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Author:  Baldeagle [ Thu Dec 16, 2010 3:42 pm ]
Post subject:  Wing walking newsreel

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=16596




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Author:  Jerry O'Neill [ Thu Dec 16, 2010 7:10 pm ]
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very cool, but I don't think they were actually playing those instruments. :lol:

I want that Canuck though!

Author:  b29flteng [ Thu Dec 16, 2010 8:26 pm ]
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Think of how high the drag would be with four people.

Author:  The Inspector [ Thu Dec 16, 2010 9:15 pm ]
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Let alone the strain on that poor old OX5

Author:  Eric Presten [ Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:40 pm ]
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Very cool. It's not an OX-5 powered Jenny though, it's a Hisso powered one.

Author:  Tiger Tim [ Thu Dec 16, 2010 11:31 pm ]
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b29flteng wrote:
Think of how high the drag would be with four people.

I've never carried a wing walker myself, but I've often steered a Tiger Moth by just sticking a hand out the side and wondered how a Jenny could ever fly in a straight line with a person on just one wing like they often did.

-Tim

Author:  tom d. friedman [ Fri Dec 17, 2010 12:04 am ]
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obviously the film was shot before prohibition!! :drinkers: :drinkers: :drinkers: :rolleyes:

Author:  Baldeagle [ Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:50 am ]
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Eric Presten wrote:
Very cool. It's not an OX-5 powered Jenny though, it's a Hisso powered one.


Hisso powered Canuck, never seen one of those before.




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Author:  Eric Presten [ Fri Dec 17, 2010 11:12 am ]
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Must have been a civilian mod. A pretty good idea. Hisso power and four ailerons, and probably before the four aileron JN-6Hs were surplussed.

Author:  rossjools [ Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:08 am ]
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:D, EEK!!!!!!
All I can say is "You moost be jorkin' mairt." No parachutes and the banjo player and the bloke on the port wingtip hanging upside down from the wingtip skids. They bred 'em brave (or stupid) in them ther bahgone daiys.

Cheers,
Ross.

Author:  Pogo [ Sat May 28, 2011 6:51 pm ]
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As a guy who regularly gets to mess around with a living breathing Canuck, all I can say is . . . . boy howdy, now THAT can get yer attention! :shock:

Image

It always knocks me out what they used to do with these birds back in the day, good heavens! (BTW that's me walking by, looking over the propeller I just overhauled.)

More pics: http://wanam3.com/Photos/index.php?albu ... 011&page=4

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