#Gooney Bird

[nocternalrandomness]

Daks at Prestwick

#Douglas #C-47 #Skytrain #C-53 #Skytrooper #Dakota #Vintage aircraft #Cargo plane #Military transport #Troop transport #airplane #Gooney Bird

[osrphotography]

USAAF 43-49219 / ZK-DAK masquerading as NZ3546, making a low(ish) pass over Dairy Flat.

msn 26480 was constructed as a C-47B-10-DK c. 1942 and was taken on charge by the USAAF as 43-49219 c. 1943.

By April 1959, it had been demobilised and sold to Philippines Airlines and given the c/r PI-C486. It flew with them until April 1970 when it was sold to Papuan Air Transport as VH-PNM. It was sold to Anssett Airlines of Papua New Guinea in July that year.

After bouncing around Queensland for a few years it was exported to Aotearoa with the c/r ZK-DAK in 1987.

Seen in D-Day colours. 6/07/04. It wore these colours from 1986-c. 2006.

In plain white livery. 1/12/06. By 2007 it was in RNZAF colours.

The real 3546 was briefly ZK-AWQ before becoming D6-CAG in the Comoros. It was sold to the RSAF becoming s/n 6863 and converted to a C-47TP by WonderAir c. 1980s(?). It became N81907 in 1998 and in 2001 became ZS-OJL. It was last seen in 2006 at Wonderboom National Aiport (PRY/FAWB) sans engines, wings and rudder.

#photos #aircraft #warbird #C-47 #skytrain #aviation photos #Gooney Bird

[marcosvargas97]

Fanart de Gooney Bird del show de los Hard Luck Bears, pero con el plumaje negro de la versión chilena (Show de Osos).

#marcosvargas97 #creative engineering inc #hard luck bears #show de osos #gooney bird

[wilbur-rae]

i love the hard luck bears so much ughd

ignore gooney bird i just really wanted to draw him

#animatronic #bears #creative engineering #hard luck bears #showbiz pizza #bear country jubilee #gooney bird #mundomagico

[harperrosalie]

No one is asking, but I'm going to tell you anyway:

*Ahem*

If they don't love you at your Gooney Bird, they don't deserve you at your Albatross.

(I believe the GIFs below are of the correct species, thus the correct visual aids. If not, please let me know.)

#relationships #relationship advice #unconditional love #gooney birds #albatross #sometimes romance is for the birds #valentines day #weird advice from a weird person #late nights #goofballs are beautiful #be yourself

[aviationgeek71]

Ballad of a Gooney Bird

Gazing skyward, her tail-wheel configuration appears as if she's ready to fly—embracing the celestial world above, loving the heavens like her airmen within.

Pulling chocks from her wheels, line personnel scramble beneath her soft beautiful lines. Aerodynamic curves, waiting to serve her desires, a calling to the sky.

The calm before flight, interrupted by the captain's call, "Clear, right!" A signal to anyone nearby to remain clear of the right propeller.

Pressing the primer, starter, and vibrator switches to the right, the first officer watches as her three-blade propeller begins to rotate on the starboard engine. On the twelfth rotation, puffs of smoke pour from the exhaust as the C-47 rumbles to life—vibrating the entire airframe.

Quickly releasing the starter switch, the first officer keeps pressure on the remaining switches, monitoring the response from the engine. As the rumble transitions to a roar, he releases the vibrator switch while gently advancing the mixture lever, he continues to work the primer until her engine settles into a consistent hum. 

Waiting for the signal from the captain, the first officer prepares to repeat the procedure on her left engine—accomplishing the same series of steps that would be repeated countless times through the decades prior to each flight.

Whether preparing for her daring airborne drops over Normandy; flying the Hump between India and China; to rescuing U.S. forces from the frozen world of North Korea; or supplying the Berlin airlift; the rumble of each engine start still echos through aviation history today.

While her civilian sister, the Douglas DC-3, would serve U.S. airlines, the C-47 Skytrain—sometimes referred to as Gooney Bird—operated as a military transport aircraft from WW2 to Vietnam. While so many other aircraft steal the spotlight, the U.S. C-47 played a major role in conflict, a role unmatched during her era of flight.

Even today, her DC-3 sister still rumbles off runways, serving poorer nations around the globe. A testament to superior aircraft design, a soft simple beauty only recognized by her airmen.

My photos: Douglas C-47 Skytrain Mott's Military Museum, Groveport, October 16, 2021.

By @aviationgeek71

#c 47 skytrain #avgeek #aviation #aviation history #history #my photography #my photo #my writing #original photography #original writing

[wingedjewels]

White Pelican, or Pterodactyl? by Ruby 2417 Via Flickr: Or a Gooney Bird? Seriously, bird there is just having a scratch, but he's totally making me believe that birds evolved from dinosaurs. Las Gallinas Wetlands, San Rafael, Ca. Sept 2023.

#pelican #bird #wild #wildlife #nature #las #gallinas #wetland #wetlands #pond #san #rafael #goony #ridiculous #stritch #scratch #silly #weird #strange #dinosaur #flickr

[theacumbawumba]

I am kinda outside of the animatronic community anymore but I’m curious if anybody has any idea who the VA’s of the characters in the Hard Luck Bears/Country Bear Jubilee are?

I have a list in my head of whos who but I wonder if anyone actually knows or has a more educated guess:

Billy Wilbur: Aaron Fechter

Billy Bob: Jeff Howell or John Cederberg?

Billy Boy: no clue (Clutch Bandmember)

Billy Bill: Burt Wilson

Pete Thornsberry: Burt Wilson?

Repete Thornsberry: Aaron Fechter

Mama Grandbags: no clue (the VA of Queenie?)

Gooney Bird: Aaron Fechter

Mortimer: Aaron Fechter? (John Cederberg?)

Buford: John Cederberg? (Burt Wilson pitched down?)

#hard luck bears #showbiz #showbiz pizza #billy bob brockali #mitzi mozzarella #wolf pack 5 #animatronics #showbiz pizza place #chuck e cheese #creative engineering #animatronic show #history #1970s #1980s #mystery #voice acting #bear country jubilee #country bear jamboree #country bear jubilee #knobels grove #oso willy

[usafphantom2]

This is what happens when a very energetic SR 71 crew gets bored .

The one of the Goony Bird on the landing door is a story in its self. Tony Bevacqua, Pilot and James Kogler, RSO were in #974 and they lost a generator. They landed on Midway Island, so we jumped on a KC-135 to go get it. We changed the generator and had it "OR", in no time. Well, we were stuck there for 4 days, weather and then tanker scheduling. Bevacqua and Kogler had met this Navy officer and his wife at the club. She was an artist and they brought her out to the ramp and she spent about 4 hours painting the Gooney Birds on both landing gear doors. We got the all clear to launch and the runway was so short that we had to back the bird all the way back onto the overrun to launch it. Then we barely got off the runway with the tanker. Can you add any more to the story, Tony Bevacqua?

@Habubrats71 via Twitter

[scarsonhiswrists]

What is a Good Sofa For Your Living Room?

What is a decent sofa for your living room? Most certainly, it is a sofa one you can't help it. It signals when you pass, welcoming you to truly partake in your own living room between evening gatherings. To earn this college education of holding, you might need to supplant your current sofa, an interaction like purchasing click here to learn more another vehicle: quality, comfort, and temptation are key elements, and indeed, great sofas are costly.

Try not to purchase a sofa considering your parents in law and visitors. Get it for you. Check whether it entices - does it entice you to loosen up longwise with a magazine, or brief you to sit upright? Trust the murmur that escapes when you plunk down for a test drive. It shows liberality of scale, some level of goose down filling, and the sort of value you can detect from across the room.

Maybe you currently own a decent sofa, love seat or rocker - "great" meaning it has an attractive shape, a strong frame that doesn't squeak, and a high "aaaah" factor. New upholstery or a slipcover might be all you really want, particularly with a very much fabricated classic sofa that was solid for eternity. Keep in mind, however, that great upholstery is craftsman's work, and priced as needs be. At the point when a planner in a magazine crows that her well proportioned classic love seat cost just $399, she isn't referencing the $2,000 to $3,000 she spent reviving it (the expense of 10 yards of mohair, new goose down, and work).

On the off chance that your old sofa doesn't justify saving, give it to good cause and shop for seating - collectible, rare, or new - that feels really welcoming. Try not to rush: any piece you purchase just to fill a hole will demonstrate a costly gooney bird.

While shopping, you might confront the "sofa versus love seat" living room difficulty. Love seats are feasible options in contrast to the sofa; to be sure, a few creators prefer them since sofas seldom seat three people anyway - nobody needs to stall out in the center. Then again, sofas are works of art, and let you loosen up to peruse. One way or the other, you genuinely can't commit an error in the event that you purchase what you love.

Designed fabric can be beautiful, however it may not be the savvies decision for seating. Pick a strong variety - like that, you won't drive all the other things in the room to adjust to an enormous, designed sofa. For toss pads, make your own, utilizing a similar variety however in various materials to make a symphony of surfaces. A room loaded up with furnishings, is an example without help from anyone else.

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[graded-shenanigans]

I will be going back to 1st grade at a new school this coming fall! I have a few classroom supplies from 5th, but not much that is 1st grade oriented.

I'm sharing my Amazon wishlist in hopes of building up my classroom from the start. I'll also be working a second job on top of doing orientations all summer to help with this. If you can, please consider donating items from my list, sharing, or let me know where I can buy some of these items for cheaper!

My top most needed items are: Ink sets for my printer Lamination sheets Student Mailboxes (see my list for what I am thinking so they last for a long time) Manipulatives for math and sight words Pencils

Books I REALLY want: Gooney Bird Greene (all of them!!) Little Leaders (Bold Women in Black History, Exceptional Men in Black History) Girls Like Me What is Beautiful Ivy & Bean Hidden Figures Your Name is a Song and other diverse books. I will be teaching in a diverse classroom, so I want to make sure all my students see their backgrounds reflected in the stories they read.

Check out my list here: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2WD1NSHHPEV9P...

#teacherspayteachers #teachers helping teachers #teachers #classroom resources #classroom #classroom donations #classroom help #school #students #donations #amazon #tmobile #clear the list #1st grade #first grade teachers #first #amazon wishlist #summer #amazon summer sale #educator

[nocternalrandomness]

D-Day Doll landing at Prestwick

#Douglas #C-53 #Skytrooper #Dakota #Vintage aircraft #WW2 aircraft #troop transport #airplane #Gooney Bird

[garydehart06564]

My Kids Turn Sticks Into Guns

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Gently rub the paper along with your arms. Remove the paper and let the paint dry. Thanksgiving is a great time to give particular gifts to cherished ones. Next, you may find out about a craft that will aid you make a gift people of all ages will get pleasure from. If you are looking for an awesome Thanksgiving reward to make on your little sister or brother -- here it's: An autumn leaves puzzle. It is simple to do and many fun -- everyone will be amazed you made it yourself. Place puzzle on white paper, draw round it, and minimize it out. Repeat several occasions. Use this paper to apply different arrangements with the rubber stamps.When you are happy with the design, apply black ink to the rubber stamp and print on the puzzle. Be careful not to slide the rubber stamp on the puzzle floor. Continue stamping till you have accomplished the design. Let the ink dry.

Take the focus off the fire and add some pizzazz, dressing your mantel up with mirrors, picture frames or a display of objects you’ve collected over time. First, marking the wall with a pencil will assist you keep your home and keep your boards and mantel straight. Make your notches horizontally, 12 inches (30 cm) apart to point out where the top of the shelf meets the wall. To satisfy your homeowner's insurance policy, you may in all probability must follow all local and national rules, as well as chimney inspection rules in some instances. No matter code, you will need to install your mantel high enough above the flames to prevent it from catching fire. If you're utilizing a package, take some time before assembly to visualize how the items of your mantel will fit collectively across the firebox, particularly if you are utilizing marble. The legs of the mantel will probably have to be cut to fit the top of the fireplace.

These vivid and "airy" pumpkins will brighten up your home this holiday season. Begin by inflating a balloon, leaving a 3-inch tail. Inflate one other balloon just one inch.On the longer balloon, pinch and twist a round bubble and two 5-inch bubbles. ­ Bring the 2 5-inch bubbles together. Pinch and twist a five-inch bubble. Bring that bubble together with the other two. Gently push that bubble between the opposite two which were twist-locked. Repeat the last two steps three more times. Push the first spherical bubble inside, as shown. Slide the tail of the second balloon via the pumpkin twice to secure the bubble into the twist-locked finish, as shown. Continue studying to learn to make a foolish hen that can entertain everyone at Thanksgiving dinner. Cluck, cluck, gobble, bobble. Give this goofy bobblehead gooney bird an opportunity to tickle your funny bone. Fold the yellow paper plate in half, and run a line of glue along the inside of the fold line.

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[memoriae-lectoris]

HIGH ASPECT RATIO WINGS are much longer than wide and are used for slower flight as seen in storks, eagles, frigatebirds, pelicans, albatrosses, and seabirds that frequently hover or soar. These wings have deeply notched primary feathers with narrow, pointed wingtips to minimize turbulence and enable long periods of soaring, like the weeklong flights of frigatebirds. Like a tightrope walker with a balancing pole, long wings provide stability and are less susceptible to jostling by air currents. On the other hand, they cannot be used for quick maneuvers. Big birds with high aspect ratio wings usually need to take off from an elevated perch or into the wind. A stiff wind is helpful for landing, which could otherwise be difficult. Military servicemen stationed on Pacific islands during World War II gave the nickname “gooney bird” to the albatross after watching these birds make ungainly and often clumsy takeoffs and landings.

HIGH LIFT, LOW ASPECT RATIO WINGS are broad (wider but shorter) wings found on many raptors like hawks, eagles, vultures, and the Osprey. The birds can soar, glide, and maneuver well, but without much speed. High lift wings don’t have the stability of high aspect ratio wings and they produce more drag, but they provide enough power to soar on thermal updrafts and lift heavy prey. Slow flight is important to predatory birds and scavengers because it allows the birds to scan for potential food sources. The feathers of these wings are curved in cross section to provide lift and the slots formed at the tips of the wings by the primary feathers help to reduce wing tip turbulence (vortices).

HIGH SPEED WINGS are long and pointed and common in ducks, falcons, auks, as well as birds that feed aerially like swifts, undergo long migrations such as shorebirds, or “fly” underwater like puffins and murres. The wings taper to a point to minimize drag and energy consumption but require fast wingbeats to produce lift. Slow flight is difficult.

ELLIPTICAL WINGS are short and rounded to allow for quick maneuvering in tight spaces like forest and scrub habitats. Crows and many other songbirds have elliptical wings for quick changes of direction and minimal drag. Their wingbeat is typically rapid and the primary feathers are strongly slotted to prevent stalling during quick turns and frequent landings and takeoffs. The Cooper’s Hawk pursues its mostly avian prey with a quick burst of speed and agile avoidance of tree branches and shrubbery. The tradeoff for agility is high energy use.

#animal #bird #wings #biology #evolution #book: beak bones and bird songs

[wilbur-rae]

Carowind's Honey Bear Bunch Family Reunion, a Hard Luck Bears retrofit! (Pa Bell (Billy Bill), Ma Bell (Billy Wilbur), Na Bob (Billy Boy), Samantha (Gooney Bird), and Granny Bell! (Mama Granbags)

I havent seen anyting of the Honey Bear Bunch Family Reunion on Tumblr, so heres some art of them :) This show was sponsored by General Mills before, which i think is pretty cool

#honey bear bunch family reunion #hard luck bears #retrofit #animatronic #rock afire explosion #showbiz pizza #bears #family #reunion #honey bear #general mills

[albatross--roofings]

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