What I noticed about the whole incident was?

When they had a program about the incident the rear flight attendant said she didn’t know she was in the water till she looked out the window after landing. What if someone had drowned. Capt. Sully said brace for impact but could have added at the point of decision to go in the river. “prepare for ditching”. As we all know there are life vest under each seat. If someone had drowned this would have been brought up. Not hard to get out as I’ve had passengers take then out and inflate them for fun.

Capt. (Skyvan 5 years, CV-580 10 years, 727 21 years) close to 30,000 hrs

Chris

D = Don’t
E = Ever
L = Land
T = There
A = Again

THE RAAF is now on track to get the first of its long-awaited airborne early warning aircraft in November, but it may take at least another two years to develop a full operational capability for the $4billion project.

I saw the aircraft fly by me between Honolulu and Pago Pago a few weeks ago so I assume the aircraft is in Australia currently.

Chris

Saudi Royal Comet

Here’s 2 illustrations of the aircraft

Chris

Belgium F-86?

Anyone have a scan of the F-86 in Belguim markings. I heard there was a pix in the Crowell F-86 Book. Which I don’t have. They were under evaluation by Belgium. sn’s 51-13202,52-5305,-5362,5367,5402 circa 1955

Chris

PNG with Kamov heli?

when I flew into Port Moresby airport recently. There was several Kamov heli’s located across the field. Couldn’t tell if civilian or with PNG. Also wasn’t sure of variant. Didn’t have my camera with me.

Chris

Attached is another picture from Air Forces Monthly. Also looking for pixs of PLO’s Bell JetRanger SU-YAE, SU-YAC, SU-YAD and Bell 212 SU-YAJ.

Chris

Shot itself down

When I posted earlier about an aircraft that shot itself down. I didn’t have the article where I found it available. So looked on the internet.

The F-11 Tiger is notorious for being the first jet aircraft to shoot itself down. On 21 September 1956, during a test firing of its 20 mm cannons, pilot Tom Attridge fired two bursts mid-way through a shallow dive. As the velocity and trajectoryof the cannon rounds decayed, they ultimately crossed paths with the Tiger as it continued its descent, disabling it and forcing Attridge to crash land the aircraft. The pilot survived!

Chris