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Performance

My good friend Marcio is on a ferry flight in a Phenom 300 from Ft. Lauderdale  to Singapore and I’m jealous as hell.  I thought that we were really hauling ass when we hit 385 knots in the Phenom 100 last year over Japan but this picture of the 300’s MFD shows what real speed is.

They’re cruising at 45,000 feet as opposed to 38,000 and as you can see on the upper left of the screen his true airspeed is 423 knots.  This flight is being filmed for “Dangerous Flights” and is introducing a new co-pilot on his first flight so when the show finally airs in the US you all can see it.  I wish I could’ve gotten that flight, I’m sure it’s a little more comfortable riding in the 300 to Singapore than my flight last year along the same route in the SR-22 Cirrus.  That little puddle jumper only went 160 knots and the whole trip from Singapore took 21 days.  Just sayin.

The Phenom 300

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More Oops

The Relative Cost Of An F-22 Fender Bender

An F-22 that had performed a flyover at a Pearl Harbor anniversary event, Friday, later scraped its tail on landing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, causing an estimated $1.8 million in damage to the jet. No injuries were reported. The damage estimate accounts for little more than one percent of the fighter’s $143 million per unit cost as estimated by the Air Force … and even less of the jet’s $412 million per unit cost as estimated by the Government Accountability Office.

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Change XX

Nothing stays the same except change.  The latest from the power that be at “Dangerous Flights” is that the Uruguay trip that I’d been taken off of might be back on, or not.   Seems that getting a Uruguayan pilot’s license takes up to two weeks and  the pilot they’d gotten to replace me and Super Girl isn’t available after Dec. 17th, so we might be back on, or not, stand by.  CB Aviation is going to try and fix the whole don’t speak Spanish needed for a Uruguayan pilot’s license thing by getting the Bonanza registered in the US which would allow me to fly it, maybe, we’ll see.  So in the mean time I’m supposed to be ready to go on a trip to either Uruguay or India lasting two or three weeks leaving next Thursday or Friday or the week after, who knows, just be ready to leave sometime going somewhere in something.  At least I know.

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That’s Why They Called It A Fortress

 

Fantastic WWII story with photos of survival to honor December 7, Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day!

Dateline: Tunis, Tunisia February 1, 1943

 Background: The Tunisia Campaign – November 17, 1942 – May 13, 1943 – (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) was a series of World War II battles that took place in Tunisia in the North African Campaign of World War II, between Axis and Allied forces. The Allies consisted primarily of American, British Imperial Forces and the French Army. The battle opened with initial success by the German and Italian forces, but the massive supply and numerical superiority of the Allies led to the Axis’ complete defeat. Over 230,000 German and Italian troops were taken as prisoners of war, including most of the Afrika Korps.

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