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Early on from the outside, it didn’t look like the flaps had been fully retracted prior to aerobatics.
Better flying example was the “Some Mother’s do ‘ave them” Christmas show.
In Canada they do not stall turn the Aerobat, because this manoeuvre is not in the flight manual.
And they don’t do inverted flight because there’s no inverted system.
I used to close the throttle and glide inverted!
No flat landings were shown in this video.
Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:43 am
#1654033
MichaelP
Wandering the World
Wandering the World
Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:24 am
#1654046
Don't you just love the aerobat???
No!
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Real pilots fly anything they can get their hands on!
Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:33 am
#1654049
Love the sixties hairdo.
Wed Nov 28, 2018 11:58 am
#1654056
flybymike wrote:Love the sixties hairdo.
Not just that - looked up the female pilot and foundd this in a 1971 edition of the 99s magazine:
A tour of Beech followed and then ready for the second gala event at the home of MARY AKIN. She raises registered horses, flies air races, and does aerobatic demonstrations when she is not throwing a “Safari” bash in her yard. Numerous “ punjabs” served “ woody juice” to us while we dodged python snakes in the trees and were entertained by a swim ming exhibition. These young ladies were
A different world
Frank Voeten
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Wed Nov 28, 2018 12:09 pm
#1654060
Hmmmm....All that extra reinforcing only added 16 pounds?......I wonder what they omitted or lightened to get the additional weight down. Typical @salesman puffs . 
Wed Nov 28, 2018 7:01 pm
#1654178
@Sir Morley Steven, "One First-Fright Certificate ..." 
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You are still dangerous! You can be my wingman anytime.
Wed Nov 28, 2018 10:14 pm
#1654223
Smashing little aircraft, IMHO...especially if you could find a Reims-built FRA150, because they came with proper anti-corrosion protection as standard. Even if you don't want to do aeros in them, the stronger airframe and cabin roof windows are a real plus.
Of course, getting hold of one with a decent O-240 would be hard, if not impossible these days. Fearnley Lynn of Busy Bee at Sibson was a fan of the Aerobat, last time I was there I counted three of them out to grass, all without donks...
Oh, and pedant mode on; they didn't come out until 1970.
Of course, getting hold of one with a decent O-240 would be hard, if not impossible these days. Fearnley Lynn of Busy Bee at Sibson was a fan of the Aerobat, last time I was there I counted three of them out to grass, all without donks...
Oh, and pedant mode on; they didn't come out until 1970.
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Thu Nov 29, 2018 12:22 am
#1654239
Korenwolf wrote: Fearnley Lynn of Busy Bee at Sibson was a fan of the Aerobat, last time I was there I counted three of them out to grass, all without donks...
Oh, and pedant mode on; they didn't come out until 1970.
Fearnley Lynn, now there's a blast from the past!
I well remember the last 4-5 hours of my PPL being spent at Sibson in G-AXRT during the early part of 1976, doing not much else other than aeros with a young instructor named Martin Hollis.
We both learnt a lot about how not to do certain manoeuvers but both being self taught we couldn't expect anything else. A very forgiving aircraft when in the hands of novices.
I saw XT a few years later at a PFA rally sporting a tailwheel! I still wonder did she perform aeros any differently in this configuration?
Roger
Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:13 am
#1654245
cockney steve wrote:Hmmmm....All that extra reinforcing only added 16 pounds?......I wonder what they omitted or lightened to get the additional weight down. Typical @salesman puffs .
Nothing. The extra weight was from using 0.032" skins instead of 0.025" on the L/E for example.
(Great video...I wonder how heavy was the camera back in those days!)
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Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:12 am
#1654313
MichaelP wrote:
No flat landings were shown in this video.
Thu Nov 29, 2018 3:53 pm
#1654408
Crikey, that's some neat flying. They don't land em like that at the 'Bushe.
Fri Nov 30, 2018 3:14 am
#1654501
Attention is paid to “rotate speeds” I've overheard a few times... Definitely airline stuff!
When I learned, I learned in the Cessna 150.
Landings were nose up with a telling off if you let the nosewheel plonk onto the runway.
Brian Claridge would thump me
(MeToo) 
These days I get comments, ‘you teach them to land like it’s a tailwheel aeroplane’.
Why not?
Especially important in an AA5.
On the subject... I didn’t know that the Aerobat was not cleared to do stall turns because this is not in the fright manual, sorry POH, until I went to Canada.
Risk of a tail slide?
When I learned, I learned in the Cessna 150.
Landings were nose up with a telling off if you let the nosewheel plonk onto the runway.
Brian Claridge would thump me
(MeToo) These days I get comments, ‘you teach them to land like it’s a tailwheel aeroplane’.
Why not?
Especially important in an AA5.
On the subject... I didn’t know that the Aerobat was not cleared to do stall turns because this is not in the fright manual, sorry POH, until I went to Canada.
Risk of a tail slide?
MichaelP
Wandering the World
Wandering the World