Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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I’m thinking the first few seconds of the takeoff could be a little bumpy too.
I’m thinking the indicator for nose-wheel steering really isn’t doing a lot for them.
Kind of like that “low traction” light in my mother-in-law’s car. Yes, thanks — I *know!*
– Max
I noticed they kept the flaps down during most of the taxi – could that be to try and generate a little lift to keep the plane lighter on the skis?
Or is it just that they are too busy to care about raising the flaps?
You’d think they’d have a Snowcat or something to groom a trail (taxiway) for them. But I guess if you are going where they are going you ain’t going expecting it to be comfortable.
Talk about soft-field landing. Even with the yoke back, the nose looked like it wanted to plow.
Looked good to me. Some things you have to accept if you are going to commit crimes against nature, like flying and landing in snow. I would have liked to have seen that in person.
I live not one mile from a NYANG squadron that does this year-round:
http://www.109aw.ang.af.mil/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY9TFp57mWc
If I remember correctly, some of their aircraft were inherited from VXE-6.
Ummm… Twin Otter? Aren’t those the little ferret-like critters that slide along their bellies in the snow and look like they’re having fun? I’m thinking there’s an inside joke there.
I’m told that small, cold-weather critters like these need to eat something between 10% and 20% of their weight in food each day just to survive.
Which explains a lot about fuel consumption of the aircraft, come to think of it, and the number of truck drivers I see in the northern plains who choose the buffet.
Old joke:
Q: Did ya hear about the truck driver that was pulled over for hauling 400lbs of dope?
A: Yeah, they went to inspect his load, opened the trailer, and a big ol’ J.B. Hunt driver fell right out.
– Max