Every Nook and Cranny: Exploring the 1939 Beechcraft Staggerwing
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ค. 2024
- Join us as we explore the majestic 1939 Beechcraft Staggerwing - the unrivaled queen of the 1930s skies. A marvel of engineering with its unique negative staggered wings and Pratt & Whitney 985 nine-cylinder, 450 horsepower engine, the Staggerwing was a symbol of luxury and performance.
Our special guest, Tom from Westfall Aviation, will guide us through a detailed exploration of this exquisite aircraft. After eight long years of painstaking restoration work, this Staggerwing not only flies once again but has also taken home the coveted gold Lindy at EAA Oshkosh!
In this video, you'll get an up-close look at the Staggerwing's unique features. We'll talk about the significance of the staggered wings, the roomy cabin designed to comfortably seat five, and the Hamilton Standard constant-speed propeller. You'll also get to see the retractable landing gear and hear about the impressive efforts it took to source period-correct Goodyear tires.
So buckle up, aviation enthusiasts, for a detailed walkthrough of the grand Staggerwing, the private jet of the 1930s.
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:39 - Why are the wings staggered?
2:54 - The engine - Pratt & Whitney 985
3:55 - The propeller - Hamilton Standard
6:48 - The landing gear and tires
10:55 - The wing structure
14:02 - The radio antenna
14:32 - Use in World War 2
16:09 - Performance
16:41 - Landing flares
20:54 - The interior
31:44 - Engine startup
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That is one of my favorite of all time. Beautiful aircraft!
Former owner Col. Jim Delaney would be proud to see how magnificent it is now. Congratulations!
Yup. I got the prop thing backwards. My bad.🙃
Hello, I have enjoyed watching this report on the Beechcraft D 17 S, I have recently bought a scale RC model (XK A 300 red) and knowing about its history enriches me, it is a very nice airplane, greetings from Granada, Spain 🛩🛩🛩🛩
This aircraft is one of my top ten favorite of all time.
I took a photo of that gorgeous plane at Sun n' Fun this year and am currently waiting on the delivery of the print to hang on my wall with other icons of the air! Such an amazing piece of art!
Буквально сегодня купил этот самолёт в MSFS 2020) Классная птичка. Не зря говорят, что у самолёта нет года выпуска, а есть лётная пригодность) Клёвый канал про самолёты) Респект)
This video had all and more information about the Beechcraft D17 than any other video on TH-cam I have watched and loved it! I build model airplanes as a hobbyists and this helped me a lot for research and a history leason about the D17. Thank you!
Damn, that plane is simply spectacular. So well done that it blows my mind.
Product of Arkansas! One of my friends worked on this aircraft and hopes to one day get to fly in it.
WAIT!!!!! You take off with full propeller pitch and then flatten it out in flight????? Is that what you meant to say?
Holy crap a centrifugal starter!
Also: Negative stagger does indeed provide an aerodynamic advantage in that Negative stagger reduces the ill-effect of the top wing disturbing the lower wings airflows.
Negative stagger is quite aerodynamically advantageous!
This was an Awesome Video of one of my Favorite aircraft of all times. THANK YOU for this!
BTW: if you've got the money, have I got the aircraft design for you!!! You've never seen this before guaranteed! It fly's like a wet-dream too.
Mine is Radio Controlled! Tested/proven and it's not some super lightly wing loaded foamy POS.
My Design took inspiration from the Beechcraft Staggerwing but far-far away into the future lol
A very Eccentric/modern WTF? Staggerwing design!
Cheers: Robert
Yeah, his explanation caught my attention right away. You use fine pitch for takeoff, so you have max power available, and you increase the pitch to achieve a best cruise cruise speed/mp etc.
Yeah. That’s not what he meant. Beautiful bird.
I thought the same thing. You start with fine pitch at take off and make the prop more course in flight.
I do so want one of those Funko's!! (Believe I heard there is only two, wow!) Beyond cool just doesn't cut it. That's unbelievably beyond wicked cool!! 😮😮😮🎉😊
That is such a beautiful airplane in the air!
Beautiful bird
I saw a stagger wing land a year ago or so at the Valkaria A/P in Brevard County Fl. It's color was similar to this one and it was clearly well maintained. I wonder if the plane I saw was this one.
Excellent educational video!
Some suggestions, if your talking about the instruments, video the instruments. This long into the video we know which person is talking so video what they are talking about .way to much video of the guest, not of the guest of honor! Beautiful plane wish we could of seen more of it in detail.
Didn't he get it backwards when explaining the constant speed prop with coarse and fine pitch and how to use it?
Certainly. Fine pitch to take off and land.
I used to get to fuel a red one back in the 1990s.
Coarse pitch for T/O? Really? Flares a nice touch. 17s had no clutch on gear motor...and needed one. Too bad you did not show how to check gear position visually. Also, flap switch placement is perfect, worth a mention. A performance fun fact--T/O over foot obstacle required only 50 more feet at 6000 msl than sea level. 17s did great at altitude.
The little RCA dog's name is Victor ( rca Victor) also JVC is Japanese Victor corporation , the Japanese division of RCA
Many similarities between classic aircrafters and scale model airplaners.
Recap tires on an airplane sound like a really bad idea. I've seen enough of them on 18 wheelers come apart to know it's not the best practice for tires. And on top of that you are using 50 year old carcasses? Those have to be dry rotted as hell? Sounds great for a static display but a terrible idea to trust them for landings.
Prop explanation is incorrect
Yes. Owner has no idea what he's talking about.
This guy need to go back to ground school .
"Fabric wings aren't safe" Look at paragliders, I fly one 100% nylon man. Bunch of uninformed fraidy cats