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Offline happylanding

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #15 on: September 02, 2006, 06:42:28 PM »
WOW! the pics are gorgeous! keep em coming!  :)  |:)\
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #16 on: September 02, 2006, 06:43:48 PM »
Quote from: fireflyr on September 02, 2006, 10:39:15 AM
Baradium, the first 99s we got did not have cargo pods or autopilots, we flew them single pilot which was pretty tiresome on the OAK-SEA runs in the winter time. :-\
Brian, I'm here to tell you that the A model Hercs have "some spar problems" too, I lost 3 friends a couple of years back on a fire in California when their Herc shed both wings :'(   Don't believe I'd set foot in one of them sumbitches!

Did they determine spar problems as the proboble cause or over stressing?   I seem to remember that firefighter aircraft pull a lot of G's.  I remember seeing a video of a large twin shedding a wing during an operation.  :(   The only reason I ask is that it seems odd to me that it'd have both wings have an unintended spar failure at the same time.
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2006, 05:14:00 AM »
How about a DC-3/C-47 on skis?  Taken at Palmer airport a couple years ago.

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #18 on: September 03, 2006, 05:30:43 AM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on September 03, 2006, 05:14:00 AM
How about a DC-3/C-47 on skis?  Taken at Palmer airport a couple years ago.



I pity those on dialup just after that one picture!   :p 

It's now owned by a company called  "Bush Air Company"  out of Anchorage.

I want to know where the Douglas Tri Motor is.

We have a picture in our customer service lounge at the airport of it as well as a model of it.   DC-3 converted to 3 engine with turboprops, it's also on skis.

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #19 on: September 03, 2006, 05:50:40 AM »
Oops!  Sorry, I resized the photo and edited the post.  ::)
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #20 on: September 03, 2006, 05:54:25 AM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on September 03, 2006, 05:50:40 AM
Oops!  Sorry, I resized the photo and edited the post.  ::)


All good.   ;)    The larger picture let me get a good copy of the tail number to look it up.   ;D   

Someone bought that bird last year...
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #21 on: September 03, 2006, 10:25:41 AM »
Nice picture of a classic that's appearently still in use today, wow. I wonder how on earth it's possible to covert one to a tri-motor configuration. Do they place the third one in an extended nose? And doesn't that upset the balance a lot?

Frank
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #22 on: September 04, 2006, 05:40:24 PM »
Heh, I THOUGHT that plane in your avatar looked like Frontier!  You may have been the pilot on one of my yearly hops Anchorage to Fairbanks for the annual New Years bash up at Tundra's place.

Now we got to show Fairbanks in the winter:



The C-46 on the right is my old friend 22Mike.  Got to love a place where you still see the old work horses working!
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #23 on: September 04, 2006, 08:03:14 PM »
Quote from: cj5_pilot on September 04, 2006, 05:40:24 PM
Heh, I THOUGHT that plane in your avatar looked like Frontier!  You may have been the pilot on one of my yearly hops Anchorage to Fairbanks for the annual New Years bash up at Tundra's place.

Now we got to show Fairbanks in the winter:


The C-46 on the right is my old friend 22Mike.  Got to love a place where you still see the old work horses working!

New Years?  Not unless you are into time travel.  ;)   I've only been in Alaska since the middle of April.  ;)

Winter... I'm from Georgia so that will be interesting.  :-\
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #24 on: September 05, 2006, 07:06:27 AM »
Here's one Bob took last summer of a locally famous B-24.  I was a bit busy at the time since we were only 50ft AGL and  75 mph.  :p

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #25 on: September 05, 2006, 07:34:29 AM »
Quote from: tundra_flier on September 05, 2006, 07:06:27 AM
Here's one Bob took last summer of a locally famous B-24.  I was a bit busy at the time since we were only 50ft AGL and  75 mph.  :p



I saw that, but it was from 5,000 ft.  ;)    I'd love to get a closer look someday.   Captain I was with that day said that he found there's about a week each year when you can get in by air to see it.
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #26 on: September 05, 2006, 09:53:56 AM »
Very nice pictures, but what's the story about the B-24 and it's location? Is it an actual plane-wreck or something else?

Frank
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #27 on: September 05, 2006, 01:54:33 PM »
Quote from: Frank N. O. on September 03, 2006, 10:25:41 AM
Nice picture of a classic that's appearently still in use today, wow. I wonder how on earth it's possible to covert one to a tri-motor configuration. Do they place the third one in an extended nose? And doesn't that upset the balance a lot?

Frank
Frank, the turbine engines were so much lighter than the original radials that they had to be moved a long way forward on the twin conversion so when they installed one on a reinforced nose they simply reduced the extension of the wing engines.  The turbines weighed less then half of the radials they replaced and even with 3 engines installed the payload was about the same but with much improved performance.  The US Forest Service uses a turbo DC-3 (twin) to haul smokejumpers and it's shortfield performance is impressive.
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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #28 on: September 05, 2006, 06:31:58 PM »
Quote from: Frank N. O. on September 05, 2006, 09:53:56 AM
Very nice pictures, but what's the story about the B-24 and it's location? Is it an actual plane-wreck or something else?

Frank

I don't know the whole story, but it's an actual B-24 wreck from sometime shortly after WWII.  There are quite a few WWII wrecks around Fairbanks due to all the cold weather research and Lend/Lease activity here. 

Speaking of Cold weather research, the Museum at Pioneer park has photos of just about any WWII fighter you can imagine on skis.  And Randy, one of the guys that runs the museum, can tell what each was like to fly.  :)

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Re: Pictures from Alaska
« Reply #29 on: September 05, 2006, 10:31:44 PM »
Gosh, the pic of B24 is incredible. I never thought about aircraft wrecks somewhere to be seen while you fly.......So, you live in a really interesting place and the conditions looks everyday more form the pictures demanding!  |:)\ |:)\
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