Above, during the Cuban Missile Crisis aircraft from
Fleet Air Wing,
11 squadrons flew round the clock surveillance flights of shipping
as part of the naval Blockade around Cuba.
Here, a VP-18 P2V-7
Neptune over-flies the Soviet cargo ship Okhotsk.
Photo taken from a sister plane
Click on: Details
of the 1962 crisis including photos
SUN LAKES AERO CLUB Update
SLAC Website
March 31, 2009
MAY ALL YOUR FLIGHTS BE SAFE WITH FAIR SKYS, SMOOTH AIR AND A TAIL WIND
Pick and
Choose the articles which may be of interest to you
All of the
following links were accessible at the time of publication
News
of Interest to Members and Pilots
·
Newsletter for
SLAC Members (44 kb)
·
Of Interest to
Pilots (45 kb)
Articles of particular interest to pilots
·
Chandler Airport
Commission (209
Kb)
Minutes of the February 11, 2009 meeting
AIR AND SPACE
1. Wright Brothers Flight Film (13
kb)
Filmed 100 years ago. From the Austrian archives.
The Wright brothers demonstrating their plane in Italy in 1909. A really old film. Video access is at the end of the article
2. Kodiak
Plane (12 kb)
Delivery of the first Kodiak for mission work (at cost) under the Quest
Mission Team Program
3. Fed
Ex MD-11 Crash (16 kb includes video)
Crash at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport on
Tuesday March 23rd (Tokyo time)
4. F-35 Fighter Plane (Audio-video)
A test pilot tells all about the fifth generation fighter. Enlarge to full screen
5. Paragliding (Audio-video)
Paragliding Dog mountain. Enlarge to full screen
6. A
Snowbird in Hell (32 kb)
A Snowbird pilot went to Afghanistan for a tour of duty
7. Flight
1404 Crash (17 kb)
Continental crash in Denver December 21, 2008. It is rumored that the crash was caused by the blowout of two of
the left main tires
8. The
Boneyard At Tucson (9 kb)
A re-visit to this impressive site. Photos and text about this interesting
collection of planes
9. The
Blue Angels (Link video)
Full throttle.
Take a ride with them in the back seat of an F18 Hornet
10. Terminal
Velocity (17 kb)
When airplanes and sky-divers collide
11. Solomon
Control Tower (15 kb)
USN
Construction Battalions (Seabees) put these towers up in a day. Plus: Twenty-five
years ago, on Aug. 3, 1981, more than 12,000 members of the Professional Air
Traffic Controllers Organization walked off the job, setting off a chain of
events that would redefine labor relations in America
12. Jet
Engines (13 kb)
Unlike a conventional turbofan, it uses a
gearbox rather than a shaft between the fan and the
turbine. Quieter and more fuel
efficient
13. 911
Photos declassified (PP slides 4.6 mb)
Lest we forget
14. Concorde
Landing (Link
video)
Sit in the cockpit as the Concorde makes a landing
in New York. Enlarge to full screen
15. 4 P51 Mustangs vs 4 M104’s (Link
video) A dozzie
of an aerial dog-fight
16. Landing on an Aircraft
Carrier during severe weather - Part 1
(Link video)
Landing
on an Aircraft Carrier during severe weather – Part 2 (Link video)
Here are two absolutely outstanding videos about F-18 carrier operations aboard
the USS Nimitz during weather that causes a severely pitching deck, which you can
see in the videos. It's more dangerous than most combat missions and the
tension in the pilots and crew is very apparent.
17. F18
Cable Break (Video 1.8 mb)
This is why sailors who work on
the flight deck get hazardous duty pay! It is so easy to lose a leg or
even your life when this happens.
18. Time
To Pay Attention To Preflight Briefings (9 kb) Better
listen to the instructions.
19. Everyone
loves a Mustang (8 kb)
Almost a Mustang. Here’s a chance to
own and fly one affordably
20. Sue
Cirrus (15 kb)
Suit claims ballplayer’s presumed future earnings. Probable cause: The pilot’s inadequate
planning, judgment, and limited airmanship in the performance of a 180 degree
turn maneuver inside of a limited turning space.
21. Sue
Cessna and Avidyne (10 kb)
Another pilot error suit against plane and component manufacturers
22. Air
Data Boom (7 kb)
Do you know what this is?
23. Lindbergh
Field (9 kb)
Make-over plan calls for the construction of a
new passenger terminal, parking garages and a multimodal transit center
connecting the airfield to the city center
24. Non
licensed pilots to fly UAV’s (19 kb)
It takes seven people on the
ground to fly one of these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
25. Soaring
(11 kb)
Two numbers are used as a shorthand to describe sailplane performance -
the minimum rate of descent and the maximum glide ratio or Lift over Drag
(L/D). The best numbers are now under
100 FPM and over 70:1
26. Radio
Controlled Models (PP slides 2.0 mb)
Great photos of civilian and military model jet
planes
27. The Terrafugia – A
flying auto (Link
video)
From two difference cameras – Test flight on March
9, 2009. News release
Post
first flight report
28. Breaking the sound
barrier (link)
From mach 1 to Mach 10.
OTHER STUFF
29. Tiger
Woods (15 kb)
Tiger Wood’s speech at the Inauguration Sunday
January 18, 2009
30. Puzzle (Link)
This
is interesting and will test you. Send
an email to vernvia@wbhsi.net and type:
“Answer” for an explanation
31. Bulgatti
Veyron (PP slides 3.3 mb)
1001 HP. Zero to 100 KPH (62.1 MPH) in
2.5 seconds. Dan Bott – When is your
delivery scheduled?
32. Snow tractor (Link video)
Henry Ford invented this amazing snow and ice tractor.
33.
Classic
culvert failure (Link video 3.9 mb)
The power of
water and why you never drive across a flooded street
34.
Bear
Dance (video
7.4 kb)
This bear is
scratching to the sound of music
35. For horse lovers
(Link )
Beautiful photos of horses and many comments such as “If God made
anything more beautiful than a horse, He kept if for himself” – Author Unknown
36. 789
Chevy (16 kb)
The 789 Chevy is not a classic Chevy yet.
However, it is one cool car that looks like a blending of the 1957 Chevrolet,
1958 Chevrolet and 1959 Chevrolet classic designs
37. Handy
metric conversion tables (link)
Put this on you desktop. You will find it very useful. Need help putting on your desktop?
38. Forwarding
email 913 KB)
Suggestions from a System Administrator
39. Africa
(PP slides 5.2 mb)
Slides of Africa that you have
probably not seen before
40. Catch
the moment (PP slides 3.5 mb)
Interesting moments caught on film
41. Earth
(PP slides 1.9 mb)
Great photos of the earth by the
Astronauts. Many of the photos are
obviously not taken by an astronaut.
42. Shanghai
(PP slides 7.6 mb)
Well worth the wait to open. We thought our country is progressive. Take a look at what is going on in China
43. The Ross Sisters (Link video)
Some of may remember the Ross
Sisters who were popular in 1944. Their
act gets better as it progresses.
44. Changing
clothes (Video 5.8 mb)
This looks impossible
45. Sailing
(PPS slides 4.7 mb)
If you like sailing, you will enjoy these
slides
46. Solar
flare on Friday March 13, 1989 (20 kb)
In the evening a cloud of solar plasma struck Earth’s magnetic field causing a
blackout of the entire province of Quebec, Canada
47. Golf
Courses in Arizona Adjacent to an Airport (11 kb)
There are three courses adjacent to an
airport runway in Arizona
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to the following
members and others who have
contributed articles, website links, videos and slides.
Ray Bahret; Asenath Barker; Bill Barnes; Dan Bott ; Earl Cuyler; Bob Earl; Gene Evans; Gary
Farrell; Paul Glaser; Van Klompenberg; Kevin Lynch; Homer Mann; Bill Myers;
Gale Nelson; Doug Nelson; Dick O’Brien; Richard Peak; Elaine Raynor; Clif Rosch; Capt Jim Theobald; Harold Thomas; Ben Thompson; Don Tubbs; Bruno Uptagrafft; Gary
Vacin; Bob Walch.
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