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Another very pointy plane - the Chudzik CC-02

Unfortunately, when I clicked on the "Order here" button, my antivirus blocked it, saying Site Not Available.

BrenDan sidetracked the thread with his photos of Moorabbin Aircraft Museum, further diverted by skippy's question.

The DH Heron 1 had fixed landing gear, the DH Heron 2 had retractable gear. See Variants here: de Havilland Heron - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g6pdem336o

Get a load of this spectacular landing when a plane on a training flight in Pensicola Florida suffered an engine failure. pensicola landing.mp4

I did my training back in the dark ages of 1968. I took annual leave from work and did a 3 week concentrated course - classroom morning and afternoon, flying between and after sessions, in a Beech B19 Sport. Two flights per day. Got my Restricted PPL in about 38 hours flight time. Unrestricted took quite a bit longer, done on weekends only as weather permitted.

That surprises me because my antivirus picks up and blocks lots of things, but this one was OK.

Why not? Here's the Youtube version. The woman presenter is over the top.

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Wreckage of Pan Am plane found 74 years after it crashed off Puerto Rico | CNN EDITION.CNN.COM Seventy-four years after a Pan Am flight crashed into the water off Puerto Rico, killing 52 people and prompting sweeping reforms including preflight passenger safety briefings, an aviation search team...

It tells me access to that site is not available outside the USA.

On the Ch 7 news tonight, they showed a company in Albury has rebuilt an ex-Roulettes PC-9 which has completed ground testing and will shortly be put through flight testing. When the paperwork is completed, it will be put up for sale. They have already completed and are flying a Beech Staggerwing and a Curtis Warhawk, and have other wrecked airframes to rebuild. Unfortunately I didn't catch the name of the company, maybe some else here knows it.

Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger has anounced he now has Alzheimers disease, often forgetting names or stories he recently told.

The above is a direct copy of the Wikipedia page. On another site, I found this: It had a tail with 3 vertical stabilizers enabling use of existing hangars and to provide sufficient fin-area to maintain flight on only 2 engines running at one side. Ceiling on only 2 engines was 2440m. There is a large amount of additional data on this website: https://www.aircraftinvestigation.info/airplanes/Douglas_DC-4E.html

The Douglas DC-4E was an American experimental airliner that was developed before World War II. The DC-4E never entered production due to being superseded by an entirely new design, the Douglas DC-4/C-54, which proved very successful. Many of the aircraft's innovative design features found their way into the Nakajima G5N bomber after the single DC-4E prototype was sold to a Japanese airline and clandestinely dismantled for study by Nakajima at the behest of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The design originated in 1935 from a requirement by United Air Lines. The goal was to develop a much larger and more sophisticated replacement for the DC-3 before the first DC-3 had even flown. Such was the initial interest from other airlines, that American Airlines, Eastern Air Lines, Pan American Airways and Transcontinental and Western Air (TWA) joined United, providing $100,000 each toward the cost of developing the new aircraft. As cost and complexity rose, Pan American and TWA withdrew their funds in favor of the Boeing 307 Stratoliner, which was anticipated to be less costly. With a planned day capacity of 42 passengers (13 rows of two or more seats and a central aisle) or 30 as a sleeper transport (like the DST), the DC-4 (as it was then known) would seat twice as many people as the DC-3 and would be the first large aircraft with a nosewheel. Other innovations included auxiliary power units, power-boosted flight controls, alternating current electrical system and air conditioning. Cabin pressurization was also planned for production aircraft. The novel tail with three low vertical stabilizers enabled use of existing hangars and provided sufficient vertical fin area to allow the aircraft to take off with only two engines on one side operating. The wing planform was similar to the DC-3, with a swept leading edge and almost straight trailing edge. The four 1,450 hp (1,080 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-2180-A Twin Hornet 14-cylinder radials were all mounted with noticeable toe-out, particularly the outer pair.

The de Havilland DH.92 Dolphin was a 1930s British prototype light biplane airliner designed and built by the de Havilland aircraft company. The Dolphin was designed as a modernised version of the de Havilland Dragon Rapide, incorporating ideas from the company's DH 86A and de Havilland Dragonfly but using new main assembly designs. It had a DH 86A-style nose to accommodate two crew side by side and increased span wings of unequal span, Dragonfly-like. It first appeared with the trousered undercarriage of these earlier biplane transports, but a retractable landing gear, rather like that of the DH.88 Comet was fitted before flight. Onboard air-stairs were one of the passenger access novelties. It was powered by two 204 hp (152 kW) de Havilland Gipsy Six piston engines. Fuel tanks were in the wings, as in the Dragonfly, to avoid the fire hazard of the Rapide's engine nacelle tanks. One prototype was built and first flown on 9 September 1936. Geoffrey de Havilland's log shows that he flew it only once more. No others were built as it proved to be too heavy structurally and the prototype was scrapped in December 1936. The only photo of the Dolphin on the internet.

No, this is a freeze frame from a video of the flyby. I couldn't get a link to post. Comments on the video said they were throwing the C-17 around like a fighter.

Interesting photo showing decompression cloud on a C-17 left wing only, the right wing clear.

According to airport-data.com, this Avid Flyer was built in 1995. https://airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/000802937

Popping a door in a Bonanza is similar - cold and loud. Did it once doing solo touch and goes at Moorabbin back in the 70's. Made it a full stop, closed and latched the door, back to the holding point and off again. The door sat about 3 inches ajar during the landing.