timothyb

Great info. Thanks and marked as informative.

Aircorps Aviation Library at https://aircorpslibrary.com/

I've been looking over various plans and images of plans on the 'Net (Google Images has all sorts of interesting tidbits, but a lot from model aircraft). Obviously any older plans or US-originating plans are going to be in inches & feet rather than mm/cm/m. If you need to source spruce (or say Qld hoop), or metal tubing and the plans all call for 1", 1.5", 2", 2.25:" etc. etc, do you buy and cut wood down to plan specified size or just oversize when it comes to metal? Even the EAA table is all specced in inches and feet - http://www.eaa1000.av.org/technicl/worktabl/tablefig.htm For those interested in looking at plans, I've also discovered the Aircorps Aviation Library which has some free images of WW2-era plans. Tim

Flying around the South Island Takitimu Range in NZ [GALLERY=media, 3747]20150622-_DSC5524 by timothyb posted Aug 19, 2016 at 5:32 PM[/GALLERY]

So sorry to hear this. I bumped into him a number of times over the past few years in Townsville, the first meeting teed up via this very website. He had some great stories of his time in the US and the building/flying of the biplane. And he was such a wealth of knowledge and so generous with his time.

I was wondering about that after looking at wind speeds on the outer GBR which should really be higher. Still it makes for a bit of fun loading up YBHM as a location in the flight sim, pulling down current conditions and then watching all hell break loose when the bots start taxiing

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ60801/IDQ60801.94368.shtml We're gonna have some windy conditions this week in Northern Queensland

An Australia oriented view is http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-222.44,-25.30,790 And yes, very cool - especially atm with the cyclone forming in the Coral Sea

Was that the 140 advertised in NQ in Aviation Trader? Your hangar options are likely Montpelier Airpark (Antill Plains), Starke Field and Donington Airpark. If you need a hand, I can ask around. It's of interest to me because I will be in the same boat in about 6 months..

Looks to me to be way exceeding the angle of attack on that wing. Once you've exceeded AoA, there isn't any lift so there isn't any climb - it's just momentum vs gravity. Which is why, as you point out, airspeed drops so quickly. Personally, I wouldn't go flying with someone reknown for hotdogging at 100 feet AGL.

Seemed like a pretty good ditch to me. Sounds like a stall warning before they hit the water. I did all my initial flight training around the Hawaiian islands so I know the area. He ditched off a little promontory called Kalaupapa which sits below the highest sea cliffs in the world. So if you can't make the strip there, you are in the water. I flew with a life jacket every flight and every pax put one on as part of the pre-flight - just in case.

Don't know about MTOW on sleigh/reindeers but it does look like he has an aircraft. Looks scratchbuilt to me.

Amazing stuff. But I think the multi-engine aspect would stop it being registrable under RAA.

Damn. Why would you want a helicopter!

It has a big name to live up to but this landing is definitely an eye-opener if you havent seen one