http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN-YhiNdchs
This is an instructional/review video for the DC-2 "Stork" that KLM entered in the 1934 Race to Austraila. It points out taxi and take off dfifficulties that have to be dealt with. It's not as complete as the video for the fancy DC-3 that's out there. But it is at least a begining resorce. (I think I'll get it once I get $20 ahead.)
Now if you have ever Flown the DeHavalland 88, you notice similarities. The Comet must use diferental engine power to taxi (a hard proposition even with a Throttle Quadrant for me to pull off with any grace), and the plane is a bear to take off while holding the runway. The torque of those engines may be the problem . . . maybe.
Does any one know of a similar video for the Comet. I do know its hard to get the plane down (boy did I have trouble practicing in 2005:redf
and the Sybex guide gives some information. It is a stock plane in FS2004 so maybe nothing exists, but I thought I'd try.
I remember some pretty good flyers here from years past. Any sage advice would be appreciated. ("Don't Crash," I know already)
The race started At RAF Middenhall, with required stops at Bagdad, Allahabad, India, Singapore, Darwin, Charleville and Melborn. Any other stops were up to the team flying.
I've been staring at a National Geographic Atlas thinking about routes.
And that running out of gas thing as always bothers me. Have to land where you could historically count on 100 octain.
Amy Johnson who made the epic flight solo in a beat up Gypsy Moth years before. had her pilot husband get lost and land where he could only get 80 octain in India, and then burn out the Black Magic's engines. Always seemed less than a coincidence that she divorced him not long after. Since she was a qualified mechanic (she had to keep overhauling the Gypsy's worn out engine on her trek), one can imagine that family dialogue!
Roger55
Beware the Stork!
This is an instructional/review video for the DC-2 "Stork" that KLM entered in the 1934 Race to Austraila. It points out taxi and take off dfifficulties that have to be dealt with. It's not as complete as the video for the fancy DC-3 that's out there. But it is at least a begining resorce. (I think I'll get it once I get $20 ahead.)
Now if you have ever Flown the DeHavalland 88, you notice similarities. The Comet must use diferental engine power to taxi (a hard proposition even with a Throttle Quadrant for me to pull off with any grace), and the plane is a bear to take off while holding the runway. The torque of those engines may be the problem . . . maybe.
Does any one know of a similar video for the Comet. I do know its hard to get the plane down (boy did I have trouble practicing in 2005:redf
and the Sybex guide gives some information. It is a stock plane in FS2004 so maybe nothing exists, but I thought I'd try. I remember some pretty good flyers here from years past. Any sage advice would be appreciated. ("Don't Crash," I know already)
The race started At RAF Middenhall, with required stops at Bagdad, Allahabad, India, Singapore, Darwin, Charleville and Melborn. Any other stops were up to the team flying.
I've been staring at a National Geographic Atlas thinking about routes.
And that running out of gas thing as always bothers me. Have to land where you could historically count on 100 octain. Amy Johnson who made the epic flight solo in a beat up Gypsy Moth years before. had her pilot husband get lost and land where he could only get 80 octain in India, and then burn out the Black Magic's engines. Always seemed less than a coincidence that she divorced him not long after. Since she was a qualified mechanic (she had to keep overhauling the Gypsy's worn out engine on her trek), one can imagine that family dialogue!
Roger55
Beware the Stork!
) decided to substituted 80 octaine. The limped back hours later with damaged engines (not specified). Why would an engine over heat on 80 octane? Damage report is sketchy in the stuff I have.
Geez Louise, you have to try to find this stuff online?
Took off reasonably well. Much less hairy than the first six. On course for Bagdad in British Iraq.
in the copilot's seat. You remember her the woman trying to get away from a psycho boyfriend who was headed to Chicago at the airporst in Oklahoma when I was on my way to to Northern Indiana along the old US66 route in a Red and white Stearman. So Neal hitched a ride She was the one who turned out to have a trust fund and a taste for my old relatives scattered around the MIdwest. 
