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  Sept. 12, 2011 12:56 p.m. pinchvalve SuperDork

  Some interesting vehicles at the airshow this weekend, both flying and earth-bound. Check out this shorty Dodge Ram:

  

  It made me chuckle. Or how about the front ball-joint on this WWII military truck:

  

  Or some cool WWII Jeeps:

  The Grassroots Award goes to this sucker. If you can see the shiny spots all over the side of the plane you will get a sense of how epic the oil leak was! They had sacks of oil-dri on the ground,...no word on how long it flew gushing oil like that.

  

  They has a C17 Globemaster there and it was very large, but it was dwarfed by the C5A Galaxy!

  

  Any my personal favorite, the T-37.

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  Sept. 12, 2011 1:38 p.m. Woody SuperDork

  pinchvalve wrote:

  ...no word on how long it flew gushing oil like that.

  Long enough, it would appear...

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  Sept. 12, 2011 2:32 p.m. Travis_K SuperDork

  Isn't it normal for those to leak like that? It seems like those (and other similar planes) always have a pretty big puddle underneath them.

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  Sept. 12, 2011 3:04 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork

  Radial engines always barf out oil. It sits in the lower cylinders and seeps out. Ever see a ground crew pulling a prop around a few times? Its to clear the oil out so they don't bend valves.

  Fun fact: Stand off to the side when a round engine fires up, or you'll be wearing that oil.

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  Sept. 12, 2011 4:01 p.m. pigeon Dork

  I recall being at an airshow about 20 years ago and informing the nice Airman standing guard by an F16 (iirc) that a. there was a nice puddle of fuel leaking under one of the wings and b. some moron was standing smoking about 10' away from said leak. He moved pretty quickly...

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  Sept. 12, 2011 4:05 p.m. Osterkraut SuperDork

  That's a T-38.

  The T-37 looks much less imposing:

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  Sept. 12, 2011 4:08 p.m. foxtrapper SuperDork

  Ah, one of the long bed trucks. Ours were several feet shorter. How short? The rear axle was under the cab of the truck.

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  Sept. 12, 2011 8:12 p.m. Will HalfDork

  Osterkraut wrote:

  That's a T-38.

  The T-37 looks much less imposing:

  The only jet in which the crew chief literally looks down on the pilot.

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  Sept. 12, 2011 11:08 p.m. Appleseed SuperDork

  But the T-37 has more combat time (a the A-37).

  
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  Sept. 13, 2011 8:07 a.m. pinchvalve SuperDork

  Sorry, T-38 (took wood shop instead of typing!). The radial engine still amazes me. Anyone else remember the Screaming Mimi?

  
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  Sept. 13, 2011 8:56 a.m. 914Driver SuperDork

  There's a vehicle that shows up at the local antique trusk show every year, a Vietnam era truck to haul jet engines from the hangar to the runway. Fourwheel steering and noisey as hell.

  It's at 2:35 or so.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VacGd74Axz4

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  Sept. 13, 2011 9:51 a.m. iceracer SuperDork

  pinchvalve wrote:

  Some interesting vehicles at the airshow this weekend, both flying and earth-bound. Check out this shorty Dodge Ram:

  

  It made me chuckle. Or how about the front ball-joint on this WWII military truck:

  

  Or some cool WWII Jeeps:

  The Grassroots Award goes to this sucker. If you can see the shiny spots all over the side of the plane you will get a sense of how epic the oil leak was! They had sacks of oil-dri on the ground,...no word on how long it flew gushing oil like that.

  

  They has a C17 Globemaster there and it was very large, but it was dwarfed by the C5A Galaxy!

  

  Any my personal favorite, the T-37.

  That knuckle was the standard 4wd set up for years. Even those Jeeps had them.

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  Sept. 13, 2011 10:51 a.m. neon4891 SuperDork

  Appleseed wrote:

  But the T-37 has more combat time (a the A-37).

  

  More than the F-5?

  
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  Sept. 13, 2011 11:36 a.m. Appleseed SuperDork

  Mimi's not pink enough.

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