OhioStatePilot
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You got it, that was fast too! I don't think I'm terribly good at making these yet...
Do you know your history? (Part XXV)
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ctab5060X
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Well the common thread between the two is Art Scholl.
However, the link here is only because he flew red, white, and blue Chipmunks with Pennzoil sponsorship.
Art was killed while filming for Top Gun when his Pitts went into a flat spin he failed to recover.
edit: ahh, took too long to type
However, the link here is only because he flew red, white, and blue Chipmunks with Pennzoil sponsorship.
Art was killed while filming for Top Gun when his Pitts went into a flat spin he failed to recover.
edit: ahh, took too long to type
ctab5060X
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ctab5060X
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Modifications to the Chipmunk...
http://museum.eaa.org/collection/aircraft/de Havilland DHC-1B-2 Modifications.asp#TopOfPage
http://museum.eaa.org/collection/aircraft/de Havilland DHC-1B-2 Modifications.asp#TopOfPage
WacoFan
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Yeah - but look lower:
My original thought was that it was a Ranger, but then in looking at the pictures it sure looked like a flat motor. Seems I had read about Harold Krier's machine and that he had tried a Ranger but then went to a flat motor.
OhioStatePilot
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Further down the same page.
Too late! And yeah, I didn't want to put up a picture of the standard super chipmunk paint scheme because I knew both of you would latch onto the answer way too quickly!
OhioStatePilot
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Lol, tell away!
OhioStatePilot
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I just hope it's not about cat poop!
Well Ok, since you asked.
I worked line at a the big FBO in LIT in the mid seventies and one of the charter pilots bought an old Chipmunk. It was worn out stock with the inline engine.
He tore that thing apart and started back together. New 260 hp LYC and three blade prop. Clipped about five feet off of each wing, metalized whatever wasn't metal to start with. Really tricked it out. Lot's of days and nights, I would go help him drive rivets or whatever needed done.
He finally got it all done and I met him out at the little airport where he kept it.(KORK). ---We really have some messed up identifiers around Little Rock.---Anyway, I get strapped in the front and he's in the back. As soon as we lifted off the runway, he just held it there. We got down to the end of the strip and he hauled back on that thing and up,up,up,up we went. Felt like I was going to bust right out the bottom of that thing.
I looked back at the guy and he was laughing. We cruised on out to the "practice area" and he said "hang on". Now, I had been on enough airplane rides that I knew I didn't like to hear "hang on". Too late, he flipped that thing over and up we went in an outside loop. I thought I was going to die. My legs and arms were flying up, I felt like I was going to be ejected thru the canopy. I was wishing (1) That I had never met the guy (2) That I would of never worked on the plane and earned a ride and most importantly (3) I wished that I would have tightened the seat belt down a lot tighter. An ouside loop is a traumatic event if you're not used to it or expecting it. Did some rolls and loops and he asked how I was. I was to the point I couldn't talk, so I just pointed to home.
That was the last time I ever rode in that thing. Call me a wuss or whatever. That thing beat the snot out of me that day. I was glad when my quarter's worth ran out.
Those guys and girls who do that hardcore aerobatic stuff have my respect. Everytime I see a Chipmunk or see a performer do an outside loop, I think about that.
I worked line at a the big FBO in LIT in the mid seventies and one of the charter pilots bought an old Chipmunk. It was worn out stock with the inline engine.
He tore that thing apart and started back together. New 260 hp LYC and three blade prop. Clipped about five feet off of each wing, metalized whatever wasn't metal to start with. Really tricked it out. Lot's of days and nights, I would go help him drive rivets or whatever needed done.
He finally got it all done and I met him out at the little airport where he kept it.(KORK). ---We really have some messed up identifiers around Little Rock.---Anyway, I get strapped in the front and he's in the back. As soon as we lifted off the runway, he just held it there. We got down to the end of the strip and he hauled back on that thing and up,up,up,up we went. Felt like I was going to bust right out the bottom of that thing.
I looked back at the guy and he was laughing. We cruised on out to the "practice area" and he said "hang on". Now, I had been on enough airplane rides that I knew I didn't like to hear "hang on". Too late, he flipped that thing over and up we went in an outside loop. I thought I was going to die. My legs and arms were flying up, I felt like I was going to be ejected thru the canopy. I was wishing (1) That I had never met the guy (2) That I would of never worked on the plane and earned a ride and most importantly (3) I wished that I would have tightened the seat belt down a lot tighter. An ouside loop is a traumatic event if you're not used to it or expecting it. Did some rolls and loops and he asked how I was. I was to the point I couldn't talk, so I just pointed to home.
That was the last time I ever rode in that thing. Call me a wuss or whatever. That thing beat the snot out of me that day. I was glad when my quarter's worth ran out.
Those guys and girls who do that hardcore aerobatic stuff have my respect. Everytime I see a Chipmunk or see a performer do an outside loop, I think about that.
OhioStatePilot
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:rotfl:
Now that's a good aviation story!
Now that's a good aviation story!
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