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On Dec 25, 1:54*pm, Monk wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c Monk Any plans out there for this build? |
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On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote: On Dec 25, 1:54*pm, Monk wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c Monk Any plans out there for this build? Why would you want to? It wouldn't be a very good airplane for sport flying; it was desinged for one purpose only: to be the smallest in the world (and it isn't even that, any more). -Dana -- When Columbus came to America, there were no taxes, no debts, and no pollution. The women did all the work while the men hunted or fished all day. Ever since then, a bunch of idiotic do-gooders have been trying to "improve" the place. |
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Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk wrote: On Dec 25, 1:54 pm, Monk wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c Monk Any plans out there for this build? Why would you want to? It wouldn't be a very good airplane for sport flying; it was desinged for one purpose only: to be the smallest in the world (and it isn't even that, any more). -Dana Add to that. it's highly unlikely there were any plans per se drawn for it in the first place... |
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On Dec 28, 8:59*am, Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk wrote: On Dec 25, 1:54*pm, Monk wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c Monk Any plans out there for this build? Why would you want to? I don't know. I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about twenty plus years ago while in High school. Then I came across this bird. Monk |
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On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:18:05 -0800 (PST), Monk
wrote: I don't know. I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about twenty plus years ago while in High school. Then I came across this bird. Flying prone is one thing, though I don't see the attraction... it's been done more than once (not counting all the hang gliders), but the Wee Bee is so marginal that flying prone is the only option. -Dana -- ......they want you to send your money to the Lord, but they give you their address..... |
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On Dec 28, 6:52*pm, Dana M. Hague wrote:
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:18:05 -0800 (PST), Monk wrote: I don't know. *I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about twenty plus years ago while in High school. *Then I came across this bird. Flying prone is one thing, though I don't see the attraction... it's been done more than once (not counting all the hang gliders), but the Wee Bee is so marginal that flying prone is the only option. A couple of guys from Dayton Ohio had the same idea, probably a bit before OP was in High School. -- FF |
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Monk wrote:
On Dec 28, 8:59 am, Dana M. Hague wrote: On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:52:51 -0800 (PST), Monk wrote: On Dec 25, 1:54 pm, Monk wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-TE7MOuo7c Monk Any plans out there for this build? Why would you want to? I don't know. I thought of this conecpt, flying prone, before about twenty plus years ago while in High school. Then I came across this bird. Monk There was a young aviator who looked to have a promising career in aviation ahead of him that had the same idea. His incarnation of the WeeBee had a bigger engine and had him strapped to the bottom of the fuselage rather than the top. There was a web site that detailed his vision and its fortune, but I can't find it at the moment. A friend of his hosted it as I recall (BlueSkyGirl?) Charles |
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![]() The Northrop MX-324 rocket powered test plane was flown in the prone "head first" position. It landed on skids. John Meyers was the test pilot on it and commented that during landing he had to put his chin about 1 foot off of the ground at about 100 mph. He said it was a "mind expanding experience"... |
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On Dec 28, 5:59*am, Dana M. Hague wrote:
Why would you want to? *It wouldn't be a very good airplane for sport flying; it was desinged for one purpose only: *to be the smallest in the world (and it isn't even that, any more). * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Because the guy making the engines (McCulloch? Some damn thing... two- stroker) ...hadn't received a Stop Order!! Seriously! VE day and no Stop Order, the VJ Day and STILL no Stop Order, and they're cranking out that crazy little engine as fast as they can... ball-bearing crankshaft and a Ford carburetor and they were going right from the assembly line to New/Surplus distributors because the warehouses were all full and we had enough drones to train another wars-worth of gunners and then some, because The Jets Are Coming (was on everyone's lips) and guys were backing off, lookking at Ol Betsy, wondering how they convert her to run a Jet Engine because the Supply Guy over at El Segundo... who worked for Jack What's-his-name -- finally got permission to install a Real jet engine in the Project Plane instead of that copy of an English Nine (or Neine, or whatever... ) because we already knew that the Russians were going co-axial instead of centrifugal and it turned the Fat Bellied Project Plane into an F-86 and just in time, too. Except no one told PW or whoever, to stop building those centrifugal jets, which is why Grumman had to go with them for the Super Panther (which became the F9F dash 8). But they thot it would become New/Surplus the same way. Those were some very, VERY crazy years, just after the War... because the war was NOT over, inside the X-sheds, despite what everyone was saying. We had all those German jets up at the dry lakes and the real Bob Hoover was blowing everyone away and the Riding School was going full blast (and I got some pitchers to prove it). And the Window of Opportunity came roaring along and everyone was looking for a New Car and a bigger refrigerator and an automatic washing machine (it had Spin Dry!) and all that other Neat Stuff and the Window went roaring right on passed... and we missed it. Not once, but several times. Chopping up brand new airplanes, melting them down to make the wiring for the next Levittown, so's they'd burn down when the aluminum wires reacted with the brass fittings... and the General in Alaska asked, what as I supposed to do with all these airplanes, now that we won't allow those Russian ladies to fly them outta here... and Washinton said: Burn them. And that's what he did. Except for half a dozen less one, which landed at A****er and got 'arrested.' (I didn't know you could 'arrest' a DC-6. But they did. The others made it to El Segundo, then to Tijuana in the middle of the night where they got stuffed full of P-51's before going to Mexico, where they set until they got charts for Natal and Ghana and places like that. Then they disappeared. But the P-51's ended up flying wing with the Me-109's and the Focke-Wulf-190's (?) Is that right? Mustangs and Fw-190-3's in the same formation? And everyone is fighting to get to fly the German iron because it's got an ejection seat! ...which is pretty damn dumb because no one is wearing a parachute anyway!! And they were fighting Spitfires? Go on, pull the other one. But that's what happened, trying to keep promises that were made in 1917 and had been broken by both sides... and still are, come to think of it. Funny kinda war. The idea was to 'transfer' the DC-6's to Don Douglas, cuz of some sort of political BS in CANADA? Yep, in Canada. Because they wanted to put Rolls Royce engines in them and call them British Built... without bothering to check the MTBO of the Rolls as compared to those nice round engines. So someone said 'Get it outta here,' meaning to move it to where it couldn't be seen from the highway. (Remember the camouflage netting? The stuff OVER the highways? Yeah... me too :-) And this Jewish Bag-man was running around in a blue, 1940 Ford Sedan with a pig-skin 'doctor's bag' except it was full of MONEY, and in the back seat was two guys who would look at you but NEVER SPOKE. (Talk about eery!) One worked for my 'Uncle John,' the other one worked for Harry Hopkins. Give them a nice, clean, just off the assembly line P-51 and he would give you lots of MONEY. They you would put the Mustang into the DC-6, along with miscellaneous stuff, most of which was yellow with GERMAN dials and came down from Palmdale (Why? Because they had lotsa airplanes but not enough GPU's and tow-bars that fit and stuff like that). Then came the Vanishing Act, down to Mexico, across the Caribbean and finally across the Atlantic, then Africa and the neatest one of all, pulling a Fuel Stop at a BRITISH field out in the desert where you couldn't do anything because everything that wasn't booby-trapped was mined! Then the man in the funny shorts would say 'Good luck, chaps." and you were free to take off at night and fly past the hotels so that you had to look UP to see their top floors... and ended up... not in British-controlled Palestine but in Money-Bag controlled 'Israel.' Where they grew oranges! Seriously: 'Product of Israel' My dad figured they cost about ten dollars per orange by the time they got to New York, where you could buy one for a dime. Dad wasn't political, he was a mechanic, who had tickets for everything from Armstrong-Siddley (??) to Junkers-Jumo (all marks, including some truly goofy stuff such as the Jumo 205C which didn't have an ignition system to FLY... but needed one to START) and for the Daimler-Benz DB-605 (most marks but not all), and had a habit of ****ing people off because after working on the airframes and the powerplants he'd walk away, leaving them to mount the bomb racks and gun pods and all that sort of stuff, saying "Not my war," wiping his hands on a grease rag. So they refused to pay him. So he shrugged and hitch-hiked home and in later years, refused to work for them until they paid him, which they never did, so he never did. -R.S.Hoover |
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