DutyCat

I am still waiting for a new tool 1/72 naval variant kit. It is so different from the land based version that an accurate resin conversion is problematic.

Well, my understanding is it is only partly about flying the plane single engine. The other part is working your way through the problem while maintaining SA. When we got on deck he called the flight school on his cell, and they questioned his choice of the right engine, but they had no problem with failing the left because of the high torque starter. They told him, "The next time you want to fail the right engine, make sure you are near Craig."(homeplate). My examiner did not know about the high torque starter on the left engine. In the Seminole the props automatically feather if the e

Thanks guys, The shutdown thing is SOP around here. The examiner wants to see you go through the shutown, troubleshoot, and restart checklists. My multi examiner did the same, except with #1. Interestingly, the older Seminoles, prior to the ones featuring the unfeathering accumulator, have a high torque starter on #1 so you can practice this easily enough. But the inspectors know the instructors teach critical engine left failure procedures, so they usually give you the right one on check rides to throw you off a little bit. They are always at altitude when they do this. Engine failures

Some of you may know I am attending an airline pilot training school here in Jax. Anyway, today was my commercial checkride. I already have my multi-engine and instrument tickets. So we are flying along south of Jax at 4500ft....things are going good...stall series, VMC demo, navigation exercises, steep turns, etc. Check. We get to the engine failure part of the checkride and the FAA dude cuts the mixture on #2. Okay no problem..bank into the operating engine...mixture/props/throttles forward...flaps, gear, yada yada. Get the bird under control and go through the engine troubleshoot

neu, I was on the 89 TR cruise. In my cruise book, there are a few good pics of 200. I will try to look at it when I get a chance and see if there is a good shot with names. If not 200, maybe 201? They were both painted up the same.

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There is a 1/72 Jap aggressor F-15 at my LHS. I wonder if I should pick it up? How rare are they?

Really? (no sarcasm). What's the diff? Are they different colors? It looked like that Euro I gray/green set of colors, so I just assumed.

Was it an ex S-3 guy who had transitioned from another platform? Or was it a Viking that went down? Full crew? If it was a Viking, it's pretty bad when your aircraft is primarily used as a tanker and you run it out of gas!

I saw this today at my LHS. I don't hawk releases like some people, but I have never heard of this one. Is it new? I know there is a 1/48 version and there used to be some 1/144 kits. Box art was European I.

Gone.....out of stock!

HS-7 Dusty Dogs, from right here at NAS Jax. My house lies in the NAS Jax class D (within 4 miles). I see these guys fly every day. Aside from the pilots, there was an AW1 and two AW2's....my old Navy rating. I have flown out at Fallon before, and it can be dicey. It is the first opportunity for the air wing to work together in the pre-deployment training cycle and it is usually a zoo. About a third of the aviators are new to the squadron and have never been there before.

Well, I have got my old helmet from when I was in the training squadron, VS-27. It is white with two angled, thick, yellow, black bordered stripes. Incidentally, when I first got to the Scouts in 1982, a few of the guys had solid gold painted helmets. But they had just come out with that reflective tape rule, and some guys had all yellow refective tape jobs replacing the gold. Then the 80% white rule came out, and we did all white with red chevrons. I thing we got the chevron idea from VF-84,as they had yellow helmets with black chevrons, IIRC. VF-41 had all red helmets, BTW. I'll have

Nice. I've had one in my stash for awhile now. I'll get to it someday!

I think that the Cardinals jet is based on the NFL's Arizona Cardinals logo, not the MLB St Louis Cardinals logo, which is different.

I'd fly it. Curious about the V speeds though. I wonder if it has radios, a VOR receiver, and a GPS? lol

I read somewhere that "Fox Five" was half jokingly used in conversation to refer to a midair collision with the target aircraft.

An Airbus? And here I thought all along they were coverting old clapped out Cessna 150's to tankers! lol

Beautiful pics!

Jeesh. MORE blacktailed SuperHornets? Will it ever end?

What kit are you doing? I am building the OEZ kit and I painted the cockpit out with the standard green. I am gonna paint the plane in that cool Algerian loose jigsaw puzzle camo.

Well, politics/funding were part of it, but politics/funding do not operate in a vacuum. The "NewCon" Soviet SSN/SSGN threat is what got the Viking built and incorporated in the air wing in the first place. The stoof could no longer do the job and an indiginous CVBG ASW capability was needed. If Akulas, Oscars, and Victor III's were still out in force shadowing CVBGs all of the time, then I do not think they would have dared to decommission the Viking. I saw first hand how much flag sweated the subsurface issue when it was a real cold war threat. The fact that the Navy embarked on a majo

Admiral Miller was my XO at one time when I was in the Scouts. Yes, over the next few years. Left on the east coast are 22, 32, and maybe 31. 22 will be the last to go. If the cold war was still going on, the plane would not have been retired. We may even be looking at a replacement or upgrade program. But with no credible blue water naval subsurface threat and a limited budget, the aircraft was very vulnerable to the TACAIR mafia decision makers. If the Russians were still putting lots of subs to sea with professional crews and attempting to shadow CVNs, then it would be a different

part 3 A borrowed stoof: Checkmate Vikings: CVW-8 Prowler visiting for the ceremony:

part 2 Former Scout skippers photo op: