Re: WIX Scooped by Classic Wings!!!
Thu Jan 02, 2020 5:40 pm
bdk wrote:I'd sure like to see this bird in person.
+1 on that. Some nice air to air would be fantastic as well but something tells me that flight testing never progressed beyond the short hops down the runway. If it had I am pretty sure we would have heard about it by now.
Re: WIX Scooped by Classic Wings!!!
Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:58 am
It will be so nice to see this bird acquired by a French (or at least european) owner allowing to see this beautifull replicate flying in the skies where the original ones fought in the early stages of WWII.
I'm still crossing the TFC owned Hawk 75 could be acquired by a French owner, as Stephen Grey himself express the will.
Jean-Marie Garric (John for the english speaking peoples
) build a batch of Yaks, using original drawings and using an existing airframe as a pattern.
His works is definitely top notch accurary, and is far from some "evocation" replicas.
I'm still crossing the TFC owned Hawk 75 could be acquired by a French owner, as Stephen Grey himself express the will.
Jean-Marie Garric (John for the english speaking peoples
) build a batch of Yaks, using original drawings and using an existing airframe as a pattern.His works is definitely top notch accurary, and is far from some "evocation" replicas.
Re: WIX Scooped by Classic Wings!!!
Fri Jan 03, 2020 3:13 pm
It’s a beauty and probably would fly as nice as it looks. Multi-engine warbirds are scarce in Europe. I wish they would bring it to Oshkosh.
Before they dky it, they will want to make sure the weight and balance, the C. G. Are accurate. The engines and props are different, and also without all the guns, armor, old radios, oxygen systems, it will be very different from factory. It would be important to watch film and talk to any surviving pilots that flew the type. Wheel landings or three point? Will it fly on one engine and how was the original’s stall characteristics. I would hire race pilot, ex-astronaut Hoot Gibson or equivalent to explore the flight envelope and develop safe flight profiles. How much crosswind can it handle?
Just talking five to ten flight hours. Then fly the heck out of it. It’d be nice to take the builder up in his airplane and get him some recognition.
Before they dky it, they will want to make sure the weight and balance, the C. G. Are accurate. The engines and props are different, and also without all the guns, armor, old radios, oxygen systems, it will be very different from factory. It would be important to watch film and talk to any surviving pilots that flew the type. Wheel landings or three point? Will it fly on one engine and how was the original’s stall characteristics. I would hire race pilot, ex-astronaut Hoot Gibson or equivalent to explore the flight envelope and develop safe flight profiles. How much crosswind can it handle?
Just talking five to ten flight hours. Then fly the heck out of it. It’d be nice to take the builder up in his airplane and get him some recognition.
Re: WIX Scooped by Classic Wings!!!
Fri Jan 03, 2020 7:29 pm
Yet it is almost 8 years since the first hops were made, and since then...nothing. I’m sure there must be more to this story than we are hearing.
Re: WIX Scooped by Classic Wings!!!
Fri Jan 03, 2020 10:10 pm
Mike wrote:Yet it is almost 8 years since the first hops were made, and since then...nothing. I’m sure there must be more to this story than we are hearing.
...And it would sell a lot easier..and probably for more, if it had some proper flight time. I was really hoping to see the Potez doing the airshow tours at least here regionally.