Maybe when it’s rebuilt it’ll get a decent paint scheme.

Makes taxiing a taildragger that little bit easier

[QUOTE=Kimba;11612507]Maybe when it’s rebuilt it’ll get a decent paint scheme.[/QUOTE

It’s in an authentic WW2 US Navy scheme as a recall aircraft. Recall aircraft were painted in hi-vis schemes that went out into various training areas to signal a return to base due wx or the like/ no radio fitted to Stearmans then

And the 5 guys standing around are busy trying to figure out how and where to place the wheel chicks.

Wheels up landing?

Or a nervous passenger bracing their feet on the brake pedals, its been done.

Yup, at Washington National a few years ago. Think it was a journalist being given a ride, stuck his feet on the pedals to push and get a better view as they landed!

If you’re talking of N27WE, Jun 2010, it was pilot error, not the passenger.

https://www.1001crash.com/aviation-v...-aircraft.html

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/a...port/76238/pdf

“According to the pilot, as he entered the flare to land at an airspeed of about 70 miles per hour, he planned to keep the airplane’s tail in the air and roll farther down the runway to allow more room for the following airplanes in his formation. He stated that, when the wheels touched the runway, he inadvertently applied the wheel brakes via the rudder pedals, which was evident by the skid marks found on the runway. (Pressing forward on the tops of the rudder pedals activates the main wheel brakes.) The pilot’s use of the brakes while touching down at high speed in this type of airplane, which has a high center of gravity and a tail wheel, caused it to flip over onto the top wing and the vertical stabilizer and rudder. Although the pilot had 875 total flight hours, including 190 hours in Stearman airplanes, he stated that he had seldom used the brakes in over 600 landings in the accident airplane. Therefore, the pilot was not familiar with the feel and effectiveness of the airplane’s wheel brakes”

Apparently a genuine scheme - USN "recall aircraft" launched to recall non radio students back to base in the 1940s. It says here... I rather like it, makes a change from blue fuselage and yellow wings...

I'd say the fella/gal was just replicating this misadventure, flipped over in a windstorm upon landing at MAS Bunker Hill, Indiana.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....113213be5a.jpg

That's the one, not the story I recall being bandied around at the time! My apologies to the passenger!

Strangely, ASN also lists another Stearman as having overturned at Washington National that day as a result of a ground loop.

Missed checklist item "Wheels Down"