How bout a "cool flying pics" thread....

[gotyacovered]

I hit the reply button at the bottom of the thread (not the quick reply text box).  Then below the text box I selected Attachments and Other Options.  The Choose File button gave me a dialog box to find the jpg file on my computer.  After selecting one, I click on "more attachments" to add another one. 

Is this what you mean? Obviously you already know how to post pics - maybe you were curious about how to have more than one in a post?

oh... gotcha.

i use photobucket to host my pics. what got my attention was the line above them and then when quoted your post, the pics didnt re-appear. which make sense, it would slow down the sight if it duplicated each time someone quoted a picture.

you ought to look into a photobucket account, it has great mobile applications as well. and its free.

[fdx flyer]

Gotya - yeah, I probably should.  I know about photobucket, but haven't set it up.

Gus - you probably said it in another post, but where are you based?

[GusMcRae]

fdx flyer,
F05

[gotyacovered]

Gotya - yeah, I probably should.  I know about photobucket, but haven't set it up.

Gus - you probably said it in another post, but where are you based?

ya, its cool, its the mobile application that i like, 90% of the pics i post on here are "real time"

[GusMcRae]

CFI (dirty old man) snapped this of my fiance yesterday in her sparkly butt jeans. She would die if she knew I posted it. 

[gotyacovered]

gus has clearly done somehting right, i cant even get mine to show up at the airport in the same car as me if she knows i need gas, she will come 20 min later than me if she knows i have to add fuel!!! might be the diff between wife/fiance i guess

this reminds me, next time you guys are in the KTXK area, there is some good scenery in Tac-Air.

[GusMcRae]

She's taking lessons.  The self serve gas pump was down yesterday, and no one was manning the service truck, so they filled up over at a nearby airport where they were shooting landings.  I usually fill it for her but she had the honors yesterday, but she doesn't mind getting her hands dirty. 
She's got right at 10 hrs so far.  She got to fly 4 hours this weekend after about 45 days of not getting to fly at all.  Same plane my dad is flying in, same CFI my dad is using, so if the plane is down, or the CFI is out of pocket, or if the weather is bad,,, neither of them get to fly.  They both suffered through the same stretch of not getting to fly.
She needs to take a few days off and fly for 3 days in a row.  I feel like she will solo in the next 2 or 3 days she gets to fly.

[bvillepig]

gus has clearly done somehting right, i cant even get mine to show up at the airport in the same car as me if she knows i need gas, she will come 20 min later than me if she knows i have to add fuel!!! might be the diff between wife/fiance i guess

this reminds me, next time you guys are in the KTXK area, there is some good scenery in Tac-Air.

Me to Gotcha. She gives me about a 20 minute head start.

Great pictures by the way.

I have an autographed calendar from these line   "People".     Bay Minnette 1R8
Be careful and choose link at your own risk. 

http://www.bayminetteaviation.com/

[gotyacovered]

Me to Gotcha. She gives me about a 20 minute head start.

Great pictures by the way.

I have an autographed calendar from these line   "People".     Bay Minnette 1R8
Be careful and choose link at your own risk. 

http://www.bayminetteaviation.com/

looks like 1R8 has it figured out.

my dad always talks about people getting their airplanes washed in somewhere around Houston, not sure what airport, but apparently there are bikini's involved.

[Gas Can]

CFI (dirty old man) snapped this of my fiance yesterday in her sparkly butt jeans. She would die if she knew I posted it. 

+1 for having a hot fiance who can pump gas

[gotyacovered]

Had to work in Fayetteville rest of the week and flew up... Saw this and had to take a few pics... The first one was twice as beautiful in person...

[colbs]

Flying out of Bryant to Rogers.

[colbs]

Right before we land in Rogers.

[GusMcRae]

Took these pics of canola fields in bloom near Electra, TX  yesterday.

[GusMcRae]

Avionics shop I went to yesterday was located at KBKD.  Coincidentally the day before (Wed) was the day that a fella by the last name of Pardue (sp???) went down just a couple of miles from this airport in a Bearcat war bird, just after takeoff, and as you may well know by now, it was fatal.  Cause has not yet been determined.  May he rest in peace.  He was a well known veteran pilot and Ezell Aircraft leased their big hangar from this guy.  The pictures I am posting are from that hangar mentioned where they restore war birds.  More pics to come, my limit was 4. 

I'm not a war bird buff, so someone may be able to help let me and everyone else know what some of these planes are. 

The first 2 are of the folding wing planes that you see on aircraft carriers.
2nd 2 are of a plane that I did not recognize at all, no wings on it at the time.

[GusMcRae]

The blue plane is a rare prototype that they only made about 14 of and there are only about 3 or 4 flying today.

Again, I don't know what the 3rd one is at all, but the 4th is a P-51 Mustang. 

More to come.

[GusMcRae]

Another pic of the P-51 and the C-310 is for Gotya.  Seems like that's what he wants to graduate into after the C-182.  Guy that was flying it was another customer of the avionics shop yesterday.

All of these were taken with my blackberry phone.  Cloesups aren't bad, but the aerials aren't that great. 

The other 2 are of Lake Possum Kingdom.  First one of the aerial you can see the fish hatchery that is just below Lake PK dam where the mighty Brazos comes out, also can see part of "The Cliffs" golf course.  You can see where some of the fires were last year.

2nd aeral is of Possum Kingdom Airport (F35).

[GusMcRae]

Windstar Casino North of Gainesville, TX. 

[Flying Razorback]

Had my fini flight in the T-1 this past Monday.  I'm packed up and heading to Little Rock in the morning.  My school house for the C-130J starts in a little over a month, I can't wait.  I'm really going to miss my time in this jet though.

The wife didn't get pictures of me coming up initial with the T-38s and T-6s in the patterns on either side.  It was pretty sweet though.

[gotyacovered]

Had my fini flight in the T-1 this past Monday.  I'm packed up and heading to Little Rock in the morning.  My school house for the C-130J starts in a little over a month, I can't wait.  I'm really going to miss my time in this jet though.

The wife didn't get pictures of me coming up initial with the T-38s and T-6s in the patterns on either side.  It was pretty sweet though.

really cool, congrats.

bet the formation was awesome.

[gotyacovered]

hey - FlyingRzrbkAF... i was at Drake today and saw this... he did a short field take off or something too... wasn't you was it? it was sweet.

[jonesark™]

Some more current pictures....

[jonesark™]

Next gate over....classic!

[Flying Razorback]

hey - FlyingRzrbkAF... i was at Drake today and saw this... he did a short field take off or something too... wasn't you was it? it was sweet.

No it wasn't.  That was an AMC C-21, I don't know where from though.  I'm here in Little Rock now waiting for my class to start for the J model.  I did fly my T-1 in to Drake before though and it was a blast.  I would have done it more often if it weren't for the required climb out factor out of there and the short runway.

[gotyacovered]

No it wasn't.  That was an AMC C-21, I don't know where from though.  I'm here in Little Rock now waiting for my class to start for the J model.  I did fly my T-1 in to Drake before though and it was a blast.  I would have done it more often if it weren't for the required climb out factor out of there and the short runway.

i forgot you were going to start on the J model... how is that going?

[Flying Razorback]

i forgot you were going to start on the J model... how is that going?

I'm getting more and more excited every day.  My class doesn't start for a few weeks still because I've had to in process the base, find a new place to live, unpack, and so on.  However, I got real pumped up talking to my squadron commander the other day about putting it to use in Afghanistan.  That plane is special and flying it is going to be sweet.

[gotyacovered]

I'm getting more and more excited every day.  My class doesn't start for a few weeks still because I've had to in process the base, find a new place to live, unpack, and so on.  However, I got real pumped up talking to my squadron commander the other day about putting it to use in Afghanistan.  That plane is special and flying it is going to be sweet.

that is awesome. keep us posted...

[GusMcRae]

Buddy of mine took this over DFW on his way to another little metroplex airport. 

[gotyacovered]

Pops and I... From Thursday.

[bvillepig]

A cool picture after the flight

Beaver Lake Memorial Weekend

[gotyacovered]

Great pic right there bvillepig... Here's mine...

[Flying Razorback]

Great pic right there bvillepig... Here's mine...

Now this looks like heaven...

[GusMcRae]

That looks so awesome!  I am jealous! 
If there's a fly-in serving up that kind of grub,,,, I'm all over it!

[gotyacovered]

That looks so awesome!  I am jealous! 
If there's a fly-in serving up that kind of grub,,,, I'm all over it!

we can probably chalk this up in the "never gonna happen" suggestion, but we should all meet up somewhere and eat breakfast/lunch one Saturday...

[bvillepig]

we can probably chalk this up in the "never gonna happen" suggestion, but we should all meet up somewhere and eat breakfast/lunch one Saturday...

  Man that looks good.

Maybe we can make it happen although it is tough to get a good weekend for everyone. Maybe one of the razorback games.

[gotyacovered]

  Man that looks good.

Maybe we can make it happen although it is tough to get a good weekend for everyone. Maybe one of the razorback games.

Good idea, nothing beats a $10 coke from millionair!!!

[Jek Tono Porkins]

I don't know if you could necessarily classify these as "cool", but I did some flying in Eastern Arkansas, and the Mississippi River was ridiculously flooded.

[gotyacovered]

I don't know if you could necessarily classify these as "cool", but I did some flying in Eastern Arkansas, and the Mississippi River was ridiculously flooded.

I believe that qualifies! When was it?

[Jek Tono Porkins]

That was in mid-may of 2011. I believe I was flying into Greenville, MS that day.

[fdx flyer]

Nice ones Reddie.  I've got some from that time frame too.  These are around Tunica and Memphis, and one of them is my home strip in Hernando.  Water got close, but never covered the runway.

[fdx flyer]

More of the same.

[gotyacovered]

this is probably only cool to me, but my mom was going thru some old pictures and found these... that is my pops. he cropdusted for years out of Liberal (KLBL) Kansas.

[fdx flyer]

Wow - very cool!  I grew up just outside of England, AR, surrounded by farms.  I loved to watch guys spraying.  It was pretty much all AgCats and piston Thrushes when I was a kid.  The Stearmans were just a little before my time.  Great pictures!

[GusMcRae]

I assure you these are cool to more than just you. Thanks for posting. These guys work.  When conditions get right after being wrong for a stretch, they have to go all day, land long enough to re load, re fuel, and pee. I'm sure that it is fun for awhile and a pilot can certainly hone their skills, but not as glamorous as the outsider looking in would think. I admire the spray pilots. There is a business here that re builds spray planes. Amazes me how they never seem to lack for wrecked AgCats, which are built about an hour from here.

[gotyacovered]

not really cool, more like ouch... buzzard meets 206 wing.

[gotyacovered]

rain shower just north of Mobile Bay.


building CB... i was at 10,500ft


this built on top of me and eventually bumped me down from 7,500ft

[GusMcRae]

Funny little side story of our trip to SRR this wknd.  Friend was to pick us up at SRR, and loan us his jeep to run around in while we were there. 
I had already reported in-bound 10 miles out, then right after reporting in-bound 5 miles out, SRR Unicom came on the radio and asked "Skylane 88 Romeo, does your transportation happen to be a Red Peterbuilt?"  We laughed and I answered "that's affirmative" as our friend pulls his travel trailer with a red Peterbuilt truck. 
Ground crew said that was a first ever for them when he pulled out on the ramp to pick us up.  Then when we were leaving, the pilot of a Cessna Citation walked over to the driver side window and asks "Where can I get one of those?".  Pretty funny that the truck was the envy of a guy flying a Citation Jet. 
Too funny not to share.  I wish I would've taken a picture of his truck next to my plane on the ramp.  But I did get this pic of my wife and the truck.

[gotyacovered]

Endeavour's flyover at Houston, not sure if it was my dad or someone he works with that took the pics... amazing.

[gotyacovered]

when i landed in Tunica Monday there were 4 Apaches sitting on the ramp. my ride was running a few minutes late and i walked up the the crews flying these and got a great walk around tour, he even offered to let me sit in the cockpit... i declined, bc i didn't want to move his seat around and get it all disheveled.

couple interesting facts he told me about it...

-basically they have redundant everything.
-he said there was only one spot on the entire aircraft that cant take one rilfe round that could put it down - the pilots head.
-its got almost 1000lbs of computers - nav/comms/weapons systems/etc.

its an amazing aircraft to be up close to... 100% designed for battle. really sweet.


on a much less stimulating level, this is the white river.

[gotyacovered]

had a meeting in Hot Springs this morning and snapped a couple pics of a fog layer over Lake Hamilton. thought it was worth posting.