Breaking my cherry

[glennlcasey]

Well having Ozzy as an influence doesn't help lol. I thought i might as well try and do an inverted flight under a bridge, and see what my new catalina will do.

I know that bridge is around here somewhere


Lining up - watching for cops      

TaDa!!!!      

in cockpit view of that joyous moment. only button I hit was the pause button


Look Ma!!!! No Hands!!      


Come back up to level flight and decide to land, or in this case water lol.


Now the next question is, where's the nearest pub?


Hope you liked. any comments/critiscism/suggestions welcome

[eno]

Look out !!! its the black helicopters..... errrr cat

[glennlcasey]

mate you are so right about this aircraft, i'm in love with her. She is so stable, even flying inverted, though she did try to veer off left or right as i was lining up

[flyboy 28]

Breaking my cherry

Am I the only one that finds that phrase COMPLETELY gross? Or am I just that perverted?

Great shots there, Glenn. I'm thinking of picking up this Cat.. not too sure of Alphasims models though..

[glennlcasey]

flyboy, youre just a pervert lol. It was the first time i had properly flown under a bridge on purpose.

Though I'm not a big fan of alphasim models, having bought the F-111 and the Sr-71 from them, and found them to be substandard,  I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the catalina. It comes with 3 models and about 8 or 9 different liveries. Well worth the money

[flymo]

your not perverted flyboy cos i looked at this topic adn thought WTF?

thats an impressively sized bird to take inverted so close to the ground, do those enginges have inverted systems in them, cos they mite just stall otherwise

[glennlcasey]

The catalina was powered by two twin wasp radial engines, and apparently weren't fitted with carburettors.

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

The Catalina, PBY or Canso like the DC3, C47 or Dak were prone to Carburetor Icing.
The Canso or Catalina was a stable slow aircraft and heavy on the controls.
When I flew them we affectionately called them "pig boats" because of the type of work we did with them.
Like the Dak or DC3 everything had to be loaded and unloaded by hand, no pallet system here.
The Captain, Co-Joe and loady all worked together, no status on these old birds.

Oh great flying by the way, where we flew there were no roads or bridges, come to think of it, I don't think I ever tried to roll one either LOL

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[glennlcasey]

Thanks for that Doug,

My book here didn't say anything about carby's so i assumed they weren't fitted. It would've been great to fly one of these. Wistfully dreams of winning lotto.......

[FLYING_TRUCKER]

If I recall correct the last DC3 (Dak/C47) we lost in the Royal Canadian Air Force was due to carburetor icing.

She was on a Search and Rescue mission when she spun in at low altitude taking the lives of the whole crew.

We picked up carb ice several times on the Daks and the Canso, usually when the copilot was flying.

Oh and if I remember correctly there is a civilian Canso that hit a rock on landing off Povungituk, the only thing left was part of the cockpit, so watch your landings LOL

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

[born_2_fly]

Slighty dirty yes...
Be more worried however if the word Popping was in there instead of breaking.