Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/07/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Osprey is a miserable thing to taxi at a busy airport.? One clipped a rotor on a hangar at Nashville (BNA) a few years ago. I'm sure they prefer smaller fields. Fort Campbell sends its large helicopters down here for practice sessions. On 7/27/20 12:11 PM, RicCarter via LUG wrote: > our local airport os one of their training airports-toucn and go, vertical > wing to horizontal wing, loop, horizontal wing to vertical wing, repeat > > we have a marine airbase an hour or so from here (harriers)?apparetnly > this VTOL conversion thing never gets routine > > ric > > > > > >> On Jul 27, 2020, at 1:04 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> >> wrote: >> >> Very nice collection this week, Ric. Those are the best airborne photos >> of the Osprey that I've seen. It is hard for me the believe that, as a >> USAF Sec. Lt., I was the project engineer on the wind tunnel test of the >> original proposed configuration that Bell submitted, in the Wright Field >> 20-Ft Wind Tunnel in 1952. It took a lot of years to get it sold to the >> Defense Dept. >> >> On 7/27/20 11:14 AM, CartersXRd via LUG wrote: >>> <https://2020.cartersxrd.net/CX2020/2020.07.23.html> >>> >>> The Daily Ric >>> Thursday, July 23, 2020 >>> My Pictures-A-Week 25 album is posted at the link. >>> >>> Ric Carter >>> www.2020.CartersXRd.net >>> http://www.facebook.com/ric.carter >>> >>> -the world?s mosst careless typist- >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> -- >> Jim Nichols >> Tullahoma, TN USA >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA