First Flight Video of North American Super Six in Germany

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I do not know if this video has been posted already, if so mods may remove.
The video shows the Maidenflight of D-FHGV after 7 years of MOH at Albstadt-Degerfeld airfield (same place where P-51 "Louisiana Kid" has her home, and where Bf 109 G-4 red 7 formerly was operated by private owners). First part of the video has better quality, last part has a lot of windnoise.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og2ltxWVZRM

Enjoy,

Michael

[The Inspector]

Beautiful airplane! Several years ago Bud Granley flew someone elses T-6 with a three blade prop @ an Air Fair @ KPAE. The music on this should be scaled way back so everyone can hear the very different sounds of a 1340 with three blades~

[airtj]

What kind of modifications are done to the aircraft to turn it into a super six?

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What kind of modifications are done to the aircraft to turn it into a super six?

P&W R-1340-61, (geared), 800 HP, Propeller Hamilton Standard 23D40, short (or shortened?) wings.

I do not know if anything else.

Michael

[bdk]

12:1 blower ratio yields 660 HP. I'm curious where that 800 HP number came from.

Still a small block! Needs an 1820!!!

[steve dickey]

Thats one sharp looking six! Looks like the wings are standard length to me?, if it is shortened it ain't by much!
Inspector here is another vid with no music.(that music is better suited to watching Jeb Corliss grinding the crack video,
look it up you'll see!)
The guy does nice three pointers!
There's another real nice looking geared SNJ at the 2:43 mark in this video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9KUgFlSWcQ

[C VEICH]

Thats one sharp looking six! Looks like the wings are standard length to me?, if it is shortened it ain't by much!
Inspector here is another vid with no music.(that music is better suited to watching Jeb Corliss grinding the crack video,
look it up you'll see!)
The guy does nice three pointers!
There's another real nice looking geared SNJ at the 2:43 mark in this video too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9KUgFlSWcQ

Looks to me like it has been clipped but I could be wrong. He definitely does nice 3-pointers!

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The other one seen in the video is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWastYtYs5s

It is a Super Six as well, I read one of the former owners was Chuck Yeager. The blue one has shortened wings, somewhere was mentioned about 1 m (39.3 inch) shorter on each side.

Michael

[Stephan Wilkinson]

Still a small block! Needs an 1820!!!

How about an 1830 with 1,250 hp?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIM3BTX9GCc

[Stoney]

at 2.44 see two supers, the one in back was built by Dennis B and the wings were clipped by 3' per side, if you look close you'll see the blue one is clipped about the same. The germans have a thing about noise so they like 3 bladed ones for less noise.

[RobC]

The silver one is the ultimate super-six. So much attention to detail in the name of speed. Retractable tailwheel, SNJ-2 rudder (probably didn't make it faster, but a lot of cool-factor). Notice the exhaust - 3 pipes on each side flush with the cowl. Cowl tightened up. Clipped wings and lots of flush riveting. Flush canopies. That's just some of the more noticeable details, but so much more, incorporating many mods used for air racing. A very sweet peach, that one.

[C VEICH]

Here is my ultimate "Super Six", this one with an 1820 out of an Albatross with, IIRC, 1400 ponies.

[Stoney]

forget to mention that I have flew the silver one when Dennis B owned it, before Danny Boy bought it. then it went to germany.

[pjpahs]

You got to look up John Shell's Super Six, N426KS out of North Carolina. Has what looks to be a P-51 "D" model canopy, running a P&W 1830, though one article says he's running a P&W Twin Wasp E-1 which is 1/2 of a 4360, 2180 cu. in.. I think it's the 1830. Seen it at Sun-N-Fun in 2011. Youtube has video of it.

[C VEICH]

You got to look up John Shell's Super Six, N426KS out of North Carolina. Has what looks to be a P-51 "D" model canopy, running a P&W 1830, though one article says he's running a P&W Twin Wasp E-1 which is 1/2 of a 4360, 2180 cu. in.. I think it's the 1830. Seen it at Sun-N-Fun in 2011. Youtube has video of it.

That would be the one in the link provided by Stephan Wilkinson several posts up.