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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Jul 2014, 01:13
Replies: 1
Views: 1,702
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Documentary about US pilots that "crash landed" in Switzerland...

Trying to remember the title of a documentary show on PBS years ago about US pilots and air crews that opted to finish the war by deliberately crash landing their planes in Switzerland. The title...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Apr 2012, 10:11
Replies: 5
Views: 2,653
Posted By AlexisDetroit

63 hours aloft...

I'm curious if that is the longest flight ever time wise without in air refueling.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
28th Apr 2012, 23:37
Replies: 5
Views: 2,653
Posted By AlexisDetroit

1937 Chkalov flight from Moscow to Vancouver, Washington USA...

Was this 63 hour flight by an ANT-25 a non-stop flight? I see on one website where there is some doubt about the claim of it being a non-stop 63 flight.

According to the Chlakov commemorative...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
27th Jan 2011, 06:35
Replies: 2
Views: 4,412
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Man, was I way off with my guess...

I was thinking around 40 commercial passenger flight per day across the norther hemisphere of the Pacific and it's more like 380, including cargo flights. Wow.
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
19th Jan 2011, 21:36
Replies: 32
Views: 4,584
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Weren't these Tupelovs pulled from service...

Or maybe it was just in Russia. I flew several times in the 1990s on Vietnam Airlines Tu-154s. One 154 had a quaint touch with wooden cabinets for storage near seats.
The sturdy-look of the 154...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
19th Jan 2011, 20:23
Replies: 2
Views: 4,412
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Number of passenger flights between North America & East Asia?...

This came up in a happy hour discussion: how many commercial passenger trans-Pacific flights are there each day between North America and East Asia? Airports in East Asia, for the sake of this...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
4th Jan 2011, 01:38
Replies: 16
Views: 4,346
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Disregard. I found it...

2.5 hour stop in Hong Kong then onto Saigon. HK wasn't mentioned on my print out. Found it on the United site.
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
4th Jan 2011, 01:28
Replies: 16
Views: 4,346
Posted By AlexisDetroit

I can't pull up infor for the January 19th flight...

Flightstats apparently doesn't go that far in advance. This is flight UA 869 leaving SFO for SGN. Funny that there isn't a Hong Kong stop mentioned on my reservation print out. I wonder if this is...
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
4th Jan 2011, 01:21
Replies: 16
Views: 4,346
Posted By AlexisDetroit

The ticket I have does not indicate a stop in Hong Kong...

SFO to Tan Son Nhut (SGN). It will check Flight Stats that you mentioned. Thanks
Forum: Passengers & SLF (Self Loading Freight)
3rd Jan 2011, 19:09
Replies: 16
Views: 4,346
Posted By AlexisDetroit

San Francisco to Saigon, non-stop without a fueling stop?...

United Flight 0869 from SFO to SGN (Ho Chi Minh City) in 17 hours and 19 minutes non-stop. Can a 744 fly that long with out a fuel stop? Do some flights stop in places like Anchorage, Alaska on...
Forum: Space Flight and Operations
2nd Jun 2009, 17:07
Replies: 2
Views: 2,383
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Air Micronesia Flt. 961...

... on 13 April 2009. This is the flight in question. Curious if this is a true store or a, er...luft-legend.
Forum: Space Flight and Operations
2nd Jun 2009, 16:59
Replies: 2
Views: 2,383
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Continental pilot fired(?) for aiding disabled soldier...

On a US Marine Corps veterans forum there is a story alleging that a Continental pilot was fired or disciplined for aiding a Iraqi war veteran on a fight. This incident is said to have happened last...
Forum: Tech Log
19th Apr 2008, 02:09
Replies: 4
Views: 8,361
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Turbo jet operating rpm(s)...

When a turbo jet engine on, say, a Lockheed C-130 is running while flight does the engine always run at max rpm with the pitch of the prop controlling the speed of the aircraft? Somewhere I was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Apr 2008, 00:32
Replies: 5
Views: 2,317
Posted By AlexisDetroit

When was English established the standard aviation language?

Did the Treaty of Warsaw of 1955(?) have any thing to do with making English the lingua franca of the skys? Said treaty dealt with compensating air crash victims, I believe.

I am assuming that...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Jan 2008, 06:20
Replies: 27
Views: 14,344
Posted By AlexisDetroit

I went to Detroit Denby High...

I was eight years old at the time of RAF crash and have no member of it as lived about five miles away near Harper (now I-94) and Moross. Did you go to Detroit Southeastern High? What line of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Oct 2007, 22:44
Replies: 27
Views: 14,344
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Ashland is a stone's throw from the Detroit River...

I wonder if the pilots were trying for the river that is less than a half miles away from the impact area. Did that plane have a history of trouble like the BOAC airliner of the 1950s. The make and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Oct 2007, 19:47
Replies: 27
Views: 14,344
Posted By AlexisDetroit

I grew up near Detroit City Airport (DET)...

I was nine years old at the time of the RAF crash on the eastside but only remember folks talking about it. I am a retired Detroit firefighter and will pass on the photos of the crash to some still...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Jan 2007, 06:34
Replies: 27
Views: 14,344
Posted By AlexisDetroit

On a scale of 1 to 10...

...with 10 being the most interested I would say a 8 or 9.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jan 2007, 19:15
Replies: 17
Views: 4,330
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Dumb question: What's a inertia starter?

Also. Maybe what I was told about the AN-2 was that it was biggest single engine "bi-plane" ever built rather than the biggest single engine plane.

There was one parked at DET (Detroit City...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jan 2007, 06:08
Replies: 17
Views: 4,330
Posted By AlexisDetroit

AN-2 biggest single engine plane?

The owner of an AN-2 told this a few years ago.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jan 2007, 06:06
Replies: 27
Views: 14,344
Posted By AlexisDetroit

British RAF crash in Detroit, Michigan in the '50s...

There was an airshow crash in Detroit circa 1957 but I can't remember the details. I believe it was a De Havilland delta wing type aircraft. I've done several searches for said incident without...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Feb 2006, 07:33
Replies: 1
Views: 707
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Visiting Vientiane, Laos...

I was a friend of the late Gene Morris, an Air America pilot who told me some tales of Vientiane.

Curious to know if there is an Air America chapter and/or hangout where AA vet pilots hangout.
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
24th Dec 2005, 08:04
Replies: 1
Views: 1,436
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Soviet Il-2 Sturmoviks over Vietnam...

They have been running quite of bit of what I would call "yesterday's glory" on Vietnam TV of late. On one documentary about the "American war" some footage of a Soviet Il-2 Sturmovik was shown...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
24th Dec 2005, 05:39
Replies: 3
Views: 724
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Dumping fuel over the Dakotas...

I was on a Northwest flight from Detroit en route to Tokyo when they had to shut down an engine over the Dakotas. The captain came on and said we were heading for Seattle for a pit stop. I had never...
Forum: Tech Log
26th Mar 2005, 21:09
Replies: 14
Views: 2,168
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Women with nice umlauts...

I once knew a German woman who had nice umlauts. When I was a teenager in the 1960s I really dug Elke Sommer even though she didn't have any umlauts that I noticed.

The other day while watching...
Forum: Tech Log
23rd Mar 2005, 04:20
Replies: 14
Views: 2,168
Posted By AlexisDetroit

I'm happy to learn of the mechanism...

...as well as the terminology. Thanks for the responses. I'm not a techie, just merely a avionphile.
Forum: Tech Log
22nd Mar 2005, 22:43
Replies: 14
Views: 2,168
Posted By AlexisDetroit

Technical term for 'Chinook wind(s)'...

Years ago while skiing in Banff, Canada a retired US Navy pilot explained how air descending down a mountain range warmed the atmosphere so many degrees per thousand feet of descent. I have been...
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