pmccarthy

Ah, the clipped wing Ercoupe!

I just used the search button at the top of this page. But you have to be in Forums for it to search them. If you are in what’s new it will just search there.

Members 1.6k Aircraft: RANS Location: Childers, Qld Country: Australia Posted December 18, 2023 Found this list - you can pick the terms that best suit. Excellent: Like New Pristine Immaculate Optimal Perfect Very Good: Well-maintained Excellent Condition Minimal Wear Near Mint High Performance Good: Good Condition Regularly Maintained Moderate Wear Reliable Fully Operational Fair: Fair Condition Some Wear Functional Usable Adequate Performance Poor: Poor Condition Signs of Wear Requires Attention Operational with Limitations Below Average Performance Needs Repair: Needs Repairs Defective Not Fully Functional Requires Maintenance Subpar Performance Non-Operational: Non-Operational Out of Order Inoperative Requires Major Repairs Not Functional Scrap: Scrap Condition Salvage Only Beyond Repair Unusable Condemned

Yes I have flown one dual several times though never went solo.

An ex DC3 captain once said that it was difficult to have a relationship with a hostie while on the ground as you kept sliding off.

I'm not saying it is corrosion, but the connections on the struts just look dirty like they need a good wipe over. I suspect the same on the fuselage though its hard to see.

Those in the back row are shaded by the wing. For heaven's sake!

It’s a trick - I saw through it immediately.

Sling your hook boy.

We often complain about "Cessna plummeted to the ground" type stories. So where did the verb "plummeted" come from? It did not exist until it was invented by reporters for aviation accidents during the 1930s. A plummet was a lead weight used in a ship to sound the depth. It was also a plumb bob used by builders and surveyors. For a long time, people wrote that something “fell like a plummet”, referring to the way the plummet line spun out in a ship. In January 1930 in describing a mid-air collision in the USA a journalist wrote “There was an explosive flash, and bodies were hurled out of the flaming ships and began to fall like plummets into the sea.” In the same month an accident at Point Cook , Victoria, “A surmise that a structural breakage can alone account for the sudden drop of the seaplane Widgeon 'straight down like a plummet into the water' from an altitude of 400 ft., would seem to be founded on the unlikelihood of 'engine trouble,' the occurrence of which is hardly thought compatible with a dive so swift and sudden.” Then in 1933 “The U.S. Navy airship Akron dived into the ocean, off the American coast, with all hands aboard. Aboard her as she faltered and plummeted into the-storm-swept sea were 76 men, including Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of. the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. Four men were rescued, but one of these died later.” This is close to the first invention of the word "plummet". As the 1930s progressed, “dropped like a plummet” gradually gave way to the new verb “plummeted”, which had mostly taken over in aviation stories by 1937 and then proliferated during World War 2.

This subject keeps coming up in threads about accidents. The ATSB say that they are not funded to investigate RAA accidents or even all accidents (fatal or otherwise) and that they will choose which accidents might yield new insights to improve safety. I think this approach misses a vital point. The investigations should not be carried out to better inform ATSB about the causes of accidents. They should be carried out to inform pilots. I accept that the rules are "written in blood" and that conceivably every possible cause has already been investigated and reported. So, all causes are recorded in the bowels of ATSB, in past investigation reports and articles in crash comics. But that doesn't put them in the minds of pilots. We are all interested in recent accidents and keenly await investigation reports. The learnings from them may be old ones but they become new again when they are recent or involve people we know, or people known to our own acquaintances. The old stories need constant refreshment, and this is best done by investigating and reporting as many causes as possible as soon as possible after each incident. These stories will stick in our minds and influence the way we fly. It doesn't matter how many "stall spin" accidents are in the files, students and new pilots will not read them or will consider them to be old, irrelevant stories. It is the one that is in the news, or happened on the next airfield, that will change our behaviour for life.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/nsw-mid-north-coast-light-plane-crash-at-gaagal-wanggaan-national-park-near-nambucca-heads/ce07835b-342a-437a-9438-87805059dc51 includes a before photo of the Sting ( unless it is a stock photo of another one).

Good analysis here…

From the video I think most will be dead.

Stabilator on the Vixxen works really well. I previously had a PA-28 so appreciate it.