Sun Sep 16, 2007 3:20 pm
A close-up
Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:10 pm
Look Mate! No brakes!!!! I wonder if you would need wooden shoes for those? 
Looks like the wheel says, "Do Not ______." Can you read any of the remaining writing?
Looks like the wheel says, "Do Not ______." Can you read any of the remaining writing?
Ags
Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:24 pm
I can't believe you guys haven't figured this out. In anticipation of the war in the Pacific making the need for a P-51 on floats; North American Dallas hired Texas A & M to do design work for such use, and knowing wood floats this is what they came up with. Strange it never seemed to catch on.
Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:35 pm
No Bill, what you are describing were for the T-6, not the P-51:
Who needs plywood or floats? Lock the brakes and ski.
Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:44 am
hmmm.
First wood wheels...
Then T-6 walking on the water.
I thought bdk was pulling a little photoshop joke, but then I
found out that this is really done by locking your brakes?
What???
See image link.
http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/InterestingFloat/Water_Skluscombei.jpg
http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/OSAinteresting_floatplane_pictures.htm
This can't be safe.
They keep that up, and they will need the wood for the casket, not the wheels.
First wood wheels...
Then T-6 walking on the water.
I thought bdk was pulling a little photoshop joke, but then I
found out that this is really done by locking your brakes?
What???
See image link.
http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/InterestingFloat/Water_Skluscombei.jpg
http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/OSAinteresting_floatplane_pictures.htm
ONTARIO SEAPLANE ASSOCIATION(Actually if you lock the brakes on just about any airplane you can ski across the water!!? I've heard it done with a Grumman AG-Cat, C-180, and a 65 Champ up the Holland River. I've seen it first hand with a C-150 as well!!)
This can't be safe.
They keep that up, and they will need the wood for the casket, not the wheels.
Last edited by Bluedharma on Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:31 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:12 am
does the name DUTCH KINDELBERGER RING A BELL?? the designer behind the p-51. dutch...... wood shoes, get it?? i couldn't resist!!! ok.... you all can thrash me with a wet noodle now!!!
H20
Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:27 am
If I was going to walk on water in a land plane, I would want some very devout and saintly person as my co-pilot.
Re: H20
Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:39 am
Bill Greenwood wrote:If I was going to walk on water in a land plane, I would want some very devout and saintly person as my co-pilot.
You mean like someone from Texas A & M?
just kidding.
Live the good life!
no aggs
Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:53 pm
Blue, I wrote "devout and saintly", not deviant and smelly.
Mon Sep 17, 2007 11:32 pm
Blue, I wrote "devout and saintly", not deviant and smelly.
This from someone who has done his part to " Keep Austin Weird ! "
Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:04 am
If you don't lock the breaks, the wheels will dig in and over you go.
Tue Sep 18, 2007 12:08 am
bdk wrote:Looks like the wheel says, "Do Not ______." Can you read any of the remaining writing?
F..L, and I assume a Y is lurking in the shadow. Probably some boneheads idea
of a joke..looks like my handwriting, tho wrong vintage.
Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:04 pm
Curtis Block wrote:If you don't lock the breaks, the wheels will dig in and over you go.
Do we have proof of this?
Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:16 pm
As to the water-skiing Harvards...
WIX is your friend. See Steve Patterson's post, bottom of Page 3.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... php?t=6462
WIX is your friend. See Steve Patterson's post, bottom of Page 3.
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/p ... php?t=6462
Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:42 pm
Smaller a/c like cubs and supercubs is brakes off. Don't know about T-6's. It doesn't require as much finesse as one thinks. There is a video of a cub skiing right at the camera man. The guy plunks it onto the water pretty hard. Of course the 8.00 x 4's on a cub are pretty wide.
Steve G
Steve G