Warbird Information Exchange

Last Saturday I went to this little airstrip near the Canada/US border to buy some cheese. The owner of the factory has a Cessna 150 and his runway is available to pilots who wish to come by and buy some cheese.

It's a short runway!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgBznH2KZbw

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Great video, thanks for sharing your cheese sortie.

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$400 cheese curds?

Nice Ollie, but did you ever wonder why the pilots in the war flying taildraggers always took off and landed with the canopy open?

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Thanks guys.

Yes, I know why they did it and I do it in the summer, but it's getting rather cold here!

I think that will be my last flight of the year in the Harvard.

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Canopy open gets pretty chilly...

Ollie, do you have a picture of how you mounted your camera (GoPro?) on the rollover bars? That's a great angle and I'd like to do it on our 6.

Great video. The Texan/Harvard sure likes grass!

T

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Taylor Stevenson

It looks like Ollie used the same mount I've been using, which is the standard GoPro rollbar mount:
http://gopro.com/camera-mounts/roll-bar-mount

You'd just have to use a "3-way pivot arm" that comes with the mount to get the right angle.

Here's a shot of my GoPro in CHAA's Yale from this summer (sorry for the poor quality)

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Awesome! Thanks.

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Taylor Stevenson

Taylor they also make a mount for the wing tip. I haven't tried it yet but I 2nd the roll bar mount as the way to go. I put it about 6" down from the where its at in the picture to get a over the shoulder view. Have some spare nuts and bolts for the mounts as gravity does work and Chuck doesn't like to wait...

Lynn

So they could get out easily if something bad happened on takeoff or landing and the crew survived. They could get themselves out of the wreckage easier as otherwise, it'd be jammed shut and they wouldn't be able to get out (which is of course really bad if there's a fire).
Don't know if it's true, but that's what I was told on my first taildragger flight, and it made perfect sense to me!
That said, on my P-51 ride, we had the canpoy buttoned up really well on takeoff and landing.

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Thanks guys!

I like to fly with the canopy open in the summer, but it's just way too cold right now.

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB

Lynn- Awesome, I'm going to try that. I have spare wingtip light inspection plates to mount my GoPros on. Haven't gotten around to it yet.

P51- Agreed, but I'd bet a pretty penny the canopy slams forward if something sudden happened. Always resigned myself to the fact I'll have to kick out some glass... Motivation to stay skinny!

That being said, I almost always fly with the canopy open. Doesn't get that cold in TX

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Taylor Stevenson

Some guys have all the luck...

Also it gets pretty noisy with the hood open, so I tend to close it to talk on the radio and listen, then opening it again.

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Olivier Lacombe -- Harvard Mk.4 C-GBQB