Who else has filled two pages of their logbook in one month?
Wimps:
June 1989. 76.35...July 79.10... Aug 79.15... Sept 81.35... Nov 102.55... Dec 33.20. Xmas and leave...Jan 1990 88.35...Feb 65.40. (Short month).
All offshore North Sea on Super Puma.
June 1989. 76.35...July 79.10... Aug 79.15... Sept 81.35... Nov 102.55... Dec 33.20. Xmas and leave...Jan 1990 88.35...Feb 65.40. (Short month).
All offshore North Sea on Super Puma.
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Two weeks flying Sep '70 54:10, Oct 122:15, Nov 91:25, Dec 109:25, Jan 88:25Feb 91:55, Mar two weeks flying 85:05, Apr 134:30, May 115:00
Fareastdriver, You wimp
Best day/night was Xmas eve 12:30 (10:00 night) flying top cover for President Thiệu while he spent the night with the troops at a FSB.
Fareastdriver, You wimp
Best day/night was Xmas eve 12:30 (10:00 night) flying top cover for President Thiệu while he spent the night with the troops at a FSB.
I appreciate that you were flying your backsides off in Viet Nam. At he same time as your war in Nam I was flying in our war in Borneo. We didn't fly so many hours as you did.
We didn't need to.
We were winning our war.
We didn't need to.
We were winning our war.
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Don't know about cropdusting. But when dropping skydivers on busy days. I'd group three or four loads as one flight because they were hot turnarounds and the engine wasn't stopped. Touchdown to wheels off averaged about 4 minutes. I'd imagine it would be similar.
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BEagle - cheers. Difficult to forget that jet.
spekesoftly - that tread pattern was not normal.
PN - I can't remember exactly, but it would have been about twenty minutes. Night scramble from Wattisham for suspect contact north of Heathrow. Told to maintain 5000ft and expedite, hence about 620 IAS.
Fortunately contact identified shortly afterwards so went home a bit slower and higher.
spekesoftly - that tread pattern was not normal.
PN - I can't remember exactly, but it would have been about twenty minutes. Night scramble from Wattisham for suspect contact north of Heathrow. Told to maintain 5000ft and expedite, hence about 620 IAS.
Fortunately contact identified shortly afterwards so went home a bit slower and higher.
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BEagle - cheers. Difficult to forget that jet.
spekesoftly - that tread pattern was not normal.
PN - I can't remember exactly, but it would have been about twenty minutes. Night scramble from Wattisham for suspect contact north of Heathrow. Told to maintain 5000ft and expedite, hence about 620 IAS.
Fortunately contact identified shortly afterwards so went home a bit slower and higher.
spekesoftly - that tread pattern was not normal.
PN - I can't remember exactly, but it would have been about twenty minutes. Night scramble from Wattisham for suspect contact north of Heathrow. Told to maintain 5000ft and expedite, hence about 620 IAS.
Fortunately contact identified shortly afterwards so went home a bit slower and higher.
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Fortunately the aeroplane could hold that speed easily in dry thrust (no reheat).
Unfortunately I can't answer your question accurately because it was almost fifty years ago.
I am happy to be corrected by any other Lightning pilots but I would think about 100-120 lbs per minute total.
The scramble I described above was in a Mark 3, the highest performance version of them all.
Unfortunately I can't answer your question accurately because it was almost fifty years ago.
I am happy to be corrected by any other Lightning pilots but I would think about 100-120 lbs per minute total.
The scramble I described above was in a Mark 3, the highest performance version of them all.
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Off hand I think an F4 could manage to empty the fuselage in about 3 minutes if you put your mind to it.
We didn't need to.
We were winning our war
We were winning our war
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Octane - don't know how cropdusters log their time, but I do know that the late and lamented Peter Charles, author of "Six Feet Over", had about 12000 hours crop dusting in his logbook