Courtesy of GE06, who – despite being one of them armor type plinkees – always brings me the best pr0n. I’m pretty much betting that the right rudder is about on the stops right there.
God, that’s beautiful.
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I don’t know, but that looks suspiciously like a T-28 to me….
Yep, Husband says it is and he’s doing a barrel roll.
He was a flight instructor at Corpus Christi (acrobatics mostly) in 1981-1983.
Silly me — I can’t even read the title…
Must be late.
That’s one of the Trojans with the big motors, right? I know they made at least two different kinds; can’t remember which one the NAV vice AF used.
If that feller was simulating a LABS simulation, well he obviously erred in favor of showmanship, over realism. There are some hilarious (in hindsight; (superdouble-extra-serious at the time) accounts of lone AD aviators leaning mixture out to the max to imagine and practice the long, low-RPM, low-altitude mission toward Sevastopol with a single nuke under the airplane.
I think I read one such, on the Smithsonian Air & Space site
Our home in SJ has been overflown (at low altitude, I might add) by a freshly painted T-28, mebbe 30 – 40 time this past weekend.
This bird has just gotta be a new acquisition for this guy. I saw him getting the feel of the fresh headwinds as he approached RHV. He’s got the Big Motor, and he’s decked out in Navy colors.
Uhl-eye-kansay is I love the repeating thump of an R1820 going overhead every 20 minutes or so, almost all day long. Not as sweet as twins, but sweet, nonetheless. Whoever that guy is up there, I’d love to be his wingman.
Low, slow and noisy — God what a sound, and only $250K.
I’m gonna search this guy out.
“Howzabout a Guiness or a glass of single malt?”
Even the family agrees. I’m not nuts. It’s a great thing to have happen overhead.
-SJBill
R-1820 is doing pretty well for a machine first thought about back ca. 1930.
Used to work at a small college airport that was run by a local paving contractor.
Who just *loved* oldish aircraft. The Douglas B-26 was gone by the time I started there, but that just meant that the T-28 was all shiny. Well, some hours after coming back from a flight. Being sort of self-lubricating as they are.
Never did get a ride in it.
Did get to ride in one of the surplus OH-10s that he picked up later.
The pilot was ex-SVN Army. Fflew out his pregnant wife and a couple of others out to a USN carrier off the coast of South VN in a helicopter that was pushed over the edge as soon as everyone had gotten out of it. (It’s late, and I couldn’t find the punctuation jar…)
SJBill,
That was probably the round engine I heard late Sunday afternoon, headed south from SJ over our place in Morgan Hill. Sounded about right, anyway.
Think he might be over to Hollister or Moutain View next week when the Collins Foundation brings their B-17, B-24 and B-25 through?
I think I have a photo of me holding the fake gun in the waist position of that very B-24, taken by a (!) German tourist.
I remember a strong smell of leaking gasoline about that airplane. From reading, and talking to a person or two, I believe that was common with B-24s.
Also the coming apart on the gentlest wheels-up landing.
Those guys were giving rides, for a “donation”, but even had I had the money I would not have gone up without at least two parachutes attached to my body.
Aircraft Commander: Sorry, guys, can’t get the wheels down, assume the position.
Justthisguy: No thanks, I’m outta here. Hope all of y’all live
Now *that* is just too way cool a shot
justthisguy: Go find a copy of “Gold Wings, Blue Seas” (USNI Press I think, probably out of print now) for some great stories of Sandblower missions in the mighty SPAD…
- SJS
That was the last time B2 ever used the rudder right?
That cloud looks too big for it, but I love finding a nice li’l wispy cloud and making it the center point of a loop.
One of the most peaceful moments in my life these days is that all too brief moment at the very top of the loop, the throttle pulled back in preparation for the over-revs incumbent in the slide down the back of the loop, me hanging just about weightless in the straps.
If that picture was available in a higher res, it would replace the last one I got here as my Windows wallpaper.
What is dat? An aborted wingover or a loop entry steep. Spin entry?
I’d avoid that towering cumulus, thars nuttin like a developing T.S. If’n you’ve been in one like I have (well a cuppla), ‘vertantly and inadvertantly, ’tain’t pretty! Lex- you must have some of dem tales..going up-down, in da dark, with the hail pinging off and St’ Elmos fire dancing across the nose and up da canopy- not easily forgotten. You know the drill- “Please G, let me get outta this and I’ll be good forever” prayer!
Skippy- Wing down top rudder, up on da power, keep that ball in da center, axial winds, big burble on old CVN-65. Also, tapped ‘em a bit on a dozen occasions or so S.E. Other than that, just a place to rest da ol’feet and steer da plane on deck like a go-cart! Other than that TRACOM coordinated turn et all.
b2
“on Laughter-silvered wings…”
Brings back memories of nmy youthful Navy flight training mid-1950s. What a fun a/c to fly. Loads of power. We used to delight in searching out some USAF wimps intheir underpowered versions.
Just Think! We got paid for this stuff. Now you must have a few millions in the bank.
Bill
Speaking of thunderstorms, brings to mind Panama, wall to wall/horizon-to-horizon lightning & tops higher than a U-2 could fly (oh yeah, and fuel gauges going the wrong way after an already l-o-n-g over water mission). Hmm, guess I’ll have to get to work on that one…
- SJS
Dear SJS: I thought that the both the lightning and the wind prior and during a thunderstorm wrecked havoc with an aircraft?
Heaven on earth = the sight and sound of an airplane amplified over a body of water on a clear June afternoon between 4:00 and 6:00pm. Preferrably a Spitfire or a P-51.
Deborah:
Oh, indeed – but when the choice is ditching/bailout over the briny blue or penetrating to the only available airfield in Central America that night, you penetrate the storm…(BTW, we weren’t doing CVOPS, otherwise the Marshall stack would’ve been *in* the clouds and the ship just on the edge of the storm)
- SJS
The problem with Howard AFB was that there really was no divert. If the weather was bad at Howard, it was just as bad at Panama City. In that regard it was just like being at the boat.
I have my own story of holding for an hour waiting for the storm to move and then nosing around it at 800 feet so that we could land with less than a 1000 pounds remaining.
Dear Skippy-San: Please share what happened. I have great respect for all the Eagles on this site (no disrespect, but that’s how I was raised to see Military Aviators).
One fine day in flight training at North Whiting I had a bored instructor ask me if I wanted to see how high our T-28B would go. He took control and after an hour and ten minutes we topped out at 30,250 feet(on O2 of course). Talk about the coffin corner of the VN diagram. One funny aside, about 29K a B-52 went by us about 1,000 feet above. I’ve often wondered what they had to say amongst themselves.