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Heading out again..
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 1:26 pm
by Rosco-Peeko
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.
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:12 pm
by dannygraves
very
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:16 pm
by lewisclan
Be safe bro
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:30 pm
by dannygraves
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...
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:34 pm
by teemtrubble
be safe bro....
Re: Heading out again..
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:44 pm
by AlisoBob
Rosco-Peeko wrote: We will fly missions out of Christchurch New Zealand to Antarctica.
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 2:51 pm
by dannygraves
808, WTF? what the hell kind of websites have you been browsing?!
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 3:08 pm
by AlisoBob
Blue Ballz . com
Rob better get used to it!!!!!
Re: Heading out again..
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 4:57 pm
by 100hp honda
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
Re: Heading out again..
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:40 pm
by MICK
Posted: October 28th, 2008, 5:49 pm
by sabreguy
be safe bro!
Posted: October 29th, 2008, 4:07 pm
by Rosco-Peeko
Posted: October 29th, 2008, 5:31 pm
by iggys-amsoil
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.
Posted: October 29th, 2008, 9:20 pm
by MICK
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!
Posted: October 29th, 2008, 9:51 pm
by Rosco-Peeko
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.
Posted: October 30th, 2008, 7:10 am
by Mad Dog
Be safe Rob and enjoy the excursion.
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 1:07 pm
by Rosco-Peeko
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.
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 2:11 pm
by sabreguy
After being in the suck for awhile good to hear you had a cool trip!
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 2:40 pm
by lewisclan
Cool Deal bro
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 4:17 pm
by Mad Dog
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.
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 4:24 pm
by britincali
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
Posted: November 10th, 2008, 5:18 pm
by Balaclava
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...
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 3:27 am
by Rosco-Peeko
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.
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 6:28 am
by sabreguy
Kinda looks like eddies airplane patch but white.
