What are your other hobbies?

[xplaneguy]

Here's one of an Aerospace Research Pilot School F-104A crash site I discovered with a fellow wreckchaser on 30 Jan 1999.

The accident occurred on 15 Jun 1964. The pilot was Lt. Patrick Henry, Jr., US Navy, AFSC, AFFTC. Lt Henry was a member of Class 63-A of the ARPS (Aerospace Research Pilot School), Edwards AFB, California, and scheduled to fly two zoom-climb maneuvers as part of the curriculum. His first zoom-climb was routine at 0830 hours in 56-764 and he landed in a normal manner where he reached a peak altitude of 78,600 feet. The second mission was scheduled for 1020 hours (and it was to be Lt. Henry's fifth zoom mission). This second zoom was routine in all respects except at the peak of the zoom. Radar plot showed Lt Henry's initial climb angle at 45 degreesgradually increasing to 52 degrees near the peak of the maneuver. Entry ground speed recorded by Edwards radar plot was 1,090 knots and the ground speed at the top of the zoom 270 knots. Maximum altitude of 83,000 feet was reached. As the nose fell through the peak of the zoom the aircraft yawed to the left approx 135 degrees. The nose nearly leveled then yawed right and the aircraft entered a flat spin. Lt. Henry attempted spin recovery with the aircraft spinning at one revolution per every 6 seconds, nose about 10 degrees below the horizon, wings level. Several engine air-starts attempted passing through 65,000 feet but were unsuccessful. At 35,000 feet Lt. Henry selected take-off flaps with no effect. Spinning through 25,000 feet the drag chute was deployed, also with negligible effect. Pilot ejected successfully at 4,000 feet AGL. He was immediately rescued by helicopter. The aircraft impacted the ground still in a flat spin, contacting the ground slightly nose first and broke in two. The fuel tanks exploded and the aircraft burned from the front frame of the engine forward. Crash occurred 3 nautical miles north of Rogers Dry Lake, Edwards AFB, CA.

[Alpha]

Don't be shy, Xplaneguy, show us some of those awesome Wreckchasing photos I know you have stored up! What a cool activity for you and Evelyn. Color me jealous!

[xplaneguy]

Aircraft Wreckchasing-My daughter and I have been discovering and visiting aircraft wreck sites for more than 15 years around Edwards AFB/Mojave Desert and a few North of Las Vegas. Over 70 sites visited to date.

Camping-We tent camp at least four times a year at Ultralight Fly-In events and on our desert property. We love hanging out by a campfire, under the stars.

Flying-We love flying, mostly Ultralights, Powered Paragliders, and Sailplanes, though flying an F-16 and T-38 wasn't bad. ;)

Airshows-Kind of a no brainer.

Visiting military bases-We travel to and stay at military bases and visit their respective museums around the country.

Photography-Not real good at this hobby but enjoy capturing our love of the hobby and all our other interests.

Other hobbies include: Model rocketry, plastic modeling, control line, free flight, vintage RC helicopters

[crxmanpat]

I've been doing a lot of work lately as a part time porn star. It's been so
busy that I find it's distracting me from aviation, both full scale and RC.
Sigh ....... 🙄

:sick::p

[rc-eflyer]

I've been doing a lot of work lately as a part time porn star. It's been so
busy that I find it's distracting me from aviation, both full scale and RC.
Sigh ....... 🙄

HA HA but now I'm not sure if I get the correct meaning of "If your pack's not swellin, you're not gellin ..."

Steve

[The Huff]

I've been doing a lot of work lately as a part time porn star. It's been so
busy that I find it's distracting me from aviation, both full scale and RC.
Sigh ....... 🙄

[rc-eflyer]

Good topic, its always nice to learn more about the interests of the people in the Hobby Squawk forums. I'll say for me, in order of most active, it would be 1 RC aircraft (DUH!!), 2 flight simulation, 3 Guitar, 4 scale modeling (aircraft of course), then golfing, fishing, and eating stuff that's bad for me.

[farmflyer]

Baitcasters a must unless I'm throwing really light baits they give you much better control on your casts and yes you don't get asked to borrow your stuff much. Crappie and bass are moving up shallow here in the southern Texas panhandle. I'm also into bow hunting especially feral hogs.

[ace184]

We just started having warm weather this week. Last week we averaged like 40 degrees. This week we've been over 80 everyday. So I am going to wait until the weather patterns stabilize a little bit. Fish here are stubborn. I do need to put new lines on all my stuff though, and finish my homemade bait bucket/seat. I am a baitcaster guy, I love it. And you don't get many people asking to use it because most people hate them.

[farmflyer]

ace184 I've been loosening up my casting elbow lately myself. Been on the lake three times in the last two weeks in between wind storms.

[XF-15DCC]

Beer geek!

My son and I enjoy the craft beers and specialized imports from the world. I have been lucky to try all the Trappist brews and occasionally get my hands on something that is hard to find. I'm not a beer snob, you offer me a brew and I'll enjoy it, docent mean I would buy it. All done in moderation of course.

I was into model railroading. Something I wanted to do when I was active duty but never had the time or space. Once I had the room and some time after I tired, I looked at the layout and realized it was going to be one big dust collector, sold everything before I sank too much $$ and received a plane on Fathers day last year and here I am.

Kevin

[ace184]

Fishing-mainly bass. But some catfish and crappie. If I am feeling frosty, I'll go after some gar just for the fight.

Video games-I swap between pc and console. Rigjt now I am on my xbox one. I really only play world of tanks lately. Message me if you want to play some time.

Bike riding-I've got a nice mountain bike from Specialized. We have a lot of singletrack trails here, so I have plenty of places to ride.

[Grossman56]

Yes, we're all multi dimensional, I still strap on the guitar once in a while, relive old memories. I also have a back ground in oil painting, and drawing, I switch back and forth, between the two, and then sometimes in the middle when I used colored pencils. I do pretty much what I feel like in art, from landscapes to portraiture to, yes, airplanes. Whatever interests me. Did one of Buffalo Bill for an Art contest and won second. I also have one of Gus MacRae (Robert Duval actually) which I want to enter soon, my best work so far.

Grossman56

[crxmanpat]

So obviously all of us fly, otherwise why would we be here. ;) But what other hobbies occupy your time? Here's some of mine:

Fishing. Before I moved out to Arizona in 2003, I lived in southwest Florida. Back then, fishing was my only passion (besides my wife of course ;)). Whether it was bass in the local ponds and canals, shark off the Naples pier, or grouper, snook, trout, mackeral and snapper off the coast, you name it I fished for it. Of course, fishing is almost non-existent out here in Arizona, and that's when I took up RC. But I still like to fish whenever I go home to Florida.

Guns/hunting. Growing up in North Florida, we hunter dove, quail and deer every year. Never really enjoyed sitting in a deer stand for hours on end in the freezing cold, so I stuck mostly with birds. These days I stick with dove only. They are very plentiful here in AZ and I try to go out at least once a week during season.

Wrenching on cars. Prior to the 2003 Honda Civic I have now, I had a 1990 Honda CRX Si. It was a very easy car to work on, and my niece is married to a former Honda mechanic, so advice and help was always never far away. I did a lot to that car, including swapping out an engine. Now I wrench on the Civic whenever it needs something done.

What about you?