A330PilotCanada Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 1 hour ago, J.O. said: Great video! Man I miss the A330. It will always be my favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A330PilotCanada Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Good Afternoon J.O. Mine as well and a wonderful ending to my very privileged career as well. The photo is courtesy CDG Tower controllers on my last flight. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 The Fearless Canadian Flier Who Led the Red Baron to His Death 4 December 2020Canadian Aviation News From HistoryNet.com – link to source story Captain Wilfred “Wop” May leans on his Curtiss JN-4 during a 1919 exhibition in Calgary, Canada – National Archives, Canada Bob Gordon “Wop” May escaped the Red Baron and went on to make celebrated mercy flights and pioneer air rescue in the frigid Canadian North during World War II. On June 21, 1952, Wilfrid Reid “Wop” May, a giant in Canadian aviation, died of a stroke while hiking with his son to Timpanogos Cave, near American Fork, Utah. May’s flying career had opened with a scrap against the “Red Baron” and culminated in his receipt of the Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm in February 1947 from U.S. Army Air Forces Brig. Gen. Dale Gaffney. His time in the air was marked by a series of Canadian aviation firsts and flights of incredible daring and difficulty. Wop, a nickname he acquired in childhood when an infant cousin was unable to say Wilfrid, was raised in the Alberta city of Edmonton, where he enlisted in the Canadian army in February 1916. Rapidly promoted to sergeant, he applied to the Royal Flying Corps upon his arrival in Britain a year later. On April 9, 1918, Lieutenant May was transferred to No. 209 Squadron of the newly created Royal Air Force. He had turned 20 only days earlier. World War I double Ace May smiles in 1918, while serving with No. 209 Squadron, RFC. (Canada Forces Archives) During a patrol in a Sopwith Camel on April 21, May was ordered to stay above—and out of—any dogfights. Encountering a lone German novice who had been ordered to do the same, May nevertheless attacked. He had jumped Wolfram von Richthofen, cousin of Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. The Baron, piloting his trademark red Fokker Dr.I triplane and seeing his younger cousin in trouble, took on May. Later May suggested his inexperience saved his life: “Richthofen was firing at me continually, [and] the only thing that saved me was my poor flying. I didn’t know what I was doing myself and I do not suppose that Richthofen could figure out what I was going to do.” A .303-inch bullet put an end to the chase. Penetrating the Baron’s right armpit and resurfacing next to his left nipple, it was later found in his clothes. He managed a rough landing behind Allied lines, dying shortly thereafter. Controversy surrounds the source of that bullet. The RAF attributed the kill to May’s squadron leader, Canadian Roy Brown. However, multiple Australian and British ground troops also claimed to have fired the fatal round. Regardless, it is certain that May was Richthofen’s quarry when he was killed. The Canadian would go on to claim 13 victories, becoming an ace and earning the Distinguished Flying Cross for “proving himself on all occasions a bold and daring pilot.” The Red Baron’s Fokker Dr.I lies mangled in France after he was killed on April 21, 1918, while pursuing May. (IWM Q 10929) Back on civvie street, Wop and his brother rented a Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” and started May Airplanes Ltd., operating out of Canada’s first civilian airfield on the northwestern outskirts of Edmonton. In September 1919 May made history when he flew Edmonton Police Detective James Campbell 125 miles west to intercept John Larsen, a double murderer fleeing on a fast rattler. May delivered Campbell to Edson, where the detective caught a train to Mountain Park. He captured Larsen at the nearby Cadomin mine and returned the surprised fugitive to Edmonton for trial. May’s most famous flight resulted from a medical emergency. On December 18, 1928, Dr. Harold A. Hamman composed a curt telegram in Little Red River, Alberta. After a 12-day, 280-mile trip south by horse and sleigh to the nearest telegraph station in Peace River, it landed on the Alberta deputy minister of health’s desk on New Year’s Day. It read: “DIPHTHERIA. FEAR EPIDEMIC. SEND ANTI-TOXIN.” Accompanied by Vic Horner in an Avro Avian, May took off on the 450-mile flight north that would take them almost to Alberta’s northern border on January 2. Through headwinds and a fierce storm, braving -30˚F temperatures, they successfully delivered the serum the next afternoon. The pair returned to Edmonton on January 6 to a crush of spectators and a raucous reception. From left, Dr. Harold A. Hamman, Vic Horner, May and a policeman shake hands after May and Horner flew diphtheria serum to northern Alberta on January 3, 1929. (Denny May Collection) In 1932 May played an integral role in the hunt for the “Mad Trapper of Rat River.” On the last day of 1931, Albert Johnson shot and wounded Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Alfred King when the Mountie tried to execute a search warrant by forcing entry into the trapper’s cabin. Johnson subsequently survived an attempt to dynamite him out of his cabin, fleeing west through the frozen wilderness. He killed pursuing Constable Edgar “Spike” Millen on January 30 and eventually crossed the Richardson Mountains into the Yukon Territory, shaking the posse. Desperate, the Mounties turned to May, now flying for Canadian Airways. Piloting a ski-equipped Bellanca CH-300 on Valentine’s Day, he caught sight of Johnson’s trail. Three days later, on February 17, the posse caught up to Johnson and killed him. During the gun battle Johnson critically wounded one of his pursuers. May, in his own words, “nosed the Bellanca down till our skis were tickling the snow” and flew the wounded constable to a hospital, saving his life. Despite losing the use of an eye in 1935, and consequently his pilot’s license, May’s finest hours were yet to come. During World War II he served in Edmonton as commander of No. 2 Air Observer School. Edmonton was a key stop on the Northwest Staging Route that ferried Lend-Lease aircraft from the continental United States to Alaska and then on to Siberia and the Soviet air force. Hundreds of North American B-25 Mitchells, Douglas A-20 Havocs, Bell P-39 Airacobras and P-63 Kingcobras made the trip, and some crashed in the northern wastes. The citation for his Medal of Freedom commended May, who “voluntarily loaned the personnel and the facilities of his school to assure the delivery of aircraft to the Aleutians and Alaska without delay. He conceived the idea of aerial rescue crews for rescue of fliers in the bush area, and after developing a trained parachute squad he furnished a rescue service indiscriminately to Americans and Canadians, thus saving the lives of many of our fliers. In so do doing he fulfilled the highest traditions of the Dominion of Canada.” This article originally appeared in the November 2020 issue of Aviation History. To subscribe, click here! Share this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDR Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 59 minutes ago, A330PilotCanada said: Great airplane. All it was missing was a couple of engines. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDR Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Here is the story of Reg Price who at 99 still drives over to Marys right across from YYJ to have coffee in the mornings. I wish I had his memory and his genes would be a big bonus as well. http://aircrewremembered.com/price-reginald-dfc.html 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A330PilotCanada Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 55 minutes ago, GDR said: Great airplane. All it was missing was a couple of engines. why "clutter a beautiful wing" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A330PilotCanada Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 Good Afternoon All: A great video of a young Kiwi pilot flying a small turbo prop in the wild jungles and mountains of Indonesia. The airstrip was built by a remote indigenous tribe over 14 years and the joy of the first flight in was amazing even more was the take off which looked like the HMS Ark Royal. http://giaman.com/s/96 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.O. Posted December 4, 2020 Share Posted December 4, 2020 1 hour ago, GDR said: Great airplane. All it was missing was a couple of engines. Same could be said about the A340-300! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Pulman Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 16 hours ago, J.O. said: Same could be said about the A340-300! 330/340... same fuselage, same wing, virtually the same thrust (varies slightly with engine type), same performance (every +/-1000kg change of weight gets you -/+100’ of altitude, every +/-1° temperature change gets you roughly -/+100’ of altitude). Only real difference is MTOW of 275T for the 343 and 242T for the 333. Once the 340 gets down to 330 weights, they’re the same animal. That said, thanks the to the differences in how takeoff performance is calculated in a twin versus a quad.... let’s just say there are times you better have a strong sphincter muscle when departing in the 340. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 I still feel more comfortable when there are 4 working engines on the aircraft when over oceans, I even was not that happy with the DC10 . However, if we do travel in the near future, I guess I will have to accept the 2 engine versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Not about a large aircraft but interesting reading. Flying Over The Ocean Reflections on the risks and rewards of flying over open water in small aircraft. By Bill Cox UPDATED DECEMBER 2, 2019 SAVE ARTICLE Flying over the ocean comes with risks and rewards. Advertisement Before you read further, rest assured that this isn’t a treatise on how to ditch an airplane. In 40 years and 250 trips delivering new and used aircraft across one (or, in some case, both) of the world’s largest oceans, I’ve only lost one airplane—a six-seat Piper Lance, and that was in one of the driest places on Earth, the southern Sahara Desert of Ethiopia, Africa. On that trip from Santa Monica to a planned destination of Nairobi, Kenya, I almost wished I had been over water. When the engine failed, the blistering desert below was anything but flat and level; no roads or even game trails, nothing that passed for an imaginary runway, just rocks, sand dunes and acacia trees, all baking at 114° Fahrenheit. At least an ocean landing would’ve been cooler. Long story short, the airplane was totaled in the crash, but I must have done something right, as the owner and I walked away without a scratch. Flying over water didn’t come naturally to me. In 1977, I was doing a story on how Piper moves airplanes from Vero Beach to points European. With the help of Phil Waldman, managing director of Globe Aero Ltd. in Lakeland, Florida, I flew a new Seneca from Lakeland to the Paris Air Show at Le Bourget Airport, where the Seneca joined a group of new Pipers on static display. Volume 0% 00:01 00:01 I was a little apprehensive about my first Atlantic crossing, 1,800 nm across one of the angriest and least-hospitable oceans on the planet. Typical water temperatures in late May rarely rise above 50 degrees F in mid summer. In winter, the water temp drops far below that level, down to 30 degrees or less. (Moving salt water can remain liquid well below normal freezing level.) Additionally, the North Atlantic off Newfoundland, below Greenland and Iceland, is infamous for fierce storms that can swell ocean waves to 30- to 40-foot crests. In other words, if you’re forced to ditch in the Atlantic at any time of year, no matter how complete and expensive your complement of survival gear, you have only three chances of survival: slim, fat and none. One ferry pilot, Harry Rhule, was flying a Twin Comanche home to the U.S. from Europe in November and had a tank fail to feed during the relatively short 650-nm leg from Wick, Scotland, to Reykjavik, Iceland. He had about 30 minutes of fuel remaining when he maydayed, but there was no land close enough to reach. He had passed the Faroe Islands, and there was nothing but water between him and Iceland. Advertisement Harry finally reached a Bondurant turboprop that was over-flying the same route at FL 200. Harry explained his problem, and the Bondurant pilot suggested he ditch while he still had some power remaining rather than attempt to dead-stick into the North Atlantic with few control options. The Bandit pilot dropped down to Harry’s altitude and spotted the little Twin Comanche above the waves. He also saw a cruise ship a few miles ahead and directed Harry toward it. Unfortunately, there was no way to talk to the cruise ship, as aviation and marine radio traffic use different frequencies. (I used to carry a portable marine radio for that specific reason.) In desperation, the Bandit pilot circled the ship and buzzed it several times, trying to get it to stop. He finally succeeded—the ship’s lookout spotted the Twin Comanche and the ship captain turned his vessel toward the airplane. Harry had managed to get into his survival dry suit before he hit the water, but the waves were running 15 feet at the crests, and the ditching was very rough. Harry lost his raft in the ditching and was left bobbing in the Atlantic Ocean with a water temperature later estimated at about 36° F. Advertisement Harry said later that he couldn’t believe how cold the water was. He said the 15 minutes the rescue boat took to reach him seemed like an hour. A very cold Harry Rhule emerged from the experience unhurt but wiser and determined to buy a portable marine radio before his next trip. Many years after Harry’s brush with eternity, I was flying a new Piper Arrow straight across from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Shannon, Ireland, and I was reporting my position through a relay courtesy of TWA. When the Trans World captain finished the relay back to Gander, he asked me questions about my airplane and my sanity. “How many engines on an Arrow?” he questioned. That’s not as elementary as you might think. Many airline captains cycle through the military directly to the airlines with little general aviation experience. “Just one, a four-cylinder 200-hp Lycoming,” I answered. “Do you have any radio navigation aids to help you determine position?” he asked. “Just an ADF tuned to an LF commercial broadcast station near Shannon and a flight log with lots of numbers,” I replied. “I see from your position report that you’re down at 9,000 feet in the clouds. Are you picking up any ice? Do you have de-ice equipment on board that little airplane?” “Yeah, I have pitot heat,” I joked, “but I just flew through some light rime a while back, not too bad. It’s pretty much sublimated now.” The TWA captain chewed on that for a while, then said, “Better you than me, buddy. I couldn’t do this job if I didn’t have four turbine engines.” The captain’s point about number of engines over the ocean brings up an interesting question. How many are optimum? If you’re flying behind only one and that one quits, you’ll obviously have to ditch. But don’t imagine that having two engines provides ultimate protection. Very few general aviation aircraft can manage an ocean crossing, especially on the Pacific, without supplemental fuel tanks. On a big twin such as a 421, Duke or Chieftain, you may have as much as 250 gallons of ferry fuel installed in the cabin. That can put you as much as 25% over gross (about 1,400 pounds in a 421), and few twins will maintain any altitude at all if an engine fails at that weight. (The FAA issues Special Airworthiness Certificates to ferry aircraft that must operate at abnormal gross weights.) Are you an aviation enthusiast or pilot? Sign up for our newsletter, full of tips, reviews and more! Conversely, having two engines can be a major advantage in some types of emergencies. Since we virtually always have ferry tanks installed on every oceanic flight, we make it a point to test fuel feed at near-cruise power on each tank before departing. If you fail to do that and one tank refuses to feed, you may discover too late that you don’t have sufficient fuel to complete the trip if one tank refuses to feed. One pilot headed for Hawaii failed to test each ferry tank in a twin on the ground in Santa Barbara before departing for Honolulu and discovered the problem as he was approaching the Big Island of Hawaii. He knew he couldn’t make land at any power setting with both engines running, but he also knew the airplane had burned down to relatively light weight near the end of the trip and could probably maintain altitude on one engine. He also theorized that the airplane would actually realize slightly better fuel specifics with one mill feathered. He shut down one engine and snuck into Hilo on the north side of the Big Island with what turned out to be 10 gallons remaining. Another pilot, Ray Clamback of Sydney, Australia, one of the world’s most experienced ferry pilots, went in the water halfway between the Big Island and Christmas Island in the Pacific in October 2004. Ray was on his way to Australia in a near-new 182 and began to lose oil pressure 600 miles south of Kona. As it happened, I was flying the same leg 50 miles ahead of Clamback. I was driving a freshly reconditioned Shrike Commander to Cairns, Australia, and I was talking to Ray about his new HF radio, when he suddenly said, “Stand by. I’m losing oil pressure.” Nothing Ray did alleviated the problem, and it soon became obvious he was going into the Pacific. Like Harry Rhule above, Ray made a semi-successful ditching, but the fixed-gear Cessna “submarined” on touchdown (went inverted), and Ray lost his raft and all other survival gear except the vest he was wearing when the airplane nosed into the water. “When the airplane hit the water, it flipped end-over-end, and I was lucky to get out at all,” Ray said later. The Skylane went down, leaving Ray alone halfway out on the 1,000-mile leg to Christmas. Well, not exactly. Clamback had another Skylane flying with him, and pilot Lyn Gray marked his spot until the U.S. Coast Guard C-130 arrived overhead and dropped survival gear. Ray was picked up later by a container ship headed for Melbourne. Though both Harry Rhule and Ray Clamback lost all their ferry gear in their ditchings, the big question is always how much survival gear is enough. I know of some pilots who skimp on the major investment necessary to cover all eventualities. Many of them are no longer with us. It’s important to remember that you’ll need to get all that equipment home somehow after you deliver the airplane. An HF radio, two- or four-man life raft, die markers, flares, portable GPSs, survival rations, a fishing kit, water and a myriad of other items can increase the cost of getting into the ferry business by thousands of dollars. It’s important to remember, however, that it all may be worth the investment if it only saves your life once. SHARE THIS: Flying Over The Ocean - Plane & Pilot Magazine (planeandpilotmag.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 and another couple of articles for your consideration. Top 10 Planes of All Time | Best Planes Ever | Top Planes | Plane & Pilot (planeandpilotmag.com) and two maybe for Kip (Not sure if he will be buying one but just in case) 10 Cheapest Planes In The Sky - Plane & Pilot Magazine (planeandpilotmag.com) 8 Great Used Planes - Plane & Pilot Magazine (planeandpilotmag.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 38 minutes ago, Malcolm said: and another couple of articles for your consideration. Top 10 Planes of All Time | Best Planes Ever | Top Planes | Plane & Pilot (planeandpilotmag.com) and two maybe for Kip (Not sure if he will be buying one but just in case) 10 Cheapest Planes In The Sky - Plane & Pilot Magazine (planeandpilotmag.com) 8 Great Used Planes - Plane & Pilot Magazine (planeandpilotmag.com) Thanks, but I bought mine a few weeks ago in Calgary, and it is new and at fair price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 24 minutes ago, Kip Powick said: Thanks, but I bought mine a few weeks ago in Calgary, and it is new and at fair price. Spining thing in front or a jet? Just curious. Enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 42 minutes ago, Malcolm said: Spining thing in front or a jet? Just curious. Enjoy. Spinning thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 13 minutes ago, Kip Powick said: Spinning thing Prop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mo32a Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/3/2020 at 3:49 PM, Kip Powick said: Friday Toe Tapper///Have a nice weekend aef.mp4 8.93 MB · 0 downloads Got a link for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 Nailed The Landing today.................mp4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 22 minutes ago, mo32a said: Got a link for this? This is the long version.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNJ-hBA_-80 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeker Posted December 5, 2020 Share Posted December 5, 2020 On 12/4/2020 at 5:33 PM, A330PilotCanada said: Good Afternoon All: A great video of a young Kiwi pilot flying a small turbo prop in the wild jungles and mountains of Indonesia. The airstrip was built by a remote indigenous tribe over 14 years and the joy of the first flight in was amazing even more was the take off which looked like the HMS Ark Royal. http://giaman.com/s/96 Excellent video. Reminded me of this one: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=430491851308284 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 This is kinda the year it has been sunday.MP4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Powick Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Ottawa Radio Station ... A call in about the weather 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A330PilotCanada Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 Kia Ora: Air New Zealand has some of the worlds best safety briefing videos. The first time I saw this one I asked the Service Manager if she could replay it as the end of it was hilarious. Spoiler alert although a B-737-300 safety briefing it was filmed inside a A-320. Air New Zealand Hilarious Flight Safety Video - Bing video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 6, 2020 Share Posted December 6, 2020 See inside the 'Dutch Air Force One': a Boeing 737 private jet that the king of the Netherlands flies himself (msn.com) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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