All Things Aviation
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They were doing a high-power engine turn after some maintenance and I think she jumped the chocks. Apparently the technician in the cockpit was injured quite badly.Freightdog wrote: ↑Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:35 pmLooks like a sad and ignominious end of a Hunter.
Taxi accident? Brake failure?
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Sorry to say, some Soviet designs did look like they came from a meth’d up kindergarten.
Given their recent resounding successes, I’m guessing some of those kindergarteners may have gone on to illustrious careers in the Soviet, oops, Russian defence industry.
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An interesting bit of aviation history, stumbled upon today.
Washington post article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/ ... rl-harbor/
Courtesy of Great Circle Mapper, GCMap.com80 year ago, a Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat named California Clipper (registered NC-18602 and subsequently renamed Pacific Clipper) completed Pan Am's first around-the-world flight. It had not been planned that way.
The trip had started on 2 December 1941 as PA 6039, a scheduled passenger flight from Pan Am's San Francisco base on Treasure Island to Auckland, New Zealand, with five scheduled stops along the way:
San Pedro, California
Honolulu, Hawaii
Canton Island
Suva, Fiji
Nouméa, New Caledonia
Upon reaching Auckland, the aircraft was intended to return to San Francisco as PA 6040, but two hours after departing Nouméa radioman Eugene Leach heard a radio report of the Japanese attack on Peark Harbor. Tuning to the long-range signal from Pan Am's ground station in Nouméa they picked up a repeating message via Morse Code:
PEARL HARBOUR ATTACKED. IMPLEMENT PLAN A.
Captain Robert Ford secretly had a sealed envelope outlining Plan A: continue to the nearest safe Pan American base, avoiding enemy forces. That meant continuing on to Auckland. The crew spent a week in Auckland before receiving new orders:
Normal return route cancelled. Proceed as follows:
Strip all company markings, registration numbers, and indentifiable insignia from exterior surfaces. Proceed westbound soonest your discretion to avoid hostilities and deliver NC18602 to Marine Terminal LaGuardia Field New York.
Good Luck
The crew had no charts for areas west of Auckland and had to develop a plan with the help of the Auckland library. They first returned to Nouméa to evacuate 22 Pan Am employees, women, and children, and take them to Gladstone, Australia. From there, they flew via nine intermediate stops, under radio silence and with assorted threats along the way, before reaching New York before dawn on 6 January 1942.
Today's Featured Map illustrates the stops along trip, with the scheduled operation of PA 6039 in Pan Am blue (except for the final leg from Nouméa
Washington post article
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/ ... rl-harbor/
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1960's era US Naval Aviation had the coolest jets imo
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LT Keith Gallagher is partially ejected from his KA-6D Intruder due to a faulty ejection seat, he would survive and be back on flight duty 6 months later
LT Keith Gallagher is partially ejected from his KA-6D Intruder due to a faulty ejection seat, he would survive and be back on flight duty 6 months later
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