AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) said:
That thing looks like it sucks balls.
AAZCD-Jon (Forum Supporter) said:
That thing looks like it sucks balls.
Gary said:
I spent a lot of time sim flying one of those in an old open source flight simulator called Xplane.
It was a surprisingly pleasant aircraft to pretend you were flying.
How is this picture related to the above picture?:
In reply to aircooled :
In reply to Duke :
This was as close as I came to simulator-flying a C-119 ... in the cockpit of a non-flyer:
Appleseed said:In reply to aircooled :
Father and son??
Benzomino?
Gary said:
One of the older fellows I worked with at one time told me about how his Guard unit flew these.
The best bird in the unit was held back at base on the monthly exercise weekend, while the rest of the planes essentially went out to get as far as they could before they broke down. Then the bird held back at base was dispatched to pick up all the stranded crews at get them home before the end of the weekend.
The full timers then spent the remainder of the time before the next monthly excercise getting the dispersed airplanes repaired and returned to base.
And then they would do the whole thing over again.
Ferrari 250 MM Series 1 Spyder at the Saratoga Springs Auto Museum today. As I understand it (I'm not a Ferrari cognoscenti), this is 1 of 2 and a $7-10 million car
The C119 was also the plane used in the movie Fight of the Phoenix.
There's a meme in here somewhere ....
flew in C119 in the early 60s many times. Weird to look down and think cars on the highway were going faster. Being non pressurized they flew at low altitude with the Cessna 172s. The last one I flew on out of Eglin. The crew said that after they dropped us off at Homestead they were taking the craft to a permanent parking space.
When I sat in the C-119 driver's seat at the air museum I was surprised at how cramped the flight deck was. And I found trying to get in and out of the flight deck to be very difficult. I wouldn't have wanted to be in there during an emergency.
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914Driver said:
Fiat Topolino?
Weekend trip to Kentucky was an interesting insight to the history of Bourbon
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