somebody is gonna think there is a BIG AZZ dragon fly creatin a stir, an shoot your butt off..<G> Be careful up there. You got radar for lock-on coming in? chaff? flares?..anything to shoot BACK with? Can ya drop waterballons on folks?
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Yep, I was there. Winter, Brrrrrrrr, of 1963-64. Tech school - Air Weather Service.
Was in class when they announced the assassination of President Kennedy.
Hey Ralph, how ya been? I was there for avionics instrument school 32521 if I remember correctly. Dec. 81 to May 82. we used to say "Shoot me but don't chanute me". Glorious ol "Rathole" Ill.Steve
S.J.MERRETTE Carpentry & Construction • Robesonia, PA
Nothing is impossible...It just hasn't been done yet.
So do you have radio contact with the tower in that thing Stan?
I noticed your Tach at 2700 rpm and your rotor at 372 I think, isn't that kind of crummy efficiency? Now if that rotor was spinning as fast as the engine we'd have to get you on of those pressurized flight suits.
How do you know where restricted air space is? Do they make an atlas for air navigation?
As always, thanks for sharing...........
"Rather be a hammer than a nail"
Bob
Edited 3/24/2004 7:06 pm ET by Pro-Dek
Bob: The rotor is NOT powered....at all. That is the hardest thing for me to explain. I can shut that engine off...or redline it at 5500 rpm...and the rotors rpm wont change. What changes is it when you start throwing g forces to it. Such as when turning...the rotor rpm will also speed up when flaring to land. Again...totally independant of the engine.
I do have a radio and do contac the tower. This isnt mandatory at this airport as it isnt a controlled airport.
Edited 3/24/2004 8:45 pm ET by Stan Foster
More fun than a carpenter is sposed to have.
You probably get sic of me telln you, but thanks for sharin!!!!!!!
I don't always comment, but I look at every single one that you post
weather it be stairs or gyrocopters
Butch: I am glad yopu like the pictures. I like looking at everybody elses pics...and I just try to ad a variety.
Former co-worker was stationed there after Korea, met his wife from Breeze while stationed. Thought I may have gotten to go there once in the late '60s on the old KC-135 program but didn't go 'cause I was just a 'young kid' so my boss went instead, don't even remember the problem to fix then.
Stan -
I'm a little behind in my Breaktime reading but your picture remined me of a cute story.
30 years ago, I got my pilots license at the Uof I in Champain. For my night cross country, my instructor and I flew to Chicago on a cold winter night. When we were coming back, I lost my way. I was looking for any recongizable landmark. We were about 75 miles from home under unlimited ceiling and an idea struck me. I climbed to 5000 ft and looked for the beacon at Chanute. Green- White, Green-White. Military base. I looked at my instructor and said, "thats where I'm headed, Chanute". We got home safe and sound.
You get out of life what you put into it......minus taxes.
Marv
I just saw this thread. My father in law was based at Chanute for several years, and retired in Rantoul IL. My ex grew up there. Sure is flat country around there! "... how many roads must an individual walk down before you can call them an adult." Blowin' in the Wind, the politically correct version.
Grew up about 35 miles north of there. Use to go to the annual airshows.
Similar story, one very cold clear night dropped a professor off at Willard just south had another one I was taking to Chicago Meigs. About 5 minutes after take off the prof. trying to get his coat off popped the door open. Even stalling the airplane I couldn't get the door to close. He was afraid he was going to get sucked out, which wasn't possible, and had a death grip on the door handle. He and I thought he might freeze his hand and wrist so I called Chanute and they allowed us to land, close the door and go on our way. Only time I ever landed there.
I understand the industrial complex employs about as many now as the base did then.
Never serious, but always right.
Stan
How good is your life! You got to be the only guy that flies in for a pancake and sausage breakfast.
Doug
PS, I'm glad to see that there's more to southern Ill. than flat corn fields.
OK. Looked at the photos. I see something like six airplanes besides yours. This is important as it represents a massive concentration of military power by the Canadians. This is like three quarters of the entire Canadian airforce. They are obviously planning a strike on the US.
The US military and media must be alerted to this immediate threat to our national security. My previous predictions have bourne fruit. They are going to make a grab for the nuclear missiles in North Dakota. I can tell by the types of Canadian planes present that they will start with an airborne assault involving at least half of the Canadian Army. This would still allow room for the beer. These troops are surely hiding near the airbase disguised as geese.
4lorn1
I think your biggest worry is that we export better beer to you............On a hill by the harbour
That is part of the larger plot by the devious Canadians. Get our troops drunk on beer and while they sleep parachute the Canadian Army, both squads, into the Dakotas to capture the nukes. Very sneaky.
I think we have 3 squads ?On a hill by the harbour
Hey Stan,
Great photos.
I was there for Basic Fire Protection School (57130) in late '74 - early '75 and for Rescue School in 1976.
The winters there are as nasty as anything I've ever seen, and the summers are brutal. At least they were inside that KC-97 they used to stuff us into. We put eight guys in the hospital on one day just from the heat. I used to bring six Gatorades to school with me every day. The winters, as I recall, were worse. We hated putting out fires because we knew everything would freeze about a minute later.
So you guys live there ON PURPOSE? <G>
Thanks for the photos!
DRC
touch and go's ? in that ? on that huge runway ?
i'll bet you can land that baby in the length of the runway number "18".....
carpenter in transition
Stan.you comin' to Rhode Fest in that thang..That'd be a hoot......did I just say hoot????
I must be at BT too much.lol
Before ya know it I'm gonna be calling soda "pop" and sayin, "gosh darn".
BE well darn it,
andy
My life is my passion!
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Andy: I wont be coming that far in it..but it would be fun making the trip.
Trailer it in. You could pay for your trip giving rides off Mike's front lawn. Heck, they're already plowing a landing strip for crash and burn Vince.
Trailer it in. You could pay for your trip giving rides off Mike's front lawn. Heck, they're already plowing a landing strip for crash and burn Vince.
Hell with that. Stans landin' on the hotel roof that me Andy E and that Blodgett kid and Piff are staying at....he's partyin up there with us....hovering over the pool from the roof while we hang on to the sides then drop in the pool with beers in our hand.
Told ya this'd be a hoot..........UT OH......I said hoot again....see what I get hangin' out with some of you country boyz.
Stan can then fly us from the hotel roof to Mike's and give rides there...course we'll pay him well.
Be a piece a straw hangin' outta my mouth singin' a Willie Nelson tune.
andy bob
My life is my passion!
http://CLIFFORDRENOVATIONS.COM
Edited 4/22/2004 7:46 am ET by Andy Clifford(Andybuildz)
Another gyrocopter story - this Brit is attempting to circumnavigate the globe in one.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3625675.stm