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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