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Nice picture from England.

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I would hate to taxi that 47 down that strip!
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Great shot of Bassingbourn, wartime home of the "Memphis Belle"!
Sadly, today, most of the runways are gone but the area in the photo is still very much intact.
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I would hate to taxi that 47 down that strip!
Yeah, looks like a great sports car racing track but an awful taxiway for a taildragger!
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Interesting shot, especially the Noorduyn UC-64 Norseman.

The Jug has an "L" on the fuselage. Does that make it an L-Bird? :wink:

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bdk wrote:
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I would hate to taxi that 47 down that strip!
Yeah, looks like a great sports car racing track but an awful taxiway for a taildragger!


Why is that? You have a natural S-turn built into the taxiway. If it was a straight taxiway the pilot would have to do lots of S-turning anyways.
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I would have thought a constant radius, like a carrier approach, would have yielded the best visibility in front of you.
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I would have thought a constant radius, like a carrier approach, would have yielded the best visibility in front of you.


Actually no, when you are taxiing a taildragger, you have to S turn..to the left so that you can see ahead and to the right of you......

but then the situation on your left is now hidden from you so you have to S-turn to the right to have a look off to the left....And you turn enough to provide a little overlap straight ahead.

and so on til you get to the runup area or ramp.....
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You notice everyone is standing at attention in front of the planes. Must be a posed shot. No flag on the flag pole and they're not facing it either.

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The picture is awfull dark on my computer. What is the first plane UC-78?
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'Pears to be! :wink:

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Saville wrote:
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I would have thought a constant radius, like a carrier approach, would have yielded the best visibility in front of you.
Actually no, when you are taxiing a taildragger, you have to S turn..to the left so that you can see ahead and to the right of you...
You'd think I would know that by now with about 250 hours of taildragger time including Stearmans and a Cessna 195. :roll:
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