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  • in reply to: OzMatt's home from N.Z. #1416929
    turbo_NZ
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    Hey OzMatt

    I’m glad to have helped make your trip pleasant.
    It was a pleasure meeting you and I hope we can do it again…like a trip to Oz to back-seat the Wirraway…. 😉

    TNZ
    PS Have you tested the new Helmet ?

    in reply to: Aircraft in danger #1421197
    turbo_NZ
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    The D-Day Museum, a new modern museum in central New Orleans.

    The Spitfire is suspended.

    Mark

    This and the Avenger are reproductions, not real ones (thank goodness).

    TNZ

    in reply to: Aircraft in danger #1422209
    turbo_NZ
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    hmm,….that ain’t great
    Apparently it has an Avenger too.

    TNZ

    in reply to: Low pass over Mt. Baker… #1426211
    turbo_NZ
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    He’s as subtle as a sledgehammer, our Phil is….. 😉

    tnz

    in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1426443
    turbo_NZ
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    Great pic, Ronnie, but sad tale…..

    TNZ

    in reply to: Blackburn Firebrand #1427062
    turbo_NZ
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    yes, thats about right.

    taken from http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~pettypi/elevon/baugher_other/wyvrn-01.html

    The available engines for the Wyvern were the Rolls-Royce Clyde and the Armstrong Siddeley Python. The Clyde was a twin-spool engine, with one spool driving a centrifugal compressor and the other the propeller and an axial compressor. The Clyde delivered at least 4030 hp, with a potential for much more. The Clyde was used for prototype VP120. The radiator and underwing oil coolers were removed, a smaller tail was fitted, and a six-bladed contraprop installed. The engine had twin exhausts, one on each side of the fuselage, over the wing. It first flew on 18 January 1945, and showed to be excellent. Production had to be canceled however, simply because Rolls-Royce refused to build the Clyde engine in series! Rolls-Royce was committing itself fully to jet engines.

    The Python was an older design and lower-powered (3760 hp), with a reverse-flow, 14-stage axial compressor. The first Python-engined Wyvern TF.2 was VP109 and flew on 22 March 1949, with an eight-bladed Rotol propeller, but otherwise similar to VP120. Oil coolers were placed in the extended wing roots. It was followed by a second prototype and a few T.3 two-seat trainers. Experiences with the engine were far from satisfactory, unreliability and a slow reaction speed making the aircraft unpopular. If it had been available, Westland would probably have liked to return to the Eagle engine; but that was not possible, and twenty Python-engined TF.2s were built. Carrier trials began on 21 June 1950

    TNZ

    in reply to: Blackburn Firebrand #1427215
    turbo_NZ
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    The problem with the Wyvern is it had a second-choice turboprop which was tempermental.
    Used to flame-out on Cat-take offs !!!! 😮
    Now that wouldn’t really make your day…….

    Apart from that I reckon it was an awesome looking beast and apparently it could out manouevre a Seafire.

    TNZ

    in reply to: Blackburn Firebrand #1428977
    turbo_NZ
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    I did a little research and came up with the fact that it had vicious torque-swing, and had a long nose which made it difficult for the pilot to see on landing. Also it was too bulky apparently.

    Guess that’s why Wyverns and later Seafires had contra-rotating props.

    Cheers
    Chris

    in reply to: Blackburn Firebrand #1429003
    turbo_NZ
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    What was so bad about the Firebrand?
    It’s not that bad a looking aircraft anyway.

    Also, what was the Wyvern like in comparison ?

    Cheers
    TNZ

    in reply to: Heads up for 'Air America' in half an hour #1430636
    turbo_NZ
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    The Porter fuselage was actually dragged into the wooden mock-up of the C-123. It was run on rails laid down on the floor of the fuselage.

    T J

    Ah okay thanks for that.
    I did read that the C-123 bellying was actually pulled along by cable.
    Was that a real one or a mock up as well ?

    The whole scene(s) do look quite convincing, IMHO.

    in reply to: Heads up for 'Air America' in half an hour #1431734
    turbo_NZ
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    Info on the Porter
    The PC-6 is famous in the aviation world for its Short Take-off and Landing (STOL) performance on almost any type of terrain – it can take-off within a distance of 195 m and land within a distance of 130 m while carrying a payload of 1,500 kg. Thanks to its STOL performance, the PC-6 holds the world record for highest landing by a fixed wing aircraft, at 5750m, on the Dhaulagiri glacier in Nepal.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/)

    TNZ

    in reply to: Heads up for 'Air America' in half an hour #1431824
    turbo_NZ
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    Guess the design would have been influenced.
    The Storchs have pretty good stol capability too.

    Be great to see a fly-off between the two of them, that’s for sure !!

    TNZ

    in reply to: Heads up for 'Air America' in half an hour #1431846
    turbo_NZ
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    Nah,…they’re Pilatus Porters. Absolutley amazing STOL capability.

    Mount Cook Airlines here in NZ used to have them for ski-planes…and they put on a show once at one of the Wanaka air-shows.
    In a gentle headwind they can nearly hover !!!

    TNZ

    in reply to: Nanton Alberta hears Lancaster ground run #1431869
    turbo_NZ
    Participant

    Oh what a sound that must have been !!

    Great stuff !!

    TNZ

    in reply to: Heads up for 'Air America' in half an hour #1337841
    turbo_NZ
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    Way cool movie,..apparently they really did destroy that Porter into the “C-123 fuselage”….

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