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Photo of the day May 2020

oblomow

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tizeye

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mollyc said:
Did you attach a GoPro to the wing?
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Not certain what they used on the wing as was stills only with no video clips from there and it was far better resolution than the video camera mounted on the tail which you can see was not a go pro box back there. Also the cockpit camera was video (avatar is a screen capture) and I didn't even know it was there. This flight was a Christmas gift wife gave me several years ago. Sad it was an overcast day. The plane is a T-6 Texan, an advanced trainer used from WWII to the 1970s.

While cruising speed is 145mph, and max 210mph, we took it up to 170mph as as we did a barrel roll. Tempted to do a screen capture during the roll with the horizon on top but 1) too overcast, and 2) that camera needed to be cleaned due to a lot of bugs and water droplets. Another potential video frame capture is takeoff - both planes took off on the same runway simultaneously and I was the rear plane with a great view of the other plane a few feet above the runway.

Since I had some pilot training decades earlier (and not current) he turned the controls over to me to get the feel of the craft. simple maneuvers and bringing to a stall/recovery - but not the barrel roll as he manned the controls, and even asked my permission before doing one. That engine was far more powerful than the basic Cessna and Pipers I had flown, and the stick is far more responsive than a yoke.
 
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Darmok N Jalad

Darmok N Jalad

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mollyc said:
i'm jealous you are seeing so many butterflies already! I started zinnias and dahlias from seed this year that I have to plant still.

Although my daughter saw a monarch in the woods the other day that our puppy tried to eat. ?
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We’ve seen a few monarchs already. I’m not sure what they are feeding on, as we had a yoyo April—hot one day, cold to freezing the next. Must be the tree flowers? We put down our pollinator seeds last week, but they haven’t even germinated yet. Zinnia, aster, cosmos, and some columbine for the hummingbirds. My coneflowers are coming back up from last year.
 
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mollyc

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Darmok N Jalad said:
We’ve seen a few monarchs already. I’m not sure what they are feeding on, as we had a yoyo April—hot one day, cold to freezing the next. Must be the tree flowers? We put down our pollinator seeds last week, but they haven’t even germinated yet. Zinnia, aster, cosmos, and some columbine for the hummingbirds. My coneflowers are coming back up from last year.
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Oh yes I have some cosmos also. I hope to plant them next week, they are getting awfully leggy in their seedling state, but I have put them outside now to get used to the weather.
 
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