"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/19/2020 at 12:10 • Filed to: None
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"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/19/2020 at 12:10 • Filed to: None | 3
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The PC-12 is one of my very favorite airplanes . It’s like a station wagon with a high- performance big block V8 like they offered in the 60s. For towing, I suppose...
Also: proof-of-concept chippers have been baked. Your time is nigh...
ttyymmnn
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 12:34 |
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It’s a beauty. I shot these at KAUS over the years.
RallyWrench
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 12:38 |
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These are so cool, there’s one that rips out of SLO (SBP) here pretty regularly. Our shop is right under the flight path for most takeoffs and it’s a distinct sound so I run out of the shop to see it climb out.
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Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
> RallyWrench
03/19/2020 at 12:43 |
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That’s the spirit!
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RallyWrench
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 12:48 |
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Life’s little joys, right? There’s s till a boy trying to catch airplanes in here somewhere.
Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
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03/19/2020 at 12:52 |
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I flew a PC-12 for a charter company p/t years ago. Great airplane that can pretty much do it all. Short field, soft field, and cruises at 260kt. Much as I love King Airs, I’d probably buy a Pilatus if I won the lottery.
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> RallyWrench
03/19/2020 at 13:10 |
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The NASA 747 with the space shuttle on its back flew directly over my school and I ran outside mid-lesson and left the kids sitting there so I could look up and see it. Also, years ago, the Blue Angels were warming up for their San Francisco Fleet Week show, and I went up to the roof of the building because I was the only one curious enough to have discovered how, and a group of building maintenance staff and I stood there and waved like a bunch of kids and the Navy pilot did a high-G turn right around the top of the building. We were 24 stories up. I could see the tops of the flyers’ helmets, vaper condensing off the leading edges... No camera.
WilliamsSW
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03/19/2020 at 13:12 |
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A very cool airplane and I know Turbineguy is prettt partial to them.
Love the paint job on that one too!
Yum ! Hope you’re comfortable in your “ shelter in place” and everyone is safe and healthy!
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> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
03/19/2020 at 13:18 |
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Turbine. Guy.
If I won the lottery, I’d pay a guy like you to just take me flying in one and let me take the right seat. But from what you say, it sounds like I’ve pretty much nailed my description... 1967 Ford Country Squire with the 428 CobraJet engine...
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RallyWrench
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 13:19 |
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Man, how special! Never seen the Angels, that’s a dream of mine. I caught the 747 on the return trip with no shuttle on the back, still escorted by 4 fighters. Deeply cool. There’s an RAF C130 that does training around here, it does tactical takeoffs and touch n’ gos out of SLO, and rips low out over the dunes on Morro Bay then heads up to SF bay and back. Really cool to see a Herk move at low altitude like that, it’s the only 4-engine turboprop around here so I can hear it go to max power on takeoff from here.
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> WilliamsSW
03/19/2020 at 13:26 |
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So far, so good. Three of us here with my 18-YO daughter and a couple of nutcase dogs. We’re settling in. Shopping early in the mornings...
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 13:26 |
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The ones I flew ten years ago were the older Series 9/10 aircraft. The current NGs don’t have the power restriction of the old planes (all 1200shp available indefinitely) and of course have the Buck Rogers panels. Neat stuff.
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> RallyWrench
03/19/2020 at 13:27 |
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I love the Herc. That would be the three-quarter-ton dually pickup with the 460 V-8 and towing package.
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> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
03/19/2020 at 13:31 |
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Were the older ones less powerful, or just de- rated?
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 13:53 |
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There was a five minute limit on full power operation, after that you pulled power back. 1000shp was available indefinitely. The lack of limitation in the NG means the climb performance is better.
Darkbrador
> ttyymmnn
03/19/2020 at 15:12 |
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The flying dachshund !
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> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
03/19/2020 at 15:47 |
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So the older ones made 1,200 hp, but only for a five-minute stretch of time?
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ttyymmnn
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03/19/2020 at 15:49 |
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We’re going to hit Costco tomorrow just to see how it is. Might top off our milk supply. Our local grocery has cut to 0800-2000, and lines form before it opens. I’ve heard that stocks are decent, but they are also limiting certain items.
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> ttyymmnn
03/19/2020 at 15:53 |
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All of which strikes me as prudent.
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 17:03 |
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Yep. The older PC-12s had the Pratt PT6A-67B with the time limit; the current PC-12 NG has the PT6A-67P with no time limit. I believe the primary difference is in the turbine, but both engines are rated at 1,200shp.
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> WilliamsSW
03/19/2020 at 19:43 |
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Chippers inbound. Email me.
oliphant.chuckerbutty@gmail.com
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> Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
03/19/2020 at 19:46 |
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So they should climb similarly, but only for five minutes with the older one?
There’s also an extremely badass trainer, the Texan II which, IIRC, is basically a PC-12 with a two-seat fuselage wrapped around it. And some kind of automatic torque-cancelling arrangement so it drives more like a jet. Sort of like an LS swap into a Miata.
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Turbineguy: Nom de Zoom
> Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo
03/19/2020 at 23:19 |
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In itial climb performance is the same, then the older planes have to reduce power aft 5 minutes.
Raytheon’s T-6 Texan II is based on Pilatus’ older PC-9. T heir current advanced trainer is the PC-21. I don’t know about the T-6, but t he -21 is designed to be very similar to a jet and does have a yaw compensator.