FlyingScot

Father, Husband, enjoyer of planes, history, physics, astronomy and learning. This is a diary / blog and I enjoy the relative anonymity of being “no one” on X

[Waffle House @WaffleHouse]

bacon is just straight up good for the soul

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@spencer_askew Wow, those Comments from Europe are stupidly vicious. They need to go listen to some Buffet and sip a margarita at Sunset. Give them some perspective-and a sense of humor…

[Stephanie @airport_girl]

Quite possibly the prettiest, Art Deco cabin. 🤩

[Navy General Board @thegeneralboard]

The Bell airacroba AH574 landing aboard the escort carrier HMS Pretoria Castle on 4 April 1945. This was the first time a British pilot landed an aircraft equipped with tricycle landing gear aboard an aircraft carrier.

AH574 was among the production aircobras sold to the Royal Air Force, ordered in 1940. Following dissatisfaction with the airacobra, they were transferred to the Soviet Union. The sole exception was AH574 that was retained for testing purposes by the Royal Navy.

AH574 was being flown by legendary British test pilot Eric "Winkle" Brown for trials with HMS Pretoria Castle. The airacobra was only to conduct landing approaches, but was not meant to actually land. The landing gear was not thought strong-enough to handle a carrier landing.

Brown, who wanted to secure the honor of landing the first aircraft with tricycle landing gear on a carrier, decided differently. After confirming with aircrew that the airacobra should be able to withstand a carrier landing, he then approached the captain of HMS Pretoria Castle, Captain Caspar John. Brown asked that if he would have permission to land on HMS Pretoria Castle in the event of a mechanical issue. According to Brown's memoirs, Captain John immediately saw what the goal was. He suggested that it would be best for any mechanical issues to occur on the final landing approach.

On the day of the test, Eric Brown began a mock landing approach. As he neared the carrier, he then announced that he was suffering engine problems and asked to land. Almost as it were expected, Captain John answered on the radio with an affirmative. Brown then neatly landed aboard HMS Pretoria Castle without issue, becoming the first pilot to land an aircraft with a tricycle landing on a carrier!

Photos courtesy of the British Ministry of Defense

[Aviation Archive - Tim Farmer @aviationarchive]

The British Vickers 171 Jockey squeezed a 530 hp supercharged Jupiter VIIF into a fighter only 23 feet long with a 23 ft 6 in wingspan. This 1930s prototype hit 218 mph and climbed fast before a flat spin crash on July 5, 1932 ended its run, though the data shaped the Venom. 🫡

[Bite-Sized Nostalgia @landofthe80s]

The greatest baseball manager of all-time? ⚾️

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@VikingRobVWO Central Florida (Gainesvillle)…Do not drive and hit a stump (bad), watch out for caves, and hope you can find some shrooms. Nothing could kill us…also took the keg to the beach for morning surf

[Historical Chronicles @HistoriaJack]

The haunting reality of the great war captured in the works of Gilbert Rogers

[Chuck Belanger @NowHeresYou]

In six days I have seen both of these machines. #bigboy #spaceshuttle #travel #train #spacegeek

[Viking Rob @VikingRobVWO]

These were the simpler days. Most of you can't relate.

[Bandy @bandy1803]

The Pegasus class hydrofoil attack boats that were based at NAS Key West until the early 90s.

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@bandy1803 @HiddenHistoryYT We used to to see them running around when fishing, though the coolest was on a sailboat coming back from Dry Tortugas on a rough April day…they would run in an big swell and it was very strange to see (8ft?). They moved out

[Ladytron Fan Account @Lady_FanAccount]

For What It's Worth is from the album Buffalo Springfield (1966). Stephen Stills wrote the lyrics after driving across the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles in November 1966 and seeing police violently cracking down on a peaceful protest by young people against curfew and nightclub closures.

Released as a single in December 1966, it reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 (the biggest hit of the band's short career), even though it did not directly address the Vietnam War, radio and the public adopted the song as a cry against police repression and injustice.

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

He was a bastard, but he was our bastard. He was right

[Unfiltered Artist @EmpireEnjoyer3]

“You've got to kill people, and when you've killed enough people, they stop fighting.”

- General Curtis LeMay
U.S. Air Force.

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@radioactivered Did you ever work with the Haast family/business out of South Florda (Perrine then Redlands/Homestead)? Bill “Mr. Haast” showed us kids how to to handle and what to watch out for. He had been bit so many times basically he was the Anti-venom…

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@TommoMcCluskey This is not enough, not good

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@Ethan_EX4 Little guy hanging inshore where some free food is. But yeah, the will scrape you up good

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

That is awesome and I hope all kids get the chance. Only difference here in SoFla is when I was a kid…that was a peacock bass. We didn’t care

[James Fishing @fishing_life6]

Margie Amidei Born says I have to post this 😂 I barely caught the end 🫶🏼 via:@KaseyBorn

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

@PTrubey Guy is anti Elon, even got “popped” for faking a video about Tesla. This is so far from a Science education/discussion … pure fantasy entertainment with a bias

[FlyingScot @FlyingScot57]

Boyscout in ‘80s fisheating creek. Aluminum canoes “how many gators can we run over?” Yeah dumb but we also knew you lose a hand if sticking in water. You can have fun and be somewhat safe - and yeah scoutmasters yelled at us on occasion. Fl is a balance of living life and “safe enough”