Attention To Orders

hmmmmm - didn't Mussolini create awards to present to himself??

Man, I can't sit still that long, let alone make a gap in the schedule to even think about sitting that long! I bet fermis is in line for one of these...

Yeah, and Goering created his own Luftwaffe rank of Reichsmarschall... 

I had new meds and was really in the grove though... Only time I ever came that close to getting a red azz before was sitting my computer and flying a MS CFS2 P-51 from England to Berlin (in real time) on-line...  No auto-pilot either... Just well-trimmed so I could fly hands & feet-off for a little stretch at a time... That was eight and a half hours...

Damned Forts are SLOWWWWWW...  Shoulda flown one of the bombers so I coulda got up and walked around, lol...

Reminds me of a story...

A KC-135 was just finished with a pair of F-4s.  The lead F-4 pulled up alongside the tanker's left side, waggled it's wings, and the Phantom's pilot said to the tanker pilot, "Watch this"..   The fighter pulled up ahead a bit, then did a big barrel roll around the K-bird, with the fighter settling back alongside the KC-135.....

The KC-135 pilot says, "On yeah, Nice.. Now watch THIS...". The tanker continues on, straight and level for about 5 minutes, nothing's happening... Then the headset crackles in the Phantom pilot's helmet and the tanker pilot says, "How 'bout THAT?"

The Phantom pilot says, "I didn't see nothing.. What'd ya do?"

The '135 pilot said, "I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee..."

Display it, proudly Herr Oberst!!

Hans von Hammer

Yeah, and Goering created his own Luftwaffe rank of Reichsmarschall... 

I had new meds and was really in the grove though... Only time I ever came that close to getting a red azz before was sitting my computer and flying a MS CFS2 P-51 from England to Berlin (in real time) on-line...  No auto-pilot either... Just well-trimmed so I could fly hands & feet-off for a little stretch at a time... That was eight and a half hours...

Damned Forts are SLOWWWWWW...  Shoulda flown one of the bombers so I coulda got up and walked around, lol...

Reminds me of a story...

A KC-135 was just finished with a pair of F-4s.  The lead F-4 pulled up alongside the tanker's left side, waggled it's wings, and the Phantom's pilot said to the tanker pilot, "Watch this"..   The fighter pulled up ahead a bit, then did a big barrel roll around the K-bird, with the fighter settling back alongside the KC-135.....

The KC-135 pilot says, "On yeah, Nice.. Now watch THIS...". The tanker continues on, straight and level for about 5 minutes, nothing's happening... Then the headset crackles in the Phantom pilot's helmet and the tanker pilot says, "How 'bout THAT?"

The Phantom pilot says, "I didn't see nothing.. What'd ya do?"

The '135 pilot said, "I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee..."

 

 

Change the little bird to an F16 and it ends something like this:

The '135 pilot said, "I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee, and shut down one of my engines

  I'm married, and have a two year old and a five year old.  I'm lucky to get half an hour at the bench.  In a week.  

"Present Arms", "Order Arms"

A big salute for your Red Ass certificate.

Try putting ten hours a day in on a 30 year old Yamaha Special. That'll give ya the red azz.

Change the little bird to an F16 and it ends something like this:

The '135 pilot said, "I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee, and shut down one of my engines

Coulda said two and still kept the Phantom...

Anyway, Membership in the ORA is open to all, kinda goes along with the Artistic License Certification...

Need some ideas for a medal/certificate for modeling wounds too... Since I was able to stab m'self in the azz with my X-Acto, I figure there's gotta be some kind of recognition for that too...    

Hans von Hammer

Need some ideas for a medal/certificate for modeling wounds too... Since I was able to stab m'self in the azz with my X-Acto, I figure there's gotta be some kind of recognition for that too...     

Herr Oberst, you are a talented man.

Thankee, Herr Major... I also managed to set an entire diorama on fire with resin once too.. Added too much catalyst to the resin, and it generated so much heat that the Kingfisher sitting in it caught fire!

I think I might be worthy at the moment, just spent 6 hours working on nothing but monogram B-17 engines, 24 of them!

About to do a long session to make PE fire hose heels for a CVN-65 Enterprise.  My best guess at least 5 hrs.

Hans von Hammer

I had new meds and was really in the grove though...

I call for a clarification of the rules here.

Are "meds", for this particular award qualification, considered "performance enhancing"?

WOW... 20+hour modeling session... Ooooo, my asssss would be sssso ssssore.  

PaintsWithBrush

Hans von Hammer:

I had new meds and was really in the grove though...

I call for a clarification of the rules here.

Are "meds", for this particular award qualification, considered "performance enhancing"?

I dunno... While they DID enhance the level the detail I got into, the side-effect of that was constantly forgetting what I was doing to it and for which plane.....  I worked on scratch-building a the 'pit for the Monogram Zeke for about 3 hours, and then glued the floor into the Wildcat's fusealage...

Also spent no small amount of time picking up a piece, applying glue, then forgetting where it went... In fact, I thnk I stared at the kit-parts a LOT...

B-17 Guy

I think I might be worthy at the moment, just spent 6 hours working on nothing but monogram B-17 engines, 24 of them!

Definitely a case of red-azz wawiting you...

hkshooter

Try putting ten hours a day in on a 30 year old Yamaha Special. That'll give ya the red azz.

That's just wrong, and on SO many levels... But I'll trade ya that one for sitting in the back of a B-29 for 11 hours (AFTER a 4-hour cross-country hop) and the inside air temp running close to 120F... Answering the same questions from Superfort fans over & over & over...

I finally quit doing that for ever'body, and just concentrated on being nice to the girls with great big ol'.......

Hair...

Their was ONE chick that, man.... Let's just say I was prayin' she'd wanna take the tunnel from the waist to the flight-deck insteada going out from the bombbay... She was like a cross 'tween Peg Bundy and Elvira... And she was at at least 4 different shows we flew to... Ain't kidding, a real, live B-29 groupie... Man, that jus' don't happen...

Hans von Hammer

Change the little bird to an F16 and it ends something like this:

The '135 pilot said, "I got outta my seat, stretched a bit, went back to the bathroom, took a leak, ate a roast-beef sandwich, and grabbed a cuppa coffee,

and shut down one of my engines

Coulda said two and still kept the Phantom...

Anyway, Membership in the ORA is open to all, kinda goes along with the Artistic License Certification...

Need some ideas for a medal/certificate for modeling wounds too... Since I was able to stab m'self in the azz with my X-Acto, I figure there's gotta be some kind of recognition for that too...    

 

 

 

Hans von Hammer

hkshooter:

Try putting ten hours a day in on a 30 year old Yamaha Special. That'll give ya the red azz.

 

That's just wrong, and on SO many levels... But I'll trade ya that one for sitting in the back of a B-29 for 11 hours (AFTER a 4-hour cross-country hop) and the inside air temp running close to 120F... Answering the same questions from Superfort fans over & over & over...

I finally quit doing that for ever'body, and just concentrated on being nice to the girls with great big ol'.......

Hair...

Their was ONE chick that, man.... Let's just say I was prayin' she'd wanna take the tunnel from the waist to the flight-deck insteada going out from the bombbay... She was like a cross 'tween Peg Bundy and Elvira... And she was at at least 4 different shows we flew to... Ain't kidding, a real, live B-29 groupie... Man, that jus' don't happen...

I do know that she ended up getting a flight on "FiFi" for free, lol...  I'da made the call m'self, but alas.. I was just a crewdawg, not the aircraft commander...  He looked pretty pleased with himself for about a week after that tour...

Hans von Hammer

Yeah, and Goering created his own Luftwaffe rank of Reichsmarschall... 

I had new meds and was really in the grove though... Only time I ever came that close to getting a red azz before was sitting my computer and flying a MS CFS2 P-51 from England to Berlin (in real time) on-line...  No auto-pilot either... Just well-trimmed so I could fly hands & feet-off for a little stretch at a time... That was eight and a half hours...

Damned Forts are SLOWWWWWW...  Shoulda flown one of the bombers so I coulda got up and walked around, lol...  

Yes, even a B-29 or P-38 is slow at optimim fuel consumption.

What airspeed and fuel consumption control do you have in that game?

Eight and a half is about right, barring headwinds...........you  fail to mention adding a bit of realism with a relief tube ---anything like that mentioned in the computer game? 

Hans von Hammer

Thankee, Herr Major... I also managed to set an entire diorama on fire with resin once too.. Added too much catalyst to the resin, and it generated so much heat that the Kingfisher sitting in it caught fire!

The only time I ever spent that much time doing something was when I started at the paper mill "flying" a Yale 2400 tow motor as a "pile-it".  We had a fire out in the main shark and 5500 rolls of paper had to be moved to get to all the bottom water damaged rolls.  27 hours in the seat.

                                                                                                                Pat. 

Occasionally, I`ll get a call-out for work...some drunk will take out a telephone pole or a nut on a backhoe will tear a cable in half, and ,if it`s a BIG cable, like a 3600 pair, I may be there 24 + hours.

My bench marathons were back in the "oxycotin days"...12-16 hours...couldn`t do anything else..lol. Now that I`m not taking them anymore, I have to get up and walk around every hour or so or my back starts killing me! Unfortunately, my back isn`t gettin` any better...hurting as I`m typing this...may have to start up the pain meds again. There`s good and bad in that...good / get a lot of time at the bench..bad / get a lot of time at the bench and nothin` else gets done.

you  fail to mention adding a bit of realism with a relief tube ---anything like that mentioned in the computer game?

No.. But that's what the "Pause" key is for...

Speaking of which... We had a guy in the CAF unit named "No-Neck", and his favorite thing to do with new squaddies was have them wrap their lips around the "Secondary Pitot Tube" and give it a slow, gentle blow to "reset and test the diaphram"... It wasn't a pitot tube though, it was the pilot's relief tube drain..

What airspeed and fuel consumption control do you have in that game?

As much as I want, or you can set it to automatic, but I like to do my own fuel management and mixture/throttle/prop settings..Fuel consumption is pretty accurate in the game... The Pilot's Operating Handbook charts call a Max Cruise Setting at 25,000 ASL while maintaining 325 MPH TAS...  That means about 85 GPH which is too much for an eight hour flight... It's also way too fast for the bombers plugging along at 150 knots, so I maintain a gentle series of "S"-turns over the formation from the "Purple Heart Corner" aircraft out to about the lead's 11 O'Clock and three miles, and back the same distance...

Set-up is for "Economy Cruise" at 210 knots, with about 26 inches and 1800 rpm, IIRC... Translates to about 60 GPH...  Carrying a full load of fuel in the tanks, plus 150 gallons in the drops.. I burn the drops, then the fuselage tank to about 2/3rds to 1/2, then switch to wing tanks, going back & forth every 15 minutes or so...  8 1/2 hr  flight with 30 minutes reserve and giving myself 30 minutes at Full Military Power and 5 minutes of WEP (War Emergency Power) makes for a tense final 50 miles on the return leg.. 

About the time I hit the French Coast I'm at 27,000, power back to minimum cruise (125 mph @ 16 inches and 1500 rpm) and start my decent to 5,000 when I cross the Dover Cliffs... She stalls at about 95 mph clean, so there's plenty of control authority at 125..  Basically, I just let her sink.. Unless I'm damaged, that is... Then I maintain as much altitude as I can muster from her going across the water...

I once did a marathon at the model table.

The woman was taking a 5 day trip to New York with her family who I can only tolerate in small doses. Before she left I hit the hobby shop. I picked up all the paint I would need, some putty, and for the hell of it an F-8 Crusader in 1/72. Which I didn't plan on building that soon, but I did anyway.

I dropped her at the airport and it begins. The time I told her I couldn't get off to go with her, I actually had off. For 5 days straight I didn't really move. I ordered pizza, I tore through movies on netflix like nobodies business and I built day and night, 16-18 hours at a stretch. I slept on the couch, and I only took breaks when I needed to wait on dry time. People thought I was legitimately sick or something. The neighbors didn't even see me outside except to pull the car in and out of the paint shop/garage.

At the end I had completed:

Hasegawa P-3C in 1/72

Hasegawa KA-3D 1/72

Hasegawa F-8 (which is displayed about to refuel from the KA-3D)

Tamiya F-15C 1/48 (converted to an A) with the Two Mikes ASAT missile and appropriate decals.

Revell F-4D 1/48 with custom markings.

At the end I was mostly pissed I wasted some good drinking time. But when I have the free time with nobody bugging me I just gotta build.

Man, I love getting 4 or 5 days of "Baching" it...  Don't even have to change outta the sweats, or even wear any pants if'n I don't wanna...

Hans von Hammer

Man, I love getting 4 or 5 days of "Baching" it...  Don't even have to change outta the sweats, or even wear any pants if'n I don't wanna...

Hans von Hammer

Man, I love getting 4 or 5 days of "Baching" it...  Don't even have to change outta the sweats, or even wear any pants if'n I don't wanna...

Uh, oh...Hans is gonna turn into Al Bundy ......