Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 3)
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mko9 said:
It is the reverse in the modern age when an AC-130 tries to refuel from a KC-135. They do what is called bobsledding. Climb to altitude (20K for an unpressurized AC-130H), plug in, then commence a shallow dive to about 10K MSL, so the AC can keep up with the tanker. Climb back up to altitude, repeat as many times as required. Not sure how much higher an AC-130J can go, but it is pressurized.
Both nearly 70 year old designs but you're not wrong.mko9 said:
It is the reverse in the modern age when an AC-130 tries to refuel from a KC-135. They do what is called bobsledding. Climb to altitude (20K for an unpressurized AC-130H), plug in, then commence a shallow dive to about 10K MSL, so the AC can keep up with the tanker. Climb back up to altitude, repeat as many times as required. Not sure how much higher an AC-130J can go, but it is pressurized.
I seem to recall reading somewhere that Gloster Javelins had a similar problem keeping up with tankers in certain circumstances
Eric Mc said:
Ayahuasca said:
I presume there's a back story?Ayahuasca said:
Eric Mc said:
Fallen angel - the wreck is very close to the Angel Falls discovered by Jimmy Angel who crashed his plane (not this one) near them. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel The Lost World on top of a tepui like the you see in the distance. Tepuis are table top mountains with vertical sides that are very hard to climb, found in the Great Savannah region of Venezuela. The DC3 - nobody seems to know, except it has been there since the 1960s. Maybe oil workers, maybe smugglers ... it’s quite fun looking for it on Google earth. 
El stovey said:
Do you have a link, I couldn’t find it even with a rough lat and long for some air crash site.,
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search121.htm"Approximate location is 6 05 N 62 38 W which is not far from the Salto Angel (Under cloud cover with Google-Earth)."
Ayahuasca said:
Fallen angel - the wreck is very close to the Angel Falls discovered by Jimmy Angel who crashed his plane (not this one) near them. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle set his novel The Lost World on top of a tepui like the you see in the distance. Tepuis are table top mountains with vertical sides that are very hard to climb, found in the Great Savannah region of Venezuela. The DC3 - nobody seems to know, except it has been there since the 1960s. Maybe oil workers, maybe smugglers ... it’s quite fun looking for it on Google earth.
Thank you.I was thinking "Lost Horizon".
FourWheelDrift said:
El stovey said:
Do you have a link, I couldn’t find it even with a rough lat and long for some air crash site.,
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search121.htm"Approximate location is 6 05 N 62 38 W which is not far from the Salto Angel (Under cloud cover with Google-Earth)."
El stovey said:
FourWheelDrift said:
El stovey said:
Do you have a link, I couldn’t find it even with a rough lat and long for some air crash site.,
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/search121.htm"Approximate location is 6 05 N 62 38 W which is not far from the Salto Angel (Under cloud cover with Google-Earth)."
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