boys and their toys*...
years ago i had the opportunity to fly the mighty hog (ie the type of aircraft in this vid...actually for the company in this vid) in the maldives and arctic but chose to get into corporate flying based here in the big smoke. i can clap my ship on the sod and have it stopped in 800' but this shit is fucked up. seeing them in action makes me wish i took that job driving twotters in the dark corners of the world. this is just utterly fucked.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_8wmZ6hhpg8
a spoof from some ozzie improv show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvr7yJE2frs
a short clip from my halcyon days when my summers were one long 4 month beer commercial... ferrying cottagers around the muskokas. take off on the water in the ole spamcan (caravan), i manage to roll a float (the one pontoon salute), miss a couple of boats i didn't even see coming and head for our home base on muskoka
http://media.putfile.com/caravan-takeoff-on-lk-joseph-sherwood-inn
when i worked there, our office usually got an avg of one noise complaint per day...probably because we used to bomb around at 100' instead of climbing up to more civilized altitudes. what can i say, a lot of us were afraid of heights...
http://media.putfile.com/cottage-buzzing
the approach into the old hong kong intl (kai tak) was the most challenging airline approach in the world. you basically flew straight at a checkerboard on a mountain, cranked the airplane over until the right wing was pointed at a soccer field and spun the ship around the wingtip until you lined up with the runway with a couple of seconds to touchdown. the checkerboard approach in 3 parts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A1CUmuD8Y0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0e3HKWewU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFCHg9hDQvs
korean airlines was infamous for sending inexperienced crews there and frequently made a gong show out of it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOCAfSMnqQ
and this is pretty much what it looks like when i dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2fSmVkOZCI
*nb- girls like their toys too
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8547038431694368795&q=dogfight
years ago i had the opportunity to fly the mighty hog (ie the type of aircraft in this vid...actually for the company in this vid) in the maldives and arctic but chose to get into corporate flying based here in the big smoke. i can clap my ship on the sod and have it stopped in 800' but this shit is fucked up. seeing them in action makes me wish i took that job driving twotters in the dark corners of the world. this is just utterly fucked.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=_8wmZ6hhpg8
a spoof from some ozzie improv show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lvr7yJE2frs
a short clip from my halcyon days when my summers were one long 4 month beer commercial... ferrying cottagers around the muskokas. take off on the water in the ole spamcan (caravan), i manage to roll a float (the one pontoon salute), miss a couple of boats i didn't even see coming and head for our home base on muskoka
http://media.putfile.com/caravan-takeoff-on-lk-joseph-sherwood-inn
when i worked there, our office usually got an avg of one noise complaint per day...probably because we used to bomb around at 100' instead of climbing up to more civilized altitudes. what can i say, a lot of us were afraid of heights...
http://media.putfile.com/cottage-buzzing
the approach into the old hong kong intl (kai tak) was the most challenging airline approach in the world. you basically flew straight at a checkerboard on a mountain, cranked the airplane over until the right wing was pointed at a soccer field and spun the ship around the wingtip until you lined up with the runway with a couple of seconds to touchdown. the checkerboard approach in 3 parts...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A1CUmuD8Y0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b0e3HKWewU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFCHg9hDQvs
korean airlines was infamous for sending inexperienced crews there and frequently made a gong show out of it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOCAfSMnqQ
and this is pretty much what it looks like when i dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2fSmVkOZCI
*nb- girls like their toys too
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8547038431694368795&q=dogfight