[DeTomaso] NPC - Worst flights

Mon May 3 23:24:59 EDT 2010

Well, this young pup has only flown on a DC-3 twice.  No incidents 
either time.

But..

There was a summer I caught a hop on a C-141 from Fairchild to Hawaii.  
Somewhere over the Pacific, with nothing but water as far as the eye 
could see... we suddenly heard a very loud BANG that woke must of us 
up.  Nothing -seemed- to be wrong though; the airplane was still in the 
air, the engines still running, no perceptible loss in altitude.  Then 
the flight engineer came back, opened a panel, shined a flashlight in, 
took a look, closed the panel and said "it's nothing" and went back to 
the cockpit.

One of the guys on on deployment paced the aisle the rest of the flight.

Okay to make a long story longer.  The return flight got delayed a day, 
I found out when I went back to Hickam to catch it.  Turns out the bird 
I was on lost a compressor on one of the engines.  Good thing there were 
four.  So it was held up in Hawaii for an extra day while they flew in a 
replacement engine.  Then I flew back on the same plane... just a day later.

Still my most favorite story is of the F4 pilot who was escorting a B-52 
and wanted to play "follow the leader."  Being nice, the F4 pilot let 
the The B-52 pilot go first.  After a few minutes the F4 pilot asks the 
B-52 pilot what he did.  "Shut down four engines" came the reply.  The 
F4 pilot was silent the rest of the trip.  :)

Asa Jay
son of Major Roy Lee Laughton, USAF Retired, B-47's, FB-111's, B-52's.  
I love my dad, as everybody should with theirs.

Asa Jay Laughton, MSgt, USAFR, Retired
&  Shelley Marie
Spokane, WA
******************************
http://www.asajay.com   ***   http://www.teampanteraracing.com

On 5/3/2010 7:30 PM, Mad Dog Antenucci wrote:
> Kirby, MikeB, Dan - All,
>
> I got my clearances and visa today....Looking at trip back to the sand box right after the NORC.  Looks like AJ is going to take the Pantera, truck and trailer, and keep them exercised while I'm gone. He deserves them....he's worked his tail off in support of TPR and POCA and the rest of you rat bastards can't be
> trusted! ;-)
>
> My last flight on a DC3 was from Lagos to Abuja Nigeria.  Flight was great but after a week in Nigeria I started missing Vietnam and Saudi Arabia.  Now the DC3 from San Juan PR to St. Thomas was great. . .seats were so worn so well that when you sat down you sank all most to the floor deck. American's flying both.
>
> Always better to be grounded and want to fly then be in the air and wish you were on the ground.
> ;-]>
>
>
> Mad Dawg Antenucci
> Team Pantera Racing
> The 1st&  still the only vintage race team in open road racing
> www.teampanteraracing.com
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>
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>
> ________________________________
> From: Kirby Schrader<kirby.schrader at gmail.com>
> To: gow2 at rc-tech.net
> Cc: eb20erik at yahoo.com; Mad Dog Antenucci<teampantera at yahoo.com>; Peter Menyhart<pmenyhart at msn.com>; detomaso at realbig.com; john bentley<gndplne at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Mon, May 3, 2010 6:12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Flying a P-51 Mustang - NPC
>
>
> Ah, yes.... the DC-3. Had a bad experience on one of those in the Sudan in 1980. Right engine blew up and caught on fire during take off.
> Not one of my favorite 10 minutes or so... the old saying about your life passing in front of you? True.
>
> By the way, there is a B-17, a B-25 and such in Galveston. Not cheap either, but cool.
> It flies over my house every now and then. Very impressive.
>
> http://www.lsfm.org/
>
> FWIW,
> Kirby
>
>
>
>
> On 3 May 2010, at 2:43 PM, gow2 at rc-tech.net wrote:
>
>    
>> I have been able to do an engine run up on a DC-3 and have been up in a
>> T-6 a couple times. I was doing loops, rolls 1/2 cubin 8's. The guy I was
>> flying with does airshows. I was doing the rolls to the left but calling
>> the maneuvers. I said now I'll do a roll to the right. "The guys said,
>> lets not. I am an airshow pilot, not an aerobatic pilot. I prefer rolls to
>> the left".
>>
>> More stories I can't write here.
>>
>> The best I can do is build and fly models of them:
>>
>> http://www.rc-tech.net/per/trailer/load.jpg
>>
>> http://www.rc-tech.net/per/gear/firstb.jpg
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>>      
>>> If you are a pilot or just love old WWII war birds you might appreciate
>>> this touring group of old WWII war birds. See the site address below for
>>> details of when it is going to be in a city near you.
>>>
>>> Larry Kelsey who many of you know from his trips to Vegas or Monterey for
>>> the old run rallys or in Texas, Nevada, or Nebrasaka for the open road
>>> races got into the back seat of a P-51 Saturday out of John Wayne Airport.
>>> Not too many WWII pilots still around today and we met several of them
>>> Saturday who were pretty thrilled to see some of the same planes they had
>>> also flown or crewed  in WWII.
>>>
>>> Pilot let Larry take the stick after a few minutes to fly it for a few
>>> minutes and even do some barrel roles, etc and Larry all most floated out
>>> of that old  Mustang after it landed about 45 minutes later he definately
>>> was a happy new 'young' man.  If you ever wanted to take a ride in a
>>> B-17 'Flying Fortress", or the B24 Liberater or FLY a P-51 here's your
>>> opportunity.
>>>
>>> It's not a cheap ride but if its on your bucket list you need to do
>>> it....I saw a 70+ year old tired old friend get into that cockpit but an
>>> hour later saw a young man about 40 years younger climb out of that old
>>> war bird and slide across the wing on his ass like he had been doing it
>>> for 60 years.
>>>
>>> As an aside one of the veteran B-17 pilots was there with his daugther
>>> waiting to take it up. Once airport they let the veteran ride
>>> co-pilot....I heard he felt 20 years old again which was hold he was when
>>> he first flew a B-17!!!
>>>
>>> amazing weekend
>>>
>>> Mad Dawg Antenucci
>>> Team Pantera Racing
>>> "If you're not on the edge you're taking up space"
>>> www.teampanteraracing.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.collingsfoundation.org/ma_p51mustang.htm
>>>
>>> Larry Kelsey
>>> Airports Development Group
>>> Sr. Construction Manager - Aviation
>>> D 424.646.7516
>>> lkelsey at lawa.org
>>>
>>> AECOM
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>>> Los Angeles, CA 90045
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