Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:42 pm
bipe215 wrote:Hard to beat Gary's excellent PIREP and dashing good looks as a swashbuckling aviator/babe magnet, but just for another opinion here's
Budd Davisson's version:
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepTigermoth.html
Steve G
Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:50 pm
skybolt2003 wrote:bipe215 wrote:Hard to beat Gary's excellent PIREP and dashing good looks as a swashbuckling aviator/babe magnet, but just for another opinion here's
Budd Davisson's version:
http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepTigermoth.html
Steve G
Is anyone else here as *sick* of Budd Davission as I am? If I have to read one more clichéd pilot report from him I think I'll puke.
Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:55 pm
Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:02 pm
bipe215 wrote: Sorry I brought it up. Of course, you don't have to read it.
Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:15 pm
retroaviation wrote:bipe215 wrote: Sorry I brought it up. Of course, you don't have to read it.
Personally, I'm glad you posted the link to Budd's report. I found it interesting to see someone else's thoughts from the same type airplane. Even though I obviously didn't agree to everything he said, it's still his opinion and was interesting to read. The same goes with Bill's report and anyone else who's flown the same type airplane.
I'd also be curious to read if anyone else's experience in the Sea Fury was like mine, or if they had other thoughts about how that airplane flew.
Gary
Wed Dec 05, 2007 2:37 pm
Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:12 pm
skybolt2003 wrote:[quote="]
Sorry I brought it up. Of course, you don't have to read it.[/quote]
I read it – I actually get addicted to reading his old stuff. It reminds me of being a kid and waiting for the next Air Progress and dreaming of what it would be like to fly all those cool things. The old ones are like eating cheese puffs – you can't stop, but you don't feel particularly nourished afterward. I re-read recently his articles about Junior Burchinal and loved 'em. It just seems that every magazine you pick up these days he is writing for and it all seems the same. I much prefer the writing of Mr. Austin.[/quote]
Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:37 pm
skybolt2003 wrote:I much prefer the writing of Mr. Austin.
Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:32 pm
Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:21 pm
Wed Dec 05, 2007 7:01 pm
snj5 wrote:Jack Frost wrote:As an Aviation Cadet in 1953-54 I got about 25 hours and a complete ground school in the T-28A.
The A model had the 2 bladed Aeroproducts prop and the Wright R-1300 was rated at 900hp, not 800.
Do you have a source on that? Every written AF and factory source I have, including the USAF pilot manual ("dash one") T.O. 1T-28A-1, says it is 800 hp. On page 1-1 it says:
"The aircraft is powered by a Wright Cyclone seven-cylinder air-cooled radial engine, model R-1300-1B. The engine develops approximately 800 horsepower."
It would be interesting if your a/c had different ratings or you were taught something different.
best
Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:02 pm
Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:02 pm
Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:11 pm
Jack Frost wrote:Same idea, different era, I guess. <G>
Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:12 am
retroaviation wrote:Well, like I mentioned in my report, there are surely folks that won't agree with my pleasant experience in the Tiger Moth, and Budd Davidson is surely one of them. Seems to me that he was more concerned with what his airspeed indicator was showing than just enjoying the opportunity to fly such a neat old airplane. But that's just my take on it.![]()