How airplanes are REALLY made
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FredMa
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Re: How airplanes are REALLY made
Here are some pics of a couple of avro ansons with the same problem.
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FredMa
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Re: How airplanes are REALLY made
http://youtu.be/7Jkj63Vez98
A related video you may also enjoy.
A related video you may also enjoy.
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FredMa
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Re: How airplanes are REALLY made
This also happened with two B-17's during wwII over Hamberg Germany. NO pictures of course but a very interesting story. A few of the crew members that bailed out didn't make it but most did and a pilot that flew both planes to the ground while on fire did survive the crash with practically no injury.
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FredMa
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Yeah, it kind of reminded me of two mad hornets attacking each other in flight. No translation is necessary, I can already imagine what they were saying.
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GAHorn
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Re: How airplanes are REALLY made
I was flying a state representative in a Baron and had entered downwind on the 45 at the uncontrolled field. I made callouts downwind, base, and final.
When on very short final (less than 1/4 mile) my passenger tapped me on the shoulder and pointed out the shadow of a wing on the trailing edge of my left wing. I'd have never noticed it until too late otherwise.
It was a restored-Stearman arriving straight-in and descending onto final approach...no radio calls.
I went around by diving to the right and flying alongside him while he touched down. I then turned crosswind and re-entered the pattern.
When I got to the FBO office the Stearman pilot had bailed-out leaving his airplane to the line-boys to tie-down, jumped into his car and immediately left, clearly not wishing to discuss the matter with me. The FBO people stated that he was a regular and had the sort of attitude that he was more important than anyone else in the pattern, that he almost never used his radio unless he was calling ahead for services, but that he'd been surprised by the sudden appearance of a Baron on his right wing as he flared and landed.
He apparently never realized that he'd almost let down onto me.
When on very short final (less than 1/4 mile) my passenger tapped me on the shoulder and pointed out the shadow of a wing on the trailing edge of my left wing. I'd have never noticed it until too late otherwise.
It was a restored-Stearman arriving straight-in and descending onto final approach...no radio calls.
I went around by diving to the right and flying alongside him while he touched down. I then turned crosswind and re-entered the pattern.
When I got to the FBO office the Stearman pilot had bailed-out leaving his airplane to the line-boys to tie-down, jumped into his car and immediately left, clearly not wishing to discuss the matter with me. The FBO people stated that he was a regular and had the sort of attitude that he was more important than anyone else in the pattern, that he almost never used his radio unless he was calling ahead for services, but that he'd been surprised by the sudden appearance of a Baron on his right wing as he flared and landed.
He apparently never realized that he'd almost let down onto me.
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