Warbird Information Exchange

I know...tell me if it bothers....3 posts in a row on youtube videos......

But this one is really slick!!!! Taig, if you read this. Is a B-18 rated for this? Was it modified structurally? Engines?

Considering all the issues with the spar and the AD for the spar strap!!???

Just lovely from my end. Never seen a twin Beech do this before.

I know it's a smoke system; but, that reminds me of a couple of D-18s I flew skydivers on.

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I think it's going to end in tears...

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That airplane has the spar strap and has been lightened substantially. I doubt he ever pulls more than 3 G's in it. It probably won't last forever, but as long as he's doing routine inspections, I don't think there's a lot of risk of airframe failure.

Saw his daddy Bobby do much the same routine in a different 18 back about 1998 in Texarkana. Whew!

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He's been doing that for a while.

Survived a gear failure earlier this year.

https://www.planeandpilotmag.com/news/t ... eech-d-18/

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And here is the late Bobby Younkin in his Beech 18 at Jeffco Airport in Broomfield in 1997.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_o63lpaih8

Not to forget, the last performance in his AT-6 in Brownsville in 1993.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah3Jwz8veSY

T J

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