Saw a video of one of these flying in Canada on YouTube. It came in multiple times to the same lake to fill up its tank. The pilot kept taking the right side pontoon over a dock to keep up on the step. And you can hear the people keep talking about the pilot's skills. It really is skills flying them

Written on 2020/09/18

Two of the great CAS (Close in Air Support) aircraft's.

Written on 2019/11/12

It's not the Hudson, but the Intracoastal Waterway will do fine.

Written on 2019/08/10

Best when Rodney Dangerfield says the Emilia Earhart line.

Written on 2019/08/10

Call the ball? I got the ball.

Written on 2019/08/10

The PBJ-1, the Marine Corp/Navy version of the great B-25. My dad worked on these island hopping the Pacific while we was in the Marines. He told me that he would be in shorts and with out a shirt wail working on them. And he would lean is M-1 Grand on the left main gear, and have is 1911 on is left waist band just in case he had to stop and fight.

Written on 2019/08/10

Their is another photo of another CH-47 somewhere on the internet with only the rear door ramp touching down and the rest of the heilo hovering over a mountain cliff.

Written on 2019/08/10

I believe this ski bird was transferred to the New York Air National Guard's 109 Airlift Squadron out of Stratton Air National Guard Base in Schenectady, New York.

Written on 2019/08/10

It's not perverse. It's an unnatural act of god to jump from a perfectly good aircraft.

Written on 2019/08/10

Don't forget the tall long gears to carry nukes.

Written on 2019/08/10