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Baldeagle
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Found on the Key Pub forum

http://www.lecharpeblanche.fr/2012/05/30/4899/

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Last week, Jean-Marie Garric tested the reactions of the Potez 63-11 by three successive takeoffs, each longer than the previous. The track making only 5000 feet long, it was not easy, especially since a strong crosswind did not help things! The good news is that the plane took off very short without the engines are at full power, which bodes well for the future. Stay tuned! ...



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That's great news!

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As for the one who posted this over at Flypaste, I wouldn't trust him much further than you can throw him. :wink:

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I'm not sure I can adequately describe just how insanely cool this is! :drink3:

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Dan K wrote:
As for the one who posted this over at Flypaste, I wouldn't trust him much further than you can throw him. :wink:


Is that you then???

Another link from that thread:

http://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2012/03 ... -in-texas/



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Baldeagle wrote:

Is that you then???


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You could say we're quite close! :P


I had posted the same link here earlier, but it's buried in one of the OSH threads. Jean-Marie's accomplishment really deserves its own thread (and the captions in English are most-helpful 8) ).

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Yes, what a neat airplane, I hope I get to see it fly sometime-



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Wow! I wonder what VMC is on that thing? The pilot must have been sure that one wasn't going to quit!!!
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I have seen a couple of references (including the always-suspect Wikipedia) to some 63-11s having 12 light machine guns, making it the most heavily armed aircraft in the world at the time. I find this doubtful, but can anybody prove me wrong?
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cwmc wrote:
Wow! I wonder what VMC is on that thing? The pilot must have been sure that one wasn't going to quit!!!
Chris...

To my totally untrained eye it looks like it has similar proportions to a Beech 18, maybe with a little more tail moment. Can't be too bad then, or at least I wouldn't think so.

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