dmccarty
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Pretty funny but you have to a certain age to get the reference. Just seems like yesterday...Later,
Dan
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Pretty funny but you have to a certain age to get the reference. Just seems like yesterday...Later,
Dan
jonyyuma
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Oh, Dan and now the time is really flying by.. Rubber duck out here, and flying low..10-4?
Treemonkey1000
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I am glad you picked up on that. CW McCall sang that and I am plenty old enough to have lived through the CB radio days. Maybe I should have a CB on the tractor.:thumbsup:
Later,
Dan
JohnDeere4300
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Did anyone see this on the news last week.
Wild turkey slams through windshield of N.J. school bus | wcsh6.com
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Wild turkey slams through windshield of N.J. school bus | wcsh6.com
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FredH
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" At least your CVSA sticker had expired. "
Thats Funny .:thumbsup: That for sure ticks me off when I get inspected and a week later for what ever reason have to have the windshield replaced . Usually only get inspected once a year , even with prepass , I sometimes have to go in to a scale , but even without a sticker , have yet to be pulled in .
Fred H.
Thats Funny .:thumbsup: That for sure ticks me off when I get inspected and a week later for what ever reason have to have the windshield replaced . Usually only get inspected once a year , even with prepass , I sometimes have to go in to a scale , but even without a sticker , have yet to be pulled in .
Fred H.
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Back in highschool I had an early sportbike (Yamaha 500cc). I was tooling down a back country road doing 80 or so (I bet we were all just as dumb when we were 16 or 17) when a duck took off out of a ditch in front of me. Fortunately I was paying attention and saw him in time to , well, duck!. We arrived simulatneously at the same geographical coordinates, but fortunately 2 or 3 inches of altitude separated us both from certain death - Him frantically to gain altitude and pick up his feet, and me trying to fit my entire helmeted (see... no as dumb as I could have been!) head and shoulders into the little space between my speedometer and fuel fill cap. He missed taking my head off by mere inches and fractions of a second.... And so I lived on to do many other stupid things.
k0ua
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I caught a raincrow aka. brown thrush square in the fact with a full face shield helmet one evening. Pretty good size bird, I was doing about 70 on a nice straight stretch of country road. Knocked me silly and fell over backwards still on the seat and backrest for a few seconds, when I straightned up the Honda 450 had slowed to maybe 20 or 30 mph. I rolled on throttle and went on. Could have been worse I feel very lucky the bike went straight those few seconds that my brain was doing a reboot and that I did not have control of it. I am sure it was worse for the bird.
James K0UA
Artisan
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Watch as a flock of small birds even take flight to get out of
the way of this out of control Apache chopper pilot, supposedly
executing a "Return to Target Maneuver" , alas boys will be boys...:laughing:
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the way of this out of control Apache chopper pilot, supposedly
executing a "Return to Target Maneuver" , alas boys will be boys...:laughing:
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k0ua
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Whoops, I reckon the air is a little thin that high up. Maybe a little thinner than he calculated on. Good thing no-one was killed.
James K0UA
That was a poorly executed helicopter crop dusting turn. Since my heli instructor was a crop duster, it's the first maneuver I was shown.
From a medium speed pass, 5' above the ground, you pull up steeply and allow the forward speed to bleed completely off. Then, you rotate the tail 180 degrees, and return to spray the next row.
If you do it right, you barely pull any g's, ...and you don't hit the ground. :thumbsup:
From a medium speed pass, 5' above the ground, you pull up steeply and allow the forward speed to bleed completely off. Then, you rotate the tail 180 degrees, and return to spray the next row.
If you do it right, you barely pull any g's, ...and you don't hit the ground. :thumbsup: