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.
Roads not taken. Opportunities lost. Wait. I'm still young! I can still quit my job, buy a plane and move to Alaska! I'll tell Mrs. CW the plan and see what she says.
You need big warm boots to fly a Beaver and since it's on wheel-skis we can assume it isn't summer. That stainless steel canister you see around the exhaust pipe is the heater. Exhaust heaters provide very little heat, the DC-3 and other radial engined aircraft had Janitrol or Southwind heaters installed that burned avgas to keep the passengers warm. In the Beaver you wear a parka during the winter. Al_in_Ottawa
My neighbor had been a navigator on B-24s in ETO. Talking about heaters, he said you could warm your hands or warm your feet, but not both. I learned about that after commenting that he had put his hands into 140* water without recoiling.
He was also the only man of his class in USAF SERE to have gained weight. He went on to be nav in B-52s in SEA.
I would fly with her!
ReplyDeleteYou would have made a great bush pilot, CW.
ReplyDeleteRoads not taken. Opportunities lost. Wait. I'm still young! I can still quit my job, buy a plane and move to Alaska! I'll tell Mrs. CW the plan and see what she says.
DeleteThat's a big plane!
ReplyDeleteAppears to be a DHC-2 Beaver.
ReplyDeleteMy dream woman and dream environment, all in one photo.
ReplyDeleteDamm she has big feet.
ReplyDeleteYou need big warm boots to fly a Beaver and since it's on wheel-skis we can assume it isn't summer. That stainless steel canister you see around the exhaust pipe is the heater. Exhaust heaters provide very little heat, the DC-3 and other radial engined aircraft had Janitrol or Southwind heaters installed that burned avgas to keep the passengers warm. In the Beaver you wear a parka during the winter.
DeleteAl_in_Ottawa
I will never ever fly with a Janitrol heater. This is experience talking.
DeleteMy neighbor had been a navigator on B-24s in ETO. Talking about heaters, he said you could warm your hands or warm your feet, but not both.
DeleteI learned about that after commenting that he had put his hands into 140* water without recoiling.
He was also the only man of his class in USAF SERE to have gained weight. He went on to be nav in B-52s in SEA.
David Lowe, in case anyone is interested.
I wonder which brand was in Rick Nelson's DC-3.
DeleteWhat is it that they say about big feet? Oh wait! That's for men. Big feet = Little Dicks.
ReplyDeleteBig feet = Big shoes
DeleteLooks like a TAT (Talkeetna Air Taxi) to me
ReplyDeleteThat’s a dood!!
ReplyDeleteLook at the Adam’s apple...
DeleteHell yeah. Probably one of the resort guides that the Fagowee indian tribe runs up there.
DeleteBullshit!
DeleteIf you're anonymous, it's likely Bullshit. AKA, Troll.
ReplyDeleteLeighan Falley
ReplyDeleteHometown: Fairbanks, AK Y'all couldn't carry her flight bag....