Warning: 25' wide, 1800' long

Morgans wrote:
I'm not that familiar with the BE-18 but that does sound impressive.

A good old airplane. There are still a lot of them flying. It was also used
as a bomber trainer.

The British called it the Hudson, I believe.


And our air force called it the C-45. My dad used to carry around cadets in one
for orientation flights back when he was teaching ROTC back in the late 1950s.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com

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"Morgans" wrote:

"Kingfish" wrote in message
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Ross Richardson wrote:

I learned to fly out of a 1800' runway south of Kansas City, MO. The
name was Hillside. Never had problems with short runways. They even had
a Beech 18 going in and out.


I'm not that familiar with the BE-18 but that does sound impressive.

A good old airplane. There are still a lot of them flying. It was also used
as
a bomber trainer.

The British called it the Hudson, I believe.

Nope -- the Hudson was the bomber version of the Lockheed Model 14
Lodestar (a much bigger plane).

"Grumman-581" wrote in message
...
I've gone into 2X53 with my Grumman and
the 1900 ft of paved runway was just barely
enough for that attempt...

Correction -- 2XS3, not 2X53... Hmmm... I think they changed the identifier
on the airport to T51 these days... The most recent sectional that I had
here at the house was from 1998...

Mortimer Schnerd, RN wrote:
Morgans wrote:
I'm not that familiar with the BE-18 but that does sound impressive.

A good old airplane. There are still a lot of them flying. It was also used
as a bomber trainer.

The British called it the Hudson, I believe.


And our air force called it the C-45. My dad used to carry around cadets in one
for orientation flights back when he was teaching ROTC back in the late 1950s.

Like Orval said, the Hudson was the RAF version of the larger Lockheed
Lodestar. Besides the C-45 Expeditor, the USAAF flew the glass-nosed
AT-11 variant of the Beech 18 for multi engine and bombardier training

"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com wrote

And our air force called it the C-45. My dad used to carry around cadets in
one for orientation flights back when he was teaching ROTC back in the late
1950s.

The first small plane crash scene I ever saw was a Beech 18. I was a kid, and
don't remember all the details. It went down heading into Toledo Express
Airport. (that was what it was called at the time)

It was a freight dog, clipped some tree tops, and went down. It had not been
hauled off yet, and was taped off, but I was impressed at the force of the
destruction. The crash was just a few miles from my house, and I rode over to
look at it on my bicycle, I think. Sad, terrible accident.

I just tried to look it up, but got no results. I guess I'm not smart enough to
make the database search work. :-()
--
Jim in NC