Hangar Flying - HL 126 (4)

Re-Print for Larry’s search for contract help. 

From: Larry Gray

Date: 4/26/2012 12:07:49 PM

To: mark@pilotcommunication.net

Subject: Short Term Job Opportunity for A320 Pilots

Mark,

B3 Solutions is a support contractor to the FAA and we a new contract task that requires (10) A320 qualified pilots to provide simulation time in evaluating data access to the cockpit. The initial scope of work is two pilots a day for five days total of 10 pilots. There will be additional simulations throughout the year. We will pay a consulting fee plus travel expenses. The pilots remain anonymous and if identified only by their experience and type rating. If you have the ability to make contact with retired or active pilots having these qualifications, please give me a call at the numbers below.

Best regards,

Larry

Larry D. Gray, Director, Transportation Sector

B3 Solutions, LLC

(573) 330-4524 (cell); (202)499-7927 (ofc)
8(a) Certified Small Disadvantaged Business

Service Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business

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From: Anthony Schoenecker

Date: 4/26/2012 10:52:58 PM

Subject: Fw: GO FOR A RIDE IN A U-2

 You can see why the U-2 is considered the most difficult plane in the  world to fly.   Each pilot has a co-pilot, who chases the plane on the runway in a sports  car.   Most of the cars are either Pontiac GTOs or Chevrolet Camaros  the Air Force buys American. The chase cars talk the pilot down as  he lands on bicycle-style landing gear. 

 In that spacesuit, the pilot in the plane simply cannot get a good view  of the runway. Upon takeoff, the wings on this plane, which extend 103  feet  from tip to tip, literally flap. To stabilize the wings on the runway, two  pogo  sticks on wheels prop up the ends of the wings. 

 As the plane flies away, the pogo sticks drop off. The plane climbs at an  amazing rate of nearly 10,000 feet a minute. Within about four minutes,  I was at 40,000 feet, higher than any commercial airplane. We kept going  up to 13 miles above Earth's surface.  

 You get an incredible sensation up there. As you look out the windows,  it feels like you're floating, it feels like you're not moving, but you're  actually  going 500 mph. The U-2 was built to go higher than any other aircraft. In  fact  today, more than 50 years since it went into production, the U-2 flies  higher  than any aircraft in the world with the exception of the space shuttle. 

 It is flying more missions and longer missions than ever before; nearly  70 missions a month over Iraq and Afghanistan, an operational tempo that  is  unequaled in history. The pilots fly for 11 hours at a time, sometimes  more  than 11 hours up there alone. By flying so high, the U-2 has the  capability of  doing reconnaissance over a country without actually violating its  airspace.   It can look off to the side, peering 300 miles or more inside a country  without  actually flying over it. It can "see" in the dark and through clouds. 

 It can also "hear," intercepting conversations 14 miles below. The U-2, an  incredible piece of history and also a current piece of high technology,  is at the center of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan .

 Enjoy the ride! Lockheed U-2

 Take A Ride in a Spy Plane, Click the link below.

 Click Here for a Ride In a U2 - Have Your Sound On

 http://www.wimp.com/breathtakingfootage/

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From: Stuart Frazer

Date: 4/25/2012 9:07:44 PM

Subject: Jeppesen's Gift to Capt. "Sully"

Jeppesen's Gift to Capt. "Sully"

This is a fictional rendition of what pilots call an "approach plate", but very close to the real thing.

A real one would be jam packed with the graphic depiction and necessary info for a given approach to a specific runway.

Jeppesen is the world's preeminent publisher of approach plates.

They produced this one as a tribute to Capt. Sullenberger's water landing on the Hudson River which saved all aboard.

Take a moment and read all the notes.

It is a great tribute to a job well done.

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From: Lou Fielack

Date: 4/25/2012 12:02:20 PM

Subject: Flight of Old 666"

Flight of Old 666"

The Flight of Old 666 AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF BRAVERY

For those of us who were born and lived through WWII, this will put a lump in your throat.

For those who afterward, it's a valuable historical film of how dedicated our armed forces are...no matter what war it is.

Please take the time to watch this video. It is a powerful statement of heroism against impossible odds.

Two Congressional Medal of Honors were awarded during this mission.

So long ago.... It is up to us to remind the Americans coming now to maturity, of this great bravery by these great guys....

Heroism at its best!

Click The Flight of Old 666

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