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  1. Student Pilot
    There were lots of Corsairs on the 70's TV series Black Sheep, was pretty lame storylines but had lots of footage of Corsairs
  2. Student Pilot
    Correct and they have angry eyebrows and chatter incessantly all night with a full moon. I'll have to put on an irony and sarcasm warning
  3. Student Pilot
    Whose this Jack bloke? and it's still summer?
  4. Student Pilot
    Is the piston pin offset in the 3300 fitted before or after TDC? I take it by your not answering my question you do have an affiliation with Jab in some way?
  5. Student Pilot
    Disagree Talk to an engineer who has been working on Jabs. Do you have any affiliation with Jabiru or the production of parts, engines or any componentry that is fitted on Jab engines?
  6. Student Pilot
    Ask anybody who has worked on Jabs for any length of time, they will tell you the problem is usually not the people who are operating the engine. The likes of fitting pistons in from the factory with the piston pin offset around the wrong way. Anybody know why that was done?
  7. Student Pilot
    The aircraft I have posted are examples of a base aircraft either being modified (heavily/slightly or not at all) or copied then called something else First one is and always will be an Aeronca but as it's rego says it's a Gilles Fortin. The same with the float aircraft, obvious Tri-Pacer heritage, they have been called everything from Bushmaster/Javelin Stol to Bearhawk. All based on the poor old Tri-Pacer platform. The float aircraft I posted when you look up the rego of C-GULT says it's an Eagle 180 but it's still a Piper Tri-Pacer, all be it modified. Even this one
  8. Student Pilot
    Nup, it's a 4 seater
  9. Student Pilot
    Did a bit of looking, they train there with Seminoles and Archers/Arrows. Looking at the second wreck it had a full flying tail so would be a Piper product.
  10. Student Pilot
    Looks mebe Seneca? Hard to imagine anybody walking away from that. Other looks like a 172 tailplane, not much left of the pair of them.
  11. Student Pilot
    Rightio Here's an example of which I speak, see who can identify thus And another example Looks vaguely familiar but.................................
  12. Student Pilot
    If it's a Quebec aircraft they have all sorts of stuff with aircraft regulations. One of the spots I was working there was an Aeronca with skies fitted. I looked up the rego and because the bloke had rebuilt it he changed the name to something with his name in it. It was an Aeronca. Might bethe same with this machine, different wing area could just be a different sort of wingtip. Ole mates just copied the design and called it his.
  13. Student Pilot
    Bush Caddy, the one I looked at had wheels but looked a good little jigger. Bloke who built it worked for Bombadier, he left school and joined them, worked his entire working life then retired. He had a hand in BJ design, after retirement went back to proper aircraft ?
  14. Student Pilot
    Fly the aircraft, usually the uncomplicated answer. If you look at a lot of threads on aviation forums they start with a simple enough statement. That statement is then dissected and miss quoted, the armchair experts then become involved with some theory on how they would never crash and how things should be done better. It's best if you can make the subject as complicated as possible, bringing aviation law into it, that's always good for another couple of pages. Then there's usually somebody who takes offence at a comment/phrase/statement/opinion, personal insults then swap for the next few pages. Ultimately interest in the thread wains, nobody agrees because they know their opinion is right (Or a rite). Fly the aircraft A bit facile but I have nothing to do this afternoon besides waiting with the Batphone, mebe I should find something useful to do instead of pot stirring
  15. Student Pilot
    It's good we have so many expert fliers on this site that know the answer to everything
  16. Student Pilot
    With 985 in Beaver it used to take ages on a cold frosty morning for the oil to get to 40C, I would be still sitting purring away and the Fletcher's with their 720's were on the way to the job
  17. Student Pilot
    Wonder what the gearing on the prop is, does it rev at 2300 revs like a radial does? If it does it won't be any quieter, the noise you hear with a Beaver on takeoff is the prop tips goen supersonic not engine noise.
  18. Student Pilot
    It doesn't look a lot different to a Garret conversion done a few years ago in Oz, I think it still getting the guts thrashed out of it on para ops somewhere
  19. Student Pilot
    Don't they know you can't do that sort of stuff in a nose-wheel?
  20. Student Pilot
    377, 447 and 503's all had single carb options
  21. Student Pilot
    You statement goes for the whole interwebby Robert. Take the summer fires for instance, everybody knew more than the people who manage/prepare/fight. With so many expurts (Correct spelling for internet know-it-all's) you wonder why the world has the trouble it does
  22. Student Pilot
    Lyc 720 so plenty of power, lift ton off a 250 metre airstrip at sea level. Can buy them now for around 60K Euro, with fuel flow of around 75 litres an hour in cruise at 115 knots. Just the machine for a Sunday fly for the $200 burger
  23. Student Pilot
    Converted Navion?
  24. Student Pilot
    As a bush aircraft a Fletcher would be one of the best, rough short strips, heavy loads, work all day, all week and all year back in the olden days. Mostly carrying more than it's empty weight. It has nose wheel. The undercarriage was less trouble, was better on rougher strips and cost less to maintain than the likes of a Beaver. These days it's not considered a bush aircraft unless it has a tailwheel and flies in Alaska.
  25. Student Pilot
    What we need is more lawyers to sort out some more regulation on making it more complicated while adding another layer of paperwork to allow another class of weight with more regulation and more CASA oversight. Anybody remember when aviating was fun?
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