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Originally Posted by Tim Hancock
Reminds me of hot summer days back when I owned a Grumman Yankee (AA1B) and was based at a 2000' grass runway. Full throttle....light back pressure....flip the electric flap switch to the down position once about halfway down the runway...glance at airspeed.... say prayer as you go past point of no return.... haul back on yoke and hope you are going fast enough to break ground.... slowly lower nose while in ground effect to pick up some badly needed airspeed.... slowly start bringing the flaps up a bit and gingerly climb out.... open vents to get rid of shiit smell from crapping your pants....  |
You've had good training, sir. The Grumman Yankee/Tiger series of airplanes is like the 944 and the pre-996 911's: I just haven't owned one. Yet....
The airplane in the picture is an Illyushin IL-86. These are basically the first Russian wide-body. They are TERRIBLE aircraft, with short range and questionable reliability. The Illyushin corporation re-designed this aircraft and and with updated engines and Honeywell avionics...called it the IL-96. Later, they updated the Russian type cirtificate to include the United States. The problem: Most of the IL-86/96 flying are IL-96 standard, and can 't meet current noise standards. There was at one time a project to re-engine this aircraft with British Rolls-Royce RB211-535 engines, but this is still an ongoing process, five years later.
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