What do you fly?

[jinkster]

What do you fly? Whether its Heavy Metal/ Light Aircraft.

I'll start,

Currently B737-800

[eharding]

Yak-52

Sold my share in a Pitts S1 a while back.

Going for a blast in the Sbach 342 demonstrator on Friday. Could prove expensive!

[ccr32]

Learning in a Robin HR200 at the moment - early days for me

[Flintstone]

Challenger 605.

[Aizletree]

A Reims Rocket (modified C172)

[Fat Albert]

Rallye 180T

Stripped out French Glider tug

Looks only a mother could love but great at short strips, lifts 4 with reasonable fuel and a hoot to fly

[Eric Mc]

Used to fly this actual aircraft -

[Hard-Drive]

You lucky people...

[nick heppinstall]

[RacerMDR]

nick heppinstall said:

we have a winner? All very cool.

2.3 hours in a R22 - and proud

[Aizletree]

Thought I would add a picture. Identical to this one, no tweety bird on the tail though ........

And a much shorter, louder exhaust (this is PH).

[mrloudly]

Fly it and built it :-)

[bumblebee]

[jjones]

student pilot

[eharding]

bumblebee said:

A mate had a bit of a kerfuffle in one of those a while back, down in Sud Afrika. Reverser buckets shifted on rotation, leading edge devices retracted, all manner of nasty effects. Top job of holding onto it.

[john_p]

[renmure]

Student. Luving it!!

[Eric Mc]

eharding said:

bumblebee said:

A mate had a bit of a kerfuffle in one of those a while back, down in Sud Afrika. Reverser buckets shifted on rotation, leading edge devices retracted, all manner of nasty effects. Top job of holding onto it.

What caused that?

[eharding]

Eric Mc said:

What caused that?

There had been work done on the reverser buckets down route, and they hadn't fully stowed after the work was completed.

When the big beastie rotated, they shifted just enough to trigger the switch that indicates they're deployed, although not enough to have any effect on the engine thrust.

However, the logic bomb that had been slumbering in the 747 systems for decades was that on landing, when the reversers are deployed the leading edge devices are retracted automatically to save them being damaged by muck thrown up by the reversed jet blast.

In this case, it caused the leading edge devices to retract just as they got airborne, robbing a huge amount of lift, and generally leading to all manner of bad things.

The 747s worldwide were subsequently modified to act on the position of the reverser controls on the flight-deck, rather than the position sensor on the buckets.

[Eric Mc]

It's amazing what can creep out of the woodwork even after 40 plus years of operation.

There was one accident I can recall of a 747 where the leading edge slates were nor properly deployed for takeof. That was the Lufthans 747 incident in Nairobi in 1974.