Skip Davenport

TAS is only "the speed of the aircraft relative to the airmass in which it is flying."

You answered your own question -- remember TAS is always the same speed at any altitude. ie 150IAS at 5000ft might be 120 IAS at FL180.

What really sucked for me was our primary instructor for the academics and camping trip was a buddy of mine and (unfortunately) he publicly acknowledged our friendship.

Now this can only go one or two ways, he could make it really easy for me OR he could single me out and make my life hell just so he could prove he didn't do favoritism

Guess which option John chose?:mad:

Well, you can bet it wasn't favoritism! :)

I always thought the reason for the space was for Hyd foaming -- but what do I know I am only a pilot! :)

But it looks better :)

Tactical Air Directory -- a VFR version of IRF approach places. It was printed with brown ink and gave a TACAN DME/Radial to a LZ then a description of the runway and terrain in the area. :)

There were only two "real" STAR's preformed in the movies that I know of. B-17 - "Thunderball" and MC-130E "The Green Berets". All the others are bits and parts or digitally implanted scenes. Next time you watch the one with "The Unit" the Herk changes into a C-123 and the Batman that all looks digital.

FYI -- I have the vidios from all the first live STAR's given to me by Mr Fulton :)

Aircraft used for STARs.

P2V2 12 Aug 1958 1st live SSgt Woods USMC

P2V7

B2V-5F

B17 3 Jun 1962 Live (North Pole - Ice) Lt Leschack USNR

Live #107 SSgt Thrower 24 Aug 1966

This is as Mr. Fulton's records went. There were others after this date. I know of sum a Snake School. I personally have 5 live pick-ups. The last was a two man back during Flintlock 81 in Liberia. This was the last "successful" live. Unfortunately the next one attempted resulted in a fatality.

Dan this is all the information that has been released so far. Will ask some questions and let everyone know when I know.

Speaking of Heks in Movies, I was watching the Unit today. At the end they had Top Sargeant picked up by a Herk using the balloon and whiskers arrangement. It was pretty cool. I understand there were only a few real pickups similar to this.

Wil

well actually over 100 live Surface To Air Recoveries (STAR) utilizing the Fulton Skyhook system that was on the C-130, B-17, and a couple Navy birds (don't remember the types right now too tired but by the morning I will) -- there was a different type system used in WWII

An 8 SOS CV-22 aircraft went down, Friday, 2 Apr 2010, at approximately 1 a.m., about seven miles west of Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, in Afghanistan. It's reported that 3 US Military and one civilian were killed. Numerous injured were taken to a hospital. The CV-22 had been transporting U.S. service members.

Please help pass ...the word: Memorial Service for Major Randy Voas and Senior Master Sergeant JB Lackey are scheduled for this Thursday, April 15th at 1000L in the Freedom Hangar. The Freedom Hangar is located directly next to the 8th SOS (formerly known as the 20th SOS). The reception will be at Helen Back restaurant/bar on Okaloosa Island from 1500 midnight (or later). If you have any questions please do not hesitate to ask. The unit is open 24 hrs from now until Friday. Contact numbers are 850-881-4475/4460/4455

Just got back home from FLA. airshow today, I went on saturday, Airshow was about average but I was real Impressed with the F-22. My frist time to see it fly, The crower was est. at 80,000 people so when the show was over it took me 2 1/2 hrs. to get back to the car it was one big mess.

I won`t be going back to the Eglin show for a while, they have a lot of work to do before they have another airshow There.

Best place to watch was from a boat in the bay with babes and beer!

snip sand file and I'm just a pilot LOL

Skip

It was low level wind shear. I had just checked out as an IP then and was somewhere back in the gaggle and dropped short too. After the drops, the IG wanted to go fly and drop and see what the matter was. They put together an all instructor crew. Gene Johnson as AC, me as CP and Bob "The Cobra" Jackson as Nav went up and flew with 2 TAC Colonels watching us. We dropped short again. Cobra called the drop using the winds from the DZ which were light and variable, but the doppler showed a 40 knot head wind.

The Aerial port guys hid the fact that Crafts load was so far away. I don't remember whether we got away with it or if we had a retake on the night HE. I remember an ORI practice at Langley when I had to be an IP riding CP for Leroy, that was scary!!

Bob

We used to use Blackstone AAF on Camp Pickett VA back then most of the time.

My favorite 37th drop story was the time we flunked the ORI at Pope in 71.

All 9 heavy equipment loads landed and short of the DZ, and Bob Craft and Chuck Slagle were the winners, 5 miles short of the DZ on the front steps of some families trailer. But they dropped on time.

Bob

Bob

I was on the DZ when this drop happened. We (CCT and IG team member) were standing on the IP and watched the lead bird (flown by our SQ CC LTC Martin) fly over head and then the load come out. At the time we thought we were going to be hit so we ran like hell to the side of the DZ. To our surprise NONE of the loads landed on the DZ. I got in the Jeep and raced backed to the base and met LTC Matrin and told him that none of the loads hit the DZ -- he looked like a Ghost! But as I recall they went back and checked with the WX guys/gals and found a low level wind sheer and as all the drops were spont on were lead dropped we ended up with a PI and passed that ORI. I do have some pic's somewhere of the assualt landings -- by-the-by Martin landed long :)

How about a bad bomb board for a PI?

Crew from the 37th doing a CDS drop at bunker DZ,(don't remember if it was an AWADS drop or a visual), and scores a zero yard PI.

Only problem was CCT parked their little Mercedes 4WD buddy right smack on the PI as nobody ever hits a direct PI.

Dan

I remember the same thing happening at the DZ we flew to out of Langley back in 71/72 and I think it was a 37th bird then too :)

As I recall at An Loc during the Easter Bunny drops we dropped at 10K due to the small arms ground threat. We flew a ground controlled (GCA) to the CARP. On the first run we tossed out a wind streamer. The second run was a 2 bundal drop based on the wind streamer. The third run was a full drop. As I recall over 80% of the loads landed inside the firebase.

But weren't you guys still rubbing sticks together make fire then??

now that's a good one -- just wish I had thought of it :)

I'm still trying to figure out why we don't have a demo team nowadays. Seems a good idea to me.

1 you will never get a wing or sq CC to day to buy off on it

2 $$

buh-bam

1.5 gallons

source >C-130 E Ops Limits / Numbers http://www.baseops.net/pilotgouge/opslim.doc

Would have been nice to have something like that when I was flying Herks. Do have something like that for the Beechjet and working on the same for the Hawker 750 :)

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Thanks Bonnie

My bet 1 gal

No story - but the platypus is venemous. I learned that you never eat anything venemous. Even though the venom is in the toes/talons of the male - how you gonna know if the one you caught is male or female? And do you really want to eat something that bizarre looking? Things in nature that do not taste good or are poisonous are ugly or red.

Now Rattle Snake is very very good no matter what sex you eat! :)

that will be one day I wish I was you

You Might Be An Aircraft Mechanic If...

You've ever slept on the concrete under a wing.

You've ever said "Oh yes sir, its supposed to look like that".

You know what JP4 or 145 octane tastes like.

You've ever used a black grease pencil to fix an overworked tire.

You have a better bench-stock in the pockets of your coveralls then the supply system.

You've ever used a piece of safety wire as a toothpick.

You've ever been told to go get "some prop wash and a yard of flight-line."

You've ever worked a 14 hour shift on a aircraft that isn't flying the next day.

You can sleep anywhere, anytime, but as soon as the engines shut down you are wide-awake.

You've ever stood on wheel chocks to keep your feet dry.

Used dikes to trim fingernails.

Wiped leaks immediately prior to crew show.

Wondered where they keep finding the idiots that keep making up stupid rules.

You've ever had to de-fuel an aircraft an hour after refueling it.

You've used a wheel chock as a hammer.

You know more about your coworkers than your own family.

You ever wished the pilot would say "Great Airplane".

You've ever wondered why it takes a college degree to break an airplane but only a high school diploma to fix one.

You have used a wooden chock as a pillow while sleeping on a pushback tug.

You have scuba dived a lav tank to remove everything under the sun.

You have had a pilot ask you why the valve stems on all the tires are not the same size.

You have had a steering bypass pin fall out during a blinding snowstorm while in a near red-line turn.....BOOM!!!

You have had a starter hang while performing a manual start on a RC-130!!!!

You just screwed up something really expensive.....D'OH!!!!

You have seen the "northern lights" inside the cabin while being shocked by a ballast (200v).

You have had fire lick the back of your neck after getting that inop APU FINALLY started (tub removed).

You have told someone that you are an aircraft mechanic only to have them say, "But not on the engines...right?"

You have been blamed by management for looking where you were NOT SUPPOSED TO BE LOOKING.

You have wanted to put your foot up a pilot's butt on many occasions.

You have wished that you had chosen a different career.

May sound to easy but I remember one I had and it was the NTS plunger --