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Offline Frank N. O.

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Bounce!
« on: March 14, 2006, 12:35:12 PM »
"Do you think he's gonna log all of those?" ROFL :D And what a plane to select! A Pilatus PC-6 Porter Wow! I was actually thinking of asking about that after seeing video proof of it's alleged extreme dive-abilities, from the FL350 site I think.

Btw am I the only one that thinks that Chuck's 172 actually looks more like a 150/152 due to it's shortness (no offence intended at all)?

Well done once again  8)
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2006, 02:47:42 PM »
Well drawn and not bad :) (not bad because...the Is that you Chuck ? is getting carried out :( no offence!)
But i have seen these things happen....its a good strip guys...

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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2006, 03:39:35 PM »
Because it's oh so true it's hilarious!! 

That's how I keep current, logging each bounce as a separate flight.   :D

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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2006, 06:55:34 PM »
LOL!!!  Great one Mike and Stef!!  ;D

When I saw this one, I had a flashback to a cartoon I remember I saw in Private Pilot magazine many years back...  It had a student and instructor in the plane, bouncing down the runway....  the instructor is berating his student and saying "I said WATCH THE ENGINE MOUNTS, not WATCH THE ENGINE BOUNCE!"

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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2006, 09:08:40 PM »
LOL!!!  Great one Mike and Stef!!  ;D

When I saw this one, I had a flashback to a cartoon I remember I saw in Private Pilot magazine many years back...  It had a student and instructor in the plane, bouncing down the runway....  the instructor is berating his student and saying "I said WATCH THE ENGINE MOUNTS, not WATCH THE ENGINE BOUNCE!"

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Now thats a good one :D;D

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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2006, 11:22:24 PM »
Definitely a 172.  You can tell by the window behind the door.
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2006, 12:02:15 AM »
Btw am I the only one that thinks that Chuck's 172 actually looks more like a 150/152 due to it's shortness (no offence intended at all)?

Haha! Well, usually when I draw airplanes I look for pictures and then try to "copy" them. But the Cessna 172 (as well as the Hughes 500) appear so often, that I just draw them from memory. Most of the time the Cessna looks a bit shorter than usual, and a bit comicish, I agree... Well, it's a comic and not a documentary, after all!!  :)

As for the "Chuck is that you?" line... Heck, we just can't get enough of it!  ;D

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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2006, 02:43:47 AM »
Any way someone can make a Cessna sound like that when you bounce???  It would be infinitley better than the "car-hitting-a-brick-wall" sound they make now.  ;D ;D
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2006, 06:26:34 AM »
Yeah, that would be nice, wouldn't it?
I bounced myself off the rwy one time in one of those when I was still a rooky....
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2006, 07:56:36 AM »
Aaah, a Pilatus PC 6!! Many thanks, Stef! This is such a brilliant airplane, let me tell you all. I’ve learned all my basic technical skills on this superb aircraft in the Austrian army. My parents had been parachutes and had many jumps of this plane. So I can tell the Pilatus by its sound only. Rugged aircraft, rugged engine, unkaputtbar (undestroyable). I’ve left it for helicopters, but not easily. Always nice to see one again, in nature or in comics.
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2006, 02:37:13 PM »
Is that the one they used in Air America?  (Speaking of unrealistic flying movies...)
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2006, 03:32:41 PM »

Yep. You are right Gulf, they had a couple of Pilatus PC-6s on that movie. Great plane by the way...

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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2006, 04:41:35 PM »
Air America!!

Another great movie! Probably had more influence on me than Top Gun because I felt "now THIS I can actually go out and do" and migth have something to do why nowadays I fly around in the dessert with a baby blue / baby pooh colored helicopter with a skull painted on the nose . . .
 . . who knows? could be. . .
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #13 on: March 15, 2006, 07:46:42 PM »
Ever harrass truckers on the interstate with your helicopter?
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Re: Bounce!
« Reply #14 on: March 15, 2006, 09:43:30 PM »
uhm no... well kind of.
I was flying a Twin Star from Florida to LA along Hwy 10 and it was blue, silver and white so it almost looked like a Police Helicopter. Through Texas and Arizona the Hwy is reaaaallllly straight and I got bored so I picked out the speeders (you can tell the guys weaving in and out of traffic and passing everybody) and descended down to their level 100 feet or so on the side of the freeway and when they looked over I motioned them to slow down and gave them the "don't do that" motion with my index finger. You should have seen their eyes and how nicely they drove afterwards. !!
HA HA  :D
You know the signs they have on the side of the highway, where it says "speed controlled by aircraft"?
I would have loved to hear the story these people had to tell when they got home!!
Sometimes I also fly 500 feet right over them and fix it so that the shadow of the aircraft comes right over them and then stays on the road right in front of them and that gets them to slow down too. It's a lot of fun and gives me the feeling I am helping out.
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