On Mar 3, 11:46*am, Big John wrote:
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 08:11:30 -0800 (PST), William Hung





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On Mar 3, 10:08*am, Big John wrote:
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I heard the Helio also has crabbing gears. *Ia that right?

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Wil

I flew the Helio Courier (USAF U-10) with castering gear.

Felt crazy after landing and nose weather vaned into the cross wind.

If you took off with gear unlocked you landed with it unlocked. This
was to prevent a malfunction and only one gear locking if you tried to
lock in air. Landing with one locked and one unlocked would probably
cause an accident or ground loop at least.

You could unlock in air for landing as no failure in unlocking system.

I played with system to keep current but never had to use it in
practice.

Big John

Did you fly in 'Nam John?

WIl

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Yep.

0-1 and 0-2. (350+ combat hours)

Ran II DASC at Pleiku during TET era (67-68).

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Is the 0-2 the Skymaster? Saw a great movie some years back that has
a nice 0-2 flying scenes, think it might have been 'Flight of the
Intruder'.

Wil