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| 4th December 2006
Posted on 12/04/2006 3:24:56 AM PST by naturalman1975
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To: naturalman1975
People the C-17 Globemaster is not in the mold of C5 a pure heavy lift strategy transport...it a combo heavy lift /STOL tactical transport (think a heavy lift C130)
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posted on
12/04/2006 10:35:00 AM PST
by
tophat9000
(Al-Qaidacrats =A new political party combining the anti American left and the anti Semite right)
To: straps
In '68 cross-trained from choppers to comm/nav tech and was assigned to Dover. They had 124s,133s, and 141s. A 124 was written up for a squeal in the ICS. Simple enough, right. Well the 124 had 24 ICS stations. With one in each of the 4 engine nacelles. After much grief it turned out to be a problem in the No. 4 nacelle. It seems that a conscientious crew chief decided to pretty up the terminal strips and used conductive silver spray paint. Never flew a Shakey but on engine run-ups I could tell she earned her name legitimately.
To: gridlock
You can't fool me. That thing cain't fly. No way. BTT.
To: ASOC
No, not a Constellation. That was TWA's tradmark airplane from that era.
have to do a search but I do recall seeing big 4 engine planes at Haneda when I was a kid in the 50s and I don't think they were DC-6s.
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Northwest flew L-188 Lockheed turboprops and DC-7s prior to buying DC-8 jets when they were first built. Neither of the propeller planes looks like what I remember tho.
To: cavador
I saw a bit about it last night on Channel Ten news in Melbourne, but I think virtually everything else did get crowded out by Rudd - the half hour news programs only have time for one big story, it seems.
And Beazley, for all his leftist ways, was actually pretty good on defence, and I wonder what approach Rudd will take on that important issue for a start.
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posted on
12/04/2006 11:58:02 AM PST
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: ASOC
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Hummm - yummy! I remember as a child my mother flying out of Tucson - on a Connie. Aircraft look like ugly buses now I suppose...
Some light a/c look 'pretty' if one can use the term for an inanimate object.
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posted on
12/04/2006 3:00:40 PM PST
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: straps
The R-4360 engine:
If I recall correctly, the gap shown between the two rows of cylinders, providing a view into the crankcase, originally held another row of cylinders.
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posted on
12/04/2006 5:06:28 PM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
I flew on a Constellation once, quite by surprise and unexpectedly, in the sixties, on an eastern commuter run. The aisle had a step up, about two thirds of the way to the rear. Most interesting passenger plane I ever was on.
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Thanks for the trip down memory lane...
To: hinckley buzzard
Hmmm...my flight on a Super Connie was from the Azores to Charleston via Bermuda. Mom and us kids were returning from a tour of duty with Dad at Wheelus AFB in Libya.
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posted on
12/04/2006 7:18:28 PM PST
by
HiJinx
(Ask me about Support for our Troops)
To: Non-Sequitur
There seems to be an 'A' missing in that C-17 picture you posted. Same Aircraft, different Air-Force, -just showing an example of the airframe.
To: Mac1
"it replaced the venerable C-141 Starlifter"
A good friend of mine was a crew chief on the C-141. He affectionately called it "The Tube Of Pain"
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posted on
12/05/2006 5:45:36 PM PST
by
Tailback
To: Solamente
the Poms have always been perceived as coming over as immigrants and then continually complaining about the state of affairs in Australia. "It's too hot", whinge the Poms. "The beaches are too sandy!" they cry. "The sea is too wet!". And so on, and so forth. At least that's been the stereotype. "A block of chocolate left in the sun in summer will melt"
actual compalint
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posted on
12/22/2006 7:05:27 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
(I'm back, and this time it's personal)
To: tophat9000
...it a combo heavy lift /STOL tactical transport (think a heavy lift C130)The C-17 can carry the weight of a C-5 in an airframe the size of a C-141 and land and take off in the space of a C-130.
Whew!
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posted on
12/22/2006 7:13:36 PM PST
by
Snickersnee
(Where are we going? And what's with this handbasket?)
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