XC TrikerAir Creation Tanarg 80hp BioniX 15M
0O2, 0O4, 0S5, 0Q5, 14S, 1O3, 3S8, 3W5, 9S3, A39, AVENAL, CALIFORNIA VALLEY, CN12, CYQS, DIXON, FOT, Headquarters, ID85, K1O3, K3O1, K3O8, KAST, KAVX (Catalina Island), KAWO, KBOK, through KBUR, KC80, KCCB, KCMA, KDAG, El Mirage Dry Lake & Flying J Ranch-El Mirage, KFHR, Over LAX midfield & LAX school, KFUL, KGCD, KHAF, KHRI, KINW, KIYK, KIZA, KKIC, KL52, KLGD, KLKV, KLPC, KLSN, KLVK, KMPI, KMRY, through KNTD, KO22, KOKB, KONP, KORS, KOXR, KPGA, KPRB, KRBG, KRBL, KRNM, KSBA, KSBP, KSDM, KSHN, KSMO, KSMX, KSNS, KSZP, KSZT, KTOA, KUAO, KUKI, low pass KVBG, KWHP, KWVI, KZPH, L06, L08, L09, L61, MATANCHEN, Monument Valley, NV74, Dry Lakes, O46, O69, Over KLAX, PHHN, PHDH, S16, S51, S89, SALTON Sea x3, Slab City, Stocking Meadows, through KSEA, A few that won't be mentioned (OR/MX/Sltn), Through TRONA GAP, UT25, WA09, Yosemite, 49X, KHII, L62, L17, KFCH, KCVH, CA66, KOAR KSFF 73S 72S S94 KPUW S68 Bill's Ranch S27 KGPI (Glacier) 58S 2MT1 53U 8S1 7S0 52S S09 S34 KTHM S83 KDEW, L88 (New Cuyama "X"d- low pass), KRIR (FlaBob), L35 (Big Bear), KSBD (KTOA <->San Bernadino @ NIGHT ! :) L45, KBFL, L05, O26, Over Mt Whitney Summit at 17,200', L73, KMIT, L19, L84, KOXR, P20, L54, KFUL (Trike Lecture), KCLR, YYWG YCOR YHAY YIVO YWTO YMIA YBRN YDLQ YTOC YPOK YWGT
~ 166 Airports, Fields, or off road (4 Countries- hopefully more soon :)
If you put all your airports/off airports on SkyVector, you can make a cool map of the places you've been. These are mine:
In North American Continent (US, Mex, Canada, Hawaii)
In AUSTRALIA (MegaFauna 2014, etc)
ALL (get's a little crowded in this view)
Electronic Dog Fight with Trikes
Posted by Ben Ashman on YouTube
Two Dragonfly s with laser activated smoke systems do battle!
Very cool. How soon can we get this for our next fly-in?
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Thats way fun
That would be cool to have at a fly-in. Let the games begin! I have always enjoyed the videos posted by Ben Ashman. Here is another I really like that included a Motorfloater and Dragonfly playing chase over the winterlands.
I wonder how slower lighter trikes would do against faster heavier trikes? With the slower trikes out turning the faster ones, or going lower, or ... My childhood heroes were the Flying Tigers-- their airplanes weren't top of the line P-51 Mustangs-- instead they used skill, the strengths of the airplane (heavy armor- fast in a dive) and worked around weaknesses. Chennault insisted on the wingman technique of dogfighting-- ahead of his time.
Similarly, there could be some fascinating interplay between the relative strengths and weaknesses of different trikes and the skills needed to make them win!!! ;)
Maybe they could only be allowed 1 gallon of gas, and the soaring trikes would be the undisputed kings ;)
I heard XC say he liked the Flying Tigers. My mother's name is Chennault. Claire (General) Lee Chennault is "kin" as they say in Kentucky. A lot of history on this name.
Wow, that's cool Yoshiyah-- where you been all this time and suddenly pop up here !! :)
Tell us more about you and your aviator lineage
The opening of this movie is awesome, the heavy P-40 Tomahawks diving out of the sun for speed drawing blood for the first time:
My close family are all gone now and I am in my 50's. Before my mom died in 08 I was able to do a very extensive background genealogy on my mother's name. Most of them are from Kentucky but Chennault is a huge family and name.
The name gets interesting as Chennault is not the original French name. I do not have my Genealogy software and family in front of me and I may not spell the name correctly. The original name is De Chenau. The family came to Jamestown in 1601. There were Five sons out of Howlett Hugo De Chenau. It seems that many Europeans altered their names after getting to the new land. Chennault may be seen with one "N" or two. It is also seen and changes to Shinault and other forms in the different five son lineage.
Don't quote me here as my family history is not before me but I think Claire Lee came out of Stephan of the five sons.
Claire Lee had three wives with his last being Anna. I think she is still alive. She is Chinese in origin. If memory serves, Claire is responsible for the protection of that heavy duty rail road being built and he was really loved by Mao Tse Tung. He trained Chinese fighters but as to planes, they did not have a pot to piss in.
I never met him but being all my mother's side are from Kentucky, Claire being married to a Chinese woman was all the talk when everyone was a rocking on the porch. The Tigers were his thing and it is pretty cool. Imagine having had that life. They paid him money to do it when you and I would have done it for free. Heck we could have got some of the trikesters to pay us to do it now. I still wish I had 50's on my trike with as many farmers as I buzz.
XC
I misinformed on my family. My files are here but I dont have the software at this moment to open the files.
I mentioned Howlett Hugo. This guy was one of the sons to Esteine De Chenau who is the father of all Chennault's in America. He goes back to the 1500 in France. I probably butchered the spelling but Hugo was one of the sons of Estiene which is Stephan in English which is why you will see recurring themes of that first name throughout the family. Now that you got me on this topic, I am sort of wanting to get my software back so I can open these very extensive files. I have some serious history on Claire Lee.
Very cool Yoshiyah. I'd like to do some family research, maybe you could help me offline-- email me here.
BTW I need to give credit to MadMik who found this cool dogfight video but didn't post it here for everyone (it's too cool not to post)!!! Also, I put the Flying Tigers video in a side window and let it play while doing other stuff-- very well done on the History channel- did talk about the armament and diving and not engaging in turn for turn with the Zeros where they'd get slaughtered. Didn't mention how otherwise outclassed the P-40's were, but it was skill, courage, leadership and technical talent that made them awesome underdogs and a bright spot for world news in a time when we were desperate for good news on any of the fronts. Also mentioned that the sharks mouth was borrowed from the Ozzies (though I thought it was from the forces in Northern Africa- maybe Ozzies there) AND that Walt Disney himself drew the Flying Tiger logo-- I proudly wear my Flying Tigers leather jacket that my wife bought me to honor my childhood heroes (I loved them because they were underdogs, and volunteers, etc). My jacket has the blood chit inside that says in Chinese, don't kill me, I'm an American Flying Tiger. Interestingly, my wife is Chinese (born U.S.) and hadn't heard of the Flying Tigers-- at that point, I said, sit down Honey and let's get you some background on the heroes who saved China's bacon. That history of the US saving China might not have been mentioned so much by Mao Tse- tung in later Chinese history books ...
I've been thinking of putting a leopard shark grin on my trike ... ;)
Yoshiyah Hawkins asked me to post this for him. He discovered he's related to General Claire Lee Chennault who formed and led the Flying Tigers AVG group in China. HERE's his story