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  1. Student Pilot
    So much better than nautical miles, statute miles, furlongs, chains, rods, cubits and yards
  2. Student Pilot
    Peter Blewet flying then? Les cooper?
  3. Student Pilot
    I used to goen stroll through Marshals hangar when I got to visit Bankstown (father and uncle used to work for Air Ag at Hangar 17, I worked for Tom at a much later date) as a kid, Spitfire x2, 109, KI 43 and all sorts of machinery. There was a ground trainer with small wings on it I thought would have been great. In those days a kid could walk through a hangar and nobody would bat an eye.
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  5. Student Pilot
    CAC had plans for an AG conversion of Winjeels when they left service. They proposed PT6 power and a forward cockpit with the hopper over the wing behind the pilot. Never got passed the planning stage, I have seen a drawing, it looked workable.
  6. Student Pilot
    I think the Disney one was based on a 402 Air Tractor
  7. Student Pilot
    Kiwi's have a good claim with what seems credible information that a Kiwi flew before the Wrights as well.
  8. Student Pilot
    If using retardant the SG is slightly heavier than water. A Fireboss normally doesn't usually carry a full load either from the water or off land, the floats are a significant dint in performance compared to a wheeled 802. Fuel load is 1400 litres plus a 3000L hopper load, the empty weight for a wheeled 802 is around 3000 kg. The only information I could find about the weight of floats is 1000 kg, that seems light as the amphib gear is pretty solid. So just allowing for the weight of the floats the load of a Fireboss would be 2/3 of the wheeled 802. Most new 8's now are fitted with the F version of the PT6-67 which is rated at 1700 SHP, they do go well 😜
  9. Student Pilot
    I'd rather the Thruster 😜
  10. Student Pilot
    Years and years of being ignored, hostility, non action and outright incompetence have made one jaded. Talk to most in GA, they are of a similar view. The less I interact with casa the easier life is.
  11. Student Pilot
    Good luck approaching casa and expecting an answer.......
  12. Student Pilot
    80% there and 90% to go 🤣 The details take a lot of time to finish a build.
  13. Student Pilot
    They were called "conventional" gear, you didn't have to be a hairy chested sky god to fly one 😜
  14. Student Pilot
    Nearly as efficient as the Americans with Iranian flight 655, they had to use two missiles to down the Airbus with 290 souls on board.
  15. Student Pilot
    Where did you get those statistics? 90%?
  16. Student Pilot
    I have some old pics of this machine I took with a box Brownie, it visited Armidale. An impressive machine up close. In the olden days you could walk up to any machine parked at any airfield and have a close look and have a yarn to the pilot.
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    Gerard L
  18. Student Pilot
    Yappa's aircraft?
  19. Student Pilot
    Been watching too much forged in fire? 😁 That will only make them brittle Spaceman, cold resetting/recurving or low temp tempering (going on a straw or light blue colour) is the answer.
  20. Student Pilot
    "Relatively cheap" 😁 Depends on your circumstance's I suppose, 150k+ (some spend 100k just on the panel and avionics) is not my idea of cheap.
  21. Student Pilot
    It's hard enough to fly a level formation with different aircraft, they make formation aerobatics look easy...........it's not!
  22. Student Pilot
    Floats are draggy but seem to still function ok. Take an aircraft like the Beaver, the float load is not much different to the wheel load. Or a Fireboss, they work from both land and water admittedly with a reduced load but power overcomes most problems.
  23. Student Pilot
    They were probably the ones who resurfaced the runway, cheapest quote always wins. That really works out well, look at the state of the roads, new road laid and the first potholes appear within a week.
  24. Student Pilot
    Great pic, the Thrusters never seemed to get much praise but a good solid aircraft.
  25. Student Pilot
    You wouldn't say that about a Drom if you flew one 😉 Yes, the bloke who owned the PA20-22 thought it a good idea to convert it. I have to admit it made a very pretty aircraft but...... Virtually no difference in performance or weight and no difference in short field ability. All sorts of claims by the STC sellers and those who want to brag but they are all wrong. It does make a very pretty aircraft though.
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