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htuna -> RE: Planes (3/5/2011 9:46:09 PM)

Found their site.. Darn I wish they'd come up North!!

http://www.rideb29.com/rides/ride-in-the-only-b-29.html



bairdlander2 -> RE: Planes (3/6/2011 1:51:07 AM)

I think our pilots are training there because its a similiar climate to Afghanistan?I know the army does training in USA before deploying over there.



oldspec4 -> RE: Planes (3/6/2011 11:45:35 AM)

Marines too...saw 4 or 5 cobras w/ a huey chase helo a couple of days ago.



junk2drive -> RE: Planes (3/12/2011 1:36:23 AM)

You might have noticed this stack before. Gone as of today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0D2LQPqx4w



oldspec4 -> RE: Planes (3/12/2011 12:14:13 PM)

Wow...no never really thought too much about the power plant.



junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/7/2011 1:43:22 AM)

Had a fly by when I got home. I thought one was a P51 but the article states a Spitfire so maybe that was it. Overcast with light rain off and on. They must have gotten here early or they are going somewhere else before the weekend and just stopped by.



andym -> RE: Planes (4/7/2011 4:11:24 PM)

I remember going to my parents house near Mildenhall in Suffolk when they were making the film "Memphis Belle".We used to get a whole bunch of B 17's flying over in formation.



junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/9/2011 2:53:39 AM)

We have had quite a show for a couple of days and the real show isn't till tomorrow.

The wife went down to the FBO and bought tickets so that we can peruse the planes and such. She found some of the pilots sitting around and plopped down with them. She spent a fair amount of time BSing with them. She might take a flight in a trainer. No barrel rolls though.

Weather is cold, cloudy and very windy. The B29 was supposed to be here around 5pm but I guess they chose to wait for tomorrow for better weather.



junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/10/2011 7:47:30 PM)

The B29 was supposed to be here Thursday but bad weather delayed it to just now. AWESOME to see her come up from the South, bank wide over Lake Mohave, and come in to land (at eye level).

The fighters have been buzzing the house on approach. Also awesome to see them up close in flight.



junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/10/2011 7:54:20 PM)

Without a tripod this is the only one that worked.


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junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/11/2011 2:02:10 AM)

We just got back from our day at the airport. What a day. I've been to air shows where you could touch the planes, but being able to stand 20 feet away from them while they power up and taxi away was exciting for us.
Most impressed by the Avenger with it's big engine. The B-29 flew over us at about 500 feet. We were maybe 100 feet away when it powered up for a flight. A P-51 flew over at about 200 feet. The viewing area is only a couple of hundred feet from the runway. There were T-34s, Spitfire, Zero, T-6, P-51, Avenger, and two Russian planes in last years pictures.
We hung around with an 80 year old retired General that flys a T-34. My wife was supposed to take a flight with him but he was booked and very tired. A boy about 10 got in and off they went.
Long story short a plane was in trouble and soon they flew over with the landing gear about half extended. The police and security cleared everyone out. In the end all was well except the plane. The General did a belly landing right on the stripe.
That delayed the next flight of the B-29 until they cleared the plane off the runway. It just went by the house. We had a few chats with the pilot and his wife and later with the boy and his family. What a memory for him.
I'm not an airplane nut but this sure was a fun weekend. Pictures later.



junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/11/2011 2:56:47 AM)

Here is the General when the plane had it's wheels. The B-29 flying and taxi-ing.

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junk2drive -> RE: Planes (4/11/2011 3:02:16 AM)

And after.




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Mark Donovan -> RE: Planes (4/11/2011 8:38:15 AM)

When working in two-dimensional Euclidean space, the definite article is used, the plane, to refer to the whole space. Many fundamental tasks in geometry, trigonometry, and graphing are performed in two-dimensional space, or in other words, in the plane. A lot of mathematics can be and has been performed in the plane, notably in the areas of geometry, trigonometry, graph theory and graphing .



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