For the aviation fans

[patham]

Looks like TC's (?) helicopter from the Magnum PI of the 80s.

 

I may have beaten you to the post, but I couldn't remember his name!

[Slowbee]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ-HHMJZCVw

 

On the topic of TV scenes .....

 

Good luck getting the theme song out of your head!
 

[fanievb]

Once, just once, I went along on a zebra and gemsbok capture in a Robinson (I think it was). Never again - I saw my life flash in front of my closed eyes and my stomach and lungs swapped places! I think that pilot was trying to fly below grass level because tree level wasn't scary enough! I liked the VW Beetle lookalike motor!

 

did a game count once at Tsolwana reserve in the R44

 

we landed on top of the little mountain to have a look at some Zebra (https://goo.gl/maps/A3tD9qEdsYXUwWKG8) 

 

with the air a little light and 4 grown men on board, it took us a while to get off the ground again, up and over the edge we hit a "pocket". Needless to say I screamed like oscar and the pilot had tears streaming down his face laughing at me.

 

 

[Sepia]

did a game count once at Tsolwana reserve in the R44

 

we landed on top of the little mountain to have a look at some Zebra (https://goo.gl/maps/A3tD9qEdsYXUwWKG8) 

 

with the air a little light and 4 grown men on board, it took us a while to get off the ground again, up and over the edge we hit a "pocket". Needless to say I screamed like oscar and the pilot had tears streaming down his face laughing at me.

 

 

Tsolwana, old family farm it was.  Then they stuffed it up!

[Slowbee]

I totally loved driving through that area on the way home from the Wild Coast.

 

I will post some pics a bit later.

[kosmonooit]

Lots on and in the media about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11...

 

 

So let me reminisce ...  broadcasts  of Voice of America on Short Wave from an old valve radio. No TV in ZA in the time,. Verbotten by those who deemed it the devil's work. We went to see a replay in Jhb City Hall where the American Embassy had set up some TV sets to play the landing from video recordings.

 

Followed all subsequent launched on the same all the way to Apollo 17, and the Space Shuttle in the 1980's. The Internet made it possible to view live launches and missions, including the construction of the ISS

 

Now its just normal to watch a live stream from the side of a rocket as it reaches escape velocity, in HD.

 

Not much mention or tributes to Nazi engineer Wernher von Braun who was largely responsible for the whole shabang, In fact it was him who got the idea into Kennedy head. And it was his rocket that made the mission possible.

 

 

 

Edited July 21, 2019 by kosmonooit

[patham]

Lots on and in the media about the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11...

 

 

So let me reminisce ...  broadcasts  of Voice of America on Short Wave from an old valve radio. No TV in ZA in the time,. Verbotten by those who deemed it the devil's work. We went to see a replay in Jhb City Hall where the American Embassy had set up some TV sets to play the landing from video recordings.

 

Followed all subsequent launched on the same all the way to Apollo 17, and the Space Shuttle in the 1980's. The Internet made it possible to view live launches and missions, including the construction of the ISS

 

Now its just normal to watch a live stream from the side of a rocket as it reaches escape velocity, in HD.

 

Not much mention or tributes to Nazi engineer Wernher von Braun who was largely responsible for the whole shabang, In fact it was him who got the idea into Kennedy head. And it was his rocket that made the mission possible.

 

 

 

 

 

The second image took me a second or two to figure out, but is very cool 

 

On the reminiscing side, Apollo 11 was before my time, but my father was very proud of the fact that he got to meet and shake hands with Buzz Aldrin.

[kosmonooit]

The second image took me a second or two to figure out, but is very cool 

 

On the reminiscing side, Apollo 11 was before my time, but my father was very proud of the fact that he got to meet and shake hands with Buzz Aldrin.

 

 

I think that projection might be to scale, that rocket was homongous! There is a museum there at the KSC where they have a few stages of a later unused one lying down, the nozzles of those first stage engines are enormous. Incredible feat of engineering..

Edited July 21, 2019 by kosmonooit

[DJR]

I think that projection might be to scale, that rocket was homongous! There is a museum there at the KSC where they have a few stages of a later unused one lying down, the nozzles of those first stage engines are enormous. Incredible feat of engineering..

I spent a whole morning in the Air & Space Museum in Washington DC, behaving exactly like a 12 year old me would have, many moons earlier! And yes, the Apollo rocket was humungous. Standing next to a full scale part of it really brought home the size,  but at the same time the little capsule was minutely tiny. I though at the time that the back seat of my VW Beetle was more spacious.

[kosmonooit]

That museum in DC has an incredible collection - I am due a revisit soon! There is also a museum in Huntsville that has  lot of rockets as does KSC which is very interesting because they have a lot of the earlier ones from the first days of manned flight where you can see how the technology developed in Germany during the war migrated along with the rocket men..

 

Science Museum in London has a crew capsule, Apollo.10 I think it also has a A4/V2 which is the first rocket Werhner and team built. Quite a lot of technical accomplishments there: the turbo pump, guidance system, rocket chamber

Edited July 21, 2019 by kosmonooit

[Frosty]

https://youtu.be/CwDYjJ3YdNk

 

The guys in the second incident, I'm sure had to change his pants.

Edited July 21, 2019 by Frosty

[Inv3rt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIskWMtCFAw

 

new top gun looks pretty rad

[fanievb]

https://twitter.com/fighterpics/status/1152958888691605504?s=19

[patham]

I think that projection might be to scale, that rocket was homongous! There is a museum there at the KSC where they have a few stages of a later unused one lying down, the nozzles of those first stage engines are enormous. Incredible feat of engineering..

 

A google search on the Washington monument makes me think you are dead right on the scale of the projection. The museum at KSC where they have one lying down is awe-inspiring and humbling at the same time. Imagine yourself being strapped into the little compartment at the pointy end when someone kicks the tyres and lights the fires.   

[Spokey]

A google search on the Washington monument makes me think you are dead right on the scale of the projection. The museum at KSC where they have one lying down is awe-inspiring and humbling at the same time. Imagine yourself being strapped into the little compartment at the pointy end when someone kicks the tyres and lights the fires.

 

Over 7 600 000 lbs of thrust from Stage one at lift off! (Thanks Wiki!!) I have not seen the full size remaining Saturn V’s, just bits and pieces of engines etc in various museums. This thing is absolutely mind blowing in its scale. A dream is a visit to KSC.

It must have been the biggest adrenaline rush at launch yet I think terrifying.

[Long Wheel Base]

Last night M-net had First man on. I usually don't watch the movies and rather just record and watch later. Started watching and that was it, the wife and I watched till the end. Wow but Neil Armstrong had a tough life. He got so engrossed in it that nothing(and I mean nothing, not even his family) came before the mission. The amount of friends he lost as a result of testing was crazy. But I think after his daughters death, no other death really made much impact on him. He came across a bit heartless to me. The scene when his wife forced him to say good bye to his kids and how they handled it was sad. The fact that their death note to the world had been written before they left showed how little faith they had in making it. As far as a movie though, it was not very good. It just ended and a lot was left unanswered.