Calling all pilots! What is it?

[martybabe]

What an interesting thread and what a knowledgeable lot you are, however, slightly off thread topic tilt and at the risk of being shot by you piston heads, I present the following quick vid.

Sat atop a hill one day in sunny Jersey, one of these came up from behind and flew over my head not very many metres up, I literally shook from my head through every internal organ to my feet, never have I heard noise like it, I nearly weed with excitement.

Crank up the volume guys, it's like god's come to town and he's fuggin well angry.

[James Deuce]

He was lucky to make it to Ohakea. Left the speed brake deployed (thingies poking up from the wings).

Jets are the only thing in the sky that manage to suck and blow at the same time.

[dangerous]

Are you telling me there is some sort of "have a go day" for ww2 fighter planes?

Used to be at Wigram till a certain group closed the air field down... 1-2k for a spin in a P51

Buy and fly a P51 Mustang please, every week? And we'll do a deal?

Due to living next to Wigram every week for a month Id get to hear and watch just that, and others, just like a air show in my back yard.

What an interesting thread and what a knowledgeable lot you are, however, slightly off thread topic tilt and at the risk of being shot by you piston heads, I present the following quick vid.

Now find ya self a vid of a Venum or Vampire... what an eary sound, a real jet boxed up in a plywood air frame... crazy but so cool.

[Madmax]

for all the piston heads
http://www.enginehistory.org/index.php

[Genestho]

If you want a ride in a Mustang, it can be arranged. Call in on the warbirds at Ardmore and show them the colour of your money. The price will have gone up by now, but the last time I had a mate go up in the back seat, it cost him $1000 for half an hour.

If you are serious, PM me and I will make some enquiries.

Well I am serious! You only live once!!!

We have a local Mustang, I haven't seen it in the air for awhile, so I might ask around, how one would go about going for fang!

If it's too much hard work, I'll give it a miss, but keep an ear out!

[BMWST?]

coupla points on random queries...most WW2 fighters are of course single seaters.
The capacity of these engines is huge.The merlin V12 is 26 litres.The griffon is 36 litres.Max revs is about 2500 RPM.
Another impresive WW2 fighter is the corsair.I didnt rate it the first time i saw it at Wanaka.However at Wairarapa at the beginning of this year the pilot gave a much better display..you could easily see why the Japanese troops referred to it as "whispering death",you could hardly hear it coming...Big strong fast plane

[BMWST?]

He was lucky to make it to Ohakea. Left the speed brake deployed (thingies poking up from the wings).

Jets are the only thing in the sky that manage to suck and blow at the same time.

i was at that air show(was a wee fella)Rongotai and still vaugely recall a aborted landing

[Pussy]

The merlin V12 is 26 litres.The griffon is 36 litres.Max revs is about 2500 RPM.

The Mustang on take-off uses 61" of boost and 3000rpm.... ahhh, sweet music!

[dangerous]

Avro Vulcan Near-crash Landing He was lucky to make it to Ohakea. Left the speed brake deployed (thingies poking up from the wings)

that be spoilers or air brakes...

Wellington, or Rongati as it was known back then, 1960 opening of the airport airshow, the Vulcan was a bitch to land, no reverse thrust, needed lotsa runway, which WLG does not have, tried to kiss the threshhold but got the wheels under the embankment, soo close to being totalled, pilot rammed emrg throttle, got off again, flew to Ohakea semi crash landed, took six weeks to fix.

That airport sometimes has the wind going in two different directions at either end of the runway, one of NAC's ZK BWO Viscounts fell down the embankment at that southern end when the pilot run out of road. caused a bit of chit chat. I think they promoted the pilot --- to a desk job if I have my facts correct.

We have a local Mustang, I haven't seen it in the air for awhile, so I might ask around, how one would go about going for fang!

As far as I know there is only one duel seat P51 in NZ

[Pussy]

As far as I know there is only one duel seat P51 in NZ

Two... one lives at Wanaka, and one at Ardmore

[dipshit]

Mustangs! You lucky thing! They sound AMAZING, nothing quite like a V12 Merlin in full song.

But the link T.G.W gave ( http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/pages/95yak1.html ) wasn't a Mustang..???

[Genestho]

But the link T.G.W gave ( http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/pages/95yak1.html ) wasn't a Mustang..???

No, that's a link to a Yak52 (apparently - I know nussink of de yak)

I'm trying to ascertain whether or not it's my circling plane, which - if it visits again at 10.00 hours tomorrow, I'm going to try to get a photo for confirmation from our KB Pilots and Enthusiasts.

[Pussy]

I reckon you might have a bit of Avgas running through your veins, T.G.W!

[dangerous]

I'm trying to ascertain whether or not it's my circling plane, which - if it visits again at 10.00 hours tomorrow, I'm going to try to get a photo for confirmation from our KB Pilots and Enthusiasts.

does it resemble a saucer, with lots of lights and moves from side to side very rapidly?

maybe its a Polikarpov (wind that cart down Ruskie)

I reckon you might have a bit of Avgas running through your veins, T.G.W!

yeah, just like my 250 and 350LC's and FXR's hehehe... mixed with fully syn oil YUM YUM.

[Pussy]

yeah, just like my 250 and 350LC's and FXR's hehehe... mixed with fully syn oil YUM YUM.

That's one thing I miss about flying a turbine.... the smell of Avgas exhaust.
There are those that love the smell of jet fuel in the mornings... not this kid!