F-ing bad to the bone......Sov's built some unique stuff.....i love the tu-144 SST,, hornier looking than Concorde imo. We hit that on other plane thread last year.....dint You bring out the one that NASA converted?Oddball Russian sea monster:
I stripped heating element, ground & blocked, starting in 40 grit to 1000 & polish on an Orion/Electra blade in 06 @ moto art....like connies, half shot peened....bitch to even out for accurate reflection. Hardest cast aluminum batch ive ground to date....because of full reverse, debris scatter worse on blade face....took 15, 8" 40 grit discs and 40 hours.to grind down to bottom of damage, both sides. Then a ton of blocking with long 1/8" thick, flexible aluminum strap, w 40 grit.....Simon Cowell's outfit, 19, (gag)American Idol were the customers, sits in lobby in front of windows overlooking hillsides in lala land.........getting the heating element off was a whore too....kinda funny looking blade sans heat element......like a 7 foot raquet ball paddle. Tried to pull it off catalog but cant get link to takeSome shots from my P-3C days...
My crew (CAC-10) at NAS Sigonella, Italy in 1982.
I took these on a patrol mission in 1983 or so. We were taking off from NAS Jacksonville, FL, and a frigging sea gull hit the plane just as we climbed past the tower. The guys in the tower didn't see the bird hit, but saw something white fall from the plane and thought it was a panel. They had another of our crews that was flying come over to check us out.
Shot of one of our Fast Attack boats submerging off Charleston, S.C.
Rigging shot of SS Festivale, a cruise ship we rigged in the Caribbean on a counter-narcotics flight.
Shot of my acoustic sensor station. That is what sonar signatures look like when they are displayed on paper.
This is a shot of the line of Brits waiting to get a tour of our plane at the HMS Lands End airshow in England in 1982/1983. We had planned to open the plane from 0900-1100, go to lunch, then re-open from 1300-1500, and we ended up going non-stop from 0730 when we got there until just before 2000 that night.
Shot of a Soviet Kashin Class cruiser in the Med in 1982.
Shot of a Soviet Foxtrot SS we caught on the surface of the Med in 1984, and was blowing his tanks to get submerged.
Me, sick as a dog, sitting at my station on my second patrol mission with VP-5 in 1980. My stomach had yet to adapt to bouncing around at 300 feet for eight hours.
Bruzilla......P-3 is poto on right....center is connieSome shots from my P-3C days...
My crew (CAC-10) at NAS Sigonella, Italy in 1982.
I took these on a patrol mission in 1983 or so. We were taking off from NAS Jacksonville, FL, and a frigging sea gull hit the plane just as we climbed past the tower. The guys in the tower didn't see the bird hit, but saw something white fall from the plane and thought it was a panel. They had another of our crews that was flying come over to check us out.
Shot of one of our Fast Attack boats submerging off Charleston, S.C.
Rigging shot of SS Festivale, a cruise ship we rigged in the Caribbean on a counter-narcotics flight.
Shot of my acoustic sensor station. That is what sonar signatures look like when they are displayed on paper.
This is a shot of the line of Brits waiting to get a tour of our plane at the HMS Lands End airshow in England in 1982/1983. We had planned to open the plane from 0900-1100, go to lunch, then re-open from 1300-1500, and we ended up going non-stop from 0730 when we got there until just before 2000 that night.
Shot of a Soviet Kashin Class cruiser in the Med in 1982.
Shot of a Soviet Foxtrot SS we caught on the surface of the Med in 1984, and was blowing his tanks to get submerged.
Me, sick as a dog, sitting at my station on my second patrol mission with VP-5 in 1980. My stomach had yet to adapt to bouncing around at 300 feet for eight hours.
No more Connies? What about supers? HB-RSC is still flying in Switzerland. http://www.conniesurvivors.com/N73544.htm Also Lufthansa is restoring one for their own use. http://www.conniesurvivors.com/1-airworthy.htm
Thanks Photon! That was the 1st one i did there. I did the one in ctr of composite photo, on glass topped engine mount, that Donovan is posed with......blade on right i did not do, but that is in Aero Trader @ Chino (CNO)....little ripply imo....as said the one on right is the Orion/Electra.
How about a turboprop version of the Connie? R7V-2, just four of them built with Pratt and Whitney YT-34P-12A turboprops. The Navy tested them to 479 mph. in a dive, 5700 hp. engines on this bird.
By the way Bladecutter, that Lufthansa Connie I mentioned earlier is getting it's props reconditioned in Canada by Hope Aero of Toronto - six complete propeller assemblies.[/QUOTE
I guess these are EC-121...otherwise 749's....what i flew...was a retired TWA Bird. Did You know that both the 1649 Starliner & the DC-7 were 400+ mph in cruise at altitude? No question of the prettier of the two.
Just put on Long Riders....David Carradine nailed His role....
Wow, a P-51 B razorback two holer. never seen it before....razor back a much prettier bird than D models imo
Workhorse of Midway.......Hell for Stout!
"so how about pre-trials on Edwards??"
Oops.....i stand corrected.....guess i mixed up with F-4-F.....question? Did any of the biplane Curtiss Helldivers make that action.....a favorite.
Wow, over 12 k built.....only 35 k a pop in 1945.
