Flight prep@ 5

[The Agent]

No one on line again this morning, looking good out there now, will give it a shot this morning the weather has been bad lately, but calm appears to have set in after the rain last night.

For those of you who have been able to fly this morning I trrust it was good, safe landings.

[FAWGie]

Agent, you are obviously referring to your own area.... :D
The cold front has brought lousy cold wind here.....

[The Agent]

Ja just got back home an hour ago but at least got ina hour but the fog bliksem and then it lifted and we thought all systems go did 2 circuits and the bloddy rain started. I had to help a friend "Wackhead" with his german rep as we tried to put it in one of the unocupied hangers. Then gace him and his son a lift to Petit now 2 weekends in a row I had to take people to Petit I hope they will keep on visiting us to see what lekka people are at Rhino. Here a pic of his plane last week visiting us at Rhino for breakfast.

My old friend Sakkie doing the acting or achtung

[Thunderboy]

Hey agent does this plane have a stretcher in the back or did the original There was a Cub version during WW2 that looked very similar to this with a stretcher in the back used for transporting patients - obviously no one could assist them and it must have been pretty scary lying in a plane tail while wounded being flown somewhere.

[Morph]

This looks completely impractical. THis must have played absolute havoc on the CG, putting someone that close to the tail

[afskies scribe]

Hey agent does this plane have a stretcher in the back or did the original There was a Cub version during WW2 that looked very similar to this with a stretcher in the back used for transporting patients - obviously no one could assist them and it must have been pretty scary lying in a plane tail while wounded being flown somewhere.

I had a chat with the owner of this home-built 3/4 scale Fieseler Fi 156 Storch at Rhino last week. Because of their slow speed (max 109mph) they were used very successfully as stealth observation A/C, as well as ambulance planes (short take-off distance) carrying a single stretcher which used to be slid down into the back. Of the 2 900-plus originally produced 20 are still flying. The landing gear on this local home build differs from that of the original square-configuration on the originals.
Check out www.warbirdalley.com/storch.htm. Sehr interessant, nicht war

[The Agent]

Ryan I thinks when a patient sees where they want to load him instant cure wake up and run china because the next one you will not survive.

[Thunderboy]

This looks completely impractical. THis must have played absolute havoc on the CG, putting someone that close to the tail

The back seat was taken out so they slid them up as far as possible, but yes still must have messed wth the CG.

Pilots were different in those days, with a total of about 8 hours training and then been sent in to dog fight

[The Agent]

Sorry to say Ryan they also did not come back.

[Thunderboy]

Sorry to say Ryan they also did not come back.

especially the kamakazee's