Posted: 5/24/2009 3:22:06 AM EDT
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While enjoying my inability to sleep I noticed the R-44 videos on the MAGPUL you tube page. I was just wondering who at MAGPUL suffers from the helicopter addiction?
Fellow addict Clint |
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While enjoying my inability to sleep I noticed the R-44 videos on the MAGPUL you tube page. I was just wondering who at MAGPUL suffers from the helicopter addiction? Fellow addict Clint That would be me. I had to stop flying for a little bit due to business and family time constraints, but I plan to start fixed wing this year. As for helicopters, I do not fly the R22 at this altitude any more, just the R44. With a field elevation of 5300 feet ASL the R22 is right at the edge of it's envelope if something goes wrong. |
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5300' on an 80 deg summer day puts you around 8000' DAlt!!! probably a good idea to bump up to the R-44. I did a little over 1900 hrs in the R-22 at sea level and enjoyed every minute of it. Always thought the R-22 was the ultimate training helicopter because there was no where to hide bad habits. Since you fly them in the thin air my hat's off to you!
Travis don't ever do a helicopter demo flight, it's aviations version of crack (addictive as hell and no money). Way to go on the airplane flying, ever do any aerobatics? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3q8MDFltxI |
| My father quit the Air Force a few years ago and he says that's the only thing he misses is the flying. Then again I'm not sure how much can compare to being a fighter pilot for 30 years. He still has a bunch of fixed and rotary type ratings and occasionally rents a bush plane to go fishing up in Alaska. He says the closest he can get to the enjoyment of flying is riding his Harley's. |
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Magpul should get one of these: ::snip:: Only if they paint it FDE and have giant pictures of Costa and Travis on the sides. And, like our favorite ice cream trucks as kids playing music over the loudspeaker, they should say "BUST'EM" and "TWINKIE, TWINKIE, CUPCAKE!" |
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There are a lot of hopeless aviation geeks where I work. But then, considering the work, it would be odd if there were not. <–– Avatar should be a hint. Magpul should get one of these: http://www.timothypruittphoto.com/Aviation%20Portfolio/images/bell_429.jpg Shit yea! That things badass!!! 
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There are a lot of hopeless aviation geeks where I work. But then, considering the work, it would be odd if there were not. <–– Avatar should be a hint. Magpul should get one of these: http://www.timothypruittphoto.com/Aviation%20Portfolio/images/bell_429.jpg Pretty, never fly the "A" model of anything. I learned that the hard way after an emergency landing in an A-119 Koala several weeks after it's FAA certification. |
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There are a lot of hopeless aviation geeks where I work. But then, considering the work, it would be odd if there were not. <–– Avatar should be a hint. Magpul should get one of these: http://www.timothypruittphoto.com/Aviation%20Portfolio/images/bell_429.jpg Maybe Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth? Yeah, twin engine helo's are cool (i've twisted wrenches on A109A's for a few years), especially in the IFR arena. However, I like simple singles. The company I work for just received our 5th Bell 407. Sorry helping hijack this thread 
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magpul, get a uh60 blackhawk and I got you two pilots
1: x navy/spec opps guy with a thousand hours of hours to and from oil rigs and oddels of time in the uh 60 and other choppers 2: a fixed wing civilian pilot who wishes he had taken the same aviation career path as his ret. navy buddy. The stories go back and forth like;(his) we broke out at of the soup at about 150 feet right beside a huge tower and one of my spec opp guys saw a couple bad guys watching us so we had to turn 90* and hold a very steady hover in the pooring rain so the guys in back could drop them before they spread word of our arrival, man it was sweet, if ****** dictator knew we were in their country it would have been a shit storm (mine); one time I saw a deer run across the runway when we were on short final, man i guess that could have been a big mess... anyway, I will work for cheap (even pilot cheap), he wont. |
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There are a lot of hopeless aviation geeks where I work. But then, considering the work, it would be odd if there were not. <–– Avatar should be a hint. Magpul should get one of these: http://www.timothypruittphoto.com/Aviation%20Portfolio/images/bell_429.jpg Maybe Bell Helicopter in Fort Worth? Yeah, twin engine helo's are cool (i've twisted wrenches on A109A's for a few years), especially in the IFR arena. However, I like simple singles. The company I work for just received our 5th Bell 407. Sorry helping hijack this thread
I can neither confirm nor deny anything... However, in my opinion, the 407 is a fine aircraft.
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There is a reason Adam is no longer in Business... |
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Quoted: There is a reason Adam is no longer in Business... The day I took that photo that plane was cutting off a corporate jet on short final  KAPA, btw |
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I liked the jet version more. One of our mold makers sons worked for Adams Aircraft and gave use a tour of the factory a few year back. I thought they were nice aircraft. They had a full order book but I heard the company went into liqudation due to their line of credit being pulled during the credit crisis. |
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There are a lot of hopeless aviation geeks where I work. But then, considering the work, it would be odd if there were not. <–– Avatar should be a hint. Magpul should get one of these: http://www.timothypruittphoto.com/Aviation%20Portfolio/images/bell_429.jpg How I would love one of those. If only I could find a way for it to pay it's keep. As they say. If it Flys, Floats or F**ks, it's cheaper to rent. |
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magpul, get a uh60 blackhawk and I got you two pilots 1: x navy/spec opps guy with a thousand hours of hours to and from oil rigs and oddels of time in the uh 60 and other choppers 2: a fixed wing civilian pilot who wishes he had taken the same aviation career path as his ret. navy buddy. The stories go back and forth like;(his) we broke out at of the soup at about 150 feet right beside a huge tower and one of my spec opp guys saw a couple bad guys watching us so we had to turn 90* and hold a very steady hover in the pooring rain so the guys in back could drop them before they spread word of our arrival, man it was sweet, if ****** dictator knew we were in their country it would have been a shit storm (mine); one time I saw a deer run across the runway when we were on short final, man i guess that could have been a big mess... anyway, I will work for cheap (even pilot cheap), he wont. We actually might need some commercial pilots with turbine time for Magpul Dynamics LE Aerial Gunnery courses. |
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We actually might need some commercial pilots with turbine time for Magpul Dynamics LE Aerial Gunnery courses. PM me, I shot carbine 1 a few months ago with Costa and Garcia and I'm up for carbine 2 in a couple more days. I can hook you up with pilots who are heavy on experience. Clint P.S. None of us are "special" anything. |
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We actually might need some commercial pilots with turbine time for Magpul Dynamics LE Aerial Gunnery courses. PM me, I shot carbine 1 a few months ago with Costa and Garcia and I'm up for carbine 2 in a couple more days. I can hook you up with pilots who are heavy on experience. Clint P.S. None of us are "special" anything. Question that doesn't have anything to do with flying: Who is this "Garcia" everyone speaks of? Does he fly helicopters or airplanes? (Just to keep it on-topic.) |