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Miscellaneous => The Water Cooler -- General Discussions => Topic started by: Tailwheel on September 10, 2023, 07:44:06 PM
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Good evening forum. Ive had an R9 for a few months have just now been approved to post. I look forward to participating here and talking about the R9. I bought boscobarbell’s R6611 and am trying to find what ammo it likes best. I’ve really enjoyed reading the posts about these neat guns and their history.
I accumulate and have a fondness for J frame snubs, pocket autos, old P22x series Sigs, and CZ rimfire rifles (cz452). Additionally I have a passion for aviation as my username suggests and enjoy flying tail wheel equipped airplanes. My day job is in information technology and communications for the past 25 years.
See you around the forum.
Patrick
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Welcome to the forum Patrick. I heard you were going to join.
Great folks here with much history and technical help for everything R9 Series Pistol related, 9mm or .380.
See you around the boards!
Regards,
Eric C. Rohrbaugh
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Welcome Tailwheel. We are now, sadly, a quiet forum, but I check it everyday. My other favorite forum, the Seecamp, is now entirely defunct….Oh, well….
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I've seen the seecamp forum referenced but I was unable to locate it. I too like Seecamp's. It is too bad that the popularity of newer things are overshadowing some great firearms. My interests vary as you can tell from my initial post. I love the hunt and even moreso, I love learning about the product, the engineering, the thought processes, and what is unique about this forum that I find invaluable and appealing to me is the participation of Mr. Rohrbaugh and experienced and dedicated owners like yourself. I appreciate the opportunity to learn from you all.
Thanks,
Patrick
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Welcome to the forum.
I think you will find a lot of shared interests with others here.
I'm a big CZ fanboy.
Pretty sure we have a few pilots and aviation enthusiasts. I personally follow a few of the youtube vlogs regarding aviation myself.
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Thanks Mike. I was into CZ's when they weren't talked about too much and you could get them for very little money. I really fell in love with the CZ 452 rifles. I've found them to be excellent squirrel gitters and they are really fun for punching holes in paper targets with my kids and other family. Sadly, I traded off my CZ pistols. I wish I had kept the CZ75D PCR I had. It was a really nice carry gun but the trigger really irriated my finger. I will likely come back around to those again someday.
Youtube is filled with some fine aviation content. It is hard to get work done some days with all the distractions. :)
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One of the first rifles the SO purchased was a CZ-452 LUX, it's a beautiful rifle. She also has CZ-527 with a Mannlicher stocked, double set triggers in .223 I am extremely envious of. We both love our CZ-85s (ambi version of the 75B).
Who do you watch on youtube in the aviation arena? I follow of Trent Palmer, Ward Carrol and Mike Patey. Will check out a few others as they report on interesting things/accidents.
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Mike, I follow Blancolirio, Premier 1 Driver, Gyrocopter Girl, Airboyd, Fantasy of Flight, Guido Warneke to name a few.
I have a fondness for Manlicher stocked rifles as well. I have several in the CZ 452 rimfires.
All the best,
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Ok Tailwheel, you have given me a few channels to check out. I do like Blancolirios coverage of accidents and stuff like that. Haven't heard of the others (other than Fantasy of Flight---great museum)
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Here is an accident in 1973 that was covered again recently by the NY Times and the numerous families affected decades later by this tragic accident.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_723
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Scary!!! My youngest son is a Delta Captain and these types of reports are difficult for my wife and me.
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@backupR9
I understand. My 21 year old son is working on his ratings currently with the desire to fly the big iron. The technology is so much more advanced now as far as navigation and ground proximity than it was in 1973. It's even way better than when I started 20 years ago.
All the best and prayers to our boys that they fly safe.
Patrick
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Here is a photo for hobby pilots and aspiring tail draggers. A friend of mine in Tennessee restores Stearmans and has sold several of them. He has a hangar dedicated to his work.
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Airframe/Gallery/0/101/0000101562.jpg&tbnid=Vhq0Bzark6VGEM&vet=1&imgrefurl=https://aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?AirframeSN%3D28993&docid=THUiMmHD_XDz9M&w=1000&h=666&hl=en-US&source=sh/x/im/m5/4
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This is the video that got me hooked on these two guys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqhI4MeCn1c
(It's a shame he crashed it a few years later).
Both document a lot of back country, off airport landings, etc. They have a lose group that includes Kevin Quinn (blancolirio did a video on him), who is known for this little piece of precision flying. Short 2:36 video on him watersking his plane around Lake Tahoe, continuously for 46 miles!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAEGPVcvhU
Got me interested in aviation after years of being out of it (started flying in High School, gave it up after college)
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I live Kevin Quinn but I cannot stand Mike Patty’s videos. He makes some awesome planes but he just annoys me. Kind of like Trent Palmer. It seems in every video the dramatization is so over the top. I guess I prefer videos of hard IFR or super technical or complex aircraft like king airs or gulf streams. Then there is Gyrocopter girl who is a good pilot but better eye candy.
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I was a Navy carrier pilot with 300 traps, 100 at night and no bolters. After that I was a DC-9 Captain for a major airline. Carrier flying was challenging but very satisfying; I can safely say that I was engaged with three airline approaches into San Diego--of all places--Hartford--and Midway that challenged me far greater than any carrier landing. These were primarily due to winds and weather but required skills that I would not have had except for my Navy training and airmanship requirement.
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That’s awesome. Thank you for your service too! What did you fly in the Navy?
I fly and own a 1954 Cessna 170B and a Piper PA-28-235. Bought the 170 in San Diego and flew it home to Alabama in 2010. You know you got a good headwind when the log trucks are passing you. But that was a fun trip.
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I flew S-2s and switched to A-4s for a bit more fun and excitement. Two Westpac cruises on the Hornet flying S-2s during Vietnam and a Med cruise on the Saratoga flying the A-4. Thank you.
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Well. That makes sense. The grumman s-2 tracker. I should have picked up on that earlier.
My son is a lineman at our home base airport. They regularly get Dc-9s in to take on freight. They are ragged out but it’s really cool seeing them on the ramp.
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Someone correctly said that the DC-9 is the stick and rudder airplane database.
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I am guessing both you guys are up to date on this accident and the details, however some others might find this interesting.
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftcn3NwAZCI
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3TnRjma-uo
(Warning, takes more than half of second video to get past hosts stories and get to subject he has the copilot there to discuss. Could have been a 4 minute video, IMHO.)
Since I never got into aviation as deep as you guys have, I found the depth of information regarding this incident very interesting. Not the stuff you can get from a typical media story. Impressed by the what I thought was a simple subject, ejection seats, and the technology and small nuances involved to make them work correctly.
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Interesting discussions; fortunately, I never had to call on Martin Baker for assistance in leaving the airplane.
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Bad weekend for aviation and airshows.
Crash in Turin, Italy killed a child on the ground yesterday when a "Red Arrows" jet went in. Pilot ejected.
Two pilots killed in Reno today during the air races. Understand they died when, after their race, the planes collided upon landing.
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And a Marine F-35 pilot based at MCAS Beaufort ejected on the East Coast today. Remember the Great Santini?
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Yes Tracker, good movie.
Just hated to see the air racing tradition at Reno end this way. They ended up cancelling the last three races after the accident, never to race there again. With some luck, the air races will be held at another venue in 2025. (The end of the Reno era was not due to today's incident, but was already on the books)
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At the risk of sensory overload here is a 7 day recount of a hobby pilot's odyssey. I haven't verified the authenticity of it but the details are too compelling not to believe.
https://generalaviationnews.com/2023/09/06/seven-accidents-in-seven-days/
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Upper level Darwin Award for sure!
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Wow, that was an epic adventure. Should have bought a lotto ticket upon drying out.
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For you CZ 452 enthusiasts: https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1010655189
Also check out the Weatherby I’m offering.
Pretty close to Christmas…
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Wow, both of those rifles are very nice
GLWS.
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Thank you, Mike. I can’t believe I actually got them listed. Every time I decide some things have to go and march down to the safe, I usually end up putting everything back.
Some of my easier choices can’t really be sold. I made the mistake of sbr(ing) some pistols with braces when the ATF gave us the ability to do it very affordably. But to transfer them, you’d have to find someone willing to have you hold onto the guns and their money for a year. A rare situation indeed. So, I’m going to shoot the hell out of them. :).
Tracker, what an impressive and exciting history! A Navy pilot!
Joe, I’m so very sorry about your brother and your father. There are no words.
Thank you for the tip on the ammo!
Take care, all. Chris
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Chris, I don't think you made a mistake. (I did the same thing) You can always take the brace off. Not sure where all the legal issues are with this soup sandwich of legislation, but it's easy to remove it from the registry. Should make no difference in the price since you don't have an extra $200 into the stamp. Now IIRC, NFA items transfer for free from an estate. So keeping it for your heirs in the hopefully very, very distant future is an option. Not knowing the climate changes in our future, it might be something they will greatly appreciate and cannot obtain otherwise.
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Thank you Mike! I did not know I could change them back!
I have a couple 300 blackouts but after I discovered the 8.6 which suits my needs better in the mountains, I don’t really need them.
A big help!