I love how this is more old aerodrome than a set airport. Love hearing the blip switch cutting in an out.
@ThePilot4ever10 жыл бұрын
Boy I'd love to be in control of sutch a lovely aircraft. It wasnt called a gentlemans aircraft for nothing.
@idleonlooker10785 жыл бұрын
Though it's hard to.imagine, but remeber, that for all its' quaint docility, and charm, this was once a deadly fighter in RFC/RAF front line service!!
@atlatlista8 жыл бұрын
My jealousy knows no bounds.
@stulynn2005 Жыл бұрын
Flying seemed like an extension then. You felt truly like a bird in the wind
@54newheart11 жыл бұрын
I couldn't post the web site URL for some reason, but I've used Abe Books and it's a wonderful resource for finding rare books.
@hovermotion11 жыл бұрын
Amazeing tech for its day , very nice landing i bet this type of craft can be very tricky on landings...
@thomashockin412810 жыл бұрын
lovely plane !!
@davidhill56214 жыл бұрын
Ive got a rc hanger 9 sopwith with key chain camera got about same veiw,pretty awesome, ahhh that burnt castor smell is very pleasent
@maxrudder60916 жыл бұрын
For a moment, I thought they were flying the old airplanes at Meadowlark Field again. That looks just like coastal Northern California in the summer. I had to look closely to see that it's not the Livermore Valley.
@theofficialdiamondlou24189 ай бұрын
That was fun and cool
@equalopportunityoffender67322 жыл бұрын
Lovely 🥰
@SulCoCrazy6 жыл бұрын
great flying! What is the takeoff experience like? Did you have to hold a hard right rudder? Please come to Eagles Mere and see our S4-C
@welshpete126 жыл бұрын
Is that a Bristol freighter, I can see on the left on the ground at 1:27 ?
@JosipRadnik14 жыл бұрын
That silver plane I can't tell... but the others seem to be an Airspeed Oxford, a Commonwealth Boomerang and a Wirraway standing there
@JosipRadnik14 жыл бұрын
correction: Omaka has an Avro Anson. So I guess that plane I took as an Oxford is the Anson.
@potrzebieneuman4702 Жыл бұрын
Certainly looks like a Bristol 170 Freighter, hard to miss the flight deck bubble.
@franzkohler83377 жыл бұрын
I'm all with you, atlalista
@54newheart11 жыл бұрын
No Parachute is reprinted. See Abe Books site for prices and details:
@darkpassenger0111 жыл бұрын
What it be be like to fly these machines into combat...sturdy men with ballsof steel
@estebanquito54511 жыл бұрын
precioso el sopwith!!
@welkinkodiak19405 жыл бұрын
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@andrewwake86073 жыл бұрын
Just to think back In the day "ladies" used to walk on them wings.
@haroldwilliams100911 жыл бұрын
A lot like hang gliding!
@MrAviator8111 жыл бұрын
Nice!
@czarchive_67848 жыл бұрын
Does it steer with a wheel or a stick?
@czarchive_67848 жыл бұрын
Reverend Henry Kane Oh! So..The trigger is placed there when the pilot shoots the MG?,Or he uses one hand to steer and one hand to fire at the same time to focusly lock on the target?
@Eprwismerhill8 жыл бұрын
With a stick of course...
@thomashockin412810 жыл бұрын
I do not speed but I've gone faster in my car and here you are up in the air ... not fair !!!
@mudkow50929 жыл бұрын
Is that real or a replica? \
@AHammershoej8 жыл бұрын
+Mudkow Must be a replica. According to Wikipedia there is only one original flying and that is at the Shuttlewoth Collection. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Pup#Survivors
@mudkow50928 жыл бұрын
Thanks.
@jameswebb45936 жыл бұрын
Pity the pilot doesn't give a commentary on what he is doing and what to avoid.
@tootired7610 жыл бұрын
Sure! Why not just give the pilot something else to make flying harder like no throttle control!!!
@GGigabiteM10 жыл бұрын
The only rotary engines that couldn't have throttles were the Gnome Monosoupappe series. This was because the exhaust valve was also the air intake, while the fuel and oil was sucked in through ports at the bottom of the cylinders. Pretty much every other rotary was of a conventional design where air/fuel/oil was injected through the back of the crankshaft by a carburetor, which the rotating action of the crank case would mix and sling the mixture through induction tubes to the tops of the cylinders and be sucked into the engine through poppet valves. Early rotaries didn't have throttles because the carburetors were primitive and didn't really allow it. Later carburetor designs had proper throttles and gave many rotaries proper throttle controls, although they maintained the blip switches.
@MarsFKA9 жыл бұрын
GGigabiteM The Gnome Monosoupappe series had an inlet valve in the piston crown. The fuel/air mix was drawn into the crankcase and then, through the valve, into the cylinder. The exhaust valve was operated by an external push rod.
@GGigabiteM9 жыл бұрын
MarsFKA Sorry but that's incorrect. The monosoupape series only had the fuel and castor oil enter through the ports at the bottom of the cylinder. The air charge was inducted through the valve at the top of the cylinder. This is why no monosoupape engine had a throttle, because it was impossible. Varying the fuel/oil mixture without varying the air charge can lead to severe engine damage. If the engine was run too lean, the cylinders could be blown off or the engine would severely overheat. Too rich and the engine would hydrolock or foul out. Variable valve timing was also tried, but the valves would burn frequently due to improper settings. The valve was a dual purpose air intake and exhaust valve using a push-pull rod operated by a complex series of guides inside the engine. This is why the valve doesn't have a return spring, because the rod both pushes the valve in and pulls it out of the cylinder.
@daleleslie10497 жыл бұрын
Just a small thing, "Monosoupape" means one valve, Obviously mono means one and valve in French is soupape, amazing engineering,...love to hear the respectful and knowledgeable banter, very good, thanks
@Firebrand55 Жыл бұрын
Attaching the camera to your flying helmet....good for you; not so good for the YT viewer.