It's not a ton about backcountry flying unless some one has a P-47 then it would be very useful. It does give a good lay down of tailwheel ops. along with a nice "loop" landings, I wonder if a Cub could do that. I like to hear the lingo they use. If you don't watch it all the first 5min or so is the best. "Keep your eye on the ball"

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6497955441338098345&hl

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:-k hmmm... embeded didn't seem to work? help?

Trevdog-

PHPBB doesn't like the "style" attribute very much, so I just tweaked the embed attributes.

Great video...I love this vintage stuff.

1SeventyZ wrote:PHPBB doesn't like the "style" attribute very much, so I just tweaked the embed attributes.

Thanks for fixing it.

If you like the old military movie footage, here's a site that offers a lot to watch: http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/
tom

Modern day air traffic controllers should be required to watch that so they could learn to not talk so darn fast.

Ya... Hear... How... Fast... I'm... Talkin'???...

That's... About... As... Fast... As... I... Can... Listen...

I've used that line a time or two over the years with some of these machine-gun talking controllers, while trying to copy a clearance that they've mangled completely beyond recognition.

Gump

Savannah-Tom wrote:If you like the old military movie footage, here's a site that offers a lot to watch: http://www.zenoswarbirdvideos.com/
tom

Whoa! Watched the one on the F4U Corsair. 45 inches MP and 2500 rpms. P P Power! I get excited around sea level when the 182 pulls 30 inches MP.

Tom thanks for that link. Gives me something worth while to watch.

C ya, Bub

If you like 45 inches of mp, find some videos of unlimited Reno Racers (they regularly pull well over 100 inches of mp).

Skylane wrote:P P Power!

That's my little brother. When he was a kid he could pee 20'.

tom

My dad was in the ATC (Air Transport Command) during the war. He ferried planes around the US, from factories to ports where they were shipped out.

One story he told that stuck with me was when he went to school to "check out" in the five main Army Air Corp fighters: P-47, P-39, P-40, P51 and P-38. According to Dad, it was a two-week school: in the first week were class room sessions, one per day on each plane. The next week, you went out and flew them, one model each day.

Dad, who was a professor at a teachers college, pointed out that this was done in "the typical Army way", that is the most confusing, FUBAR method to perform this training possible. Can you imagine, sitting in the cockpit of something like a P-38 long about the middle of the second week, with the manual open on your lap, trying to remember from the previous week where all the important switches, levers and dials were? Yikes. "Let's see, gear lever is here, no wait, that was the '51... are these the wing flaps or the cowl flaps?, water injection? is this the mike switch or the trigger?, what, oh yeah, I have to crank the gear up in this P-40... now, where was that damn starter"

I'm pretty sure the guys going into combat got a better briefing though.

Kelly wrote:My dad was in the ATC (Air Transport Command) during the war. He ferried planes around the US, from factories to ports where they were shipped out.

One story he told that stuck with me was when he went to school to "check out" in the five main Army Air Corp fighters: P-47, P-39, P-40, P51 and P-38. According to Dad, it was a two-week school: in the first week were class room sessions, one per day on each plane. The next week, you went out and flew them, one model each day.

Dad, who was a professor at a teachers college, pointed out that this was done in "the typical Army way", that is the most confusing, FUBAR method to perform this training possible. Can you imagine, sitting in the cockpit of something like a P-38 long about the middle of the second week, with the manual open on your lap, trying to remember from the previous week where all the important switches, levers and dials were? Yikes. "Let's see, gear lever is here, no wait, that was the '51... are these the wing flaps or the cowl flaps?, water injection? is this the mike switch or the trigger?, what, oh yeah, I have to crank the gear up in this P-40... now, where was that damn starter"

I'm pretty sure the guys going into combat got a better briefing though.

Would you believe it's still done pretty much the same way at Pax River now (Naval test pilot school). Your given the flight manual one day, write a test plan, and fly it the next day on aircraft like the F4,5,18 etc. that is the first time youv'e flown that aircraft.