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Time to bring back the trimotors?

Right on Ron! If I recall correctly, this was a Navy project conducted mid WW2. Burn time was in seconds. Ever seen a Fat Albert RATO t.o.? (Fat Albert had access to the world wide supply of RATOs until exhausted. About 2 years) The unit on the Ercoupe's belly was about the size and weight of a...

Tailwheel gliders? Barnstormers has a Sonex Xenos 2 seat t.w. motor glider posted at this time.

Excellent info. And just because I posted that gliders land faster than cruise.

I know. I said that I put out my opinion and now I'm going to bed. I got my Glider rating when I was a military pilot in long term school. Forbidden to fly, but flight pay continued. I heard of the glider operation in nearby San Marcos and checked it out. Commercial glider pilots had instructor...

I swore to myself, that I would stay out of this. But I have to say ONE thing and I'm gone. Tail dragging airplanes and gliders land differently in one respect. First, I was taught to land airplanes kinda slowly. Tail draggers, nose draggers, ME's & helos. I got into gliders after a couple of...

Depends where you start. I learned in a Cub. I was at the glider field on a day that there was a X-wind across the RW. I watched a pilot land and while rolling out, the wind shifted, got behind him and ever so slowly, nosed him over on his back. We rushed over and flipped him right side up. No...

A little time to kill, I thought I would post the 2024 practice schedule. The practices are held at NAS Pensacola. Gates on scheduled days open at 0930 and T.O. time is 1030 CST. A gov ID was required in prior years to get in. It may have been dropped by now. Check the Facebook page. The 2024...

I'm going to guess. Flight Lead led the flight through a couple of right turns and the ones on the left couldn't keep up.

I bought 20 acres on a private sale in Florida. The title company handled everything to a "T".

I wonder if that could be Freemason Island. Been there, done that. Good place to go "sea shelling".

It also seems that its easy to make a data plate.

An FAA Safety Inspector that I once knew owned a CE 180 and it was hit by another airplane when parked. The worst damage was caused by the prop and it ate up the fuselage beyond repair. Most of the rest was untouched. He knew that I went to many various airports in the region and asked me to be...

How does that bad boy handle after one or more of those props/rotors are FODed? And it carries 4 passengers and zero pilots?

This would be a good time to consider the forward slip. Fast input & fast recovery to straight and level. And you will no longer be doing 80 KTS.

Me too. Had a similar experience in my NORDO Luscombe 8A. BTW, not my first emergency. The A65 went full throttle. Could not retard. Asked myself "If I was in a Sopworth Camel, what would I do?" So I did mags: off/on. Landed OK and even taxied to parking. Found the anchor clamp on the throttle...

My 1946 7AC had adverse yaw.

None of the responses mentioned differential ailerons. They have been around for awhile. Noticeable if you mostly fly the oldies. You know, the ones with all that adverse yaw. When you finally fly one with differential ailerons, its a revelation. I was building a Thorp T-18 way back when and...

I wish that I still had that photo of the tip jar that someone taped up in the cabin of the part 135 A/C that I flew.

I was checking out in a new variant at FSI/KPBI back around the turn of the century. The first thing that caught my eye when I stepped in the sim was flashlights latched in charging brackets between the pedals. Each seat had its light. About the size of a CC. Was told that it was "equivalent."