Random Picture Thread

[D.B.Moody]

a random picture?

 

[InspectorJon]

a random picture?
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I have that tree in my front yard!

 

[grampamark]

 

[InspectorJon]

I have that tree in my front yard!

 

[D.B.Moody]

I have that tree in my front yard!

We did take a trip in August of 2010 and saw lots of trees from around Mt. Rainier south to around San Francisco, but I swear that the giant sequoia in my picture was from our February, 2010, trip to New Zealand. Queensland Gardens. Beautiful place. Not that your front yard's bad.

 

[GrogNerd]

So the light fixture in our bathroom at the lodge where we're staying looks like the stage set from Fleetwood Mac's 1977 Rumors tour

 

[beermanpete]

 

[grampamark]

I like pie

 

[InspectorJon]

Maybe the pandemic is really winding down. Stores seem to be liquidating hand sanitizer

 

[D.B.Moody]

Random thought

 

[Toy4Rick]

I'll leave these right here

 

[Sailingeric]

I'll leave these right here

I see that Cousin It is enjoying the grand kid

 

[day_trippr]

This shot of a lifetime is from another friend and flyfishing person, living in Oregon. He was on a sea kayak camping trip up in the American San Juan islands when one of these beeg feesh went right under him, joined up with the other, then turned back and porpoised across his bow.
I might have crapped my drysuit

 

[day_trippr]

Diagonally across the continent from ^that cold water^ (trust me, I lived out on the Olympic Peninsula, and there was like two weeks of swimming per year where you didn't wish you had a wet suit on ) there's this...where I wanna be right now...

 

[grampamark]

The Frozen Tundra is really frozen today. -20°F when I took this picture. The sun dogs (the bright spots at 9 and 3 o’clock) are pretty common on cold days. The halo around the sun is not so common.

 

[balrog]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[GrogNerd]

It's gonna take WEEKS to dig out.

Prayers

 

[NGD]

Warning: Some may consider this post animal abuse.

Spoiler: Dog photo

Sorry mods.

 

[pvpeacock]

The photo didn't phase me a bit.

 

[grampamark]

The photo didn't phase me a bit.

They were only set on stun.

 

[Kee]

Poor dog looks embarrassed.

 

[day_trippr]

They always do. I can't think of one dressed-up doggie picture that doesn't have a woeful animal in it

 

[NGD]

Poor dog looks embarrassed.

I attributed that to the bud light cans. Dog is clearly an IPA fan.

 

[Dland]

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If this is not a few miles up the road from my place, it sure looks similar. I can assure you the owners of that farm aint no Amish.

 

[D.B.Moody]

Ouch!

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[D.B.Moody]

And I have no doubt that plane smoked a cow.

And hit this sign

 

[GrogNerd]

found a fast-acting nose spray that applies to both nostrils simultaneously!

 

[grampamark]

And hit this sign

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That sign is across the road from this flight school.

 

[day_trippr]

Jeeeze. I assume that bounced in there because even a stall speed collision would have shattered that fuselage.

 

[grampamark]

Here’s the story of how the plane ended up in the tree.

 

[Tom R]

The rest of the story (a good read if you're into aicraft):
Plane in a Tree (check-six.com)

Edit: Gramps beat me to it!

 

[day_trippr]

40 knots of airspeed would explain how relatively intact that fuselage ended up

So, I'm not a pilot, but given the conditions, was there a void in the standard training manual that led to what apparently was an avoidable encounter with said tree?

 

[grampamark]

I am a pilot and was a partner in an earlier, but very similar, version of that airplane for about a dozen years. While it’s true that the aircraft flight manual (a 50 cent term for the owner’s manual) doesn’t require the use of carb heat when reducing power to idle, most instructors I know teach the use of carb heat when closing the throttle. We always used carb heat when reducing power because we were taught that it was advisable, whether the book required it or not.

I think every instructor I’ve ever flown with has been both an agricultural pilot and an aircraft mechanic. Those types tend to teach people to fly in the real world which is a place where common sense suggests a belt and suspenders approach might be advisable regardless of what the book says. The late Ernie Gann, a WW II transport pilot who made his experiences the basis for a string of aviation-themed best selling novels, wrote that “Rulebooks are made of paper. They will not cushion the sudden meeting of metal and stone”.

So, yeah. The guy who ended up in the tree might have made it to his karate lesson on time if he’d been trained differently.

 

[D.B.Moody]

aint no Amish.

These guys neither.

 

[BongoYodeler]

 

[balrog]

 

[jschein]