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Post by SpadCat »

Hey Ed, whats the N numbers on that C-47? I flew right seat in one that had been owned by a Texan firm many years ago. It was Donald Douglasses' personal airplane pulled off the assembly line just after WW II. It flew like a truck! But was fun anyway...(my all time favorite airplanes were always the one I was flying at the time!)

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Post by MLaBoyteaux »

Yeah, you gotta love constant speed props! The RV's are pretty clean. Flat out on the deck 2700 rpm and 29" MP it will indicate 185~190 mph. The VNE is 210 and it doesn't take much of a descent to get it there. Of course these are statute mph and not knots (200 mph sounds better than 175 knots!)

I know another builder who told me something he does for fun. He'll go up around 10,000' and toss out a roll of toilet paper and let it unroll. Then he starts using it for a target. Hmmmm.

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Post by Ed Kettler »

Here's a link to the Cavanaugh Flight Museum's C-47 web page. The registration is N66VW.

http://www.cavanaughflightmuseum.com/Ai ... Page1.html

Yeah, it is a big old bird, flown entirely by the Armstrong method (no hydraulic boosts on the controls). It is the largest plane I've flown, and you have to keep ahead of it because it takes its own time to respond to the controls. An RV-6 it isn't[:D]. There is a major 'cool factor' arriving at an airshow in a warbird versus a Cessna. the plane has an airline interior, complete with air conditioning, a necessity in Texas! It is very popular at airshows, and gets flown regularly. This year, we took it to Maxwell AFB and to Oshkosh.

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Post by wcrane »

The only flying I've really been doing the last 2 years has been CL stunt and a little racing. However I did get to play combat in august this year and I kicked butt, up till I flew threw the other guys airplane totalling both. Only had one plane but it was fun while it lasted.

Remember when Q40 meant K+B 40's and a box fuse? Whew, things have changed.

Was that video taken over at the now defunct Shawnee Mission field, and is that field really defunct?

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Post by aseaholm »

Clean,

The video was taken at Jacomo. I’ve been doing most of flying there lately since it’s only 10 minutes from the house. Good group of guys and a facility that is one of the best I’ve ever seen.

Q40 was never box fuselages and K&B’s. Q500 was and still is box fuselages with everything down to firewall dimensions spec’d out. Those rules have remained virtually unchanged for 20+ years. Granted, the designs and horsepower has come along ways since the Scat Cat K&B era. Q40 was developed about 10 years ago to replace a faltering F1 class. It is an equivalent to 2610 in combat.

Here’s my latest. I’m starting to get frisky with a spray gun…

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NAES,

I’ve been working on my .40 sized 3D design the past week. Let me know how the Taco works out for you. I’ve got a couple Irvines that need to stretch their legs…

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Post by aseaholm »

Here’s what else I hope to be flying real soon.

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The build pictures are here:

http://www.teamseaholm.com/photoAlbum/E ... thumb2.htm

Which stick is the rudder on again??? [:D]
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