Archive for August, 2006
Sunken Port Moresby A-20, 2006
August 26, 2006 9:20 pmGun Camera Footage II
9:13 pmPretty self explainatory 
Interview with a B-24 Gunner
9:06 pmGeneseo 2006 Video
8:56 pmGun Camera Footage
August 25, 2006 9:06 pmAirline and Aviation Humor
August 20, 2006 1:53 pmSome humor making the rounds on the e-mail circuit
In Flight Humor
Pilot: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants …”
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Pilot: “The weather at our destination is a cool 50 degrees with some broken clouds. We are hopeful that they’ll have them fixed before we arrive.”
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Pilot’s welcome (after learning of his airline’s award, on another route): “… We are pleased to have some of the very best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight.”
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Crews dedicated to preservation
1:48 pm
By Cal Hiebsch
Branson Daily News Staff Writer
When J.R. “Skip” Lam greets a group of passengers under the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation tent, he tells them about the helicopter they will be riding in, the safety harness, and the pilot.
Each of the pilots have made a career in aviation; they fly these warbird Hueys on the weekend, for the fun of it. They have thousands of flying hours, Lam says, “and some are in choppers.”
Then he grins, and the crowd laughs. Most of these pilots have been flying longer than their kids have been alive. For Lam, it was 22 years in the Air Force Special Operations that puts him behind the stick of these aircraft. For George Meeker, Master Crew Chief for the foundation, it’s been a little longer.
“I train the other crew chiefs,” said Meeker.
He’s been flying since he was drafted in 1967, and does it now so the memory of what went on in Vietnam won’t die.
Some good news for Charles Riggs Friday…
after prosecutors dropped all charges against the pilot, who made an emergency landing on a residential Fort Lauderdale street in 2005.
Full Article: Aero-News Network
Warbird Of The Week
8:41 am
Tracker - Bu. 136404
Owner/Operator: Old Dominion Squadron, CAF
WIXCAST - Episode 1
August 13, 2006 3:10 pmWell the first WIXcast has finally been finished. It’s a little rough but hopefully not too bad. Hope you enjoy it.
Episode 1:
- Geneseo 2006
- Interview with Ryan Keough
- Veterans Story: Lifes hard for a new navy pilot, by Henry Rose
If you have Quicktime installed you should be able to click here and hear it directly, alternatively you can right click on the link and save the file (save link as) to your hard drive. Comments can be sent to editor@warbirds-online.org or you can leave voice mail at 508-471-3959 (voice mail comments greatly appreciated and might be used in the next episode
