And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Hi CW!!, Back in the Day.. the Beech "18" was the "Flag Ship" of the Sky Diving Community!!! 10 or 11 Jumpers and the Pilot... small door unless you were lucky enough to find one with a "Cargo Door!!" In the "Sport" we called it,"10-MAN!!!!!" Speed Star.. from 12.500' to 3,500' above tera firma ... get it together, break, track and dump!!!... Old School Jumpers Know!!! Blue skyz, skybill
Fun fact. You can feather those props in the air...BUT.... you cannot unfeather it in the air. Land (if you don't crash first), get a special tool out and manually unfeather it. With the engine off of course. A friend and fellow pilot took another pilot with him on a freight dog run. Friend did not believe him thought he was spoofing him so he pulled the prop. They landed in a pasture shortly after.....
Not true, I have a bunch of hours on the Mil version, the C-45 and have feathered and unfeathered the engines in flight. Part of the runup check is feather and unfeather. Bet you didn't know that the Beech 18/C-45 was the first vehicle to have disc brakes, as we know them today.
Hi CW!!,
ReplyDeleteBack in the Day.. the Beech "18" was the "Flag Ship" of the Sky Diving Community!!! 10 or 11 Jumpers and the Pilot... small door unless you were lucky enough to find one with a "Cargo Door!!" In the "Sport" we called it,"10-MAN!!!!!" Speed Star.. from 12.500' to 3,500' above tera firma ... get it together, break, track and dump!!!... Old School Jumpers Know!!!
Blue skyz,
skybill
Been there, done that. Casa Grande AZ, 1973.
DeleteTwo words: Sky King.
ReplyDeleteSaturday mornings, never missed it. I think I was in love with Penny.
DeleteBut it was amazing how often she got bound and gagged.
Sky King was one of my favorites too when growing up, along with Roy Rogers.
Delete"Out of the blue of the western sky comes... SKY KING!!!
DeleteBrought to you by Nabisco."
My mind can hear it like I just heard it yesterday instead of 60 years ago.
Fun fact. You can feather those props in the air...BUT.... you cannot unfeather it in the air. Land (if you don't crash first), get a special tool out and manually unfeather it. With the engine off of course. A friend and fellow pilot took another pilot with him on a freight dog run. Friend did not believe him thought he was spoofing him so he pulled the prop. They landed in a pasture shortly after.....
ReplyDeleteNot true, I have a bunch of hours on the Mil version, the C-45 and have feathered and unfeathered the engines in flight. Part of the runup check is feather and unfeather. Bet you didn't know that the Beech 18/C-45 was the first vehicle to have disc brakes, as we know them today.
DeleteSky King was great but I became a fan of Jim Backus & crew buzzing the tower in Mad-Mad-Mad World
ReplyDeleteMade my first jump (static line) from a Beech 18 in May of 1981. Only our plane didn't look half as nice as the one pictured here.
ReplyDeleteSongbird was a Cessna 310B, not a twin Beech. Sky started out flying a Cessna T-50, but everyone remembers the 310.
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