Diamond DA40 - friend owns a flight school -we took a little cruise in it and took the stick for a while. He's been working on me to license up. Composite plane. Interesting they have a diesel variant in europe
Diamond DA40 - friend owns a flight school -we took a little cruise in it and took the stick for a while. He's been working on me to license up. Composite plane. Interesting they have a diesel variant in europe
neat plane.. was just reading up on it. Almost seems like a modern ercoupe
It's little brother, the DA20, is the plane the USAF uses for IFS, basically an inexpensive washout program. It's a terrible little bastard, and that was a terrible place.
Rotary wing>all
Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
Appleseed wrote: Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
They mercilessly beat the air into submission.
Joey
rotard wrote: Rotary wing>all
Except in glide ratio and mean time to failure. If it's not Boeing, I'm not going!
Appleseed wrote: Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
Or want to go anywhere, there's something really fun about seeing a cool spot in the middle of nowhere and dropping in to check it out.
Flying helicopters is like masturbating. It feels good while you’re doing it, but you’re ashamed to tell anyone afterwards.
Helicopter don't really fly...
They're so ugly the Earth repels them! 
fixed wing pilot here
Guy in our club has a Diamond motorglider, I don't know the model number. Coolass plane.
Osterkraut wrote:rotard wrote: Rotary wing>allExcept in glide ratio and mean time to failure. If it's not Boeing, I'm not going!
I flew on and still work around Boeing Helicopters. The big ones with 2 rotors.
Appleseed wrote: Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
I lol'd. I was around fixed wing. Helicopters are covered in ground repellent compared to Harriers. We called them Carolina Lawn Darts.
Here is the only helicopter I ever rode in:
CH53 over Spain in 2002.(not exact same bird)
If you've ever flown one I'm sure you'd feel different. I have flown both and hands down helicopters are much more fun.
I have. I'm just giving chopper wienies a hard time.
Every chopper pilot I know (and I know a few oddly enough) were pilots in VietNam. They are all crazy, still as tough as nails, and their stories are much better than ours.
^^^ Word. I've known several. Most I knew went on to become ag-pilots. A helicopter spraying crops is a site to watch.
I also knew an e-Vietnam fighter pilot who flew either F-102s or F-106s as escorts for B-52s. He was as normal a person you would ever meet until he put on his crash helmet and climbed into his ag plane (Cessan Ag wagon) .
A diesel plane? Well that sound interesting.
pinchvalve wrote: Every chopper pilot I know (and I know a few oddly enough) were pilots in VietNam. They are all crazy, still as tough as nails, and their stories are much better than ours.
Man, those guys are crazy. After all the crap they saw, I would be too. I'd love to sit and listen to stories from Vietnam Huey pilots.
a lot of your nam vets are/were crazy. If you ever saw the movie apocolypse now.. that was were my father was.. He started out as a boat captain on a PBR and moved up to a Romeo boat (armored personell carrier) he tells stories of waterskiiing behind the PBR with a helmet, shorts, and a flackjacket on
wlkelley3 wrote:Osterkraut wrote:I flew on and still work around Boeing Helicopters. The big ones with 2 rotors.rotard wrote: Rotary wing>allExcept in glide ratio and mean time to failure. If it's not Boeing, I'm not going!
CH-46/47? A fine example of Boeing engineering (for an eggbeater)!
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