^ Cool. I'll go for the second one on looks alone. The first one looks like it was made from top secret plans for which the last page was replace with plans for an egg wisk.

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No problem as long as you concentrated hard and used the rudder! Another taildragger I flew was a Jodel DR1051. That was mainly from a private farm strip.

There was a lot of satisfaction in flying/landing one. The guy who checked me out on taildraggers was a BCal pilot who used to check in with the tower at Shoreham each time he passed over the airfield outbound from Gatwick.

Talking about Gatwick, in those days, if you said it was a training flight there were no landing fees. We had to go in there if going over to France (Le Touquet for lunch ) as there was, at that time, no customs at Shoreham. Can't imagine a Cessna 172 being too welcome there now on a "training flight".

Man who ran the flight school where I trained once had a small (172 sized) plane and had CYVR (Vancouver International) as his home field. He was trying to get home one afternoon when he got put in an endless holding pattern by ATC to be "taught a lesson " for trying to bring a silly little plane into their big, important airport. On landing, he complained and it was ATC that learned you can't keep planes out of their home field. Also got an official letter of apology. However, we had ultralights and we were told to stay the heck away from YVR unless we had a VERY good reason (eg plane currently in fire). They ARE pretty busy. That's fair enough. I wouldn't want to hit wake turbulence from a Cessna in an ultralight, let alone a Boeing or Airbus.

The bell entrant just looks like an osprey with a facelift...

To be honest I thought the biggest problem the rotors faced was breaking he sound barrier at speed.

Obviously a single rotor compounded this by having he sound barrier broken on one side of the craft and not the other during higher speed forward motion. The twin rotor alleviates this issue although I can see there being a 'lag' effect for the direction changes compared to a single rotor craft. FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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looks like a nice place to visit,

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=4d5_1414210127 ... - .- -.




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That was interesting.

Do you think they'd sell me an F15 for a few quid?

No - but if you did make the enquiry they would probably conduct a full background check on you and/or full body cavity search for free. Howard
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This was either a very hard landing or a very soft runway.

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Thought this plane was cool

My dad has one a bit like that but darker in one of his garage drawers. Even has an electric one now to save wear and tear on it as well as a sharpening stone for it  FFRR MY06 facelift With TDV8 Alloys Zeros/ATR's
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Guys, the thread title clearly states 'aeroplane'.

My plane is...sort of aero, maybe not as aero as modern equivalents but more aero than a building brick

You can just hear it singing this from the picture above....
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BOEING 377 Stratocruiser - cool

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