Ultralights Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 very lucky boy indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfGnome Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Whatever happened to the idea of stopping before you go too far?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rick-p Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 I Whatever happened to the idea of stopping before you go too far?? No brains no brakes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turboplanner Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 The disbelief factor slows your reflex action without a pre-loaded sub conscious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owi Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Definitely a big brown stain on that/those seat/s now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 My goodness! What did the pilot have on board that degraded performance to that extent...lead ingots? You can usually get the tail of a Stinson up only seconds after applying full power but this one seemed to take forever. Once up, I think the pilot was trying to drag it off the ground whereas all that happened was that the airframe drag increased and kept it attached to terra firma. And the greater the firma on take off the greater the terra, too! kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Do they have variable pitch propellers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaz3g Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Not when they were built... Franklin 165hp, wood prop was common arrangement. Lots of variants now, however, with Lycoming 0-360's and bigger Continentals, too so could be a CS problem, I guess. They take 4 people plus full fuel and are supposed to get off the ground in less than 200m kaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ozzie Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 Chainsaw will fix that strips problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultralights Posted June 18, 2011 Author Share Posted June 18, 2011 found a story behind it on shortfield website, in short he was 3 up, full fuel, and a hot 38deg day at an altitude of 2800 AMSL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 The passengers would have been very impressed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Camel Posted June 18, 2011 Share Posted June 18, 2011 does not appear to have any flap out, do they have flaps and would they have helped? I certainly think I would have put a little flap out to get off the ground and over the trees a little higher instead of through the trees. Certainly very lucky to have escaped disaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 19, 2011 Share Posted June 19, 2011 Ultralight's last post has the ingredients. It certainly had little performance, even on climb out. The altitude is the sneaky bit and the Density altitude would have been pretty high. I have flown into Gyra, and Mount Hotham and the performance really drops off, especially on a hot day. You check the charts and still don't believe them . I tend to have a point on the runway where I have reached a set speed or I give it away. The Runway in the vid had a downhill section at the far end so that doesn't help the stopping bit. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightyknots Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 I tend to have a point on the runway where I have reached a set speed or I give it away. The Runway in the vid had a downhill section at the far end so that doesn't help the stopping bit. Nev The runway clearly helped the take-off bit. Without the slope to give it better groundspeed, the plane would have been in real trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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