Beech 18 skadd under landing før airshow i USA - AVweb

Beech 18 er et flott fly som ofte er med på airshow, ikke minst på Duxford. Jeg legger ved et bilde fra Canada som jeg tok i 1997, på Abbotsford i British Columbia.

Fra en leser har jeg fått denne kommentaren: Jeg så forøvrig artikkelen om Beech 18 på bloggen din. På nav-skolen i Winnipeg (RCAF Air Navigation School) fløy vi militær-utgaven C-45 i basic-delen av kurset og C-47 i advanced. Sistnevnte hadde plass til flere elever ombord og hadde radar som var montert litt off center, noe som medførte wobbling. Dermed fikk astro-navigasjon via sekstant ikke akkurat GPS-nøyaktighet. (Greit å ha det  å skylde på).

Younkin Unhurt In Beech 18 Mishap

Russ Niles

May 2, 2021

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Airshow performer Matt Younkin is fine but his pristine Beech 18 is a little banged up after a partial gear-up landing in St. Joseph, Missouri, on Thursday. Younkin was headed to perform his spectacular twin aerobatics routine at the Sound of Speed Airshow. “As you may have heard, we had an interesting arrival at the Sound of Speed Airshow this evening,” Younkin said in a Facebook post late Thursday. “The good news is that we are fine and the airplane is repairable.”Younkin said he discovered the problem with the left gear as he set up to land and no amount of fiddling would make it drop. “When all options were exhausted, we made the decision to land,” he wrote. “Crash fire rescue was launched as a precautionary measure, and all in all, it worked out as well as we could have hoped.” He didn’t say how long it might take to fix the Beech.