Waco Biplane l Open Cockpit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2014
- I met Ernie and his beautiful YMF Waco at the fuel pump near Murfreesboro Aviation. We struck up a conversation and I was invited to get some stick time in exchange for helping him clean his beautiful plane.
We took off from Murfreesboro Airport in Tennessee and once at altitude, did slow flight with turns, steep turns, stalls and Ernie practiced some "under the hood" flying and I turned to safety pilot.
It was then back to the airport where there were some variable winds. This made the landings not so good and we ended up going around 3 times.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of a radial engine!
Thanks for watching!
Michael - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
Way cool! Great flying and great video editing, too.
Thanks Judy!
I was a lucky guy & got a ride in a Ryan PT-22 that had the capabilities of 11 G's + or Minus with the wire wing hold-down cables. We did things with that plane that I never thought was possible, Wow, What a ride!
I have never been in a Waco, or any other Biplane before, your flight must have been so much fun....
You are a lucky dog to have gotten that ride, I am envious of you. Bad Dog!
Kurt
Thanks Kurt. I got a little sick at the end but I think that was just due to me fiddling with my camera gear and the Gs on an empty stomach.
I really liked this one. It's interesting to see the approach and the problem the instructor had with the cross wind. I noticed he got the speed down to about 70 before going around again. Was the air speed indicator calibrated in knots or MPH? It has to be quite a trick slowing something down that's as heavy and powerful as that one. When you took the controls I could almost feel the heaviness but of course that was only my imagination. MBT used to be my home airport before moving to SYI.
Thanks John Hettish !
The crosswind can really make for some interesting landing. Think it's hard in a tricycle type gear, try again in a taildragger. It could cause for a serious ground loop!
I forgot what the speed was calibrated in and don't have any photos of the instrument panel to look :-/
The controls were interesting, they were heavy, but as mentioned in the video, it takes a lot of trim. So they weren't really loose but it really did fly like a heavier airplane, at least for me and the first time flying one.
Flown into Shelbyville plenty of times. That's a good point to go to if I'm taking people flying or something. Go do a touch-n-go and come back. Usually ends up being around a .8 or hour.
Thanks for watching!
The outside of the ASI is showing MPH and the inside is showing KTS...freeze frame the video and you can see it.
lowflybye didn't even think to go frame by frame Chris!
Good point though.
I couldn't tell, was he trying to 3-point at 70 - 75 mph or wheel land? If he was trying to 3-point at that speed, it's no wonder it bounced as that is too fast for a full stall landing. He did a good job with the go-around. I was surprised how judiciously he applied the brakes once the tail was down on the final attempt. It may have looked more severe on video than it was in person, but that much braking in a Stearman can put you on your back.
I forgot which order he did it in. He did have 1 technique for the first two landings and then changed it up for the last.
He mentioned the ground loop so I don't think he applied as much as it seems.