A very brief flight...

[Paul K]

That first roll had me puckering up a bit. :o

[jonesey2k]

I don't think the Bandit Mechanics would be amused if I started one of their Turbo-Bonanza's in their lovely and clean hanger

[petermcleland]

Oo-er..

That sounds like a rather tricky procedure Peter and here we are at Brooklands unable to ascend a ladder more than 6ft high due to H&S :roll:

Interesting recollection and something very new to me ;-)

Dave,

I'm not sure that H&S had been dreamed up in those days

[petermcleland]

That first roll had me puckering up a bit. :o

It is interesting that first roll Paul...The Super accelerates so fast that I could have been up 100 yards before that but was holding it on the ground till I was forced off...You can see the wheels just leave the ground a moment before I nudge the nose up before rolling. So I really had masses of flying speed before I even started. With normal monoplanes doing my retraction roll I have to haul the nose high on lift off before rolling...But with this beauty, I could get away with rolling as the wheels were forced off, with a bit more practice.

I've been modifying the foreward diagonal views today in the 2D cockpit (there is no 2D panel). I find that the 2D cockpit with no panel is best for formating and I have a stick button arangement that locks the forward diagonal views...So I want those views set so that with the whole leader filling the centre of the screen I am in the correct wingman position. When I can manage that position as number two then I can start building my box of four :flying:

I've also been continuing the VideoStudio learning curve by burning some DVDs... :think: ...The curve is steep but the more I delve into it the more I'm impressed by this software

[petermcleland]

I don't think the Bandit Mechanics would be amused if I started one of their Turbo-Bonanza's in their lovely and clean hanger

Hi Jonesey...that Turbo-Bonanza effect is two of the "Little Bandit" effects carefully positioned and NO! they would not be amused If I have the patience, I will position three of them for the bottom three cylinders on the "Super"...Then I WILL have to start outside

That may not prove as difficult as imagined, because the builder has already positioned the little blue flames for each of the seven cylinders and I may be able to use those co-ords :think:

[jonesey2k]

You better fabricate a few more sand trays then

[auster]

Peter,

I had never heard of that practice with the Sycamore’s rotor blades. Very interesting indeed.

I did not think there was anything wrong with you starting up in the hangar a McCleland Field. After all, it was nice and clean and empty. I object to the jokers who rotate their aircraft round in front of a hangar and manage blow everything that is not bolted down, to the back of it and cover everywhere in dust. Saw a wingco, who was doing some private teaching, do that once. Mind you, he was probably very distracted because his girl student was absolute gorgeous.

Regarding the roll on take off, I seem to remember seeing a chap do that at an air display around 1965. I cannot remember or spell his name correctly but it was something like Prince Cantacuzzini (?). Has anyone else heard of him? I think he was flying a Jungmeister, probably souped up because he started his roll half way down the runway.

Ralph

[SkippyBing]

I had never heard of that practice with the Sycamore’s rotor blades. Very interesting indeed.

They showed us a video of the practice during ground school (on a Squirrel I think) at which point we looked at each other and said "That's barking" or words to that effect. I'm fairly sure Sketchy's dad has told me about doing it to a Wessex. The video was actually from Tomorrow's World in the early '80s where they were demonstrating the new method where an IR camera is pointed at the blades and measures their path through the air. On the plus side this means a) no one has to go near the spinning blades with a stick and b) you can measure the tracking in various stages of flight. On the down side it's now a lot easier to find things wrong with the tracking so it can take several goes to get it right and it can get confused by light bouncing off the tarmac!

[DaveB]

A fitting conclusion Skippy ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[airboatr]