Scudrunners

David MacRay wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 5:06 pm a conventional gear conversion.

A tailwheel jet has got character!



PS I’ve flown with some U-2 pilots. Ok sticks but nothing special. Not in the league of Rob Holland or Skip Stewart.

Those conversions are ok. Plus the ME jet is not a conversion.

David MacRay wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:15 pm the ME jet is not a conversion.

True, but nor are the X-Cub, Spartan 12W, or Waco N I’d previously posted. Really, that cabin Waco came from the factory that way!

I won’t admit to outright cheating but I do stack the deck in my favour when practical.

Colonel wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:10 pm A tailwheel jet has got character!



PS I’ve flown with some U-2 pilots. Ok sticks but nothing special. Not in the league of Rob Holland or Skip Stewart.

Technically speaking the U-2 is not a tail dragger but rather a tandem geared airplane, one of the few besides the B-52 with its wheels directly in front of one another. Besides the challenge of its configuration, the main problem I read about landing he U-2 was being somewhat frozen, hypoxic and cramped up from the length of time of its missions.

Peak madness:

Believe it or not that isn’t a King Air.

It’s just so weird.


…or maybe you prefer oil puddles:

At this point, only an accomplished sadist would post pictures of nosewheel DC-3 conversion…

Colonel wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:45 am At this point, only an accomplished sadist would post pictures of nosewheel DC-3 conversion…

Is there such a thing?

Slick Goodlin wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 12:09 am

David MacRay wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:15 pm the ME jet is not a conversion.

True, but nor are the X-Cub, Spartan 12W, or Waco N I’d previously posted. Really, that cabin Waco came from the factory that way!

I won’t admit to outright cheating but I do stack the deck in my favour when practical.

Fair but you quoted my “a conventional gear conversion” above the picture.

I dislike yokes much more than where the third wheel is.

I know I’m all messed up but I don’t want a steering wheel like thing to control the airplane I’m flying. It’s unnatural and might confuse my subconscious mind.

Slick Goodlin wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 1:50 pm

Colonel wrote: Sun Mar 19, 2023 11:45 am At this point, only an accomplished sadist ...

Is there such a thing?

Oh yeah.

Anyways a DC-3 on floats is really not a nosewheel conversion, and on skiis it's tailwheel too of course.

I shall expect the four horsemen of the apocalypse to come trotting out when I see a C-46 with a nosewheel.