TBM-700 crash at KEFT

Boris Badenov said:
IMS, the Seafire's big bugaboo (aside from being British, so probably Lucas Electrics) was that they kept the track of the gear from the Spitfire (so like absurdly narrow...BF109 had similar problems). One can easily imagine how a ridiculously narrow gear track might uh "contribute" to torque-roll problems when one puts the hammer down.
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I blamed the wide track of my dad’s experimental Dragonfly for my first mishap.

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Boris Badenov said:
Always loved the Dragonfly (from afar). Quickie Q200 was a knockoff, imho, although I think much more successful for whatever reason.
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I think the Quickie came first. The Dragonfly had a chunkier wing, if I recall. Both designs migrated to more conventional landing gear.

Despite its exotic appearance it had 152 manners until it touched down. Avoid the brakes until you are at a speed walk pace and it was fine. My dad eventually fitted his with conventional landing gear.

I had an asymmetrical braking event and ended up in the grass. I sheared off the tail wheel but kept the prop out of the dirt.

A bunch of these found their way to the used market but nobody trusted somebody else’s fiberglass construction.
 
Boris Badenov said:
IMS, the Seafire's big bugaboo (aside from being British, so probably Lucas Electrics) was that they kept the track of the gear from the Spitfire (so like absurdly narrow...BF109 had similar problems). One can easily imagine how a ridiculously narrow gear track might uh "contribute" to torque-roll problems when one puts the hammer down.
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I always had a thing for the Hawker Tempest.
 
bp said:
i thought that was just because they started putting griffons in Seafires, unless they were re-propping merlins as well?
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There were several variants of Griffon powered Seafires with single props before the final Mk.47 and its contra-rotating props. The big issue they had was the griffon spin opposite direction of the Merlin which caused several aircraft to crash into the carrier superstructure.
 
The Sea Fury is legendary for many reasons. Has anyone here ever looked into how a Bristol Centaurus sleeve valve 18 cylinder engine actually works? I don't know what happened to English engineering during and after the war. Why would you just go down that road? Were they trying to meld steam power and internal combustion? I have no answers, only questions.
 
If you really want to ponder English engineering look up the Napier Saber, a 24 cylinder sleeve valve H block. Maybe that’s what Churchill meant when he said this was the sort of errant nonsense up with which he would not put.
 
knot4u said:
If you really want to ponder English engineering look up the Napier Saber, a 24 cylinder sleeve valve H block. Maybe that’s what Churchill meant when he said this was the sort of errant nonsense up with which he would not put.
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Development of the Napier Sabre engine

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An airplane I have always been fascinated with is the Macchi M.C.72 as powered by the 3,000cid Fiat AS.6 which was a V-24 putting out 3100 hp.

It still owns the World Record for fastest piston seaplane at 440mph which was set on its last flight in 1934. I can imagine Knots punishment in Hell would be the neverending task of having to keep that Fiat motor in good working order.

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WacoFan said:
An airplane I have always been fascinated with is the Macchi M.C.72 as powered by the 3,000cid Fiat AS.6 which was a V-24 putting out 3100 hp.

It still owns the World Record for fastest piston seaplane at 440mph which was set on its last flight in 1934. I can imagine Knots punishment in Hell would be the neverending task of having to keep that Fiat motor in good working order.

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What a stunner. Never tried open cockpit seaplane but 440mph would a a lot.
 
WacoFan said:
An airplane I have always been fascinated with is the Macchi M.C.72 as powered by the 3,000cid Fiat AS.6 which was a V-24 putting out 3100 hp.

It still owns the World Record for fastest piston seaplane at 440mph which was set on its last flight in 1934. I can imagine Knots punishment in Hell would be the neverending task of having to keep that Fiat motor in good working order.

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The sheer speed that aviation advanced in such a short time period I truly find to be one of the most fascinating stories in human history.
 
WacoFan said:
An airplane I have always been fascinated with is the Macchi M.C.72 as powered by the 3,000cid Fiat AS.6 which was a V-24 putting out 3100 hp.

It still owns the World Record for fastest piston seaplane at 440mph which was set on its last flight in 1934. I can imagine Knots punishment in Hell would be the neverending task of having to keep that Fiat motor in good working order.

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I don't mind working on stuff. I do mind being rushed, poked with a pitchfork and working on an airplane floating on a lake of fire with zero parts and support. Wait a second, that sounds like last week! :sarcasm:
 
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