• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

Random Griz Aviation Musings

Sierra Nevada 747-800 in the pattern doing lots of touch and go's today. This airplane is out of the Dayton Airport completion center where SN is converting 5 former Korean Airlines 747-800 to E-4C Airborne Command Post, replacing the 747-200 based E-4B

PXL_20260803_164036312.jpg
 
RHINOWSO said:
Reminder kids, fly / drive it all the way through the crash.

And don't scream on the radio - you might live!
Click to expand...

Funny you should mention this... I was landing on I-10E yesterday evening, making an approach from the north which meant flying over I-10W. As we cleared the trees and I started coming down a car and/or semi went whizzing underneath us and it was at that point I said, "Oh, the west bound lane is still open..." This fact was glaringly obvious to all three of us before we started the approach, but I think my brain was just so used to them usually shutting down both directions. It wasn't a huge deal (at least to us) since it was still a divided highway, but just not normal to see a semi appear from underneath you.

It's probably even money if anyone actually noticed us since it seemed most people just have their face planted in their phone while driving now.
 
TacticalTater said:
Do you have smoke in the cockpit too?
😁
Click to expand...
No smoke. Beat feet back to WPAFB getting chased by a fairly large convective cell. Land without incident and the Transient Alert folks helped me push the plane in the base ops hangar. Just as the storm hit.

Walking into base ops the duty Sgt asks "Sir, base instruction xxx requires you to have base commander pre- approval to land when there is lightning within 5 sm of field. Where is your authorization?"

He was serious of course. 😭😁
 
ChuckMK23 said:
Marines have arrived here in the North woods of Michigan. The beer supply at the rustic all hands club is in danger!
Click to expand...
Somewhere under all that is an AH-1J that I used to wok on in the 80's , with 40 years of options being added. I am also reminded of the best skill I learned from the USMC, in addition to how to adapt, improvise and overcome, I learned to fiberglass. Everything you see that is round on that bird is fiberglass.
 
ChuckMK23 said:
Walking into base ops the duty Sgt asks "Sir, base instruction xxx requires you to have base commander pre- approval to land when there is lightning within 5 sm of field. Where is your authorization?"
Click to expand...
Sounds like an ask-for-forgiveness situation.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top