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#21
Fishing Photos / Re: When Grampa puts ya on the...
Last post by Okanagan - May 15, 2025, 11:21:04 AMGREAT picture! Dandy fish and a girl to be proud of. Love the freckles! 
#22
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-15
Last post by remrogers - May 15, 2025, 10:28:27 AM1941
May 15
First Allied jet-propelled aircraft flies
On May 15, 1941, the jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 aircraft flies successfully over Cranwell, England, in the first test of an Allied aircraft using jet propulsion. The aircraft's turbojet engine, which produced a powerful thrust of hot air, was devised by Frank Whittle, an English aviation engineer and pilot generally regarded as the father of the jet engine.
Whittle, born in Coventry in 1907, was the son of a mechanic. At the age of 16, he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aircraft apprentice at Cranwell and in 1926 passed a medical exam to become a pilot and joined the RAF College. He won a reputation as a daredevil flier and in 1928 wrote a senior thesis entitled Future Developments in Aircraft Design, which discussed the possibilities of rocket propulsion.
From the first Wright brothers flight in 1903 to the first jet flight in 1939, most airplanes were propeller driven. In 1910 the Romanian inventor Henri Coandă designed a jet-powered biplane, but it allegedly crashed on its maiden flight and never flew again. Coanda's aircraft attracted little notice, and engineers stuck with propeller technology; even though they realized early on that propellers would never overcome certain inherent limitations, especially in regard to speed.
After graduating from the RAF college, Whittle was posted to a fighter squadron, and in his spare time he worked out the essentials of the modern turbojet engine. A flying instructor, impressed with his propulsion ideas, introduced him to the Air Ministry and a private turbine engineering firm, but both ridiculed Whittle's ideas as impractical. In 1930, he patented his jet engine concept and in 1936 formed the company Power Jets Ltd. to build and test his invention. In 1937, he tested his first jet engine on the ground. He still received only limited funding and support, and on August 27, 1939, the German Heinkel He 178, designed by Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain, made the first jet flight in history. The German prototype jet was developed independently of Whittle's efforts.
One week after the flight of the He 178, World War II broke out in Europe, and Whittle's project got a further lease of life. The Air Ministry commissioned a new jet engine from Power Jets and asked the Gloster Aircraft Company to build an experimental aircraft to accommodate it, specified as E 28/39. On May 15, 1941, the jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 flew, beating out a jet prototype being developed by the same British turbine company that earlier balked at his ideas. In its initial tests, Whittle's aircraft–flown by the test pilot Gerry Sayer–achieved a top speed of 370 mph at 25,000 feet, faster than the Spitfire or any other conventional propeller-driven machine.
As the Gloster Aircraft Company worked on an operational turbojet aircraft for combat, Whittle aided the Americans in their successful development of a jet prototype. With Whittle's blessing, the British government took over Power Jets Ltd. in 1944. By this time, Britain's Gloster Meteor jet aircraft were in service with the RAF, shooting down V-1 buzz bombs and helping bomber squadrons develop tactics to counter attacks from Germany's new jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262 fighters.
Whittle retired from the RAF in 1948 with the rank of air commodore. That year, he was awarded 100,000 pounds by the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors and was knighted. His book Jet: The Story of a Pioneer was published in 1953. In 1977, he became a research professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He died in Columbia, Maryland, in 1996.
May 15
First Allied jet-propelled aircraft flies
On May 15, 1941, the jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 aircraft flies successfully over Cranwell, England, in the first test of an Allied aircraft using jet propulsion. The aircraft's turbojet engine, which produced a powerful thrust of hot air, was devised by Frank Whittle, an English aviation engineer and pilot generally regarded as the father of the jet engine.
Whittle, born in Coventry in 1907, was the son of a mechanic. At the age of 16, he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an aircraft apprentice at Cranwell and in 1926 passed a medical exam to become a pilot and joined the RAF College. He won a reputation as a daredevil flier and in 1928 wrote a senior thesis entitled Future Developments in Aircraft Design, which discussed the possibilities of rocket propulsion.
From the first Wright brothers flight in 1903 to the first jet flight in 1939, most airplanes were propeller driven. In 1910 the Romanian inventor Henri Coandă designed a jet-powered biplane, but it allegedly crashed on its maiden flight and never flew again. Coanda's aircraft attracted little notice, and engineers stuck with propeller technology; even though they realized early on that propellers would never overcome certain inherent limitations, especially in regard to speed.
After graduating from the RAF college, Whittle was posted to a fighter squadron, and in his spare time he worked out the essentials of the modern turbojet engine. A flying instructor, impressed with his propulsion ideas, introduced him to the Air Ministry and a private turbine engineering firm, but both ridiculed Whittle's ideas as impractical. In 1930, he patented his jet engine concept and in 1936 formed the company Power Jets Ltd. to build and test his invention. In 1937, he tested his first jet engine on the ground. He still received only limited funding and support, and on August 27, 1939, the German Heinkel He 178, designed by Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain, made the first jet flight in history. The German prototype jet was developed independently of Whittle's efforts.
One week after the flight of the He 178, World War II broke out in Europe, and Whittle's project got a further lease of life. The Air Ministry commissioned a new jet engine from Power Jets and asked the Gloster Aircraft Company to build an experimental aircraft to accommodate it, specified as E 28/39. On May 15, 1941, the jet-propelled Gloster-Whittle E 28/39 flew, beating out a jet prototype being developed by the same British turbine company that earlier balked at his ideas. In its initial tests, Whittle's aircraft–flown by the test pilot Gerry Sayer–achieved a top speed of 370 mph at 25,000 feet, faster than the Spitfire or any other conventional propeller-driven machine.
As the Gloster Aircraft Company worked on an operational turbojet aircraft for combat, Whittle aided the Americans in their successful development of a jet prototype. With Whittle's blessing, the British government took over Power Jets Ltd. in 1944. By this time, Britain's Gloster Meteor jet aircraft were in service with the RAF, shooting down V-1 buzz bombs and helping bomber squadrons develop tactics to counter attacks from Germany's new jet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262 fighters.
Whittle retired from the RAF in 1948 with the rank of air commodore. That year, he was awarded 100,000 pounds by the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors and was knighted. His book Jet: The Story of a Pioneer was published in 1953. In 1977, he became a research professor at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He died in Columbia, Maryland, in 1996.
#23
Fishing Photos / Re: When Grampa puts ya on the...
Last post by Hawks Feather - May 15, 2025, 08:02:24 AMGrandpa, she has really grown. But I am glad that she still likes to fish with you.
#24
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Pinto deer
Last post by Okanagan - May 14, 2025, 11:21:19 PMQuote from: remrogers on May 14, 2025, 11:12:53 AMWas headed out, some twenty years back, to a swimming pool installation, south of Portland, Oregon, on the west side of the Willamette River. Drove around a curve and saw what I took to be someone's goat that had gotten out. Was a piebald deer with three or four regular colored blacktail deer. They all quickly faded into the woods. Only one I have ever seen.
I never saw a piebald deer till I was about 40 years old, and then I started coming to this area where they are more common. It's kinda like the black coyotes: I've never seen a totally black but a few years ago a fellow from the southeast posted here that he had killed four of them and had pictures of several.
#25
Fishing Photos / When Grampa puts ya on the Sma...
Last post by FinsnFur - May 14, 2025, 09:18:31 PM
#26
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Pinto deer
Last post by FinsnFur - May 14, 2025, 09:15:47 PMThat would be a pretty cool site 
#27
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Pinto deer
Last post by remrogers - May 14, 2025, 11:12:53 AMWas headed out, some twenty years back, to a swimming pool installation, south of Portland, Oregon, on the west side of the Willamette River. Drove around a curve and saw what I took to be someone's goat that had gotten out. Was a piebald deer with three or four regular colored blacktail deer. They all quickly faded into the woods. Only one I have ever seen.
#28
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Re: Mama bear and two second y...
Last post by Okanagan - May 14, 2025, 11:04:05 AMQuote from: nastygunz on May 10, 2025, 03:12:15 PMThey love that spring salad!
Do they ever! They LOVE dandlions: flowers, succulent stems and leaves. Any pulpy/juicy green plant seems to be on the menu, plus fresh new grass. For some reason most switchbacks on Canadian logging roads produce a lush patch of grass and dandlions in late May. Every patch of dandelions seemed to sprout a black bear, as well as swampy creek bottom patches of skunk cabbage.
Up there in B.C. the first week in June was the best time to see bears, though some of the hides were beginning to rub by then. It was a little harder to find a bear earlier but on average the hides were better. When our kids were younger every spring our whole family would go on a one day drive to see bears, fish and have a picnic. Five bears spotted in one day was about average, and a couple of times we've seen ten. My best trout of those trips was an 8 1/2 lb. dolly varden. My GREAT grandkids are getting old enough for such a trip now!
#29
The Tailgate / Today in history 5-14
Last post by remrogers - May 14, 2025, 10:59:30 AM1804
May 14
Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest
May 14, 1804: One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
Even before the U.S. government concluded purchase negotiations with France, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his private secretary Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead an expedition into what is now the U.S. Northwest. On May 14, the "Corps of Discovery"—featuring approximately 45 men (although only approximately 33 men would make the full journey)—left St. Louis for the American interior.
The expedition traveled up the Missouri River in a 55-foot-long keelboat and two smaller boats. In November, Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader accompanied by his young Native American wife Sacagawea, joined the expedition as an interpreter. The group wintered in present-day North Dakota before crossing into present-day Montana, where they first saw the Rocky Mountains.
On the other side of the Continental Divide, they were met by Sacagawea's tribe, the Shoshone, who sold them horses for their journey down through the Bitterroot Mountains. After passing through the dangerous rapids of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in canoes, the explorers reached the calm of the Columbia River, which led them to the sea. On November 8, 1805, the expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean. After pausing there for the winter, the explorers began their long journey back to St. Louis.
On September 23, 1806, after almost two and a half years, the expedition returned to the city, bringing back a wealth of information about the region (much of it already inhabited by Native Americans), as well as valuable U.S. claims to Oregon Territory.
May 14
Lewis and Clark depart to explore the Northwest
May 14, 1804: One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
Even before the U.S. government concluded purchase negotiations with France, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his private secretary Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead an expedition into what is now the U.S. Northwest. On May 14, the "Corps of Discovery"—featuring approximately 45 men (although only approximately 33 men would make the full journey)—left St. Louis for the American interior.
The expedition traveled up the Missouri River in a 55-foot-long keelboat and two smaller boats. In November, Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader accompanied by his young Native American wife Sacagawea, joined the expedition as an interpreter. The group wintered in present-day North Dakota before crossing into present-day Montana, where they first saw the Rocky Mountains.
On the other side of the Continental Divide, they were met by Sacagawea's tribe, the Shoshone, who sold them horses for their journey down through the Bitterroot Mountains. After passing through the dangerous rapids of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in canoes, the explorers reached the calm of the Columbia River, which led them to the sea. On November 8, 1805, the expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean. After pausing there for the winter, the explorers began their long journey back to St. Louis.
On September 23, 1806, after almost two and a half years, the expedition returned to the city, bringing back a wealth of information about the region (much of it already inhabited by Native Americans), as well as valuable U.S. claims to Oregon Territory.
#30
Non Hunting/Fishing Photos / Pinto deer
Last post by Okanagan - May 14, 2025, 10:40:23 AM
One afternoon last week this doe and three others were feeding a mile or so from our house. The other deer were normal color. Blacktail deer. Not sure if pinto or piebald is the best name for this color scheme!
Two years ago a normal colored doe in this same field had twin fawns that were both pinto. We saw them a few times, then last Fall we saw a pinto doe lying in this field with a fork horn buck standing beside her. I'm pretty sure this doe last week is one of the fawns from two years ago , and is probably the same doe we saw last Fall.
There is quite a bit of white genetics in the deer of this county, and over the years we've seen several with varied combos of white/brown/black. 100 miles or so from here, up along the Canadian border near Sumas, WA one year there was an all white doe we saw a number of times. She was totally white but not an albino.
Zoomed in with too much maginification for my thyroid shaky hands to hold the phone steady.
