planeflyer21 Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 This is it! C-7 Caribou. It'll carry plenty of loads into a tight little area. They were doing some impressive STOL work today at Marana airport. Big enough to hold many of us, gear, bikes/quads. Got a back ramp for pushing out cargo or people.
DNP Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 I'd donate, but my $100 is parked waiting for Ed to accept a kick in the nuts.
shepp Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 We're gonna need that to fly everyone out to watch me kick Eddie in the junk
Sisco Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 The fuel bill to pick everyone up will be astronomical. How big a runway do I have to clear out of the forest?
Malig8r Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 I was flying a Cessna 206 last month over the Great Lakes. No, I don't have my pilots license. The pilot just let me take over for a bit. I can tell you this...I really want my pilots license now!!!
Malig8r Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 Forgot to add that while we were up there the radio chatter had a group announcing their intent to release jumpers. My head immediately whipped to the left and the pilot laughed and said " no we don't have any chutes on board".
shepp Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 Just jump there's 200' of water under you unless you were on the Erie side!
Malig8r Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 Just jump there's 200' of water under you unless you were on the Erie side! At that point we were over Lake Huron near Drummond Island. I've jumped more than a couple times but still lack the balls to jump without a chute I guess <dontknow>
planeflyer21 Posted August 19, 2015 Author Report Posted August 19, 2015 The fuel bill to pick everyone up will be astronomical. How big a runway do I have to clear out of the forest? Sisco, Sisco, Sisco...we're on 308AR dot com. ALL we do is spend every last penny on toys! For the actual ground roll they were doing 500'-600', followed by a very steep takeoff.
EngrBob Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 (edited) Just jump there's 200' of water under you unless you were on the Erie side! Jump? 45 years with an ASEL and there is still no reason I can see to jump out of a perfectly good airplane (i.e., intact wings and control surfaces). <lmao> Edited August 19, 2015 by EngrBob
Rsquared Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 This'll work for us Jon. Just watch out for Armed Eye Doc. You KNOW what he did with our last plane. Don't want you melting down about another microphone. <laughs>
shepp Posted August 19, 2015 Report Posted August 19, 2015 Speaking of planes I been getting buzzed by the air gaurd here in Madison all day......
Sisco Posted August 20, 2015 Report Posted August 20, 2015 Sisco, Sisco, Sisco...we're on 308AR dot com. ALL we do is spend every last penny on toys! For the actual ground roll they were doing 500'-600', followed by a very steep takeoff. I am so embarassed, I forgot for a moment and felt a twinge of fiscal responsibility. Please forgive me. DeHavilland make some tough birds.
planeflyer21 Posted August 26, 2015 Author Report Posted August 26, 2015 Nope. Those need thousands of feet of runway. While it is marketed as being "rough field capable" there are rough fields, then there are rough fields. And it still needs thousands of feet, rough or not.
shepp Posted August 26, 2015 Report Posted August 26, 2015 That guy's nuts!!! BTW that's at Truax Feild in Madison, home of the 115th fighter wing.
Sisco Posted August 26, 2015 Report Posted August 26, 2015 Drive by that field a lot when I am down there.
Magwa Posted August 28, 2015 Report Posted August 28, 2015 (edited) I have a good friend who has a Maule he flies all over Idaho and I will not go with him... flying in those canyons well it just ain't me.... Edited August 28, 2015 by Magwa
mrmackc Posted August 28, 2015 Report Posted August 28, 2015 Mag, that is a good video and a nice landing strip for a Maule. When I was working on my instrument rating my flight instructor and I took a cross country to Enid Oklahoma so he could check out a older Maule Rocket STOL plane, that was a strange ride! He had an older Cessna 172 with a STOL kit, that was the airplane I got my check ride for my private pilots single engine rating in
Malig8r Posted August 28, 2015 Report Posted August 28, 2015 Magwa, that's some beautiful country over there. Great video of your buddy flying. I'd be digging the whole flight!
MikedaddyH Posted August 28, 2015 Report Posted August 28, 2015 Check this out !http://www.airfields-freeman. com/index.htmThat's the link to 50 states of old airfields.My step dad was trying to land on as many small fields in western Washington as he could from 1973 to 1981. His hanger was at Arlington Field which was a decommissioned Air Force Base with a 5000' runway. The closest airport was Snohomish with a 978' runway. We went to a lot of airports just to eat lunch. Blaine, Oak harbor, Martha's Lake, Issaquah and a bunch others.
Sisco Posted August 28, 2015 Report Posted August 28, 2015 That is the Salmon river ......God's country. Wife's Grandad had a cabin up in Stanley Basin.
Rsquared Posted August 29, 2015 Report Posted August 29, 2015 That's some killer countryside. Absolutely gorgeous.
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