I had a pair of 100w landing lights on my Yamaha 850. My Dad put them on it when he worked at the local aircraft plant. You could see forever with them but they were very hard on the charging system and battery so they could only be used for a half hour or so at a time. I had a habit of flashing them at oncoming cars with high beams on until it blinded one so bad he came into my lane and nearly took me out!
Mike On Feb 22, 2013 12:53 PM, "Rich Thomas" < richthomas79td...@constructivity.net> wrote: > When I worked at the airport wayyyyy back when we had a spare landing > light for a Cherokee or something, that got lost back in a cabinet. I was > sorely tempted to make off with it for some nefarious purpose but ended up > fixing some guy's plane late one night when he came in and had no light > (and he gave me $20 for doing it). Anyway, those were 100W lights, and > could throw a fairly tight beam a good mile or two. The 100W bumper lights > I had on my old Blazer could do the same, were just the thing for tweaking > the Beemer drivers who liked driving around with their aux lights on and > aimed in my eyes. > > --R > > On 2/22/13 12:23 PM, Dieselhead wrote: > >> When I plowed schnee, I had two small (3.5 " dia) aircraft landing lights >> on the light bar. I turned them on in parking lots, and there was not much >> I could not see. They are great. Fit right in the cheap waycee jitney fog >> light housings. >> >> >> Reminds me: In 1959, while I was a maintenance crew chief as an E-3 on >>> a B-47E at Lincoln AFB, NE, young arrogant, smart ass lieutenant co-pilot >>> had me reading his checklist for 'im on his preflight inspection. He was >>> very inexperienced with the airplane, and, several times during the >>> inspection, I could tell that he didn't know what to look for, or how to >>> check fluid level in a certain hydraulic reservoir, etc., so I'd give 'im >>> pointers as to what to look for, how to do it, etc. I could also tell that >>> he did not like taking tips, instructions, etc., from a lowly E-3, though >>> this lowly E-3 knew a helluva lot more about the airplane than he did. >>> 'Finally got to the left landing light behind an outer, Plexiglas lens in >>> the lower, forward fairing between the two engines in the left inboard >>> engine pod. The flight crew the day before had mistakenly turned the light >>> on even before taxiing, and it had shattered because of the thermal shock >>> of suddenly going to operating temp after sitting for several days at below >>> 20F. (A really bright flash for a moment in my eyes as I stood out front >>> beginning to direct the taxi out of the parking space.) The Lt. looked at >>> the shattered light for a few seconds and asked, "What's wrong with that?" >>> My terse answer, "It's broken," and moved on to the next item, while >>> telling 'im, "There's not a spare on base". Pilot came along about that >>> time,and Lt. excitedly told 'im about broken light. Pilot glanced at it >>> for a second and replied, "Yep, it's broken, get aboard, let's go." >>> >>> Wilton >>> >> >> ______________________________**_________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives >> http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives > http://www.okiebenz.com/**archive/<http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/> > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/**mailman/listinfo/mercedes_**okiebenz.com<http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com> > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
