Gerry, Nice article and a pretty darned good looking model too. Cheers, Bill B. ... From: Gerry Nilles <gernilles@...> To: wingsofpeace@yahoogroups.com ...
Dear Jim, I'm still Mr. Widgeon and always will be. To understand the history of the Widgeon you have to study the Goose as well, since one was decendant from...
Hi Christos, You'd better have a REALLY BIG email box, 'cause I've got thousands of megs worth of Grumman pix. The rail near the bow cap is a combination grab...
I wonder if the photos from Flight show the first Phoenix with the fuselage in red oxide dope, without a colour top coat- that would explain the dark...
Bill, Look at these two photos of a couple Gooses and you can see how much cleaner the one with retractable floats is. There is one other reason to have...
Bonjour Michel et Alexandre, It is true that Flight as well as other magazines of that period often reworked the pictures but when we look closely at the photo...
... My first reaction was that this wasn't green - it was yellow. A greenish yellow - but definitely more yellow than green, and it would probably show up nice...
Hi all, Yes, codename Dave was for E8N wich in itself was a development of the E4N if I'm not mistaking... Shinichi, would you by any chance have any material...
The roller method has been used on a larger scale for flying models- a guy in the US built a very nice Ford Trimotor with a non-structural corrugated metal...
... I just finished reading a book about Canadian test pilots and there was a discussion of an incident with a T-64 powered Caribou testbed (part of the...
From the SEAWINGS site. http://www.bestfreeforums.com/forums/1100-rohrbach-rocco-vt273-httpseawingscou.html Looks like a pretty good start to me. Cheers, Bill...
... This one was rolled. Don is currently working on another one as well, a bit larger and designed to fly with electric power. I believe the one in these pics...
Bill: As long as all the horsepower can be absorbed by two blades, a three-blade prop will produce less thrust due to the interference between the blades....
Thanks for the link Michael. In the case of the Turbine Goose, one of the flight crew was a good buddy of a friend of mine. They were at 12,000 feet and at...
Improperly rigged linkage, Bill, no other reason. Never had anything like it happen to me, but I did have an engine refuse to reduce torque once, bad clamp on...
Hi Rich, Your explanation makes sense. May be the prototype had still the fuselage in red oxide dope with some parts on the metal. It would explain the dark...
Bonjour Michel, I entirely agree with you. It was surely a rather light green since the registration letters were outlined in black. Cordialement Alain...
Hi, The general idea that yellow is dark on positives from ortho films is often wrong. The ortho film was originally very sensitive in blue and green,and later...
Hi Michael, Tony Woollett's Phoenix is definitely not painted in a pure green shade unless the color is off on the photo! On the plan you have sent, the...
PT-6's as installed in King Airs, Bandeirantes, and Cessna 425's have no lockout for reverse except a gate you have to lift the levers over on the throttle...
Hi Bill, This very nice little Rohrbach Rocco (1/144 scale) has been scratchbuilt by the WoPer David Tunison. We have exchanged e-mails in april on the Ro V...
I never heard aboutthe post crash investigation, I didn't have a computer back then and didn't think to look it up since. I believe it was in the 1993-95...
Alain - Could you read the text of the Phoenix article? In this, G-AESV is described as having a 'dark yellow (?orange) fuselage and silver wings with black...
Gerry - Thanks. I read your article with interest. I laughed at Draw's comment on the colour scheme, and I have to agree with them! The post-merger scheme is...
John, I totally agree on the number of blades and their efficiency. In the case of the Goose, 3 seems to be the magic number though. It's very hard to find a...
Bill - You're right, of course, but with the floats retracted, it doesn't look like a Goose any more, more like a mini-Catalina Bill ... From: Bill Bailey To:...
