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By: - 21st May 2004 at 15:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Don't forget to go to Aerofair this weekend.If you fly in, please buy fuel at North Weald. It keeps the place going which keeps me happy and that is the most important thing in the world!
:D
Which - keeping it going or you happy??!! :D
By: - 21st May 2004 at 15:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
:) Keeping ME ME ME happy! :)
... well both really.
By: - 21st May 2004 at 15:44 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Frankly Aerofair week is about the only week of the year when I wouldn't dream of going to North Weald.
The rest of the time it is a frequent dropping-off point. John is probably my favourite refueller in the universe and you can meet a very nice class of person in the dead of night inside a CASA111 if you are lucky. :p
Moggy
By: - 21st May 2004 at 15:49 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
in the dead of night inside a CASA111
Ah! The re-enactment of the bombing of Coventry! I still don't remember that. Most worrying. I do remember playing ghosts in the cockpit of the DC3 at midnight before Fighter Meet.
Three cheers for John the refueller!
By: - 21st May 2004 at 16:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Ah! The re-enactment of the bombing of Coventry! I still don't remember that. Most worrying. I do remember playing ghosts in the cockpit of the DC3 at midnight before Fighter Meet.Three cheers for John the refueller!
And they let you fly aircraft?????!!!!! Mmmmm - a letter to Head of Licensing required re: the sanity of members of this forum!! ;) ;)
By: - 21st May 2004 at 16:08 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
If you read the PPL syllabus, you will see it goes something like this:
1. Climbs an decents
2. Turns
3. Stalls
4. Take off and landings
5. The re-enactment of the bombing of Coventy
Everybody knows that!
By: - 21st May 2004 at 16:20 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yup
Exercise 23Z
Dual simulation of WW2's darker moments.
Passed with flying colours.
Also Exercise 36X - Flag stealing from Jolly Rogers
Great days :D
Moggy
By: - 21st May 2004 at 16:32 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
If you read the PPL syllabus, you will see it goes something like this:
1. Climbs an decents
2. Turns
3. Stalls
4. Take off and landings
5. The re-enactment of the bombing of CoventyEverybody knows that!
Aha! May I take you up on a couple of points?
1.Climbs and decent what?
2. One take off and how many landings?
:D :D
By: - 21st May 2004 at 16:37 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
1.Climbs and decent what?
Decent of a Lady with Al Pacino
2. One take off and how many landings?
About three per take off in the early days!
Bad spelling and grammar was encouraged too.
By: - 22nd May 2004 at 09:38 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Janie is just proving how quickly you forget your training once you've qualified.
I suggest we need a biennial grammar review like wot the FAA does.
Moggy
By: - 22nd May 2004 at 22:28 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Slot booked for tomorrow, anyone else going? Sorry Janie, won't be buying fuel, we seem to have plenty of our own at the moment.
By: - 23rd May 2004 at 22:09 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
One of the highlights of the event was the Yak52 (Tailwheel ) , but if you had seen it on Tuesday evening, you would not have imagined it would make it to North Weald.The a/c was involved in a taxiing accident, which concluded with the Yak impaled on a mobile bowser, with a consequent spillage of fuel.
After the consumption of much midnight-oil, the installation of a new engine, new prop, and newly fabricated cowlings, it was back in the air. The nosewheel 52's might look a little ungainly, but at least the view is better !
By: - 23rd May 2004 at 22:50 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Is that the Yak 52TD? I can only conclude that TD must stand for Turbo Diesel. Got to have a sit in it today, very interesting, but far to much money for me I fear.
By: - 23rd May 2004 at 23:01 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yak 11 Fan.
Do you recall how much? I saw one at Sun&Fun last year, and I think it was then in the region of 90,000 dollars.
By: - 23rd May 2004 at 23:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
100,000 Euros (what ever they are worth these days) I believe. Now I fear my old Laguna is worth £2k, so I'm about £58k short, could sell the house I guess and live in the hanger.
By: - 24th May 2004 at 09:04 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Yak-52TD
EUR55,00 will convert your current nose-wheel one to a taildragger. Because you will be getting a fully retractable undercarriage, you get new wings. You also get new paint. Conversion takes 3-weeks.
If you do not already have one to convert, then EUR100,000 will get you a newly converted one. That's currently about £67,000 for a 360hp military spec aircraft. Can you find something else in it's league for that price?
Or there is the super model EUR120,000 will get you one with a 400hp enging, three-blade propeller, transponder with Mode C, strobes, rounded wing-tips, Hooker harness, extra baggage space and a smoke system!
We did some climb tests in the TD last night, pitching it against a nosewheel version. We were in the 400hp 2-blade demonstrator. It pulled away from the other very nicely!
Please note the at the -TD is different from the -TW.
By: - 24th May 2004 at 09:42 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
:mad: I miss my YAK!
Moggy
By: - 24th May 2004 at 09:59 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Moggy: I bumped into someone else from the old Tatiana group yesterday. I never got his name, but he was the one who sold his share just before the Starduster ate it.
By: - 24th May 2004 at 12:39 Permalink - Edited 1st January 1970 at 01:00
Moggy: I bumped into someone else from the old Tatiana group yesterday. I never got his name, but he was the one who sold his share just before the Starduster ate it.
Ah! Him.
I can't recall his name either :confused:
Moggy
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By: Chipmunk Carol - 20th May 2004 at 17:45
Don't forget to go to Aerofair this weekend.
If you fly in, please buy fuel at North Weald. It keeps the place going which keeps me happy and that is the most important thing in the world!
:D