T-28/928
11-18-2011, 04:03 PM
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T-28/928
I got to play for a bit this morning, this was large fun.
The T-28 and the 928 shot.
50 more horses that a P-51
And it will out climb a Mustang below ten thousand feet.
It WILL go very well.
I still have that silly grin on my face.
The T-28 and the 928 shot.
50 more horses that a P-51
And it will out climb a Mustang below ten thousand feet.
It WILL go very well.
I still have that silly grin on my face.
11-18-2011, 06:13 PM
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Guess Greg had some fun!
11-18-2011, 07:10 PM
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You better believe it brother, Gregor had a really good time.
The sound and smells of 1,820 cubic inches warming up was good for this gearheads soul, and the sound it makes when it goes into Auto-Rich at almost 50 inches of manifold pressure is intoxicating.
We did a fly by at his grass strip, it is not very long, but to make up for that by being a bit narrow and tree lined
, it was really neat to fly below tree top level at over 200 Knots.
A couple of things surprised me, the first was the rate of climb, it REALLY goes upstairs in a hurry, and the second thing was just how high you sit in it.
You look down on most single engine airplanes.
It was not near as loud as I thought it would be, not any where near as loud as a Mustang, which is REALLY loud.
Has a pretty good roll rate, even though we did not do any real acrobatics in it, just a couple of rolls.
Little bit of trivia about the T-28, it was for a time the only certified airplane in the US that was certified for flight into know thunder storms, but NASA lost one and they decided that was not such a good idea, so they pulled that.
The sound and smells of 1,820 cubic inches warming up was good for this gearheads soul, and the sound it makes when it goes into Auto-Rich at almost 50 inches of manifold pressure is intoxicating.
We did a fly by at his grass strip, it is not very long, but to make up for that by being a bit narrow and tree lined
, it was really neat to fly below tree top level at over 200 Knots.A couple of things surprised me, the first was the rate of climb, it REALLY goes upstairs in a hurry, and the second thing was just how high you sit in it.
You look down on most single engine airplanes.
It was not near as loud as I thought it would be, not any where near as loud as a Mustang, which is REALLY loud.
Has a pretty good roll rate, even though we did not do any real acrobatics in it, just a couple of rolls.
Little bit of trivia about the T-28, it was for a time the only certified airplane in the US that was certified for flight into know thunder storms, but NASA lost one and they decided that was not such a good idea, so they pulled that.
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I am going to post more in a bit, but I liked this one, you can see how much wind there was by the amount of aileron deflection he has in, and you can see how much rudder it takes to cope with that much power.
11-18-2011, 09:50 PM
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I'm jealous.
My dad flew those in training (after some time in SN-Js before flight school)... He said the biggest transition was moving up to the T-28 from the T-34A. His follow on aircraft were the T-33, F-9 Panther, F-9F8 Cougar, F3 Demon, then over 3500 hours in just about every Navy version of the F-4 Phantom... who woulda thunk it would have been the T-28... all 1425hp of it? Talk about a boot full of rudder to counter the torque on takeoff...
Taking abiout great aircraft, look what's soon arriving at the Military Aviation Museum in Va Beach:
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As promised, an update on Me262 "WHITE 3". After the successful completion of the flight test program and some bureaucratic and weather delays, I ferried the airplane from Paine Field, Washington to Suffolk County Airport in Virginia. For the last two test flights we had converted it to the two-seat configuration, which allowed our lead mechanic Mike Anderson to come along as crew chief/navigator on this 2 500 mile trip. As our FAA- operating limitations mandated 'Day VFR only', and the max altitude of 18 000ft not exactly optimal for range, it took us four days and six refueling stops across the continent to reach our destination, with "WHITE 3" performing flawlessly. ATC doesn't have a computer code yet for the Me262, and controllers frequently asked me for the type of airplane. They usually couldn't wait then to pass the information on to 'their' airliners on the same frequency, e.g. "Delta 123, you have a MESSERSCHMITT!! in your ten o'clock, five miles". One of the many funny replies: "Are we being invaded?"...
After receiving its new airworthiness certificate and operating limitations (the initial ones were valid only for flight test and repositioning), I'll be flying "WHITE 3" from its maintenace base in Suffolk County to its final destination, a small airport south of Virginia Beach with a 5 000ft grass runway, where it will join - as the first jet - the world's largest collection of privately owned warbirds in the "Military Aviation Museum."
Wolf Czaia
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My dad flew those in training (after some time in SN-Js before flight school)... He said the biggest transition was moving up to the T-28 from the T-34A. His follow on aircraft were the T-33, F-9 Panther, F-9F8 Cougar, F3 Demon, then over 3500 hours in just about every Navy version of the F-4 Phantom... who woulda thunk it would have been the T-28... all 1425hp of it? Talk about a boot full of rudder to counter the torque on takeoff...
Taking abiout great aircraft, look what's soon arriving at the Military Aviation Museum in Va Beach:
==============
As promised, an update on Me262 "WHITE 3". After the successful completion of the flight test program and some bureaucratic and weather delays, I ferried the airplane from Paine Field, Washington to Suffolk County Airport in Virginia. For the last two test flights we had converted it to the two-seat configuration, which allowed our lead mechanic Mike Anderson to come along as crew chief/navigator on this 2 500 mile trip. As our FAA- operating limitations mandated 'Day VFR only', and the max altitude of 18 000ft not exactly optimal for range, it took us four days and six refueling stops across the continent to reach our destination, with "WHITE 3" performing flawlessly. ATC doesn't have a computer code yet for the Me262, and controllers frequently asked me for the type of airplane. They usually couldn't wait then to pass the information on to 'their' airliners on the same frequency, e.g. "Delta 123, you have a MESSERSCHMITT!! in your ten o'clock, five miles". One of the many funny replies: "Are we being invaded?"...
After receiving its new airworthiness certificate and operating limitations (the initial ones were valid only for flight test and repositioning), I'll be flying "WHITE 3" from its maintenace base in Suffolk County to its final destination, a small airport south of Virginia Beach with a 5 000ft grass runway, where it will join - as the first jet - the world's largest collection of privately owned warbirds in the "Military Aviation Museum."
Wolf Czaia
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11-18-2011, 10:12 PM
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Dang hillbillies have all the fun! 
Just kidding Greg, I'm actually green with envy.
Just kidding Greg, I'm actually green with envy.