Silly aviation pictures.

[facthunter]

That stuff is Historical .The Pictures are in the "silly pictures" section. The comment on the  A 300 is WRONG. Planes like a DC 4 used the curvature of the earth. I recall making 2,500" at  Katherine out of Darwin on a hot day Appox 72,000  lbs  TOW and about 4,000 SHP available  from 4 engines.. Plenty of times  from 65 to 69 staggering across the Owen Stanleys" POM - LAE and return where the Loss of ANY motor would have needed some pretty quick action. ALL  approved by the DCA, the CASA of the time. Nev

[Underwood]

33 minutes ago, facthunter said:

That stuff is Historical .The Pictures are in the "silly pictures" section. The comment on the  A 300 is WRONG. Planes like a DC 4 used the curvature of the earth. I recall making 2,500" at  Katherine out of Darwin on a hot day Appox 72,000  lbs  TOW and about 4,000 SHP available  from 4 engines.. Plenty of times  from 65 to 69 staggering across the Owen Stanleys" POM - LAE and return where the Loss of ANY motor would have needed some pretty quick action. ALL  approved by the DCA, the CASA of the time. Nev

The picture is an obvious joke, mainly at the expense of the Cherokee, its not supposed to be an accurate performance chart

[facthunter]

I'm referring to the comment. Too many WRONG statements are Not good for the Site. Many start off with I READ SOMEWHERE. .  That should ring alarm bells by itself. PS I like a joke as well as the next man but WRONG statements get to me. Especially about PLANES. There's enough $#!t out there already without adding to it.  Nev

[Underwood]

Sorry, what comment?

 

[BrendAn]

On 31/03/2017 at 9:28 AM, Cobalt said:

I don't understand how someone qualified to fly a sky writing plane never learnt how to land. 🤔

[Marty_d]

24 minutes ago, BrendAn said:

I don't understand how someone qualified to fly a sky writing plane never learnt how to land. 🤔

I want to know how he expected to get the answer.

[BrendAn]

1 minute ago, Marty_d said:

I want to know how he expected to get the answer.

Good point 🤣

[facthunter]

You'd have to get up early to be ahead of Marty. Most planes end up at the bottom of the sky one way or another. . Take off is Optional. Nev

[John Werner]

Ansett DC-3 ferrying bulmakaus from Madang to Aiome to provide protein for the diet of the "dwarf tribe" people of Aiome.  I was used to locals carrying chickens on board aircraft but this is a bit much especially with pek-pek bilong bulmakau in the aisle.

[IBob]

I seem to recall they used to haul cattle around in old cargo Connies in S America..............

[John Werner]