Flight of the Avenger

[tboltsg]

Hi guys,

Jus to share a short video clip of the avenger taken last week end by a one of the nice fellows at OHR last weekend.

There was a moderate cross wind blowing from the right side of the aircraft when it was coming in to land.

Hope you guys enjoy the vid.

Cheers
tb

[preferscale]

Bro, very nice. Should re-do the runway in the shape of a WW2 carrier flight deck and put an arresting hook on your Avenger. Double the fun!

[tboltsg]

Bro, very nice. Should re-do the runway in the shape of a WW2 carrier flight deck and put an arresting hook on your Avenger. Double the fun!

Thanks bro, the runway already in the shape of carrier- more like escort carriers. Arresting hook... hmmmm- sound fun, something to tinker on.

Hope to see u soon at the field.

Cheers

[remauled]

Impressive demo of a precise landing given how much you offset to line up and land .

Real carriers will turn into the wind to reduce the cross wind something which we can't do as easily.

[tboltsg]

Impressive demo of a precise landing given how much you offset to line up and land .

Real carriers will turn into the wind to reduce the cross wind something which we can't do as easily.

Thanks bro, precise landing only once in a while. Most of the time overshot or miss the runway altogether.

[Crafter]

Coooool!!

Hi tboltsg,

Wow, what a short take-off, your Avenger virtually leapt off the 'deck' :>

Is that a scratchbuilt plane? What's it's wing loading?

Nice, skillful landing too, considering the cross-wind. The USN would be proud to sign you up. :>

Besides putting 5 arresting cables (I think it's 5 right?), maybe can rig up the 'deck' to shift with the wind, just like in the Pepsi World-Cup advert.

Anyway, here's to your next successful 'trap' of the third wire. Cheers!

[tboltsg]

Hi Crafter,

Thanks for the kind comments. it is a scratch build- didn't do the math on the wing loading- wing span abt 1.35m, AUFW ard 900+grms, so i guessed the wing loading should be somewhere between a gws beaver and gws corsair??

Not done the arrestor hook yet but done an upgrade with retracts and flaps- it was quite a sight to see the landing gears deployed and flaps down during the landing approach- well at least to me.

Glad u like the short clip.

Cheers

[tboltsg]

The Flight of the Bumble Bee before becoming the avenger.

Landing on grass before the carpet runway was laid.


Cheers
TB

[etman]

Cool landing man! Very nice.

Is it a Hellcat or an Avenger? Looks more like a Hellcat.

[tboltsg]

Cool landing man! Very nice.

Is it a Hellcat or an Avenger? Looks more like a Hellcat.

Hi etman,

It an Avenger made by Grumman which also manufacture the Hellcat, so it is often confused as it look kinda of similar.

Glad that u like the clip.

Cheers
TB