Ultra-low flyby of a DC-3!

[Berries]

More thrust please captain -

[husaberg]

If you have ever seen a Hercules close up doing terrain flying in little river valleys it is a site you never forget.

[dangerous]

Ok so yesterday I spent the day with a few school mums... ohh and 30 kids, anyway went to the wigram musume hangers 2-3 were the resto work is done and aircraft not on show. There was a bristol Fraighter with what I consider as the best sounding engines ever radial sleave (no valves) Huculeas now there was a engine on display, awesome looking thing twin exhaust port very fine cooling fins... mean

What wasent so mean is every single aircraft in there I have seen fly, now they are grounded, guess one day Ill be grounded to.
wasp, andover, cataleaner, soux, seaspright, dc3, bristol, skyhawk, strikemaste,r dove and a Hudson

[ellipsis]

Ok so yesterday I spent the day with a few school mums...

...that must be the 20 miles from home and before 3pm club?...

[husaberg]

Ok so yesterday I spent the day with a few school mums... ohh and 30 kids, anyway went to the wigram musume hangers 2-3 were the resto work is done and aircraft not on show. There was a bristol Fraighter with what I consider as the best sounding engines ever radial sleave (no valves) Huculeas now there was a engine on display, awesome looking thing twin exhaust port very fine cooling fins... mean

What wasent so mean is every single aircraft in there I have seen fly, now they are grounded, guess one day Ill be grounded to.
wasp, andover, cataleaner, soux, seaspright, dc3, bristol, skyhawk, strikemaste,r dove and a Hudson

Out of interest How many of the 3 o'clock Taxis had on puffer jackets?
I remember there was a broken Bristol freighter fuselage at Ferrymead when I was a kid. Chathams Air I think still might have been flying them then.

Anyway here is the donk.
Count how many gears.

[dangerous]

ohh yeah I mean think biout it what or who ever designed that farking thing.. awesome

[george formby]

Barnstorming indeed.

[Swoop]

The RNZAF are still flying!

This shot is taken out in the "death star trench" area.



Here we have a shot of a 3rd, 4th and 5th Generation of fighter aircraft.

[dangerous]

found this vid, its a long one but well worth the look, awesome beast and a mish to fly... hows that bombadeers view for ya.




Now I sent the link to my step father you can tell he knows his shit this is what he had to say about the 29er

Old FIFI the only B29 flying these days as I understand it, though there is one in Wichita that may end up being airworthy as well, I believe around 3500 to 3600 were built.

By all accounts bitches of things to fly, and taxi, no nose wheel steering, nose wheel pivoted controlled by using main wheel brakes. A consequence of this was throttle controls outboard of the pilot and co pilots seats used only on take off, because the rudder did not take effect till around 35 knots, differential throttle application was required by the pilot to stop the aircraft pulling to one side of the runway as power was applied for the take off roll. All other input such as prop pitch, fuel rich, was done by the Flight Engineer, as was throttle settings for various stages of flight, approach and landing.

Big 18 cylinder radials Wright Cyclones 2200 HP each aircraft fully laden was just over 60 tons a bit lighter than a B737-200.

As mentioned these things flew like a brick apparently, no power boost or servo tabs assisting flight control movement, and to keep the Muthatruka straight on approach for landing especially with crosswinds huge aileron and rudder input was needed as they wallowed over the fence at around 100 knots, obviously strong arm and leg muscles were needed!!

Flight engineers were used up to and including B747-200, DC10 , B727, B707 era aircraft and all early multi piston engine aircraft, they are an extinct species now with modern aircraft. The DC10 that crashed into Mt Erebus in the Antarctic, the last recorded words of the Captain was a command to the Flight Engineer saying " Go Round Power Please"

The flight engineer on the B29 is a busy person, controls fuel off/ on, rich/ lean, prop pitch, engine synchronisation, hence the power and fuel levers not quite aligned as each engine required a slightly different control input to match each engines performance and prop RPM. You could see and hear him making the power adjustments once he got it right he pulsating of the engines became an even beat. A very interesting video.

[Swoop]

Old FIFI the only B29 flying these days as I understand it, though there is one in Wichita that may end up being airworthy as well

He's referring to "Doc".
A stunning rebuild and she should be flying already. Just waiting for FAA paperwar...

I posted something recently about the WW2 Pacific bombing campaign and it went into what the flight engineer had to do. The planning that went into each bombing mission over Japan was quite involved, from the fighter escorts (& their specific nav aircraft) to the rescue areas of ocean and pickup aircraft dedicated to each ditching area.