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Posted: 9/10/2009 4:03:39 PM EDT
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I would've thought that AN-2 could have taken off faster than the plane in the video.
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Posted: 9/10/2009 4:13:03 PM EDT
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My instructor told me of a private grass strip that is dog legged and has a significant slope that he flys out of every so often in NC. He says that if you're landing up hill you need to add quite a bit of power so you can make it over the crest of the runway. Don't know the name of it though.
I don't think I'd want to attempt a t/o where that video was taken. 
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Posted: 9/10/2009 4:20:45 PM EDT
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I would've thought that AN-2 could have taken off faster than the plane in the video. I've seen airplanes like that that were just abandoned in place because they needed maintenance. Airplane doesn't work? Push it into othe bushes (or sand). |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 4:21:24 PM EDT
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I don't think I'd want to attempt a t/o where that video was taken. And he had to land there first! |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 5:30:11 PM EDT
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I don't think I'd want to attempt a t/o where that video was taken. And he had to land there first! Yeah, thats the crazy part. Our private strip crosses some little hills and slopes to the right a little, but I dont think Id like a curve where you had to use significant rudder to make. That just spells groundloop. |
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Posted: 9/10/2009 6:59:57 PM EDT
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The US Navy experimented with a large circular runway...the theory being that you would always land into the wind, and decelerate in a gentle turn.
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Posted: 9/10/2009 7:55:57 PM EDT
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Posted: 9/10/2009 10:34:20 PM EDT
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I would've thought that AN-2 could have taken off faster than the plane in the video. Did it have treadmill assist? |
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Posted: 9/15/2009 1:43:34 PM EDT
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I've flown out of an airport in SW Missouri that not only has a dogleg, it's lower in the middle than at the ends. I've been in a flare while flying around the bend. It has power lines on the East end and trees on the West end, but truth is, it's mostly long enough that they shouldn't be an issue.
There is a runway near Richmond, Va. that has a hump that blocks the line of sight to the other end; hopefully everyone uses unicom. I know of two private fields on the sides of mountains where takeoff and landings happen in one direction only. The runway in Colorado includes instant altitude on departure - you're flying whether you're ready or not. There's a similar (closed) runway in California that departs over a ledge. It's still good enough for a T Craft. Springfield Downtown airport looks like it was designed by someone with a Hot Wheels track. It's narrow and wavy. |
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Posted: 9/15/2009 2:03:08 PM EDT
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<––––––––––––––––-This bad boy will land in 850 feet, on pavement....at max gross weight. I can fly it into all sorts of places that I wouldn't be able to leave. Regardless, even with a high wing, I don't think I'm brave enough to fly out from a road with a bend in it like that video!
/TCP |
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Posted: 9/15/2009 4:56:37 PM EDT
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They had a write up on that strip and a few others in Flying several months back. March 2008
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Posted: 9/16/2009 12:44:14 PM EDT
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I saw the runway at the Just Aircraft factory. It's a dirt slope going down the hill to a body of water.
Land uphill, takeoff downhill. |
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Posted: 9/18/2009 1:21:35 PM EDT
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National Geographic did a few landing with these guys about merc pilots in the bush.
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