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Cherokees in close formation
I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up
and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. Now I want to find someone to do that with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) |
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Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. Now I want to find someone to do that with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). "Goldfinger" (1964) http://imdb.com/title/tt0058150 Features Cherokee 140 formation taking off, flying and landing... By women in rocket bras... |
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Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. The Bonanzas to Oshkosh group put over a 100 bonanzas in loose formation for a group arrival to the show. A subset of that group does scary tight (IMHO) formations (see http://www.beechbum.com/pages/1/index.htm) I've been to several of their practice clinics, but have never done the group arrival with them. Lots of fun. It is also lots of work, and the stress of it may not be for everyone. Now I want to find someone to do that with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). Does your insurance explicity deny coverage for formation flight? -- Frank Stutzman Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl" Hood River, OR |
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Frank Stutzman wrote: Bob Chilcoat wrote: I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. The Bonanzas to Oshkosh group put over a 100 bonanzas in loose formation for a group arrival to the show. And screwed up the arrival this year. |
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On 2005-08-30 15:57, Bob Chilcoat wrote:
I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. Now I want to find someone to do that with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). A couple of pictures of Skybirds formations: http://infoworx.se/torget%5Crfk%5Cbi...ategory=2002-8 http://www.vemdaleninfo.se/hedlanda/...gdag/birds.jpg (Skybirds is a team of women pilots that can be seen at many airshows in Sweden, they fly a mixed group of Pa28:s. I couldn't find any english webpage for them.) /Rolf |
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Newps wrote:
The Bonanzas to Oshkosh group put over a 100 bonanzas in loose formation for a group arrival to the show. And screwed up the arrival this year. Apparently there were some issues this year. There was a 2 hour weather hold at Rockford due to weather. An then there was a take off incident caused the lead of element 13 to abort his takeoff (failed to put his mixture rich and his engine stalled when he went to full throttle). This put a gap in the arrival procession. None the less, the group put 100 planes on the ground at OSH in 20 minutes. Still a pretty good feat, IMO. So I've been told (http://www.b2osh.org/Reviews/review_2005.htm). Wasn't there personally. -- Frank Stutzman Bonanza N494B "Hula Girl" Hood River, OR |
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On 2005-08-30, Bob Chilcoat wrote:
with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). Really? I've never seen an insurance policy do that. Even our club insurance didn't do that (nor any FBO that I've been to). -- Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net "Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee" |
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I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up
and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. Now I want to find someone to do that with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). Not REAL close formation, but here are a few pix from a couple of weeks ago, where we flew together with a friend's Cherokee 180: http://www.alexisparkinn.com/flying_with_doug.htm And, of course, we flew up to OSH '05 in loose formation with Jack Allison and his Arrow... Flying that close to someone is very tiring, but it's tough to get air-to-air photos any other way! -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying
Really? I've never seen an insurance policy like that. Ever. Mind telling us who writes the policy and the details of the language? Michael |
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"Bob Chilcoat" wrote in message ... I heard what sounded like a twin with poorly sync'd props Sunday. Looked up and watched two Cherokees in close echelon formation flying over. Never thought I'd see Cherokees doing that. Now I want to find someone to do that with. (Joking, our insurance won't allow formation flying). What insurance company might that be? There can be very real safety benefits to formation flying. -- Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways) |
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