Ultra-low flyby of a DC-3!

[nudemetalz]

Didnt see bee marine use Grumman Goose's out of Dorkland harbour, why is this ringing bells?

Sorry, a little off topic but here's a great ewetube of them.
Love the radials !!!

[Motu]

The SeaBee Air Grumman Goose were the airlink to Waiheke Island when I lived there ('85 to '96), so they were just part of life. Those airframes took some pounding - they normally landed at Surfdale as in the video, but if it was too rough there they went over to Oneroa on the north side. I was on a flight taking off from Oneroa once - we went way out from the bay, out into the Pacific bloody Ocean, the swells were so big we were losing sight of land in the troughs. Then we took off, charging into the bay....we only just cleared the shops. They had to hand crank the wheels up and down - taxi down to the water and then crank them up for ages, same with landing, they had to crank them down to come out. We lived for a couple of years on one of the landing paths to Surfdale - I'd be in the back yard, look up and a Goose would be just a few feet above my head, feathered and silent. Magic.

Re the DC3 - one of their last commercial uses was top dressing - I remember stopping and watching one as it dressed some paddocks out Kawakawa Bay way....almost motionless close to the ground turning on a wing.

[dangerous]

Sorry, a little off topic but here's a great ewetube of them.
Love the radials !!!

dont be, thats farking cool man... wonder where they ended up? tell ya what heres a dream for ya's I'd love one in the back yard (padock) turn it into a bar you know man cave, plant a couple of rusty old bikes from the era around it ohhh yeah, hohohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[FJRider]

Re the DC3 - one of their last commercial uses was top dressing - I remember stopping and watching one as it dressed some paddocks out Kawakawa Bay way....almost motionless close to the ground turning on a wing.

I remember watching one work out of Woodbourne in Blenheim in 1975. Taking off with a full load ... it barely cleared the fence at the end of the runway.

[Berries]

Not a DC-3 but I just watched Top Gun again init.

[nudemetalz]

..and people get paid to fly these Tornados like this....??

[dangerous]

If ya wana head a tad off topic well DC listen to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7QC55K2DrY and you thought the DC sounded cool "radial sleeve valve" dont ask me how they work kinda like a two stroke I think.

[unstuck]

Kinda sounds like an old btd6, without the muffler. Real cool.

[Zedder]

I certainly don't care if it's off topic, keep 'em coming!

[unstuck]

I certainly don't care if it's off topic, keep 'em coming!

What he said.

[dangerous]

I "radial sleeve valve" dont ask me how they work kinda like a two stroke I think.

found this vid, buggered if I know how the barrel sleaves rotate...

[unstuck]

Looks like a window wiper action type action making the sleeves rotate? Who the hell thinks up all this stuff. Fuck I just think up boring shit.

[nudemetalz]

The Hawker Sea Fury had a Bristol Centaurus radial which was sleeve valve. At a flyby pass, they sound quite different to a high speed Yank poppet-valve radial.

Sea Fury


Corsair



I prefer the Sea Fury,...err no wait, the Corsair,..err no wait...damn they're both awesome !!!

[Zedder]

[QUOTE=dangerous;1130455208]found this vid, buggered if I know how the barrel sleaves rotate...

Very interesting, lots of interlinked parts there.

Another one is the early rotary where the crankshaft is fixed to the airframe, and the crankcase and cylinders rotate around it.

[dangerous]

The Hawker Sea Fury had a Bristol Centaurus radial which was sleeve valve.

ok didnt relise they were 18cyl sleave valve... mind you they did have verious power plants in them including Rolls-Royce Griffon and Napier Sabre VII, which was capable of developing 3,400-4,000 hp watch this vid right through, my fav is the fury that super charger sound OH OH OHhhhhhh...