Gentle Push = Greased Lightening

[RDM]

Saw 200 knots once from St. John's to Hibernia @ 9000', (85 knots on the tail) trying to get on top (for fun)..........strange all the weird noises you hear when your up high. :shock: :shock:

 

 

...then on the other hand, on approach to runway 16 in Torbay, 120 kias makin 15 good over the ground.... Gander ATC.."ah......you guys gotta a problem"

 

overheard this one the other day here in St. John's and thought it was hiliarious,

a aircraft in front of us has just completed a approach to mins

 

TWR: any comments on that approach

 

Clown: Well since you asked ,I would have to say, it was very very well flown. :up: :up:

[407 too]

wasn't that high, 1,000 agl (ground 6,000 asl)

 

 

too scary flighing at nose-bleed altitudes, weird things with board-like appendages live up there :shock: :shock:

[412driver]

my best was at helijet in the 76.....

 

we recorded 244KTS in the climb and when we leveled out we were reading 266KTS!!! this was confirmed by center!!! :up: :up:

 

 

sssssssssssssmokin'

[407 too]

Whaa-Hoooo, be there in 10 minutes boss .. :up:

[Dan]

204 KT Gnd speed in a Bell 222A from Windsor to London riding a low level jet. 69 KNT tail wind. Wish we had it like that all the time.

[arctic_front]

well this not a helicopter story, and I wasn't flying, but I was in the back seat of a J-3 Cub once,,,,,,fighting a brisk headwind, and as we chugged our way along this ridge line, I glanced over to my left to see a small group of cows walking faster than us flying. A J-3 feels like you are a childs kite on a string, definitely flying, but not going anywhere fast....

[Firehawk]

Coming back from the Cariboos along kinbasket lake, my GPS recorded 193 kts/223 mph.

I took a picture of my GPS as I was doing it. If anyone has flown that route knows how the wind can venturi down Kinbasket. Oh ya that was in a 407 also.

[skullcap]

Kinbasket;

 

I think that is a word meaning scary, windy, no where to go but water, in english.

 

173 kts in lowly astar.

 

sc

[407 Driver]

In the Shushwap Language, "Kinbasket" actually means...big windy lake where kokanee salmon are plentiful and deer run free and big white men with golden hair fly 407's and 212's, except for Matt "spin the wrong way" Callighan, plus a few other braves from the sacred tribe of the Codfish.

[skullcap]

And Kathy (spins the right wrong way)Moore too!

 

When did you dye your hair?

 

sc