Amusement

When I heard the sad news about the plane crash in New York on this
morning's BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme, I immediately predicted what
Skylune's action would be and almost predicted with 100% accuracy what
the subject line of his new thread would be, and what the message
contents would be. At least he's eminently predictable!

ObAviation content: Hopefully, this weekend, I will be part owner of an
old plane again - this time an Auster built in 1945. It is very similar
to a Taylorcraft - because it was designed by Taylorcraft (and this one
was built in a Taylocraft factory in England). The windows on an Auster
look a bit different to a Taylorcraft's though, and it has flaps - and
originally it'd have had an inline 4 cylinder Gipsy engine. However,
it's been uprated to a 160hp O-320.

With a power on stall speed of 29mph, and 160hp in a small two seat
fabric plane, it doesn't waste time on the runway :-) Normal approach
for a wheel landing is 50mph. You can approach slower for a 3 point
landing, but much slower and the timing of the landing flare becomes
critical, so 50 mph is generally the number to aim for.

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it...

denny

Dylan Smith wrote:
When I heard the sad news about the plane crash in New York on this
morning's BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme, I immediately predicted what
Skylune's action would be and almost predicted with 100% accuracy what
the subject line of his new thread would be, and what the message
contents would be. At least he's eminently predictable!

ObAviation content: Hopefully, this weekend, I will be part owner of an
old plane again - this time an Auster built in 1945. It is very similar
to a Taylorcraft - because it was designed by Taylorcraft (and this one
was built in a Taylocraft factory in England). The windows on an Auster
look a bit different to a Taylorcraft's though, and it has flaps - and
originally it'd have had an inline 4 cylinder Gipsy engine. However,
it's been uprated to a 160hp O-320.

With a power on stall speed of 29mph, and 160hp in a small two seat
fabric plane, it doesn't waste time on the runway :-) Normal approach
for a wheel landing is 50mph. You can approach slower for a 3 point
landing, but much slower and the timing of the landing flare becomes
critical, so 50 mph is generally the number to aim for.

--
Yes, the Reply-To email address is valid.
Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de

Dylan Smith wrote:
When I heard the sad news about the plane crash in New York on this
morning's BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme, I immediately predicted what
Skylune's action would be and almost predicted with 100% accuracy what
the subject line of his new thread would be, and what the message
contents would be. At least he's eminently predictable!

All whiney leftists are extremely predicable.

I myself predicted that members of the media would be asking
their typical assinine questions while demonstrating a pathetic
lack of knowledge of aviation at a news conference. Not
suprisingly I was 100% correct.

I'm also fed up with the poor way news is delivered, everything is
sensationalized and the real news usually ends up completely different than
the 'facts' that are initially broadcast.


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Dylan Smith wrote:
When I heard the sad news about the plane crash in New York on this
morning's BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme, I immediately predicted what
Skylune's action would be and almost predicted with 100% accuracy what
the subject line of his new thread would be, and what the message
contents would be. At least he's eminently predictable!

All whiney leftists are extremely predicable.

I myself predicted that members of the media would be asking
their typical assinine questions while demonstrating a pathetic
lack of knowledge of aviation at a news conference. Not
suprisingly I was 100% correct.

Gary wrote:
I'm also fed up with the poor way news is delivered, everything is
sensationalized and the real news usually ends up completely different than
the 'facts' that are initially broadcast.

While yesterday's NYC incident was happening, I had the radio on while I
was cutting dovetails for a piece of furniture I'm constructing. I'm
pretty close to the city, so much of our "local" broadcast news comes
from NYC.

The reports went from a small airliner, to a light twin, to no specific
details... They even reported _eyewitnesses_ who saw a multi-engine
plane hit the building. When I finished ~1945 EDT, I cleaned up, closed
up, and read a book in bed until I fell asleep. I didn't watch TV or
listen to broadcast radio after leaving the shop.

The actual facts that were reported this morning were an SR20 with two
aboard. I've seen enough SR20's and 22's in person to know that even
the most non-technical non-pilot would be hard pressed to mistake it for
a small airliner.

I think they just make it up as they go along...