Grumman F-11

[aeronca65t]

Did about 200 miles around New Jersey in the MGB today.
Stopped outside of Lakehurst and saw this F-11.
Plus appropriate sign.

And on the way home, I watched an Aeronca Champ practice landings at Princeton Airport.

 

[drooartz]

Love those old planes-on-a-stick.

 

[Gliderman8]

Love those old planes-on-a-stick.

I love those planes <span style="font-style: italic">with</span> a stick

 

[DrEntropy]

mehheh. Good, Elliot! :thumbsup:

I saw a Burt Rutan design overhead today. A Long Easy from the looks of it. Not seen one around here before, hoping it's newly relocated!

 

[Gliderman8]

Doc- I have an autographed baseball cap signed by Burt Rutan. He was a speaker at the EAA show in Oshkosh a couple of years ago.
Hummm a Long Easy... wasn't that what the plane John Denver was in?

 

[Billm]

Yep-
The Long Easy was the Continental powered version- the Very Easy was the VW powered one (VERY few made)
BillM

 

[DrEntropy]

This had to be the Conti, sounded much too good to be a bug mill.

Doc- I have an autographed baseball cap signed by Burt Rutan. He was a speaker at the EAA show in Oshkosh a couple of years ago.

He's a contemporary American Hero to me. As for Denver, I can't recall cause but doubt it was a design flaw. Too many Navy jocks flew 'em and concluded they were superb aircraft.

...besides, Denver was an arrogant putz.

 

[Billm]

....and apparently he didn't have "24 hours between the bottle and the throttle".
BillM

 

[DrEntropy]

Just went back and re-read the reports... no toxin issue, modified fuel selector switch location was the likely primary problem. That and a lack of good judgement: he should have topped up the tanks. Wasn't as if he was on an austerity program.

:shrug:

Even in the "modified" craft he crashed, the things had a good glide range. He just wasn't familiar with the craft.