First thought at "door gunner in Huey's" was: this guy is old! Then I read "until retirement".
That's ok. The aircraft I worked on are now retired too (C130E and Boeing 707)... so I guess I am getting old as well ....
You got the old right, lol, was 20 and on my way to Vietnam, never got there, got turned around enroute and off-loaded, we were told our war was finished......
Mines obvious, I am a visual Supernova searcher.
the Supernova in the image is S/N 1994D in NGC 4526.
Never found one but seen plenty in my 16"
Also my pic is of me on a Bush Walk, also another one of my past times.
Cheers
My user name is taken from the title of a song by Yes (from their second album 'Time and a Word'). It seemed appropriate at the time and is homage to on of my favourite bands. The night I joined IIS I emailed a friend and told him what name I'd chosen. Within minutes he replied with my avatar. It's a piece of Roger Dean artwork which was used on the cover of the triple-live album 'Yessongs', and I do think it suits the name. So I'm stuck with it .
And in the ruins of the balloon
Stood a man with glasses held high,
Wondering when to do it again
Have another fly into the sky,
Somewhere flying high.
Astral trav'ller leaving without her,
Wandering where lights go,
Leave out the body load.
Once in the air, people who dare
Get a great respect in being.
(Astral trav'ller.)
Heavenly flight wondrous night
And all the sights worth seeing
Just believe in
Astral trav'ller leaving without her,
Wandering where lights go,
Leave out the body load.
From my Airforce day's .... we all had our turn to " marshall " an aircraft from the runway to the " holding/parking point".
I was with the Orion Squadron ( big 4 engine job .. turbo prop ).
You had to remain where you were ( you were not allowed to walk backwards ) .... you bought the aircraft towards you ... and you watched the front nose wheel .. and stopped the aircraft on the parking mark on the tarmac.
While your doing this .. 4 " screaming " turbo propellers were " bearing " down on you as the aeroplane got closer and closer to where you were standing .... at the right moment you indicated to the Pilot to stop..... he would halt the plane and do an engine shutdown.
Ear Muffs were MANDATORY Equipment.
1st pic is the Orion Aircraft..... the rest tell the story.
Flash
Last edited by FlashDrive; 14-08-2011 at 04:16 PM.
Sorry for going a little off thread... but I couldn't resist after seeing Flashdrive's happy snaps!
Here is one I took during a typical day of work (our squadron was air to air refueling) ... three F18's off my window at 22000 feet about to take on fuel. I have heaps of pics I took... but mostly on old disposable cameras (remember those???) in case I took a pic of something I shouldn't have and would have to then ditch the camera!
I set my recently finished scope up one afternoon to cool off.
Awhile later I came back out to find 20 corellas forageing in the grass around it so went and got my camera, they all took to the wing when the camera clicked,,,I hadn't noticed there was one on top of my ota looking down at itself in the mirror,, actually I panicked shortly after this shot as I though the bird might of been chewing the wood.
Over a year or so they came back now and then , one bird would always climb around on my scope checking it out the others would all ignore it.
My picture is of me flying my Trike over the Barossa Valley. This is my two seat open aircraft, but I also fly our family plane that is a two seat Light Sports low wing aircraft. Morgans Aeroworks Sierra 200 that is really fast and very nice to fly.. Also alot warmer as it is fully enclosed and even has a heater (nice)...
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to where you were standing .... at the right moment you indicated to the Pilot to stop..... he would halt the plane and do an engine shutdown.
) please explain.
