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  1. Student Pilot
    I think he was ex-navy, had a grey beard from an old distant memory
  2. Student Pilot
    I think they disappear in flight
  3. Student Pilot
    Victor 1 never used to be controlled airspace, things changed?
  4. Student Pilot
    Was that the Neil MacDonald that used to fly for the Transavia factory?
  5. Student Pilot
    He wasn't far off the ground when he pulled the handle. He didn't appear to try rocking it with power and elevator to get the nose down. From a distant past I remember they put strakes on the fuse in front of the tail-plane on Tigers and chipmunks to help with spin recovery.
  6. Student Pilot
    Somebodies pride and joy, recon it's a great grandson of the Percival EP 9. Very unusual full flying tail for a design like that.
  7. Student Pilot
    The hairy old chestnut of "Forward" slips. No such thing, your either side-slipping or your not. I did make a point of watching this all the way through, I find this series pretty hard to watch. He did not mention anywhere in the Vid about "Forward" slips, just side-slips and skidding turns. His side-slips I agree with, a good way of losing altitude/speed. I do not agree with his skidding turns, sure way to depart from controlled flight. With those places he demonstrated skidding turns he could have turned balanced without risk of tip strike. My advice would be NEVER do a skidding turn, any circumstances.
  8. Student Pilot
    There were lots of Corsairs on the 70's TV series Black Sheep, was pretty lame storylines but had lots of footage of Corsairs
  9. Student Pilot
    Correct and they have angry eyebrows and chatter incessantly all night with a full moon. I'll have to put on an irony and sarcasm warning
  10. Student Pilot
    Whose this Jack bloke? and it's still summer?
  11. Student Pilot
    Is the piston pin offset in the 3300 fitted before or after TDC? I take it by your not answering my question you do have an affiliation with Jab in some way?
  12. Student Pilot
    Disagree Talk to an engineer who has been working on Jabs. Do you have any affiliation with Jabiru or the production of parts, engines or any componentry that is fitted on Jab engines?
  13. Student Pilot
    Ask anybody who has worked on Jabs for any length of time, they will tell you the problem is usually not the people who are operating the engine. The likes of fitting pistons in from the factory with the piston pin offset around the wrong way. Anybody know why that was done?
  14. Student Pilot
    The aircraft I have posted are examples of a base aircraft either being modified (heavily/slightly or not at all) or copied then called something else First one is and always will be an Aeronca but as it's rego says it's a Gilles Fortin. The same with the float aircraft, obvious Tri-Pacer heritage, they have been called everything from Bushmaster/Javelin Stol to Bearhawk. All based on the poor old Tri-Pacer platform. The float aircraft I posted when you look up the rego of C-GULT says it's an Eagle 180 but it's still a Piper Tri-Pacer, all be it modified. Even this one
  15. Student Pilot
    Nup, it's a 4 seater
  16. Student Pilot
    Did a bit of looking, they train there with Seminoles and Archers/Arrows. Looking at the second wreck it had a full flying tail so would be a Piper product.
  17. Student Pilot
    Looks mebe Seneca? Hard to imagine anybody walking away from that. Other looks like a 172 tailplane, not much left of the pair of them.
  18. Student Pilot
    Rightio Here's an example of which I speak, see who can identify thus And another example Looks vaguely familiar but.................................
  19. Student Pilot
    If it's a Quebec aircraft they have all sorts of stuff with aircraft regulations. One of the spots I was working there was an Aeronca with skies fitted. I looked up the rego and because the bloke had rebuilt it he changed the name to something with his name in it. It was an Aeronca. Might bethe same with this machine, different wing area could just be a different sort of wingtip. Ole mates just copied the design and called it his.
  20. Student Pilot
    Bush Caddy, the one I looked at had wheels but looked a good little jigger. Bloke who built it worked for Bombadier, he left school and joined them, worked his entire working life then retired. He had a hand in BJ design, after retirement went back to proper aircraft ?
  21. Student Pilot
    Fly the aircraft, usually the uncomplicated answer. If you look at a lot of threads on aviation forums they start with a simple enough statement. That statement is then dissected and miss quoted, the armchair experts then become involved with some theory on how they would never crash and how things should be done better. It's best if you can make the subject as complicated as possible, bringing aviation law into it, that's always good for another couple of pages. Then there's usually somebody who takes offence at a comment/phrase/statement/opinion, personal insults then swap for the next few pages. Ultimately interest in the thread wains, nobody agrees because they know their opinion is right (Or a rite). Fly the aircraft A bit facile but I have nothing to do this afternoon besides waiting with the Batphone, mebe I should find something useful to do instead of pot stirring
  22. Student Pilot
    It's good we have so many expert fliers on this site that know the answer to everything
  23. Student Pilot
    With 985 in Beaver it used to take ages on a cold frosty morning for the oil to get to 40C, I would be still sitting purring away and the Fletcher's with their 720's were on the way to the job
  24. Student Pilot
    Wonder what the gearing on the prop is, does it rev at 2300 revs like a radial does? If it does it won't be any quieter, the noise you hear with a Beaver on takeoff is the prop tips goen supersonic not engine noise.
  25. Student Pilot
    It doesn't look a lot different to a Garret conversion done a few years ago in Oz, I think it still getting the guts thrashed out of it on para ops somewhere
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