O/T: Oldham Aircraft Factory
for user ronnieblinn - further to your email to me re the Oldham Aircraft Factory.
Please enable your PMs if you want a reply re the information. Whan I tried to PM you, I received this message "ronnieblinn has chosen not to receive private messages or may not be allowed to receive private messages. Therefore you may not send your message to him/her." when I tried to send you some info.:confused: |
Dora 9,
Yes, a lovely aircraft. A little bit cramped but not too uncomfortable, even after three hour legs. I must confess, as we were chugging westwards into the wind, on the way home over the unending landscapes of North Dakota and Montana, to wishing I was in something 100 kts faster! It is the "twitchiest" tail dragger I have ever flown. You have to be lightning-fast on the rudder pedals during the takeoff and landing rolls. |
I42, sounds like the MLG tracking is out then. Needs toe-in, not toe-out
Russell |
Russell,
Thanks. I hadn't thought of that. I'll pass that onto the owner |
Kewbick,
I am unable to contact you because you have not enabled PMs or emails. The "rules" of this game are that if you correctly identify the challenge, you should either post a new challenge or declare Open House. PS FOR SOME REASON YOUR POST HADNT SHOWN UP. I CAN SEE IT NOW. |
That's an early Antonov ?AN-25? - mid - 1930's - but I don't think that the airfield is in the USSR from the vast number of cars in the background................ and the trees suggest W Europe or N America?? Sounds unlikely
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Sounds unlikely. Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. ;) http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psdibjvnjp.jpg |
What the .................. was it doing there???
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Moscow to San Francisco (nearly) - over the Pole:
Soviet ANT-25 completes first transpolar airplane flight from the Soviet Union to the United States (Vancouver) on June 20, 1937. - HistoryLink.org |
ronnieblinn: your private messaging still isn't enabled. If you can send me a message when it is, I'll reply when I receive it.
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Thanks India Four Two - you live and learn........... I guess it's your turn!!
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Nothing to post so Open House
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Primary wind direction from the north?
There's a lot of rubber at the south end of the runway. |
Primary wind direction is from THE SOUTH - but then you need to see the view the other way........................ not one I'd care to overshoot the threshold by very much.....................
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Perhaps the rubber is from heavy braking before they fell off the end?
Dave |
It's not that busy but it does have a scheduled air service - mainly seasonal holiday traffic I think.............
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I'm thinking maybe the Azores. Horta?
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The ship looks like an Aircraft carrier, but I'm sure it's not. My first thought is Caribbean.
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I'm thinking maybe the Azores. Horta? |
WoW!! Three shots and not found! Tho no doubt India 42 will wake up soon
Cows is correct - it's not the Azores Jensdad is closer than nvubu ... but not a lot........... |
Porto Santo? (a few years ago)
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Nope................... this is a bit closer to the sea and the orientation is slightly different
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Tho no doubt India 42 will wake up soon So not the Azores or Caribbean, how about the Cape Verde Islands? |
Quite a long way from Cape Verde................ and it's not in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean either
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Not in the Pacific or Indian Oceans... Slightly closer to the Azores than to the Caribbean... Seasonal holiday traffic... I'm going to go out on a limb and say Yalta (because it's the only ex-Soviet Black Sea holiday resort I know of!)
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Right Sea, wrong airport....................................
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Gelendzhik West according to GE.
Never heard of it, but found it after following northern coastline of Black Sea. Probably cheating doing it this way. OH if correct I'm afraid. |
http://www.pprune.org/members/326184...564-adsads.jpg
That's it - it's actually a new runway on the site of an old military/research/civil base - they test sea planes at Gelendzhik and there are several marine research institutes there Quite a nice spot but the beaches are very stony and clayey Main problem is that taking off or landing to/from the North you have an 2500 ft mountain 5 miles away....... dead ahead..... Hence the normal arrival/departure to/from the South - I think the missed approach is a bit scary - max left or right hand turn INSTANTLY There's a daily flight from Moscow and a lot of holiday flights from Siberia and N Russia |
Yes, I went to the airshow there a few years ago, but the airport was closed at the time, which is probably why I didn't recognise it. Magnificent natural bay, which is perfect for seaplane operations, which were very spectacular.
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Did you stay in the big Hotel (I think it's the Kempinski now) on the other side of the Bay? I was in there just after it opened a few years ago - a total of 7 guests in mid November....... every one on a different floor.....
OH anyway............... |
Keeping with the seaside theme :ok:
https://yuldxg.bl3302.livefilestore....&cropmode=none |
reefs? mangroves??? not much in the way of support structure.....
ex japanese?? |
Reefs and mangroves certainly. Not 100% sure about being ex-Japanese, but could well be. There is a lot more infrastructure now than there was in this photo.
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Did you stay in the big Hotel (I think it's the Kempinski now) on the other side of the Bay? I was in there just after it opened a few years ago - a total of 7 guests in mid November....... every one on a different floor..... |
Well, I thought that would last a bit longer :)
Well done Jenkins, Tawi-Tawi or Sanga Sanga it is. Your turn. |
"Well, I thought that would last a bit longer http://cdn.pprune.org/images/smilies/smile.gif"
We should form a MasterMind team................ |
An Easy One
I've landed here, but long before this occurred:
http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...shex51gdh.jpeg |
Not too hard - Lethbridge Alberta - teh CAF Display F-18 CF188738 crashed on 23rd July 2013
" During an air show practice at Lethbridge County Airport, CF188738 experienced a loss of thrust from its right engine while conducting a high angle of attack (AOA) pass at 300 feet (ft) above ground level (AGL). Unaware of the problem but feeling the aircraft sink slightly, the pilot selected maximum afterburner on both throttles in order to overshoot from the manoeuvre. The aircraft immediately started to yaw right and continued to rapidly yaw/roll right despite compensating control column and rudder pedal inputs. With the aircraft at approximately 150 ft AGL and about 90 degrees of right bank, the pilot ejected from the aircraft. The aircraft continued in a tight descending corkscrew to the right prior to hitting the ground nose first. The ejection system worked flawlessly, but the pilot was injured when he landed firmly under a fully inflated parachute. The investigation revealed a number of factors that contributed to this occurrence. The engine malfunction was likely the result of a stuck ratio boost piston in the right engine main fuel control (MFC) that prevented the engine from advancing above flight idle when maximum afterburner was selected. The large thrust imbalance between the left and the right engines caused the aircraft to depart controlled flight and the aircraft was unrecoverable within the altitude available. The subtle nature of the engine malfunction that was not detected by the pilot when the overshoot was attempted. In response to this occurrence, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) expedited the implementation of a program to upgrade all CF188 MFCs. Additionally, the RCAF made changes to the conduct of the CF188 air show routine by increasing the high AOA pass altitude from 300 feet AGL to 500 feet AGL, improving the air show training program and ensuring that both engines of the CF188 air show aircraft have upgraded MFCs." |
The ejection system worked flawlessly |
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