peer01 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Not the best weather, but a natural born airman does what he has to do! Freeware FSX Grumman Duck J2F-6 (SOH) Freeware Northern Cook Islands scenery Freeware HDE-V2 clouds Freeware FS-9 "White Lightning" custom lightnings. (Plese click on the pics to enlarge them) More in the reply***** [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 The landing in the reply***** [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 I hope you liked the screenies, thanks for your visit!:) GREETS!! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Fine shots of the Duck and the scenery. Finally, a craft that belongs in the water after flying!;) Now I gotta check out Adam's "wheels in the water". Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VFR_Steve Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 What a funny looking craft you have there Jan! Great shots as always buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Thanks very much Steve! :) What! Funny looking? :mad: You know who looks really funny? HUH! Zippy, thank you! Don't know what you mean by "Finally, a craft that belongs in the water after flying!" ?? [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av8tor98 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Ahem! I think Adam had the right airplane for a water landing :) Seriously, superb pics, Sir Peerhoven! JOE- Asus P8Z68- V Pro; CPU: Intel i7-2600K 3.4ghz OC'd 4.6Ghz, 8G Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR3-1600, EVGA 1080Ti 11G ACX Cooler Samsung 500G OS drive, 3 WD 1T Raptor HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamminjames Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Great shots peer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolf2 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 jan, you do find the coolest stuff! those shots are great!! Phil Colvin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifejogger Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Super shots Jan, a very successful flight and landing. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Fantastic Duck! And it's ever MADE to land on the water, for a change! Good to see you finally got yer...ahem...DUCKS in a row, Peer. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Really, they are some great pictures, and the lightning just makes things even better. I actually saw a duck scrape a wingwalker off the top wing onto the taxiway in front of the stands during a demo at the Reno Nationals a LONG time ago (late 60's / early 70's area). A horrific thing for a young kid to see, it truely was. Bob Hoover managed to save the pilot, who was blinded by wingwalker on his goggles. Mr. Hoover was up practicing in his yellow P-51, and looked like he magically appeared off the Duck's wing, inverted like it was, and seemed like he was welded there while he escorted the plane all the way up, around, and down to the runway. Actually, two amazing feats of airmanship, it seems to me... Of course, Mr. Hoover performed the same basic feat numerous time, as he was normally up above during the Unlimited Race, and would escort pilots with blown engines, who usually had oil on the windscreen, down to a safe landing. Amazing man. Anyway...thanks again for some great pictures! Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Thanks Joseph, James, Phil, John and Pat, your kind comments are much appreciated my friends! :):) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
annber Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Very nice plane Jan, fantastic pictures and scenery. A huge relief to see you fly an airplane capable of landing in water for a change.:):cool::) ANNBER https://www.facebook.com/Photosim-Labs-133663917277630/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rupert Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 Fantastic Duck! And it's ever MADE to land on the water, for a change! Good to see you finally got yer...ahem...DUCKS in a row, Peer. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Really, they are some great pictures, and the lightning just makes things even better. I actually saw a duck scrape a wingwalker off the top wing onto the taxiway in front of the stands during a demo at the Reno Nationals a LONG time ago (late 60's / early 70's area). A horrific thing for a young kid to see, it truely was. Bob Hoover managed to save the pilot, who was blinded by wingwalker on his goggles. Mr. Hoover was up practicing in his yellow P-51, and looked like he magically appeared off the Duck's wing, inverted like it was, and seemed like he was welded there while he escorted the plane all the way up, around, and down to the runway. Actually, two amazing feats of airmanship, it seems to me... Of course, Mr. Hoover performed the same basic feat numerous time, as he was normally up above during the Unlimited Race, and would escort pilots with blown engines, who usually had oil on the windscreen, down to a safe landing. Amazing man. Anyway...thanks again for some great pictures! Pat☺ OK Pat, You got me on that one! You're saying "Mr. Hoover" was flying S&R above the air race. So when a pilot gets disoriented, how does he help get him back? Does he talk him down by radio, or what? I thought I'd heard of a lot, but I never heard of what you seem to be describing! And no, I never went to the Reno Air races. If this happened more than once, was there ever a film clip?? Being an old chopper guy I usually fly low and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 4, 2015 Author Share Posted August 4, 2015 Bernardo, thank you! :) :rolleyes: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillD22 Posted August 4, 2015 Share Posted August 4, 2015 These are fabulous shots Jan! :cool::cool::cool::cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 OK Pat, You got me on that one! You're saying "Mr. Hoover" was flying S&R above the air race. So when a pilot gets disoriented, how does he help get him back? Does he talk him down by radio, or what? I thought I'd heard of a lot, but I never heard of what you seem to be describing! And no, I never went to the Reno Air races. If this happened more than once, was there ever a film clip?? I say "Mr. Hoover" because to ME his airmanship deserves the respect of every pilot. I swear, the man was born with wings on his back! He started the Unlimited every year, leading the "pack" (the racers in formation 2X2 behind him, like the Indy 500 race) out and away from the airport where the crowd couldn't see, and once they were all formed up to his liking he would lead them into the race course from behind the stands. You couldn't see or even hear them till after they over the stands! He would be going at about 350 or 400 kts, and as he hit the race starting line they would have the radio piped over the loud speakers lined up in front of the stands, and he would say "Gentlemen, you have a RACE!", then pull straight up to about 1000' AGL. You could FEEL the power of the racers as they came over, went to race power and really went at it. Anyway, yes, he would stay over the race course, doing aerobatics for the joy of it, he claimed, and if someone had a problem the radios would be piped to the loudspeakers, and the crowd could listen as Mr. Hoover, now welded to the problem airplane's wing in Blue Angels-tight formation, would talk them down. He would lead them at the best possible glide speed for that aircraft all the way to the runway. The tower would vector the other racers away from the duo as needed. Kind of like a yellow flag in NASCAR. He would pull up and away once their wheels touched, and go back to his aerobatics, till needed again. Usually happened once or twice a race. Remember, this was back in the late 60's and early 70's. Is there film of it? I don't know. I know there are stills, because my father usually took some, but the Nationals weren't generally televised or video'd at the time, that I am aware of. I believe the Duck incident was a serendipity for the Duck's pilot, in that Mr. Hoover was just upstairs practicing for his P-51 demo during the Duck's wing-walking stunt show. The Duck would come in low, flip inverted at the end of the runway in front of the stands, where the checkered pylon was, and the wing-walker would reach "up" (relative to him anyway) and grab a ribbon held up on a couple of tall poles at the far end. Kinda like Patty Wagstaff's stunt when she crashed in Yuma (which I was fortunate enough to witness up on the Station Legal hill). Unfortunately, the Duck caught a gust, wind change, something, and just barely dropped a little too low during the stunt. I never did hear the accident report, but I was very young and may have just not noticed it if/when it was published. Or even if there WAS such a thing back then. I don't know. I HEARD, and this is pure rumor as far as I know, that once he got the plane stopped (they took him straight to a hanger away from the crowd, oddly enough, it was pretty gory), climbed out, threw his helmet (one of the old fabric kind) and goggles on the floor and walked away. He would never go near that plane again either, I heard. I don't say I blame him if it's true. I understand the wing-walker was a close friend of his. Anyway, sorry. I ramble sometimes. I apologize. Needless to say, even though I was young, the incident left a bit of an impression on me. You don't easily forget an experience like that, although I tried, back when I was in my teens and learning to fly myself. Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 Now that's a story Pat......:eek: [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamb Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 We know all to well what the natural born airman is capable of, and it ain't good! :D I guess there is no need for you to worry about making one of your infamous water landings now is there. :D Fantastic shots of the Duck there Jan, nice work!! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 :D Thank you Adam! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KCD Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Well, well, well, a water landing ON TOP OF THE WATER, you've outdone yourself, Oh great and Noble, Natural! Perhaps it sank after the camera was shut down? Great series, Jan, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 :D thank you Klee! :) :mad: Planes don't sink when parked on dry sand! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeh Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 'Nice weather for ducks' must be a saying in parts of the world other than the UK right? Great shots Jan! Cheese War Enthusiast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peer01 Posted August 5, 2015 Author Share Posted August 5, 2015 We say: it's dog's weather, Thank you Paul! :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviator66 Posted August 5, 2015 Share Posted August 5, 2015 Jax (fla) NAS had a air show and the duck was there to look at,'BIG plane'. Jan excellent pic's Thumbs up. Dan As a P-51 pilot said :pilot: "She Climbs Like A Home Sick Angel":pilot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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