Aviation BS and Photo Thread

Bombardier?

 

Correct….650. Start school this Wednesday.

 

Forgot to post this up….youngest son had his first Air Force solo last week at Doss in PUB.

 

I thought that's where the pilot sits... isn't the bombardier usually further up in the nose?

 

What @JdoubleU is really piloting

 

I need a set of those seats for the truck lol

 

Wish I was on the golf course!

 

Nice

Congrats to your son!

 

This popped up on my feed, I'm going to try and attend the briefing:

Western Museum of Flight Celebrity Lecture

• Date:09/16/2023 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
• Location:Western Museum of Flight
  3315 Airport Drive
  Torrance, California 90505

Join us to hear from Lockheed Martin/NASA X-59 Quesst Mission test pilots, Nils Larson and Jim Less, to learn about Boom Proof - Quiet Supersonic.

 

Niiiice. Some of my classmates are in the GL6000 right seat now. Pretty cool!

 

10 hours and 46 minutes. Long ride!

 

Paradise.

 

My brother-in-law is about to finish his Private so I taught him about to do a Bay Tour and Bravo transition over SFO. Good times.

 

Not a bad way to spend a Sunday.

 

designed to get a 16' x 4"x4" inside and can roll a drum of fuel through the door and the sound of those radial jugs is the voice of gods.

 

This is the essence of engineering. Form follows function. But always follow function with form.

My great grandfather made a wooden toy that showed how a radial engine worked, kind of like a flat cutaway with cylinders, pistons, connecting rods, and a center shaft. You could grab a handle on the center shaft and spin it around, and all the cylinders would slide up and down in the cylinders. Fantastic woodwork, wish I had it, don't know who ended up with it.

 

I've used them a lot for moving and servicing our exploration camps in BC and the Yukon, hence I know the lumber dimensions and drum through the door.

Demobing camp from a lake, the last trip was me and my gear. The pilot ran aground when he cut too sharply around a point of land. I was waist deep in the lake holding the back of the float to point the plane to deeper water, fighting a breeze that wanted to turn the plane as the pilot powered off the gravel. Unfortunately he hole a float and then couldn't get going fast enough to get on the step for take off. We unloaded everything we could and after several attempts up and down the lake, finally got airborne. He was able to go back the next day with his 180 and get my personal gear.

 

A different view of the B-21

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/b-21-raider-seen-like-never-before-in-new-images