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How 'bout splitting the cost 50/50?

I pay what's on the right side of the decimal point - you pay what's on the left side of the decimal point.

Deal?
 
NutmegCT said:
How 'bout splitting the cost 50/50?

I pay what's on the right side of the decimal point - you pay what's on the left side of the decimal point.

Deal?
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Sounds like a deal my brother tried on me... I got the toboggan going up the hill and...

Erica
 
Hamish Racing said:
And another plane for sale over here
www.carandclassic.com

1932 Waco OEC Biplane For Sale By Auction

The only OEC remaining of three ever builtFully restored with modern safety upgrades in 2016New engine 2020Beautifully trimmedCover star...
www.carandclassic.com www.carandclassic.com
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Not as nice as the Waco, but far more affordable. (It's a Hovey Delta Bird.)

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Erica
 
The Brits put one in a modified Sea Fury and won a race with it. Can you imagine setting behind 4300 horsepower in a single-engine aircraft? I've done some pretty wild things in some aircraft in the past, but that would take the cake! Actually, I wouldn't get near it! :thumbsup2:
 
Small a/c, big engine? The GeeBee Super Sportster of the early 1930s -

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Per Jimmy Doolittle: "I didn’t trust this little monster. It was fast, but flying it was like balancing a pencil or an ice cream cone on the tip of your finger. You couldn’t let your hand off the stick for an instant ..."

It's safety record was less than desireable.

Tom M.
 
PAUL161 said:
The Brits put one in a modified Sea Fury and won a race with it. Can you imagine setting behind 4300 horsepower in a single-engine aircraft? I've done some pretty wild things in some aircraft in the past, but that would take the cake! Actually, I wouldn't get near it! :thumbsup2:
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I'd definitely wear a cup :ROFLMAO:
 
I recall reading that the R4350 was on the order of $50k to overhaul back in the 1950s so those companies that had aircraft using it found it cheaper to track down military surplus engines and replace with those rather than doing overhauls. Reason why they didn't last long in the civilian market. besides the technology shift to jets.
 
Speaking of which - have you seen this article speculating that they may have found her plane?

www.barrons.com

Deep Sea Explorer Says May Have Found Amelia Earhart's Plane

A deep sea exploration company has released a sonar image they say may be the remains of the plane of Amelia Earhart, the famed American aviatrix who disappeared over the Pacific Ocean in 1937.
www.barrons.com www.barrons.com
 
I saw a show about her in which they said that she wasn't a great pilot,
the she got a lot of coverage due to the fact that she was a woman.
 
Hollywood stunt pilot Paul Mantz who prepared the aircraft for the flight, said he tried to talk her out of it as he felt she was taking prep too lightly. She didn't know how to navigate, didn't understand how the long range radio worked and a number of other things. Had a tendency to ignore what the navigator told her on test flights and instead trust her instincts, which sometime worked, sometimes didn't. She left the long range spooled antenna for the radio in New Guinea for example and that seems to be why she kept repeating she couldn't hear them calling her while they could hear her. It's unfortunate it happened but it seems she could be her own worst enemy.
 
You never know ... but maybe further investigation with a video drone will clarify things a bit.

Check out TIGHAR -

The Earhart Project

This page contains all of the links and basic information about the Earhart Project.
tighar.org
 
"A South Carolina marine robotics company seems pretty sure it’s found Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan’s Lockheed Electra..."
"The searchers applied a theory put forward 14 years ago that an exhausted Noonan forgot to consider crossing the International Date Line in his celestial navigation calculation and directed Earhart to fly a course 60 miles west of where he intended."

URL unfurl="true"]https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/...s-plane-found
 
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