[Rhodes22-list] Old Bold Pilots

[Joseph Hadzima]

Brad

You don't work for Grumman these days do you?  We have
these old BAC 1-11 jets that we cut off the nose, and slap
on a F-16/B-1/F-22/xxx radar.  The passenger compatrment
consistes of several computer workstations and engineers
runing tests.  The pilots runing the flight test seem to
not believe a test is complete unless they get at least one
 engineer to use a barf bag (we buy these by the case).

Testing weather modes (you gotta sometimes chase storms 100
miles out to sea), or those extra fun terain-follow, and my
favorite terain-advoidance modes, make it too easy
sometimes.  

excuse me, I have to go view our last test flight video now
:-)

happy Flying!


--- Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hank,
> 
> During my younger, braver days (high school), I used to
> buzz sailboats
> on Carlyle Lake, Bob Weber's home waters in Southern
> Illinois. It was fun to
> pull up and circle to see if they reacted.  Most of my
> friends were farm
> boys and they got the open tractors while their dad's had
> the cabs.  They
> couldn't hear a thing, so I'd sneak up behind them at
> head level and scare
> the wits out of them.  They'd leave a big squiggle in the
> field which seldom
> went unnoticed by their dads. On one of the many
> occasions I skipped school,
> I flattened my PE class on the exercise field.  They gave
> me a suspension
> which meant I didn't have to skip school on those day. 
> Smart thinking!
> 
> That was then, I'm happy to get from point A to B now.
> 
> Brad
> 
> 
> On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > What's the old saying, "Any landing you can walk away
> from is a good
> > landing!"
> >
> > When I was crewing on UH-60s we used to practice low
> level flight, (Nap of
> > the Earth or NOE in Army speak) and occasionally we'd
> have to clean some
> > branches out of the landing gear when we got back to
> the airbase.  Those
> > were some interesting times!
> >
> > Hank
> >
> > On 10/26/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hank,
> > >
> > > The common complaint against the V-tail is the
> "wiggle" in rough air. My
> > > solution to that is to not fly in rough air. Other
> than that, you can't
> > > tell
> > > the difference between the V and a conventional tail.
> > >
> > > As to the second question, I can't land it to save my
> ass.  Well,
> > actually
> > > I've saved my ass four times but it wasn't pretty. 
> It will take some
> > > practice.  The landing height above touchdown is
> about 40 feet
> > difference
> > > between the Bonanza and the DC-10. I horribly over
> control it, thus, no
> > > passengers until I can fly it without embarrassment.
> > >
> > > Brad
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does the v-tail make her squirrelly or harder to
> handle in certain
> > > > conditions?  Can you fly something that weighs less
> than 100,000
> > pounds?
> > > >
> > > > Hank
> > > >
> > > > On 10/26/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hank,
> > > > >
> > > > > Don't understand that - I forwarded them from my
> other e-mail
> > address
> > > to
> > > > > this one and it worked.  Here's three photos I
> took while the sun
> > was
> > > > > coming
> > > > > up in St. Johns, Arizona.  The wings had quite a
> bit of frost on
> > them
> > > > and
> > > > > I
> > > > > had the pleasure of visiting with some "old
> heads" while waiting for
> > > the
> > > > > sun
> > > > > to melt the frost.
> > > > >
> > > > > Brad
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/26/06, Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Pics didn't come through, Brad.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On 10/26/06, Brad Haslett <flybrad at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > The seller just sent me these pics today.  He
> > > > > > > photographed the departure of his "baby"
> leaving
> > > > > > > Prescott for her new home.  This is why I
> don't own a
> > > > > > > second boat. Yet!  Brad
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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> > > > > > > From: Vtailflier at aol.com
> > > > > > > To: flybrad at yahoo.com
> > > > > > > Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:35:28 EDT
> > > > > > > Subject: pics
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
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