Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote in
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Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Big John wrote in
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Bertie

No film but saw him fly once, years ago. Almost as good as Bob
Hoover.
Saw him fly quite a few times. I always thought he was better!
The thing was, he made it look so easy. The mark of a true
craftsman.. I don't think he ever put more than 90 hp in that
airplane, either.

Bertie


I would agree with this. Duane had none of the advantages in the
clipped wing T Craft that Hoover had in the 51. His displays in the T
Craft were marvelous demonstrations of energy control.
Bob on the other hand is a master at smoothness of control. I don't
think I've ever seen anyone handle an airplane display wise any
smoother than Hoover.
Duane's routines were special. Where Hoover rode the smooth ride in
placing the 51 where it had to be at any instant in his
demonstrations, Duane Cole managed energy better than anyone I've ever
seen in aerobatics. The best way to describe Duane Cole's flying was
that he got every once of performance out of his airplane that it was
possible of giving him......and then some :-)


He was unbelievable. The most amazing thing were the square manuevrers.
How he could keep speed up around those corners was nothing less than
astonishing. That airplane must have weighed next to nothing. I read a
review Hoover did of the Skyote, which he loved, BTW. the one he flew
had a C90 on it with no inverted system. The owner of the airplane let
him do a display in it and was amamazed to see him doing square loops
near the ground as well as slow rolls and all sorts of other manuevers.
Whn he asked him how he had managed to keep the engine running Hoover
replied that he just kept it positive enough to keep it running all the
time.
And this in an airplane he had a couple of hours in.

Cole wasn't as big a name to the general public, because you had to be
into aerobatics to know how impossible what he was doing was, wheras
Hoovers were spectacular no matter how you sliced it. I'd loved to see
him fly that Skyote, though..

Bertie


I flew the Jungmann several times. The Skyote looks a lot like the
Jungmann. Don't know how heavy it is, but it looks like a sweet flying
airplane.
Probably the finest all around and balanced acro airplane I've ever been
around in my time would be the Jungmeister. Bevo of course flew one and
I can't think of anything he couldn't and didn't do with it.
This new breed of mid wings with full span ailerons have to be a blast
to fly. Too bad I missed them. They bring a whole new world of inertia
coupling maneuvers to the table that we never even dreamed of.

I remember the first Lomcevak I did. It was in a Pitts S1S. I set it up
on a 45 up line outside snap. When it broke, I just hung on and had
absolutely no idea where the damn thing would end up. I remember
thinking right after I recovered the airplane that there would be no way
in hell to predict exactly how the airplane would recover.
Later on of course this maneuver became routine.
But the guys today in the mid wings do things with an airplane that I
would have said would have been impossible 20 years ago.
Progress. Ain't it wonderful :-))))
D

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Dudley Henriques