Wing walking newsreel

[Baldeagle]

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=16596




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[Jerry O'Neill]

very cool, but I don't think they were actually playing those instruments.

I want that Canuck though!

[b29flteng]

Think of how high the drag would be with four people.

[The Inspector]

Let alone the strain on that poor old OX5

[Eric Presten]

Very cool. It's not an OX-5 powered Jenny though, it's a Hisso powered one.

[Tiger Tim]

Think of how high the drag would be with four people.

I've never carried a wing walker myself, but I've often steered a Tiger Moth by just sticking a hand out the side and wondered how a Jenny could ever fly in a straight line with a person on just one wing like they often did.

-Tim

[tom d. friedman]

obviously the film was shot before prohibition!!

[Baldeagle]

Very cool. It's not an OX-5 powered Jenny though, it's a Hisso powered one.

Hisso powered Canuck, never seen one of those before.




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[Eric Presten]

Must have been a civilian mod. A pretty good idea. Hisso power and four ailerons, and probably before the four aileron JN-6Hs were surplussed.

[rossjools]

, EEK!!!!!!
All I can say is "You moost be jorkin' mairt." No parachutes and the banjo player and the bloke on the port wingtip hanging upside down from the wingtip skids. They bred 'em brave (or stupid) in them ther bahgone daiys.

Cheers,
Ross.

[Pogo]

As a guy who regularly gets to mess around with a living breathing Canuck, all I can say is . . . . boy howdy, now THAT can get yer attention!



It always knocks me out what they used to do with these birds back in the day, good heavens! (BTW that's me walking by, looking over the propeller I just overhauled.)

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