Videos that you think are cool 2
07-01-2015 | 07:27 PM
#1361
As one can see from my avatar I have been upside down before. My avatar is a picture taken in a "Big Stearman" (1938) Bi-plane (with a 450 HP Continental Radial engine). As a former General Aviation pilot I never thought that I would have the chance to actually fly a "Big Stearman", but I did get the chance to make up for "not going vertical with less than ten hours on a newly rebuilt engine that was still being broken in".
I have also been in aerobatic rides in 220 HP Stearmans on several occasions as well as in Grob S2 sail planes. One of the cool experiences that I have had was out of Dillingham Field on the NW corner of Oahu, Hawaii. When we were on the bottom side of an out side loop after doing a Split S, we were inverted at about 3,000 feet just in time to look up at the ocean to see two pilot whales swimming about a half a mile off of the coast.
I have also been in aerobatic rides in 220 HP Stearmans on several occasions as well as in Grob S2 sail planes. One of the cool experiences that I have had was out of Dillingham Field on the NW corner of Oahu, Hawaii. When we were on the bottom side of an out side loop after doing a Split S, we were inverted at about 3,000 feet just in time to look up at the ocean to see two pilot whales swimming about a half a mile off of the coast.
07-05-2015 | 10:31 PM
#1362
This one I must have listened to a million times. I think I still can recall all if it, word for word:
https://www.youtube....h?v=OquQ5lWRqog
https://www.youtube....h?v=OquQ5lWRqog
07-06-2015 | 09:17 AM
#1363
Originally Posted by JonasM' timestamp='1433708918' post='23639420
This one I must have listened to a million times. I think I still can recall all if it, word for word:
https://www.youtube....h?v=OquQ5lWRqog
https://www.youtube....h?v=OquQ5lWRqog
07-06-2015 | 06:07 PM
#1364
Originally Posted by Matt_in_VA' timestamp='1436164295' post='23670842
[quote name='JonasM' timestamp='1433708918' post='23639420']
This one I must have listened to a million times. I think I still can recall all if it, word for word:
https://www.youtube....h?v=OquQ5lWRqog
This one I must have listened to a million times. I think I still can recall all if it, word for word:
https://www.youtube....h?v=OquQ5lWRqog
[/quote]
Loosely translated it means: Thank you for wasting twenty-two minutes of my life.
07-06-2015 | 08:48 PM
#1365
It really is quite a simple equation. When one is one year old a day is 1/365th of a time slice of our lives. When one becomes Vintage at the age of forty, (assuming one was born in 1975, which was NOT a leap year) a day now is only a 1/14,609 time slice of our lives. Therefore as we age, each day is a smaller "piece of the pie" that we call life. That explains why it does not last as long.
07-06-2015 | 09:57 PM
#1366
Originally Posted by Matt_in_VA' timestamp='1436234839' post='23671884
Loosely translated it means: Thank you for wasting twenty-two minutes of my life.
It really is quite a simple equation. When one is one year old a day is 1/365th of a time slice of our lives. When one becomes Vintage at the age of forty, (assuming one was born in 1975, which was NOT a leap year) a day now is only a 1/14,609 time slice of our lives. Therefore as we age, each day is a smaller "piece of the pie" that we call life. That explains why it does not last as long.
Do you think that this explains why other *activities* don't seem to last as long when one becomes Vintage also?
