NOT supersonic

[Marlin T]

Wrangell Alaska

[Xracer]

Neat Beaver!

[bunnyhunter12]

Nothing beats a good DeHavilland Canada(DHC) DHC-2 Beaver for operations in the North.

[armedandsafe]

I worked on many a Beaver and Otter while in Europe in the early 60s. Then flew around in them as a passenger in Alaska. Great planes.

The notes of the early test flights on the Beaver are interesting, if you can find them. First flight pilot landed with the wind, because he noted that the plane would lift when facing a 12 knot wind. The added the lift spoilers to the top of the wings for the military ones, and reshaped the wing profile for the commercial ones.

We stuffed a jeep with a quad 50 into an Otter, removed the wing spoilers and flew it over to an adjoining base (about 150km) and unloaded it. Problem was, we forgot to take the spoilers with us and couldn't put them back on for the return trip. Landing at Etain, France with a 20+knot (mostly) head wind was ... ummm ... interesting.

Pops

[Marlin T]

Had a hard time getting the back wheels on the ground first huh? LOL

[22WRF]

Rode from Anchorage to Kodiak on one of these

[williamd]

A beauty!

Time in a Super Cub (wheels, skis, floats). C206 (wheels and floats) and have owned a C172, C182, M20C and now a M20K. Missed on a chance to add a beaver to my list years ago and regret it. If I still lived in the NW or BC I'd still have the 182 or 206 .. real working airplanes. Mooneys are good goers. Just over 3000 hours TT with some good tales in there!! Funny - moose eating some fabric off the Cub! Scary - injectors with water in fuel 206 over "BC sparsely settled" area!

Scariest of all ... my old (76 years) instrument instructor!!

[Marlin T]

That is cool 380!!!
I just flew in to Anchorage with a twin otter and out in a Mooney.

William, you still have a 172 don’t you?

That is funny, a moose ate your homework. Errr, I mean the skin off your tail. That had to hurt huh? While it sounds funny now, I bet it wasn’t then. That might be a good example of the definition of terror, especially if you HAD to fly it with a bit of duck tape as a suitable fix. Yikes!!!!

Fortunately for me, I get to mostly experience the thrill of flight for a whole lot less than actually buying a nice twin or turbine PC-12 for luxury or a PC-9 for play. Not to mention my round the world tour; twice. lol

My current logbook shows somewhere around 1800 hours (just off the top of head) +/- a few hours. I need to get a life huh?

[bunnyhunter12]

An oldie but a goodie.

Two hunters head to Alaska and hire a bush pilot to fly them to the back country. The pilot drops them off and tells them he'll be back in two days, and that they will only be able to fly out one moose when he comes back for them. The hunters protest that they have two licenses but the pilot insists, carrying three men, and all their gear the plane will only take one moose.

So two days later, the plane returns right on time and sure enough the two proud hunters have shot TWO moose. The pilot jumps out of the plane and starts questioning the legitimacy of the hunters' births, calling them up and down, saying "I told you, o e moose ONE!!". But the hunters aren't worried at all, "relax" they say "we did this last year and the pilot let us take the two moose, and those were a little bigger than these. So finally after ten minutes of arguing and the promise of a further $1000, the pilot agrees, all is loaded, and they ready to take off.

The pilot pops the brakes, the Beaver starts to roll, she rolls and and rolls, finally she takes one hop, piles into a tree, cartwheels and comes to a stop on her side with the wings torn off.

As they come to, one hunter looks at the pilot, then at his partner and says, "where are we?"

The other hunter says, "about fifteen feet further than we made it last year!!"

[Marlin T]

Funny you ole canuk, funny!!!!


You guys build good planes up there, but that max load is never to be exceeded, no matter who builds it. LOL!!!

[millwright]

Be a lot better with a turbine up front, though........>MW

[artabr]

I use to have a sea (float) plane base about 3 blocks from the house. A friend of mines dad ran the place and we ran them nuts. Most of the planes were Cessna's and 1 or 2 Beavers. This was 35-40 years ago. The planes were used to ferry tools and big wigs to inland oil rigs in the bayous and swamps. We still have 1 Beaver floatplane flying around here today. I've loved aircraft ever since.

Art

[armedandsafe]

I had to fly out of Granite Mountain once and the pilot came in with a brand new Pilatus Porter. He told me he needed to stop in Cape of Prince Wales and did I mind if he went there first, then on to Nome. Sure.

Pilot landed on the sea ice, ran up to the ridge and gunned it to get over and onto the beach. Well, turbos don't unwind the way those old radial thirteens do and that durn plane just kept on coming,,, across the beach, over the ledge, into town and down main street. Pilot was a little embarassed, while mumbling something about beavers and their dams (or something near that.)

Pops

[LurpyGeek]

Come on, Marlin... I'll bet you could get it supersonic with a little work...

[bunnyhunter12]

Originally Posted by LurpyGeek

Come on, Marlin... I'll bet you could get it supersonic with a little work...

Yeah like in a dive with the JATO or RATO units off a C-130. Just don't mind when the wings and fuselage part ways.

[williamd]

Marlin T: Still have the M20K (231). Others long gone. Had the 231 into places not meant for it - like Likely, BC on Quesnel Lake (this was where my moose feeding had occurred!) that was easy in the 182! Took the M20C from San Diego to Palmer. Up and down the 'trench' (Williston Lake) route as the Hwy route is not the choice for the area. Great trip.

Took the 231 to Oshkosh for EAA. Most fun was the last 40 miles in!!

[LurpyGeek]

Originally Posted by bunnyhunter12

Yeah like in a dive with the JATO or RATO units off a C-130. Just don't mind when the wings and fuselage part ways.

I used to have a similar picture with a cessna, but this is all I could find right now, and I didn't wanna take the time to photoshop it myself.

[artabr]

Originally Posted by LurpyGeek

I used to have a similar picture with a cessna, but this is all I could find right now, and I didn't wanna take the time to photoshop it myself.

[Marlin T]

Dang William, that is a nice plane you have there!!! (dreaming and drooling all over myself)
The one in the pic above, is the M20J model, sigh. Do you have any pics of that mighty fine bird?

Now I’m curious about what your office looks like compared to this one. I have only two pics at the present moment (ONE and TWO)

Lurpy, that ‘news’ clip should have said something like this.
After the pilot reached the ground via parachute he reported, “I felt a slight vibration in the wings right before they disappeared!! Yikes, I should have listened to my mechanics when he said not to do that.”

[williamd]

'Charlie' outside the nest ... attached. Typically SoCal day, of course.

[Don Buckbee]

Marlin T,

That float plane is my kind of plane. Prop has three blades too..
I owned a Piper Commanche at one time.

Don