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10-03-2016, 03:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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Three Oceans
My RV officially has been to three ocean beaches. How about yours?
Pacific Ocean beach.
Arctic Ocean beach.
Atlantic Ocean beach.
They all look the same, don't they? 
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10-03-2016, 03:52 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Dallas area
Posts: 10,768
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But the "ROCKS" on the Arctic beach are white! Why is that?
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Mel Asberry, DAR since the last century.
EAA Flight Advisor/Tech Counselor, Friend of the RV-1
Recipient of Tony Bingelis Award and Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award
USAF Vet, High School E-LSA Project Mentor.
RV-6 Flying since 1993 (sold)
<rvmel(at)icloud.com>
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10-03-2016, 04:20 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 8,151
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mel
But the "ROCKS" on the Arctic beach are white! Why is that?
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I guess because these whiten the rocks

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10-03-2016, 05:01 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Central IL
Posts: 5,516
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And all within a few weeks of each other. I was thinking about that when you were on your last trip! Very cool. (no pun intended)
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Bill
RV-7
Lord Kelvin:
“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about,
and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you
cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge
is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind.”
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10-04-2016, 06:52 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Carmel, IN
Posts: 38
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Excellent Vlad! Great pictures and a great accomplishment with the RV!
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Rich Aquino
CH-53E Pilot, USMC
RV-6 Flying (Aspiring Builder)
Indianapolis, IN (KMQJ)
VAF Dues Gladly Paid Despite the Waiver! Thanks Doug!
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10-04-2016, 07:07 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Newark, IL
Posts: 287
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beaches...
Fascinating, Vlad!
Forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to "read" the sand before landing? I can imagine it is like landing on Velcro, and by the time you realize that it is too soft you are trapped...? How does one know that the sand is 'Goldilocks firm', not too wet, not too dry? Don't the wheel pants fill up with sand and change balance? ... And do you worry about vapor lock preventing a hot re-start as the tide comes in?
From personal experience, you haven't really been stuck in a 4x4 until you've been stuck in sand.
BTW, I live in the mid-west... most of our beaches are concrete.
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10-04-2016, 09:20 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 1,967
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Very Cool!
Inspiring photos from a man who knows what planes are meant for... Thanks, Vlad!
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10-04-2016, 10:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: TX32
Posts: 1,891
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The Gauntlet...
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Originally Posted by Vlad
My RV officially has been to three ocean beaches. How about yours? 
They all look the same, don't they? 
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Ah Vlad, throwing the beach landing gauntlet down, but I didn't notice a Golfo De Mexico landing anywhere...  I know it's not an ocean, but hey...
Nicely done!
Dos Vedanya!!
Smokey
PS: Back in the late 90's I landed my RV4 on the Sea of Cortez and Pacific beaches of Baja, Mexico during low tide, the best conditions as you well know. (Alaskans carry tide tables in their airplanes!) Both landings were next to beached whales I spotted. Upon landing on the Pacific side, Wolves were entering the carcass and gorging themselves until my 0-320's bark scared them off...
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10-04-2016, 11:09 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calhoun, GA
Posts: 49
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how do you even find out where it is okay to land on the beach?
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Tommy Palmer
Built and Flying RV7A
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10-04-2016, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Elk Grove, CA
Posts: 122
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Yeah. All Photoshoped.
Nicely done though. 8^)
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Bruce W
RV-7 QB
(500+ hours)
Elk Grove, CA
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