Scudrunners

I’ve never flown a big taildragger but if I get furloughed and Plan B collapses maybe I’ll chase a job in a Basler close to home or a C-46 much further away. Flying an Ag Cat for the summer would be fun too I bet. I actually applied for a C-46 job a long time ago but it turned out I fed my resume and cover letter into the fax machine and it scanned and sent the blank backs of them. Some days I wonder how things would have been different if I got that job but it’s probably better I didn’t.

In the meantime I’ve been daydreaming about flying the smallest taildragger I can. I bet a Knight Twister is a fun little machine if the wings are built right...

I have zero interest in flying a 320 or 737. Zero, zilch, nada.

C-46 is a regret of mine. So few left. Wish I could have flown
that huge old pig of a taildragger.

One of these days I will get my type rating on the DC-3 ... Dear
Old Dad says they are much easier to fly than Beech 18, which I
really liked, which I understand is unusual - most pilots disliked
them. Or feared them, I dunno. Pussies, I guess.



I have little interest in flying a Spitfire, Hurricane, or P-40. There
is an old saying that you should never met your heroes, and that
was my experience with the P-51D.

I am quite happy flying a biplane, after I ride my elderly sportbikes
to the airport, with my .45 1911 and .50 revolver. They are antiques,
and so am I, and I am happy with that.



There's a guy down the hangar row from me, drives his Tesla to the
airport to fly his pristine Waco. Not sure he gets the incongruity,
and I'm sure the chest-thumping hero pilots on AdCan wouldn't consider
him a "serious pilot", but I think he's pretty fucking cool:



My sloppy picture doesn't do that Waco justice. It's a gorgeous
restoration. They never looked that good, back in the day.

If I fell into a large sum of money, I would probably buy some containers
full of MiG-21 parts. I'd really like to assemble a couple, and check myself
out in them.

For me Chuck it's the DC3T Basler conversion at 30,000 GTW over the Dak at 26900 and my biggest piston a/c was the cv44, I really liked that a/c, a real 2 fisted airplane, seems to me one of the heaviest control pressures and just made it for not requiring boosted controls. The 2800's were the best as you well know having been in the dc6. That would likely ultimate for me.

For me Chuck it's the DC3T Basler conversion.

Unfortunately I never got the chance to fly one.

Are they as easy to fly as the piston powered ones?

My biggest disappointment regarding airplanes is I never got to fly the Super Constellation 1049 H.