Heading out again..

Rosco-Peeko · Post by **Rosco-Peeko** » October 28th, 2008, 1:26 pm

I leave soon for New Zealand. We stop in Hickam (Hawaii) and Pego Pego (Samoa) along the way. We will fly missions out of Christchurch New Zealand to Antarctica. Should be a fun trip! I'll post up pics after I get back in mid Nov.

dannygraves · Post by **dannygraves** » October 28th, 2008, 2:12 pm

very

lewisclan · Post by **lewisclan** » October 28th, 2008, 2:16 pm

Be safe bro

dannygraves · Post by **dannygraves** » October 28th, 2008, 2:30 pm

A buddy of mine in the marine corps was trying to get into some program for lockheed martin down in antarctica. I should give him a call and see what happened with that now that I think about it...

teemtrubble · Post by **teemtrubble** » October 28th, 2008, 2:34 pm

be safe bro....

Post by **AlisoBob** » October 28th, 2008, 2:44 pm

Rosco-Peeko wrote: We will fly missions out of Christchurch New Zealand to Antarctica.

dannygraves · Post by **dannygraves** » October 28th, 2008, 2:51 pm

808, WTF? what the hell kind of websites have you been browsing?!

Post by **AlisoBob** » October 28th, 2008, 3:08 pm

Blue Ballz . com

Rob better get used to it!!!!!

100hp honda · Post by **100hp honda** » October 28th, 2008, 4:57 pm

Rosco-Peeko wrote:I leave soon for New Zealand. We stop in Hickam (Hawaii) and Pego Pego (Samoa) along the way. We will fly missions out of Christchurch New Zealand to Antarctica. Should be a fun trip! I'll post up pics after I get back in mid Nov.

and while your over that direction, drop a few of these off at some towel heads for screwing us on gasoline

MICK · Post by **MICK** » October 28th, 2008, 5:40 pm

sabreguy · Post by **sabreguy** » October 28th, 2008, 5:49 pm

be safe bro!

Rosco-Peeko · Post by **Rosco-Peeko** » October 29th, 2008, 4:07 pm

Meh, it will be a good trip. I am pretty amped over it. We stay in condo's on a PGA golf course. I am hoping to make 1 trip at least to the ice. We go to McMurdo Station:
http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara/vtour/mcmurdo/
http://www.antarcticconnection.com/anta ... urdo.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMurdo_Station

Go Green Tails!!!!
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iggys-amsoil · Post by **iggys-amsoil** » October 29th, 2008, 5:31 pm

Be safe Rosco. Heard today on Headline news about a four year Expedition to Anartica, thought of you right away.

Thanks for posting that, its always cool to watch what I do for a living landing, taking off.

MICK · Post by **MICK** » October 29th, 2008, 9:20 pm

Rob what do you do in the Air Force? Are you a loadmaster, flight engineer?? I guess by watching the video I'm assuming you do something on a C-17. Whatever it is you do, that's awsome you get to go to Antarctica!! Looks beautiful

That's one continent I can say for curtain I will never get a chance to go to...

Iggy you work on C-17s? There's a lot of military influence here isn't there!

Rosco-Peeko · Post by **Rosco-Peeko** » October 29th, 2008, 9:51 pm

MICK wrote:Rob what do you do in the Air Force? Are you a loadmaster, flight engineer?? I guess by watching the video I'm assuming you do something on a C-17. Whatever it is you do, that's awsome you get to go to Antartico!! Looks beautiful That's one continent I can say for curtain I will never get a chance to go to...

Iggy you work on C-17s? There's a lot of military influence here isn't there!

I work on the engines and auxilary power units (baby jet engine). I am also run qualified. I can hop in the seat and fire up the motors. Nothing like running the inboard engines to max-power....shakes the hell out of the jet. Like a CR500 but in aircraft form.

I have a vid of me doing a power run raising hell in the desert (Kuwait). I blew a bunch of shit over. I will post the vid when I get back. I have ti shorten it up a bit tho, its 84 megs.

Mad Dog · Post by **Mad Dog** » October 30th, 2008, 7:10 am

Be safe Rob and enjoy the excursion.

Rosco-Peeko · Post by **Rosco-Peeko** » November 10th, 2008, 1:07 pm

I made my trip to the Ice yesterday!!! We left out of Christchurch New Zealand, flew for 5 hours to McMurdo Station Antarctica. It is very very dry down there. The snow and ice almost like dry ice. It was a chilly -34. The air was crisp and clean. I have a bunch of pics that I will post up when I get back home this weekend.

Suprisingly, there are some hot women down there! Although, some of the people we picked up to take back to NZ looked like the had been down there too long and gone utterly mad...hot or not. The tour for the scientists/everyone else ranges from 3 months to a year.

I have to handle to to Shackleton and Scott. To be there in the name of exploration and the race for the south pole in 1909-1912...those guys had it rough. Scott perished during a storm a few miles from Scott/McMurdo. I was there on a NICE day. Its a very hostile continent. The wind is a killer. We flew over fields of ice and icebergs for 40 minutes before we even saw land.

I took my US flag with me. I fold it in the ceremonial triangle and vacuum pack it to keep it clean. It been all over Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Hungary, Iceland, Kyrgyzstan and now New Zealand and Antarctica. I will retire it to a purple heart wood case when I get home and only fly it on special occasions.

Oh yeah......New Zealand is bad ass! I could easily live down here. Its very beautiful and the people are cool. The beer is good too.

sabreguy · Post by **sabreguy** » November 10th, 2008, 2:11 pm

After being in the suck for awhile good to hear you had a cool trip!

lewisclan · Post by **lewisclan** » November 10th, 2008, 2:40 pm

Cool Deal bro

Mad Dog · Post by **Mad Dog** » November 10th, 2008, 4:17 pm

Rosco-Peeko wrote:... I will retire it to a purple heart wood case when I get home and only fly it on special occasions...

Very, very cool.

Thanks for the update Rob.

britincali · Post by **britincali** » November 10th, 2008, 4:24 pm

Mad Dog wrote:
Rosco-Peeko wrote:... I will retire it to a purple heart wood case when I get home and only fly it on special occasions...

Very, very cool.

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+1

Balaclava · Post by **Balaclava** » November 10th, 2008, 5:18 pm

sounds like madness...the one place in the world barely anyone ever goes and the one place in the world that might be as cold or colder then winnipeg...that's pro as shit i would go in a heartbeat...

Rosco-Peeko · Post by **Rosco-Peeko** » November 13th, 2008, 3:27 am

Pegasus ice runway and our bird...good freaking plane!

A view.....very barren...the wind will kick your butt!

Sorry if the pics are out of size...dont have my photochop on this puter. I have a ton more pics...these are just a taste...more better pics to come later.

sabreguy · Post by **sabreguy** » November 13th, 2008, 6:28 am

Kinda looks like eddies airplane patch but white.

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