Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[robbyr]

FWIW, my stepdad was a cropduster but I can't fly. Prefer my feet on the ground.

 

[farmgirl19]

robbyr; Some of the very best pilots are crop dusters. If they are not good, they are dead. Not like having all of the automated stuff to do it for them. And threading the needle, going under the power lines, LOADED is a skill.

 

[Lou66]

I can remember the first time I had to shut down the big 40 horse John Deere.. I throttle back on the throttle,, slowing it to a slow speed.. Flipped the tie on the brake shoes then slowly but strongly came to a complete stop,,
I got down and ask the pilot that had landed in my hay field.. are you okay,, He said the motor had frozen up at three thousand feet and he was looking for a place to land when he saw my hay field..
About that time the city and county police showed up.. Wanting to know if he was alright,, that he had called in a, mayday,,
I was thinking this is June why did he not call in a Juneday or Juneteenth,, Then we could like have a party and sell tickets..
But then I became concerned about all these people driving on my freshly cut hay field and my rights when someone makes an emergency landing..
You have no rights..
So I ran everyone off and locked the gate,, When they came back for the plane I told them what it would cost to fixes the ruts and the ten to fifteen emergency cars that set on my field running and burning up the hay field..
I had this plane for sell that had a bad engine but otherwise was in good condition.:laughing:. Lou

 

[robbyr]

Not sure but I think he started cropdusting in the late sixties or early seventies. I used to mix chemicals for him between runs and pull the trailer with water tank and pumps. In '79 he bought a Bell (47 I think, does that sound right?) and started burning the scrub for the timber companies in East Texas from Jasper, Corrigan, Livingston areas. Welder built him a trailer and he'd set the helicopter down on it and tie it down. We'd leave around 4:00 in the morning and usually get home between 10 and midnite. Those were the days. Always set up in a sandy area so that combined with summertime temps caused us to be pretty nasty. I still remember the chemical was called Alumagel and you mixed it with gas. The more you put in the thicker it got. He had a 30 gallon barrel with an ignition coil for spark to light it and dropped balls of fire. Sorry for the rambling, I just got to reminiscing about things haven't thought of in years.

 

[SandburRanch]

Huh?
hugs, Brandi

Hopefully "Huh" means you don't understand.
Below is a video of ABS and more recent ESC braking systems and an example of wheels with the least traction take the lead. The front wheels in this case are locked, have less traction and take the lead.

The ABS was first developed in 1929 for the aircraft industry. In the case of this incident the ABS kept the remaining wheels having equal traction while the nose automatically took the lead.

Just for fun, lock the front wheels on a toy car, place it near the end of a long table like you might find in a school cafeteria and raise the table end so the car travels to the opposite end. Now do the same with the rear wheels locked and note the difference in orientation of the car at the far end of the table.

In the case of the airplane the nose had less traction and took the lead just as wheels do. This isn't something I made up but was taught and was demonstrated this in a driving seminar by an instructor from TX. Credits: Possom Mann

How ABS (Anti-Lock Brakes) Work - YouTube

 

[jinman]

I don't know of a single airplane with nosegear brakes.

 

[bindian]

Hopefully "Huh" means you don't understand.
Below is a video of ABS and more recent ESC braking systems and an example of wheels with the least traction take the lead. The front wheels in this case are locked, have less traction and take the lead.

The ABS was first developed in 1929 for the aircraft industry. In the case of this incident the ABS kept the remaining wheels having equal traction while the nose automatically took the lead.

Just for fun, lock the front wheels on a toy car, place it near the end of a long table like you might find in a school cafeteria and raise the table end so the car travels to the opposite end. Now do the same with the rear wheels locked and note the difference in orientation of the car at the far end of the table.

In the case of the airplane the nose had less traction and took the lead just as wheels do. This isn't something I made up but was taught and was demonstrated this in a driving seminar by an instructor from TX. Credits: Possom Mann

How ABS (Anti-Lock Brakes) Work - YouTube

I said huh as in...........how does relate to a landing with the nose gear up.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

I don't know of a single airplane with nosegear brakes.

Some models of Boeing 727s had them. Really, all jets have nose wheel brakes. But they only work when the gear goes into the uplock position in the wheel well. These are scrub brakes to stop the tires from spinning and driving the pilots batty.:confused2: Douglass used alum. bars screwed to a flex mount. Boeing's have phenolic pads that are on a "leaf" spring affair
Boeing 727s also had pneumatic brakes. I almost used them once!
hugs, Brandi

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

Me, I like a clean J-3, or a Supercub...

I outlived a Bellanca Citabria, but unfortunately, my instructor who was a retired colonel AF with over 10,000 hours didn't. He was a good man, a good friend, and was my girlfriend's father. He was taking another man for a spin and some mild aerobatics (less than 3g) and they somehow crashed. Long ago back around 1980.

 

[Bird]

I see the news this morning is reporting that the Southwest flight landed on the nose wheel first; i.e., nose down. I've never seen that done, fortunately. Sounds as if one or two pilots are in big trouble.