The Beaver Ballad by the Fretless Bar Girls
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Very enjoyable, I loved the "interlude" for engine sound and the photos of other de Hs. The line "There's all kinds of things you can throw out the back door of a Beaver" is a classic! I used to use a Beaver overhead milling machine, fine piece of kit manufactured by, er, Balding.
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I've watched this video about a dozen times, still love it. I was lucky enough to fly Beavers early in my career, real early and always wished that I could have flown them more.
They were not a fast aircraft, that's for sure, but it would haul about anything you could put in it, or as the video showed, on the outside of it.
I think Pigboat has thousands of hours in Beavers. Lucky guy.
They were not a fast aircraft, that's for sure, but it would haul about anything you could put in it, or as the video showed, on the outside of it.
I think Pigboat has thousands of hours in Beavers. Lucky guy.
Loved it - top of my bucket list is to fly off floats..........now found I can do it south of Bordeaux - will fix for next summer. But now also had invitation to the end of season bash of the group at Fontenay le Comte who built and fly the 75% scale Mosquito - it will be a sort of warbird day they say- cannot wait
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I've not yet had a ride in a round-engine Beaver, but I did get some stick time in a Turbo Beaver. Staggering STOL performance on wheels and cruise in the yellow-arc. My pilot pointedly tapped the ASI when I started a descent to go under a cloud. We were approaching red-line!
When designing the Beaver, DHC canvassed bush pilots to see what they wanted and an almost universal request was a door wide enough to roll fuel drums into the cabin.
Also, the snub-nosed look is due the fact that originally the Beaver was to be powered by a Gipsy Queen, but due to development delays, the Wasp was substituted.
When designing the Beaver, DHC canvassed bush pilots to see what they wanted and an almost universal request was a door wide enough to roll fuel drums into the cabin.
Also, the snub-nosed look is due the fact that originally the Beaver was to be powered by a Gipsy Queen, but due to development delays, the Wasp was substituted.
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Dave,
Yes, I spotted that one.
The bent Beaver at 3:08 didn't hit a dock piling. It was the result of incompetent piloting. See the video taken by a very lucky cameraman:
I've just discovered this link to the background to the song:
http://www.sealandaviation.com/beaver_song.php
Yes, I spotted that one.
The bent Beaver at 3:08 didn't hit a dock piling. It was the result of incompetent piloting. See the video taken by a very lucky cameraman:
I've just discovered this link to the background to the song:
http://www.sealandaviation.com/beaver_song.php
