sanmigmike
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- Birthday 10/25/1951
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It was with horror I saw header for your post. I cannot fully express my feelings of sympathy for you and your family...words fail me. There is no way that I can understand how you feel but as a parent of two adult children as well as knowing close friends and family that have lost children I frequently give thanks that with the problems I've had with our children they are both reasonably healthy. we love them and they love us...that has made a lot of things in my life seem not soo bad. You and your family are in our thoughts, I am, we are so sorry.
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I became a little more cynical today
sanmigmike replied to Darren Roberts's topic in General Discussion
I confess to not having worked retail very much in my life...however I had a GF that worked security at the University book store we attended. She had a poor day when she didn't bust three or four people (a day was three or four hours!). I have a current friend that works retail in a supermarket, a unit of a rather major chain. I also spent time on the local grand jury...a real education that! Most people are honest. Some people are conditionally honest. Some people are just not honest and will rather steal or lie than be honest. At the store that my current acquaintance works they have bust -
The one nose gear collapse I saw in real life (Swift Aire at KSBP) the mains stayed down and the nose was on the ground...kinda pretty at night. Most all the pictures I've seen (and the one EMB-120 I saw a FO raise the gear on the ground) show the nose of the aircraft on the ground when the nose gear fails or doesn't go down or is raised...the EMB-120 mains stayed down. I am a little puzzled at the comment that just taxiing an aircraft doesn't heat the brakes up. I flew the Shorts 360 (less than 30,000 pounds mtow but flown Part 121) for about 2000 hours and we were told about brake energy in
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Hey, I'm not saying people don't do touch and goes, I'm just saying I don't think it is a good idea in bigger or really any airplanes. A while back one of the services (or one of the Guards) quit doing them at least for a while). I think the risks are not worth the gain. Let's see, during my line flying we were told DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING except the throttles and flight and ground controls (brakes and guard the tiller) while on the runway while landing while still on the runway since the odds of screwing up are too high...so we go charging down the runway and we change trims, flaps and leading e
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Not a big fan of touch and go for a couple of reasons. Let's see, in the pictures the nose gear is down, the mains gear doors are open, and there is a pretty impressive set of skid marks going up to the aircraft. Looks like the engines were pulling a fair amount of power when the props hit the runway. Sooo, if it had switches on the gear (newer aircraft have them...one type I flew had multiple switches on the the main legs for different systems and the bigger aircraft I flew had switches on all the gears (called "weight on wheels" "ground sensing" or just micro switches for just a few terms) y
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That is fantastic. I spent some of my growing up years in Laos from '65 to '71 or so...leaving me with a "minor" obsession with place. Going to count my nickels and dimes and see if I can get a set. Thanks mucho for producing such a cool product!
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I'd bet under that clear plastic fairing you will find a bulb holder for a steady light covered with a red glass lens and and probably a clear strobe light (not sure when but before strobes the red rotating beacon did rotate to provide the "flash" effect and some transport aircraft had a somewhat similar device in the wingtip since a "flashing" light draws more attention). I can recall asking a mechanic about this years ago and I got the "you poor idiot look" and I was assured that all of that company's aircraft used white or clear bulbs and had the appropriate covers over the light and then d
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The biggest reason commercial air travel terrifies me
sanmigmike replied to RiderFan's topic in General Discussion
Thrust Reverser problem...big no-no on some aircraft. A DC-10 with suspected reverser problem means pining that reverser locked closed. A Reverser Unlocked (or worse yet actually moving) right after take off was the only think we had to immediately start to work on...okay, a fire you could cancel the bell but nothing else but a reverser that meant work right away! While it got your attention I'd rather have all my reverser problems on the ground while at taxi speeds...thank you very much! Once was at KLGA going to jumpseat on Eastern and saw a reverser try to stow with some jack screws turnin -
Been a long time but CASI (I think it stood for "Continental Air Services International") was a subsidiary of Continental Airlines (Bob Six seemed to be pushing it) and I think Continental bought the Bird and Sons Operation to start CASI. Bird and Sons I think came back or figured out a way to hang around with mostly a rotary wing operation after CASI was operating. I know we like to think that AA and CASI did almost all spooky stuff but actually they made a ton of money flying cargo and people for USAID. A lot of rice and other food items, medical supplies, and other aid supplies were flown
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Rachel and Jun do some good videos. Thanks for sharing that, interesting seeing how some in another country look at a third country. It was also fun seeing how some Japanese view the U.S.
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I think I might have quit buying, at least for a while. About thirteen years ago my wife claimed I had in the thousands (an attempt at an average for kits in a box times the number of boxes packed) and I have had thirteen more years of buying after that. My son thinks I am a hoarder and he is probably right. However my vices are books (used book stores and library outlets that charge two bucks max for a book...found an illustrated book on Laos over a hundred years old...$2.00...offered more but they wouldn't take it!), models and tools so not too bad. Looking at the prices of used golf clubs a
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Our sympathy for the loss of your old and valued family member. we have had a lot of cats but each one going hurts! Congratulations on your new family members, they look great together. All cats are special but we have had some fantastic tabbies. Best wishes to your extended feline family!
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I agree with you Mfezi, I've worn a David Clark for most of my flying but not all. I know there were different headsets (including some that were kinda like the ear muff style), not just the cloth or leather helmets back in those days...so I agree more than a bit suspect but not totally sure (and I am most sure that I cannot be positive that it is a DC headset...must less a noise canceling one, I'd only go as far as to say...kinda like a DC style headset. I do wonder about the antennas? or what ever on the belly toward the tail after the belly fairing (or is that somebody's legs? and not too
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Though it might be a Consolidated Coronado. Cool pictures and thanks for confirming my mental guess. Must have been considered a real monster sized aircraft in those days. Wow!
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I'm pretty sure that while it wasn't "typical" for the center section flap to be red on the interior...there are some frames from a movie of an SBD taking off from a carrier (in color) that show a red interior center section flap. So at least one (and probably more) were red. I know you didn't say "always" but I think that "always" in this case isn't true. But the problem is of course finding a good picture of the aircraft you are doing with the flaps open... I have to admit that is a heck of a bunch of fantastic pictures. Wish I knew my Navy pilots better since I am sure a few of those guys