old man emu Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Isn't Wun Wing Lo the brother of Wun Hung Lo? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Wun Wing Lo is only a short step from Ah Sup. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Bex, have you met Wun Wing Lo yet? No, but I meet his sister Lucy Twat often. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 And across the East China Sea, northeast of Shanghai is the famed Japanese aviator, Awa Tanasiam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litespeed Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Not to be confused by the Polish aviators who featured heavily in the early stages of WW2 Capt. Isbe Fuckinoffsky and Group Commander Isbe Pissinoffsky Both seen leaving poland in a hurry when the Germans arrived Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 The airplane is just a bunch of sticks and wires and cloth, a tool for learning about the sky and about what kind of person I am, when I fly. An airplane stands for freedom, for joy, for the power to understand, and to demonstrate that understanding. Those things aren't destructable. — Richard Bach, 'Nothing by Chance,' 1963. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Never stop being a kid. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead. — Richard Bach, 'Nothing by Chance,' 1963. — Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted January 24, 2016 Share Posted January 24, 2016 Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death. — Alexander Chase, 'Perspectives,' 1966 — Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 If you engine's valves aren't out in the open , you don't have an open exhaust and you can't lean the mixture manually and you don't fly an open cockpit, you aren't fully in touch with your flying environment. You hear the drumming of the fabric and the wind through the bracing wires. As you slow up to land the noises subside and the wheels kiss the grass. and you smile slightly. ( Just raving on).. Nev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbugg Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Take off is optional, landing is mandatory 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Unless your iceberg is melting, or the Indians are coming over the hill. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Too much is never enough, unless you are bungy jumping. A parachute is not essential for skydiving, unless you want to do it a second time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBob Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 "Perfect speed is being there". Richard Bach, JLSeagull. Perfectly described that most inefficient but beautiful form of flying, the long chasing swoop of freefall relative work as it becomes instinctive. I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 It is as though we have grown wings, which thanks to Providence, we have learnt to control. — Louis Blériot, 'Atlantic Monoplanes of tomorrow.' Flying was a very tangible freedom. In those days, it was beauty, adventure, discovery -- the epitome of breaking into new worlds. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, introduction to 'Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead,' 1929. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 a ~ John Glenn... As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA. Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 I am no expert in Helicopters but I understand that having the wheels higher than the rotors is bad. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 The helicopter is probably the most versatile instrument ever invented by man. It approaches closer than any other to fulfillment of mankind's ancient dreams of the flying horse and the magic carpet. — Igor Ivanovitch Sikorsky, comment on 20th anniversary of the helicopter's first flight, 13 September 1959. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M61A1 Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I am no expert in Helicopters but I understand that having the wheels higher than the rotors is bad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted February 3, 2016 Share Posted February 3, 2016 I am no expert in Helicopters but I understand that having the wheels higher than the rotors is bad. When landing any kind of aircraft, I believe it's customary to have the wheels dangling below the other bits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted February 4, 2016 Share Posted February 4, 2016 The "Fairy Rotodyne" is most versatile aircraft ever invented: British air ministry!. Then they pulled the licence from the company. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked. ~ David Letterman... Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Aviation combined all the elements I loved. There was science in each curve of an airfoil, in each angle between strut and wire, in the gap of a spark plug or the color of the exhaust flame. There was freedom in the unlimited horizon, on the open fields where one landed. A pilot was surrounded by beauty of earth and sky. He brushed treetops with the birds, leapt valleys and rivers, explored the cloud canyons he had gazed at as a child. Adventure lay in each puff of wind. I began to feel that I lived on a higher plane than the skeptics of the ground; one that was richer because of its very association with the element of danger they dreaded, because it was freer of the earth to which they were bound. In flying, I tasted a wine of the gods of which they could know nothing. Who valued life more highly, the aviators who spent it on the art they loved, or these misers who doled it out like pennies through their antlike days? I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time. — Charles A. Lindbergh, 'The Spirit of St. Louis.' 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzBirdy Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 The only thing a man has invented, that billions of years of evolution, or countless gods ( which ever your way) hadnt perfected, is the axle. Nunthn special, till you attatch a couple of rotor blades to it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Sorry OzBirdy, evolution invented that too. No axle required. (Sycamore seed). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzBirdy Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Oh, nature definatly inventd a million types of wings, but not a single axle. Thats wot seperates us from the rest. ;) And im not sure id like a ride ona seed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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