Tue Mar 24, 2020 5:15 pm
#1755225
Levis Sed Non Parvus
Tue Mar 24, 2020 7:47 pm
#1755276
Just need that lottery ticket to come up!
Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:11 pm
#1755302
Not a lot of money at all (actually about the asking price for a good E-type Jag, to put it in perspective,) for something with a great history and provenance that is in tip top nick, usable and fun to fly.
I would!
I would!
Tue Mar 24, 2020 9:18 pm
#1755304
Just after restoration and engine overhaul, the price is definitely reasonable. Not for me, though.
Autocorrect is so frustrating. It's always making me say things I didn't Nintendo.
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Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:07 pm
#1755310
tomshep wrote:Not a lot of money at all (actually about the asking price for a good E-type Jag, to put it in perspective,) for something with a great history and provenance that is in tip top nick, usable and fun to fly.
I would!
Lovely machine but it will probably take £10 - 12k to maintain it.
Zulus.............................Thousands of em!!!!!!!!!!!
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:08 am
#1755322
In 1970 something I brought 4 or 5 back from Kemble to Biggin Hill .
Bought by bids of between £600 & £800 .
How times have changed !
Pull lever and bang bang they started .
Bought by bids of between £600 & £800 .
How times have changed !
Pull lever and bang bang they started .
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:59 am
#1755325
Pull lever and bang bang they started .
Until you got one of those damp squibs, which just fizzed and left the cockpit full of cordite-smelling smoke
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:19 pm
#1755443
I suppose it would be sacrilege to ask if it had a towing hook fitted? 
With the current crisis I quite fancy having my own personal tug plane! Not sure I could train Mrs ls8pilot to fly it though......
Seriously I would love to have an original Chippy to fly, just couldn't afford to run it. I knew an ex-RAF instructor (friend of my late father) who taught on them, he had several thousand hours on type. He told me he reckoned on at least 2 engine problems a year , so he got quite good at field landings!
With the current crisis I quite fancy having my own personal tug plane! Not sure I could train Mrs ls8pilot to fly it though......
Seriously I would love to have an original Chippy to fly, just couldn't afford to run it. I knew an ex-RAF instructor (friend of my late father) who taught on them, he had several thousand hours on type. He told me he reckoned on at least 2 engine problems a year , so he got quite good at field landings!
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:37 pm
#1755447
PaulSS wrote:Pull lever and bang bang they started .
Until you got one of those damp squibs, which just fizzed and left the cockpit full of cordite-smelling smoke
I love that smell! But then again Mrs Bum says I’m weird.
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Zulus.............................Thousands of em!!!!!!!!!!!
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:40 pm
#1755449
ls8pilot wrote:I suppose it would be sacrilege to ask if it had a towing hook fitted?
Sacrilege it would be! Better with a Eurofox or similar. They are expendable.
Zulus.............................Thousands of em!!!!!!!!!!!
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:45 pm
#1755451
Better with a Eurofox as you'll get better performance and you'll be able to many more launches. I used to tug at RNAS Yeovilton in the Chippy.......jeez it took a long time to get to 2000' with a Puchacz behind
PS: My Eurofox is beautiful, not expendable.......even if it is all ready to go and I haven't yet been able to fly it
PS: My Eurofox is beautiful, not expendable.......even if it is all ready to go and I haven't yet been able to fly it
Wed Mar 25, 2020 12:55 pm
#1755455
I'm amazed how "efficient" it is, given its age. Not too different from today's (80s/90s) 2-seater SEPs.
If we don't take part in protecting GA access to infrastructure, the smaller aerodromes will be built over, the larger aerodromes will have exorbitant handling fees and awkward procedures, and airspace will be over-classified to Class A everywhere.
Wed Mar 25, 2020 1:05 pm
#1755458
PaulSS wrote:Better with a Eurofox as you'll get better performance and you'll be able to many more launches. I used to tug at RNAS Yeovilton in the Chippy.......jeez it took a long time to get to 2000' with a Puchacz behind
Ah yes, but you can slide the canopy back, just like a spitfire pilot, cant do that in a Eurofox! I wonder if the refurbishment has kept the original "sutton harness", add in a seat parachute and you'll get the full experience!
I used to tow with an Auster (Dorset GC) - good for hours building especially with a Ka7 on the back. Maybe we've all got spoilt with current tugs, I recall doing competitions in the 1980's when you had Chipmunks, Condors, Wilga's and all sorts of odd stuff towing. The long tow used to give you time to settle down and get your maps etc organised! Mind you at Sutton Bank in those days towing to the North it sometimes also gave you a long time just over the trees to contemplate the lack of options if the engine stopped!
Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:35 pm
#1755666
Interesting to note that in the black & white photo taken in the early years (any info on that photo?) WB549 does not sport the 'anti-spin' strakes in evidence in the modern photos. When were they introduced?
IC
Ah! De Haviland - Southampton UAS operating out of Hamble. Brilliant times
, brilliant aircraft and brilliant airfield .
IC
Ah! De Haviland - Southampton UAS operating out of Hamble. Brilliant times
, brilliant aircraft and brilliant airfield .