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09-20-2010, 12:14 AM | #1 | |
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Sept 20, 2010: Growing Old Gracefully
A friend emailed me some snapshots of Jim O'Hara, his wife Mitzi, and their plane. I Googled them to find the the real story, as emails tend to be misleading if not down right bullshit. Guess what, it's twue, it's twue.
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Bet he isn't sitting on the porch of the control tower snarling, get off my runway ya whippersnappers! That's what I call growing old gracefully. Link
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09-20-2010, 03:29 AM | #2 |
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What does "flying off the time" refer to? How long it took to make vs. how long he's spent flying it?
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09-20-2010, 04:32 AM | #3 | |
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No, I believe you have to fly an "experimental" plane for 50 hours before you can use it like any other private plane. For those first 50 hrs you are only allowed to fly it within a certain distance of its home port and you can't take it into certain commercial airports, carry a passenger, etc., etc. That's a really nice scale model. I wonder if it's safer to fly than the original. Twin engine planes have one engine that is a "critical" engine, in that if it's the only one running the plane is very treacherous to fly. Something like the rotational direction of the air leaving the propeller hitting certain flight surfaces. This makes the controls behave poorly. It allows one to make a small mistake and find themselves in a flat spin or some other often fatal configuration. The original P38 was designed so BOTH engines were critical. If either one quits the other is nasty to continue with. Hence, I wonder if that aspect was designed out on this one. I also wonder what the engines are. According to a story in the San Angelo Standard-Times, his engine selection was described as particularly tricky. “He tried pre-war inverted inline engines, but parts were scarce. He settled on horizontally opposed engines (220 hp Continental 360s) from a scrapped Seneca that landed with its wheels up.” Last edited by SPUCK; 09-20-2010 at 04:43 AM. Reason: Answer engines |
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09-20-2010, 09:03 AM | #4 |
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09-20-2010, 12:02 PM | #5 |
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The P-38 is the most coolest plane ever.
Now he needs that Korean dentist to make him some scale machine guns.
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09-24-2010, 05:11 PM | #6 |
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Spuck, I have to take exception to what you said about the P-38's single engine characteristics.
It was a nice airplane even on one engine, you just had to know how to handle it. see here.
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09-24-2010, 05:18 PM | #7 | |
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09-26-2010, 06:15 PM | #8 |
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I seem to remember that the props turned in opposite directions to balance the torque, not sure what the has to do the this conversation other than you are not allowed to say anything negative about the most coolest plane ever
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09-26-2010, 07:47 PM | #9 |
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Yes, counter rotating props but the engines were the same. The GM Allisons just had to change the firing order to run the opposite way.
Oh, and it won the Pacific war, so it's got that going for it.
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09-27-2010, 08:30 PM | #10 |
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09-27-2010, 11:02 PM | #11 |
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I thought the Enola Gay won that.
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09-27-2010, 11:14 PM | #12 |
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How do to think the Enola Gay, or any of those Superfortresses, got any further than Midway?
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09-28-2010, 02:07 AM | #13 |
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Subway?
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09-28-2010, 05:38 PM | #14 |
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No way!
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