Love the P-47 and the Corsair also.. Big Pappy Boyington fan.. He wasn't to great at life but he was a helluva fighter pilot. My dad flew an F6 Hellcat in the very early 50s.. That plane was a BEAST...I take it like me you watch Battle 360. I like the WWII birds too. My favorites are the P-47 Thunderbolt, the P-51D Mustang, P-38 Lightning, FW-109, FW-190, F4U Chance Vought Corsair. AND almost all the too little too late German machines that would have changed history if they'd been available at least by early 1942. OK, fine, I liked all of them. Including the RC models.
Love the P-47 and the Corsair also.. Big Pappy Boyington fan.. He wasn't to great at life but he was a helluva fighter pilot. My dad flew an F6 Hellcat in the very early 50s.. That plane was a BEAST...
Statistically you are still much safer flying then driving. Air disasters only get so much more press because of the higher number of people, yet hundreds die every day in car accidents. If you do it by mileage traveled/ per death you see the difference. Some of those aircraft fly millions pic trouble free miles, and I know some people who wreck cars every other month.Very subjective.
If you count every time you start a car get to destination turn off car as 1 journey.
versus
getting on a plane flying and landing as one journey.
Where most people would make more journey's by car in a week than they would by plane in a lifetime.
The number of what I'm calling journey's are millions more by car than by flight.
And how many people have pilots who have been drinking, killed, in comparison to people drinking and driving automobiles? Not even statistically comparable.Neither you nor I can be everywhere at once, nor see everything other people have seen. Call that paranoia if you must. As for a uniform not being a pilot, it is when he dragging the little wheeled suitcase behind him. Puts it away or has a stewardess put it in a compartment in the first-class section. Then knock the cockpit door for admittance and enters. Sure it could be the navigator, co-pilot or trainee. But when cops show up and escort said uniform off, well... Your next snide remark will probably be that drunk pilots don't exist. OK, here's just one of several examples. Here's one I didn't see either but know it happens based on what I did see and such reports from time to time. Neither you nor I can be everywhere at once, not see everything other people have seen. Call that paranoia if you must. On a rabbit hunt, I saw a buck flip head over heels, jerk his legs a few times and lay still. I never saw the bullet hit it. That didn't change the fact brer rabbit was lying dead on the ground.
A Delta pilot was removed from a fully boarded plane and arrested on suspicion of being intoxicated - CNN
I'm sure that by being argumentative with everyone, they may pitch in and get you a one way ticket on one of them there rockets. Whoooooooosh!Funny thing is, I'd jump at the chance to ride an Energia, Proton or Dragon rocket to space, orbit or space station visit.
Oh, RIB Gibbs, Marshall football team, and others who fly and crashed.
Love aircraft also.. My favorite era is WWII warbirds..
Baa Baa Black Sheep. The Black Sheep squadron VMA-214. That was Pappy's squadron in WWII. The group of misfits.The P-47 was a rugged plane. It took a lot of punishment. You didn't want one diving at you from above as not much you could do to get away from it. The Hellcat was a bit similar. Racked up a lot of Zero kills. I'm not overly familiar with Pappy but the name strikes a bell. A flight leader I think. Was he in on the destruction of the last Nipponese battleship? The Yamato, I think.
Pappy fought with Chenault and the Flying Tigers. Eventually ended up in the Pacific as a flight leader with the Black Sheep squadron.. He was shot down and sat out the last part of the war in a Japanese prison camp. He was quite a colorful character.The P-47 was a rugged plane. It took a lot of punishment. You didn't want one diving at you from above as not much you could do to get away from it. The Hellcat was a bit similar. Racked up a lot of Zero kills. I'm not overly familiar with Pappy but the name strikes a bell. A flight leader I think. Was he in on the destruction of the last Nipponese battleship? The Yamato, I think.
It's not subjective.Very subjective.
If you count every time you start a car get to destination turn off car as 1 journey.
versus
getting on a plane flying and landing as one journey.
Where most people would make more journey's by car in a week than they would by plane in a lifetime.
The number of what I'm calling journey's are millions more by car than by flight.
I spoke with a lady today who’s daughter is a pilot in the same area/county as Kobe’s flight and she said their planes were grounded that day due to the weather. You are right, they should never have taken off that day.Flying accidents are usually human error. Kobe’s pilot shouldn’t have even taken off that day.
Pappy fought with Chenault and the Flying Tigers. Eventually ended up in the Pacific as a flight leader with the Black Sheep squadron.. He was shot down and sat out the last part of the war in a Japanese prison camp. He was quite a colorful character.
Yup. It’s common sense. For something as routine as this flight was, they should’ve turned around or landed at a nearby airport or just go IFR. No need to risk it. Really surprised why the pilot didn’t just try to go IFRI spoke with a lady today who’s daughter is a pilot in the same area/county as Kobe’s flight and she said their planes were grounded that day due to the weather. You are right, they should never have taken off that day.
Pappy fought with Chenault and the Flying Tigers. Eventually ended up in the Pacific as a flight leader with the Black Sheep squadron.. He was shot down and sat out the last part of the war in a Japanese prison camp. He was quite a colorful character.
Enjoyed the convo...Off the path comment. I'm hoping to get or build a 1/4 scale F4U but my wife to the money needed to do this. Maybe one day. I'm shutting up on this now. If we haven't already, I think Freak has reached his tolerance of our exciting (for me at least) off topic exchanges. Don't be surprised if one of insulting trolls post some snide remark. It's what they do.
Yup. It’s common sense. For something as routine as this flight was, they should’ve turned around or landed at a nearby airport or just go IFR. No need to risk it. Really surprised why the pilot didn’t just try to go IFR
Since we don't know what went on on the copter, some are assuming that the pilot made the decision to take off and not return. It could be possible , or probable, that CB had insisted that they make the fliight because they would have missed the ballgame if they din't fly. I realize the piolt has command of the flight, but he may have been acted on the insistence of KB. this copter had no recorder so we will never know unless the tower had a recording of their conversations.Yup. It’s common sense. For something as routine as this flight was, they should’ve turned around or landed at a nearby airport or just go IFR. No need to risk it. Really surprised why the pilot didn’t just try to go IFR
I'm sure that by being argumentative with everyone, they may pitch in and get you a one way ticket on one of them there rockets. Whoooooooosh!