Tigershark21
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Thanks for the info on the Culver Dart plans... In progress of trying to make contact with Lloyd in Ohio USA! Measurements look like the Rotec R3600 radial will fit just beautifuly in the cowl!
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Thanks for the info on the Culver Dart plans... In progress of trying to make contact with Lloyd in Ohio USA! Measurements look like the Rotec R3600 radial will fit just beautifuly in the cowl!
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...yeh it was inspired by the Grumman F-9 panther. Grumman's first ever attempt at designing a carrier jet aircraft which served during the Korean war and the frist American jet to shoot down a Soviet Mig-15. I take my hat off to this guy creating this semi-scale lightweight replica of the F-9! -
F-111's hey? ...It really is great to see we are the only country in the world utilizing a flying museum as a front line strike aircraft hehehe....but to be honest, I haven't seen anything that quite compares to its capabilities! They are going good still though. We are keeping 'em together for a few more years haha...I reckon there'll be another river fire! Have a great christmas!!
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F-111's hey? ...It really is great to see we are the only country in the world utilizing a flying museum as a front line strike aircraft hehehe....but to be honest, I haven't seen anything that quite compares to its capabilities! They are going good still though. We are keeping 'em together for a few more years haha...I reckon there'll be another river fire! Have a great christmas!!
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I agree with Qwerty ,there is a difference between tail draggers and tail wheel aircraft and the like, but I was told once by an ex WWII pilot that aircraft sitting with their Ar$e on the ground and snoz in the air are referred to as "conventional undercarriage" regardless of skids or wheels simply as a term to generalise. I should use that term more often :S ....I was born in the wrong era. Too bad I missed the golden age!!!!!!!! I love learning new stuff on here!
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Did anyone realise that the first ever jet aircraft was a taildragger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Heinkel 178 first flew on the 27th August 1939 Aerospaceweb.org | Ask Us - Jet Engine Development
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hahahahaha oh nah it's great! I really liked the AG plane, Piper's Pawnee PA-25 235hp O-540 ! She was a real workin dog! She pulled up gliders no probs with an undercarriage and wheels that satisfies any strip. She was such a brute, yet so cute with those puffy lil tyres! Taildraggers can handle any place or Pilatus PC-6 turbo porter's would've been trikes!!!!
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No no... you're totally right you know!!!!
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Ahhh yes David! coudn't have said it sweeter! I'm in love with taildraggers haha! Ur so right about learning what a rudder really is for! Learning what ur plane is all about is so evident in a taildragger and more masked in a trike. Horespower (careful use of throttle), wing span to prop diameter for torque rudder deflection, length of nose (more or less tendency to nose over including careful braking and also runway surface), and wide or narrow track undercarriage and groundlooping.... I see where they can bite you! ...but aren't they so sweet !
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Freedom is an amazing feeling hey Tomo ! I'm glad you had a awesome day man! Life should be like that every day!!
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That is so awesome kaz! Classic!!!!!!!!!!
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Gimme a taildragger and stick anyday! ...nosewheels r good... but my first plane's gunna be a corby starlet for many reasons. Taildraggers make u more aware of nosing over, whereas some trike pilots aren't used to holding the stick back whilst taxying and sometimes aren't aware of the pressure they are exerting on a nose leg when they taxi/take-off/land ! On taildraggers, its fun to put 'em down on 3 points... On trikes, U gotta put 'em down on 2 points to take the exertion of landing before you lower the nose, otherwise if u 3 point a trike on landing that nose is taking the brunt the mains should be taking first. A nice slow 'n' easy 3 pointer on a taildragger and you're firmly on the gound! A nice slow 'n' easy touch down on ur mains in a trike, ur not fully on the ground yet, ur lacking nose steering until that nose wheel touches and ur using the rudder! Both got their pro's 'n' cons... But tail dragger for me anyday ! Would that be right or could someone please correct me? :)
