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« Reply #25 on: September 14, 2010, 02:03:47 PM »

Hmmmmph, I remember those Tomcats taking off about 20' above my head. Them, along with the A-6's and A-7's. When they would do maintenance on those GE F-101 engines, (am I correct with that Frank?), they would notify the bridge that they were bringing it up to military thrust power. Navigation had to be prepared to make corrections. Imagine an aircraft engine that could alter the course of a aircraft carrier!
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« Reply #26 on: September 14, 2010, 07:53:30 PM »

Some had P&W TF30s or TF33s same as the F111
A7 the long ride to the meat chopper, That inlet was way too low. Too many Navy guys died. That allison had small sharp blades on that fan.
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« Reply #27 on: September 14, 2010, 07:59:27 PM »




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_gpPbpONK4


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« Reply #28 on: September 14, 2010, 08:50:47 PM »

What is it 6 turnin and 4 burnin not that must be loud.
P51 one big ass v12 with dual motivators never heard that one

The B-36, what a wonderful huge beast. expensive to maintain and prone to fires in the Wasp Major nacelles because of cooling issues. There is one at the SAC museum on Nebraska. Poor old lady will never fly again but eventually she will get the cosmetics she deserves.
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« Reply #29 on: September 14, 2010, 10:27:00 PM »

 ' The B-36, what a wonderful huge beast "

Dats the bird Major General Stewart flew in the movie SAC.


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« Reply #30 on: September 14, 2010, 11:25:29 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5qqfsQGYus&feature=related    

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgHSDa2Jwqc  

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« Reply #31 on: September 15, 2010, 09:15:40 AM »

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A7 the long ride to the meat chopper, That inlet was way too low. Too many Navy guys died.

You got that right!  I watched with my own eyes as a guy on the flight deck was sucked in. If it wasn't for two other guys holding on to his legs and his flight gear FODding out the engine, he would have been hamburger!
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« Reply #32 on: September 15, 2010, 11:03:48 AM »

I knew a guy who had his jacked yanked off his back because he walked too close to an SR71 inlet....at idle.
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« Reply #33 on: September 15, 2010, 04:26:37 PM »

Either end of a jet is dangerous.  I've seen A-300 (airbus) engines vortex up stuff off of the ground at idle, a ramp agent for fedex had his hand-held, headset and clipboard sucked off into then engine.  He didn't go and was ok after the shock wore off. 

Likewise the folks who try to drive behind a taxying jet and get their truck blown over sideways... Smiley  The jet blast can be several hundred miles an hour, picture one of those panel trucks they use for catering cutting behind a jet rolling down the taxiway.  very messy...

Then was the Rampy down in Memphis who walked into an F-27's rotating prop-blades.

In the army a few guys got whacked by helicopter rotors, the tail rotor being the worst as it is nearly invisible at speed.

 
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« Reply #34 on: September 15, 2010, 05:15:27 PM »

I was in a 737 driven by a mil driver and watched him suck a 2 inch rock off the ground and it went right in the fan. I was sitting just ahead of the inlet and quickly ducked over. I figured there would be blades everywhere but nothing happened.
My Dad blew up a JT8 on a stand once. Someone left a bolt in the compressor. He said the case split and the turbine dropped out spinning very fast. It took 6 months to investigate the accident and clear his group. He was worried he might get fired if it was his test set up crew's fault
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« Reply #35 on: September 18, 2010, 10:18:58 PM »

Spent a lot of time in a fire tower doing blast testing at Otis AFB on the cape in the early 80's. We were amazed when a pair of bright silver Delta Dart interceptors would scramble and go to full afterburners chasing out to a Bear coming coming up the coast in a hand off to their station. These Convair F-106's were already antiques, but they were beauties - eventually replaced by F-15's.


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« Reply #36 on: September 19, 2010, 03:43:20 AM »

Reminds me of a story told to my government contracting course by an old skool contracting officer.

He was the contracting officer for Oak Ridge national labs; they contracted to have a wind tunnel repainted.  Unfortunately nobody checked the inside before they wound up the R-4360 and a left-behind ladder bounced around the inside of the tunnel and utterly destroyed it, causing over a million dollars in damage.   The subject of the discussion was "how do you deal with an unplanned incident?"  Certainly, a ladder left behind by the contractor qualifies as an "unplanned incident" and it was interesting how he explained apportioning blame between the government and the contractor.

Back to hit or miss engines, I grew up with those as my grandfather had quite a collection, including a 15 or so horse Waterloo Boy that, with no load, would fire once every 2 minutes or so.  Load it down with a sawmill, though, and it really went to town!

He also had a Port Huron steam tractor and did threshing bees on his farm in southern MN.  All of us grandkids were enlisted to shovel coal, shovel grain, etc - hard work!  His proudest possession, next to the steam tractor, was his boiler engineer's license.  Indeed, not a bad accomplishment for an 80 year old guy with a 5th grade edumacation!  My uncle has the tractor now, after grandpa died at the age of 95, and I believe he still runs it from time to time.
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« Reply #37 on: September 19, 2010, 04:45:12 AM »

For those of us up here in NEW England, there is a once a year event in RI Called the "Yankee Tune Up and  Steam Up" http://www.newsm.org/ it is held at  The New England Wireless and Steam Museum. This year is will be held October 2nd...

1300 Frenchtown Road
East Greenwich, RI 02818 USA
Telephone: 401-885-0545
Robert W. Merriam, Director

For Me having Antique Cars, Motorcycles, Tractors, Giant Steam Engines AND RADIO, well it just doesn't get any better!  

From the Web Site regarding Wireless - "It includes the wireless collections of noted wireless pioneers and historians. The main ones are as follows:

Fred M. Barstow, Selwyn Niveson Blake K1CPW, Richard Brunner AA1P, Merrill Budlong W1MB, Louis Carini W1BOC, Allen D. Cardwell, Benjamin Dolbear (son of Amos Emerson Dolbear), Lloyd Espenshied, Arthur Goodnow W1DM, Nathan Hallenstein, Charles C. Harris, Herman Hollerith, Gilbert Johnson W1DZ, Walter W. Massie, Thorn L. Mayes W6AX, Robert Merriam W1NTE, Fred Penard, Jack Perry, Stu Perry W1BB, Vance Phillips W6GH, Eunice Randell W1MPP, Ed Raser W2ZI, Robert Shaw, Ken Thompson W1PS, Gerald L. K. Tyne, Charles R. Underhill, Frank Wingard W9EWH"

 - Steve W1TAV

 


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« Reply #38 on: September 19, 2010, 03:32:37 PM »

F1XX planes were  very cool . I saw my first F100 at a young age and loved all of them after that. The F106 was the the balls.
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« Reply #39 on: September 20, 2010, 10:12:37 PM »

Went to my favorite show this past weekend: The 55th anual Maryland Steam Historical Society "steam show" in Arcadia Md. I have attended this show for the last 35 years now, and it is my all time favorite.

Seems the Md and Pa. inspectors have kissed and made up on the pressure rules for the boiler inspections and there was plenty of BIG steam stuff! Not to mention acres of gas engines!! I was in hog heaven!!

So I felt obliged to post some more pix for others to enjoy!


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« Reply #40 on: September 20, 2010, 10:14:28 PM »

more pix


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« Reply #41 on: September 20, 2010, 10:16:10 PM »

And more....................


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« Reply #42 on: September 20, 2010, 10:55:50 PM »

They have one of those steam traction jobbers out at Knoebel's Grove which they use to run the saw mill and various wood-working lathes.
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« Reply #43 on: September 20, 2010, 11:31:49 PM »

I grew up on Long Island where my dad worked on the Republic F-105 Thunderchief project and we used to go down to the company strip and watch those puppies take off. I still remember the sight and sound of the Afterburners getting punched up as they'd rotate.
"Thud" indeed!  Grin

We lived out near the Republic and Grumman facilities and I used to watch all kinds of interesting airplanes flying around as a kid.
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« Reply #44 on: September 21, 2010, 08:30:30 AM »

My Dad told me the F105 used to like to flame out on approach in Nam. It had a P&W motor my Dad worked on. The fix was to make the mixture a little richer at close to idle.
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« Reply #45 on: September 21, 2010, 08:52:12 AM »

Hej !

The sound of fuel burning inside an engine is quite nice...
Here is one of my engines.


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« Reply #46 on: September 21, 2010, 10:45:54 AM »

Now THAT'S an engine!!

You need a more robust tow vehicle - how about this one?

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« Reply #47 on: September 21, 2010, 11:00:33 AM »

Hej !

Absolutly, what do you think about my fire engine?
Dodge D400 from 1967.


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« Reply #48 on: September 21, 2010, 12:38:21 PM »

OK, you win  Grin

That is the very definition of a MANLY truck!  You're going to fit in here just fine.
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« Reply #49 on: September 21, 2010, 12:43:31 PM »

Hej !

The sound of fuel burning inside an engine is quite nice...
Here is one of my engines.

It's a shame you dont live closer, I would love to see your engine collection! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

Who says bigger isnt better!  Grin  Grin
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