Old Koreelah

I looked up and used NACA research reports from the 30s and 40s. Free to all, including foreigners. A product of America when it actually was Great, when governments actually helped people. Before the Republicans became totally corrupt.

Lilienthal’s empenage looks too floppy and the angle seems wrong, but it’s surprisingly modern. Years before the Wright’s box-kite-derived structure, he used a modern vertical and horizontal stabiliser.

There’s one on display in a glass hangar at Tamworth Airport. Lovingly restored a few decades ago, in tribute to their use by Tamworth’s long gone East West Airlines.

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

Just had a (first) chance to view that in detail. Pretty good quality footage. An actual plane I flew to Cocos Is, PNG and Syd- Norfolk Is. Auckland DC-4, VH TAB is at 16 minutes and 20 minutes but I flew it some 15 years later when it had 72,000 hours on the airframe. A few good Avro Anson and Super Constellation shots and the extension of Rwy16 into Botany Bay. Thanks for posting that. Nev

Nev they sure built them to last!  We sometimes see DC-4 being flown in northern Canada by Arctic Air.

 I presume that VH-TAB had already done a bit of work before this film; if not, it would have averaged 13 hours work per day.

6 hours ago, turboplanner said:

They were talking there about Feeder airlines and showed some of the feeder aircrtaft like the DeHavilland Dove.

That was the government policy then and it's a pity the government wasn't more strict because we would be seeing major airports at regional cities and big towns with feeder bus routes to the smaller towns.

What happened is that entrepreneurs tried to dominate the market, and a few, like Reg Ansett cleaned the competitors out then dropped the services so the rehional cities didn't grow and the capital cities became inefficient because of traffic delays. Today there is a huge potential market for commuter cities within a commuting distance of about 60 - 90 minutes, but we don't have the airports or fast processin systems to kick it off.

Our little town had its own airline, with three or four small feeder planes that did daily flights Gunnedah-Tamworth-Quirindi-Sydney. A small group of us is writing a history of aviation in the Quirindi district (every time an old fart turns up they get a proper interrogation). We have turned up some surprising stories.

Did we see you in that movie, Nev?

My V1 flight was awesome until about a mile off Manly Beach the engine stumbled momentarily. That got my attention. The little Jab was working hard to climb up to the next legal level, but I’d forgotten to switch on the boost pump.

Good point, but how wide is this Lane?
Unlike the Willie bypass, there’s no indication of width on the charts.

Nice video, but you’re a long way offshore; on my Victor One trip we were looking in people’s front windows.