Aeronca C3 Take-Off Performance
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- I was intending to fly to Popham for the LAA rally in August 2023. The weather was pants and I stayed at home; the Aeronca was already fuelled up so the next flyable day presented an opportunity to look at take-off performance.
Music: 'Honeysuckle' by Honeyroot
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What a lovely little plane. Cool video
Just enough horsepower, but no more than that. Flying as it was originally conceived, off of a grass field. Thanks, Nick.
There's something very satisfying about flying low powered aircraft. I like skill / knowledge based activities.
Compared to a glider, a C-3 has gobs of power. I understand the fun. @@FlyingForFunTrecanair
Nice footage, beautiful scenery. Messing about in planes 👍🇦🇺
That was a nice reminder of how the Grand Old Lady performs! Sedate and polite!
There was a point in the video I was thinking I should adjust the vertical hold on my TV - then I remembered I wasn't
watching a TV. LOL!
The ultralight airfield very near me was just closed to make way for a new highway, dashing any hopes I may have had
of building (or acquiring) my own bird and venturing skyward again. Oh, well. I have too many other hobbies and
responsibilities that keep me occupied, anyway! Thanks for sharing, Nick!
Yet another very instructive and thoroughly enjoyable video. Thankyou again Trecanair!
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Excellent.......as always
Enjoyed, Thanks
Charming ng guppy. I love it.
Good to see your gentle flyer up where it belongs again.
Nicely done Sir! Keep us old flyers fed with staple diet of 'Trecanair toasties '(Hey! another side line!..Snacks)
That is one pretty bird!
An old Lancaster crewman was watching the BBMF lancaster land, he commented on the three point landing, and that only tge best pilots did that. BBMF changed to wheeled landings. I was at RAF Finningley, my last posting,cand I watched this DC3 doing curcuits and wheeled landings. The BBMF pilots were practicing.
@@SimonAmazingClarke I used to three point the DC3 now and then; easiest with a load in the back and no crosswind 👍
C3, second prettiest aircraft design ever !!
What’s the first?
ME 262@@FlyingForFunTrecanair
@@carlyleporter5388 Taste is a very personal thing!
Less a climb rate than a curvature of the earth departure. I imagine it's a fun flyer though and enough adverse yaw to remind you to use the feet.
It climbs well for 36 horsepower. Yes, there's a lot of adverse yaw. This is a good characteristic as it encourages co-ordination. As an instructor I often find that those who've learned on snowflake aeroplanes (generally characterized by tricycle undercarriage and a Rotax 912/914) have poor co-ordination and lack crosswind skills. Who would want to fly such an insipid device?
I like how the prop sounds right after you take off….I guess it is unloading/loading
Yes, it seems to unload around 45 kts indicated. Happiest speed range is 45-65 kts. It was quite turbulent when I filmed the second two take-offs; not a days I'd have particularly chosen to fly on but the wind was good for the test. However, in spite of the bumps, the aircraft handles turbulence well.
Самолёты фовеля. 15:06
Oh absolutely, with knobs on!
Ok
What speed are you coming unstuck?
About 42 knots indicated, although I’m not sure of the accuracy of the pitot / static system.
ITS JUST ONE of those things thats so rediculously ugly its absolutley gorgeous.
@@gobstoppa1633 “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
I'm thinking this thing was designed with a 150 lb man in mind. Not 200. 200 lb man was not common in the 1930s. Sorry I dont know how many stone that is.
Absolutely. 150 pounds in 10 1/2 stone. 200 pounds is lots of good lunches.