This is a fun story of an endurance record flight in a Cessna as a publicity stunt for a Vegas casino.
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Next on the modification list was a “through-firewall” plumbing system, which would allow the oil and filters to be changed with the engine still running.
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Timm called off the third attempt, then fired his co-pilot, whose name has been lost to time because Timm never spoke of him again.
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Just twelve hours later, with the moon shining high overhead, it was time for the first refueling attempt. Timm and Cook maneuvered the plane over a predetermined stretch of abandoned roadway, where a truck with a modified fuel pump awaited them. As the plane came into sight, the driver of the truck floored his accelerator, while the two men in the air reduced their airspeed to a mere 65 miles per hour—any slower, and the Cessna would risk a stall, but a truck in 1958 couldn’t go much faster, certainly not while hauling around 600 pounds of liquid fuel.
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For three long minutes—and a distance of more than three miles—truck and plane were attached by a fragile, flammable umbilical cord, until the belly tank was satiated.
It used to be that Antarctica was serviced by military or little civilian aircraft like Calgary's own Kenn Borek and their Twin Otters and DC-3's. However in the last few years we've seen airliners getting in on this action, Icelandair with a 767 and now HiFly with an Airbus 340-300. Pretty cool to see!
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This is all sorts of nuts. An Emirates 777-300ER departing Dubai for Washington-Dulles stayed as low as 175 feet above ground while doing 262 knots airspeed. Pilot following the flight director bars on the screen and based on a known glitch in the system:
Some stunning body cam footage out of LA recently - it's like Hollywood wrote this.
Cessna crashes on takeoff onto some Commuter Rail track in LA, with the pilot trapped. LAPD pulls the pilot out with seconds to spare before the train plows into the wreckage:
Anyone know if Hawcs is allowed to run totally dark? There’s been a helicopter circling for 15mins and I can’t see it even though it’s passing right over my backyard. It’s clear out, I can see the moon and pick out Orion but haven’t caught a glimpse of it in 4 passes.
Anyone know if Hawcs is allowed to run totally dark? There’s been a helicopter circling for 15mins and I can’t see it even though it’s passing right over my backyard. It’s clear out, I can see the moon and pick out Orion but haven’t caught a glimpse of it in 4 passes.
I think they are allowed to, they just might have to let ATC know before they do it.
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Anyone know if Hawcs is allowed to run totally dark? There’s been a helicopter circling for 15mins and I can’t see it even though it’s passing right over my backyard. It’s clear out, I can see the moon and pick out Orion but haven’t caught a glimpse of it in 4 passes.