The Happy News thread

[WarpGirl]

Oh like NASCAR! Kidding! Kidding! But NASCAR is no joke where I'm from. Well unless you're me and a born Yankee anyway.

[Kotik]

Happy news from a strange country called Ger-Ma-Ny. I finished my 12th airborne hour today, that's 25% into the minimum requirement for my pilot license. I was flying an Antonov AN-2. If you read the article, you'll read some outrageous claims that the thing flies at 30 mph. Tell you what; It's true

We were 'flying' at 70 knots indicated airspeed, but ground speed was -5 kn meaning, we had about 36 or so head wind, which was more than we were flying. We had to go for the dangerous option of landing with a tailwind, beacuse with the headwind we were climbing even with the engine at idle

[WarpGirl]

[Distracted]

Happy news from a strange country called Ger-Ma-Ny. I finished my 12th airborne hour today, that's 25% into the minimum requirement for my pilot license. I was flying an Antonov AN-2. If you read the article, you'll read some outrageous claims that the thing flies at 30 mph. Tell you what; It's true

We were 'flying' at 70 knots indicated airspeed, but ground speed was -5 kn meaning, we had about 36 or so head wind, which was more than we were flying. We had to go for the dangerous option of landing with a tailwind, beacuse with the headwind we were climbing even with the engine at idle

Just think. You were flying backwards without even trying! How cool is that?

[enterprikayak]

Glad you're still here.

[Kotik]

Glad you're still here.

LOL, actually the AN-2 is the safest plane in the world, because it cannot really stall. The handbook says, that if the engine packs in, which it does occasionally (it's a ukrainian design from the 40's, ok ), you just pitch her up and she sinks to the gound at the speed of a parachutist. This plane is so much fun. Unfortunately that was a rare chance, I usually have to make do with a Cessna 172. Flying a 12-passenger one-engined bi-plane was a real treat and as Distracted said, it can fly backwards

[Kotik]

Double post, but what the heck. Going to watch the Race of Nations in Düsseldorf today Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, Sebastien Loeb, Alain Prost, Carl Edwards... what a line-up

[justTripn]

Happy news from a strange country called Ger-Ma-Ny. I finished my 12th airborne hour today, that's 25% into the minimum requirement for my pilot license. I was flying an Antonov AN-2. If you read the article, you'll read some outrageous claims that the thing flies at 30 mph. Tell you what; It's true

We were 'flying' at 70 knots indicated airspeed, but ground speed was -5 kn meaning, we had about 36 or so head wind, which was more than we were flying. We had to go for the dangerous option of landing with a tailwind, beacuse with the headwind we were climbing even with the engine at idle

OK, I'm impressed.

[Kotik]

WE DID IT!!! Just came back from visiting the Race of Nations in Düsseldorf. Germany - represented by Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel - beat England (Andy Priaulx and Jason Plato) by score 2-1

Highlights

[enterprikayak]

Yay Germany! (I'm mostly of German descent anyhow )

Happy News:
Got some crazy lady to take away my 2 roosters today for free and now I am ROOSTER-FREE.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
sweeeeeet sweeeeeeet uninterrupted early-morning SLUMMMMBerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

[Distracted]

Yay Germany! (I'm mostly of German descent anyhow )

Happy News:
Got some crazy lady to take away my 2 roosters today for free and now I am ROOSTER-FREE.

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.........
sweeeeeet sweeeeeeet uninterrupted early-morning SLUMMMMBerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Ummmm.... You do realize that you probably won't get any more little chicks out of your chickens, right?

[Alelou]

But she can still get eggs ... and a lot less cockadoodledoo.

[Linda]

Kotik, with your flying experience, I think you should write a story about propeller airplane flying on Vulcan. How would the thinner atmosphere and heavier gravity effect the design of gasoline powered propeller airplanes? Would they even have them at some point in their history of flight on Vulcan? How would the flying techniques be different? Should I make this a story challenge to you?

[Enerdhil]

Kotik, with your flying experience, I think you should write a story about propeller airplane flying on Vulcan. How would the thinner atmosphere and heavier gravity effect the design of gasoline powered propeller airplanes? Would they even have them at some point in their history of flight on Vulcan? How would the flying techniques be different? Should I make this a story challenge to you?

OK for the subject of flying an 'airplane' in Vulcan... but I expect they are too environment attached to allow a gasoline propelled airplane in their atmosphere...

[enterprikayak]

well, obviously, it would be a dilithium airplane.