Guess the plane

[Blackhawk]

12 hours ago, Blueadventures said:

I had a visit from a friend who lives in Maryborough, Queensland and he has Chris Conroys single seat and two west aircraft at his place in a container so they are both still intact which is good news.

Chris Conroy's Sparrow aircraft were offered to me by his sons who were selling off all his aircraft assets as non of them were interested in aircraft.

I told Dennis about what was available and he purchased the assets, now stored at Maryborough

 

 

Edited April 8 by Blackhawk
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[Blueadventures]

10 minutes ago, Blackhawk said:

Chris Conroy's Sparrow aircraft were offered to me by his sons who were selling off all his aircraft assets as non of them were interested in aircraft.

I told Dennis about what was available and he purchased the assets, now stored at MaryboroughConroy Kit_design_drawing_information.bmp

Conroy Kit_design_drawing_information.bmp 29.34 MB · 4 downloads

Nice they are still around.  Dennis dropped in when in Mackay recently I assisted him with the purchase of the big boat he bought up here years ago.

 

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Edited April 8 by Blueadventures

[Moneybox]

[Thruster88]

Airtractor 502 that was involved in a fatal bird strike accident.

[Moneybox]

13 hours ago, Thruster88 said:

Airtractor 502 that was involved in a fatal bird strike accident.

There were two of these at Northam earlier in the week.

 

 

 

He used every inch of the 1248m runway.

 

[Moneybox]

Sorry, I can't successfully load a video in .mp4 or .mov

[onetrack]

Moneybox, upload your videos to a free hosting site such as Screenpal, and then just put up the link for users to watch it. Screenpal will allow you to upload videos up to 15 mins long, for free.

[Bernie]

I can't open it as well.

[Student Pilot]

On 28/8/2025 at 5:32 PM, Moneybox said:

AT 402

[Student Pilot]

With the current price of P+W PT6-67F being close on 3 million US, Air Tractor are turning to an old solution of power plant.

Air Tractor 803

[onetrack]

Personally, I reckon a Skyraider II would be a better model choice. I could really give the local rabbit population a work-over, with one of these!!

 

 

[Moneybox]

 

I'd already  reduced this to just a few MBs but in the end loaded it on to YouTube.

[onetrack]

Moneybox, was he fully loaded, or just economising on fuel? Seems like a very relaxed takeoff. The Airtractors I watch working, cropdusting in the Wheatbelt, don't hang around, they've got 1600HP, they get off the ground pretty fast - and they sure move when they're spraying! I think they spray at about 90-100 kts?

 

One of them fairly made me soil my underpants about 3 years ago, when he flew right into the path of my Hilux as I was cresting a hill at about 110kmh - he came up from behind the crest of the hill as he finished his spray run! Never saw him coming, didn't even know he was working that paddock. 🙂 

[Moneybox]

I have no idea what they were doing. Two of them were parked along with a fleet of some sort of service vehicles. They were sitting idling when I arrived and took off about 10 minutes apart. The first went so close to the end of runway 32 at YNTM that I was wondering if he'd make it. The second one got off the ground a little earlier but that didn't sound like 1600hp to me.

 

 

They returned and parked next to my little plane making it look much smaller than it did before. The fuel truck came over and commenced refueling them as I left.