camera in the excitment and these are from the marina people.
 

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... and a few more ...
 

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SnappingTurtle

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... and still more ...
 

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SnappingTurtle

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... never too many views of something so cool ...
 

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SnappingTurtle

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... and the coolest man in town on this day wasn't a rich yuppy banker with a new “Go Faster“ than you boat, it was this young pilot!
 

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jay_merrill

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Here's a link on the aircraft:

http://www.do-24.com/index.php

Apparently these airplanes were originally built with three BMW radial engines of about 1,000 hp each. The one you saw has Pratt & Whitney PT6A-45B engines, rated at 1,125 shaft hp each. Each of these motors probably weighs about a quarter of the weight of the BMW engines. With the associated gearbox, and the five blade props, that weight is higher but its still a lot less than the BMWs. In fact, if the prop blades on the PT6 version are composite, they could weigh less than the original props. At any rate, a very cool conversion!
 

SnappingTurtle

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Here is a Antonov AN-2 we went up in a couple of times. The “noise sensitive”, here in Germany (Muelheim a.d. Ruhr), made them add a muffler, as seen in the first couple of pictures, it about cost the pilot his life on the maiden voyage. It is still a nice sounding plane, but it is not the same.

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Here it is before it was castrated :eek: ...

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... and as long as I am mentioning a Antonov, I can't leave this one out, a Antonov An-225 Mriya, (Cossack), a one of a kind and the worlds largest when measured by weight.

It occasionally pays the Fraport a visit here.

Here is a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dp9JjuJbZ0
 

kenmyfam

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Some great photos. I have never flown an aircraft but that is hopefully a retirement gift to myself in about 7 years.
All the shapes and sizes of those aircraft are great to see.
Thanks to all for posting them.
 

LadyFish

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well my favorite plane would have to be the old stearman bi-planes. there slow. but sound sweet. and they look sweet as well.
woosterken

The first time I ever flew was on my Uncle's 1949 Steerman Bi-plan. He did aerobatics all over Texas and treated me to some hammerheads and barrel rolls. The day became even more memorable when he buzzed this barn out in the middle of nowhere and when the barn doors opened a red tri-plane rolled out and his buddy joined us for some more aerobatics.

It was truly awesome and something I'll never forget. :)
 

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There is a story about the SR-71 that may or may not be true, but either way, its still fun.

Aircraft flying above 18,000 feet fly at what are called "flight levels." for example, an airliner flying at 35,000 feet, would be at Flight Level 350, aka "FL 350." During the early years of the SR-71, there weren't any civilian aircraft operating much above the "middle 30s," in terms of altitude, so that's the basic flight envelope that FAA controllers were used to dealing with.

As the story goes, an SR-71 checked in with an FAA "Center" controller, after being handled by military controllers, who would have known the Blackbird's true capabilities. When the pilot talked to the FAA controller, however, he supposedly asked for an altitude change to "FL 700," which would be 70,000 feet. To that, the FAA controller very sarcastically replied something along the lines of, "yeah, go for it if you think you can get your aircraft that high!"

A very short time later, the SR-71 pilot replied, "Roger, Blackbird out of FL 800 for FL 700." There was, of course, a moment of silence on the frequency thereafter!

:D:D:D
 

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There is a story about the SR-71 that may or may not be true, but either way, its still fun.

Aircraft flying above 18,000 feet fly at what are called "flight levels." for example, an airliner flying at 35,000 feet, would be at Flight Level 350, aka "FL 350." During the early years of the SR-71, there weren't any civilian aircraft operating much above the "middle 30s," in terms of altitude, so that's the basic flight envelope that FAA controllers were used to dealing with.

As the story goes, an SR-71 checked in with an FAA "Center" controller, after being handled by military controllers, who would have known the Blackbird's true capabilities. When the pilot talked to the FAA controller, however, he supposedly asked for an altitude change to "FL 700," which would be 70,000 feet. To that, the FAA controller very sarcastically replied something along the lines of, "yeah, go for it if you think you can get your aircraft that high!"

A very short time later, the SR-71 pilot replied, "Roger, Blackbird out of FL 800 for FL 700." There was, of course, a moment of silence on the frequency thereafter!

:D:D:D

HeHeHe! :cool:
 

Twidget

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When I was a kid, my Dad was stationed at Anderson AFB (Guam) during part of the Viet Nam War. From our quarters, we had a decent view of the end of the runway. I saw a couple of them land over the two years we were there. Awesome planes.
 

Phantom_II

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Not old airplanes, but some of the more interesting things I see at work...

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