wonder if there are any Gull SAR anecdotes? Did notice a bay rescue gull in the pictures and a few aerial recon procedures once
(sweetly puzzling as it is, for a missing dog article to appear in the newspaper in an Indian desert city) Bella, a golden retriever, owned by the Burns family like their own baby, went missing two weeks ago. They've put a bounty of a spotless old car, going by its blue book value, worth a good EFIS. her partner dog was found a few miles away from home within the hour. People in Nelson/Hardin counties in Kentucky are still busy searching. (my hunch is she's expecting, reverted to her mother wolf instincts temporarily, will likely be visible again in a few weeks)
rc
search and rescue (bit offtopic)
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earthstaraircraft
Re: search and rescue (bit offtopic)
Hi Rahul
Yes there are lots of story's of searches by thunder gulls.
I have found missing dogs, horses, cows, model air plains, for nabor's and friends. They often call me.
One time I was at a nabors pick nick, a little girl had a helium balloon, well, it was headed for the sky, at about 200 feet per minute. In a gentle breeze of about 8 mph on a heading of 160 degrees. She ran over to me and asked if I could go up and get it and bring it back.
I said I sure. And went to my soaring gull that was parked right there since I had used it to git to the pick nick.
There were about 20 people there and some we're placing bets as to my dubious success, at least as they saw it.
I had it all planed out, I had tracked it before I took off and knew were and how high it would be and had removed the door, pulling out the hinge pin.
By this time, the balloon had reached a hight of 2200 feet AGL and covered about 3 miles. Having chased balloon's for sport before I had learned some tricks. Like, approach from below so it has the sky as the background and does git lost in the clutter of the ground. Than approach with full flaps and stabilized minim airspeed at 25 mph. I made several passes to because if I missed the grab of the string it could end up in the prop, not a good environment for balloons.
I used a military sequencing approach, were you pas your target than count to 4 and turn left count to 4 and again until you are in the same place as you started and can adjust your corse to line up to grab the string. Than real it in carefully and fly back slowly to a a happy little girl and a bunch of surprised people.
The fun stuff you can do with a Gull!
Happy Flying
Mark Beierle
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Yes there are lots of story's of searches by thunder gulls.
I have found missing dogs, horses, cows, model air plains, for nabor's and friends. They often call me.
One time I was at a nabors pick nick, a little girl had a helium balloon, well, it was headed for the sky, at about 200 feet per minute. In a gentle breeze of about 8 mph on a heading of 160 degrees. She ran over to me and asked if I could go up and get it and bring it back.
I said I sure. And went to my soaring gull that was parked right there since I had used it to git to the pick nick.
There were about 20 people there and some we're placing bets as to my dubious success, at least as they saw it.
I had it all planed out, I had tracked it before I took off and knew were and how high it would be and had removed the door, pulling out the hinge pin.
By this time, the balloon had reached a hight of 2200 feet AGL and covered about 3 miles. Having chased balloon's for sport before I had learned some tricks. Like, approach from below so it has the sky as the background and does git lost in the clutter of the ground. Than approach with full flaps and stabilized minim airspeed at 25 mph. I made several passes to because if I missed the grab of the string it could end up in the prop, not a good environment for balloons.
I used a military sequencing approach, were you pas your target than count to 4 and turn left count to 4 and again until you are in the same place as you started and can adjust your corse to line up to grab the string. Than real it in carefully and fly back slowly to a a happy little girl and a bunch of surprised people.
The fun stuff you can do with a Gull!
Happy Flying
Mark Beierle
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earthstaraircraft
Re: search and rescue (bit offtopic)
Jump in your plain and look for the dog! You might find it, but don't fly over houses or low. The most dangerous thing you can do is search, so be extra cautious.
Happy flying
Mark
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Happy flying
Mark
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rahulchoudhary73
Re: search and rescue (bit offtopic)
Hats off, Sir! laughing gulls was so apt, wonder it was those 2stroke engines that turned it to thundergull. Just counting dove nests here, thought there may be a gull in Bella's state