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Montana
Watch the aileron position. He didn’t turn downwind. He was fighting it. He lost.
Are you saying he didn't make that initial 90 turn to the left ??? The plane did it against his will ??
Watch the aileron position. He didn’t turn downwind. He was fighting it. He lost.
Are you saying he didn't make that initial 90 turn to the left ??? The plane did it against his will ??
watchThis raises a question in my mind. IF transients can "pick up fuel in Port Alsworth", how is the fuel transported to Port Alsworth at it's roadless location? It must be flown in with DC-6 or C-130 tankers? There isn't any barge access, is there?
COOL! Thanks, I used to be a Flight Engineer on a DC-6. Every once in a while I would get to fly a leg. Wonderful flying machines, like a big four engine Aztec. One time when I was in Kotzebue a DC-6 taxied in and what do you know, it was one of the ones I used to fly. He had been flying it off the beaches hauling fish. The Airline I flew it for had bought it brand new.watch
DENNY
This reminds me of the time I visited Bud Helmericks at his home on Walker Lake. He had a good sized sailboat there. I asked him how they got it there with no roads. They flew it in, in A C-130 landing on the ice.Spelled Evert’s actually. Great outfit, this delivering 14,500 lbs of building materials to remote lake.View attachment 61989
MTV
Some of us remember Woods Air Service flying fuel in DC-6s. They used to like flying low through Lake Clark Pass on CAVU days. Quite a sight.
I see a lot of talk about what are the ailerons doing? How about some right rudder? Did he have the rudder trim set for take off? Maybe he just didn't compensate for the P factor of the R-985? Besides having the nose too high for the conditions.
Wentworth makes a lot of money on their salvage. I would be very surprised if the took a sawsall to a perfectly good wing.I had an incident in which Wentworth Aircraft removed my aircraft when I was not present. Should I be worried about their position on dismantling aircraft? Anybody had an issue with this company before? My buddy thinks they probably sawzalled my wings off. Minimal damage in our opinion.
Blue Skies,
Den
The key to keeping a dH airplane flying is lowering the nose. In that video, as Stewart suggested, when the plane appears in the climb, he’s already losing it, nose high and out of ideas. Aileron position is just going to influence which way it rolls off, but with the nose honked up like that, he was all done flying. He cheated that plane-never let it fly.
I was checked out in the Beaver by Jack Corey. Corey pointed out that he was something of an expert in deHavilland aircraft stalls, having wrecked a heavy Single Otter when working for Ward Gay. He beat me up something fierce with stalls straight ahead, turning, climbing, descending, etc. A few years later, I found myself painting that plane into a corner of the flight envelope, and didn’t want to have to explain the result to Jack…..lowered the nose and flew away.
MTV
Some people spend too much of their lives cooped up in a classroom wearing tinfoil hats while being supported by government grants.Not necessarily - that Wing Thing: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-can-explain-why-planes-stay-in-the-air/
Even they aren't sure, but nobody asks a bird why they flap their wings.
Gary
The key to keeping a dH airplane flying is lowering the nose.
Isn’t this the key to keeping ANY airplane flying?
sj
Some people spend too much of their lives cooped up in a classroom wearing tinfoil hats while being supported by government grants.
Got a kick out of the accident report today about Carbon Cub in lake at Talkeetna, said "the landing gear made contact with the water and aircraft flipped in lake".
Guess maybe that water skiing attempt was an abrupt bath on that one! Makes one wonder why try it.
John
I heard it was on amphibs and the pilot forgot that one little thing before landing.