Nuthin' but a pocket rocket! I'll bet ya just have to think a roll and it happens.

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If I had a time machine???

I'd love to see the expression on a Zeke pilot's face as he looked behind him to see these teeth getting ready to chew him a new one!

If I'm not mistaken, that little "crotch rocket" mini-jet is a BD-5, isn't it? LHA-3 Rusty

The 'Blue Beast' shown above is what aircraft? Or is this one an Avenger? It's a big, powerful radial engine with a taildragger plane attached to it. Imagine 'throwing' that husky one all over the sky, or should I say, "being thrown all around in the cockpit in it as it's 'worked' and 'wrung out"?

I flew one of those SkyStar KitFoxes, a Model IV "Speedster", a few years ago. It had the 83-hp Rotax liquid-cooled engine with a C-drive and a cruise prop. Less than 100 feet takeoff roll (!!!) and I was climbing at around 1200 fpm, with a 120-knot+ top airspeed, 90-knot cruise, and a 6-1 stall to VNe speed of 25 MPH---that's right, 25 MPH, not 25 KNOTS! That little bird has an option for 36 gallons of fuel, with a 3-3.5 GPH burn rate @ cruise power. I cut the power back to idle and kicked the rudder over to the stops...the stable little KitFox just slipped and flew quasi-sideways without dropping a wing! I let off & brought the rudder back to neutral/center, powered into it and pulled back hard on the stick; it clawed at the sky and demonstrated amazing performance and responsivenness. I wouldn't mind one of those for my place. I landed it in less than 75 feet. It has a tough airframe, strong main gear, and the wings can be folded back and locked to tow it and store it at home in the garage, saving expen$ive hangar fees. It runs on 91 pump gas or 100LL. A Lycoming is available for it. The airframe has STCs for three or four different powerplants. Options include skis, tundra tires and amphib floats, as well as full floats, a cargo pod, a crop sprayer package option, and a decent Nav/Com stack/deluxe instrument panel option. Whelen strobes, wheel pants, and a cowling over the nose reminiscent of a radial engine's cowling, and true S-STOL performance make this fun little flyer the ultimate "RV" aircraft. If not this, maybe a Murphy or a DiamondStar DIESEL-powered four-seater. It's a liquid-cooled 4-cycle DIESEL-engined, low-wing-design aircraft.

These are BD-5B the first ones with prop engines. SAWEET!

Rusty,
Diesel engine, wow. That must be an experience, diesel fuel thickens in the winter, do they have some sort of heater to keep the fuel warm?

I know truckers leave their rigs running over night, if they are parked some where. We were on a trip during the winter, we stayed at a place where trukers could park their rigs. They left them running all night, didn't get much sleep.

Kinda-sorta like this Rusty?

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Gloster Meteor We had one of these on a spike out side of our kaserne in Chievres, Belgium.

Dh Vampire


Bristol Beaufort

What is that on the nose, it looks like an air intake for a jet engine. Since it's a prop engine, what is that?

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Originally posted by LHA_3Rusty:
The 'Blue Beast' shown above is what aircraft? Or is this one an Avenger? It's a big, powerful radial engine with a taildragger plane attached to it. Imagine 'throwing' that husky one all over the sky, or should I say, "being thrown all around in the cockpit in it as it's 'worked' and 'wrung out"?

It's the F6F Hellcat, Rusty, which had the highest kill-to-loss ratio (19-to-1) of any front-line American fighter during the war. The aircraft in the pic, which I believe is a -5 model, is painted in the colors of VF-27, which was the only Navy squadron to sport nose art on their aircraft.

It's a chin window for the bombardier.

Thanks for the info on the F6-F Hellcat. It is still a huge, powerful radial engine with a plane attached to it! Quite the bird! My friend with the Lockheed LodeStar, that I posted here earlier is into the Navy SNJs and the AT-6 Texans. At the Casa Grande, Arizona airport is a camo'd-out, still airworthy military version of the DC-3. This vintage bird has been nicknamed "Puff". I'll post some photos of it soon...I have to dig 'em out. -LHA-3 Rusty

Welcome to America - -

Here's a shot of that military DC-3 located at the Casa Grande, Arizona airport, October 2008.

GWG...what the....??? That's some photo...looks a little rough around the MIDDLE!!!-Rusty

Yahoo is yelling that we now have us a new "ObamaNation"...I was afraid of this happening to us...GHUA(God Help Us All). What do you think of "Puff", the trusty ol' military DC-3? It still has the pedestal-mounted gun and all inside the fuselage. Alot of work went into restoring and keeping up this actual mil-bird.

My time machine transition plane would be this one.

Krauts could run out of ammo trying yo bring one down, ask Maj, Robert Johnson, whose enemy FW-190 unloaded a full complement of ammo, an after being empty flew up alongside Johnsons plane shook his head an turned around for Germany.

An Nope you can keep them P-51z, one round in the radiator and "hello Stalag Luft III".

Besides the highhest scoring fighter group had the most "Air to Air" kills flying these,684 an1/2 they didnt count planes shot up on the ground. Eight to one , the highest scoreing ratio in the 8th Airforce.

I'll take this one.

Get me home.

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On the diesel aircraft, they are engineered to run on Jet-A, not #2 Diesel fuel. Jet-A is superior in stability, anti-gelling and anti-foaming qualities. The Theibert-modified and adapted aircraft powerplant diesels CAN run on #2...but it is not ultra-refined to perform the way Jet-A does in aircraft turbines and aero-spec'd diesels. Also, Jet-A fuel has worldwide availability on its side...#2 Diesel Fuel does NOT, except OFF the airfields! - LHA-3 Rusty

I have run my MC-7 ex-Greyhound bus on a 50/50 mix of Jet-A and #2 Diesel Fuel. It ran even better...had more power, and even LESS smoke than before (it does not smoke much, anyway). The ol' Detroit Diesel 8V71 likes the Jet-A/#2 mix! The Jet-A does not go 'stale' as quickly, nor does it seem to have the propensity for ruinous microbial biogrowth in it that #2 can have.