"Blueskies" wrote in
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"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in message
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On 5 Mar, 22:57, "Blueskies" wrote:
"Bertie the Bunyip" wrote in
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Great Lakes or a Jungmann, to be honest.
Bertie
Jungmeister for sure :-))
Yeah, I know someone who had one before I met him. ******* sold it
so I never got to fly it!
just one of the prettiest airplanes ever.
Bertie
What about a Stampe?
Nice, kinda weird ailerons, though. The top ones are real loose on
most and I worried about flutter, but it doesn't seem to be a
problem. Nearly bought one cheap years ago. Lucky I didn't as they
have some serious issues with the fuselage getting oil soaked. You
can easily spend as much on them as you bought them for getting it
sorted. Very like the Great lakes, though. Very pleasant to fly and
they have funky cantankerous engines too! (that's a plus in my book)
Bertie
Yea..I like the lines and many seem to like the handling. I saw one
somewhere with an opposed 4 in it and thought it was blasphemy...
Yeah, I've seen a couple on barnstormers like that. You'd wonder why
they don't at least re-engine with a LOM. I looked at a couple with the
original engines. They made them with to different engines, a Renault
and a Gypsy. THey each had peculiar carberated inverted systems. This is
from memory, so for what it;s worth, the british Gypsy had a lever in
the cockpit that operated a shutoff/bypass to the float chamber,
effecting a direct feed from the header tank to the carb jets. This is
supposed to have worked quite well and was relatively idiot proof but
made the throttle a thing to be handled very carefully if a rich cut was
to be avoided. The Renault had a twin carb setup, one upright and one
inverted. I believe the Buckers had a similar setup. The Renault was
idiot proof and just needed to be set up properly on the ground.
There are still lots of them flitting around Europe and they command big
bucks! I think most have had the fuselage problems dealt with at this
point.
Bertie