JBubble Moves to Mother's Mountain - Now with pics

[Randimus Maximus]

It was

I'm a dumbass, didn't even consider that

I was wondering what a CG fixed wing was doing pulling some of the manouvers it was doing

for a bit i thought it might be a 130, then it put its port tip in the dirt and spun a 180.

The pilot was seriously putting the spurs to it whatever it was

I'm not sure what you just said right there.

[IZ]

I'm not sure what you just said right there.

Translation:  He thought the plane he saw near Herm's place was a C-130 at first but then figured out it wasn't after the plane made some abrupt maneuvers. 

[Buckethead]

Not that the C-130 won't move when you tell it to.



Just that usually there's no reason to tell it to, so why waste the fuel?

[Howie]

Thank you for sharing your trip with us JBubble, Virgil, Sammich Maker and Mother

[Mother]

Not that the C-130 won't move when you tell it to.
Just that usually there's no reason to tell it to, so why waste the fuel?

JATo's are cheating

[Grampa]

JATo's are cheating

not when you put them on a car

[herm]

It was

I'm a dumbass, didn't even consider that

I was wondering what a CG fixed wing was doing pulling some of the manouvers it was doing

for a bit i thought it might be a 130, then it put its port tip in the dirt and spun a 180.

The pilot was seriously putting the spurs to it whatever it was

this is the time of year when they start doing a lot of pre season work ups....pilot training, etc....

unfortunately, its also a time of year when a few of those aging air frames give out....never pretty

[KnightofNi]

this is the time of year when they start doing a lot of pre season work ups....pilot training, etc....

unfortunately, its also a time of year when a few of those aging air frames give out....never pretty

that sounds like a carnival ride. you know it's going to give, you just don't know if it will happen while you're on it.

[Buckethead]

JATo's are cheating

Yes, yes they are. But have you ever watched Fat Albert yank-n-bank? He's no slouch.

Either way, congrats on making the transcontinental trek and still talking to each other. 

[herm]

that sounds like a carnival ride. you know it's going to give, you just don't know if it will happen while you're on it.

yeh.... most of the airframes that are used for aerial firefighting are waaaaaay past there intended service life. even the P3's have been flying since the early 60's. most of the really old ones have crashed, or been taken out of service when others of the same make start crashing too much.

this old PB4Y was a left over from WW2, used to fight fires.


it crashed on a fire i was fighting in colorado back in 2002


i was a mile or so up the road from where it went down.....not a pretty site.  the wing that you can see separated from the rest of the aircraft, fell to the ground on the side of an open to the public state highway, next to a trail head. the rest of the aircraft came down in a ravine on the other side of the road. the trailhead parking lot was full of public watching the aircraft work the fire. pure luck that no one on the ground suffered injury.

[DesmoDiva]

snip
pure luck that no one on the ground suffered injury.

What about the pilot and crew? 

[herm]

i prefer to think that they died in the original explosion

[DesmoDiva]

oh.   

You didn't mention explosion, should have guessed from the pict. 

[Monsterlover]

Day 3:
Some little crazy homeless dude scared the crap outta me in AZ when we stopped for breakfast. He came up and knocked on my window and asked if we wanted "fetishes".

Now who in their right mind says no to that?!?!

[Mother]

Now who in their right mind says no to that?!?!

I rolled the window down to see what he had in mind

but

Virg' gave me a look that said...well i'll let her 'splain what that look meant