Potez gets air under the wheels
Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:27 pm
Found on the Key Pub forum
http://www.lecharpeblanche.fr/2012/05/30/4899/
From Google Translate:
Last week, Jean-Marie Garric tested the reactions of the Potez 63-11 by three successive takeoffs, each longer than the previous. The track making only 5000 feet long, it was not easy, especially since a strong crosswind did not help things! The good news is that the plane took off very short without the engines are at full power, which bodes well for the future. Stay tuned! ...
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http://www.lecharpeblanche.fr/2012/05/30/4899/
From Google Translate:
Last week, Jean-Marie Garric tested the reactions of the Potez 63-11 by three successive takeoffs, each longer than the previous. The track making only 5000 feet long, it was not easy, especially since a strong crosswind did not help things! The good news is that the plane took off very short without the engines are at full power, which bodes well for the future. Stay tuned! ...
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Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:30 pm
That's great news!
Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Fri Jul 13, 2012 11:41 pm
As for the one who posted this over at Flypaste, I wouldn't trust him much further than you can throw him. 
Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Sat Jul 14, 2012 1:26 am
I'm not sure I can adequately describe just how insanely cool this is! 
SN
SN
Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:13 am
Dan K wrote:As for the one who posted this over at Flypaste, I wouldn't trust him much further than you can throw him.
Is that you then???
Another link from that thread:
http://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2012/03 ... -in-texas/
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Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Sat Jul 14, 2012 6:29 am
Baldeagle wrote:
Is that you then???
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You could say we're quite close!
I had posted the same link here earlier, but it's buried in one of the OSH threads. Jean-Marie's accomplishment really deserves its own thread (and the captions in English are most-helpful
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Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Sat Jul 14, 2012 10:40 am
Yes, what a neat airplane, I hope I get to see it fly sometime-
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Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:15 pm
Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:26 pm
Wow! I wonder what VMC is on that thing? The pilot must have been sure that one wasn't going to quit!!!
Chris...
Chris...
Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Wed Jul 18, 2012 12:06 pm
I have seen a couple of references (including the always-suspect Wikipedia) to some 63-11s having 12 light machine guns, making it the most heavily armed aircraft in the world at the time. I find this doubtful, but can anybody prove me wrong?
Re: Potez gets air under the wheels
Wed Jul 18, 2012 1:30 pm
cwmc wrote:Wow! I wonder what VMC is on that thing? The pilot must have been sure that one wasn't going to quit!!!
Chris...
To my totally untrained eye it looks like it has similar proportions to a Beech 18, maybe with a little more tail moment. Can't be too bad then, or at least I wouldn't think so.
-Tim